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Barron's NEW GRE
Words for Barron's NEW GRE
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Decry | verb. publicly denounce. |
| Disparage | verb. regard or represent as being of little worth. |
| Cloy | verb. disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment. |
| Sanguine | adjective. optimistic or positive, esp. in an apparently bad or difficult situation. / blood-red. |
| Acerbic | adjective. (esp. of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright. / tasting sour or bitter. |
| Colloquial | adjective. (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary. |
| Volatile | adjective. (of a substance) easily evaporated at normal temperatures. / liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, esp. for the worse. |
| Insipid | adjective. lacking flavor. |
| Homogeneous | adjective. of the same kind; alike. |
| Prosaic | adjective. having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty. |
| Auspicious | adjective. conducive to success; favorable. |
| Iconoclastic | adjective. characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions. |
| Vacillate | verb. alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive. |
| Pertinacious | adjective. holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action. |
| Credulous | adjective. having or showing too great a readiness to believe things. |
| Rapacious | adjective. aggressively greedy or grasping. |
| Scrupulous | adjective. (of a person or process) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details. |
| Specious | adjective. superficially plausible, but actually wrong. / misleading in appearance, esp. misleadingly attractive. |
| Astute | adjective. having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage. |
| Scathing | adjective. witheringly scornful; severely critical. |
| Florid | adjective. having a red or flushed complexion. / elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated. |
| Equivocal | adjective. open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous. / uncertain or questionable in nature. |
| Pithy | adjective. (of language or style) concise and forcefully expressive. / (of a fruit or plant) containing much pith. |
| Discursive | adjective. digressing from subject to subject; (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive rather than formulaic or abbreviated / of or relating to discourse or modes of discourse / proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition. |
| Postulated | verb. (in ecclesiastical law) nominate or elect (someone) to an ecclesiastical office subject to the sanction of a higher authority. / suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief. |
| Vaunted | verb. boast about or praise (something), esp. excessively. |
| Altruistic | adjective. showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish. |
| Irresolute | adjective. showing or feeling hesitancy; uncertain. |
| Pragmatic | adjective. dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations. / relating to philosophical or political pragmatism. / of or relating to pragmatics. |
| Autonomous | adjective. (of a country or region) having self-government, at least to a significant degree; acting independently or having the freedom to do so; (in Kantian moral philosophy) acting in accordance with one's moral duty rather than one's desires. |
| Sublimate | verb. (esp. in psychoanalytic theory) divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity. / another term for sublime. |
| Braggart | noun. a person who boasts about achievements or possessions. |
| Rococo | adjective. (furniture/architecture) characterized by elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration in 18th-century Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork / noun. the rococo style of art, decoration, or architecture. |
| Elegiac | adjective. (esp. of a work of art) having a mournful quality. / noun. verses in an elegiac meter. |
| Craven | adjective. contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly. / noun. a cowardly person. |
| Plebiscite | noun. the direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution; a law enacted by the plebeians' assembly. |
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