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GRE Words 51-100****
GRE Words 51-100***************************************************8
Question | Answer |
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ossify | turn hard or into bone |
precarious | unusually advanced for a young age, especially dealing with emotional age. |
salubrious | dealing with health; salutary |
salutary | dealing with health; salubrious |
sanctimonious | a display of belief that is usually intended to mock |
sanguinary | red or dealing with blood |
truncate | to cut short |
turpitude | depraved or execrable in behavior |
ameliorate | to make better |
ageist | like racism for old people |
convivial | friendly of jovial |
ersatz | a replacement or fiduciary |
indolent | dormant or torpid |
pallor | sickly or yellow in color |
pejorative | negative in connotation |
putative | reputed as being true |
repose | to be at rest |
trope | any sort of metaphor in writing |
vale | life and everything it encompasses |
vestige | a trace of something that is now gone |
virulent | actively poisonous or noxious |
desultory | lacking in order, messy |
cloying | making an overly emotional display |
aver | to assert with confidence |
celerity | speed or quickness |
censorious | to e degrading or fault-finding |
deprecate | to rag on or speak negatively of |
extrapolate | to expand upon; conjecture |
extrinsic | superfluous |
fetter | chains or restraints that binds your legs |
malediction | a curse |
panacea | a cure-all |
postulate | to question, ask, or claim |
prevaricate | to lie |
sallow | yellow or sickly in color, wan |
unfetter | to set free |
salacious | lustful pictures or photographs; porn |
immutable | unchangeable |
chary | wary or cautious |
chimerical | wildly fanciful |
choleric | irascible or easily angered |
dilatory | tardy |
fastidious | nit picking |
fatuous | silly, not really believable |
fecund | fertile |
marshal | to organize |
paragon | a perfect example to aspire to |
pariah | an outcast |
prodigious | big in size or scope |
sequester | to squelch or hide away |
upbraid | to abase |
urbane | appearing well bread in speech and mannerisms |