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Hparade 2

Gre-Vocab hit parade 2

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Abate to lessen in intensity or degree
Accolade an expression of praise
Adulation excessive praise; intense adoration
Aesthetic relating to art and beauty
Ameliorate to make better or more tolerable
Ascetic one who practices self-denial,
Avarice greed, esp for wealth
Axiom a universally recognized principle
Burgeon to grow rapidly or flourish
Bucolic rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
Cacophony harsg, jarring, discordant sound
Canon an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature
Catalyst a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction w/o itself changing or thing that causes change
Caustic burning or stinging; causing corrosion
Chary wary, cautious, sparing
Cogent appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
Complaisance the willingness to comply with the wishes of others
Contentious argumentative; causing controversy
Contrite regretful; penitent
Dearth lack of
Demur to question or oppose
Didactic intended to teach or instruct
Disinterested free of bias or self-interest
Dogmatic expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principles.
Ebullience the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
Eclectic composed of elements drawn from various sources
Elegy a poem lamenting the dead of someone
Emollient soothing, esp. the skin, making less harsh.
Empirical based on experiment or observation
Enigmatic mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand.
Ephemeral bried;fleeting
Esoteric intended for or understood by a small, specific group
Eulogy a speech honoring the dead
Exonerate to remove blame
Facetious humorous or playful
Fallacy an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
Furtive marked by stealth; covert
Gregarious sociable; outgoing
Harangue to deliver a long pompous speech or tirade
Heretical violating accepted dogma or convention
Hyperbole an exaggerated statement, a figure of speech.
Impecunious lacking funds, without money
Incipient beginning to come into being or to become apparent
Inert unmoving; sluggish
Innocuous harmless; causing no damage
Instransigent refusing to compromise
inveigle to obtain by deception or flattery
Morose sad, sullen, melancholy
Odious evoking intense dislike
Opaque impenetrable by light
Oscillation swinging back and forth
penurious penny-pinching,excessively cheap, codo
Pernicious extremely harmful; potential to cause death
Peruse to examine with great care
Pious extremely devout
Precursor one that proceeds and indicates or announces another
Preen to dress up; to primp
Prodigious abundant in size, force or strength; extraordinary
Prolific producing large volumes or amounts; productive
Putrefy to rot and give foul odor
Quaff to drink deeply
quiescence stillness; motionless
Redoubtable awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
Sanction a penalty for violating authority or permission
Satire a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor
Squalid sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
Stoic indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
Supplant to take the place of
Torpid lethargic, sluggish
Ubiquitous existing everywhere at the same time
Urbane sophisticated; refined
Vilify to defame, to characterize harshly
Viscous thick, sticky
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