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Mike's GRE Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| proscribe | forbid, denounce, condemn |
| effrontery | shameless boldness; presumptuousness |
| complaisant | overly polite, obliging |
| reprobate | morally unprincipled person |
| assiduous | diligent |
| approbation | praise, approval |
| lassitude | lethargy; sluggishness |
| abeyance | temporary suppression or suspension |
| propitiate | to win over |
| welter | to writhe; be in turmoil |
| vituperative | bitter and abusive |
| indolent | habitually lazy; idle |
| truculence | agressiveness; ferocity |
| obsequious | overly submissive |
| indigence | poverty |
| dissemble | to pretend; disguise one's motives |
| refractory | stubborn; unmanageable; resisting ordinary methods of treatment |
| recondite | abstruse; little known |
| recalcitrant | resisting authority or control |
| prevaricate | to quibble; evade the truth |
| perfidious | faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy |
| opprobrium | disgrace; contempt |
| officious | too helpful; meddlesome |
| grandiloquent | pompous; bombastic |