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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simperto smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner
solicitto make petition to : entreat
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subornto induce secretly to do an unlawful thing
poulticea soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
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solublesusceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water
spectralof, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly
loiterto delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle
palatableagreeable to the palate or taste