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Extra Vocab
GRE
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alloy | to comingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure |
| appropriate | to take for one's own use; to confiscate |
| arrest, arresting | to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in an arresting portait |
| august | majestic. venerable |
| bent | leaning, inclination , proclivity, tendency |
| broach | to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about |
| brook | to tolerate; to endure; to countenance |
| cardinal | major, as in cardinal sin |
| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot |
| color | to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect |
| consequential | pompous, self-important |
| damp | to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
| die | a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop |
| essay | to test or try; to attempt; to experiment |
| exact | to demand; to call for; to require; to take |
| fell | to cause to fall by striking |
| fell | inhumanely cruel |
| flag | to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
| flip | sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark |
| ford | to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
| grouse | to complain or grumble |
| guy | a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guide |
| intimate | to imply, suggest, or insinuate |
| list | to tilt or lean to one side |
| lumber | to move heavily and clumsily |
| meet | fitting, proper |
| milk | to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
| mince | to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe |
| nice | exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
| occult | hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
| pedestrian | commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
| pied | multicolored, usually in blotches |
| pine | to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
| plastic | moldable, pliable, not rigid |
| pluck | courage, spunk, fortitude |
| prize | to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils |
| rail | to complain about bitterly |
| rent | torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such |
| quail | to lose courage; to turn frightened |
| qualify | to limit |
| sap | to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
| sap | a fool or nitwit |
| scurvy | contemptible, despicable |
| singular | exceptional, unusual, odd |
| stand | a group of trees |
| steep | to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep |
| strut | the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
| table | to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
| tender | to proffer or offer |
| waffle | to equivocate; to change one's position |
| wag | wit, joker |
| abjure | to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
| adumbrate | to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
| anathema | a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
| anodyne | soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
| apogee | farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
| apotheosis | deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection |
| asperity | severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
| asseverate | to aver, allege, or assert |
| assiduous | diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
| augury | omen, portent |
| bellicose | belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
| calumniate | to slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion |
| captious | disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
| cavil | to find fault without good reason |
| celerity | speed, alacrity; think accelerate |
| chimera | an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
| contumacious | insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion |
| debacle | rout, fiasco, complete failure |
| denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
| descry | to catch sight of |
| desuetude | disuse |
| desultory | random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
| diaphanous | transparent, gauzy |
| diffident | reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
| dirge | a song of grief or lamentation |
| encomium | glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
| eschew | to shun or avoid |
| excoriate | to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
| execrate | to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil |
| exegesis | critical examination, explication |
| expiate | to atone or make amends for |
| extirpate | to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind |
| fatuous | silly, inanely foolish |
| fractious | quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
| gainsay | to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose |
| heterodox | unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
| imbroglio | difficult or embarrassing situation |
| indefatigable | not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged |
| ineluctable | certain, inevitable |
| inimitable | one of a kind, peerless |
| insouciant | unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
| inveterate | deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
| jejune | vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile |
| lubricious | lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
| mendicant | a beggar, supplicant |
| meretricious | cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show |
| minatory | menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed) |
| nadir | low point, perigee |
| nonplussed | baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think |
| obstreperous | noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
| ossified | tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone |
| palliate | to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
| panegyric | formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise |
| parsimonious | cheap, miserly |
| pellucid | transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
| peroration | the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
| plangent | pounding, thundering, resounding |
| prolix | long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbocity |
| propitiate | to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable |
| puerile | childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
| puissance | power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong |
| pusillanimous | cowardly, craven |
| remonstrate | to protest, to object |
| sagacious | having sound judgement; perceptive, wise; like a sage |
| salacious | lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
| salutary | remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
| sanguine | cheerful, confident, optimistic |
| saturnine | gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
| sententious | aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
| stygian | gloomy, dark |
| sycophant | toady; servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite |
| tendentious | biased; showing marked tendecies |
| timorous | timid, fearful, diffident |
| tyro | novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
| vitiate | to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective |
| voluble | fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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