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GRE
Hit Parade 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Myriad | a very great or indefinitely number of things. (the myriad of stars on a summer night) |
| salient | adj. Noticeable or striking (The band members salient guitar was adored with blue and green stripes |
| fickle | Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious |
| culled | to pick out from others, to gather collect |
| contingent | Liable to occur but not with certainty; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services. |
| ostracism | the act of banning or excluding |
| virile | Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an adult male. |
| progeny | One born of, begotten by, or derived from another; an offspring or a descendant. |
| reticent | Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself. See Synonyms at silent. |
| dissident | disagreeing as in opinion or belief |
| arid | Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants: an arid climate. |
| maladroit | Lacking dexterity and grace in physical movement: awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, inept, lumpish, ungainly, ungraceful |
| dexterous | skillful with hands |
| carnal | wordly or earthy, the carnal world |
| aural | relating to the ear |
| amenable | open to different possibilities |
| obstinate | stubburn, difficult to manage |
| tenuous | Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands |
| intinsic | Of or relating to the essential nature of a thing; inherent Forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual: built-in, congenital, connatural, constitutional, elemental, inborn, inbred, indigenous |
| irreverent | Having or showing a lack of respect: disrespectful |
| mundane | Relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary |
| quotidian | reoccuring everyday |
| consequential | Having great significance: big, considerable, historic, important, large, material, meaningful, monumental, significant, substantial. See important |
| obsequious | excessive eager to serve and obey |
| obstrererous | Noisily and stubbornly defiant. not submitting to discipline or control |
| acquiescent | Submitting without objection or resistance: nonresistant, passive, resigned, submissive. |
| duplicitous | Marked by treachery or deceit: devious, disingenuous, guileful, indirect, lubricious, shifty, sneaky, underhand, underhanded. See honest |
| eloquent | Characterized by persuasive, powerful discourse: an eloquent speaker; an eloquent sermon |
| insipid | lacking flavor or zest; not tasty. Bland, unsavory |
| taciturn | Not speaking freely or openly |
| garrulous | Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative |
| sordid | filthy of dirty, having low moral standards |
| cunning | Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute: a cunning pet. |
| Disingenuous | Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating. Not being what one purports to be: ambidextrous, insincere, left-handed, mala fide. See honest |
| inimical | injurious or harmful to oneself. "habits inimical to good health" |
| stringent | rigorous standards of performance "stringent safety measures" |
| Rubric | a title or category. A name |
| Autonomy | self-govenering, independent |
| serendipity | making fortunate discoveries |
| indolent | lazy, lethargic. Disinclined to exert oneself . "Humid, indolent weather." |
| Parsimonious | ungenerous or pettily, frugal, cheap, penurious |
| Perennial | lasting via the year or many years |
| emanate | to come or send forth, to have a source "light emanated from the lamp" |
| endowed | to provide with property, income. To equip with a talend or quality. "Nature endowed you with an atheltic ability" |
| Thwart | to oppose and defeat the efforts "they thwarted her plans" |
| propensities | an inclination to something, tendency |
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