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Mandi GRE Vocab 2
40 + random GRE vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abeyance | suspended action |
| abrogate | repeal or annul by authority |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend; obscure |
| alacrity | eager and cheerful readiness |
| aplomb | self-confidence |
| arrant | in the highest degree |
| ascetic | practicing self-denial; austere; stark |
| aspersion | slander |
| augury | omen; sign |
| baleful | harmful; ominous; causing evil |
| bedizen | to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner |
| bellicose | belligerent; pugnacious; warlike |
| benefactor | person who has given help or benefit |
| blithe | cheerful; casual; carefree |
| brook | to tolerate; endure |
| cabal | a scheme or plot; a group of plotters |
| cajole | use flattery or deceit to persuade |
| cant | insincere talk/jargon |
| chary | cautious; wary |
| cloture | closing device; to end a debate by voting |
| coda | passage that completes a piece of music |
| coeval | of the same period; coexisting |
| commodius | having plenty of space for what is needed |
| concilliatory | reconciling; soothing; comforting; mollifying |
| connotation | suggestion; in addition to |
| consequential | pompous; self-important |
| constrain | compel |
| contentious | argumentative; pugnacious; combative; quarrelsome |
| contiguous | touching; neighboring; near |
| convoluted | complicate; coiled; twisted |
| corporeal | physical; of or for the body |
| countervail | counterbalance |
| crass | very great (especially stupidity) |
| craven | cowardly |
| curmudgeon | bad-tempered person |
| daunt | intimidate; make fearful |
| decry | disapprove of |
| demur | to hesitate; raise objections |
| deprecate | protect against; express disapproval of |
| descry | catch sight of; see something in the distance |
| diaphanous | transparent; gauzy |
| disconcert | upset the self-possession of; embarrass |
| disparate | essentially different |
| divestiture | taking off; getting rid of; giving up |
| droll | jesting |
| ecumenical | representing the whole christian world |
| egress | way out; exit |
| emote | stir up; excite |
| enmity | hatred; being an enemy |
| ensign | flag/badge |
| epistle | letter |
| expedient | likely to be useful for a purpose |
| extant | still in existance |
| extirpate | to destroy; exterminate; cut out; exscind |
| facile | easily done |
| fecund | furtile |
| feint | pretend |
| finical | too fussy about food, clothing, etc. |
| foppish | like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes |
| foreswear | renounce; disallow; repudiate |
| fulmination | bitter protest |
| gainsay | to deny; to oppose |
| garrulity | talkativeness |
| gossimer | soft, light, delicate material |
| grandiloquent | using pompous words |
| halcyon | calm and peaceful |
| harbinger | something or somebody that foretells what is to come |
| harrow | to distress; create stress; torment |
| hemetic | sealed by fusion |
| hubrus | arrogant pride |
| idyll | a carefree episode or experience |
| immutable | that cannot be changed |
| impecunious | having little or no money |
| incorrigibility | cannot cured or corrected |
| indolence | laziness |
| insouciant | unconcerned; carefree |
| inured | accustomed to; adapted |
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