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VictorPrep GRE
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Euphemism | Nice way of saying something negative |
| Endemic | Something that's charicteristic of a certain place or people |
| Dessicate | To dry up; to dry thoroughly |
| Idiosyncrasy | A peculiar charicteristic of someone |
| Vim | Energy, enthusiasm, vigorous, vitality, life |
| Kindle | To start a fire; to evoke an emotion |
| Molt | To cast away or shed feathers or skin |
| Antipathy | Strong hatred; dislike |
| Ossify | To turn into bone or bony tissue; to cease developing; to become stagnant |
| Potentate | The person who has great power |
| Solacism | Grammatical error; breach some etiqutte |
| Attenuate | To weaken; to reduce in force or quantity |
| Aggregate | To bring together; to collect lots of things and bring them together into ine mass |
| Abstemious | To be moderate in eating or drinking; not self indulgent |
| Castigate | V. To punish or criticize severly (harshely) |
| Paradox | A statement that is self contradictory; it seems wrong but in reality there's some truth |
| Intrepid | Fearless |
| Implacable | can't be appeased |
| Innert | No reaction |
| Sully | To dirty; to make unclean |
| Mar | Damage or soil something (not strong) |
| Multifarious | Having many different parts; numerously varied |
| Flout | To show contempt or scorn at something |
| Lumber | V. To move clumpsily |
| Demur | To make objection to something; disagree; hesitate |
| Debutante | A young woman making a debut into society |
| Propitiate | To regain the favor of someone else (person, god) |
| Toady | A person who behaves in a crawling, sycophantic, obsequious way to win favor of someone in power, wealthy |
| Bombastic | Talk that has high sounding; pompous, pretentious, but empty in meaning |
| Impermeable | Not allowing fluid to pass through; not liable to be affected by pain or distress; |
| Jargon | The language/words used for particular trait, place, or job |
| Sardonic | (Person) bitter, scornful mocking, sarcastic |
| Monastic | Living like a monk; simple life style; austeer; solitary; quiet life |
| Pervade | Spread throughout all the parts of something (smell) |
| Dyspeptic | Having indigestion; irritability; and depression; grumpy; pessimistic; gloomy |
| Assuage | To make less strong/severe; to make milder; mitigate |
| Coagulate | To change from fluid into solid; clot; solidifiy; thicken |
| Vernal | Pertaining to srping; youthful; fresh-looking |
| Recondite | Little known; difficult subject matter; esoteric; profound; mysterious; deep (ori. Removed or hidden from ordinary understanding) |
| Quiescent | Being quiet; still; motionless; inactive; at rest; dormancy |
| Archaic | Very old or old-fashioned; no longer in every day use; obsolete; out of date; behind the times; antiquated; Antediluvian (before the biblical flood) |
| Innocuous | Not harmful; not offensive; harmless; safe; innocence; nontoxic. I.e innocuous questions |
| Subpoena | A legal summon; A writ ordering someone to go to court |
| Quibble | A slight objection or small criticism; arguing or making raising questions on a trivial matter |
| Parley | n & v. Conference between opposing sides in a dispute; discuss; negotiate; |
| Decorum | Behavior in keeping with good taste or etiquette |
| Gouge | Make a hole or groove or indentation with a curved blade; to sig or force out with a tool; to overcharge "Gouged my eye out" |
| Lucid | Expressed clearly; easy to understand; Plain; obvious; evident; understandable; limpid |
| Derivative |
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