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GRE Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abate | to reduce in amount |
| abscond | to leave secretly |
| aggrandize | to increase in power, influence, and reputation |
| amalgamate | to combine; to mix together |
| ameliotate | to make better; improve |
| arbitrate | to judge a dispute between two opposing parties |
| assuage | to make something unpleasant less severe |
| audacious | fearless and daring |
| aystere | severe or stern in appearance; underrated |
| banal | predictable;cliche; boring |
| cacophony | harsh, jarring noise |
| candid | impartial and honest in speech |
| castigate | to punish or criticize harshly |
| caustic | biting in wit |
| chicanery | deception by means of craft or guile |
| cogent | convincing and well reasoned |
| corroborate | to provide supporting evidence |
| credulous | too trusting; gullible |
| decorum | appropriateness of behavior or conduct |
| deference | respect; courtesy |
| deride | to speak of or treat with contempt; to mock |
| desultory | jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
| diatribe | an abusive, condemnatory speech |
| diffident | lacking self-confidence |
| dilatory | intended to delay |
| dilettante | someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
| dirge | a funeral hymn or mournful speech |
| disparate | fundamentally different; entirely unlike |
| dissemble | to present a false appearance |
| dissonance | harsh and disagreeable combination |
| dogmatic | dictatorial in one's opinions |
| eclectic | selecting from or make up from a variety of sources |
| enervate | reduce in strength |
| engender | to produce,cause,bring about |
| enumerate | to count,list,itemize |
| ephemeral | lasting a short amount of time |
| equivocate | to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
| erudite | learned, scholarly, bookish |
| esoteric | known or understood by only a few |
| estimable | admirable |
| exculpate | to clear from blame; prove innocent |
| fawn | grovel |
| fervid | intensely emotional |
| foment | to arouse or incite |
| garrulous | tending to talk a lot |
| gregarious | outgoing; sociable |
| guile | deceit or trickery |
| iconoclast | one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions |
| impetuous | quick to act without thinking |
| implacable | unable to be calmed down or made peaceful |
| inchoate | not fully formed; disorganized |
| inimical | hostile, unfriendly |
| innocuous | harmless |
| insipid | lacking interest or flavor |
| intransigent | uncompromising |
| inundate | overwhelm; to cover with water |
| irascible | easily made angry |
| laconic | using few words |
| lament | to express sorrow; to grieve |
| laud | to give praise; to glorify |
| loquacious | talkitive |
| malinger | to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
| misanthrope | a person who dislikes others |
| mitigate | to soften;to lessen |
| mollify | to calm; make less severe |
| obdurate | hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
| obsequious | overly submissive and eager to please |
| obviate | to prevent; to make unnecessary |
| occlude | to stop up; to prevent the passage of |
| onerous | troublesome and oppressive; burdensome |
| opprobrium | public disgrace |
| ostentation | excessive showiness |
| paragon | model of excellence or perfection |
| pedant | someone who will show off learning |
| perfidious | willing to betray ones trust |
| perfunctory | done in a routine way; indifferent |
| placate | to sooth or pacify |
| precipitate | to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
| prevarivate | to lie or deviate from the truth |
| prodigal | lavish;wasteful |
| propitiate | to conciliate; to appease |
| propriety | correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs. |
| quiescent | motionless |
| rarefy | to make thinner or sparser |
| repudiate | to reject the validity of |
| reticent | silent;reserved |
| satiate | to satisfy fully or overindulge |
| soporific | causing sleep or lethargy |
| specious | deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious |
| stolid | unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
| sublime | lofty or grand |
| tacit | done without using words |
| tirade | long, harsh speech or verbal attack |
| torpor | extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
| transitory | temporary; lasing a brief time |
| vacillate | to sway physically; to be indecisive |
| venerate | to respect deeply |
| veracity | filled with truth and accuracy |
| vex | to annoy |
| volatile | easily aroused or changeable; lively explosive |
| zeal | passion; excitement |
| avaricious | greedy of gain |
| bacchanalian | Roman festival of Bacchus |
| baneful | cause destruction or serious damage |
| bedlam | a very noisy and confused state or scene |
| bilious | angry or bad-tempered; very unpleasant to look at |
| bromide | statement intended to make people feel happier/calmer, not original or effective |
| brusque | talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, unfriendly way |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harms another's reputation |
| canard | a false report or story; belief or rumor that is not true |
| candor | the quality of being open, sincere and honest |
| capitulate | to stop fighting an enemy or opponent |
| capricious | changing often and quickly |
| castigated | to criticize someone harshly |
| chagrin | feeling of being frustrated or annoyed because of failure |
