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GRE Words 2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| efflorescence | the period of greatest prosperity or productivity |
| sardonic | Scornfully or cynically mocking |
| iniquitous iniquitous | Characterized by iniquity; wicked. |
| mendacious | Lying; untruthful |
| desultory | Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
| elegiac | Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past |
| impecunious | Lacking money; penniless |
| abstemious | Eating and drinking in moderation |
| bellicose | Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious. |
| censure | An expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism. |
| apposite | Strikingly appropriate and relevant |
| limn | trace the shape of; To depict by painting or drawing; to describe |
| assiduous | Constant in application or attention; diligent |
| apoplexy | A fit of extreme anger; rage; Sudden impairment of neurological function |
| temerity | Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness. |
| genuflect | servile, obedient; To bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor or ground, as in worship. |
| connubial | Relating to marriage or the married state; conjugal. |
| adulturate (spec.) | to make impure |
| ardor | intense and passionate feeling |
| attenuate | to reduce in force or degree; weaken |
| decorum | appropriateness of behavior; propriety |
| diffident | lacking self confidence |
| dilatory | intended to delay |
| dilettante | someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
| dirge | a funeral hymn or mournful speach |
| disabuse | to set right; to free from error |
| dissemble | to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions orf character |
| enervate | to reduce in strength |
| ephemeral | lasting a short period of time |
| esoteric | understood by only a few |
| erudite | learned, scholarly, bookish |
| exigent | urgent, requiring immediate attention |
| foment | to arouse or incite |
| florid | excessively decorated or embelleshed |
| implacable | unable to be calmed down or made peaceful |
| inchoate | not fully formed, disorganized |
| innocuous | harmless |
| insipid | lacking interest or flavor |
| inundate | to overwhelm; to cover with water |
| irascible | easily made angry |
| lugubrious | Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree |
| malinger | to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
| obsequious | overly submissive and eager to please |
| occlude | to stop; to prevent the passage of |
| opprobrium | public disgrace |
| ostentation | excessive showiness |
| perfidious | willing to betray one's trust |
| prodigal | wasteful, lavish |
| quiescent | motionless |
| rarefy | to make thinner or sparser |
| specious | deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but falacious |
| stolid | unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
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