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GRE Prep V1
GRE Vocab
Question | Answer |
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mercenary | person concerned w/ making money |
miserly | stingy |
renitent | unyielding |
elegiac | having mournful quality |
lugubrious | sounding sad |
plaintive | sounding sad |
threnody | a lament |
auspice | prophetic token |
fey | fated to die |
presage | be a sign or warning |
periphrastic | indirect and circumlocutory |
prolix | too many words |
turgid | tediously pompous |
askance | attitude of suspicion |
carom | strike and rebound |
sidle | walk sideways |
portentous | done in a pompous way |
propitiate | regain favor |
indolent | avoid activity; lazy |
inert | lacking ability or strength to move |
phlegmatic | unemotional and calm |
quiescent | period of inactivity |
assay | determine content or quality |
ingenuous | innocent |
novitiate | novice |
baleful | menacing |
baneful | harmful |
inimical | tending to harm |
perfidious | deceitful |
pernicious | harmful effect |
implacable | inflexible; incapable of being pleased |
pernicious | very harmful |
canny | smart; founded on common sense |
abjure | to reject, abandon formally |
bromide | a dull, commonplace person or idea |
anodyne | something that calms or soothes pain |
decamp | to leave suddenly |
apothgm | a short instructive saying |
acidulous | sour in taste or manner |
declivity | downward slope |
cavil | to raise trivial objections |
comeliness | physical grace and beauty |
mawkish | sickeningly sentimental |
dotard | senile old person |
chide | to scold |
abominate | to hate |
eschew | to abstain from, avoid |
dictum | formal pronouncement from authority |
epigram | remark expressing idea cleverly |
sententious | given to moralizing |
enervate | cause someone to feel drained of energy |
vitiate | spoil the quality of |
diffident | modest because of lack of self-confidence |
recreant | coward |
antecede | predate |
antedate | precede in time |
inexorable | impossible to stop |
obstinate | stubborn |
engender | generate |
nascent | just coming into existence |
acidulous | sharp tasting or sour; bitter remark |
asperity | harshness of tone |
factitious | artificially created |
temperate | showing self-restraint |
chagrin | feel humiliated |
diffidence | modesty from lack of confidence |
expiate | speak or write at length |
gaucherie | embarrassing |
rue | regret |
apocryphal | doubtful authenticity |
canard | unfounded rumor |
ersatz | not real/genuine |
perfidy | deceitfulness |
prevaricate | evade |
interregnum | period of suspension |
interstice | an intervening space |
rent | tear in a fabric |
respice | examine a point in time |
fell | cruel/fierce |
malevolent | having wish to do harm to others |
sardonic | grimly cynical |
fulsome | excessively flattering |
unctuous | excessively flattering |
cavil | making unnecessary objections |
belabor | argue in excessive detail |
enjoin | urge to do something |
bacchanalian | drunken revelery |
dissipated | over indulging in sensual pleasures |
iniquity | immoral behavior |
libidinous | lustful |
reprobate | express disapproval of; predestined to damnation |
turpitude | depravity |
insipid | lacking flavor |
trite | overused/of little importance; lacking originality |
pettish | childishly bad tempered |
pique | stimulate; feel irritated |
waspish | expressing anger |
mainstay | thing that something else depends on |
sustenance | nourishment |
impetuous | done quickly without thinking |
inscrutable | impossible to understand |
turbid | cloudy, opaque |
dither | indecisive behavior |
vacillate | alternate / waver |
probity | honesty and decency |
expatiate | speak or write at length |
peregrination | traveling around |
sojourn | temporary stay |
abeyance | temporary suspension/disuse |
abnegation | self-denial |
abrogate | repeal (law, right, etc.) |
demur | raise doubts |
recidivism | act of repeating undesirable behavior |
dilettante | amateur interest |
proselyte | person who is converted from one opinion/party to another |
mercenary | person concerned w/ making money |
miserly | stingy |
penurious | extremely poor |
venal | corruptible |
clement | mild, merciful |
unstinting | unsparing |
flippant | not showing serious or respectful attitude |
gibe | a taunt |
raillery | good humored teasing |
riposte | quick clever response to an insult/criticism |
simper | smirk |
conjugal | relating to marriage |
consungaine | related by blood |
distaff | female side of a family |
progenitor | ancestor |
scion | descendant of a notable family |
dogmatic | inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true |
peremptory | not open to appeal; final |
elegy | poem of serious reflection |
knell | sound of bell rung at funeral |
obsequies | funeral rites |
sepulchral | gloomy and dismal |
wraith | ghost/ghostlike image |
excoriate | criticize severely |
inveigh | speak/write about with great hostility |
objurgate | scold |
obloquy | public criticism |
rebuke | sharp disapproval |
reprove | sharp disapproval |
vituperate | blame in strong language |
hector | talk in a bullying way |
defer | submit humbly to |
propitiate | win/regain favor |
slake | satisfy |
esurient | hungry/greedy |
impecunious | having little/no money |
encomium | praising speed or piece of writing |
venerate | revere |
invective | insulting/highly critical language |
impudent | not showing due respect |
insouciant | indifferent |
jejune | naive and superficial |
flippancy | frivolousness |
unpropitious | unfavorable |
discomfit | defeat/put down |
lugubrious | sounding sad |
mawkish | sickly sentimentality |
calumnious | slanderous |
ignominious | deserving of public disgrace |
vicissitude | change of fortune |
sagacious | shrewd |
assiduous | unremitting |
alacrity | brisk and cheerful readiness |
ebullient | quality of being cheerful |
eclat | brilliant display |
corpulence | obesity |
penurious | extremely poor |
peremptory | not open to appeal |
perspicacious | understanding of things |
phlegmatic | having unemotional disposition |
puckish | playful in mischievous way |
mullish | stubborn |
laconic | terse; concise |
inveterate | unlikely to change |
inviolable | never to be broken |
capricious | sudden change of mood |
paltering | trifle with |
contravene | violate the order of |
encomiast | person who publicly flatters someone else |
salient | fortification that juts out |
sedition | speech inciting people to rebel |
gall | make someone feel annoyed |
harrow | cause distress to |
vitiate | spoil the quality of |
repine | feel discontent |
reprobate | feel disapproval |
stodgy | dull/uninspired |
contrite | affected by guilt |
perfidious | decietful |
plangent | loud |
stolid | calm dependable person |
sapient | wise |
evanescent | quickly fading |
staid | unadventurous |
volitional | with deliberate intention |
improvident | thoughtless |
indefeasible | not able to be lost |