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JP's GREs
GRE Verbal and Quantitative
Question | Answer |
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abate | to reduce in amount, degree or severity |
analogous | similar or alike in some way; equivalent to |
ardor | intense and passionate feeling |
attenuate | to reduce in force or degree; to weaken |
capricious | changing one's mind quickly an often |
cogent | convincing and well reasoned |
credulous | too trusting; gullible |
deride | to speak of or treat with contempt; to mock |
desultory | jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
diatribe | an abusive, condemnatory speech |
diffident | lacking self-confidence |
dilatory | intended to delay |
disabuse | to set right; to free from error |
dissemble | to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character |
dogmatic | dictatorial in one's opinions |
engender | to produce, cause, or bring about |
ephemeral | lasting a short time |
equivocate | to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
erudite | learned, scholarly, bookish |
estimable | admirable |
exculpate | to clear from blame; prove innocent |
exigent | urgent; requiring immediate action |
florid | excessively decorated or embellished |
foment | to arouse or incite |
guile | deceit or trickery |
iconoclast | one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions |
inchoate | not fully formed; disorganized |
ingenuous | showing innocence or childlike simplicity |
inimical | hostile, unfriendly |
innocuous | harmless |
insipid | lacking interest or flavor |
intransigent | uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled |
irascible | easily made angry |
laconic | using few words |
malinger | to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
mollify | to calm or make less severe |
obdurate | hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
obsequious | overly submissive and eager to please |
obviate | to prevent; to make unnecessary |
opprobrium | public disgrace |
paradox | a contradiction or dilemma |
perfidious | willing to betray one's trust |
precipitate | to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
propitiate | to conciliate; to appease |
quiescent | motionless |
repudiate | reject the validity of |
soporific | causing sleep or lethargy |
tacit | done without using words |
torpor | extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
transitory | temporary, lasting a brief time |
veracity | filled with truth and accuracy |
aberrant | deviating from the norm |
approbation | an expression of approval or praise |
axiomatic | taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
canonical | following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
capricious | inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable |
censure | to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
disabuse | to undeceive; set right |
effrontery | extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
erudite | very learned; scholarly |
exigent | urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
extemporaneous | improvised; done without preparation |
filibuster | intentional obstruction |
fulminate | to loudly attack or denounce |
ingenuous | artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
inured | accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
irascible | easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
magnanimity | the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart |
obviate | to anticipate and make unnecessary |
perfidy | intentional breach of faith; treachery |
perspicacious | acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
precipitate | acting with excessive haste or impulse; to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
predilection | a disposition in favor of something; preference |
prescience | foreknowledge of events |
solicitous | concerned and attentive; eager |
truculent | fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
adulation | excessive praise; intense adoration |
chary | wary; cautious; sparing |
cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
complaisance | the willingness to comply withthe wishes of others |
contrite | regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
harangue | to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech |
impecunious | lacking funds; without money |
incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
intransigent | refusing to compromise |
inveigle | to obtain by deception or flattery |
penurious | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
pernicious | extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
quaff | to drink deeply |
redoubtable | awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
torpid | lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
dissemble | to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
hegemony | the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
inchoate | in an initial stage; not fully formed |
mendacity | the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
obdurate | unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
obsequious | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
opprobrium | disgrace; contempt; scorn |
penury | poverty; destitution |
pith | the essential or central part |
pithy | precise and brief |
polemical | controversial; argumentative |
querulous | prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
repudiate | to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
specious | seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
spurious | lacking authenticity or validity; false |
contiguous | sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
flout | to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
immutable | not capable of change |
inimical | damaging; harmful |
laconic | using few words; terse |
mercurial | characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
mollify | to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
obfuscate | to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
phlegmatic | calm; sluggish; unemotional |
probity | adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
proclivity | a natural predisposition or inclination |
quotidian | occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
recondite | hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
refulgent | radiant; shiny; brilliant |
sedulous | diligent; persistent; hardworking |
tacit | implied; not explicitly stated |
trenchant | sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
untenable | indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
brook | to tolerate, endure, countenance |
essay | to test or try; attempt |
fell | inhumanly cruel |
guy | a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide |
meet | fitting; proper |
prize | to pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils |
rent | torn |
singular | exceptional; unusual; odd |
abjure | to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
adumbrate | to foreshadow vaguely |
anodyne | soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
anathema | a solemn or ecclesiastical curse |
apogee | farthest or highest point; zenith |
apotheosis | glorification to godliness |
asperity | severity; rigor; roughness |
asseverate | to aver, allege, assert |
augury | omen; portent |
calumniate | to slander, make a false accusation |
captious | disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
cavil | to find fault without good reason |
celerity | speed, alacrity |
contumacious | insubordinate; rebellious |
spate | a sudden, almost overwhelming outpouring |
descry | to discriminate or discern |
desuetude | disuse |
desultory | random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
encomium | glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute |
execrate | denounce; feel loathing for, curse |
exegesis | critical examination; explication |
expiate | to atone or make amends for |
extirpate | to destroy; exterminate; cut out |
fatuous | silly; inanely foolish |
gainsay | to deny, dispute, contradict |
indefatigable | not easily exhaustible; tireless |
ineluctable | certain; inevitable |
insouciant | unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
jejune | vapid; uninteresting |
lubricious | lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
meretricious | cheap; gaudy; tawdry; |
minatory | menacing; threatening |
palliate | to make something seem less serious; to make less severe or intense |
panegyric | formal praise; eulogy |
parsimonious | cheap; miserly |
pellucid | transparent; easy to understand |
peroration | the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
plangent | pounding, thundering |
prolix | long-winded; verbose |
propitiate | to appease; to conciliate |
puissance | power; strength |
remonstrate | to protest, object |
salacious | lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
salutary | remedial; wholesome; causing improvement |
sanguine | cheerful, confident; optimistic |
saturnine | gloomy; dark; sullen |
sententious | moralistic; tending to moralize excessively |
stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
stygian | gloomy; dark |
tendentious | biased; showing marked tendencies |
tyro | novice |
vitiate | to corrupt; debase, spoil |
voluble | fluent; verbal |
temerity | reckless boldness; rashness |
artifice | a clever trick or stratagem; trickery; craftiness |
extenuate | to represent as less serious |
equable | free from many changes or variations; uniform |
inexorable | relentless; not capable of being persuaded |
indomitable | unconquerable |
sedulous | diligent; persevering |
refractory | hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient |
propitiatory | conciliatory; make favorable inclined |
lugubrious | dismal; exaggeratedly mournful |
extant | currently or actually existing |
blandishment | something that tends to flatter, coax, or entice |
mercurial | volatile; fickle; erratic |