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Thedanniest GRE 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abate | v. to decrease; reduce |
| abdicate | v. to give up a position, right, or power |
| aberrant | adj. deviating from what is normal |
| abeyance | n. temporary suppression or suspension |
| abject | adj. miserable; pitiful |
| abjure | v. to reject; abandon formally |
| abscission | n. the act of cutting; the natural sepraration of a leaf or others part of a plant |
| abscond | v. to depart secretly |
| abstemious | adj. moderate in appetite |
| abstinence | n. the giving up of certain pleasures |
| abysmal | adj. very bad |
| accretion | n. growth in size or increase in amount |
| accure | v. to accumulate; grow by additions |
| adamant | adj. uncompromising; unyielding |
| adjunct | n. something added, attached, or joined |
| admonish | v. to caution or reprimand |
| adulterate | v. to corrupt or make impure |
| aesthetic | adj. relating to beauty or art |
| affected | adj. pretentious, phony |
| affinity | n. fondness; liking; similarity |
| aggrandize | v. to make larger or greater |
| aggregate | adj. amounting to a whole; total |
| alacrity | n. cheerful willingness; eagerness; speed |
| alchemy | n. medieval chemical philosophy based on changing metal into gold |
| allay | v. to lessen; ease; soothe |
| alleviate | v. to relieve; improve partially |
| alloy | n. a combinationl; a mixture of two or more metals |
| allure | n./v. the power to entice by charm |
| amalgamate | v. to combine into a unified whole |
| ambiguous | adj. unclear or doubtful in meaning |
| ambivalence | n. the state of having conflicting emotional attitudes |
| ambrosia | n. something delicious; the food of the gods |
| ameliorate | v. to improve |
| ameanable | adj. agreeable; cooperative; suited |
| amenity | n. something that increases comfort |
| amulet | n. ornament worn as a charm against evil spirits |
| anachronism | n. something out of the propertime |
| analgesic | n. medication that reduces or eliminates pain |
| analogous | adj. comparable |
| anarchy | n. absence of government; state of disorder |
| anodyne | n. something that calms or soothes pain |
| anomalous | adj. irregular; deviating from the norm |
| antecedent | n. something that comes before |
| antediluvian | adj. prehistoric |
| antipathy | n. dislike; hostility |
| apathy | n. indifference |
| apex | n. the highest point |
| apogee | n. the point on an orbit most distant from the body being orbitted; the highest point |
| apothegm | n. a terse, witty saying |
| appease | v. to calm; pacify; placate |
| appellation | n. name |
| apposite | adj. strikingly appropriate and relevant |
| apprise | v. to inform |
| approbation | n. praise; approval |
| appropriate | v. to take possession for one's own use; confiscate |
| apropos | adj. relevant |
| arabesque | n. ornate design; a ballet position |
| archeology | n. the study of material evidence of past human life |
| ardor | n. great emotion or passion |
| arduous | adj. extremely difficult; laborious |
| argot | n. a specialized vocabulary used by a group |
| arrest | v. to stop; to seize |
| artifact | n. item made by human craft |
| artless | adj. guileless; natural |
| ascetic | n. one who practices self-denial |
| asperity | n. severity; harshness; irritability |
| aspersion | n. slander; false rumor |
| assiduous | adj. diligent; hard-working |
| assuage | v. to make less severe |
| astringent | adj. harsh; severe |
| asylum | n. place of refuge or shelter |
| atavism | n. return o a trait after a period of absence |
| attenuate | v. to weaken |
| audacious | adj. bold; daring; fearless |
| austere | adj. sternl unadorned; non-decorated |
| autonomous | adj. self-governing; independent |
| avarice | n. greed |
| aver | v. to affirm; declare to be true |
| avocation | n. secondary occupation |
| avuncular | adj. like an uncle, benevolent and tolerent |
| axiomatic | adj. taken for granted; accept without question |
| bacchanalian | adj. pertaining to loose or drunken festivity; pertaining to revelry |
| banal | adj. commonplace; trite |
| banter | n. playful conversation |
| bard | n. poet |
| bawdy | adj. obsence; vulgar; lewd |
| beatify | v. to sanctify; to bless |
| bedizen | v. to dress in a vulgar; showy manner |
| behemoth | n. huge creature; anything very large and powerful |
| belie | v. to contradict; misrepresent; give a false impression |
| benificient | adj. kindly; doing good |
| bifurcate | v. to divide into two parts |
| blandishment | n. flattery |
| blasé | adj. bored because of frequent indulgence; unconcerned |
| bolster | v. to give a boost to; prop up; support |
| bombastic | adj. pompous; using inflated language |
| boorish | adj. rude; insensitive |
| bovine | adj. cowlike |
| brazen | adj. bold; shameless (-) |
| broach | v. to mention for the first time |
| bucolic | adj. characteristic of the countryside; rustic; pastoral |
| burgeon | v. to flourish |
| burnish | v. to polish |
| buttress | v. to reinforce; support (eg. Buttress their case) |
