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GRE Hit Parade 1
GRE Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abscond | v. to depart clandestinely; to seal off and hide |
| aberrant | adj. deviating from the norm |
| aberration | n. deviation from the norm |
| alacrity | n. eager and enthusiastic willingness ex. We accepted the invitation with alacrity. from lat. alacer = lively |
| anomaly | n. deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality |
| anomalous | adj. deviating from the normal order, form, or rule |
| approbation | n. an expression of approval or praise |
| arduous | adj. strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort |
| assuage | v. to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify |
| audacious | adj. daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
| audacity | n. daringness and fearlessness |
| austere | adj. without adornment, bare; severely; simple; ascetic |
| axiomatic | adj. taken as a given, possessing a self-evident truth |
| canonical | adj. following or in agreement with the accepted, traditional standards |
| capricious | adj. inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable |
| censure | v. to criticize severely, to officially rebuke |
| chicanery | n. trickery or subterfuge |
| connoisseur | n. an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert |
| convoluted | adj. complex or complicated |
| disabuse | v. to undeceive; to set right |
| discordant | adj. conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
| disparate | adj. fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
| effrontery | n. extreme boldness; presumptuous She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples. |
| eloquent | adj. well-spoken, expressive, articulate |
| enervate | v. to weaken; to reduce in vitality "the luxury which enervates and destroys nations" (Henry David Thoreau) |
| ennui | n. dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
| equivocate | v. to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
| erudite | adj. very learned; scholarly |
| exculpate | v. exonerate; to clear of blame |
| exigent | adj. urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
| extemporaneous | adj. improvised; done without preparation They will learn how to speak extemporaneously in a natural, conversation tone. |
| filibuster | n. intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speech making to delay legislative action |
| fulminate | v. to loudly attack or denounce The minister fulminated against legalized vice. |
| inured | adj. accustomed to accepting something undesirable ex. Though the food became no more palatable, he soon became sufficiently inured to it |
| irascible | adj. easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts an irascible old man |
| laud | v. praise highly |
| lucid | adj. clear; easily understood |
| magnanimity | n. the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving |
| martial | adj. associated with war and the armed forces |
| mundane | adj. of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary |
| nascent | adj. coming into being; in early developmental stages |
| nebulous | adj. vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form |
| neologism | n. a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or sue of new words or senses |
| noxious | adj. harmful, injurious |
| obtuse | adj. lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression |
| obviate | v. to anticipate and make unnecessary |
| onerous | adj. troubling; burdensome |
| pean | n. a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
| parody | n. a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art |
| perennial | adj. recurrent through the year or many hears; happening repeatedly |
| perfidy | n. intentional breach of faith; treachery “Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other” |
| perfunctory | adj. cursory; done without care or interest “Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one" |
| perspicacious | adj. acutely perceptive; having keen discernment much too perspicacious to be taken in by so dubious an argument |
| prattle | v. to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
| precipitate | adj. acting with excessive haste or impulse ex. a precipitate marriage |
| predilection | n. a disposition in favor of something; preference |
| prescience | n. foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring |
| prevaricate | v. to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead You are attempting to prevaricate your previous assertions and change the subject matter. |
| qualms | n. misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
| recant | v. to retract, esp. a preciously held belief |
| refute | v. to disprove; to successfully argue against |
| relegate | v. to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position |
| reticent | adj. quite; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
| solicitous | adj. concerned and attentive; eager He was always solicitous to please. |
| sordid | adj. characterized by filth, grime or squalor; foul |
| sporadic | adj. occurring oly occasionally, or in scattered instances |
| squander | v. to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
| static | adj. not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
| stupefy | v. to stun, baffle, or amaze |
| stymie | v. to block; thwart ex. The US Aids fund has been partly stymied by a debate |
| synthesis | n. the combination of parts to make a whole |
| torque | n. a force that causes rotation |
| tortuous | adj. winding, twisting; excessively complicated |
| truculent | adj. fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
| veracity | n. truthfulness, honesty |
| virulent | adj. extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
| waver | v. to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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