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GRE *2

pg 20 - 30

QuestionAnswer
Filigree delicate
to flout to reject
Foible weakness
Foppish vein in dress & appearance
Forebearance patience
To forestall to prevent by taking action in advance
Fractious unruly
Franchise rights granted by authority
Freshet sudden flood
Frowzy dirty
To fulminate to explode againse someone
Fulsome disgustingly excessive
Gadfly irritating person
To gainsay to deny
Gambit opening in chess match in which a piece is sacrified
To gambol to skip
To garner to gather
Garrulity talkativeness
Guantlet leather glove
Genre style of art illustrating the common life
Genteel elegant
To genuflect to bend at knee in worship
To gibe to mock
Glig fluent
Glutinous sticky
Gourmand epicure (gourmet)
To grouse to complain
Guarrulous Talkative
Guileless without deceit
Habiliments clothing
Hackneyed commonplace
halcyon calm
Hale healthy
Hap luck, chance
Harangue ranting speech
Hauteur haughtiness
Hegemony dominance
Hegira flight, escape
Hermetic occult
Heterodox unorthodox
Histrionic theatrical
Hoary white with age
Homily sermon
Hoyden boisterous girl
Hummock Small hill
Hyperborean situated in the extreme north
Iconoclastic attacking cherished tradition
Ignoble of lowly origin
Ignominious disgraceful
Imbroglio complicated situation
To imbrue to stain (especially with blood)
To immolate to offer as a sacrifice
Immolation sacrifice
To immure to imprison
Impalpable intangible
Impavid fearless
Impecunious without money
Impiety wickedness
Implacable incapable of being pacified
Impolitic unwise
To importune to entreat persistantly
To impugn to challenge
To impute to charge (of a crime)
Inchoate without order
Incisive cutting
Incongruity absurdity
Incorporeal without a material body
Increment increase
Incubus demon, nightmare
Indolence laziness
Inductive pertaining to suggestion after observing the specific
Ineffable undescribable
Ineluctable irresistible
Inertia being indisposed to move
Inexorable relentless
Inscrutable incomprehensible
Insensate without feeling
Insipid tasteless
Insouciant indifferent
Integument skin, outer covering
To interdict to prohibit
Interlocutory conversational, not final
Internecine deadly
To interpolate to insert between
Intractable unruly
Intrinsically naturally
Inured hardened
Invective abuse
To inveigh to denounce
Inveterate habitual
Irascible irritable
Irrefragable indisputable
Irrefrangible indistructible
To iterate to repeat
Jeremiad lament
Jingoism militant patriotism
Jocund merry
Juggernaut with crushing force
Junket merry picnic
To juxtapose to place side by side
Ken range of knowledge
Kismet fate
Kith familiar friends
Labile unstable
Laconic brief but to the point
Languor lassitude, depression
Largesse generous gift
Lassitude languor, weariness
Legerdemain sleight of hand
Lethargy torpor
Ligneous like wood
Limn to draw or paint
Limpit clear
To lionize to treat as a celebrity
Loquacious talkative
Lucre money
Lurid wild
To macerate to grow thin
Magniloquent pompous
Maladroit clumsy
Malaise distress
Malediction curse
To manumit to emancipate
To marshal to put in order
Martinet strict disciplinarian
Matrix die
Melange medley
Mendacious lying
Mendacity to lie
Metaphysical pertaining to speculatative philosophy
Mettle annoy
Miasma swamp gas
Milieu enviornment
To militate to work against
Minaret slender tower attached to a mosque
Minion a servile dependent
Misanthrope one who hate mankind
Misapprehension misunderstanding
Miscreant villain
Mysogynist woman hater
Modicum limited quantity of something
Modish fashionable
Moiety half, part
To mollify to soothe
Mordant biting
Mortise cavity for tenon
To mortise to fasten
Mugwump person neutral on a controversial issue
Multifarious greatly diversified
Munificent very generous
Nadir lowest point
Nether lower
To nettle to annoy
Nice precise
Nicety minute distinction
Nitid bright
Noisome foul smelling
Nonage immaturity
To nonplus to bring to a halt by confusion
Nosegay fragrant bouquet
Nuance shade of different color or meaning
Nubile marriageable
Obdurate stubborn
Objurgation scolding
Oblique slanting
Obloquy slander
Obsequious servile
Obsequy funeral ceremony
Obstreperous noisy
Obtrusive pushing forward
Obtuse blunt, stupid
To obviate to make unnecesary
To occlude to shut, close
Offal garbage
Officious trying to please excessively
Omniscient all-knowing
Onus burden
Opprobrious disgraceful
Orracular mysterious
Orotund inflated speech
Ostensible apparent
Ovoid egg-shaped
Oxymoron combination of contradictory terms
Paean song of praise
Palaver discussion
To palliate to mitigate
Paradigm example
Paregoric medicine that eases pain
Parley conference
Paroquial related to parishes
Paroxysm fit or attack of pain, laughter or rage
Parricide person who murders his own father
To parse to break a sentece down into grammatical parts
Parsimonious stingy
Pastiche imitation of anothers style of music or writing
Patina green crust on old bronze works
Paucity scarcity
Peculation embezzelment
Pedantic show off learning
Pejorative disparaging
Pellucid transparent
Pensile hanging
Penury extreme poverty
Perdition complete ruin
Peremptory demanding & leaving no choice
Perfidy violation of trust
Peripatetic walking about, moving
Peroration conclusion of an oration
Perquisite perk in a job, benefit
Pertinacious persistent
Petulant touchy, peevish
To philander to flirt
Philatelist stamp collector
Phlegmatic not easily disturbed
Physiognomy face
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