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08. 140 - 160
GRE Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| polemical | controversial, argumentative. |
| polemics | the art or practice of controversy and argumentation. |
| pragmatic | practical rather than idealistic. |
| prate | chatter, babble. |
| prattle | to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner. |
| precarious | uncertain, risky, dangerous. |
| precept | rule establishing standards of conduct, a doctrine that is taught. |
| precipitate | acting with excessive haste or impulse. |
| precipitate | to cause or happen before anticipated or required. |
| precursor | something that precedes and indicates or announces another. |
| predilection | a disposition in favor of something, preference. |
| preempt | to replace, to supersede to appropriate. |
| preemption | prior appropriation of or claim to something. |
| preemptive | characterized by preemption. |
| preen | to dress up; primp, groom oneself with elaborate care; in animals, to clean fur or feathers. |
| prescience | knowing of events prior to their happening/occurring. |
| presumptuous | overstepping bounds, as of propriety or courtesy; taking liberties. |
| prevaricate | to deliberately avoid the truth, mislead. |
| pristine | pure, uncorrupted, clean. |
| prize | to pry, press, or force with a lever. |
| probity | adherence to highest principles, uprightness. |
| uprightness | honest. |
| proclivity | a natural predisposition or inclination. |
| prodigal | recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish. |
| prodigious | abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary. |
| profligate | excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant. |
| profuse | given or coming forth abundantly, extravagant. |
| profusion | abundance or extravagance. |
| proliferate | to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly. |
| prolific | producing large volumes or amounts, productive. |
| prolix | long-winded, verbose. |
| propensity | a natural inclination or tendency, penchant. |
| penchant | strong and continued inclination. |
| propinquity | nearness in time or place, affinity of nature, kinship. |
| propitiate | to appease, conciliate. |
| conciliate | to gain by pleasing acts. |
| propitious | auspicious, favorable. |
| prosaic | dull, unimaginative. |
| proscribe | to outlaw or prohibit. |
| proscription | the act of outlawing something. To outlaw or banish people, or pass sentence of death. (what you are not allowed to do). |
| prescription | what you should do. |
| provident | frugal, looking to the future. |
| providential | happening as if from divine intervention. |
| puerile | childish, immature. |
| pugnacious | contentious, quarrelsome, given to fighting, belligerent. |
| belligerent | waging war. |
| punctilious | precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette. |
| pundit | an authority on a subject, one who gives opinions. |
| pungent | characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste, penetrating, to the point. |
| pusillanimous | cowardly, craven. |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage. |
| putrefy | to rot, decay and give off a foul odor, become gangrenous. |
| quaff | to drink deeply. |
| quail | to shrink back in fear, lose courage. |
| qualify | to limit. |
| qualms | misgivings, reservations, causes for hesitancy. |
| queries | questions, inquiries, reservations. |
| querulous | prone to complaining or grumbling, quarrelsome. |
| quiescence | stillness, motionlessness, quality of being at rest. |
| quiescent | inactive, latent, causing no trouble, being at rest. |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical, marked by lofty romantic ideals. |
| quotidian | occurring or recurring daily, commonplace. |
| rail | to complain about bitterly. |
| ramify | to be divided or subdivided, branch out. |
| ramifications | the developments or consequences growing out of something. |
| rancorous | characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment. |
| rancor | the bitter, long-lasting resentment itself. |
| rapacious | voracious, greedy, plundering, subsisting on prey. |
| rapacity | avarice, or the practice of extorting or exacting by injustice. |
| junta | a council or committee for political or government purposes. |
| rarefy | to make or become thin, less dense, refine. |
| rebus | riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like the words. |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficult to manage. |
| recant | to retract, especially a previously held belief. |
| recondite | hidden concealed, difficult to understand, obscure. |
| reconnoiter | to engage in reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of. |
| reconnaissance | preliminary survey to gain information. |
| recumbent | leaning, resting, prone. |
| redolent | fragrant, suggestive or evocative. |
| redoubtable | awe-inspiring; worthy of honor. |
| refulgent | radiant; shiny; brilliant. |
| refute | to disprove, successfully argue against. |
| regale | to delight or entertain, feast. |
| relegate | to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position. |
| remonstrate | to protest, object. |
| renege | to fail to honor a commitment, go back on a promise. |
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