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GRE Slova 2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| peripatetic | a person who walks from place to place |
| venal | corruptible: capable of being corrupted |
| noisome | nauseating: causing or able to cause nausea |
| mordant | black: harshly ironic or sinister |
| doyenne | a woman who is the senior member of a group |
| encomium | the praise of a person or thing |
| inundate | fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid |
| elegy | # a mournful poem; a lament for the dead |
| paean | a joyous exultant triumphant song or hymn |
| inimitable | defying imitation; matchless |
| recondite | abstruse: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge |
| abstruse | difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge |
| perspicacious | acutely insightful and wise, observant and thoughtful |
| calumny | a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions |
| excoriate | condemn: express strong disapproval of |
| objurgate | chastise: censure severely |
| remonstrate | present and urge reasons in opposition |
| vituperate | Berate, scold, to use harsh condemnatory language. |
| canard | an unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story |
| ersatz | an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation |
| pedantic | academic: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects |
| ingenuous | candid, frank, guileless; characterized by an inability to mask your feelings |
| indelible | cannot be removed, washed away or erased |
| platitude | a trite or obvious remark |
| trite | # banal: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse |
| syllogism | deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises |
| pirouette | Whirl or spin. A complete turn of the body on one foot, on point or demi-pointe. |
| striated | Marked with stripes, striae, grooves, or ridges. Used in the beading world to describe an item that has straight or swirled threads of colors of various tones on the surface or internally. |
| restive | edgy: being in a tense state |
| sedulity | the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive |
| fastidious | giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; |
| perfidy | betrayal of a trust |
| petulant | cranky: easily irritated or annoyed |
| supercilious | disdainful: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy |
| inveigh | rail: complain bitterly |
| contretemps | An inopportune or embarrassing occurrence or situation. |
| gustatory | Relating to the sense of taste. |
| ribald | Characterized by or indulging in vulgar, lewd humor |
| sidereal | Of, relating to, or concerned with the stars or constellations; stellar. |
| pernicious | baneful: exceedingly harmful; insidious: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way |
| abeyance | temporary cessation or suspension |
| cloying | Refers to ultra-sweet or sugary wines that lack the balance provided by acid, alcohol, bitterness or intense flavor. (can also be used to describe a person) |
| sanctimonious | hypocritical form of excessive piety, considered to be an affectation merely for public show. |
| abut | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary |
| acarpous | producing no fruit |
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