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GRE Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| foment | to stir up, incite, rouse. |
| ferment | to be in a state of agitation or intense activity. |
| forbearance | patience, willingness to wait. |
| forbearance | describes a creditor's agreement not to demand payment of a debt when it is due. |
| forbear | to refrain from. The past tense is forbore. |
| forebear | ancestor. |
| ford | to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. |
| forestall | to act in a way to hinder, exclude or prevent an action; to circumvent or thwart. |
| thwart | to run counter to so as to effectively oppose or baffle. |
| forswear | to renounce, disallow, repudiate. |
| repudiate | to disown. |
| fortuitous | happening by fortunate accident or chance. |
| fracas | noisy fight or quarrel, brawl. |
| fractious | quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, cranky. |
| froward | intractable, not willing to yield or comply, stubbornly disobedient. |
| fulminate | to attack loudly or denounce. |
| furtive | marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious. |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth. |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy. |
| gainsay | to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose. |
| gambol | to skip playfully, frolic. |
| garner | to gather and save, store up, acquire. |
| garrulous | pointlessly talkative, talking too much. |
| gauche | crude, awkward, tasteless. |
| germane | relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter. |
| glib | marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial. |
| gossamer | delicate, insubstantial or tenuous; insincere. |
| tenuous | weak. |
| grandiloquence | pompous speech or expression. |
| gregarious | sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people. |
| grouse | to complain or grumble. |
| guile | trickery, duplicity, cunning. |
| guileless | naïve or free from guile. |
| beguile | to deceive by guile, or to charm. |
| guy | a rope or cord attached to something as a brace or guide. |
| hackneyed | rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage. |
| trite | not fresh or original. |
| halcyon | calm and peaceful, prosperous. |
| hallow | to set apart as holy. |
| hallowed | consecrated or highly venerated. |
| consecrated | dedicated to a sacred purpose. |
| harangue | to deliver a loud, pompous speech or tirade. |
| harangue | is what you deliver when you are haranguing someone. |
| harrow | to distress, create stress or torment. |
| hedonism | devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses. |
| hegemony | the consistent dominance or influence of one group, state, or ideology over others. |
| heretical | violating accepted dogma or convention, unorthodox. |
| heresy | an idea that is heretical. |
| hermetic | airtight, impervious to outside influence. |
| hermeneutic | explanatory or interpretive. |
| heterodox | unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic. |
| heterodoxy | an idea that departs from what is accepted. |
| hirsute | hairy, shaggy. |
| homily | a sermon or morally instructive lecture, a platitude. |
| platitude | a banal, trite, or stale remark. |
| homiletics | the art of preaching. |
| hubris | arrogant presumption or pride. |
| hyperbole | an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech. |
| hyperbolic | something or someone that uses hyperbole. |
| iconoclast | one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions. |
| iconoclastic | attacking cherished beliefs, heretical. |
| idolatrous | given to intense or excessive devotion to something. |
| idolatry | the worship of idols and images or blind devotion to something. |
| idyll | a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode or experience; a literary or musical piece describing such. |
| idyllic | simple or carefree. |
| ignominious | shameful, dishonorable, ignoble, undignified, disgraceful. |
| ignominy | dishonor or humiliation. |
| imbroglio | difficult or embarrassing situation. |
| extricate | unravel. |
| imminent | about to happen; impending. |
| eminent | prominent or distinguished. |
| immutable | not capable of change. |
| impassive | revealing no emotion or sensibility. |
| impecunious | lacking funds; without money. |
| imperious | commanding, masterful, arrogant, domineering, haughty. |
| imperturbable | marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness. |
| impetuous | hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement. |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy. |
| implacable | not capable of being appeased or significantly changed. |
| importune | to ask incessantly, beg, nag. |
| importunate | persistent in asking. |
| impugn | attack or assail verbally, censure, execrate, deny. |
| impunity | immunity from punishment, penalty, or harm. |
| impute | to attribute to a cause or source, ascribe, assign as a characteristic. |
| inchoate | in an initial state, not fully formed. |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent. |
| indefatigable | not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged. |
| indifferent | having no interest or concern, apathetic; showing no bias or prejudice. |
| indolent | lazy, listless, torpid. |
| ineluctable | certain, inevitable. |
| inert | unmoving, lethargic, sluggish, not reactive chemically. |
| infelicitous | unfortunate; inappropriate. |
| ingenuous | artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophistication. |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor, calculating, duplicitous. |
| ingenious | characterized by skill and imagination. |
| inherent | ingrained within one's nature, intrinsic, firmly established, essential. |
| inhere | to be inherent or innate to something. |
| inimical | damaging, harmful, injurious, hostile, unfriendly. |
| inimitable | one of a kind, peerless. |
| peerless | unequaled; unrivaled. |
| audacious | intrepidly daring. |
| unrivaled | better than everyone or everything of the same type. |
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