| cacophonous | adj. unpleasant or harsh-sounding |
| cadge | v. to beg; sponge |
| callous | adj. insensitive; thick-skinned |
| calumny | n. false and malicious accusation; slander |
| canard | n. false, deliberately misleading story |
| canon | n. an established principle; a basis or standard for judgment; a group of literary works |
| cant | n. insincere talk; language of a particular group |
| cantankerous | adj. irritable; ill-humored |
| capricious | adj. fickle; likely to change; not constant |
| captious | adj. faultfinding; intended to entrap |
| cardinal | adj. of foremost importance |
| carnal | adj. of the flesh or body; related to physical appetites |
| carping | v. to find fault; complain |
| cartography | n. science of making maps |
| caste | n. any of the hereditary(passing) social classes of Hindu society |
| castigation | n. punishment; chastisement; criticism |
| cataclysm | n. a violent upheaval that causes great destruction and change |
| catalyst | n. something causing change |
| categorical | adj. absolute; without exception |
| caucus | n. a smaller group within an organization |
| causal | adj. involving a cause |
| caustic | adj. sarcastically biting; burning |
| celestial | adj. concerning the sky or heavens; sublime |
| centrifugal | adj. moving away from a center |
| centripetal | adj. moving or directed toward a center |
| champion | v. to defend or support |
| chasten | v. to correct by punishment or reproof; to restrain or subdue |
| chicanery | n. trickery; fraud |
| chivalry | n. the qualities idealized by knighthood |
| churlish | adj. rude; boorish (insensitive) |
| circuitous | adj. roundabout |
| clairvoyant | n. one who can predict the future; psychic |
| clamor | n. noisy outcry |
| clique | n. a small, exclusive group |
| cloister | v. to confine; seclude (shut away from the world) |
| coagulate | v. thicken; congeal (eg. Blood or egg white) |
| coalesce | v. to cause to become one |
| coda | n. concluding part; something that summarizes or concludes |
| codify | v. to systematize |
| cognizant | adj. conscious; aware; informed |
| collage | n. an art technique; an assemblage of diverse elements |
| commensurate | adj. proportional |
| compendium | n. brief, comprehensive summary |
| complacent | adj. self-satisfied (-) |
| complaisant | adj. overly polite; willing to please; obliging |
| complement | n. something that completes or makes up a whole |
| compliant | adj. yielding |
| compunction | n. uneasiness caused by guilt |
| concave | adj. curving inward |
| conciliatory | adj. overcoming distrust or hostility |
| concoct | v. to invent |
| concomitant | n. existing concurrently (at the same time) |
| condone | v. forgive; to overlook voluntarily |
| confound | v. to baffle; perplex; mix up (confusing) |
| congenial | adj. friendly; suited to; similar in testes and habits |
| conjugal | adj. pertaining(concern) to marriage agreement |
| connoisseur | n. a person possessing expert knowledge or trainning |
| conscript | n. person compulsorily enrolled for military service |
| consecrate | v. to declare sacred |
| contend | v. to assert |
| contentious | adj. quarrelsome; causing quarrels |
| contiguous | adj. neighboring; touching; connecting |
| continence | n. self-control; abstention from sexual activity |
| contrite | adj. very sorrowful for a wrong |
| contumacious | adj. disobedient; rebellious |
| conundrum | n. riddle; puzzle with no solution; brain-teaser |
| convention | n. pratice widely observed in a group; custom; accepted technique or device |
| converge | v. to approach; come together; tend to meet |
| convex | adj. curved outward |
| convivial | adj. sociable |
| convoluted | adj. twisted; complicated |
| copious | adj. abundant; plentiful |
| coquette | n. woman who flirts |
| cornucopia | n. horn overflowing with fruit and grain; state of abundance |
| cosmology | n. theory of origin and structure of the universe; study of universe as a totality |
| covert | adj. hidden; secret |
| covetous | adj. desiring something owned by another |
| cozen | v. to mislead by trick or fraud; deceive |
| craven | adj. cowardly |
| credence | n. acceptance or something as true |
| credo | n. statement of belief or principle; creed |
| daunt | v. to discourage;intimidate; dishearten |
| dearth | n. scarcity |
| debauchery | n. corruption |
| decorum | n. proper behaviour |
| defame | v. to harm someone's reputation |
| default | v. to fail to act |
| deference | n. respect; regard for another's wish (v. defer: the wishes of another due to respect/recognition) |
| defunct | adj. no longer existing |
| delineate | v. to represent or depict |
| demographic | adj. related to population balance |
| demotic | adj. pertaining (relating) to people |
| demur | v. to express doubt |
| denigrate | v. to slur someone's reputation |
| denizen | n. an inhabitant; a regular visitor; ~citizen |
| denouement | n. outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play or work of literature |
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