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GRE Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abate | to lessen in intensity or degree |
| accolade | an expression of praise |
| adulation | excessive praise; intense adoration |
| aesethetic | dealing with, appreciative of or responsive to art or beauty |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| ascetic | one who practices rigid self-denial esp as an act of religious devotion |
| avarice | greed esp for wealth |
| burgeon | to grow rapidly or flourish |
| bucolic | rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
| cacophony | harsh, jarring, doscordant sound; dissonance |
| canon | an est. set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
| castigation | severe criticism or punishment |
| catalyst | substance that accelerates chemical reaction, person or thing that causes change |
| caustic | burning or stinging; causing corrosion, able to burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action |
| chary | wary, cautious sparing, cautious about doing something |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, convincing; very clear and easy for the mind to accept and believe |
| pragmatic | dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations, dealing with things in reasonable and logical way instead of depending on ideas and theories |
| complaisance | the willingness to comply with the wishes of others, disposition to please or comply |
| contentious | argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
| contrite | regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness; feeling or showing regret for bad behavior |
| penitent | feeling or showing sorrow and regret bc you have done something wrong |
| culpable | deserving blame, guilty of doing something wrong |
| dearth | smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
| demur | to question or oppose, to disagree politely with another persons statement or suggestion |
| didactic | intended to teach or instruct |
| discretion | cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions; quality of being careful about what you do/say so others will not be embarrassed or offended |
| disinterested | free of bias or self-interest; impartial, not influenced by personal feelings, opinions or concerns |
| dogmatic | expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles, a belief or set of beliefs that is accepted |
| ebullience | the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings; the quality of being cheerful and full of energy |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources; deriving ideas, style or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources |
| elegy | a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead |
| lament | a passionate expression of grief or sorrow (noun); to morn (verb) |
| emollient | soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smooths the skin |
| mollify | to assuage the anger or anxiety of someone |
| empirical | based on an observation or experiment |
| enigmatic | mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
| ephemeral | brief; fleeting; lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory |
| esoteric | intended for or understood by a small specific group |
| eulogy | a speech honoring the dead |
| exculpate | to exonerate |
| facetious | playful; humorous; not meant to be taken seriously or literally |
| fallacy | an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief; a deceptive, misleading or false notion |
| furtive | marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious; sly/shifty |
| covert | concealed; secret; disguised |
| surreptitious | obtained, done, made, etc by stealth secret or unauthorized; clandestine |
| clandestine | characterized by, done in or executed with secrecy or concealment esp for purposes of subversion or deception |
| gregarious | sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people; ebullience |
| harangue | to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long pompous speech |
| pompous | having or showing the attitude of people who speak and behave in a very formal and serious way because they believe that they are better, smarter, or more important than other people |
| heretical | violating accepted dogma or convention related to or characterized by heresy |
| hyperbole | an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech; obvious or intentional exaggeration statement |
| impecunious | lacking funds; without money, penniless, poor |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent, beginning to exist or appear in an initial state, nascent |
| inert | unmoving; lethargic; sluggish, having no inherent power of action, motion or resistance |
| innocuous | harmless; causing no damage |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise, uncompromising |
| inveigle | to obtain by deception or flattery to entice, lure or ensnare by flattery |
| ensnare | to capture in or involve as in a snare or entrapment/tangle/noose |
| morose | sad, sullen, melancholy, expressing gloom |
| odious | evoking intense aversion or dislike, seserving or causing hatred, hateful, detestable |
| opaque | impenetrable by light; not reflecting light |
| oscillation | the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm |
| penurious | penny-pinching, excessively thrifty, ungenerous, stingy |
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