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GRE difficult words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tenuous | having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak, thin or slender |
| succinct | brief; concise (pithy) |
| spurious | lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
| salubrious | promoting health or well-being |
| repudiate | to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant to authority; difficult to manage, resisting authority or control, not obedient |
| querulous | prone to complaining or grumbling |
| polemical | controversial; argumentative person who argues in opposition to another (contentious) |
| platitude | a superficial remark, esp one offered as meaningful |
| obdurate | unyielding; hardhearted; intractable; stubbornly refusing to change ones opinion or course of action |
| obsequious | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness, obedient or attentive to an excessive degree |
| opprobrium | disgrace; contempt; scorn; harsh criticism or censure (ex prime minister) |
| iconoclast | one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions, person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions |
| infelicitous | unfortunate; inappropriate or not well timed (hillary's words) |
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate or challenge |
| incipient | nascent |
| acumen | keen, accurate judgment or insight |
| fervent | greatly emotional or zealous, displaying a passionate intensity |
| fortuitous | happening by accident or chance (fortuitous stop in indy 500) |
| grandiloquence | pompous speech or expression (harangue) |
| culpable | descending blame |
| demur | to question or oppose, to disagree politely with another's statement (crotch: unnecessary ambiguity to demur from coarser language) |
| engmatic | mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand (engima- puzzling person or situation) |
| furtive | marked by stealth, covert, surreptitious, sly/shifty |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise, unwilling to changes one's view |
| pernicious | extremely harmful in a way that is not easily seen or noticed (pernicious anemia) |
| perfidy | breach of faith or trust |
| prodigious | abundant in size, force or extent; extraordinary (prodigious home run in baseball) |
| ubiquitous | existing everywhere at the same time, constantly encountered; widespread |
| dogmatic | expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles |
| conjecture | opinion or conclusion based on incomplete information |
| heretical | violating accepted dogma/convention, characterized by heresy |
| mendacity | the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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