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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|---|---|
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
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| calculated | apt |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
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| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |