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Level 7
Level 7 GRE Vocab
Term | Definition |
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abjure | To renounce or repudiate under oath |
abrogate | To abolish or repeal through authority |
aesthete | A deep admirer of beauty or aesthetics (often excessively so) |
aggress | To initiate an attack, fight or war |
amortize | To liquidate a debt by installment payments into a sinking fund |
animadversion | The utterance of criticism or censure |
apogee | The farthest or highest point; the apex |
apostate | One who has abandoned his beliefs |
apse | A domed projection of a building |
atavistic | Suggesting the characteristics of an ancestor or a primitive type |
bailiwick | A person's specific area of skill, interest or authority |
beatify | To make blessedly happy; to mark someone as blessed and worthy of veneration in a particular region |
bedaub | To smear or soil; To ornament in a vulgar fashion |
bequest | The act of giving or passing on something to another (usu. by will) |
besotted | Stupefied (usu. from liquor); inebriated |
bilge | To lowest part of a ship's hull; the bulging portion of a barrel |
bilious | Of or relating to bile; sickly; having a peevish disposition |
bowdlerize | To modify content by shortening, simplifying or skewing; to expurgate prudishly (usu. a book) |
bumptious | Crudely or loudly assertive; pushy |
cabal | A conspiratorial group of people; a secret scheme |
cadge | To beg or get by begging |
canard | A false and deliberately misleading story |
cant | Insincere speech full of platitudes or pious expressions; singsong speech |
cavil | To raise trivial objections or find fault unnecessarily |
churl | A rude, boorish person |
cipher | Some or something having no value; a nonentity |
comestible | Edible; something edible |
comport | To conduct oneself in a particular manner; to agree or correspond |
conflagration | A large, destructive fire |
craven | Cowardly |
defenestration | The act of throwing someone out a window |
descry | To catch sight of; to detect through careful observation |
diaphanous | Transparent |
diffidence | Self-distrust |
dilatory | Tending to cause delay |
dilettante | One who dabbles in an art or field of knowledge; amateurish |
dint | Force or effort; power |
discomfit | To make uneasy or confused; to disconcert or frustrate |
dissemble | To disguise or hide behind a false appearance; to feign |
docent | A teacher or lecturer |
ecumenical | Of worldwide scope; universal |
educe | To draw out; to deduce |
effete | Depleted of energy or effectiveness; marked by decadence; effeminate |
egress | An exit; the act of exiting |
emolument | Payment for an office or employment; compensation |
epicure | A person with refined tastes or devoted to please |
eponym | A person whose name is or is thought to be the source of the name of something, such as a people or a location (e.g. Romulus = the eponymous founder of Rome) |
equable | Unvarying; steady |
equanimity | The quality of being even-tempered and calm; composure |
evince | To show or clearly demonstrate |
excoriate | To tear the skin off of; to criticize severely |
exigency | A state or quality of requiring much effort or action; a need |
expatiate | To wander freely; to speak or write at length |
expostulate | To reason earnestly with someone in order to persuade or correct |
factious | Given to or promoting internal dissension |
fallow | Plowed but left unseeded; characterized by inactivity |
fascicle | A small bundle; one section of a book published in many parts |
fatuous | Foolish |
feckless | Feeble or ineffective |
fecund | Productive of offspring or vegetation; fruitful |
fetid | Having an offensive odor |
fop | A man preoccupied with his clothes and manners; a dandy |
forbearance | Patient endurance or toleration of offenses |
ford | A shallow place in a body of water where one can cross |
forestall | To delay or hinder by taking precautionary measures; to anticipate |
forswear | To renounce or disavow under oath |
frieze | A decorative horizontal band |
gamut | The whole range or sequence |
gerontic | Of or relating to old age |
gewgaw | A decorative trinket; a bauble |
gourmand | A lover of fine food and drink; a gluttonous eater |
grandiloquence | Pompous or bombastic speech or expression |
immolate | To kill as a sacrifice |
impassive | Devoid of or not subject to emotion |
importunate | Urgent in character |
importune | To harass with persistent demands or entreaties |
impute | To attribute or credit; to charge with fault or responsibility for |
inculcate | To teach by frequent repetition; to indoctrinate |
ineluctable | Impossible to avoid; inevitable |
inexorable | Incapable of being persuaded by treaty; Unrelenting |
interdict | An authoritative act of prohibition; to prohibit authoritatively |
intransigent | Refusing to moderate a position; uncompromising |
inveigh | To give vent to angry disapproval; to protest vehemently |
invidious | Tending to rouse ill will, animosity or resentment |
jocose | Given to joking; merry |
juggernaut | Something that elicits blind devotion; a terrible, destructive force |
junket | To hold a party or banquet; a party, banquet or tour |
junta | A group of military officers ruling a country after seizing power |
kowtow | To show servile deference; the act of doing so |
lachrymose | Given to weeping; tearful |
leviathan | Something unusually large of its kind (esp. a ship); a large animal (usu. a whale or sea monster) |
lien | A legal claim or hold on a property used as security for a debt |
ligature | Something used for tying or binding; an alphabetic character combining two or more letters |
livery | A uniform or distinctive manner of dress |
