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GRE Vocabulary
Taken from Kaplan, Barron's, and Princeton Review.
| Term | Definition | Definition 2 | Definition 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bilk (verb) | to get money from someone unfairly or dishonestly: a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars He bilked clients out of tens of millions of dollars. An apparently benevolent elderly gentleman bilked me of twenty dollars. | ||
| nominal (adj) | (of a role or status) existing in name only. Thailand retained nominal independence under Japanese military occupation. the nominal leader of the party He remained in nominal control of the business for another ten years. | ||
| blight (noun) | A thing that spoils or damages something. The vacant properties are a blight on the neighborhood. Synonyms affliction, scourge, bane | ||
| blight something (phrasal verb) | to spoil or damage something, especially by causing a lot of problems His career has been blighted by injuries. an area blighted by unemployment | ||
| blithe (adj) | happy and without worry: satisfied and without worry: I am upset by the author’s blithe indifference toward facts. She shows a blithe disregard for danger. Synonym light-hearted | ||
| blithely (adverb) | happily and without feeling or showing any worry, especially when there is a reason to be worried: She blithely agreed to the contract without realizing what its consequences would be. She had blithely assumed that her parents would pay for the trip. | ||
| nuance (noun) | a very slight difference in appearance, meaning, sound, etc.: The painter has managed to capture every nuance of the woman's expression. Linguists explore the nuances of language. | ||
| nuanced (adj) | made slightly different in appearance, meaning, sound, etc.: His London accent is very slightly nuanced by an occasional Russian pronunciation. | ||
| fervent, UK fervid (adj) | used to describe beliefs that are strongly and sincerely felt or people who have strong and sincere beliefs: a fervent supporter of the communist party It is his fervent hope that a peaceful solution will soon be found. | Synonym impassioned | |
| fervently (adv) | in a way that shows that your beliefs are strong and sincerely felt: The nationalists believe fervently in independence for their country. They wanted to change the political order that they so fervently opposed. | ||
| specious (adj) | seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false: a specious argument/claim specious allegations/promises | ||
| speciously | in a way that seems to be right or true, but is really wrong or false: This inequality was speciously justified by reasoning that women had less need for education than men. He claims, perhaps speciously, that the two had a relationship. | ||
| speciousness | the fact of seeming to be right or true, but really being wrong or false: The speciousness of his defense can be shown by a closer look at the evidence. It was easy to detect the speciousness in some of the speaker's arguments. | ||
| solecism (noun) | behavior that is a social mistake or is not polite: an example of bad manners or unacceptable behavior: a social solecism to commit a social solecism | LANGUAGE a grammatical mistake: a mistake in the use of language in speech or writing: a grammatical solecism | |
| jettison (verb) | to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed: He was jettisoned as team coach after the defeat. The station has jettisoned educational broadcasts. synonym discard | to throw goods, fuel, or equipment from a ship or aircraft to make it lighter: The captain was forced to jettison the cargo and make an emergency landing. to jettison fuel | to reject an idea, belief, plan, etc. that you no longer think is useful or likely to be successful We've had to jettison our trip because of David's accident. The governor seems to have jettisoned the plan. synonym abandon |
| lament (verb) | to express sadness and feeling sorry about something: The poem opens by lamenting (over) the death of a young man. The late lamented (= dead and remembered with love) Frank Giotto used to live here. | Synonyms bemoan formal, bewail literary | |
| lament (noun) | a song, poem, or other expression of great sadness for someone who has died or for something that has ended The whole play can be interpreted as a lament for lost youth. a nostalgic lament for lost love | Synonyms dirge elegy | |
| gullible (adj) | easily deceived or tricked, and too willing to believe everything that other people say: There are any number of miracle cures on the market for people gullible enough to buy them. a gullible young man | synonym naive | |
| gullibility (noun) | the quality of being easily deceived or tricked, and too willing to believe everything that other people say: His arguments are aimed at the public's gullibility rather than their intelligence. Most scams appeal to investor greed or gullibility. | ||
| florid (adj) | (usually disapproving) having too much decoration or detail florid language a florid architectural style florid prose/rhetoric | (of a person's face) too red, especially in a way that is unhealthy: a florid complexion | |
| floridly | in a way that has too much decoration or detail: She signed the letter floridly before she folded the paper. floridly poetic language |
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