GRE Word List

TOUCHING

capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion

The meaning of the word touching is capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion.

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torpora state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility
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alludeto make indirect reference
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honeto sharpen or smooth with a whetstone
embossto raise the surface of into bosses
hazymade dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze
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havocwide and general destruction : devastation
beatificof, possessing, or imparting beatitude