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Bert GRE Vocab-Adj
GRE Vocab Adjectives only
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sidereal [adj] | (1) of, relating to, or concerned with the stars or constellations; stellar (2) measured or determined by means of the apparent daily motion of the stars |
| ineluctable [adj] | not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable |
| plangent [adj] | (1) loud and resounding (2) expressing or suggesting sadness; plaintive |
| antediluvian [adj] | extremely old and antiquated |
| pusillanimous [adj] | lacking courage; cowardly |
| canonical [adj] | conforming to orthodox or well-established rules or patterns, as of procedure |
| obtuse [adj] | (1) lacking quickness of perception or intellect (2) characterized by a lack of intelligence or sensitivity (3) not distinctly felt (4) not sharp, pointed, or acute in form; blunt |
| perspicacious [adj] | having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted |
| solicitous [adj] | (1) anxious or concerned (2) expressing care or concern (3) full of desire; eager (4) marked by or given to anxious care and often hovering attentiveness (5) extremely careful; meticulous |
| truculent [adj] | (1) disposed to fight; pugnacious (2) expressing bitter opposition; scathing (3) disposed to or exhibiting violence or destructiveness; fierce |
| abject [adj] | (1) brought low in condition or status (2) being of the most contemptible kind (3) being of the most miserable kind; wretched |
| anodyne [adj] | (1) capable of soothing or eliminating pain (2) relaxing (3) unlikely to cause offense or disagreement; bland |
| dilatory [adj] | intended to or tending to postpone or delay |
| equipollent [adj] | (1) equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance (2) equivalent |
| feckless [adj] | (1) lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective (2) careless and irresponsible |
| gimcrack [adj] | cheap and tasteless; gaudy |
| gnomic [adj] | marked by aphorisms; aphoristic |
| esculent [adj] | suitable for eating; edible |
| obdurate [adj] | (1) hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent (2) hardened against feeling; hardhearted (3) not giving in to persuasion; intractable |
| quotidian [adj] | (1) everyday; commonplace (2) recurring daily |
| equable [adj] | (1) unvarying; steady (2) free from extremes (3) not easily disturbed; serene |
| salubrious [adj] | conducive or favorable to health or well-being |
| coeval [adj] | (1) originating or existing during the same period; lasting through the same era (2) one of the same era or period; a contemporary |
| refulgent [adj] | shining radiantly; resplendent |
| gelid [adj] | very cold; icy |
| frangible [adj] | capable of being broken; breakable |
| condign [adj] | deserved; adequate |
| captious [adj] | (1) marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults (2) intended to trap or confuse, as in an argument |
| tumid [adj] | (1) swollen; distended (2) of a bulging shape; protuberant (3) overblown; bombastic |
| noisome [adj] | (1) offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul (2) harmful or dangerous |
| arrant [adj] | completely such; thoroughgoing (as an example of something disapproved of) |
| dolorous [adj] | marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain |
| endemic [adj] | prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people |
| torpid [adj] | (1) deprived of the power of motion or feeling; benumbed (2) dormant; hibernating (3) lethargic; apathetic |
| saturnine [adj] | (1) melancholy or sullen (2) having or marked by a tendency to be bitter or sardonic |
| chary [adj] | (1) very cautious; wary (2) not giving or expending freely; sparing |
| rebarbative [adj] | tending to irritate; repellent |
| ingenuous [adj] | (1) lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; artless (2) openly straightforward or frank; candid |
| immanent [adj] | (1) existing or remaining within; inherent (2) restricted entirely to the mind; subjective |
| apposite [adj] | strikingly appropriate and relevant |
| phlegmatic [adj] | having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional |
| tendentious [adj] | marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan |
| nugatory [adj] | (1) of little or no importance; trifling (2) having no force; invalid |
| prurient [adj] | inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious |
| turbid [adj] | (1) having sediment or foreign particles suspended; muddy (2) heavy, dark, or dense (as smoke or fog) (3) in a state of turmoil; muddled |
| facile [adj] | (1) done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; easy (2) working, acting, or speaking with effortless ease & fluency (3) arrived at without due care or effort; superficial (4) readily manifested, w/an aura of insincerity/lack of depth |
| sententious [adj] | (1) terse and energetic in expression; pithy (2) abounding in aphorisms (3) abounding in pompous moralizing |
| querulous [adj] | (1) given to complaining; peevish (2) expressing a compliant or grievance; grumbling |
| complaisant [adj] | exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging |
| turgid [adj] | (1) excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent (2) swollen or distended as from a fluid; bloated |
| parlous [adj] | perilous; dangerous |
| Panglossian [adj] | blindly or naively optimistic |
| lachrymose [adj] | weeping or inclined to weep; tearful |
| choleric [adj] | (1) easily angered; bad-tempered (2) showing or expressing anger |
| maudlin [adj] | effusively or tearfully sentimental |
| scrofulous [adj] | morally degenerate; corrupt |
| impecunious [adj] | lacking money; penniless |
| protean [adj] | (1) readily taking on varied shapes, forms, or meanings (2) exhibiting considerable variety or diversity |
| farinaceous [adj] | having a mealy or powdery texture |
| unregenerate [adj] | (1) not spiritually renews or reformed; not repentant (2) sinful; dissolute (3) not reconciled to change; unreconstructed (4) stubborn; obstinate |
| recondite [adj] | (1) not easily understood; abstruse (2) concealed; hidden |
| abstemious [adj] | (1) eating and drinking in moderation (2) sparingly used or consumed (3) restricted to bare necessities |
| abstruse [adj] | difficult to understand; recondite |
| ad hominem [adj] | appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason |
| aleatory [adj] | dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome |
| amatory [adj] | of, relating to, or expressive of love, especially sexual love |
| a priori [adj] | (1) proceeding from a known or assumed cause to a necessarily related effect; deductive (2) knowable without appeal to particular experience |
| avant-garde [adj] | of, relating to, or being part of an innovative group, especially one in the arts |
| banal [adj] | drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite |
| baroque [adj] | extragavant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation |
| benighted [adj] | (1) overtaken by night or darkness (2) being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; unenlightened |
| boon [adj] | convivial; jolly |
| bootless [adj] | without advantage or benefit; useless |
| bosky [adj] | having an abundance of bushes, shrubs, or trees |
| bumptious [adj] | crudely or loudly assertive; pushy |
| callow [adj] | lacking adult maturity or experience; immature |
| comestible [adj] | fit to be eaten; edible |
| compos mentis [adj] | of sound mind; sane |
| cuneiform [adj] | wedge-shaped |
| demotic [adj] | of or relating to the common people; popular |
| de trop [adj] | too much or too many; excessive or superfluous |
| ebullient [adj] | (1) zestfully enthusiastic (2) boiling or seeming to boil; bubbling |
| ecumenical [adj] | (1) of worldwide scope or applicability; universal (2) concerned with establishing or promoting unity among churches or religions |
| Elysian [adj] | blissful; delightful |
| epicene [adj] | (1) belong to or having the characteristics of both the male and the female (2) sexless; neuter |
| esurient [adj] | hungry; greedy |
| exiguous [adj] | extremely scanty; meager |
| fecund [adj] | (1) capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful (2) marked by intellectual productivity |
| felicitous [adj] | (1) admirably suited; apt (2) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style (3) marked by happiness or good fortune |
| fictile [adj] | capable of being molded; plastic |
| flagitious [adj] | (1) characterized by extremely brutal or cruel crimes; vicious (2) infamous; scandalous |
| footling [adj] | (1) lacking importance or significance; trifling (2) stupid; inept |
| froward [adj] | stubbornly contrary and disobedient; obstinate |
| frowzy [adj] | unkempt; slovenly |
| fuliginous [adj] | sooty |
| fulsome [adj] | offensively flattering or insincere |
| gravid [adj] | carrying developing young or eggs |
| hortatory or hortative [adj] | urging, encouraging, or strongly advising a course of action to somebody |
| hypogeal or hypogean [adj] | located under the earth's surface; underground |
| inchoate [adj] | in an initial or early stage; incipient |
| incipient [adj] | beginning to exist or appear |
| incondite [adj] | badly constructed; crude |
| indefeasible [adj] | that cannot be annulled or made void |
| ineffable [adj] | incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable |
| inexorable [adj] | not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless |
| inimical [adj] | injurious or harmful in effect; adverse |
| innominate [adj] | (1) having no name (2) anonymous |
| insuperable [adj] | impossible to overcome; insurmountable |
| inveterate [adj] | firmly and long established; deep-rooted |
| invidious [adj] | tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment |
| irenic [adj] | promoting peace; conciliatory |
| irrefragable [adj] | impossible to refute or controvert; indisputable |
| jejune [adj] | (1) not interesting; dull (2) lacking maturity; childish (3) lacking in nutrition |
| labile [adj] | open to change; adaptable |
| lambent [adj] | (1) flickering lightly over or on a surface (2) effortlessly light or brilliant |
| limpid [adj] | (1) easily intelligible; clear (2) calm and untroubled; serene |
| louche [adj] | of questionable taste or morality; decadent |
| lugubrious [adj] | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree |
| macaronic [adj] | of or involving a mixture of two or more languages |
| manqué [adj] | unfulfilled or frustrated in the realization of one's ambitions or capabilities |
