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GRE Lesson 2
100 word chunks of Barron's data
Question | Answer |
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advocate | speak in favor of; support (an idea or plan); urge; plead for |
aegis | shield; protection; defense |
aerie(aery,eyrie,eyry) | nest of a large bird of prey |
aesthetic | artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful (of a person or building); CF. aesthete; CF. aesthetics |
affable | easily approachable; easy to talk to; warmly friendly |
affected | artificial; pretended |
affidavit | written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law) |
affiliation | joining; associating with |
affinity | feeling of kinship; similarity; Ex. strong affinity for her; Ex. many affinities between two languages |
affirmation | positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath; V. affirm; ADJ. affirmative; CF. affirmative action: positive discrimination |
affliction | state of distress; trial; cause of distress or suffering; V. afflict: inflict grievous suffering on |
affluence | abundance; wealth |
affront | insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect; V: insult or hurt the feelings of intentionally |
afterlife | life after death; later part of one's life |
agape | openmouthed |
agenda | items of business at a meeting |
agglomeration | collection; heap; V. agglomerate: gather into a rounded mass; N. aggolmeate: jumbled mass; heap |
aggrandize | make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor; N. aggrandizement |
aggregate | sum; total; ADJ. V: gather into a mass or whole; accumulate; add up to; Ex. aggregate 100 dollars |
aghast | filled with great surprise or fear; horrified |
agility | nimbleness; ability to move quickly |
agitate | stir up; disturb |
agnostic | one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality |
agog | highly excited; intensely curious |
agrarian | pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform |
airy | of air; high in the air; lofty; immaterial; unreal |
alacrity | cheerful promptness without reluctance |
alchemy | medieval chemistry |
alcove | nook; recess |
alias | an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people); ADV. alias |
alienate | make unfriendly or hostile; estrange; separate; change the ownership of |
alimentary | supplying nourishment |
alimony | payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce |
allay | calm; pacify |
allege | state without proof |
allegiance | loyalty |
allegory | story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable |
alleviate | relieve (pain) |
alliteration | repetition of beginning sound in poetry |
allocate | assign; set apart for a particular purpose |
alloy | mixture as of metals; something added that lowers in value or purity; V: mix; make less pure; lower in value or quality; spoil; CF. unalloyed: not in mixture with other maetals; pure; complete; unqualified; Ex. unalloyed happiness |
allude | refer indirectly; N. allusion: indirect reference |
allure | entice; attract; tempt |
alluvial | pertaining to soil deposits left by running water |
alms | money or goods given to the poor |
aloft | upward; high up in the air |
aloof | apart; not open in one's relationship with other people; reserved; ADV. |
altercation | noisy quarrel |
altruistic | unselfishly generous; concerned for others; N. altiruism: unselfish concern for the welfare of others; unselfishness; OP. egoism |
amalgam | combination of different things; mixture of metals (containing mercury) used for filling holes in teeth |
amalgamate | (of societies or groups) combine; unite in one body |
amass | collect (gradually, in a very large amount) |
amazon | female warrior |
ambidextrous | capable of using either hand with equal ease |
ambience | environment; atmosphere; Ex. restraurant with a pleasant ambience; ADJ. ambient: completely surrounding; Ex. ambient temperature |
ambiguous | unclear or doubtful in meaning; having more than one possible interpretation |
ambivalence | the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions |
amble | walking at an easy unhurried pace; V: walk slowly and aimlessly |
ambrosia | food of the gods |
ambulatory | able to walk |
ambush | act of lying in wait to attack by surprise; sudden attack made from a concealed position; Ex. lie in ambush; V. |
ameliorate | improve |
amenable | obedient; compliant; readily managed; responsive; willing to be led; answerable or accountable legally; responsible; able to be tested by; Ex. amenable to sensible suggestions; Ex. He is very amenable; Ex. amenable to the usual tests |
amend | correct; change ; generally for the better |
amenities | convenient features that helps to make life pleasant; social courtesies |
amiable | agreeable; lovable; warmly friendly |
amicable | peaceful; politely friendly; not quarrelsome; Ex. amicable settlement |
amiss | wrong; faulty; Ex. something amiss; ADV. |
amity | friendship; peaceful relationship as between nations |
amnesia | loss of memory |
amnesty | pardon (allowed by government to political criminals) |
amok(amuck) | in a state of rage; Ex. run amok |
amoral | nonmoral; having no understanding of right and wrong |
amorous | moved by sexual love; loving; of sexual love; Ex. amorous advances |
amorphous | formless; lacking shape or definition |
amphibian | able to live both on land and in water; N. |
amphitheater | oval building with tiers of seats; CF. arena |
ample | enough; abundant; spacious; large in size; Ex. ample opportunity/garden; N. amplitude: quality of being ample; abundance; largeness of space |
amplify | increase in size or effect; expand; broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger; Ex. amplify one's remarks with a graph |
amputate | cut off part of body; prune (a limb) |
amulet | charm; talisman; an object worn believed to protect against evil, bad luck |
anachronism | an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; ADJ. anachronistic |
analgesia | condition of being unable to feel pain |
analgesic | causing insensitivity to pain; N. |
analogous | comparable; similar |
analogy | similarity; parallelism; comparing two similar things |
anarchist | person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority |
anarchy | absence of governing body; state of disorder |
anathema | solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse; V. anathematize |
ancestry | family descent; ADJ. ancestral |
anchor | secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place; N. anchorage |
ancillary | serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary; N. |
anecdote | short story of an amusing or interesting event |
anemia | condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; ADJ. anemic |
anesthetic | substance that removes sensation with or without loss of consciousness; N. anesthesia |
anguish | acute pain; extreme suffering |
angular | sharp-cornered; having an angle; not rounded (body); bony; lean; gaunt; stiff in manner |
animadversion | critical remark; V. animadvert: comment critically with disapproval |
animated | lively; spirited |
animosity | active enmity |