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Miscellaneous #2
GRE Vocab 4000
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fecund | fertile |
| airs | refined |
| patent | clear, obvious |
| manifest | obvious, evident |
| guileless | without deceit |
| heuristic | to teach |
| illustrious | honored, renowned |
| bestir | energize, rouse |
| epigrammatic | clever, witty |
| muckrake | expose |
| secrete | conceal |
| nondescript | inconspicuous |
| saturnine | gloomy |
| animate | to give life to |
| nebulous | indistinct |
| bombastic | pretentious (speech), lofty |
| putsch | a sudden attempt to overthrow the government |
| levee | embankment |
| hedonist | not generous, consumed with self |
| hector | harass |
| scruple | doubt |
| carping | complaining |
| vehement | passionate |
| disconsolate | sullen |
| circumlocution | roundabout way of expressing something |
| apposition | act of bringing something together |
| dilapidated | run-down |
| efficacious | capable of having desired result, effective |
| complemented | makes whole |
| drivel | inane speech |
| apposite | well adapted, relevant |
| inane | lacking sense, empty |
| chauvinistic | aggressive patriotism, biased devotion to a group |