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GRE Vocabularie D
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abeyance | temporary suspension; a state of not happening or being used at present |
| accretion | the process of growth by increase, gradually |
| accrue | to receive in regular or increasing amounts over time |
| agile | able to move quickly and easily; able to think quickly and clearly; used for describing ways of planning and doing work in which it is understood that making changes as they are needed is an important part of the job |
| ale | A malt beverage, darker, heavier and more bitter than beer. |
| alleviate | to make more bearable, easier |
| alloy | a metal that is made by mixing two or more metals, or a metal and another substance; to spoil something or reduce it in value |
| apprehensive | fearful about the future; feeling worried about something that you are going to do or that is going to happen |
| approbation | approval or agreement often given by an official group |
| arcane | secret, only known by few people |
| ardor | enthusiasm, passion, a transitory warmth of feeling |
| arduous | requiring effort; difficult, needing a lot of energy |
| atonement | reparation for an ofense or injury. In religion: the reconciliation of God and humanking through Christ |
| auspicious | promising success, suggesting a positive and successful future; |
| austere | without excess or decoration; severe and unfriendly in manner; very simple, with only what is absolutely necessary |
| avow | to declare something openly |
| barrage | the action of continuously firing large guns to protect soldiers advancing on an enemy; a great number of complaints, criticisms, or questions suddenly directed at someone; a structure that is built across a river to provide water for farming, to produce |
| bask | to lie or sit enjoying the warmth especially of the sun |
| benefactor | someone who gives money to help an organization, society, or person |
| bigot | a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who does not like other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life |
| brittle | delicate and easily broken; unking and unpleasant |
| burgeon | to develop or grow quickly |
| cantankerous | arguing and complaining a lot; annoyed and tending to argue and complain |
| castigation | act of criticizing someone or something severely |
| centurion | an officer in the army of ancient Rome who was responsible for 100 soldiers |
| chastisement | a severe criticism or punishment |
| chisel | a tool with a long metal blade that has a sharp edge for cutting wood, stone, etc.; to use a chisel |
| clinch | to finally get or win something; to make someone decide what to do after a lot of thought or discussion; the position two people are in when they are holding each other tightly in their arms, when fighting or showing love |
| clot | an almost solid piece of something; a stupid person; to form clots; a lump; to become thicker and more solid, or to cause a liquid to do this |
| coda | a piece of music at the end of a longer pidce of music, usually separate from the basic structure; the final or extra part of a speech, event, or piece of writing; the end of a syllable |
| coerce | Persuade by force or threat |
| cognizant | understanding or realizing something |
| colloquial | (of words and expressions) informal and more suitable for use in speech than in writing |
| commemorate | to remember officially and five respect to a great person or event, especially by a pubic ceremony or by making a statue or special building |
| congeal | to change from a liquid or soft state to a thick or solid state |
| connotation | a feeling or idea that is suggested by a particular word although it need not be a part of the word's meaning, or something suggested by an object or situation |
| consume | to use fuel, energy, or time, especially in large amounts; to eat or drink, especially a lot of something; (be consumed by sth) = to have so much of a feeling that it affects everything you do |
| consummate | perfect, or complete in every way; to make a marriage or romantic relationship complete by having sex; to make something complete or perfect |
| contentious | causing, involving, or likely to cause disagreement and argument |
| contrite | feeling very sorry and guilty for something bad that you have done |
| cornucopia | a large amount or supply of something |
| crease | a line on cloth or paper where it has been folded or crushed; a line drawn on the ground where the player stands to hit the ball in cricket |
| curmudgeon | an old person who is often in a bad mood |
| decree | an official statement that something must happen; to officially decide or order that something must happen |
| defer | to delay something until a later time |
| deplete | to reduce something in size or amount, especially supplies of energy, money |
| dereliction | a failure to do what you should do; especially of a building, a state of not being cared for |
| derogatory | showing strong disapproval and not showing respect |
| deviance | the quality of not being usual, and of being generaly considered to be unacceptable |
| diatribe | an angry speech or piece of writing that severely criticizes something or someone |
| dilettante | a person who is or seems to be interested in a subject, but whose understanding of it is not very deep or serious |
| disrobe | to remove your clothes, especially an outer or formal piece of clothing worn for ceremonies |
