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GRE VOCABULARY 4.2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pedantic | Ostentatious in one’s learning |
| Fledgling | A young bird; an inexperienced person |
| Glib | Readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely; easy or unconstrained, as actions or manner |
| Indecorously | Not decorous, violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly; improper; indecent; rude |
| Aptly | Inclined, disposed, given; unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily |
| Prudish | Excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc |
| Egress | The act or instance of going, especially from an enclosed place; exiting; departure |
| Respite | A delay or cessation of time; an interval of relief |
| Terse | Neatly or effectively concise |
| Adulate | To show excessive admiration or devotion to |
| Abrasive | Any material or substance used for grinding, polishing, etc., as emery or sandpaper |
| Poignant | Keenly distressing to the feeling; bitter; moving; touching; disturbing |
| Solicit | To seek for something by respectful request, formal application |
| Pristine | Having its original purity; uncorrupted ir unsullied |
| Excoriating | To denounce or berate severely; strip off or remove the skin from; peel, flay |
| Pontification | To perform the office or duties of a pontiff (any high or chief priest); to speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner |
| Ruminating | To chew the cud, as a ruminant; to meditate or muse; ponder; consider something deeply |
| Indemnifying | To compensate for damage or loss sustained, expense incurred; to guard or secure against anticipated lost |
| Postulating | To ask, demand, or claim |
| Perused | To read through with throughness or care; to scan or browse |
| Extraneous | Introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign; irrelevant |
| Onerous | Burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship |
| Exacerbating | To increase the severity, bitterness, or violence (disease, ill feeling, etc); aggravate; irritate |
| Splintering | A small, thin, sharp piece of wood bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body; fracture; disintegrate |
| Recantation | To withdraw or disavow (statement or opinion); retract |
| Substantiation | To establish by proof or competent evidence |
| Bulwark | A wall of earth or other material built for defense; rampart |
| Obviated | To anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc) by effective measures, render unnecessary |
| Refutation | Disproof; to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge |
| Exegesis | Critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of the bible |
| Debunking | To expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, etc) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated |
| Doleful |
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