GRE Word List
SYBARITE
voluptuary
The meaning of the word sybarite is voluptuary.
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| 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 |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| foliage | a representation of leaves, flowers, and branches for architectural ornamentation |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |