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Gre Words!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Welter | A disorganzied, confused jumble |
| Vituperative | Using, containing or marked by harshly abusive censure |
| Vitriolic | Bitterly scathing; caustic |
| Urbane | Polite, refined, elegant |
| Untoward | Improper |
| Untenable | Being such that defense or maitenance is impossible |
| Tyro | A beginner |
| Turpitude | Depravity; baseness |
| Truculent | Disposed to fight; brutally harsh |
| Tractable | Easily managed or controlled; governable |
| Torpid | Lethargic |
| Tenuous | Having little substance; flimsy |
| Temerity | Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness |
| Taciturn | Reserved; using few words |
| Surfeit | An excessive amount |
| Supercilious | Feeling or showing haughty disdain |
| Stymie | To thwart; to stump |
| Stolid | Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility |
| Spurious | Lacking authenticity; not genuine; false |
| Specious | Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious |
| Sophistry | Plausible but fallacious argumentation |
| Solvent | Capable of meeting financial obligations |
| Solicitous | Marked by or given to ancious care and often hovering attentiveness |
| Sedulous | Assiduous; persevering and constant in effort |
| Sanctimonious | Feigning piety or righteousness |
| Reticent | Keeping one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself |
| Rescind | To make void |
| Repudiate | To reject emphatically |
| Reprobate | Morally unprincipiled |
| Renege | To faily to carry out a promise or commitment |
| Refractory | Obstinately resistant to authority or control |
| Recalcitrant | Marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance |
| Redoubtable | Arousing fear or awe |
| Raconteur | One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit |
| Quiescent | Characterized by inactivity; tranquil |
| Querelous | Given to complaining; peevish |
| Quash | To set aside or annul, especially by judicial action |
| Proscribe | To denounce, prohibit or condemn |
| Prosaic | Lacking in imagination and spirit |
| Propitiate | To enter or reenter someone's good graces; to appease |
| Profligate | Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant |
| Probity | Complete and confirmed integrity; moral uprightness |
| Prodigious | Impressively great in size, force or extent |
| Prevaricate | To stray from or evade the truth; to equivocate |
| Platitude | A trite or banal remark, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant |
| Pithy | Forecful and brief |
| Perspicacious | Having or showing penetrating mental discernment |
| Penury | Extreme want or poverty |
| Paucity | Fewness |
| Parsimonious | Excessively frugal |
| Opprobrium | Disgrace arising from shameful conduct |
| Onerous | Oppressive or troublesome |
| Officious | Marked by excessive eagerness to offer unwanted services |
| Obviate | To anticipate and dispose of effectively; render unnecessary |
| Obfuscate | To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to understand |
| Obdurate | Hard-hearted or jaded |
| Nonplus | To bewilder |
| Nascent | Coming into existence |
| Nadir | The lowest point |
| Mordant | Bitingly sarcastic |
| Mercurial | Prone to rapid changes in mood |
| Lurid | Marked by sensationalism; shocking or horrifying |
| Limn | To describe in detail; to illustrate by drawing or painting |
| Levity | Lightness of manner or speech; frivolity |
| Latent | In a dormant state but with potential for expression |
| Irresolute | Undecided |
| Irascible | Easily angered |
| Invective | Abusive or denunciatory language |
| Inure | To habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection |
| Intrepid | Courageous, fearless |
| Intractable | Difficult to govern or manage |
| Internecine | Mutually destructive |
| Insipid | Lacking qualities that excite or stimulate; dull |
| Exigent | Urgent |
| Inimical | Hostile |
| Inert | Lethargic |
| Indigent | Impoverished |
| Incontrovertible | Impossible to dispute |
| Incipient | Beginning to exist or appear |
| Inchoate | In early, rudimentary stages |
| Impolitic | Undiplomatic |
| Impetuous | Impulsive and passionate |
| Impecunious | Penniless |
| Harry | To harras |
| Halycon | Calm and peaceful; tranquil |
| Guileless | Innocent; having an inability to deceive |
| Germane | Pertinent and relevant |
| Garrulous | Overly talkative |
| Gainsay | To deny or declare false |
| Furtive | Characterized by stealth |
| Fulminate | To issue a thunderous verbal attack |
| Foment | To produce the growth of; to incite |
| Flout | To mock or insult; to treat with contempt |
| Extrapolation | An estimation from facts already known |
| Equivocate | To use ambiguous language in a deliberate attempt to deceive |
| Equanimity | Calmness |
| Enervate | To weaken or tire |
| Endemic | Peculiar or specific to an area or people |
| Effrontery | Arrogance or audaciousness |
| Distend | To spread, stretch or expand |
| Disingenuous | Insincere |
| Disabuse | To free from error |
| Diffidence | Lack of self-confidence |
| Desultory | Digressing, random or inconsistent |
| Craven | Cowardly or weak-willed |
| Contrite | Remoreseful |
| Contention | A struggle in opposition or dispute |
| Compendium | A brief summary or a list of inventory |
| Cogent | Logically convincing |
| Coda | A concluding section or a summation |
| Chicanery | Tricky, deceitful or evasive language |
| Charlatan | Fraud or one who pretends to have skills or knowledge he or she does not possess |
| Capricious | Erratic or a tendency to change one's mind |
| Aver | To declare or assert with confidence |
| Assuage | To lessen or make easier |
| Assiduous | Constant and industrious |
| Aggregate | To combine or form a collection or sum |
| Alacrity | Willingness or cheerful eagerness |
| Aberrant | Deviating from the norm |
| Slake | To satisfy, quench |
| Mollify | To temper, to soothe |
| Decry | To condemn openly |
