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GRE VOC
GRE 301-400
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| OVERWROUGHT | agitated;overdone |
| PALATIAL | relating to a place;magnificent |
| PALLIATE | to make less serious;ease |
| PALLID | lacking color or liveliness |
| PANACHE | flamboyance or dash in style and action; verve |
| PANEGYRIC | elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise |
| PANOPLY | impressive array |
| PARADOX | a contradiction or dilemma |
| PARAGON | model of excellence or perfection |
| PARE | to trim off excess; reduce |
| PARIAH | an outcast |
| PARLEY | discussion, usually between enemies |
| PARRY | to ward off or deflect, especially by a quick-witted answer |
| PASTICHE | piece of literatue or music imitating other works |
| PATHOGENIC | causing disease |
| PECCADILLO | minor sin or offense |
| PEDANT | someone who shows off learning |
| PEJORATIVE | having bad connotations; disparaging |
| PENURY | an oppressive lack of resources (as money); severe poverty |
| Pereginate | to wander from place to place; to travel, especially on foot |
| Perfidious | willing to betray one's trust |
| Ostensible | apparent |
| Ossify | to change into bone; to become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern |
| Orotund | pompous |
| Opprobrium | public disgrace |
| Opine | to express an opinion |
| Opaque | impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light |
| Onerous | troublesome and oppressive; burdensome |
| Ostentation | excessive showiness |
| Incarnadine | blood-red in color |
| Implacable | unable to be calmed down or made peaceful |
| Imprecation | a curse |
| Impugn | to call into question; to attack verbally |
| Impious | not devout in religion |
| Impetuous | quick to act without thinking |
| Impervious | impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected |
| Imperturbable | not capable of being disturbed |
| Impecunious | poor; having no money |
| Impasse | blocked path; dilemma with no solution |
| Imbue | to infuse, dye, wet, or moisten |
| Ignoble | having low moral standards; not noble in character; mean |
| Idiosyncrasy | peculiarity of temperament; eccentricity |
| Iconoclast | one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions |
| Hyperbole | purposeful exaggeration for effect |
| Husband | to manage economically; to use sparingly |
| Homogeneous | of a similar kind |
| Hoary | very old; whitish or gray from age |
| Heterogeneous | composed of unlike parts; different; diverse |
| Hermetic | tightly sealed |
| Querrulous | inclined to complain; irritable |
| Pusillanimous | cowardly; without courage |
| Pungent | sharp and irritating to the senses |
| Pulchritude | beauty |
| Pugilism | boxing |
| Puerile | childish, immature, or silly |
| Prudence | wisdom, caution, or restraint |
| Propriety | the quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customs |
| Propitiate | to conciliate; to appease |
| Occlude | to stop up; prevent the passage of |
| Obviate | to prevent; to make unnecessary |
| Obstinate | stubborn; unyielding |
| Obsequious | overly submissive and eager to please |
| Oblique | indirect or evasive; misleading or devious |
| Obdurate | hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
| Numismatics | coin collecting |
| Nuance | a subtle expression of meaning or quality |
| Nominal | exisiting in name only; negligible |
| Noisome | stinking; putrid |
| Profligate | corrupt; degenerate |
| Prodigal | lavish; wasteful |
| Proclivity | a natural inclination or predisposition |
| Probity | complete honesty and integrity |
| Pristine | fresh and clean; uncorrupted |
| Prevaricate | to lie or deviate from the truth |
| Prescient | having foresight |
| Precis | short summary of facts |
| Precipitate | to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
| Prattle | meaningless, foolish talk |
| Pragmatic | practical, as opposed to idealistic |
| Potentate | a monarch or ruler with great power |
| Posit | to assume as real or conceded; propose as an explanation |
| Polyglot | a speaker of many languages |
| Politic | shrewd and practical in meaning or dealing with things; diplomatic |
| Polemic | controversy; argument; verbal attack |
| Plucky | courageous; spunky |
| Plethora | excess |
| Plebeian | crude or coarse; characteristic of commoners |
| Plastic | able to be molded, altered, or bent |
| Placate | to soothe or pacify |
| Pithy | profound or substantial yet concise, succinct, and to the point |
| Phlegmatic | calm and unemotional in temperament |
| Philistine | a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artisic values |
| Philanthropy | charity; a desire or effor to promote goodness |
| Phalanx | a compact or close-knit body of people, animals, or things |
| Pervade | to present throughout; to permeate |
| Perspicacious | shrewd, astute, or keen-witted |
| Permeate | to penetrate |
| Peripatetic | wondering from place to place,especially on foot |
| Perfunctory | done in a routine way; indifferent |
| Nettle | to irritate |
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