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GRE Vocab - Beyond

Princeton Review 2012

QuestionAnswer
Alloy (verb) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure
Appropriate (verb) to take for one’s own use; to confiscate
Arrest, arresting (verb/adj) to suspend; to engage; holding ones attention; as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait
August (adj) majestic, venerable
Bent (noun) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
Broach (verb) to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about
Brook (verb) to tolerate; to endure; to countenance
Cardinal (adj) major, as in a cardinal sin
Chauvinist (noun) a blindly devoted patriotic
Color (verb) to change as if by dyeing, i.e. to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first)
Consequential (adj) pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following: important)
Damp (verb) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
Die (noun) a tool used to shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
Essay (verb) to test or try; to attempt; to experiment
Exact (verb) to demand; to call for; to require; to take
Fell (verb) to cause to fall by striking
Fell (adj) inhumanely cruel
Flag (verb) to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline
Flip (adj) sarcastic; impertinent, as in flippant; a flip remark
Ford (verb) to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
Grouse (verb) to complain or grumble
Guy (noun) a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think “guide”
Intimate (verb) to imply, suggest, or insinuate
List (verb) to tilt or lean to one side
Lumber (verb) to move heavily and clumsily
Meet (adj) fitting, proper
Milk (verb) to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of
Mince (verb) to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe
Nice (adj) exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
Obtain (adj) to be established, accepted, or customary
Occult (adj) hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
Pedestrian (adj) commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
Pied (adj) multicolored, usually in blotches
Pine (verb) to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
Plastic (adj) moldable, pliable, not rigid
Pluck (noun) courage, spunk, fortitude
Prize (verb) to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils
Rail (verb) to complain about bitterly
Rent (verb) torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such
Quail (verb) to lose courage; to turn frightened
Qualify (verb) to limit
Sap (verb) to enervate or weaken the vitality of
Sap (noun) a fool or nitwit
Scurvy (adj) contemptible, despicable
Singular (adj) exceptional, unusual, odd
Stand (noun) a group of trees
Steep (verb) to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep
Strut (noun) the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
Table (verb) to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
Tender (verb) a proffer or offer
Waffle (verb) to equivocate; to change one’s position
Wag (noun) wit, joker
Abjure (verb) to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
Adumbrate (verb) to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
Anathema (noun) a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
Anodyne (adj/noun) soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
Apogee (noun) farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
Apostate (noun) one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
Apotheosis (noun) deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellent or perfection
Asperity (noun) severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
Asseverate (verb) to aver, allege, or assert
Assiduous (adj) diligent, hard-working, sedulous
Augury (noun) omen, portent
Bellicose (adj) belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
Calumniate (verb) to slander, to make a false accusation; calumny mean slander, aspersion
Captious (adj) disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
Cavil (verb) to find fault without good reason
Celerity (noun) speed, alacrity; think accelerate
Chimera (noun) an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
Contumacious (adj) insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion
Debacle (noun) rout, fiasco, complete failure
Denouncement (noun) an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
Descry ( verb) to discriminate or discern
Desuetude (noun) disuse
Desultory (adj) random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
Diaphanous (adj) transparent, gauzy
Diffident (adj) reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
Dirge (noun) a song of grief or lamentation
Encomium (noun) glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric
Eschew (verb) to shun or avoid
Excoriate (verb) to censure scathingly, to upbraid
Execrate (verb) to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil
Exegesis (noun) critical examination, explication
Expiate (verb) to atone or make amends for
Extirpate (verb) to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind
Fatuous (adj) silly, inanely foolish
Fractious (adj) quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
Gainsay (verb) to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
Heterodox (adj) unorthodox, heretical, iconoclast
Imbroglio (noun) difficult or embarrassing situation
Indefatigable (adj) not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
Ineluctable (adj) certain, inevitable
Inimitable (adj) one of a kind, peerless
Insouciant (adj) unconcerned, carefree, heedless
Inveterate (adj) deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
Jejune (adj) vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
Lubricious (adj) lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
Mendicant (noun) a beggar, supplicant
Meretricious (adj) cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
Minatory (adj) menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)
Nadir (noun) low point, perigee
Nonplussed (adj) baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
Obstreperous (adj) noisy and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
Ossified (adj) tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone
Palliate (verb) to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
Panegyric (noun) formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise
Parsimonious (adj) cheap, miserly
Pellucid (adj) transparent, easy to understand, limpid
Peroration (noun) the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
Plangent (adj) pounding, thundering, resounding
Prolix (adj) long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity
Propitiate (verb) to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable
Puerile (adj) childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
Puissance (noun) power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong
Pusillanimous (adj) cowardly, craven
Remonstrate (verb) to protest, to object
Sagacious (adj) having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
Salacious (adj) lustful, lascivious, bawdy
Salutary (adj) remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
Sanguine (adj) cheerful, confident, optimistic
Saturnine (adj) gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
Sententious (adj) aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
Stentorian (adj) extremely loud and powerful
Stygian (adj) gloomy, dark
Sycophant (noun) toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite
Tendentious (adj) biased; showing marked tendencies
Timorous (adj) timid, fearful, diffident
Tyro (noun) novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
Vitiate (verb) to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
Voluble (adj) fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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