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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| empathy | the 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 |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| adept | thoroughly proficient : expert |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| mammal | any 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 |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |