GRE Word List

SENSUOUS

of or relating to the senses or sensible objects

The meaning of the word sensuous is of or relating to the senses or sensible objects.

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empathythe action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
vilifyto utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame
anomalysomething different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous
fetishan object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner
adeptthoroughly proficient : expert
maelstroma powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
pharisaicalmarked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness
transpireto take place : go on
runicany of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries