GRE Word List
PULCHRITUDE
physical comeliness
The meaning of the word pulchritude is physical comeliness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |