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Barron's NEW GRE

Words for Barron's NEW GRE

TermDefinition
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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