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JP's GREs
GRE Verbal and Quantitative
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abate | to reduce in amount, degree or severity |
| analogous | similar or alike in some way; equivalent to |
| ardor | intense and passionate feeling |
| attenuate | to reduce in force or degree; to weaken |
| capricious | changing one's mind quickly an often |
| cogent | convincing and well reasoned |
| credulous | too trusting; gullible |
| deride | to speak of or treat with contempt; to mock |
| desultory | jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
| diatribe | an abusive, condemnatory speech |
| diffident | lacking self-confidence |
| dilatory | intended to delay |
| disabuse | to set right; to free from error |
| dissemble | to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character |
| dogmatic | dictatorial in one's opinions |
| engender | to produce, cause, or bring about |
| ephemeral | lasting a short time |
| equivocate | to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
| erudite | learned, scholarly, bookish |
| estimable | admirable |
| exculpate | to clear from blame; prove innocent |
| exigent | urgent; requiring immediate action |
| florid | excessively decorated or embellished |
| foment | to arouse or incite |
| guile | deceit or trickery |
| iconoclast | one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions |
| inchoate | not fully formed; disorganized |
| ingenuous | showing innocence or childlike simplicity |
| inimical | hostile, unfriendly |
| innocuous | harmless |
| insipid | lacking interest or flavor |
| intransigent | uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled |
| irascible | easily made angry |
| laconic | using few words |
| malinger | to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
| mollify | to calm or make less severe |
| obdurate | hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
| obsequious | overly submissive and eager to please |
| obviate | to prevent; to make unnecessary |
| opprobrium | public disgrace |
| paradox | a contradiction or dilemma |
| perfidious | willing to betray one's trust |
| precipitate | to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
| propitiate | to conciliate; to appease |
| quiescent | motionless |
| repudiate | reject the validity of |
| soporific | causing sleep or lethargy |
| tacit | done without using words |
| torpor | extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
| transitory | temporary, lasting a brief time |
| veracity | filled with truth and accuracy |
| aberrant | deviating from the norm |
| approbation | an expression of approval or praise |
| axiomatic | taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
| canonical | following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
| capricious | inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable |
| censure | to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
| disabuse | to undeceive; set right |
| effrontery | extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
| erudite | very learned; scholarly |
| exigent | urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
| extemporaneous | improvised; done without preparation |
| filibuster | intentional obstruction |
| fulminate | to loudly attack or denounce |
| ingenuous | artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
| inured | accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
| irascible | easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
| magnanimity | the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart |
| obviate | to anticipate and make unnecessary |
| perfidy | intentional breach of faith; treachery |
| perspicacious | acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
| precipitate | acting with excessive haste or impulse; to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
| predilection | a disposition in favor of something; preference |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events |
| solicitous | concerned and attentive; eager |
| truculent | fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
| adulation | excessive praise; intense adoration |
| chary | wary; cautious; sparing |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
| complaisance | the willingness to comply withthe wishes of others |
| contrite | regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
| harangue | to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech |
| impecunious | lacking funds; without money |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise |
| inveigle | to obtain by deception or flattery |
| penurious | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
| pernicious | extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
| quaff | to drink deeply |
| redoubtable | awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
| torpid | lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
| dissemble | to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
| hegemony | the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
| inchoate | in an initial stage; not fully formed |
| mendacity | the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
| obdurate | unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
| obsequious | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| opprobrium | disgrace; contempt; scorn |
| penury | poverty; destitution |
| pith | the essential or central part |
| pithy | precise and brief |
| polemical | controversial; argumentative |
| querulous | prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
| repudiate | to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
| specious | seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
| spurious | lacking authenticity or validity; false |
| contiguous | sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
| flout | to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
| immutable | not capable of change |
| inimical | damaging; harmful |
| laconic | using few words; terse |
| mercurial | characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
| mollify | to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
| obfuscate | to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
| phlegmatic | calm; sluggish; unemotional |
| probity | adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
| proclivity | a natural predisposition or inclination |
| quotidian | occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
| recondite | hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
| refulgent | radiant; shiny; brilliant |
| sedulous | diligent; persistent; hardworking |
| tacit | implied; not explicitly stated |
| trenchant | sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
| untenable | indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
| brook | to tolerate, endure, countenance |
| essay | to test or try; attempt |
| fell | inhumanly cruel |
| guy | a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide |
| meet | fitting; proper |
| prize | to pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils |
| rent | torn |
| singular | exceptional; unusual; odd |
| abjure | to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
| adumbrate | to foreshadow vaguely |
| anodyne | soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
| anathema | a solemn or ecclesiastical curse |
| apogee | farthest or highest point; zenith |
| apotheosis | glorification to godliness |
| asperity | severity; rigor; roughness |
| asseverate | to aver, allege, assert |
| augury | omen; portent |
| calumniate | to slander, make a false accusation |
| captious | disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
| cavil | to find fault without good reason |
| celerity | speed, alacrity |
| contumacious | insubordinate; rebellious |
| spate | a sudden, almost overwhelming outpouring |
| descry | to discriminate or discern |
| desuetude | disuse |
| desultory | random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
| encomium | glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute |
| execrate | denounce; feel loathing for, curse |
| exegesis | critical examination; explication |
| expiate | to atone or make amends for |
| extirpate | to destroy; exterminate; cut out |
| fatuous | silly; inanely foolish |
| gainsay | to deny, dispute, contradict |
| indefatigable | not easily exhaustible; tireless |
| ineluctable | certain; inevitable |
| insouciant | unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
| jejune | vapid; uninteresting |
| lubricious | lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
| meretricious | cheap; gaudy; tawdry; |
| minatory | menacing; threatening |
| palliate | to make something seem less serious; to make less severe or intense |
| panegyric | formal praise; eulogy |
| parsimonious | cheap; miserly |
| pellucid | transparent; easy to understand |
| peroration | the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
| plangent | pounding, thundering |
| prolix | long-winded; verbose |
| propitiate | to appease; to conciliate |
| puissance | power; strength |
| remonstrate | to protest, object |
| salacious | lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
| salutary | remedial; wholesome; causing improvement |
| sanguine | cheerful, confident; optimistic |
| saturnine | gloomy; dark; sullen |
| sententious | moralistic; tending to moralize excessively |
| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
| stygian | gloomy; dark |
| tendentious | biased; showing marked tendencies |
| tyro | novice |
| vitiate | to corrupt; debase, spoil |
| voluble | fluent; verbal |
| temerity | reckless boldness; rashness |
| artifice | a clever trick or stratagem; trickery; craftiness |
| extenuate | to represent as less serious |
| equable | free from many changes or variations; uniform |
| inexorable | relentless; not capable of being persuaded |
| indomitable | unconquerable |
| sedulous | diligent; persevering |
| refractory | hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient |
| propitiatory | conciliatory; make favorable inclined |
| lugubrious | dismal; exaggeratedly mournful |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| blandishment | something that tends to flatter, coax, or entice |
| mercurial | volatile; fickle; erratic |
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jperkowski
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