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GRE Vocabulary Words

TermDefinition
polemical controversial, argumentative.
polemics the art or practice of controversy and argumentation.
pragmatic practical rather than idealistic.
prate chatter, babble.
prattle to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner.
precarious uncertain, risky, dangerous.
precept rule establishing standards of conduct, a doctrine that is taught.
precipitate acting with excessive haste or impulse.
precipitate to cause or happen before anticipated or required.
precursor something that precedes and indicates or announces another.
predilection a disposition in favor of something, preference.
preempt to replace, to supersede to appropriate.
preemption prior appropriation of or claim to something.
preemptive characterized by preemption.
preen to dress up; primp, groom oneself with elaborate care; in animals, to clean fur or feathers.
prescience knowing of events prior to their happening/occurring.
presumptuous overstepping bounds, as of propriety or courtesy; taking liberties.
prevaricate to deliberately avoid the truth, mislead.
pristine pure, uncorrupted, clean.
prize to pry, press, or force with a lever.
probity adherence to highest principles, uprightness.
uprightness honest.
proclivity a natural predisposition or inclination.
prodigal recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish.
prodigious abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary.
profligate excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant.
profuse given or coming forth abundantly, extravagant.
profusion abundance or extravagance.
proliferate to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly.
prolific producing large volumes or amounts, productive.
prolix long-winded, verbose.
propensity a natural inclination or tendency, penchant.
penchant strong and continued inclination.
propinquity nearness in time or place, affinity of nature, kinship.
propitiate to appease, conciliate.
conciliate to gain by pleasing acts.
propitious auspicious, favorable.
prosaic dull, unimaginative.
proscribe to outlaw or prohibit.
proscription the act of outlawing something. To outlaw or banish people, or pass sentence of death. (what you are not allowed to do).
prescription what you should do.
provident frugal, looking to the future.
providential happening as if from divine intervention.
puerile childish, immature.
pugnacious contentious, quarrelsome, given to fighting, belligerent.
belligerent waging war.
punctilious precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette.
pundit an authority on a subject, one who gives opinions.
pungent characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste, penetrating, to the point.
pusillanimous cowardly, craven.
craven lacking the least bit of courage.
putrefy to rot, decay and give off a foul odor, become gangrenous.
quaff to drink deeply.
quail to shrink back in fear, lose courage.
qualify to limit.
qualms misgivings, reservations, causes for hesitancy.
queries questions, inquiries, reservations.
querulous prone to complaining or grumbling, quarrelsome.
quiescence stillness, motionlessness, quality of being at rest.
quiescent inactive, latent, causing no trouble, being at rest.
quixotic foolishly impractical, marked by lofty romantic ideals.
quotidian occurring or recurring daily, commonplace.
rail to complain about bitterly.
ramify to be divided or subdivided, branch out.
ramifications the developments or consequences growing out of something.
rancorous characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment.
rancor the bitter, long-lasting resentment itself.
rapacious voracious, greedy, plundering, subsisting on prey.
rapacity avarice, or the practice of extorting or exacting by injustice.
junta a council or committee for political or government purposes.
rarefy to make or become thin, less dense, refine.
rebus riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like the words.
recalcitrant obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficult to manage.
recant to retract, especially a previously held belief.
recondite hidden concealed, difficult to understand, obscure.
reconnoiter to engage in reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of.
reconnaissance preliminary survey to gain information.
recumbent leaning, resting, prone.
redolent fragrant, suggestive or evocative.
redoubtable awe-inspiring; worthy of honor.
refulgent radiant; shiny; brilliant.
refute to disprove, successfully argue against.
regale to delight or entertain, feast.
relegate to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position.
remonstrate to protest, object.
renege to fail to honor a commitment, go back on a promise.
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