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GRE VOCABULARY 5.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstemious | Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet |
| Hedonistic | a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification; sybaritic |
| Abrasive | any material or substance used for drinking, polishing, etc. as emery, pumice, or sandpaper; tending to annoy or cause ill; overly aggressive |
| Doggedness | persistent in effort, stubbornly tenacious; perseverance |
| Sybaritic | characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure; devoted to pleasure |
| Fervor | great warmth and earnestness of feeling; intense heat |
| Prolific | producing offering, young, fruit, etc, abundantly; high fruitful; producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive |
| pyrrhic | consisting of two short or unaccented words; victory for such a high price that is almost like losing |
| winsome | sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging |
| transience | not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory |
| reticence | the state of being reticent, or reserved, especially with regard to speaking freely; restraint |
| ignominy | disgrace; dishonor; public contemplation; shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an intense of this. |
| sagacity | acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgement; wisdom |
| quiescence | being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless |
| bemoan | to express distress or grief over; lament; to regard with regret or disapproval |
| pillage | to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder; to take as booty |
| redress | the setting right of what is wrong; relief from wrong or injury; compensation or satisfaction for wrong or injury; help; compensation |
| efface | to wipe out; do away with; expunge; to rub out, erase, or obliterate; to make oneself inconspicuous; withdraw oneself modesty or shyly |
| conflagration | a destructive fire, usually an extensive one |
| canards | a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor |
| prevarication | a false or deliberate misstatement; lie |
| articulation | capable of speech; not speechless |
| flabbergasted | to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound |
| bemused | bewildered or confused; lost in thought; preoccupied |
| florid | reddish; ruddy; rosy; flowery |
| buttressed | any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrust, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall; brace; beam |
| feigned | pretended; sham; counterfeit; assumed; fictitious; disguised |
| ossified | hardened like or into bone |
| outmoded | gone out of style; no longer fashionable; no longer usable; obsolete |
| banalities | condition or quality of being banal; or devoid of freshness or originality; common saying |
| endeavor | to exert oneself to do or effect something; make an effort; strive; to attempt; try |
| inquisition | an official investigation, especially one of a political or religious nature, characterized by lack of regard for individual rights, prejudice on the part of the examiners, and recklessly cruel punishment; a harsh and prolonged questioning. |
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