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GRE Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| auspice | protection or support, patronage. |
| auspice | sign or portent. |
| portent | something that foreshadows a coming event. |
| auspicious | favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous. |
| propitious | being a good omen. |
| austere | without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic. |
| austerity | rigid economy (often followed by measures). |
| avarice | greed, especially for wealth. |
| avaricious | greedy. |
| aver | to state a fact; to confirm or support. |
| axiom | a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying. |
| axiomatic | taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth. |
| baleful | sinister, pernicious, ominous. |
| pernicious | malicious, wicked. |
| bane | cause of injury, source of harm; source of persistent frustration. |
| baneful | means causing harm or ruin, pernicious, destructive. |
| beatify | to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly. |
| beatitude | a state of bliss, and beatific means having a blissful appearance. |
| bedizen | to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; festoon, caparison. |
| caparison | an ornamental covering for a horse. |
| festoon | a decorative chain or strip hanging between two points. |
| belie | to give a false impression of, to misrepresent. |
| bellicose | belligerent, pugnacious, warlike. |
| belligerent | waging war. |
| pugnacious | quarrelsome nature. |
| bent | leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency. |
| proclivity | natural tendency. |
| blandish | to coax with flattery, toady or fawn. |
| brandish | to shake or wave menacingly. |
| blandishment | flattery intended to cajole or coax. |
| blithe | carefree, merry. |
| boisterous | loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint. |
| bolster | to provide support or reinforcement. |
| bombastic | pompous; grandiloquent. |
| bombast | self-important or pompous writing or speech. |
| boor | a rude or insensitive person; lout; yokel. |
| lout | aggressive man. |
| yokel | a country bumpkin. |
| broach | bring up, announce, begin to talk about. |
| impolitic | unwise. |
| brook | to tolerate, endure, countenance. |
| countenance | support. |
| bucolic | rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants. |
| burgeon | to grow rapidly or flourish. |
| burnish | to polish, rub to a shine. |
| byzantine | labyrinthine, complex. |
| labyrinthine | intricate, involved. |
| cacophony | harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance. |
| cadge | to sponge, beg, or mooch. |
| cajole | to inveigle, coax, wheedle, sweet-talk. |
| inveigle | entice. |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery. |
| calumniate | to slander, make a false accusation. |
| calumny | slander, aspersion. |
| canon | an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature. |
| canonical | following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards. |
| capricious | inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable. |
| cardinal | of basic importance or consequence; primary. |
| caret | an insertion mark used by editors and proofreaders. |
| castigation | severe criticism or punishment. |
| catalyst | a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change. |
| catalyze | is to act as a catalyst, to bring about. |
| caustic | burning or stinging causing corrosion. |
| censure | to criticize severely; to officially rebuke. |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply. |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation; the act of blaming or condemning. |
| censorious | tending to or expressing censure. |
| chary | wary; cautious; sparing. |
| chasten | to chastise or correct; subdue. |
| chastened | corrected, punished or humbled. |
| chauvinist | one blindly devoted to a group of which one is a member. |
| chicanery | trickery or subterfuge. |
| subterfuge | deceit used in order to achieve one's goal. |
| chimera | an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster. |
| chimerical | illusory or improbable. |
| churlish | boorish, vulgar, loutish; difficult and intractable. |
| churl | someone who is churlish. |
| coalesce | to come together; to fuse or unite. |
| coda | concluding section to a musical or literary piece, something that concludes or completes. |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing. |
| color | to change as if by dyeing, influence, distort, or gloss over. |
| commensurate | matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, amount or other property. |
| complaisance | the willingness to comply with the wishes of others. |
| complaisant | showing a willingness to please. |
| complacent | self-satisfied. |
| connoisseur | an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert. |
| consequential | pompous, self-important. |
| consequential | logically following; important. |
| contemn | to scorn or to despise. |
| curry | to seek to gain favor by flattery or attention. |
| condemn | to pronounce judgment against. |
| contentious | argumentative, quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement. |
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