| dissolution | the act or process of ending an official organization or legal agreement |
| divulge | to make something secret known |
| dogmatic | Certain that you are right and that everyone else is wrong; (of a person or a group) strongly expressing your beliefs as if they were facts |
| doleful | very sad |
| dubious | thought not to be completely true or not able to be trusted; feeling doubt or not feeling certain |
| duplicity | Dishonest talk or behaviour, especially by saying different things to two people. |
| earthenware | made of quite rough clay, often shaped with the hands; plates, bowls, cups, that are made of rough clay |
| efficacy | the ability, especially of a medicine or a method of achieving something, to produce the intended result; the quality of being effective |
| effluvia | an unpleasant or harmful odor, secretion, or discharge |
| embezzle | to secretly take money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for |
| emote | to show emotion in a way that makes it very clear what you are feeling |
| endearing | making someone like you; easily able to make people like you |
| endorse | to make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone; to appear in an advertisement, saying that you use and like a particular product, to write something in order to give permission for something, especially your name on the ba |
| engrave | to cut words, pictures, or patterns into the surface of metal, stone; if something is engraved, it is something you will never forget |
| entice | to persuade someone to do something by offering them something pleasant |
| epicurean | getting pleasure from food and drink of high quality |
| equilibrium | a state of balance; a calm mental state; the state in which the reactants and products do not change because the rate of forward reaction is equal to the rate of reverse reaction |
| equipoise | a situation in which things are perfectly balanced |
| euthanasia | the act of killing someone who is very ill or very old so that they do not suffer any more |
| evasive | answering questions in a way that is not direct or clear, especially because you do not want to give an honest answer; done to avoid something bad happening |
| exhaustive | complete and including everything; detailed and complete |
| extempore | done or said without any preparation or thought |
| extinct | not now existing; (of a volcano) one that is not now active |
| feckless | weak in character and lacking determination |
| felon | a person who is guilty of a serious crime |
| feral | existing in a wild state, especially describing an animal that was previously kept by people |
| ferment | to change into alcohol because of a chemical process; a state of confusion, change, and lack of order or fighting |
| festoon | to decorate a room or other place for a special occasion by hanging coloured paper, lights, or flowers around it, especially in curves; a decorative chain made of coloured paper, flowers, etc. hung in a curve between two points |
| fetid | smelling extremely bad and stale |
| flaunting | to show or make obvious something you are proud of in order to get admiration |
| flimsy | very thin, or easily broken or destroyed; a flimsy argument, excuse is weak and difficult to believe |
| flinch | to make a sudden, small movement because of pain or fear |
| flop | to fall or drop heavily; if a book, lay, fil, etc., flops, it is not successful; a failure |
| foolproof | (of a plan or machine) so simple and easy to understand that it is unable to go wrong or be used wrongly |
| fringe | the outer or less important part of an area, group, or activity; a decorative edge of hanging narrow strips of material or threads on a piece of clothing or material; an area of hair hanging over the forehead that is cut shorter than the rest of the hair |
| garrulous | having the habit of talking a lot, especially about things that are not important |
| germane | ideas or information that is germane to a particular subject or situation is connected with and important to it |
| gnaw | to bite or chew something repeatedly, usually making a hole in it or gradually destroying it; to make you feel worried or uncomfortable |
| gorge | a deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually formed by a river or stream cutting through hard rock; to eat until you are unable to eat any more; make someone's gorge rise = to make someone feel shocked and angry |
| heretic | someone who has an opinion that is opposite to or against the official or popular opinion; someone who has beliefs that are against the principles of a particular religion |
| hollow | having a hole or empty space inside; a situation, feeling, or word without value, or not true or sincere; of a sound as if made by hitting an |
| idolatry | very great admiration or respect for someone, often too great; the act of praying to a picture or object as part of a religion |
| imbroglio | an unwanted, difficult, and confusing situation, full of trouble and problems |
| imperative | extremely important or urgent; used to describe the form of a verb that is usually used for giving orders |
| imperious | unpleasantly proud and expecting to be obeyed; with an attitude of authority |
| imperturbable | always staying calm and controlled, even in difficult situations that would cause other people to worry |
| implicit | suggested but not communicated directly; complete and without any doubts |
