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Bert GRE Vocab-Verb
GRE Vocab Verbs only
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| etiolate [tr v] | (1) to cause to appear pale and sickly (2) to make weak by stunting the growth or development of |
| superannuate [tr v] | (1) to allow to retire on a pension because of age or infirmity (2) to set aside or discard as old-fashioned or obsolete |
| prevaricate [intr v] | to stray from or evade the truth; equivocate |
| adulterate [tr v] | to make impure by adding extraneous, improper or inferior ingredients |
| ululate [intr v] | to howl, wail, or lament loudly |
| abjure [tr v] | (1) to renounce under oath; forswear (2) to recant solemnly; repudiate (3) to give up; abstain from |
| simper [intr v] | to smile in a silly, self-conscious, often coy manner |
| inveigle [tr v] | (1) to win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk (2) to obtain by cajolery |
| derogate [intr v] | (1) to take away; detract (2) to deviate from a standard or expectation; go astray (3) to disparage; belittle |
| elide [tr v] | (1) to omit or slur over, in pronunciation (2) to strike out (something written) (3) to eliminate or leave out of consideration (4) to cut short; abridge |
| propitiate [tr v] | to conciliate; appease |
| importune [tr v] | (1) to best with insistent or repeated requests; entreat pressingly (2) to annoy; vex (3) to plead or urge irksomely, often persistently |
| expurgate [tr v] | to remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from before publication |
| animadvert [intr v] | to remark or comment critically, usually with strong disapproval or censure |
| declaim [intr v] | (1) to deliver a formal recitation, especially as an exercise in rhetoric or elocution (2) to speak loudly and vehemently; inveigh (3) to utter or recite with rhetorical effect |
| defalcate [intr v] | to misuse funds; embezzle |
| vouchsafe [tr v] | to condescend to grant or bestow (e.g. a privilege); deign |
| aggrandize [tr v] | (1) to increase the scope of; extend (2) to make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation (3) to make appear greater; exaggerate |
| cadge [v] | to beg or get by begging |
| chivvy [v] | (1) to vex or harass with petty attacks (2) to maneuver or secure gradually (3) to scurry (4) a hunt or chase, or a hunting cry |
| adjure [tr v] | (1) to command or enjoin solemnly, as under oath (2) to appeal to or entreat earnestly |
| vitiate [tr v] | (1) to reduce the value or impair the quality of (2) to corrupt morally; debase (3) to make ineffective; invalidate |
| arrogate [tr v] | (1) to take or claim for oneself without right; appropriate (2) to ascribe on behalf of another in an unwanted manner |
| indite [tr v] | to write; compose |
| abrogate [tr v] | to abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority |
| estivate [intr v] | (1) to spend the summer, as at a special place (2) in zoology, to pass the summer in a dormant or torpid state (hibernate, but in the summer) |
| evanesce [intr v] | to disappear or dissipate like vapor |
| limn [tr v] | (1) to describe (2) to depict by painting or drawing (especially in outline) |
| tergiversate [intr v] | (1) to use evasions or ambiguities; equivocate (2) to change sides; apostasize |
| abnegate [tr v] | (1) to give up (e.g. rights or a claim); renounce (2) to deny (something) to oneself |
| blandish [tr v] | to come by flattery or wheedling; cajole |
| adduce [tr v] | to cite as an example or means of proof in an argument |
| adumbrate [intr v] | (1) to give a sketchy outline of (2) to prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow (3) to overshadow, shadow, or obscure |
| affiance [tr v] | to bind in a pledge of marriage; betroth |
| amerce [tr v] | to punish by imposing an arbitrary penalty |
| bedizen [tr v] | to ornament or dress in a showy or gaudy manner |
| bloviate [intr v] | to discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner |
| bowdlerize [tr v] | to expurgate prudishly |
| bruit [tr v] | to spread news of; repeat |
| contemn [tr v] | to view with contempt; despise |
| cozen [tr v] | to mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive |
| decollate [tr v] | to behead |
| deracinate [tr v] | (1) to pull out by the roots; uproot (2) to displace from one's native or accustomed environment |
| descant [tr v] | to comment at length; discourse |
| endue or indue [tr v] | to provide with a quality or trait; endow |
| eruct [v] | to belch |
| evert [tr v] | to turn inside out or outward |
| expatiate [intr v] | (1) to speak or write at length (2) to wander freely |
| festinate [intr v] | to hasten |
| forfend or forefend [tr v] | (1) to keep or ward off; avert (2) to defend or protect |
| gad [intr v] | to move about restlessly and with little purpose |
| gyve [tr v] | to shackle or fetter |
| immure [tr v] | to confine within or as if within walls; imprison |
| imprecate [tr v] | to invoke evil upon; curse |
| inhume [tr v] | to place in a grave; bury |
| insolate [tr v] | to expose to sunlight |
| kibitz [intr v] | (1) to look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others (2) to chat; converse |
| larrup [tr v] | to beat, flog, or thrash |
| lucubrate [intr v] | to write in a scholarly fashion; produce scholarship |
| masticate [tr v] | to chew (food) |
| mulct [tr v] | to defraud or swindle |
| nictitate [intr v] | to blink or wink |
| objurgate [tr v] | to scold or rebuke sharply; berate |
| osculate [tr v] | to kiss |
| palliate [tr v] | to make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate |
| perorate [intr v] | (1) to conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation (2) to speak at great length, often in a grandiloquent manner; declaim |
| prorogue [tr v] | (1) to discontinue a session of (2) to postpone; defer |
| pule [intr v] | to whine; whimper |
| ratiocinate [intr v] | to reason methodically and logically |
| recrudesce [intr v] | to break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence |
| reify [tr v] | to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence |
| remonstrate [tr v] | to say or plead in protest, objection, or reproof |
| repine [intr v] | (1) to be discontented or low in spirits; complain or fret (2) to yearn after something |
| sojourn [intr v] | to reside temporarily |
| suborn [tr v] | to induce (a person) to commit an unlawful or evil act |
| temporize [intr v] | to act evasively in order to gain time, avoid argument, or postpone a decision |
| traduce [tr v] | to cause humiliation or disgrace to by making malicious and false statements |
| vivify [tr v] | to give or bring life to; animate |
| asseverate [tr v] | to declare seriously or positively; affirm |
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cberteau
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