| mawkish [adj] | excessively and objectionably sentimental |
| mendacious [adj] | lying; untruthful |
| meretricious [adj] | (1) attracting attention in a vulgar manner (2) plausible but false or insincere; specious (3) of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution |
| minatory [adj] | of a menacing or threatening nature; minacious |
| mordant [adj] | (1) bitingly sarcastic (2) incisive and trenchant |
| moribund [adj] | (1) approaching death; about to die (2) on the verge of becoming obsolete |
| multifarious [adj] | having great variety; diverse |
| nocent [adj] | causing injury; harmful |
| nocuous [adj] | harmful; noxious |
| obsequious [adj] | full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning |
| orotund [adj] | pompous and bombastic |
| otiose [adj] | (1) lazy; indolent (2) of no use (3) ineffective; futile |
| outré [adj] | highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre |
| Palladian [adj] | of, relating to, or characterized by wisdom or study |
| Pecksniffian [adj] | hypocritically benevolent; sanctimonious |
| pecuniary [adj] | of or relating to money |
| plausive [adj] | showing or expressing praise or approbation; applauding |
| pointillistic [adj] | minutely detailed or particularized |
| prandial [adj] | of or relating to a meal |
| prelapsarian [adj] | of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve |
| prepense [adj] | contemplated or arranged in advance; premeditated |
| priapic [adj] | of, relating to, or resembling a phallus; phallic |
| prima facie [adj] | true, authentic, or adequate at first sight; ostensible |
| Procrustean [adj] | producing or designed to produce strict conformity by ruthless or arbitrary means |
| prolix [adj] | tediously prolonged; wordy |
| puerile [adj] | belonging to childhood; juvenile |
| pukka [adj] | (1) genuine; authentic (2) superior; first-class |
| putative [adj] | generally regarded as such; supposed |
| quondam [adj] | that was at one time; former |
| recreant [adj] | (1) unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause (2) craven or cowardly |
| redivivus [adj] | come back to life; revived |
| renascent [adj] | coming again into being; showing renewed growth or vigor |
| rococo [adj] | immoderately elaborate or complicated |
| rugose or rugous [adj] | having many wrinkles or creases; ridged or wrinkled |
| sacerdotal [adj] | of or relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly |
| salacious [adj] | appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious |
| salutary [adj] | favorable to health; wholesome |
| sanguinary [adj] | (1) accompanied by bloodshed (2) eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty |
| sanguine [adj] | (1) of a healthy reddish color; ruddy (2) cheerfully confident; optimistic |
| scurrilous [adj] | expressed in vulgar, coarse, and abusive language |
| sedulous [adj] | persevering and constant in effort or application; assiduous |
| sempiternal [adj] | enduring forever; eternal |
| sesquipedalian [adj] | (1) given to the use of long words (2) long and ponderous; polysyllabic |
| Sisyphean [adj] | endlessly laborious or futile |
| somnolent [adj] | (1) drowsy; sleepy (2) inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific |
| soporific [adj] | (1) inducing or tending to induce sleep (2) drowsy |
| stentorian [adj] | extremely loud |
| stolid [adj] | having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive |
| stroppy [adj] | easily offended or annoyed; ill-tempered or belligerent |
| sui generis [adj] | being the only example of its kind; unique |
| supercilious [adj] | feeling or showing haughty disdain |
| tenebrous [adj] | dark and gloomy |
| thrasonical [adj] | boastful |
| tonsorial [adj] | of or relating to barbering or a barber |
| trenchant [adj] | (1) forceful, effective, and vigorous (2) caustic; cutting |
| ugsome [adj] | disgusting; loathsome |
| unctuous [adj] | characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness |
| uxorious [adj] | excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife |
| venal [adj] | (1) open to bribery; mercenary (2) capable of betraying honor, duty, or scruples for a price; corruptible |
| veritable [adj] | being truly so called; real or genuine |
| vestal [adj] | chaste; pure |
| whilom [adj] | having once been; former |
| winsome [adj] | charming, often in a childlike or naive way |
| yare [adj] | agile; lively |
| zaftig or zoftig [adj] | (1) full-bosomed (2) having a full, shapely figure |
| insipid [adj] | (1) lacking flavor or zest; not tasty (2) lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull |
| teratoid [adj] | abnormal in form or development; malformed |
| aniconic [adj] | not portrayed in a human or animal form |
| bonny [adj] | (1) physically attractive or appealing; pretty (2) excellent |
| antinomian [adj] | opposed to or denying the fixed meaning or universal applicability of moral law |
| soi-disant [adj] | self-styled; so-called |
| pavonine [adj] | resembling a peacock's tail in color, design, or iridescence |
| parietal [adj] | dwelling within or having authority within the walls or buildings of a college |
| ansate [adj] | having a handle or a part resembling a handle |
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