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Hparade 2
Gre-Vocab hit parade 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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