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GRE VOCABULARY 4.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Olfactory | Of or relating to the sense of smell |
| Euphonic | Agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear. |
| Voluble | Characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative |
| Affable | Pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly |
| Perspicacious | Having keen mental perception and understanding; having keen vision |
| Inmutable | Not mutable; unchangable; changeless |
| Impish | Mischievous; relating to an imp |
| Mundane | Common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative |
| Personable | Of pleasing personal appearance; attractive; having agreeable or pleasant personality; affable; sociable |
| Pervasive | Spread throughout; common; universal |
| Unheralded | Appearing without warning or prior announcement; unexpected |
| Defunct | No longer un effect or used; no operating or functioning; extinct; nonexistent; vanish |
| Parsimony | Extreme or excessive economy or frugality; prudent in savings |
| Lagress | Generous bestowal of gifts; aid; charity |
| Puritanicalism | Very strict in morals and religious matters; rigidly austere |
| Cynicism | Distrusting or disparing the motives of others, characteristic of a cynic |
| Tome | A book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book |
| Recantation | To withdraw or disavow (statement or opinion); retract |
| Digression | To deviate or wander away from the main topic |
| Preamble | An introductory statement; preface; introduction |
| Alibi | A person used as one’s excuse, especially to avoid blame |
| Nadir | The lowest point |
| Consensus | General agreement; majority of opinion |
| Paragon | A model or pattern of excellence; someone of exceptional merit |
| Goad | A stick pointed or electrically charged end |
| Conundrum | A riddle; anything that puzzles |
| Degraded | Reduce in rank; reduce in quality or value |
| Admonished | To caution, advise or counsel against something; to urge to a duty; remaind |
| Lauded | To praise, to extol |
| Phegmatic | Not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic |
| Esurient | Hungry; greedy |
| Penurious | Extremely stingy; parsimonously; miserly; indigent |
| Timorous | Full of fear; timid; subject of fear |
| Pellucid | Allowing the maximum passage of light; translucent; clear; limpid |
| Limpid | Clear; transparend; or pellucid |
| Decorous | Characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manner, appearance, etc |
| Hegemonic | Dominance, leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others |
| Caustic | Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue; severely crytical or sarcastic |
| Precarious | Dependent on circumstances beyond one’s control; uncertain, unstable; insecure; risky; having little or no foundation |
| Phegmatic | Not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; composed. |
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