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Bert GRE Prio-Adj
GRE Vocab Adjectives only - Priority Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ineluctable [adj] | not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable |
| pusillanimous [adj] | lacking courage; cowardly |
| dilatory [adj] | intended to or tending to postpone or delay |
| feckless [adj] | (1) lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective (2) careless and irresponsible |
| frangible [adj] | capable of being broken; breakable |
| tumid [adj] | (1) swollen; distended (2) of a bulging shape; protuberant (3) overblown; bombastic |
| torpid [adj] | (1) deprived of the power of motion or feeling; benumbed (2) dormant; hibernating (3) lethargic; apathetic |
| rebarbative [adj] | tending to irritate; repellent |
| tendentious [adj] | marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan |
| 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 |
| turgid [adj] | (1) excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent (2) swollen or distended as from a fluid; bloated |
| impecunious [adj] | lacking money; penniless |
| farinaceous [adj] | having a mealy or powdery texture |
| aleatory [adj] | dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome |
| avant-garde [adj] | of, relating to, or being part of an innovative group, especially one in the arts |
| benighted [adj] | (1) overtaken by night or darkness (2) being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; unenlightened |
| bootless [adj] | without advantage or benefit; useless |
| callow [adj] | lacking adult maturity or experience; immature |
| demotic [adj] | of or relating to the common people; popular |
| de trop [adj] | too much or too many; excessive or superfluous |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| incondite [adj] | badly constructed; crude |
| inexorable [adj] | not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless |
| insuperable [adj] | impossible to overcome; insurmountable |
| inveterate [adj] | firmly and long established; deep-rooted |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| nocent [adj] | causing injury; harmful |
| 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 |
| prepense [adj] | contemplated or arranged in advance; premeditated |
| Procrustean [adj] | producing or designed to produce strict conformity by ruthless or arbitrary means |
| quondam [adj] | that was at one time; former |
| recreant [adj] | (1) unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause (2) craven or cowardly |
| sacerdotal [adj] | of or relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly |
| sedulous [adj] | persevering and constant in effort or application; assiduous |
| 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 |
| trenchant [adj] | (1) forceful, effective, and vigorous (2) caustic; cutting |
| whilom [adj] | having once been; former |
| winsome [adj] | charming, often in a childlike or naive way |
| yare [adj] | agile; lively |
| insipid [adj] | (1) lacking flavor or zest; not tasty (2) lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull |
| aniconic [adj] | not portrayed in a human or animal form |
| 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 |
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