GRE Word List
SALUBRIOUS
healthful; conducive to health or well-being; socially desirable; Ex. salubrious area; CF. health
The meaning of the word salubrious is healthful; conducive to health or well-being; socially desirable; Ex. salubrious area; CF. health.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| austere | forbiddingly stern; ascetic; without comfort or enjoyment; severely simple and unornamented; Ex. a monk's austere life; Ex. austere grandeur of the cathedral; N. austerity |
| bucolic | rustic; pastoral |
| grandeur | impressiveness; stateliness; majesty |
| bridle | harness fitted about a horse's head (used to restrain); curb; check; V: put a bridle on; control or restrain; show anger |
| abridge | condense or shorten |
| uxorious | excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife; CF. uxor: wife |
| consolidation | unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger; V. consolidate: merge; strengthen |
| poultice | soothing application applied to sore and inflamed portions of the body |
| welter | wallow (as in mud or high seas); lie soaked (as in blood); Ex. The victims weltered in their blood. |
| malevolent | wishing evil; exhibiting ill will; N. malevolence |