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GRE words list 5
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sapience | wisdom: ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight |
| fatuity | absurdity: a ludicrous folly; imbecility, dementia |
| pertinacious | dogged: stubbornly unyielding |
| natty | neatly and well dressed |
| sybarite | a person devoted to the enjoyment of wordly pleasures |
| timorous | shy; fearful: timid by nature or revealing timidity |
| pernicious | baneful: exceedingly harmful; insidious: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way |
| donnybrook | state of uproar, free-for-all, brawl |
| vim | a healthy capacity for vigorous activity |
| gaucherie | social awkwardness |
| lachrymose | dolorous: showing sorrow |
| apostate | deserter: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. |
| expurgate | to cleanse intensely |
| scintilla | shred: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount |
| recusant | nonconformist: someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct |
| skinflint | a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend |
| obfuscate | make obscure or unclear (using obscure language) |
| exegesis | The act of explaining a sacred text. ; the careful investigation of the original meaning of a text in its historical and literary contexts |
| ignominious | black: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame |
| voluble | marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations" |
| surfeit | the state of being more than full |
| effulgent | beaming: radiating or as if radiating light; |
| abet | assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing |
| spendthrift | extravagant: recklessly wasteful; someone who spends money prodigally |
| solicitude | a feeling of excessive concern |
| oblique | devious: indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading |
| pelagic | Of or in the open ocean or open water. |
| limpid | 1. Characterized by transparent clearness; pellucid. 2.Easily intelligible; clear 3.Calm and untroubled; serene. |
| accretion | Growth or increase in size by gradual external addition. (often used to mean land build-up) |
| eremite | A hermit, anchorite or anchoress; a religious who chooses to live a solitary holy life, as opposed to the communal life of a cenobite. |
| arraign | call before a court to answer an indictment |
| aria | A song for solo voice, usually found in an opera, oratorio or other large work. |
| cantankerous | bloody-minded: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate |
| dregs | sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid |
| callow | immature and inexperienced |
| aseptic | Free from living germs of disease, fermentation or putrefaction. |
| pallid | pale: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress |
| blithe | lacking or showing a lack of due concern; carefree and happy and lighthearted |
| potentate | dictator: a ruler who is unconstrained by law |
| refectory | communal dining hall; In a monastery, the hall in which the religious take their meals. |
| votary | one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service; "monasteries of votaries" |
| peregrination | traveling or wandering around |
| stultify | to render useless or futile; cripple; to cause to appear foolish or ridiculous |
| mollify | pacify; temper: make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate |
| incipient | beginning to exist; coming into existence. |
| risibility | a disposition to laugh |
| languor | inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy |
| ochlocracy | mobocracy: a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses |
| plutocracy | Government by the rich and powerful |
| imprecation | a slanderous accusation |
| factious | dissentious: dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) |
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