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Thedanniest GRE 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| profound | adj. deep; not superficial |
| prohibitive | adj. preventing; forbidding; so high as to prevent the purchase or use of |
| proliferate | v. to increase rapidly |
| propensity | n. inclination; tendecy; penchant |
| propitiate | v. to appease; win over |
| propriety | n. correct conduct; fitness |
| proscribe | v. to condemn; forbid; outlaw |
| provident | adj. frugal (thrift); providing for future needs |
| puissant | adj. powerful |
| punctilious | adj. precise; scrupulous; careful in observing rules of behavior (strictly attentive to minute details in action) |
| pungent | adj. strong or sharp; penetrating; caustic |
| purport | v. to profess (admit, state); suppose; claim |
| pusillanimous | adj. cowardly |
| quagmire | n. difficult situation |
| quail | v. to cower (show fear); lose heart |
| qualified | adj. limited; restricted |
| qualm | n. uneasy feeling about the rightness of actions |
| query | v. to question |
| quibble | v. to argue over insignificant and irrelevant details |
| quiescent | adj. still; quite; inactive |
| quorum | n. number of members necessary to conduct a meeting |
| raconteur | n. witty, skillful storyteller |
| rail | v. to scold with abusive language |
| raiment | n. especially fine, decorative clothing / garment |
| ramification | n. consequence; implication (act of implicating (affect as consequence)); outgrowth |
| rarefied | adj. refined |
| rationale | n. fundamental reason |
| rebus | n. puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words |
| recalcitant | adj. resisting authority or control |
| recant | v. to retract (disavow) a statement or opinion |
| recluse | n. person who lives in seclusion and in solitude; (adj. = reclusive / v. = cloister) |
| recondite | adj. profound; abstruse |
| redoubtable | adj. formidable; worthy of respect; arousing fear |
| refractory | adj. stubborn; unmanageable; resisting ordinary method or treatment |
| refulgent | adj. brightly shining; resplendent |
| refute | v. to contradict; disprove |
| regale | v. to entertain |
| relegate | v. demote; to consign to an inferior position |
| remonstrate | v. to protest or object |
| renege | v. revoke; disavow; to go back on one's word |
| reparation | n. amends; compensation |
| repine | v. fret; complain |
| reprise | n. repetition, especially of a piece of music |
| reproach | v. to find fault with; blame |
| reprobate | n. person without moral; miscreant |
| repudiate | v. to reject as having no authority |
| rescind | v. to cancel; revoke; overturn |
| resolution | n. determination; resolve |
| resolve | n. firmness of purpose; determination |
| reticent | adj. restrained; not speaking freely; reserved; reluctant to gain attention |
| reverent | adj. expressing deep respect; worshipful |
| riposte | n. a retaliatory action or retort |
| rococo | adj. excessively ornate; highly decorated; style of architecture in eighteeth-centurey europe |
| rubric | n. category; protocol; established mode of procedure or conduct |
| rue | v. to regret |
| ruse | n. trick; crafty stratagem; subterfuge |
| sage | adj. wise |
| salacious | adj. lascivious; lustful |
| salubrious | adj. healthful |
| salutary | adj. expecting an improvement; favorable to heath |
| sanction | v. to approve; ratify; permit / n. penalization; permission |
| sardonic | adj. sarcastic; scornfully mocking |
| sartorial | adj. pertaining to tailors |
| satiate | v. to satisfy |
| saturate | v. to soak thoroughly; cause to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance |
| saturnine | adj. gloomy; depressingly dark |
| satyr | n. a creature that is half-man, half-beast with horns and legs of a goat; man with strong sexual desire (lecher) |
| savor | v. to enjoy; have a distinctive flavor or smell |
| schematic | adj. relating to or in the form of an outline or diagram |
| secrete | v. produce and release substance into organism; keep secret |
| sedition | n. behavior prompting rebellion |
| sedulous | adj. diligent |
| seismic | adj. relating to earthquakes; eartshaking |
| sensual | adj. relating to the senses; gratifying the physical senses, especially sexual appetites |
| sensuous | adj. operating through the senses; relating to the senses |
| sentient | adj. aware; conscious; able to percieve |
| servile | adj. submissive; obedient |
| sextant | n. old navigation tool that determines latitude and longtitude |
| shard | n. a piece of broken glass or pottery |
| sidereal | adj. relating to the stars |
| simian | adj. apelike; relating to apes |
| simile | n. comparison of one thing with another using |
| sinecure | n. well-paying job that requires little work |
| singular | adj. unique; extraordinary; odd |
| sinuous | adj. many curves and turns; wiggly; winding; complex |
| skeptic | n. one who doubts |
| sobriety | n. seriousness |
| sodden | adj. thoroughly soaked; saturated |
| solicitous | adj. eager; concerned; attentive |
| soliloquy | n. dramatic speech by one person, not addressed to others |
| solvent | adj. able to meet financial obligations |
| somatic | adj. relating to the body; corporeal; ~physical (eg. Somatic functioning) |
| soporific | adj. sleep producing |
| sordid | adj. filthy; contemptible and corrupt |
| specious | adj. seeming to be logical and sound, but not really so |
| spectrum | n. band of colors; a broad range of related ideas or objects |
| spendthrift | n. person who spends money recklessly |
| sporadic | adj. irregular |
| squalor | n. filthy, wretched condition; (adj = squalid) |
| staccato | adj. marked by abrupt, clear-cut sound |
