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28 GRE words - Sun
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Soporific | adj. causing drowsiness or sleep |
| Specious | adj. plausible but not actually true |
| Spurious | adj. lacking authenticity |
| Stygian | adj. gloomy, dark |
| Subjugate | v. to dominat |
| Supplant | v. to take the place of |
| Suppliant | adj. making a plea to someone of authority |
| Surfeit | n. an excessive amount of something |
| Sycophant | n. a flatterer of important people |
| Tacit | adj, implied |
| Taciturn | adj. reserved or uncommunicative |
| Temerity | n. excessive confidence, audacity |
| Tendentious | adj. a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased |
| Torpid | adj, lethargic/dormant |
| Tout | v. to publicly praise |
| Tractable | adj. easily managed |
| Trenchant | adj, vigorous or incisive in expression or style |
| Truculent | adj. fierce, cruel |
| Urbane | adj, notably polite or polished in manner |
| Vacillate | v. to waver indecisively |
| Variegated | adj. multicolored/patchy |
| Venal | adj. bribable, corruptable |
| Venerate | v. to regard with great respect/awe |
| Viscid | adj. having a sticky consistency |
| Vitiate | v. to impair the quality of |
| Vituperate | v. to use harsh condemnatory language |
| Voluble | adj. talkative, fluent, loquacious |
| Welter | n. a confused mass (i.e. of magazines) |