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Thedanniest GRE 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| inadvertently | adv. Carelessly; unintentionally |
| incarnate | adj. having bodily form |
| inchoate | adj. imperfectly formed or formulated |
| incongruity | n. state of not fitting |
| inconsequential | adj. insignificant; unimportant |
| incorporate | v. combine; introduce something into another thing already in existence |
| incursion | n. sudden invasion |
| indeterminate | adj. uncertain; indefinite |
| indigence | n. poverty; ~impecunious |
| indolent | adj. habitually lazy; idle |
| ineluctable | adj. inevitable; not to be avoided or escaped |
| inert | adj. unable to move; sluggish |
| ingenuous | adj. naïve and trusting; lacking sophistication |
| inherent | adj. firmly established by nature or habit |
| innocuous | adj. harmless |
| insensible | adj. unresponsive; unconscious |
| insinuate | v. to imply; suggest; say indirectly |
| insipid | adj. lacking in flavor; dull |
| insouciant | adj. indifferent; lacking concern or care |
| insularity | n. narrow-mindedness; isolation |
| insuperable | adj. unconquerable; insurmountable |
| intangible | adj. not material |
| interdict | v. to prohibit; forbit; to confront and halt the activities, advance, or entry of |
| internecine | adj. deadly to both sides |
| interpolate | v. to insert; change by adding new materials or words |
| interregnum | n. gap in continuity; interval between reigns |
| intimate | adj. friendly / v. to make known indirectly and subtly |
| intractable | adj. not easily managed |
| intransigence | n. stubborness; refusal to compromise |
| introspective | adj. contemplating one's own thoughts and feelings |
| inundate | v. to cover with water; overwhelm |
| inured | v. hardened; accustomed; used to |
| invective | n. verbal abuse |
| inveigh | v. to protest vehemently (strongly); disapprove |
| inveigle | v. to win over by flattery or coaxing |
| inveterate | adj. long-standing; comfirmed; deeply rooted |
| invidious | adj. likely to provoke ill will; offensive |
| irascible | adj. easily angered |
| irresolute | adj. weak; unsure of how to act |
| itinerant | adj. wandering from place to place; unsettled |
| itenerary | n. route of a traveler's journey |
| jaundiced | adj. having a yellowish discoloration of the skin; affected by envy, resentment, or hostility |
| jibe | v. to be in agreement (eg. The auditor checked the account books to make sure that they jibed with the tax return..) |
| jocose | adj. fond of joking; kocular; playful |
| jaggernaut | n. hugh force destroying everything in its path |
| junta | n. group of people united in political intrigue |
| juxtapose | v. place side by side |
| kudos | n. fame; glory; honor |
| labile | adj. likely to change |
| laconic | adj. using few words |
| lambaste | v. to trash verbally or physically; censure severely or angrily |
| lascivious | adj. lustful |
| lassitude | n. lethargy; sluggishness |
| latent | adj. present but hidden; potential |
| laud | v. to praise |
| lethargic | adj. inactive; unergetic |
| levee | n. an embankment that prevents a river from overflowing |
| levity | n. light manner or attitude (lack of seriousness) |
| liberal | adj. tolerant; broad-minded; generous; lavish |
| libertine | n. one without moral restraint |
| libido | n. sexual desire |
| lilliputian | adj. extremely small |
| limn | v. to draw; describe |
| limpid | adj. clear; transparent |
| linguistic | adj. pertaining to language |
| litany | n. lengthy recitation; repetitive chant |
| literati | n. scholarly or learned persons |
| litigation | n. legal proceedings |
| log | n. record of a voyage; record of daily activities |
| loquacious | adj. talkative |
| lucid | adj. bright clear; intelligible |
| lucre | n. money or profits |
| luminous | adj. bright; brilliant; glowing |
| lustrous | adj. shining |
| Machiavellian | adj. crafty; double-dealing |
| machinations | n. plots or schemes |
| maelstrom | n. whirlpool; turmoil (violent disturbance) |
| magnanimity | n. generousity; nobility |
| malign | v. to speak evil of |
| malinger | v. to feign (make decieve) illness to escape duty |
| malleable | adj. impressionable; capable of being shaped by pounding |
| maverick | n. dissenter (person who has a difference of opinion from some established policy) |
| megalomania | n. delusions of power or importance |
| menagerie | n. a variety of animals kept together |
| mendacious | adj. dishonest |
| medicant | n. beggar |
| meretricious | adj. gaudy; specious; plausible but false; deceptively pleased |
| mesmerize | v. to hynotize |
| metamorphosis | n. change; transformation |
| metaphysics | n. a branch of philosophy that investigates the ultimate nature of reality |
| meteorological | adj. concerned with the weather |
| metriculous | adj. punctilious; very careful; fastidious (giving careful attention to detail); ~scrupulous |
| mettle | n. courage; endurance |
| mettlesome | adj. full of courage and fortitude (strength of mind); spirited |
| microcosm | n. a small system having analogies to a larger system; small world |
| militate | v. to work against |
| minatory | adj. menacing; threatening |
| minuscule | adj. very small |
| minutia | n. petty details |
| misanthrope | n. one who hates humanity |
| miscellany | n. mixture of writings on various subjects; collection contain a variety of sorts things |
| miscreant | n. villain; criminal |
| misogynist | n. one who hates women |
| mitigate | v. alleviate; to cause to become less harsh, severe |
