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Thedanniest GRE 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| deride | v. to mock |
| derivative | n. something derived; unoriginal |
| desiccate | v. to dry completely |
| desuetude | n. state of disuse |
| desultory | adj. random; disconnected; rambling |
| deterrent | n. something that discourages or hinders |
| detraction | n. the act of taking away; derogatory comment on a person's character |
| diaphanous | adj. transparent; thin; fine-textured; insubstantial (unsubstantial); vague |
| diatribe | n. bitter verbal attack |
| dichotomy | n. division into two usually contradictory parts |
| diffidence | n. shyness; lack of confidence |
| diffuse | v. to spread out |
| digression | n. act of straying (lost) from the main point |
| dirge | n. funeral hymn (song) |
| disabuse | v. to free from a misconception (erroneous belief) |
| discerning | adj. perceptive; exhibiting keen insight and good judgement |
| discomfit | v. to make uneasy; disconcert (make s.n. feel embarrassment) |
| discordant | adj. not in tune |
| discredit | v. cause to be doubted; to dishonor; disgrace |
| discrepancy | n. difference between |
| discrete | adj. constituting a separate thing; distinct |
| discretion | n. quality of showing self-restraint in speech or actions; circumspection; freedom to act on one's own |
| disingenuous | adj. not candid; crafty |
| disinterested | adj. unprejudiced (non-biased); objective (based on observation) |
| disjointed | adj. lacking order or coherence; dislocated |
| dismiss | v. put away from consideration; reject |
| disparage | v. to belittle (diminish/ denigrate/ express negative opinion) |
| disparate | adj. dissimilar |
| dissemble | v. to pretend; disguise one's motives |
| disseminate | v. to spread; scatter; disperse; broadcast |
| dissident | n. person who disagrees about beliefs, etc. |
| dissolution | n. disintegration; debauchery |
| dissonance | n. discord; lack of harmony |
| distend | v. to expand; swell out |
| distill | v. extract the essential elements |
| distrait | adj. inattentive; preoccupied |
| diverge | v. to vary; go in different directions from the same point |
| divest | v. to strip; deprive; rid |
| divulge | v. to make known something that is secret |
| doctrinaire | adj. relating to a person who cannot compromise about points of a theory or doctrine; dogmatic; unyeilding |
| document | v. to provide with written evidence to support |
| doggerel | n. poor verse |
| dogmatic | adj. stating opinions without proof |
| dormant | adj. inactive |
| dross | n. waste; worthless matter; trivial matter |
| dupe | v. to deceive; trick |
| ebullient | adj. joyously unrestraint; enthusiastic; exhilarated |
| eclectic | adj. selecting from various sources |
| effervescence | n. state of high spirits or liveliness; the process of bubbling as gas escapes |
| effete | adj. exhausted; spoiled; depleted of vitality; overrefined; decadent; pathetic |
| efficacy | n. efficiency; effectiveness |
| effrontery | n. audacious; chameless boldness; presumptuousness |
| egoism | n. the tendency to see things in relation to oneself |
| egotistical | adj. excessively self-centered; conceited |
| elegy | n. poem or song expressing lamentation |
| elicit | v. to provoke; draw out |
| elixir | n. a substance believed to have the power to cure ills |
| elysian | adj. blissful; delightful |
| emaciated | adj. thin and wasted |
| embellish | v. to adorn; decorate; enhance; make attractive by adding details |
| emollient | adj. soothing; mollifying |
| empirical | adj. derived from observation or experiment |
| emulate | v. to imitate; copy |
| encomium | n. a formal expression of praise |
| endemic | adj. inherent; belonging to an area |
| enervate | v. to weaken |
| engender | v. to cause; produce |
| enhance | v. to increase; improve |
| entomology | n. the scientific study of insects |
| enunciate | v. to pronounce clearly |
| emphemeral | adj. short-lived; fleeting |
| epistemology | n. branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge |
| equable | adj. steady; unvarying; serene |
| equanimity | n. composure; calmness |
| equivocate | v. to intentionally use vague language |
| errant | adj. mistaken; straying from the proper course |
| erudite | adj. learned; scholarly |
| esoteric | adj. hard to understand; known only to a few |
| essay | v. to make an attempt; subject to a test |
| estimable | adj. admirable; possible to estimate |
| ethnocentric | adj. based on the attitude that one's group is superior |
| etiology | n. causes or origins |
| etymology | n. origin and history of a word |
| eugenics | n. study of factors that influence by hereditary qualities of human race and ways to improve them |
| eulogy | n. high praise, especially of a person who has recently died |
| euphemism | n. use of agreeable/inoffencive lang. in place of unpleasant/offensive lang. |
| euphoria | n. a feeling of extreme happiness (~effervescence) |
| euthanasia | n. mercy killing |
| evince | v. to be an indication of; to show plainly |
| evocative | adj. tending to call to mind or produce a reaction |
| exacerbate | v. to make worse; aggravate |
| exact | v. to demand and obtain by authority; force the payment |
| exculpate | v. to clear of blame; vindicate |
| execrable | adj. detestable; abhorrent |
| exhort | v. to urge by strong appeals |
| exigency | n. crisis; urgent requirements |
