GRE Word List
SALACIOUS
arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination
The meaning of the word salacious is arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination.
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| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| anoint | to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |