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List of GRE words that I miss.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| emollient | Softening and soothing, especially to the skin |
| epicure | a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) |
| prevaricate | n 1: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth; equivocation |
| veracity | Adherence to the truth; truthfulness |
| minatory; minacious | Of a menacing or threatening nature |
| agog | Full of excitement or interest; in eager desire; eager, keen. |
| iconoclast | One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. |
| obdurate | Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent |
| itinerant | One who travels from place to place. |
| propitiate | to appease, to conciliate |
| propitious | auspicious, favorable |
| plangent | pounding, thundering, resounding |
| pusillanimous | cowardly, craven |
| saturnine | gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
| sententious | aphoristic; tending to moralize excessively |
| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
| salacious | lustful, bawdy, lascivious |
| lascivious | Given to or expressing lust; lecherous. |
| ineluctable | certain, inevitable |
| philatelist, philatelist | The collection and study of postage stamps, postmarks, and related materials; stamp collecting. |
| quixotic | not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic |
| captious | Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults |
| fastidious | Possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail. |
| impecunious | Lacking money; penniless |
| mendicant | Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging |
| punctilious | Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct |
| histrionic | characteristic of acting or a stage performance |
| rebarbative | Serving or tending to irritate or repel. |
| prosaic | Lacking in imagination and spirit; dull. |
| complaisant | Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging. |
| pulchritude | physical beauty (especially of a woman) |
| beatitude | # Supreme blessedness or happiness. |
| indolent | Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy. |
| provident | Providing for future needs or events; Prudent, thrifty |
| putative | thought, assumed, or alleged to be such or to exist; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds |
| myopic | unable to see distant objects clearly; lacking foresight or scope |
| restive | being in a tense state; impatient especially under restriction or delay |
| salubrious | Conducive or favorable to health or well-being. |
| loquaciousness | very talkative; garrulous. |
| reticent | Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself. |
| protean | Readily taking on varied shapes, forms, or meanings. |
| puerile | # Belonging to childhood; juvenile. |
| pugnacious | ready and able to resort to force or violence; Combative in nature; belligerent |
| puissant | powerful; potent |
| turgid | Swollen, bloated, puffed up; as, "a turgid limb."; Swelling in style or language; bombastic, pompous; as, "a turgid style of speaking." |
| prescient | perceiving the significance of events before they occur |
| parsimony | Unusual or excessive frugality; extreme economy or stinginess. |
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