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GRE group 1
Hit parade, beyond hit parade 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aberrant | deviating from the norm |
| alacrity | eager and enthusiastic willingness; speed |
| anomaly | deviation from the normal order, form, rule |
| approbation | expression of praise |
| assuage | pacify; appease |
| audacious | daring fearless; recklessly bold |
| capricious | changing one's mind quickly and often |
| censure | criticize severly |
| chicanery | trickery |
| discordant | conflicting; harsh in sound |
| disparate | fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
| eloquent | well spoken; articulate |
| exigent | urgent |
| ingenuous | artless; lacking in sophistication |
| inured | accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
| magnanimity | quality of being generously noble esp in forgiving |
| onerous | troubling; burdensome |
| parody | humorous imitation |
| perfunctory | done without care or interest |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events |
| prevaricate | to mislead |
| refute | to successfully argue against |
| solicitous | eager |
| stupefy | to stun, baffle or amaze |
| truculent | fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
| abjure | to renounce or reject; recant |
| abrogate | to abolish or annul |
| acarpous | infertile; worn out |
| admonish | to express warning or disapproval |
| adumbrate | to intimate, foreshadow |
| antipathy | aversion, dislike |
| antithetical | diametrically opposed |
| apocryphal | of dubious authenticity |
| apostate | a person who gives up a long held religious or political belief |
| apotheosis | deification; glorification to godliness |
| apposite | appropriate |
| apprise | to inform |
| arcane | mysterious |
| arrant | impudent |
| artless | without guile; natural |
| ascetic | austere; practicing rigid self denial |
| asperity | sevreity, rigor, roughness |
| aspersion | act of defamation |
| assay | an analysis; to be put to a test |
| asseverate | to allege, assert |
| assiduous | diligent; hardworking |
| attenuate | to weaken, rarefy |
| augury | omen |
| auspice | protection or support |
| auspicious | favorable |
| aver | to affirm |
| baleful | sinister |
| bane | harmful |
| beatify | to bless, make happy |
| bedizen | to adorn, esp in a cheap showy way |
| belie | to misrepresent |
| bellicose | belligerent, warlike |
| bilge | bulge, shape of a cask thru your pants |
| blandish | to toady or fawn |
| boor | rude, insensitive person |
| byzantine | complex |
| cabal | group of plotters |
| cachinnate | to laugh loudly |
| cadge | to mooch |
| cajole | to coax |
| caparison | to adorn |
| captious | calculated to confuse to trap in argument |
| cavil | to find fault without good reason |
| celerity | speed; alacrity |
| chasten | to correct |
| chimera | an illusion |
Created by:
cree
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