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GRE Vocabulary
A list of words that I am personally weak with.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Invidious | envious, obnoxious, or offensive; likely to promote ill-will |
| Approbation | approval and praise |
| Limpid | clear, transparent |
| Anodyne | something that calms or soothes pain |
| Lapidary | relating to precious stones or the art of cutting them |
| Chicanery | deception by means of craft or guile |
| Myopic | lacking foresight, having a narrow view or short-range perspective |
| Arrogate | to claim without justification; to claim for oneself without right |
| Vernal | related to spring; fresh |
| Sycophant | a self-serving flatterer; a yes-man |
| Apocryphal | of questionable authority or authenticity |
| Distend | to swell, inflate, or bloat |
| Diffident | lacking self-confidence |
| Dissemble | to present a false appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character |
| Cosset | to pamper, treat with great care |
| Distaff | the female branch of a family |
| Decorum | appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety |
| Inchoate | not fully formed; disorganized |
| Puerile | childish, immature, or silly |
| Deleterious | subtly or unexpectedly harmful |
| Ameliorate | to make better; to improve |
| Fatuous | stupid; foolishly self-satisfied |
| Foment | to arouse or incite |
| Maudlin | overly sentimental |
| Blithe | joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought |
| Sobriquet | nickname |
| Exigent | urgent, requiring immediate action |
| Fallow | dormant; unused |
| Analgesia | a lessening of pain without loss of consciousness |
| Pithy | profound or substantial yet concise, succinct, and to the point |
| Precis | short summary of facts |
| Analogous | similar or alike in some way; equivalent to |
| Intrepid | fearless; resolutely courageous |
| Inure | to harden; accustom, become used to |
| Peripatetic | wandering from place to place, especially on foot |
| Garrulous | tending to talk a lot; wordy; loquacious; verbose; effusive |
| Gambol | to dance or skip around playfully |
| Lugubrious | sorrowful; mournful; dismal |
| Mendacious | dishonest |
| Caustic | biting in wit |
| Insipid | lacking interest or flavor |
| Ribald | humorous in a vulgar way |
| Requite | to return or repay |
| Ostentation | excessive showiness |
| Calumny | a false and malicious accusation; misrepresentation |
| Contumacious | rebellious |
| Investiture | ceremony conferring authority |
| Solecism | grammatical mistake; blunder in speech |
| Abase | to humble; disgrace |
| Desultory | jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
| Obviate | to prevent; to make unnecessary |
| Orotund | pompous |
| Slake | to calm down or moderate |
| Jingoism | belligerent support of one's country |
| Dissonance | a harsh and disagreeable combination especially of sounds |
| Tricenarian | Someone in their 30s |
| Lassitude | a state of diminished energy |
| Sexagenarian | Someone in their 60s |
| Licentious | immoral; unrestrained by society |
| Lissome | easily flexed; limber; agile |
| Exculpate | to clear from blame; prove innocent |
| Octogenarian | Someone in their 80s |
| Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound |
| Fecund | fertile; fruitful; productive |
| Vicissitude | a change or variation; ups and downs |
| Septuagenarian | Someone in their 70s |
| Winsome | charming; happily engaging |
| Ostensible | apparent |
| Palliate | to make less serious; ease |
| Martinet | strict disciplinarian; one who rigidly follows rules |
| Meretricious | gaudy; falsely attractive; specious; tawdry |
| Vicenarian | Someone in their 20s |
| Equivocate | to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
| Eschew | to shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful) |
| Profligate | corrupt; degenerate |
| Nonagenarian | Someone in their 90s |
| Intransigent | uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled |
| Prevaricate | to lie or deviate from the truth |
| Impecunious | poor; having no money |
| Denarian | Someone between 10 and 19 years of age |
| Imbue | to infuse, dye, wet, or moisten |
| Ignoble | having low moral standards; not noble in character; mean |
| Irascible | easily made angry |
| Aggrandize | to increase in power, influence, and reputation |
| Accretion | a growth in size; an increase in amount |
| Affected | phony; artificial |
| Quinquagenarian | Someone in their 50s |
| Inimical | hostile; unfriendly |
| Demur | to express doubts or objections |
| Estimable | admirable |
| Diurnal | existing during the day |
| Droll | amusing in a wry, subtle way |
| Pejorative | having bad connotations; disparaging |
| Hapless | unfortunate; having bad luck |
| Itinerant | wandering from place to place; unsettled |
| Diatribe | an abusive, condemnatory speech |
| Querulous | inclined to complain; irritable |
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