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GRE Vocabulary
A list of words that I am personally weak with.
Question | Answer |
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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 |