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Unfamiliar Words 2
Unfamiliar GRE Word List 2
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| • sagacious | adjective * showing wisdom and good judgement [Barron] * of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment; discerning [Taisha] * having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage [Nandigam] |
| • chalice | noun * large cup for holding wine, esp one from which consecrated wine is drunk at the Eucharist [Barron] |
| • arcade | |
| • attrition | |
| • hallow | |
| • exiguous | |
| • recessive | |
| • expenditure | |
| • effluvium | |
| • scutter | |
| • reprisal | |
| • adjure | |
| • victuals | |
| • anathema | |
| • dissident | |
| • lank | |
| • purported | |
| • expiation | |
| • gentry | |
| • auspice | |
| • purloin | |
| • inimitable | |
| • redolent | |
| • minaret | |
| • disbar | |
| • pinnace | |
| • languor | |
| • extort | |
| • comestible | |
| • rheumy | |
| • embezzlement | |
| • approbation | |
| • notch | |
| • conciliatory | |
| • maven | |
| • monogram | |
| • sectarian | |
| • vortex | |
| • pulpit | |
| • executor | |
| • optometrist | |
| • yokel | |
| • anemia | |
| • propulsive | |
| • schematic | |
| • avow | |
| • aristocracy | |
| • reconnaissance | |
| • coquette | |
| • rabble | |
| • infinitesimal | |
| • anomaly | |
| • cognizant | |
| • unconscionable | |
| • mendacious | |
| • economy | |
| • bureaucracy | |
| • rhetoric | |
| • malinger | |
| • glade | |
| • extirpate | |
| • adumbrate | |
| • nexus | |
| • affidavit | |
| • mogul | |
| • arcane | |
| • filch | |
| • reprobation | |
| • fervor | |
| • incise | |
| • rebut | |
| • irreproachable | |
| • oasis | |
| • horde | |
| • brook | |
| • facsimile | |
| • bask | |
| • disquiet | |
| • litter | |
| • piscatorial | |
| • highbrow | |
| • demoralize | |
| • egotism | |
| • leaven | |
| • tart | |
| • nadir | |
| • boding | |
| • maladroit | |
| • amoral | |
| • tempestuous | |
| • phlegmatic | |
| • scion | |
| • indemnity | |
| • sepulchral | |
| • rosy | |
| • detract | |
| • sanctuary | |
| • anomalous | |
| • connivance | |
| • hibernal | |
| • largesse | |
| • elegy | |
| • hearten | |
| • stultify | |
| • manifold | |
| • eddy | |
| • lexicographer | |
| • austere | |
| • fecundity | |
| • fallacious | |
| • grandiose | |
| • delinquent | |
| • sebaceous | |
| • gruel | |
| • impolitic | |
| • pedestal | |
| • gratuity | |
| • pestilential | |
| • polished | |
| • taskmaster | |
| • patriarch | |
| • regime | |
| • odyssey | |
| • stipple | |
| • sheath | |
| • zealot | |
| • chevron | |
| • congruous | |
| • denomination | |
| • celestial | |
| • troupe | |
| • ballad | |
| • vituperate | |
| • deport | |
| • backset | |
| • embitter | |
| • flay | |
| • plaudit | |
| • velocity | |
| • parlance | |
| • abash | |
| • formidable | |
| • primogeniture | |
| • torrid | |
| • daub | |
| • bearing | |
| • epigram | |
| • mendicant | |
| • noisome | |
| • torrent |