| impromptu | done or said without earlier planning or preparation |
| incredulous | not wanting or not able to believe something, and usually showing this |
| indistinct | not clear |
| ingenuous | honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly |
| insipid | not having a strong taste or character, or having no interest or energy |
| intersperse | to mix one thing in with another in a way that is not regular |
| introspection | examination of and attention to your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings |
| irresolute | not able or willing to take decisions or actions |
| irrevocable | impossible to change |
| jagged | rough and with sharp points |
| jejune | very simple or childish; boring and not interesting |
| lachrymose | sad or likely to cry often and easily |
| latent | present but needing particular conditions to become active, obvious, or completely developed |
| legacy | money or property that you receive from someone after they die; something that is a part of your history or that remains from an earlier time; a situation that has developed as a result of past actions and decisions |
| lurk | to wait or move in a secret way so that you cannot be seen, especially because you are about to attack someone or do something wrong; (of a unpleasant feeling or quality) to exist although is not always noticeable; to spend time in a chat room or on a soc |
| lustrous | very shiny |
| massacre | An act of killing a lot of people; a bad defeat, especially in sport, a competition, or election |
| maul | the act of an animal attacking a person and injuring them with its teet or claws; to criticize something or someone severely |
| mendicant | someone, especially a member of a religious group, who lives by asking people they do not know for money |
| mephitic | especially of a gas or vapor, foul-smelling; noxious |
| meticulous | very careful and with great attention to every detail |
| molt | (of a bird or animal) to lose feathers, skin, or hair as a natural process before a new growth of feathers, skin, or hair |
| nadir | the worst moment, or the moment of least hope and least achievement; the point at which something is at its lowest value or level; the point directly below a particular place |
| neophyte | someone who has recently become involved in an activity and is still learning about it |
| nihilism | a belief that all political and religious organizations are bad, or a system of thought that says that there are no principles or beliefs that have any meaning or can be true |
| ostracism | the action of intentionally not including someone in a social group or activity |
| overweening | being too proud or confident in yourself |
| paean | a song, film, or piece of writing that praises someone or something very enthusiastically |
| palliate | to reduce the bad effects of something; to reduce pain without curing its cause |
| pedestrian | a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go; not interesting, showing very little imagination |
| penitent | showing that you are sorry for something you have done because you feel it was wrong; a person who is performing a formal religious act to show that they are sorry for something they have done wrong |
| penurious | extremely poor |
| pernicious | having a very harmful effect or influence |
| petrous | relating to the very hard section of bone surrounding the inner ear |
| philanthropist | a person who helps the poor, especially by giving them money |
| pivotal | central and important; important because other things depend on it |
| plaque | a flat piece of metal, stone, wood, or plastic with writing on it that is attached to a wall, door, or other object; a substance containing bacteria that forms on the surface of teeth |
| plummet | to fall very quickly and suddenly; to go down in amount or value very quickly and suddenly |
| presage | to show or suggest that something, often something un pleasant, will happen |
| prevaricate | to avoid telling the truth or saying exactly what you think |
| proclivity | the fact that someone likes something or likes to do something, especially something considered morally wrong |
| proliferate | to increase a lot and suddenly in number |
| prone | likely to suffer from an illness or show a particular negative characteristic, lying face down |
| provisional | for the present time but likely to change |
| prune | to cut off branches from a tree, bush, or plant, especially so that it will grow better in the future; to reduce something by removing things that are not necessary; a dried plum |
| pry | to try to find out private facts about a person; to move or lift something by pressing a tool against a fixed point; to get something with much effort |
| punctilious | very careful to behave correctly or to give attention to details |
| pundit | a person who knows a lot about a particular subject and is therefore often asked to give an opinion about it |
| pungency | the quality of having a sharp strong smell or taste; the quality of being spoken or written in a way that has a strong effect |
| putrefaction | the state of decaying |
| raconteur | someone wo tells funny or interesting stories |
| rapacious | having or showing a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force |
| recast | to change the form of something, or to change an actor in a play or film |
| reiterate | to say something again, once or several times |
