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09. 161 - 180
GRE Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| rent | torn, split apart, pierced as by a sound. |
| rend | tear violently. tear away. |
| rent | a tear or breach. |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent, long for. |
| repudiate | to refuse to have anything to do with, disown. |
| rescind | to invalidate, repeal, retract. |
| resolute | adamant, steadfast, determined. |
| irresolute | the opposite of resolute. |
| reticent | quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts and feelings. |
| reverent | marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect. |
| revenant. | a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead. |
| reverence | a strong feeling of awe or respect. |
| irreverence | the lack of a strong feeling of awe or respect. |
| rhetoric | the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion. |
| rhetorical | used for persuasive effect. |
| rhetorical question | one that is used to create an effect instead of expecting a real answer. |
| rubric | authoritative rule, heading, title, or category. |
| rubric | reddish or written in red. |
| rue | regret, feel remorse. |
| rueful | expressing sorrow. |
| sagacious | having sound judgment, perceptive, wise. |
| sage | wise. |
| salacious | appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy. |
| bawdy | obscene. |
| salient | prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant. |
| salubrious | promoting health or well-being. |
| unceremoniously | informal, abrupt, rude. |
| salutary | remedial, wholesome, causing improvement. |
| wholesome | favorable to health. |
| sanctimony | self-righteousness, pretended piety. |
| piety | dutifulness in religion. |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pretending to be pious or being excessively pious. |
| blather | to talk foolishly at great length. |
| sanction | authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance. |
| apartheid | racial segregation. |
| sanction | to encourage, approve. To punish. |
| sanguine | cheerful, confident, optimistic. |
| sap | to enervate or weaken the vitality of. |
| sap | a gullible person, a fool. |
| satiate | to overindulge, satisfy to excess. |
| satire | a literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or derision. |
| saturnine | gloomy, dark, sullen, morose. |
| scurvy | contemptible, despicable. |
| sedulous | diligent, persistent, hard-working. |
| seine | a large net hung out and dragged to catch fish. |
| sere | withered, arid. |
| seminal | like a seed, constituting a source, originative. |
| shard | a piece of broken pottery or glass; any small piece or part. |
| simper | to smirk, to say something with a silly, coy smile. |
| simper | the silly smile itself. |
| sinecure | position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income. |
| singular | exceptional, unusual, odd. |
| sinuous | winding, curving, moving lithely, devious. |
| lithely | easily bent or flexed. |
| slake | to satisfy, quench, lessen the intensity of. |
| sodden | soaked or drenched, unimaginative, dull. |
| solder | to weld, fuse or join, as with a soldering gun. |
| solicitous | concerned and attentive, eager. |
| solvent | able to meet financial obligations |
| sophistry | fallacious reasoning; plausible but faulty logic. |
| sophomoric | exhibiting immaturity, lack of judgment, pretentious. |
| soporific | causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep. |
| sordid | characterized by filth, grime, or squalor, foul. |
| sparse | thin, not dense arranged at widely spaced intervals. |
| specious | seeming true, but actually false, misleadingly attractive. |
| spendthrift | one who spends money wastefully. |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended. |
| splenetic | bad-tempered, irritable. |
| sporadic | occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances. |
| spurious | lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit. |
| squalid | sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect. |
| sordid | to give a little attention or respect to. |
| squalor | wretched or filthy condition. |
| squander | to waste by spending or using irresponsibly. |
| stanch | to stop the flow of a fluid. |
| staunch | firmly committed. |
| static | not moving, active or in motion; at rest. |
| steep | to saturate or completely soak. |
| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful. |
| stint | to restrain, be sparing or frugal. |
| stinting | restraining. |
| unstinting | bestowed liberally. |
| stint | length of time spent in a specific way. |
| stoic | indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast. |
| stoicism | indifference to pleasure or pain. |
| striated | striped, grooved, or banded. |
| striations | the bands themselves. |
| strut | a structural support used to brace a framework. |
| strut | to brace or support. |
| stupefy | to stun, baffle, or amaze. |
| stygian | gloomy, dark. |
| stymie | to block, thwart. |
| subpoena | a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony. |
| subtle | not obvious, elusive, difficult to discern, crafty or sly. |
| succinct | brief, concise. |
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