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GRE Vocabulary
gre vocab
Term | Definition |
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lassitude | weariness, lethargy |
monastic | cloistered, austere |
underscore | emphasize |
tractable | malleable, yielding |
licentious | hedonistic, profligate, dissolute |
libertine | concupiscent, prurient, debased |
meretricious | insincere, pretentious |
obviate | preclude, foreclose |
inveterate | established, hardened, staunch |
untenable | inadmissible, unsound |
stricture | censure, reproof |
specious | deceptive, fallacious |
sanctimonious | smug, moralizing |
salient | prominent, notable |
ribald | vulgar, bawdy, indecorous |
opprobrium | vituperation, obloquy, calumny |
orotund | turgid, bombastic, grandiloquent |
overwrought | agitated, distraught, on edge |
rarefied | elevated, elite |
soporific | enervated, languorous |
recondite | abstruse, arcane |
penury | destitution, indigence |
impecunious | impoverished |
welter | confusion, tangle |
panegyric | |
prevaricate | |
aver | |
assiduous | |
salutary | |
pertinent | |
perfidy | |
stigmatic | |
impolitic | |
eschew | |
efface | |
comity | alliance |
felicitous | |
pithy | |
chauvinism | |
atavistic | |
malapropism | |
mordacious | |
probity | |
pertinacity | |
intransigence | |
diffident | |
forbear | desist, belay |
mordant | caustic, biting |
incisive | trenchant, perspicacious |
abase | denigrate, disparage |
abrogate | repudiate, vitiate |
deracinate | tear up |