| stanch | v. to stop or check the flow of |
| stentorian | adj. extremely loud |
| stigma | n. mark of disgrace or inferiority |
| stint | v. to be sparing (economical) / n. meaning a period of time spent doing something |
| stipulate | v. to specify as an essential condition |
| stolid | adj. impassive; unemotional; having or showing little emotion |
| stratified | adj. arranged in layers |
| straited | adj. marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels (n=straition) |
| stricture | n. something that restrains; negative criticism |
| strident | adj. loud; harsh; unpleasantly noisy |
| strut | v. to swagger; display to impress others |
| stultify | v. to impair or reduce to uselessness |
| stupefy | v. to dull the senses of; stun; astonish |
| stygian | adj. dark and gloomy; hellish; saturnine |
| subpoena | n. notice ordering someone to appear in court |
| subside | v. to sattledown; grow quite |
| substantiate | v. to support with proof or evidence |
| substantive | adj. essential; substantial; pertaining to the substance |
| subsume | v. to include; incorporate |
| subversive | adj. (n=person who..) intended to undermine or overthrow, especially an established government |
| succor | n. relief; help in time of distress or want |
| suffrage | n. the right to vote |
| sundry | adj. various |
| supersede | v. to replace, especially to displace as inferior or antiquated |
| supine | adj. lying on the back; marked by lethargy (sluggishness) |
| supplant | v. to replace; substitute |
| suppliant | adj. beseeching; ask for; request earnesty |
| supplicant | n. one who asks humbly (not prideful) and earnestly |
| supposition | n. the act of assuming to be true or real |
| syllogism | n. a form of deductive reasoning that has - a major premise, - a minor premise, - and a conclusion |
| sylvan | adj. related to the woods or forest |
| tacit | adj. silently understood; implied |
| talisman | n. charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune |
| tangential | adj. peripheral; digressing |
| tautology | n. unnecessary repetition |
| taxonomy | n. science of classification; in biology, the process of classifying organisms in categories |
| tenet | n. belief; doctrine |
| tenuous | adj. thin; filmsy; weak; insubstantial |
| terrestrial | adj. earhtly; commonplace |
| theocracy | n. government by priests representing a god |
| thespian | n. an actor or actress |
| timbre | n. the characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone color |
| tirade | n. long, violent speech; verbal assault |
| toady | n. flatterer; hanger-on; yes-man; fawn |
| tome | n. book, usually large and academic |
| torpor | n. lethargy; dormancy; sluggishness; torpidity |
| torque | n. a turning or twisting force |
| tortuous | adj. having many twists and turns; highly complex |
| tout | v. to promote or praise energetically |
| tractable | adj. obedient; yielding |
| transgression | n. act of trespassing or violating a law |
| transient | adj. fleeting; temporary; short-lived |
| translucent | adj. partially transparent |
| travail | n. arduous work; tribulation; anguish |
| travesty | n. parody; caricature |
| treatise | n. article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly |
| tremulous | adj. trembling, quivering (shaking;vibrating); frugal; timid |
| trepidation | n. fear and anxiety (not intrepid) |
| truculence | n. aggressiveness; ferocity; eager to fight |
| tryst | n. agreement between lovers to meet; rendezvous |
| tumid | adj. swollen (ostentatious; false pride); distended; turgid |
| turbid | adj. muddy; opaque; in a state of great confusion |
| turgid | adj. swollen; bloated; pompous; bombastic; tumid |
| tutelary | adj. serving as a gardian or protector |
| uncanny | adj. mysterious; strange |
| undulating | adj. moving in waves |
| unfeigned | adj. not false; not made up; genuine |
| untenable | adj. indefensible |
| untoward | adj. not favorable; adverse; troublesome; unruly |
| usury | n. practice of lending money at exorbitant rates |
| vacillate | v. to waver; oscillate |
| vacuous | adj. empty; void; lacking intelligence; purposeless; hollow |
| valedictory | adj. pertaining to a farewell |
| vapid | adj. tasteless; dull |
| variegated | adj. varied; marked with different colors |
| vaunt | v. to boast; brag |
| venal | adj. bribable; corruptible; mercenary |
| vendetta | n. prolonged feud (a bitter quarrel) marked by bitter hostility |
| venerate | v. to adore; honor; respect |
| veracious | adj. (n=veracity); truthful; accurate |
| verbose | adj. wordy |
| vertigo | n. dizziness |
| vexation | n. irritation; annoyance; chafe |
| viable | adj. practicable; capable of developing |
| vindictive | adj. disposed (intended) to seek revenge; spiteful; vengeful; unforgiving |
| virtuoso | n. someone with masterly skills; expert musician |
| visage | n. countenance; appearance; aspect |
| viscous | adj. thick, syrupy, and sticky |
| vitiate | v. to impair the quality of; corrupt morally; making inoperative |
| vituperative | adj. using or containing harsh, abusive censure |
| vivisection | n. dissection, surgery, or experiments perform on a living animal for purpose of research |
| vogue | n. prevailing (proved superior) fashion or practice |
| volatile | adj. tending to vary frequently; fickle |
| vortex | n. whirlpool; whirlwind; center of turbulence |
| warranted | adj. justified |
| wary | adj. careful; cautious |
| welter | v. to wallow or roll; toss about; be in turmoil |
| whimsical | adj. fanciful; unpredictable |
| wistful | adj. vaguely longing; sadly thoughtful; deeply sadness |
| zealot | n. one who is fanatically devoted to a cause |
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