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Gre flash cards
Words
| Abscond | Leave secretly |
|---|---|
| Adulterate | To dilute |
| Aggrandize | To improve, make grander |
| Amalgamate | to combine, mix together |
| Ameliorate | to improve |
| Anachronism | Out of place |
| Antipathy | Dislike |
| Assuage | to reduce pain |
| Austere | Stern, cold in appearance |
| Banal | Boring, Cliche |
| Bombastic | Pretentious, stuck up |
| Capricious | Impulsive |
| Crescendo | Gradual increase in noise.. The kids footsteps crescendo once they wake up from their naps |
| Deride | To mock for a disability |
| Diffident | Low self confidence |
| Dilettante | Amateur, dabbler, I'm a dilettante fly fisherman |
| Dirge | Funeral song or hymn |
| Disabuse | Misconception, to set right |
| Disparate | Entirely different |
| Elegy | Sad Poem or speech |
| Enervate | decrease in power |
| Engender | To produce |
| Enumerate | To count |
| Ephemeral | Short lasting, transient |
| Equivocate | To mislead |
| Erudite | Gain knowledge by studying |
| Estimable | Admirable |
| Fervid | Passionate speech |
| Forment | Encourage or promote something |
| Garrulous | Talky Talky Talky |
| Guile | Cunning, Willy coyote |
| Iconoclast | Opposing someones belief |
| Impetuous | Impulsive |
| Implacable | Unable to calm down or sway |
| Inchoate | disorganized, incoherent |
| Inimical | Hostile,Unfriendly |
| Insipid | Lacking taste, dull, unchallenging |
| Intransigent | Refusal to compromise |
| Irascible | Hot headed, quick tempered |
| Laconic | Concise, to the point |
| Laud | Praise, Glorify |
| Malinger | To fake |
| Misanthrope | Hates/dislikes humankind |
| Mollify | To calm down |
| Obdurate | Inflexible/stubborn |
| Obsequious | eager to please |
| Obstinate | Stubborn |
| Obviate | to prevent |
| Onerous | Imposing a burden |
| Opprobrium | something that brings discrace |
| Ostentation | excessive showiness |
| Paragon | Model of perfection |
| Pedant | Teacher |
| Perfidious | Back stabber |
| Perfunctory | Routine, being in a funk |
| Placate | Soothe, apease |
| Pragmatic | Practical |
| Precipitate | To throw down |
| Prevaricate | Deviate from the truth |
| Prodigal | wasteful |
| Propitiate | Appease |
| Quiescent | Motionless, still, waiting |
| Rarefy | To make sparse |
| Repudiate | Deny the truth of something |
| Reticent | introverted, keeping feelings inside |
| Satiate | Completely satisfied |
| Soporific | To make sleepy or Drowsy |
| Specious | Misleading in appearance |
| Stolid | Lacking emotion |
| Taciturn | Tight lipped, little to say |
| Torpor | Extreme mental of physical lethargy |
| Vacillate | Flag pole, waver between different positions |
| Venerate | High regards or respect |
| Veracity | Filled with truth and accuracy |
| Verbose | using to many words, wordy |
| Zeal | Passionate, excited |
| Staid | Sedated, boring, respectable choice |
| Canonical | Recognized, approved, accepted |
| Lugubrious | Mournful |
| Coalesce | Come together |
| Propitiate | Please someone |
| Mercurial | Volatile or erratic |
| Propriety | Good Behavior |
| Decorum | Correct behavior |
Created by:
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