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GRE Vocabulary
gre vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |