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Level 6
Level 6 GRE Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ablution | A washing or cleansing (esp. of the body) |
| abrade | To wear down or rub away through friction |
| adage | A traditional saying or proverb |
| adumbrate | To give a sketchy outline of or foreshadow |
| aggrandize | To make appear greater, larger, more powerful |
| anachronism | The representation of someone or something as existing outside their proper time |
| antebellum | Period before war |
| aplomb | Self-confident assurance |
| apoplectic | Extremely angry; furious |
| apposition | The placement of something next to or side by side |
| arabesque | An intricate pattern or design |
| arbiter | One empowered or chosen to judge or decide a disputed issue |
| arboreal | Of or pertaining to trees |
| asperity | Harshness or roughness of manner |
| attenuate | To make slender, small, fine or less dense; to weaken |
| august | Inspiring awe or admiration; majestic |
| aver | To affirm positively; to assert as fact |
| baleful | Portending evil; ominous; harmful in intent |
| balk | To refuse stubbornly and abruptly |
| ballast | Something that gives balance or stability (esp. in character) |
| blandishment | Flattery or wheedling intended to coax |
| blithe | Carefree |
| brusque | Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt |
| calumny | A false statement intended to injure another's reputation; slander |
| circumlocution | Evasion in words or speech; a roundabout expression |
| circumspect | Heedful of circumstance and potential consequences; prudent |
| cloy | To cause distaste by supplying too much of something which was originally pleasant (e.g. by being too sweet) |
| coeval | Existing during the same period of time; a contemporary |
| compendium | A short, complete summary |
| compunction | A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt |
| corporeal | Of or relating to the body; of a physical nature; tangible |
| cravat | A band of fabric worn around the neck as a tie |
| deciduous | Falling off or shedding at a specific season; ephemeral |
| decry | To condemn openly |
| deign | To deem worthy of account |
| desideratum | Something considered necessary or highly desirable |
| discountenance | To look upon with disfavor |
| disinter | To remover from a grave or tomb; exhume |
| donnybrook | An uproar or free-for-all |
| dulcet | Pleasant to the ear |
| dynamo | A machine that generates energy; an extremely energetic and forceful person |
| eave | The projecting overhang at the lower edge of a roof |
| ebullient | Zestfully enthusiastic; boiling or bubbling |
| effulgence | Splendor |
| elegy | A poem or song lamenting the dead |
| entreat | To ask for or request earnestly |
| epicurean | Devoted to the pursuit of pleasure |
| epistle | A letter |
| epithet | A term used to characterize a person or thing; an insult |
| equipoise | Equality in distribution of weight |
| espy | To catch sight of |
| exculpate | To relieve of blame |
| expectorate | To spit or cough up |
| expedient | Appropriate to a purpose; self-serving |
| expiate | To make amends for; to atone |
| expropriate | To deprive of possession; to transfer (another's property) to oneself |
| exscind | To cut outs |
| extant | Still in existence; not extinct |
| extempore | In an impromptu manner; done without preparation or forethought |
| extenuate | To lessen the seriousness or importance of |
| extradite | To hand someone over to the legal jurisdiction of another authority |
| facile | Easy |
| finical | Finicky |
| fledge | To take care of a young bird until it can fly; to cover with feathers |
| florid | Ruddy; flowery |
| garrulous | Tiresomely talkative |
| gibe | To make jaunting, heckling, or jeering remarks |
| gossamer | A soft, sheer gauzy fabric; light, delicate or tenuous |
| grandstand | To perform ostentatiously so as to impress |
| hallow | To make or set apart as holy; to revere |
| hermetic | Completely sealed; impervious to outside influence |
| hew | To cut down (with an ax) |
| hibernal | Of or relating to winter |
| hirsute | Hairy |
| hubris | Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance |
| idyll | A short poem or prose piece which romanticizes pastoral life |
| imbroglio | A difficult situation or entanglement; a confused disagreement |
| imperious | Arrogantly dominating or overbearing; fearless |
| improvident | Not providing for the future; thriftless; rash |
| impugn | To attack as false or questionable (esp. in argument) |
| indefatigable | Tireless or seemingly tireless |
| indigence | Poverty; neediness |
| inimitable | Defying imitation; matchless |
| inveterate | Deep-rooted; habitual |
| jibe | To be in accord |
| lackadaisical | Lacking spirit, interest or liveliness; languid |
| libation | The pouring of a liquid offering as a religious ritual; an intoxicating beverage |
| libertine | One who acts without moral restraint; one who defies religious precepts |
| licentious | Lacking moral discipline or self restraint (esp. sexually); wanton |
| lode | A rich source or supply of something |
| loll | To stand, move or recline in an indolent or relaxed manner |
| lucre | Money or profits |
| matriculate | To admit or be admitted into a group (esp. a college or university) |
| maudlin | Effusively or tearfully sentimental |
| mollycoddle | To be overprotective and indulgent towards |
| monomania | A pathological obsession with one idea or subject |
| moribund | About to die |
| obdurate | Stubbornly impenitent; hardhearted or intractable |
| obeisance | A gesture or movement that expresses homage or deference |
| oblique | Slanting; indirect or evasive |
| ossify | To turn into bone |
| ostentation | Pretentious display meant to impress others |
| ostracize | To exclude from a group |
| oxymoron | A rhetorical device in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined (e.g. deafening silence) |
| palpitate | To tremble, shake or quiver |
| panoply | A splendid or striking array; the entire armory of a warrior |
| patois | A regional dialect, esp. one without a written tradition |
| pathos | Sympathy, sadness or tenderness aroused by experience or art |
| pecuniary | Of or relating to money |
| penurious | Pettily unwilling to spend money |
| peremptory | Putting an end to all debate or action |
| perjury | The deliberate giving of false or misleading information under oath |
| perturbation | The act of being greatly disturbed; agitation |
| philistine | A smug or ignorant person hostile or indifferent to arts and culture |
| pleat | A fold made in cloth by doubling the material upon itself and then pressing or stitching it into place; a to press or arrange in pleats |
| presage | To foretell or portend; an omen or portent |
| prescience | Knowledge of events before they take place |
| preternatural | Out of or beyond the course of what is natural; extraordinary or supernatural |
| prim | Stiffly proper |
| profundity | Great depth of intellect, feeling or meaning |
| propitious | Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious |
| proscribe | To denounce or condemn; to prohibit or forbid |
| proxy | A person authorized to act for another; an agent or substitute |
| punctilious | Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct |
| purloin | To steal |
| quail | To shrink back in fear; to cower |
| quorum | The minimum number of people to be present for a meeting or transaction to be valid |
| quotidian | Everyday or common; occurring daily |
| ramify | To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions |
| recapitulate | To repeat in concise form; to summarize |
| redress | To set right or rectify |
| regicide | The killing of a king |
| rotund | Rounded in figure; plump |
| sagacious | Having or showing keen judgment and discernment; wise |
| salacious | Appealing to or stimulating sexual desires |
| sardonic | Scornfully or cynically mocking |
| sepulcher | A burial vault |
| shellac | A thin varnish used to finish wood; to batter or beat severely |
| shunt | To turn or move aside to an alternate course; an object, act or process which moves something to an alternate course |
| somniferous | Inducing sleep; soporific |
| somnolent | Sleepy or drowsy |
| sonorous | Having or producing sound |
| stanch | To check or stop the flow of |
| stave | To break or smash inward; stave off 'to repel' |
| striated | Striped, grooved or ridged |
| subsume | To include in a more comprehensive category |
| sundry | Various; miscellaneous |
| supplicate | To beg |
| surreptitious | Obtained or done by clandestine or stealthy means |
| teetotal | Pertaining to complete abstinence from alcohol; total |
| temperance | Moderation; abstinence from or restraint in the use of alcohol |
| tendentious | Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan |
| tertiary | Third |
| timorous | Lacking courage |
| toady | A person who flatters or defers to for self-serving reasons; a sycophant |
| torrid | Excessively hot |
| tout | To solicit customers or votes brazenly; to promote or praise enthusiastically |
| transmogrify | To change in shape or form |
| trite | Made commonplace from overuse or repetition; hackneyed |
| turpitude | Depravity or baseness |
| turgid | Swollen or bloated; bloated or overly ornate language |
| upbraid | To reproach or reprove sharply |
| usury | The act of lending money at an exorbitant or illegally high rate |
| vacuity | A total absence or lack of |
| veracious | Honest or truthful; precise or accurate |
| verdant | Green with vegetation |
| veritable | Real, true or genuine |
| wheedle | To obtain through flattery; to cajole |
| whelp | The young offspring of a mammal |
| winsome | Attractive |
| woo | To court a woman romantically |
| wrangle | To bicker or quarrel; to obtain through argument; to herd |
| wreak | To bring about, cause or inflict (usu. something destructive) |
| yeoman | An assistant or other subordinate; workmanlike |
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