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10. 181 - 204
GRE Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| succor | assistance, relief in time of distress. |
| sundry | various, miscellaneous, separate. |
| supercilious | disdainful, arrogant, haughty, characterized by haughty scorn. |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary. |
| supine | inactive, lying on one's back, apathetic, mentally or morally slack. |
| apathetic | having or showing little or no feeling or emotion. |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch. |
| supine | lying face up. |
| prone | lying face down. |
| supplant | to take the place of, supersede. |
| suppliant | asking humbly, beseeching. |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously. |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| supplicant | beggar, one who prays or begs for something. |
| supplicate | pray humbly; ask, beg. |
| surfeit | to feed or supply in excess. |
| surfeit | excess, overindulgence. |
| sycophant | someone who tries to flatter or please for personal gain, parasite. |
| synthesis | the combination of parts to make a whole. |
| table | to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration. |
| tacit | implied, not explicitly stated. |
| taciturn | not talkative, silent. |
| tamp | to plug, to drive in or down by a series of blows. |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk. |
| tautology | a repetition, a redundancy, a circular argument. |
| tawdry | cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky, indecent. |
| tenacity | the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued. |
| tenacious | means stubborn refusing to give up or let go of something. |
| tendentious | biased, showing marked tendencies. |
| tender | to offer formally. |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak. |
| terse | brief and concise in wording. |
| timorous | timid, fearful, diffident. |
| diffident | hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence. |
| tirade | a long and extremely critical speech, harsh denunciation. |
| toady | sycophant, flatterer, yes-man. |
| torpid | lethargic, sluggish, dormant. |
| torpor | a state of inactivity or lethargy. |
| torque | a force that causes rotation. |
| torrid | scorching, ardent, passionate, hurried. |
| tortuous | winding, twisting, excessively complicated. |
| tout | to publicly praise or promote. |
| tractable | docile, obedient, easily led. |
| intractable | unruly. |
| transient | fleeting, passing quickly, brief. |
| transience | the state of being transient. |
| travesty | mockery, caricature, parody. |
| travesty | to imitate in such a way as to ridicule. |
| trenchant | sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating, biting, clear cut. |
| truculent | fierce, scathing, eager to fight. |
| tumid | swollen. |
| tumescence | swelling. |
| turbid | muddy, having sediment stirred up, clouded to the point of being opaque, in a state of turmoil. |
| turgid | swollen, bloated, pompous, excessively ornate. |
| turpitude | depravity, baseness. |
| tyro | novice, beginner in learning. |
| ubiquitous | existing everywhere at the same time, constantly encountered, widespread. |
| ubiquity | the state of being everywhere at the same time. |
| umbrage | offense, resentment. |
| undulate | to move in wavelike fashion, fluctuate. |
| undulations | the motions something makes when it undulates. |
| unfeigned | genuine, not false or hypocritical. |
| untenable | indefensible, not viable, uninhabitable. |
| untoward | troublesome, unruly, unseemly, adverse. |
| upbraid | to scold, censure, rebuke, chastise. |
| upbraiding | severe scolding. |
| urbane | sophisticated, refined, elegant. |
| usury | charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest. |
| vacillate | to waiver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another, sway from one side to the other. |
| variegated | multi-colored, characterized by a variety of patches of different color. |
| vaunt | to brag or boast. |
| venal | capable of being bought or bribed, mercenary. |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages, especially a soldier hired into a foreign services. |
| venality | the use of position for personal gain. |
| venerate | to revere; to adore; honor; respect. |
| veneration | respect or reverence. |
| veracity | truthfulness, honesty. |
| voracity | ravenous, very eager. |
| ravenous | very eager or greedy for food. |
| verisimilitude | appearing true or real. |
| veritable | authentic, real, genuine. |
| vexation | annoyance, irritation. |
| vex | to annoy or puzzle. |
| vigilant | alertly watchful. |
| vilify | to defame, characterize harshly. |
| virulent | extremely harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile or antagonistic. |
| virulence | extreme harmfulness or bitterness. |
| viscous | thick, sticky. |
| viscosity | the state of being viscous. |
| vitiate | to reduce the value of, debase, spoil, make ineffective. |
| vituperate | to use harsh condemnatory language; abuse or censure severely. |
| volatile | readily changing to a vapor; changeable, fickle, explosive. |
| voracious | having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit, ravenous. |
| waft | a light breeze, a puff. |
| waft | to send floating through the air or over water. |
| waver | to move to and fro, to sway; to be unsettled in opinion. |
| welter | to writhe, to toss about, to be in turmoil. |
| welter | a state of turmoil or chaotic jumble. |
| wend | to go, proceed, walk. |
| zealous | fervent, ardent, impassioned. |
| zealous | to be filled with zeal. |
| zeal | great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective. |
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