GRE Word List

PULCHRITUDE

physical comeliness

The meaning of the word pulchritude is physical comeliness.

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WordMeaning
meniala person doing menial work
veracityconformity with truth or fact : accuracy
etymologythe 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
pharisaicalmarked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness
stolidhaving or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional
grandiosecharacterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration
suspendto debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function
nostalgiaa wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
fretto eat or gnaw into : corrode
reprobatean unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel