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GRE Vocab - Beyond
Princeton Review 2012
Question | Answer |
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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 |