| nmemonic | adj. related to memory; assisting memory |
| modicum | n. limited quantity |
| mollify | v. to soothe |
| monolithic | adj. constituting a single, unified whole; solid and uniform |
| morose | adj. ill-humored; sullen |
| motley | adj. many colored; made up by many parts |
| multifarious | adj. diverse |
| mundane | adj. worldly (not ideal or heavenly); concerned with the ordinary |
| necromancy | n. black magic |
| negate | v. to cancel out; nullify |
| neologism | n. new word or expression |
| neophyte | n. novice; beginner |
| nexus | n. a center; a means of connection; a connected group or series |
| nonplussed | adj. bewildered |
| nostalgia | n. longing for sth. in the past; sentimental longing for a past time |
| nostrum | n. medicine or remedy of doubtful effectiveness; supposed (doubtful) cure |
| nugatory | adj. trifling; invalid |
| obdurate | adj. stubborn |
| obsequious | adj. overly submissive; fawning |
| obsequy | n. funeral ceremony (often used in the plural, obsequies) |
| obvaite | v. to make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent |
| occlude | v. to shut; block |
| occult | adj. relating to practices connected with supernatural phenomena |
| odyssey | n. a long, adventurous voyage; a quest |
| officious | adj. too helpful; meddlesome |
| olfactory | adj. concerning the sense of smell |
| oligarchy | n. form of government in which power belongs to only a few leaders |
| onerous | adj. burdensome |
| onomatopoeia | n. formation or use of words that imitate sounds of the action |
| opprobrium | n. disgrace; contempt |
| ornithologist | n. scientist who studies birds |
| oscillate | v. to move back and forth |
| ostentatious | adj. showy; trying to attract attention; pretentious |
| overweening | adj. arrogant; presumptuous; overbearing |
| paean | n. hymn of praise; song of joy or triumph; a fervent expression of joy |
| paleontology | n. study of fossil remains to learn past geological eras |
| pallid | adj. lacking color or liveliness |
| panegyric | n. formal hymn of praise; elaborate (with complexities and details) praise |
| paragon | n. model of excellence or perfection |
| partisan | adj. one-sided; committed to a party, group; prejudiced (discriminatory) |
| pathological | adj. aberrant; departing from normal condition (mental / health) |
| patois | n. jargon (argot; cant); a regional dialect (argot); nonstandard speech |
| paucity | n. scarcity; dearth |
| pedantic | adj. academic; scholarly; marked by a narrow focus on learning in trivial aspects |
| pellucid | adj. easily understood; transparent; translucent |
| penchant | n. inclination; preference |
| penury | n. extreme poverty |
| peregrination | n. a wandering from place to place |
| peremptory | adj. imperative (unavoidable obligation(sth. to be done)); leaving no choice |
| perennial | adj. present trhoughout the years; persistent |
| perfidious | adj. faithless; disloyal; untrustworthy |
| perfunctory | adj. superficial (concern with only what is on surface); performed really as a duty |
| perigee | n. opposite to apogee; cloeset point in a orbit to the center |
| permeable | adj. penetrable |
| perturb | v. to disturb greatly; make uneasy or anxious |
| pervasive | adj. spread throughout every part |
| petulant | adj. rude; peevish (easily annoyed) |
| phlegmatic | adj. calm in temperament (mood); sluggish |
| phoenix | n. mythical, immortal bird; anything that is restored after suffering great destruction |
| physiognomy | n. facial features |
| piety | n. devoutness; deeply religious; earnest |
| piquant | adj. appealingly stimulating; pleasantly pungent; attractive |
| pique | n. fleeting feeling of hurting pride / v. stimulate; provoke; arouse |
| placate | v. to lessen another's anger; appease; to pacify; [make s.n opposite to implacable] |
| placid | adj. calm; quite |
| plaintive | adj. melancholy; mournful |
| plasticity | n. condition of being able to be shaped or formed; pliablility |
| platitude | n. stale, overused expression |
| platonic | adj. passionless; without sensual desire; spiritual |
| plethora | n. excess; overabundance |
| plumb | v. to determine the depth; to examine deeply |
| plummet | v. to fall; plunge |
| plutocracy | n. society ruled by the wealthy |
| porous | adj. full of holes; permeable to liquids |
| poseur | n. person who attempt to impress others |
| pragmatic | adj. practical |
| prate | v. to talk idly; chatter |
| prattle | n. meaningless, foolish talk |
| preamble | n. preliminary statement |
| precarious | adj. uncertain |
| precept | n. concept; law; principle |
| precipitate | v. to cause to happen / adj. hasty; sudden; rash |
| precipitous | adj. hasty; quickly with too little caution |
| precursor | n. forerunner; predecessor |
| preempt | v. supplant; to replace; supersede; appropriate for oneself |
| prehensile | adj. capable of grasping (hold firmly) |
| premonition | n. forewarning; presentiment (sense that s.th. Is about to occur) |
| presage | v. to foretell; indicate in advance |
| presumptuous | adj. ~effrontery; ~audacious; rude; improperly bold |
| preternatural | adj. beyond the normal course of nature; supernatural |
| prevaricate | v. to quibble; evade the truth |
| primordial | adj. original; existing from the beginning |
| pristine | adj. untouched; uncorrupted |
| probity | n. honesty; high-mindness; integrity (steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code) |
| problematic | adj. posing a problem; doubtful; unsetted |
| prodigal | adj. wasteful; extravagant; lavish; (n. = prodigality) |
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