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candycain GRE HP1
GRE vocab from Hit Parade Group 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abscond | verb: to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide |
| aberrant | adj: deviating from the norm noun: aberration |
| alacrity | noun: eager and enthusiastic willingness |
| anomaly adj: anomalous | noun: deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality |
| approbation | noun: an expression of approval or praise |
| arduous | adj: strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort |
| assuage | to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify |
| audacious noun: audacity | daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
| austere noun: austerity | adj: without adornment; bare;severly simple; ascetic |
| axiomatic noun: axiomatic | adj: taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
| canonical noun: canon | adj: following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
| capricious | adj: inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable |
| censure | verb: to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
| chicanery | noun: trickery or subterfuge |
| connoisseur | noun: an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert |
| convoluted | adj:complex or complicated |
| disabuse | verb: to undeceive; to set right |
| discordant | adj: conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
| disparate | adj: fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
| effrontery | noun: extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
| eloquent noun: eloquence | adj: well-spoken, expressive, articulate |
| enervate | verb: to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
| ennui | noun: dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
| equivocate adj: equivocal | verb: to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
| erudite noun: erudition | adj: very learned; scholarly |
| exculpate | verb: exonerate; to clear of blame |
| exigent | adj: urgent, pressing; reequiring immediate action or attention |
| extemporaneous | adj: improvised; done without preparation |
| filibuster | noun: intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
| fulminate | verb: to loudly attack or denounce |
| ingenuous | adj: artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
| inured | adj: accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
| irascible | adj: easily angered; prone to temperamental outbusts |
| laud adj: laudatory | verb: to praise highly |
| lucid | adj: clear; easily understood |
| magnanimity adj: magnanimous | noun: the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving |
| martial | adj: associated with war and the armed forces |
| mundane | adj: of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary |
| nascent | adj: coming into being; in early developmental stages |
| nebulous | adj: vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form |
| neologism | noun: a new word, expression or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses |
| noxious | noun: harmful, injurious |
| obtuse | adj:lackng sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression |
| obviate | verb: to anticipate and make unnecessary |
| onerous | adj: troubling; burdensome |
| paean | noun: a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
| parody | noun: a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art |
| perennial | adj: recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
| perfidy adj: perfidious | noun: intentional breach of faith; treachery |
| perfunctory | adj: cursory; done without care or interest |
| perspicacious noun: perspicacity | adj: acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
| prattle | verb: to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
| precipitate (adj) | adj: acting with excessive haste or impulse |
| precipitate (verb) | to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
| predilection | noun: a disposition in favor of something; preference |
| prescience adj: prescient | noun: foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring |
| prevaricate | verb: to deliberately avoid the truth: to mislead |
| qualms | noun: misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
| recant | verb: to retract, esp. a previously held belief |
| refute | verb: to disprove; to successfully argue against |
| relegate | verb: to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position |
| reticent | quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
| solicitous | adj: concerned and attentive eager |
| sordid | adj: characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
| sporadic | adj: occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances |
| squander | verb: to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
| static | adj: not moving, active or in motion; at rest |
| stupefy | verb: to stun, baffle or amaze |
| stymie | verb: to block; thwart |
| synthesis verb: synthesize | noun: the combination of parts to make a whole |
| torque | noun: a force that causes rotation |
| tortuous | adj: winding, twisting; excessively complicated |
| truculent | adj: fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
| veracity | noun: truthfulness, honesty |
| virulent | adj: extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
| voracious | adj: having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
| waver | verb: to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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