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GRE Words
GRE Words I had trouble with
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abscond | to depart secretly |
| rococo | excessively ornate |
| fulsome | so excessive as to be disgusting |
| travail | work, especially arduous work |
| interpolate | to insert; change by adding new words or material |
| refractory | stubborn, resisting ordinary methods of treatment |
| beatify | to sanctify; to bless; to ascribe virtue to |
| blase | bored with something due to overexposure |
| denigrate | to slur someone's reputation |
| insensible | unconscious, unresponsive |
| repine | fret, complain |
| supposition | the act of assuming to be true or real |
| exigency | crisis; urgent requirements |
| contumacious | disobedient; rebellious |
| factotum | a person who does all sorts of work; a handyman |
| assiduous | diligent; hardworking |
| burgeon | to grow and florish |
| goad | prod; urge on |
| aspersion | slander, false rumor |
| officious | too helpful; meddlesome |
| forswear | renounce; repudiate |
| mendicant | beggar |
| obdurate | stubborn |
| abeyance | temporary suppression or suspension |
| fledging | beginner; novice |
| obsequy | funeral ceremony |
| distend | to expand; swell out |
| invective | verbal abuse |
| perigee | point in an orbit that is the closest to earth |
| vitiate | to impair the quality of; corrupt morally |
| effervescence | state of high spirits of liveliness; process of bubling as gas escapes |
| nostrum | a medicine that is not considered effective |
| sordid | filthy, contemptible and corrupt |
| supplant | to replace, substitute |
| strident | harsh, loud, unpleasantly noisy |
| compunction | uneasiness cause by guilt |
| argot | a specialized vocabulary used by a group |
| imprecation | curse, damnation |
| epistemology | branch of philosophy that examines that nature of knowledge |
| quail | to cower, loose heart |
| qualm | sudden feeling of faintness or nausea |
| extemporaneous | unrehearsed |
| bawdy | humorously indecent talk or writing |
| consecrate | to declare sacred |
| reprise | repetition, especially of a piece of music |
| hirsute | covered with hair |
| tenuous | very weak or slight |
| oligarchy | government run by a few leaders |
| rebu | puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words |
| cantankerous | irritable; ill humored |
| abstemious | moderate in appetite |
| sylvan | consisting of or associated with the woods; wooded |
| eugenics | study of hereditary qualities that improve the human race |
| motely | many colored; made up of many parts |
| reprobate | morally unprincipled person |
| sundry | various |
| delineate | to represent or depict |
| penchant | inclination |
| demur | to express doubt; question or oppose |
| nonplussed | bewildered |
| disparate | dissimilar |
| imbroglio | complicated situation; an entanglement |
| abject | miserable; pitiful |
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