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MBS-MCAT-Verbal4
Stack #32421
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| polemical | --controversial, argued |
| luculent | --easily understood, lucid, clear |
| poignant | --physically painful, distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulating, emotional |
| engender | --cause, produce, give rise to |
| dissemble | --to hide, conceal, disguise |
| equanimity | --calmness of temperament |
| ingenuous | --naive, young, artless, frank, honest, sincere. Don't confuse with "ingenious"--very clever |
| epicure | --food lover, a connoisseur of food |
| salient | --prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant |
| inchoate | --not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary |
| pugnacious | --contentious, quarrelsome, contumacious, given to fighting, belligerent |
| peremptory | --urgent, imperative, unchallengeable, ending debate |
| exigency | --emergency, an urgent situation |
| ameliorate | --improve, make better |
| august | --majestic, venerable. Don't confuse with the month, "August," which is always capitalized. |
| minatory | --menacing, threatening |
| froward | --intractable, not willing to yield or comply, stubborn (NOT "forward") |
| fetter | --to shackle, put in chains |
| pundit | --a learned scholar, an authority on a subject |
| venal | --corruptible, open to bribery |
| belie | --contradict, give a false impression |
| epitome | --brief summary or abstract; representative example; a typical model |
| prosaic | --everyday, mundane, commonplace, trite, pedestrian |
| hermetic | --sealed by fusion |
| fervor | --zeal, ardor, intense emotion |
| endemic | --prevailing in a specific area |
| reticent | --reserved, untalkative, silent, taciturn |
| rapacious | --voracious, greedy, plundering |
| coeval | --of the same period, coexisting |
| austere | --forbiddingly stern, simple, unadorned, very plain |
| indolence | --laziness |
| pristine | --primitive, unspoiled, pure, as in earlier times, unadulterated |
| capricious | --fickle, whimsical, given to change, unpredictable |
| edifying | --enlightening |
| philistine | --a smug ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge |
| maladroit | --clumsy, bungling |
| detumescence | --diminishing or lessening of swelling |
| stygian | --gloomy, dark |
| calumniate | --to slander, present false accusal |
| baneful | --causing harm or ruin, pernicious, destructive |
| forestall | --prevent by taking action in advance, preempt |
| occult | --hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
| irascible | --irritable, easily angered |
| facetious | --humorous, funny, jocular |
| trenchant | --forceful, effective, vigorous; extremely perceptive, incisive |
| stymie | --to hinder, obstruct, or block |
| intransigence | --unwillingness to compromise, stubbornness, intractability |
| mundane | --worldly as opposed to spiritual; commonplace, everyday |
| mitigate | --appease, lessen, propitiate |
| abstruse | --difficult to comprehend; obscure |
| expatiate | --to roam, wander freely |
| propitiate | --appease, mitigate |
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