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GRE Vocab - Group 3
Princeton Review 2012
Question | Answer |
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Acumen (noun) | keen; accurate judgment or insight |
Adulterate (verb) | to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
Amalgamate (verb) | to combine several elements into a whole (noun form: amalgamation) |
Archaic (adj) | outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
Aver (verb) | to state as a fact; to declare or assert |
Bolster (verb) | to provide support or reinforcement |
Bombastic (adj) | pompous; grandiloquent (noun form: bombast) |
Diatribe (noun) | a harsh denunciation |
Dissemble (verb) | to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
Eccentric (adj) | departing from norms or conventions |
Endemic (adj) | characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
Evanescent (adj) | tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
Exacerbate (verb) | to make worse or more severe |
Fervent (adj) | greatly emotional or zealous (noun form: fervor) |
Fortuitous (adj) | happening by accident or chance |
Germane (adj) | relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
Grandiloquence (noun) | pompous speech or expression (adj form: grandiloquent) |
Hackneyed (adj) | rendered trite or common place by frequent usage |
Halcyon (adj) | calm and peaceful |
Hedonism (noun) | devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses (a hedonist is someone who pursues pleasure) |
Hegemony (noun) | the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
Iconoclast (noun) | one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or instructions |
Idolatrous (adj) | given to intense or excessive devotion to something (noun form: idolatry) |
Impassive (adj) | revealing no emotion |
Imperturbable (adj) | marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness |
Implacable (adj) | not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
Impunity (noun) | immunity from punishment or penalty |
Inchoate (adj) | in an initial stage; not fully formed |
Infelicitous (adj) | unfortunately; inappropriate |
Insipid (adj) | without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
Loquacious (adj) | extremely talkative (noun form: loquacity) |
Luminous (adj) | characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
Malevolent (adj) | having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred (noun form: malevolence) |
Malleable (adj) | capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
Mendacity (noun) | the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty (adj form: mendacious) |
Meticulous (adj) | characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
Misanthrope (adj) | one who hates all other humans (adj form: misanthropic) |
Mitigate (verb) | to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
Obdurate (adj) | unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
Obsequious (adj) | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
Occlude (verb) | to obstruct or block |
Opprobrium (noun) | disgrace; contempt; scorn |
Pedagogy (noun) | the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing |
Pedantic (adj) | overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about ones knowledge |
Penury (noun) | poverty; destitution |
Pervasive (adj) | having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
Pine (verb) | to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
Pirate (verb) | to illegally use or reproduce |
Pith (noun) | the essential or central part |
Pithy (adj) | precise and brief |
Placate (verb) | to appease; to calm by making concessions |
Platitude (noun) | a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful |
Plummet (verb) | to plunge or drop straight down |
Polemical (adj) | controversial; argumentative |
Prodigal (adj) | recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
Profuse (adj) | given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
Proliferate (verb) | to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
Queries (noun) | questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
Querulous (adj) | prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
Rancorous (adj) | characterized by bitter, long lasting resentment |
Recalcitrant (adj) | obstinately defiant or authority; difficult to manage |
Repudiate (verb) | to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown |
Rescind (verb) | to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
Reverent (adj) | marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect (noun form: reverence) |
Rhetoric (noun) | the art or study of effective use or language for communication and persuasion |
Salubrious (adj) | promoting health or well-being |
Solvent (adj) | able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
Specious (adj) | seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
Spurious (adj) | lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
Subpoena (noun) | a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
Succinct (adj) | brief, concise |
Superfluous (adj) | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
Surfeit (verb) | an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess |
Tenacity (noun) | the quality or adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination (adj form: tenacious) |
Tenuous (adj) | having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
Tirade (noun) | a long a extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
Transient (adj) | fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
Zealous (adj) | fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause (a zealot is a zealous person) |