GRE Word List
VOLUPTUOUS
suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form
The meaning of the word voluptuous is suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| petty | having secondary rank or importance : minor |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |