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07. 120 - 140
GRE Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nice | exacting, extremely or even excessively precise; done with delicacy or skill. |
| noisome | offensive, especially to one's sense of smell, fetid. |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell. |
| miasma | a vaporous emanation. |
| nonplussed | baffled, in a quandary, at a loss for what to say, do, or think. |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition. |
| nostrum | cure-all, placebo, questionable remedy. |
| noxious | harmful; injurious. |
| obdurate | unyielding, hardhearted, inflexible. |
| obfuscate | to deliberately obscure, to make confusing. |
| obsequious | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; subservient. |
| obstinate | stubborn; hard headed; uncompromising. |
| obstreperous | noisy, loudly stubborn, boisterous. |
| obtain | to be established, accepted, or customary, prevail. |
| obtuse | lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression. |
| obviate | to anticipate and make unnecessary. |
| occlude | to obstruct or block. |
| occult | hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension. |
| occult | to hide. |
| officious | meddlesome, pushy in offering one's service where they are unwanted. |
| onerous | troubling, burdensome. |
| opprobrium | disgrace, contempt, scorn. |
| oscillation | the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm. |
| oscillate | to literally move back and forth; to move back and forth between two ideas or positions. |
| ossified | changed into bone; made rigidly conventional and unreceptive to change. |
| ostensible | seeming, appearing as such, professed. |
| ostentatious | characterized by or given to pretentiousness. |
| overweening | presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate. |
| paean | a song or expression of praise and thanksgiving. |
| palliate | to make something appear less serious, gloss over, mitigate. |
| panegyric | formal expression of praise. |
| paradigm | something that serves as a model, example, or pattern; the framework of assumptions and understandings shared by a group or discipline that shapes its worldview. |
| pariah | an outcast, a rejected and despised person. |
| parody | a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, especially in literature and art, also something so bad as to be potentially mistaken for an intentional mockery. |
| parry | to block, evade or ward off, as a blow. |
| parsimonious | cheap, miserly. |
| partisan | one-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced. |
| partisan | supporter, adherent. |
| paucity | scarcity, a lacking of. |
| peccadillo | a slight offense, literally, a minor sin. |
| pilfering | to steal in small amounts. |
| pedagogy | the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing. |
| pedantic | ostentatious display of learning, excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules, unimaginative. Showing off learning. |
| pedestrian | commonplace, trite, unremarkable. |
| penchant | strong inclination, a liking. |
| penurious | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous. |
| penury | extreme poverty, destitution or lack of resources. |
| peremptory | admitting of no contradiction, putting an end to further debate, haughty, imperious. |
| haughty | proud. |
| imperious | commanding, dominant, imperative; leaving no choice. |
| imperative | command |
| perennial | recurrent through the year or many years, happening repeatedly. |
| perfidy (also perfidious) | intentional breach of faith, treachery. |
| treachery | violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence. |
| perfunctory | cursory, done without care or interest. |
| peripatetic | itinerant, traveling, nomadic. |
| pernicious | extremely harmful, potentially causing death. |
| personable | pleasing in appearance, attractive. |
| perspicacious | acutely perceptive, having keen discernment. |
| discernment | the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure. |
| peruse | to examine with great care. |
| pervade | to permeate throughout. |
| pervasive | having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout. |
| petrous | like a rock, hard, stony. |
| petrous | the hard temporal bone that protects the inner ear. |
| petrify | to make hard or rocklike, or to paralyze with fear. |
| petulant | impatient, irritable. |
| philistine | a crass individual guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values. |
| phlegmatic | calm, sluggish, unemotional, stoic. |
| picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventures. |
| rogues | vagrant, tramp. |
| picturesque | picture-like, charming, or quaint. |
| pied | multi-colored, usually in blotches. |
| pillory | to punish, hold up to public scorn. |
| pillory | a device for punishing people through public humiliation. It was similar in design and purpose to the stocks. |
| pine | to yearn intensely, to languish, to lose vigor. |
| pious | extremely reverent or devout. |
| piquant | agreeably pungent, spicy, stimulating. |
| pique | resentment, feeling of irritation due to hurt pride. |
| pique | to annoy or irritate, or to provoke or arouse, as in "you've piqued my curiosity." |
| pirate | to use or reproduce illegally. |
| pith | the essential or central part. |
| pithy | precise and brief. |
| placate | to appease, to calm by making concessions. |
| plaintive | mournful, melancholy, sorrowful. |
| plangent | pounding, thundering, resounding. |
| plastic | moldable, pliable, not rigid. |
| platitude | a superficial or trite remark, especially one offered as meaningful. |
| plethora | an overabundance, a surplus. |
| pluck | courage, spunk, fortitude. |
| plumb | to measure the depth (as with a plumb line), to examine critically. |
| plumb | exactly vertical. |
| plumb | directly or completely. |
| plummet | to plunge or drop straight down. |
| poignant | distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulating, emotional. |
| polemical | controversial, argumentative. |
| polemics | the art or practice of controversy and argumentation. |
| pragmatic | practical rather than idealistic. |
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