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GRE English
pg 19-24
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Expedient | Suitable, practical |
| Expiate, to | To make amends for, to atone for |
| Expurge,to | To clean, to remove offensive parts |
| Extemporaneous | Impromptu, ad-lib |
| Extripate, to | To root up |
| Facile | Easy to do, at ease with, skillful |
| Factitous | Artificial, sham |
| Factotum | Handyman |
| Fancier | A person having a special interest in the knowledge of something. |
| Fatuous | Foolish, inane |
| Fawning | Brown-nosing, butt-kissing |
| Fealty | Loyalty, faithfulness |
| Felicitous | Apt, suitably expressed |
| Fell | Cruel, deadly |
| Ferment | Agitation, commotion,unrest |
| Fete, to | To honor at a celebration |
| Fiat | Command |
| Filial | Pertaining to a son or daughter |
| Filigree | Delicate, lace-like metalwork |
| Flout, to | To reject |
| Foible | weakness, slight fault |
| Foppish | Vain about dress and appearance |
| Forbearance | Patience |
| Forstall, to | To prevent by taking action in advance |
| Fractous | Unruly |
| Freshet | Sudden flood |
| Frowzy | Slovenly, unkempt, dirty |
| Fulmente, to | To thunder, to explode |
| Fulsome | Disgustingly excessive |
| Gadfly | Animal-biting fly, irritating person |
| Gainsay, to | To deny, to speak act against |
| Gambol, to | To skip. leap playfully |
| Garner, to | To gather |
| Garrulity | Talkativeness |
| Gauntlet | Leather glove |
| Genre | Style of art illustrating scenes of common life |
| Genteel | Well-bred, elegant |
| Genuflect, to | To bend the knee in worship |
| Gibe, to | To mock |
| Glib | Fluent |
| Glutinous | Sticky, viscous |
| Gourmand | Epicure |
| Grouse, to | To complain, to fuss |
| Guarrulous | Talkative, loquacious |
| Guileless | Without deceit |
| Habiliments | Garb, clothing |
| Hackneyed | Commonplace, trite |
| Halcyon | Calm, peaceful |
| Hale | Healthy |
| Hap | Chance, luck |
| Harangue | Noisy, ranting speech |
| Hauteur | Haughtiness |
| Hegemony | Dominance |
| Hegira | Flight, escape |
| Hermetic | Obscure and mysterious, |
| Heterodox | Unorthodox |
| Histronic | Theatrical |
| Hoary | White with age |
| Homily | Sermon |
| Hoyden | Boisterous girl |
| Hummock | Hyperborean |
| Iconoclastic | Attacking cherished traditions |
| Ignoble | Of lowly origin |
| Ignominious | Disgraceful |
| Imbroglio | Complicated situation |
| Imbrue, to | To drench, to stain (esp with blood) |
| Immolate, to | To offer as a sacrifice |
| Immolation | Sacrifice |
| Immure, to | To imprison |
| Impalpable | Inperceptible, intangible |
| Impavid | Fearless, intrepid, dauntless |
| Impecunious | Without money |
| Impiety | Irreverence, wickedness |
| Implacable | Incapable of being pacified |
| Impolitic | Unwise |
| Importune, to | To entreat urgently or persistantly |
| Impugn, to | To doubt, to challange, to gainsay |
| Impute, to | To attribute, to ascribe, to charge, |
| Inchoate | Recently begun, rudimentary, elementary, without order |
| Incisive | Cuttting, sharp |
| Incongruity | Lack of harmony, absurdity |
| Incorporal | Immaterial, without a material body |
| Increment | Increase |
| Incubus | demon, oppresive burden, nightmare |
| Indolence | Laziness |
| Iductive | Pertains to making a generalization after observing the specific |
| Ineffable | Undescribable |
| Ineluctable | Irresistable, unavoidable |
| Inertia | Being indisposed to move |
| Inexorable | Relentless, unyelding, implacable |
| Inimical | Unfriendly, hostile |
| Inscrutable | Incomprehensible, not to be discovered |
| Insensate | without feeling |
| Insipid | Tasteless, dull |
| Insouciant | Indifferent |
| Integument | Outer covering or skin |
| Interdict, to | To prohibit, to forbid |
| Interlocutory | Conversational, intermediate, not final |
| Internecine | Mutually destructive,deadly |
| Interpolate, to | To insert between |
| Intractable | Unruly, refractory |
| Intrinsically | Essentially, inherently, naturally |
| Inured | Accustomed, hardened |
| Invective | Abuse |
| Inveigh, to | To denounce |
| Inveterate | Deep-rooted, habitual |
| Irascible | Irritable, easily angered |
| Irrefragable | Indisputable |
| Irrefrangible | Unbreakable, indistructible |
| Iterate, to | To repeat |
| Jeremiad | Lament, complaint |
| Jingoism | Militant patriotism |
| Jocund | Merry |
| Juggernaut | Irrestible, crushing force |
| Junket | A merry feast or picnic |
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