| rejuvenation | the act or process of making someone look or feel young and energetic again; the act or process of making an organization or system more effective by introducing new methods, ideas or people |
| remonstrate | to complain to someone or about something |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept something or someone as true, good, or reasonable; to refuse to accept or obey something or someone; to decide that an agreement is no longer effective; to decide that you will not pay back money that you owe |
| repulsive | extremely unpleasant or unacceptable |
| ruffian | a violent, wild, and unpleasant person, usually a man |
| sadistic | getting pleasure, sometimes sexual, by being cruel to or hurting another person |
| salvage | to save goods from damage or destruction, especially from a ship that has sunk or been damaged or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood; to try to make a bad situation better |
| satiate | to completely satisfy yourself or a need, especially with food or pleasure, so that you could not have any more |
| sawdust | the dust and small pieces of wood that are produced when you cut wood with a saw |
| scabbard | a long, thin cover for the blade of a sword, usually attached to a belt |
| scent | a pleasant natural smell; a smell produced by an animal that acts as a signal to other animals; a pleasant-smelling liquid that people put on their skin |
| scorch | to (cause to) change color with dry heat, or to burn slightly; (especially of motorcycles and cars) to travel or be driven very fast |
| secular | not having any connection with religion |
| skiff | a small, light boat for rowing or sailing, usually used by only one person |
| slack | not tight, loose; showing little activity, not busy or happening in a positive way; a pair of trousers, that are not part of a suit; very small pieces and dust from coal; to work more slowly and with less effort than usual, or to go more slowly; resources |
| sluggard | a lazy person |
| soporific | causing sleep or making a person want to sleep |
| splice | to join two pieces of rope, fil, etc. together at their ends in order to form one long piece |
| steeply | suddenly or by a large amount; at a sharp angle |
| stickler | a person who thinks that a particular type of behavior is very important, and always follows it or tries to make other people follow it; someone who believes in closely following rules or in mantaining a high standard of behavior |
| stifled | past participle of stifle: to (cause to) be unable to breath because you have no air; to prevent something from happening, being expressed, or continuing |
| streak | a long, thin mark that is easily noticed because it is very different from the area surrounding it; an often unpleasant characteristic that is very different from other characteristics; a short period of good or bad luck; something that happens or is done |
| strive | to try very hard to do something or to make something happen, especially for a long time or against difficulties |
| suffice | to be enough |
| sullied | past participle: to spoil something that is pure or someone's perfect reputation; to make something dirty |
| supersede | to replace something, especially something older or more old-fashioned; if a law, rule, agreement, etc. supersedes another, it replaces it |
| suppress | to end something by force; to prevent something from being seen or expressed or from operating |
| sycophant | someone who praises powerful or rich people in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them |
| talon | a sharp nail on the foot of a bird that it uses when hunting animals; a form that comes with some types of bond, that can be used to order new coupons |
| tassel | a group of short threads or ropes held together at one end, used as a hanging decoration on hats, curtains, furniture, etc |
| tepid | (of liquid) not very warm |
| timorous | nervous and without much confidence |
| tortuous | with many turns and changes of direction, not direct or simple |
| transient | lasting for only a short time, temporary; someone who lives only temporarily in a place |
| treacherous | if the ground or sea is treacherous, it is extremely dangerous, especially because of bad weather conditions; a person that deceives someone who trusts them, or has no loyalty |
| trickle | if a liquid trickles, it flows slowly and without force in a thin line; to arrive or move somewhere slowly and gradually, in small numbers |
| tyro | a person who is new to an activity |
| unfeigned | genuine, sincere |
| veer | to change direction, normally suddenly |
| vehemence | the forceful expression of strong feelings |
| verisimilitude | the quality of seeming true or of having the appearance of being real |
| verve | great energy and enthusiasm |
| vigorous | very forceful or energetic; healthy and strong |
| vindictive | having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you; unwilling to forgive |
| voluptuous | a voluptuous woman has a soft, curved, sexually atractive body; an experience that gives you a lot of pleasure because it feels extremely soft and comfortable or it sounds or looks extremely beautiful |
| wanton | (of something bad, such as dame, cruelty, waste) extreme and showing no care at all; behaving or appearing in a very sexual way |
| yarn | thread used for making cloth or for knitting; a story, usually a long one with a lot of excitement or interest |
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