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Hit Parade 2 for GRE
vocab for the GRE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abate | to lesson in intensity or degree |
| accolade | an expression of praise |
| adulation | excessive praise; intense adoration |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| avarice | greed esp. for wealth |
| axiom | a universally regarded principle |
| burgeon | to grow rapidly or flourish |
| bucolic | rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
| cacophony | harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
| castigation | severe criticism or punishment |
| chary | wary; cautious; sparing |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
| complaisance | the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
| contentious | argumentative |
| contrite | regretful; seeking forgiveness |
| culpable | deserving blame |
| dearth | smallness or quantity or number; a lack |
| demur | to question or oppose |
| didactic | intended to teach or instruct |
| disinterested | free or bias or self interest; impartial |
| dogmatic | expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles |
| ebullience | the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources |
| elegy | a mournful poem esp. on lamenting the dead |
| emollient | soothing esp. to the skin; making less harsh |
| empirical | based on observation or experiment |
| ephemeral | brief; fleeting |
| facetious | playful; humorous |
| fallacy | a mistaken belief |
| furtive | marked by stealth; covert |
| gregarious | sociable; outgoing |
| harangue | a to deliver a pompous speech; a pompous speech |
| heretical | violating accepted dogma or convention |
| impecunious | without money |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or the become apparent |
| inert | unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
| innocuous | harmless; causing no damage |
| inveigle | to obtain by deception or flattery |
| odious | evoking intense aversion or dislike |
| opaque | not reflecting light |
| penurious | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty |
| pernicious | extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
| peruse | to examine with great care |
| pious | extremely reverent or devout |
| preen | to dress up; to primp |
| putrefy | to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
| quaff | to drink deeply |
| quiescence | stillness; motionless |
| redoubtable | awe inspiring; worthy of honor |
| sanction | authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance |
| squalid | sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
| stoic | indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
| supplant | to take the place of; supersede |
| torpid | lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
| urbane | sophisticated; refined; elegant |
| vilify | to defame; to criticize harshly |
| viscous | thick; sticky |
Created by:
mquynh
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