| existential | adj. having to do with existence; based on experience; having to do with existentialism |
| exorcise | v. to expel evil spirits; free from bad influences |
| expatiate | v. to speak or write at length |
| expatriate | v. to send into exile |
| expiate | v. to atone for |
| explicate | v. to explain; interpret; clarify |
| expository | adj. explanatory |
| extant | adj. in existence; not lost |
| extemporaneous | adj. unrehearsed |
| extirpate | v. to root up; to destroy |
| extraneous | adj. not essential |
| extrapolation | n. the act of estimation by projecting known information |
| extrinsic | adj. not inherent or essential |
| facetious | adj. humorous |
| facilitate | v. to make less difficult |
| factotum | n. a handyman; a person who does all sorts of work |
| fallacious | adj. based on a false idea or fact; misleading |
| fallow | adj. uncultivated; plowed but not sowed |
| fatuous | adj. foolishly self-satisfied |
| fauna | n. animals of a period or region |
| fawning | adj. seeking favor by flattering |
| felicitous | adj. suitably expressed; appropriate; well-chosen |
| feral | adj. existing in a wild or untamed state |
| fervor | n. warmth and intensity of emotion |
| fetid | adj. having a bad smell |
| fetter | v. to bind; confine |
| fiat | n. arbitrary order; authorization |
| fedelity | n. loyalty; exact correspondence |
| filibuster | n. use of obstructive tactics in a legislature to block passage of a law |
| finesse | v. to handle with a deceptive or evasive strategy; dodge; to use refinement in performance |
| fissure | n. crevice; crack |
| flag | v. to droop; grow weak |
| fledgling | n. beginner; novice |
| flora | n. plants of a region or era |
| florid | adj. fancy; flowery; healthy; ruddy; reddish |
| flourish | n. an embellishment or ornamentation |
| flout | v. to treat scornfully (disrespectfully) |
| flux | n. flowing; a continunous moving |
| foment | v. to arouse; incite |
| forbearance | n. patience |
| forestall | v. to prevent; delay |
| formidable | adj. extremely impressive in strenght; threatening; menacing |
| forswear | v. renounce; repudiate |
| founder | v. to sink; fail; collapse |
| fracas | n. a lound quarrel; brawl |
| fractious | adj. quarrelsome; unruly; rebellious |
| fresco | n. a painting done on plaster |
| frieze | n. ornamental band on wall |
| froward | adj. stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient |
| frugality | n. thrift |
| fulminate | v. to attack loudy; denouce |
| fulsome | adj. so excessive as to be disgusting |
| fusion | adj. union; synthesis |
| futile | adj. ineffective; useless; fruitless |
| gainsay | v. to deny; dispute; oppose |
| gambol | v. to frolic; leap playfully |
| garrulous | adj. very talkative; wordy |
| gauche | adj. coarse and uncouth; clumsy |
| geniality | n. cheerfulness; kindness; sociability |
| gerrymander | v. to divide an area into voting districts in a way that favors a political party |
| glib | adj. fluent in an insincere way; offhand |
| goad | v. to prod; urge on |
| gossamer | adj. sheer; light and delicate; like cobwebs |
| gouge | v. to tear out; scoop out; overcharge |
| grandiloquent | adj. pompous; bombastic |
| gregarious | adj. sociable |
| grouse | v. to complain |
| guileless | adj. free of cunning or deceit; artless |
| guise | n. outward appearance; false appearance; pretense |
| gullible | adj. easily deceived |
| gustatory | adj. affecting the sense of taste |
| halcyon | adj. calm and peaceful; happy; golden; prosperous |
| hallowed | adj. holy; sacred |
| harangue | n. long, pompous speech; tirade |
| harrowing | adj. terrifying; extremely distressing |
| herbivorous | adj. relating to a herbivore, an animal that feeds mainly on plants |
| hermetic | adj. tightly sealed; magical |
| heterodox | adj. unorthodox; not widely accepted |
| hieroglyphics | n. a system of writing in which pictorial symols represent meaning or sounds |
| hirsute | adj. covered with hair |
| histrionic | adj. relating to exaggerated emotional behaviour; often affectious; theatrical arts or performances; ~dramatic |
| homeostasis | n. automatic maintenance machanisim by an organism |
| homily | n. long, serious speech; sermon; tedious moralizing lecture; platitude (flat, dull, trite remark) |
| homogeneous | adj. composed of identical parts; uniform in composition |
| hyperbole | n. purposeful exaggeration for effect |
| iconoclastic | adj. attacking cherished traditions |
| idolatry | n. idol worship; blind or excessive devotion |
| igneous | adj. produced by fire; volcanic |
| imbroglio | n. complicated situation; an entanglement |
| immutable | adj. unchangeable |
| impair | v. to damage; injure |
| impassive | adj. showing no emotion |
| impecunious | adj. poor; having no money; ~indigence |
| impede | v. to hinder; block |
| impermeable | adj. impossible to penetrate (esp. difficult for liquid to diffuse through) |
| imperturbable | adj. not easily disturbed |
| impervious | adj. incapable of being affected; impossible to penetrate; ~resistant |
| impinge | v. to strike; encroach |
| implacable | adj. inflexible; incapable of being pleased |
| implausible | adj. unlikely; unbelievable |
| implicit | adj. implied; understood but not stated |
| implode | v. collapse inward violently |
| imprecation | n. curse |
| impute | v. to assign as a characteristic; relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the fault to |
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