GRE Word List
SYBARITE
voluptuary
The meaning of the word sybarite is voluptuary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| inquisitive | given to examination or investigation |
| 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 |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| whimsy | whim |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |