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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| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
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| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |