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GRE Vocabulary

A list of words that I am personally weak with.

QuestionAnswer
Invidious envious, obnoxious, or offensive; likely to promote ill-will
Approbation approval and praise
Limpid clear, transparent
Anodyne something that calms or soothes pain
Lapidary relating to precious stones or the art of cutting them
Chicanery deception by means of craft or guile
Myopic lacking foresight, having a narrow view or short-range perspective
Arrogate to claim without justification; to claim for oneself without right
Vernal related to spring; fresh
Sycophant a self-serving flatterer; a yes-man
Apocryphal of questionable authority or authenticity
Distend to swell, inflate, or bloat
Diffident lacking self-confidence
Dissemble to present a false appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character
Cosset to pamper, treat with great care
Distaff the female branch of a family
Decorum appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
Inchoate not fully formed; disorganized
Puerile childish, immature, or silly
Deleterious subtly or unexpectedly harmful
Ameliorate to make better; to improve
Fatuous stupid; foolishly self-satisfied
Foment to arouse or incite
Maudlin overly sentimental
Blithe joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought
Sobriquet nickname
Exigent urgent, requiring immediate action
Fallow dormant; unused
Analgesia a lessening of pain without loss of consciousness
Pithy profound or substantial yet concise, succinct, and to the point
Precis short summary of facts
Analogous similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
Intrepid fearless; resolutely courageous
Inure to harden; accustom, become used to
Peripatetic wandering from place to place, especially on foot
Garrulous tending to talk a lot; wordy; loquacious; verbose; effusive
Gambol to dance or skip around playfully
Lugubrious sorrowful; mournful; dismal
Mendacious dishonest
Caustic biting in wit
Insipid lacking interest or flavor
Ribald humorous in a vulgar way
Requite to return or repay
Ostentation excessive showiness
Calumny a false and malicious accusation; misrepresentation
Contumacious rebellious
Investiture ceremony conferring authority
Solecism grammatical mistake; blunder in speech
Abase to humble; disgrace
Desultory jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
Obviate to prevent; to make unnecessary
Orotund pompous
Slake to calm down or moderate
Jingoism belligerent support of one's country
Dissonance a harsh and disagreeable combination especially of sounds
Tricenarian Someone in their 30s
Lassitude a state of diminished energy
Sexagenarian Someone in their 60s
Licentious immoral; unrestrained by society
Lissome easily flexed; limber; agile
Exculpate to clear from blame; prove innocent
Octogenarian Someone in their 80s
Euphony pleasant, harmonious sound
Fecund fertile; fruitful; productive
Vicissitude a change or variation; ups and downs
Septuagenarian Someone in their 70s
Winsome charming; happily engaging
Ostensible apparent
Palliate to make less serious; ease
Martinet strict disciplinarian; one who rigidly follows rules
Meretricious gaudy; falsely attractive; specious; tawdry
Vicenarian Someone in their 20s
Equivocate to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
Eschew to shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful)
Profligate corrupt; degenerate
Nonagenarian Someone in their 90s
Intransigent uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
Prevaricate to lie or deviate from the truth
Impecunious poor; having no money
Denarian Someone between 10 and 19 years of age
Imbue to infuse, dye, wet, or moisten
Ignoble having low moral standards; not noble in character; mean
Irascible easily made angry
Aggrandize to increase in power, influence, and reputation
Accretion a growth in size; an increase in amount
Affected phony; artificial
Quinquagenarian Someone in their 50s
Inimical hostile; unfriendly
Demur to express doubts or objections
Estimable admirable
Diurnal existing during the day
Droll amusing in a wry, subtle way
Pejorative having bad connotations; disparaging
Hapless unfortunate; having bad luck
Itinerant wandering from place to place; unsettled
Diatribe an abusive, condemnatory speech
Querulous inclined to complain; irritable
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