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 |
|---|---|
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| sojourn | a temporary stay |
| comprehend | to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |