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GRE group 2
Hit parade, beyond hit parade 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| churlish | vulgar, difficult |
| coalesce | to come together, fuse, unite |
| coeval | coexisting |
| commensurate | matching |
| contemn | to scorn or despise |
| contumacious | rebellious, insubordinate |
| countenance | to approve of, tolerate |
| cozen | to deceive; hoodwink |
| craven | lacking any courage |
| curmudgeon | crusty, ill tempered coot |
| daunt | to dismay |
| debacle | fiasco |
| decorous | correct, marked by decorum |
| defalcate | to embezzle |
| denigrate | to belittle |
| denouement | an outcome, solution |
| deposition | accretion; official testimony |
| deprecate | to belittle |
| depredate | to plunder, pillage, destroy |
| derivative | obtained from another source |
| descant | to comment at length |
| descry | to discriminate |
| desuetude | disuse |
| desultory | random |
| detraction | slandering, verbal attack |
| disphanous | transparent |
| diffident | reserved, shy |
| digress | to stray from the point |
| dilatory | causing delay |
| din | loud sustained noise |
| dirge | a song of grief |
| disaffect | to estrange; alienate |
| discomfit | to defeat, put down |
| discursive | digressive, passing from one topic to another |
| dissolution | disintegration |
| distention | state of extending, or being swollen out of shape |
| distrait | distracted; absent minded |
| doggerel | trivial |
| dross | slag, waste, impurity |
| dulcet | harmonious, melodious |
| dynamo | forceful, energetic person |
| ecletic | culled from many sources |
| edacious | voracious, devouring |
| edifying | enlightening |
| effluvia | outflow in a stream of particles;noxious odor |
| effusive | excessively demonstrative |
| egress | exit |
| encomium | glowing praise; tribute eulogy |
| engender | to cause, come about |
| enormity | excessive wickeness NOT Enormousness: great size |
| ephemeral | fleeting; short lived |
| epicure | devoted to sensual pleasure esp eating drinking |
| episodic | loosely connection; not flowing logically |
| epithet | disparaging word or praise |
| epitome | embodiment; quintessence |
| equanimity | composure; self possession |
| bucolic | rustic, rural |
| canonical | in agreement with accepted traditional standards |
| contentious | argumentative |
| ephemeral | brief |
| fulminate | loudly attack or denounce |
| hyperbole | exaggerated statement; figure of speech |
| paean | song of praise or thanksgiving |
| penurious | penny pinching |
| perfidy | intentional breach of faith, treachery |
| pernicious | extremely harmful |
| perspicacious | acutely perceptive |
| precipitate | acting with excessive haste |
| predilection | preference |
| prolific | producing large amounts |
| quiescence | motionless; being at rest |
| satire | literary work that ridicules a human vice |
| sordid | filth, grime or squalor |
| squalid | sordid, wretched and dirty from neglect |
| supplant | to supercede, take place of |
| torpid | sluggish, lethargic |
| torque | force that causes rotation |
| ubiquitous | existing everywhere at the same time |
| vilify | to defame |
| virulent | extremely harmful or poisonous |
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