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Unfamiliar Words 2
Unfamiliar GRE Word List 2
Word | Definition |
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• sagacious | adjective * showing wisdom and good judgement [Barron] * of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment; discerning [Taisha] * having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage [Nandigam] |
• chalice | noun * large cup for holding wine, esp one from which consecrated wine is drunk at the Eucharist [Barron] |
• arcade | |
• attrition | |
• hallow | |
• exiguous | |
• recessive | |
• expenditure | |
• effluvium | |
• scutter | |
• reprisal | |
• adjure | |
• victuals | |
• anathema | |
• dissident | |
• lank | |
• purported | |
• expiation | |
• gentry | |
• auspice | |
• purloin | |
• inimitable | |
• redolent | |
• minaret | |
• disbar | |
• pinnace | |
• languor | |
• extort | |
• comestible | |
• rheumy | |
• embezzlement | |
• approbation | |
• notch | |
• conciliatory | |
• maven | |
• monogram | |
• sectarian | |
• vortex | |
• pulpit | |
• executor | |
• optometrist | |
• yokel | |
• anemia | |
• propulsive | |
• schematic | |
• avow | |
• aristocracy | |
• reconnaissance | |
• coquette | |
• rabble | |
• infinitesimal | |
• anomaly | |
• cognizant | |
• unconscionable | |
• mendacious | |
• economy | |
• bureaucracy | |
• rhetoric | |
• malinger | |
• glade | |
• extirpate | |
• adumbrate | |
• nexus | |
• affidavit | |
• mogul | |
• arcane | |
• filch | |
• reprobation | |
• fervor | |
• incise | |
• rebut | |
• irreproachable | |
• oasis | |
• horde | |
• brook | |
• facsimile | |
• bask | |
• disquiet | |
• litter | |
• piscatorial | |
• highbrow | |
• demoralize | |
• egotism | |
• leaven | |
• tart | |
• nadir | |
• boding | |
• maladroit | |
• amoral | |
• tempestuous | |
• phlegmatic | |
• scion | |
• indemnity | |
• sepulchral | |
• rosy | |
• detract | |
• sanctuary | |
• anomalous | |
• connivance | |
• hibernal | |
• largesse | |
• elegy | |
• hearten | |
• stultify | |
• manifold | |
• eddy | |
• lexicographer | |
• austere | |
• fecundity | |
• fallacious | |
• grandiose | |
• delinquent | |
• sebaceous | |
• gruel | |
• impolitic | |
• pedestal | |
• gratuity | |
• pestilential | |
• polished | |
• taskmaster | |
• patriarch | |
• regime | |
• odyssey | |
• stipple | |
• sheath | |
• zealot | |
• chevron | |
• congruous | |
• denomination | |
• celestial | |
• troupe | |
• ballad | |
• vituperate | |
• deport | |
• backset | |
• embitter | |
• flay | |
• plaudit | |
• velocity | |
• parlance | |
• abash | |
• formidable | |
• primogeniture | |
• torrid | |
• daub | |
• bearing | |
• epigram | |
• mendicant | |
• noisome | |
• torrent |