lodestone | One that attracts strongly |
malapropism | Ludicrous misuse of a word |
mendacious | Lying; false or untrue |
mendicant | A beggar |
missive | A written message; a letter |
munificent | Extremely generous |
nexus | A link or tie |
nice | Pleasing or agreeable in nature; overly delicate or fastidious |
obsequious | Exhibiting servile behavior; fawning |
obtest | To supplicate or entreat |
obtrude | To impose on others without invitation or with undue insistence |
obdurate | To close or obstruct |
obverse | Facing or turned towards the observer; serving as a counterpart |
obvert | To turn so as to present another side to; to alter the appearance of |
overweening | Presumptuously arrogant; excessive or immoderate |
paladin | A paragon of chivalry or heroic champion; a strong supporter of defender a cause |
palliate | To make an offense or crime appear less serious; to mitigate |
palpate | To examine or explore by touching (usu. an organ) |
panacea | A remedy for all diseases, evils or difficulties; a cure-all |
panegyric | A formal public eulogy; elaborate praise |
pedant | One who exhibits learning or scholarship in an ostentatious manner |
pellucid | Translucent |
penultimate | Next to last |
peregrinate | To travel through, over or from place to place (esp. on foot) |
perfidy | Treachery |
perfunctory | Done routinely and with little interest or care |
peripatetic | Walking about from place to place; traveling on foot |
perseveration | The act or tendency to repeat something continuously despite the cessation of the original stimulus |
persnickety | Overly particular about details; snobbish or pretentious |
perspicacity | Acuteness of discernment or understanding |
petrous | Stony |
plenary | Complete in all respects; fully attended by all qualified members |
polyglot | A person who speaks two or more languages |
precatory | Relating to or expressing entreaty or supplication |
precept | A rule or principle prescribing a particular course of conduct |
prolix | Excessively wordy |
promulgate | To make known by public declaration; to announce officially |
propinquity | Nearness |
propitiate | To conciliate or appease |
protuberant | Bulging |
provenance | Place of origin; proof of authenticity or past ownership |
provident | Providing for the future; frugal |
prurient | Inordinately interested in sex; lascivious |
putrefaction | Decomposition of organic material into foul-smelling matter |
purvey | To supply or furnish; to advertise or circulate |
raffish | Cheaply vulgar in appearance or nature; unconventional in a carefree manner |
rapacious | Greedy |
recidivism | A tendency to lapse into a previous pattern of behavior |
remonstrate | To say or plead in protest; to present an objection |
remunerate | To pay a suitable equivalent for goods or services already provided |
repast | A meal; figuratively, any refreshment |
restive | Resisting control |
ribald | Characterized or indulging in vulgar, lewd humor |
risible | Eliciting laughter; ludicrous |
sanguine | Ruddy; passionate; cheerfully confident |
scurvy | A disease caused by vitamin C deficiency; mean or contemptible |
sententious | Pithy; abounding in or given to pompous moralizing |
septic | Causing, affected by or relating to sepsis (poisoning by microscopic organisms); infected or putrefying |
simian | Resembling a monkey or an ape; a monkey or ape |
sinuous | Characterized by curves or turns |
slake | To satisfy a craving (usu. thirst); to quench |
somatic | Of, relating to or affecting the body |
stint | To be sparing with; a fixed amount of work allotted |
suborn | To induce to commit an unlawful act |
subreption | A calculated misrepresentation through concealment of the facts |
subrogate | To substitute (one person) for another |
supernumerary | Exceeding a fixed or standard number; extra or superfluous |
suss | To discover or figure out |
syllogism | Deductive reasoning (e.g. All men are mortal, I am human, therefore I am mortal); a subtle or specious piece of reasoning |
sylvan | Relating to or characteristic of the forest |
syncopate | To shorten by removing something from the middle |
tamp | To pack down by a succession of blows or taps |
tautology | Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy |
toothsome | Delicious or luscious; pleasant or attractive |
trenchant | Cutting deeply and quickly; incisive, distinct |
turbid | Muddy or muddled; in a state of turmoil |
tyro | A beginner in learning anything; a novice |
umbrage | A sense of offense or resentment; shade |
uncouth | Crude or unrefined; ungraceful or clumsy |
unctuous | Oily; characterized by exaggerated or insincere earnestness |
vagary | An extravagant or erratic notion of action |
vainglory | Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity |
venal | Mercenary or corrupt; open to bribery |
venial | Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable |
venous | Of, relating to or contained in the veins |
vernal | Of or relating to springtime |
verisimilitude | The quality of appearing to be true or real |
vetted | Thoroughly examined or evaluated |
vicissitude | A change of condition, circumstance or fortune (oft. unexpected) |
viscid | Thick and adhesive (used of a fluid) |
vitriol | Bitterly abusive feeling or expression |
vitiate | To reduce the value, validity or purity of; to debase |
vituperate | To criticize harshly or abusively |
voluble | Fluent |
wag | A humorous or droll person |
welter | To move or sit as if in or on water; a confused mass or jumble |
wend | To go on or proceed |
yon | Yonder; something at a distance |
zeitgeist | The spirit of the time; the tastes and outlook of a generation |
zephyr | A gentle breeze; something that is soft and airy |