| chortle | to laugh because amused or pleased by something |
| compendious | marked by brief expression of comprehension |
| compendium | collection of things that have been gathered and are being presented together |
| compunction | feeling of guilt or regret |
| congenial | pleasant and enjoyable |
| consanguine | of the same blood or origin |
| contrition | state of feeling sorry for bad behavior |
| covetous | having a craving for possessions |
| curmudgeon | person who is easily annoyed/angered |
| cursory | done or made quickly |
| curtail | to reduce or limit |
| decamp | to leave a place suddenly and secretly |
| depilation | removal of hair,wool,bristles by chemical/mechanical ways |
| derision | feeling people express when they criticize and laugh at someone or something in an insulting way. |
| dilapidated | in very bad condition because of age or lack of care |
| dilettante | admirer or lover of the arts |
| disparage | to describe as unimportant,weak,bad, etc |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| embullience | quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts |
| elegiac | poem of serious reflection, typically for the dead |
| epigram | short clever poem or saying |
| ersatz | copied from something else and usually not as good |
| eschew | to avoid because don't think right or proper |
| espouse | to express support for |
| euphonic | pleasing or sweet sound |
| excoriate | to criticize very harshly |
| extol | to praise highly |
| facetious | used to describe speech that is meant to be funny but usually regarded as annoying |
| feigned | fictitious |
| filial | relating to a son or daughter |
| frenetic | filled with excitement, activity or confusion |
| gainsay | to deny or disagree with; to show something false |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| harangue | forceful or angry speech |
| histrionic | too emotional or dramatic |
| ignoble | of lower birth or common origin |
| ignominious | causing disgrace or shame |
| imbue | to cause someone to be deeply affected by a feeling |
| impugn | oppose or attach as false or lacking integrity |
| incipient | beginning to develop or exist |
| iniquity | unfair or evil |
| inter | to bury (a dead body) |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly |
| invidious | unpleasant and likely to cause bad feelings in others |
| irascible | becoming angry very easily |
| lackadaisical | feeling or showing lack of interest or enthusiasm |
| lambaste | to criticize very harshly |
| levity | a lack of seriousness; amusing quality |
| libidinous | feeling or relating to strong sexual desires |
| licentious | sexually immoral or offensive |
| meager | very small or too small in amount |
| mellifluous | having a smooth, flowing sound |
| mercenary | soldier who is paid by foreign country to fight in army |
| mercurial | changing moods quickly and often |
| mordacious | biting or given to biting |
| mordant | expressing harsh criticism especially in funny way |
| munificent | very generous |
| myriad | very large number of things |
| obsequies | funeral or burial rite |
| opprobrious | very strong disapproval by a number of people |
| ostentatious | intended to impress or attract notice |
| penurious | very poor |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot |
| perfidy | act of betraying |
| peripatetic | going from place to place, usually as part of job |
| perspicacious | ability to notice and understand difficult/ not obvious |
| petulant | getting angry when don't get what want |
| pillory | mean for exposing one to public scorn/ridicule |
| pique | sudden feeling of annoyance/anger when offended |
| placate | to cause to fell less angry about something |
| pliant | able to move freely, too easily influenced/controlled by others |
| probity | when person is completely honest |
| prosaic | dull/ordinary |
| pusillanimous | weak and afraid of danger |
| querulous | complaining in an annoyed way |
| quixotic | hopeful romantic in a way that isn't practical |
| quotidian | ordinary; done each day |
| raillery | friendly joking about or with someone |
| remonstrate | to disagree and argue or complain about something |
| renege | to refuse to do something already agreed to |
| revile | to speak out about in critical/insulting way |
| ribald | referring to sex in a rude but amusing way |
| riposte | quick and clever reply |
| salient | very important or noticeable |
| salubrious | making good health possible |
| scanty | very small in size/amount |
| scion | person born into rich, famous, important family |
| scurrilous | said/done unfairly to make people have bad opinion |
| sepulchral | very sad and serious |
| sinecure | job/position in which someone is paid to do little/no work |
| sordid | very bad or dishonest |
| spurious | not genuine; based on false ideas/bad reasoning |
| taciturn | to be quiet; not speak freely |
| tempestuous | full of strong emotions |
| threnody | song/person that expresses sorrow for dead |
| trenchant | very strong, clear, effective |
| trepidation | fear that causes hesitation because think something bad will happen |
| trite | not interesting or effective because used too often |
| tyro | novice |
| umbrage | being offended by what someone said/ done |
| vituperate | to abuse or censure severely |
| vociferous | expressed in very loud and forceful way |
| vouchsafed | to give to someone as promised or privilege |
| waspish | easily annoyed; very thin |
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