| Excoriate | To upbraid, censure scathingly |
| Execrate | To declare to be hateful; to denounce |
| Impudent | Charecterized by offensive boldness |
| Impugn | To attack as false or questionable |
| Inveigh | To protest vehemently |
| Lambaste | To scold sharply; berate |
| Obloquy | Calumny; abusively detractive language |
| Objurgate | To berate |
| Pillory | Exposed to public scorn |
| Anathema | A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication |
| Deleterious | Having a harmful effect |
| Dissemble | To make a false show of; to disguise |
| Ersatz | Artificial |
| Perfidy | Deliberate breach of faith; calculated violation of trust; treachery |
| Specious | Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious |
| Nefarious | Infamous by way of being extremely wicked |
| Scrupulous | Conscientious and exact; painstaking |
| Esurient | Hungry; greedy |
| Abnegate | To deny to onself; to denounce |
| Forfend | To ward off; avert |
| Consonant | Harmonious in sound or tone |
| Dulcet | Melodious |
| Din | A jumble of loud, discordant sounds |
| Fetid | Having an offensive odor |
| Invidious | Tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment |
| Rebarbative | Repellent |
| Ebullient | Zestfully enthusiastic |
| Jocular | Characterized by joking |
| Jocund | Sprightly and lighthearted in disposition |
| Lachrymose | Weeping or inclined to weep |
| Lugubrious | Mournful or gloomy |
| Plaintive | Expressing sorrow |
| Threnody | A poem or song of lamentation |
| Abstruse | Difficult to understand |
| Recondite | Not easily understood; abstruse |
| Roiled | In a state of agitation |
| Periphrastic | Roundabout and unneccesarily wordy |
| Turgid | Excessively ornate |
| Compendiuos | Succinct |
| Baleful | Ominous; malignant in effect |
| Insidious | Intended to entrap; treacherous |
| Bestir | To rouse |
| Gall | To irk or exasperate |
| Dastardly | Cowardly and malicious; base |
| Recreant | Craven or cowardly |
| Timorous | Full of apprehensiveness |
| Implacable | Impossible to placate or appease |
| Intransigent | Uncompromising |
| Pertinacious | Holding tenaciously to a purpose |
| Amenable | Responsive to advice; willing |
| Accrete | To make larger or greater |
| Hackneyed | Overfamiliar through overuse |
| Quotidian | Everyay, commonplace |
| Callow | Immature |
| Proselyte | A new convert to a doctrine or religion |
| Peremptory | Putting an end to all debate or action |
| Expiate | To make amends; to atone |
| Redress | To set right |
| Perfunctory | Cursory, done without care |
| Extemporaneous | Improvised |
| Inveigle | To obtain by deception or flattery |
| Abate | To lessen in intensity |
| Chary | Wary, cautious |
| Acumen | Keen, accurate judgment |
| Impassive | Revealing no emotion |
| Centrifuge | To separate |
| Tacit | Implicit |
| Trenchant | Sharply perceptive |
| Recondite | Difficult to understand, hidden |
| Refulgent | Shining radiantly |
| August | Magestic, venerable |
| Brook | To tolerature, endure |
| Color | To distort, gloss or effect |
| Consquential | Pompous, self-important |
| Damp | To diminish the intenstity or check the vibration of a sound |
| Die | A tool used for sharpening |
| Essay | To attempt or experiment |
| Fell | Inhumanly cruel; verb: to demand, call for |
| Grouse | To complain or grumble |
| Guy | A rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide |
| List | To tilt or lean to one side |
| Mince | To pronounce or speak affectedly |
| Pied | Multicolored, usually in blotches |
| Quail | To lose courage, turn frightened |
| Strut | The supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
| Tender | To proffer or offer |
| Adumbrate | To foreshadow vaguely or intimate |
| Anodyne | Soothing |
| Apogee | Farthest or highest point |
| Apostate | One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
| Asseverate | To aver, allege, assert |
| Asperity | Severity, rigor, roughness |
| Calumniate | To slander, make a false accusation |
| Cavil | To find fault without good reason |
| Celerity | Speed, alacrity |
| Chimera | An illusion |
| Contumacious | Insubordinate, rebellious |
| Denouement | An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
| Descry | To discriminate or discern |
| Desuetude | Disuse |
| Diaphonous | Transparent, gauzy |
| Eschew | To shun or avoid |
| Exegesis | Critical examination, explication |
| Extirpate | To destroy, exterminate, cut out |
| Fractious | Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly |
| Heterodox | Heretical, iconoclastic, unorthodox |
| Insouciant | Unconcerned, carefree |
| Imbroglio | Embarassing situation |
| Mendicant | A beggar |
| Meretricious | Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy |
| Obstreperous | Aggressively boisterous |
| Ossified | Tending to become more rigid, conventional, and reactionary with age. Literally, turned into bone. |
| Palliate | To make somehting seem less serious |
| Pelludic | Transparent, easy to understand |
| Peroration | THe concluding part of a speech; flowery rhetoric |
| Plangent | Pounding, thundering, resounding |
| Prolix | Wordy |
| Puerile | Childish |
| Puissance | Power, strength |
| Remonstrate | To protest, object |
| Salacious | Lustful, bawdy |
| Salutary | Remedial, wholesome |
| Saturnine | Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
| Sententious | Aphoristic or moralistic; tending to moralize excessively |
| Stentorian | Extremely loud and powerful |
| Stygian | Gloomy, dark |
| Sychophant | Toady |
| Tendentious | Biased, showing marked tendencies |
| Vitiate | To corrupt, debase, spoil |
| Voluble | Fluent, verbal |
| Nugatory | Trifling |
| Ludology | Game studies |
| Prestidigitation | Slight of hand |
| Perorate | To conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation. |
| Recapitulate | To summarize |
| Tautology | Needless repetition of the same sense in different words |
| Senescence | Growing old, aging |
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