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GRE Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| contiguous | sharing a border; touching; adjacent. |
| contrite | regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness. |
| convention | a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude. |
| convoluted | complex or complicated. |
| corrigible | capable of being set right, correctable, reparable. |
| corrigibility | the capacity to be set right. |
| incorrigible | not reformable, uncontrollable, recalcitrant. |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint. |
| countenance | to approve of or tolerate. |
| countenance | mien, face composure. |
| mien | appearance, aspect. |
| composure | calmness or repose, especially of mind, bearing or appearance. |
| cozen | to deceive, beguile, hoodwink. |
| hoodwink | deceive or trick someone. |
| craven | contemptibly fainthearted, pusillanimous, lacking any courage. |
| credulous | tending to believe too readily; gullible. |
| culpable | deserving blame. |
| culpability | blameworthiness. |
| cynicism | an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness. |
| damp | to diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling. |
| daunt | to intimidate or dismay. |
| daunting | dismaying, disheartening. |
| dauntless | fearless, undaunted, intrepid. |
| dearth | smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; lack. |
| debacle | rout, fiasco, complete failure. |
| decorum | politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior. |
| decorous | something marked by decorum. |
| demur | to question or oppose. |
| denigrate | to blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage. |
| denigration | the act of denigrating, or the act of making denigrating comments. |
| denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot. |
| deprecate | to disparage or belittle. |
| self-deprecating | to belittle yourself or your accomplishments. |
| depredate | to plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner. |
| depredations | attacks or ravages. |
| derision | scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment. |
| deride | to express contempt. |
| contempt | the act of despising. |
| derivative | unoriginal, obtained from another source. |
| desiccate | to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull. |
| desuetude | disuse. |
| desultory | random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose. |
| detraction | slandering, verbal attack, aspersion. |
| diaphanous | transparent, gauzy. |
| diatribe | a harsh denunciation. |
| didactic | intended to teach or instruct. |
| die | a tool used for shaping. |
| diffident | reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence. |
| diffidence | lack of confidence. |
| digress | to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent. |
| digression | something that has digressed. |
| dilatory | causing delay, procrastinating. |
| exasperation | irritation/annoyance. |
| meek | submissive. |
| dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge. |
| dilettantish | (effort or interest) one that is frivolous or superficial. This can also be spelled "dilettanteish." |
| din | loud sustained noise. |
| disabuse | to undeceive; to set right. To free from misconception. |
| discomfit | to defeat, put down. |
| discomfit | to embarrass or make uncomfortable, but its original meaning is to thwart the plans of. |
| discordant | conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound. |
| discretion | cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions. |
| disinterested | free from self-interest; unbiased. |
| disparage | to slight or belittle. |
| disparaging remarks | those that express a negative, usually dismissive, opinion of something or someone. |
| disparate | fundamentally distinct or dissimilar. |
| dissemble | to disguise or conceal; to mislead. |
| dissolution | disintegration, looseness in morals. |
| protagonist | a leader, proponent, or supporter of a cause. |
| dissolute | licentious, libertine. |
| distrait | distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety. |
| distraught | extremely agitated with emotion. |
| divulge | to disclose something secret. |
| doggerel | trivial, poorly constructed verse. |
| dogmatic | authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated. |
| dross | slag, waste or foreign matter, impurity, surface scum. |
| slag | dross. |
| dulcet | melodious, harmonious, mellifluous. |
| dynamo | generator; forceful, energetic person. |
| dynamo | (technical definition) a generator of a current. |
| ebullience | the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings. |
| eccentric | departing from norms or conventions. |
| eccentricity | something or someone eccentric demonstrates eccentricity. |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources. |
| incongruous | not harmonious. |
| edifying | enlightening, informative. |
| edification | the process of edifying. |
| to edify | to enlighten. |
| effrontery | extreme boldness; presumptuousness. |
| rout | defeat and cause to retreat in disorder. |
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