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GRE difficult words

TermDefinition
tenuous having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak, thin or slender
succinct brief; concise (pithy)
spurious lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
salubrious promoting health or well-being
repudiate to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
recalcitrant obstinately defiant to authority; difficult to manage, resisting authority or control, not obedient
querulous prone to complaining or grumbling
polemical controversial; argumentative person who argues in opposition to another (contentious)
platitude a superficial remark, esp one offered as meaningful
obdurate unyielding; hardhearted; intractable; stubbornly refusing to change ones opinion or course of action
obsequious exhibiting a fawning attentiveness, obedient or attentive to an excessive degree
opprobrium disgrace; contempt; scorn; harsh criticism or censure (ex prime minister)
iconoclast one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions, person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
infelicitous unfortunate; inappropriate or not well timed (hillary's words)
insipid lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate or challenge
incipient nascent
acumen keen, accurate judgment or insight
fervent greatly emotional or zealous, displaying a passionate intensity
fortuitous happening by accident or chance (fortuitous stop in indy 500)
grandiloquence pompous speech or expression (harangue)
culpable descending blame
demur to question or oppose, to disagree politely with another's statement (crotch: unnecessary ambiguity to demur from coarser language)
engmatic mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand (engima- puzzling person or situation)
furtive marked by stealth, covert, surreptitious, sly/shifty
intransigent refusing to compromise, unwilling to changes one's view
pernicious extremely harmful in a way that is not easily seen or noticed (pernicious anemia)
perfidy breach of faith or trust
prodigious abundant in size, force or extent; extraordinary (prodigious home run in baseball)
ubiquitous existing everywhere at the same time, constantly encountered; widespread
dogmatic expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles
conjecture opinion or conclusion based on incomplete information
heretical violating accepted dogma/convention, characterized by heresy
mendacity the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
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