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.
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| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| polity | political organization |
| dour | stern |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |