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 |
|---|---|
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| rotunda | a round building |
| dally | to act playfully |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |