GRE Word List
SUMPTUOUS
extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent
The meaning of the word sumptuous is extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| endearment | a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| hoodwink | to deceive by false appearance : dupe |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |