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30 GRE words - Sat
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Profligate | adj. excessively wasteful |
| Prolixity | adj. tediously wordy |
| Propitiate | v. to win or regain favor of |
| Propitious | adj. favorable |
| Prosaic | adj. dull/lacking in imagination |
| Puerile | adj. childishly silly and trivial; jejune |
| Puissance | n. power, might |
| Pursuant | adv. in accordance with |
| Pusillanimous | adj. cowardly |
| Quaff | v. to drink deeply |
| Quail | v. to lose courage |
| Querulous | adj. prone to complaining |
| Quixotic | adj. exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical |
| Quotidian | adj. occurring daily/commonplace |
| Rarefy | v. to become thin |
| Recalcitrant | adj. obstinantly defiant |
| Recondite | adj. not easily understood |
| Recreant | adj. cowardly |
| Redoubtable | adj. formidible, awe-inspiring |
| Refulgent | adj. radiant/shining brightly |
| Remonstrate | v. to protest/object |
| Salacious | adj. lustful/lewd |
| Salubrious | adj. promoting health/well-being; pleasant |
| Salutary | adj. beneficial, healthy |
| Sardonic | adj. cynical |
| Saturnine | adj. gloomy, dark |
| Sedulous | adj. showing dedication and diligence |
| Sententious | adj, moralizing in a pompous manner |
| Sinuous | adj. full of twists/turns |
| Solicitous | adj. showing interest or concern |