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Mike's GRE Words
Question | Answer |
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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 |