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Miscellaneous #2
GRE Vocab 4000
Question | Answer |
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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 |