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GRE Vocabulary
Vocabulary Words From Barron's 800 I Don't Know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| disingenuous | not candid; crafty |
| disjointed | lacking order or coherence; dislocated |
| disparage | to belittle |
| disparate | dissimilar |
| dissemble | to pretend, disguise one's motives |
| disseminate | to spread, scatter, disperse |
| dissident | person who disagrees about beliefs |
| dissolution | disintegration, debauchery |
| dissonance | discord; lack of harmony |
| distend | to expand; swell out |
| distrait | inattentive, preoccupied |
| diverge | to vary, go in different directions from the same power |
| divest | to strip, deprive, rid |
| doctrinaire | relating to a person who cannot compromise about points of a theory or doctrine, dogmatic, unyielding |
| doggerel | poor verse |
| dogmatic | stating opinions without proof |
| dross | waste, worthless matter, trival matter |
| ebullient | exhilarated, enthusiastic |
| eclectic | selecting from various sources |
| effervescence | state of high spirits or liveliness; the process of bubbling as gas escapes |
| effete | depleted of vitality, overrefined, decadent |
| effrontery | shameless boldness, presumptuousness |
| egoism | the tendency to see things in relation to oneself, self-centeredness |
| elysian | blissful, delightful |
| emollient | soothing, mollifying |
| encomoium | formal expression of praise |
| endemic | inherent, belonging to an area |
| enervate | to weaken |
| entomology | the scientific study of insects |
| ephemeral | short-lived, fleeting |
| equable | steady, unvarying, serene |
| epistemology | branch of philosophy that eamines the nature of knowledge |
| equanimity | composure; calmness |
| equivocate | to intentionally use vague language |
| erudite | learned; scholarly |
| esoteric | hard to understand, known only to a few |
| eugenic | study of factors that influence the hereditary qualities of the human race and ways to imporve these qualities |
| eulogy | high praise, especially of a person who has rencently died. |
| euphemism | use of agreeable or inoffensive language in place of unpleasant or offensive language |
| evince | to show plainly - be an indication of |
| evocative | tending to call to mind or produce a reaction |
| exigency | crisis, urgent requirements |
| execrable | detestable, abhorrent |
| exculpate | to clear of blame, vindicate |
| expatiate | to speak or write at length |
| expatriate | to send into exile |
| expiate | to atone for |
| expository | explanatory |
| extant | in existence, not lost |
| extemporaneous | unrehearsed |
| extirpate | to root up, to destroy |
| extrapolation | the act of estimation by projecting known information |
| extraneous | not essential |
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