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SS GRE 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecumenical | A number of different churches |
| Fascistic | Relating to fascism |
| Libel (V) | To make a false statement, to defame |
| Avow | To assert or confess openly |
| Recidifist | A person who repeatedly offends |
| Recrimination | Accusation in response to one from someone else |
| Apotheosis | Climax, highest point of development |
| Bluster | Talk in a loud, aggressive or indignant way with little effect |
| Swagger | Walk or behave in a very confident or arrogant and aggressive way |
| Intuit | Instinctual |
| Codify | Arrange according to a set system |
| Claque | A group of unquestioning followers, a group of people that are paid to applaud a performance |
| Tantamount | Virtually the same as, equal to |
| Habiliments | Clothing |
| Paragon | Perfect example/model of excellence |
| Vestige | A trace of something |
| Libertine | Without principles, responsibility, or morality; a freethinker |
| Wanton | Deliberate or unprovoked violence; sexually promiscuous |
| Wanton (V) | Behave in a sexually promiscuous way; play or frolic |
| Solecism | Incorrect behavior; grammatical mistake |
| Proscribe | Forbid by law; denounce or condemn |
| Denigrating | Criticize unfairly; disparage |
| Jouissance | mirth |
| insouciance | a relaxed and calm state, a feeling of not worrying about anything |
| xenophobic | one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people f foreign origin |
| fiat | an official order given by someone who has power; an order that must be followed; |
| abstemious | not eating and drinking much; marked by restraint, especially in the consumption of food and alchohol |
| bespeak | to be evidence of something; to hire, engage, or claim beforehand; to speak to with formality |
| lampoon | a piece of writing, cartoon, that mocks or makes fun of a well-known person or thing; satire; cariacture |
| calumniate | to speak maliciously, false statements, charges, or imputations about; asperse, traduce, vilify; malign |
| morass | an area of soft, wet ground; a situation that traps, confuses, or impedes; an overwhelming or confusing mass or mixture; quagmire |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole; manifesting by breadth of view; presenting or taking the same view |
| climacteric | a major turning point or critical stage; crucial |
| fallacious | containing a mistake; not true or accurate; intending to deceive or mislead; untrue, incorrect |
| impute | to suggest that someone is guilty, to lay blame (falsely or unjustly) |
| callow | used to describe a young person who does not have much experience, and does not know how to behave as an adult; lacking sophistication; immature |
| catholic | ecclectic; including many different things |
| facile | too simple; not showing enough thought or effort; too easy; moving very easily; easily accomplished or attained |
| contusion | an injury that does not break the skin, bruise |
| confer | bestow honor; to invest with; to meet with |
| plenary | attended by all the people who have the right to attend; complete in every way |
| plenipotentiary | representative, legate; invested with full power |
| legate | an official representative sent to a foreign country; an official representative of the pope; a usually official emissary; plenipotentiary |
| metamorphose | to change in an important and obvious way into something that is very different |
| succor | something that you do to give to help someone who is suffering in a difficult situation; relief, something that furnishes relief; |
| bootless | ineffective, feckless, useless, unprofitable, abortive, inefficacious, otiose |
| feckless | bootless, weak, ineffective, worthless, irresponsible |
| interminable | seeming to have no end |
| clement | lenient, merciful |
| tantamount | equal to something in value, meaning, or effect |
| chimerical | wrong, notional, existing only as the product of unchecked imagination, fantastically visionary or improbable |
| notional | chimerical, nonexistant |
| fatuous | imbecilic, foolish or stupid |
| collate | juxtapose, gather together information from different sources to study it carefully |
| ratiocinate | reason |
| interpose | to place between two things or people, to interrupt a conversation |
| imprecation | an offensive word or phrase, curse; anathema, execration, malediction, malison |
| enfilade | salvo; to rake, be in a position to rake with gunfire, barrage |
| salvo | discharge of two or more guns in a military action, barrage |
| couth | well-mannered, sophisticated, polished, genteel |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished, to make something perfect |
| bloviate | to speak or write verbosely and windily, consescension |
| gnosticism | collection of ancient religions that shunned the matirial world |
| corollaries | consequences, something that results from another thing; a proposition inferred immediately from a proved preoposition |
| trapping | appurtenance, appearance, caparison, outward signs |
| appurtenance | appearance, trapping, object that is used with or for something, an accessory objects |
| paradigm | a model or pattern for something that may be copied; a theory or a group of ideas about how something should be done, made or thought about, archetype |
| prepossession | attitude, belief, or impression formed beforehand, prejudice; and exclusive concern with one idea or object, preoccupation; |
| sybarite | debauchee, decadent, sensualist, voluptuary, luxurious; sumptuous |
| pollard | a tree cut back to the trunk |
| aleatory | indiscriminate, not choosy, relating to chance; depending on an uncertain event or contingency as to both profit and loss |
| venal | willing to do dishonest things in return for money; capable of being bought; corruptible |
| lucre | money, profit; monetary gain |
| graft | the acquisition of gain in dishonest or questionable ways; illegal or unfair gain |
| payola | graft, monty that is paid to someone for illegally helping to sell or advertise a product |
| limn | depict or describe; suffuse or highlight |
| obtundity | dullness, low intensity, deadened |
| effete | affected, overrevined, ineffectual; no longer capable of effective action; lacking strength, courage, or spirit |
| sagacious | having or showing an ability to understand difficult ideas and situations to make good decisions; keen judgement; discernment |
| lucubration | laborious or intensive study |
| caliginous | dark, obscure, stygian, tenebrific, tenebrous |
| avuncular | like an uncle, suggestive of an uncle |
| incontrovertible | unable to be doubted, indisputable |
| inelectable | unchangeable; not able to be avoided or resisted |
| inexorable | unchangeable; not able to be stopped or changed; not able to be persuaded, moved, or stopped |
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