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GRE vocab June2010
gre vocabulary words
| Question | Answer | hint |
|---|---|---|
| Catholic | universal, free from provincial prejudices or attachments, broad wide-ranging tastes and interests, broad minded and liberal | |
| Xenophobe | fear of unknown or different | |
| Emaciated | very thin, esp. from disease | "emaciated bony hands" |
| Vacillate | to waiver in mind or opinion; be indecisive | |
| Limn | to represent in drawing or painting | |
| Fickle | likely to change, non constant or loyal | a fickle lover, fickle weather |
| Convivial | friendly, agreeable | a convivial atmosphere |
| Asperity | something hard to endure, sharp, harsh | asperity of northern winters in ASPEN |
| Torpid | sluggish | tortoise |
| Trenchant | having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | trenchant distinctions between right and wrong |
| Venal | open to bribery | antonym-honest |
| Peripatetic | person who walks from place to place | wanderer is peripatetic |
| Desultory | lack of plan or regularity, jump from one thing to another | desultory conversation/thoughts |
| Decry | condemn, express strong disapproval of | |
| cryptic | of an obscure nature;having a secret or hidden meaning | crypt-secret, incrypted |
| Prolix | verbose,tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length | Prolonged; a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know" |
| assay | trial or attempt, make an effort | essay |
| indefatigable | tireless, showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality | un fatigue able |
| intrepid | fearless, bold, brave | |
| parsimonious | excessively unwilling to spend | purse my money |
| mendicant | beggar | |
| lavish | very generous | |
| pecuniary | relating to or involving money | impecunious |
| ostentatious | intended to attract notice and impress others | Stuntatious |
| largess | magnanimity extremely liberal and generous of spirit | largest heart |
| epicurean | a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | |
| minatory | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | military people are very threatening most of the times. |
| excoriate | express strong disapproval of, condemn, decry | ex corey friend |
| euphemism | an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh | pass away, a bit too much to drink, disadvantaged |
| salutary | promoting health | salubrious |
| circumspect | heedful (giving close thoughtful attention to) of potential consequences | inspect circumstance |
| epithet | a defamatory or abusive word or phrase | Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror, or insults. For example, if you hear the phrase "racial epithets" it means derogatory terms referring to a particular race. |
| lambaste | censure severely or angrily | |
| Occult | supernatural practices and techniques OR hidden and concealed, beyond comprehension | diffiCULT to understand |
| gainsay | take exception to, challenge, dispute | gained weight, say what? |
| ambivalence | mixed feelings or emotions | ambulance emotions are mixed, good im going, bad im here |
| despot | a cruel and oppressive dictator, tyrant | kill on de spot |
| interpolate | to insert, mix, or combine new information with existing information. | insert plate between other plates |
| platitude | a trite or obvious remark | flat attitude |
| impetuous | hot headed or impulsive | not pet to us |
| Foment | instigate, agitate, try to stir up public opinion | torment |
| Sycophant | asskisser, a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | psycho fan |
| obsequious | attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | |
| fatuous | devoid of intelligence, mindless | fatass |
| mendacious | given to lying | "I'll mend the city" |
| trite | repeated too often; over-familiar through overuse | |
| upbraid | express criticism towards | ugly up braid |
| discordant | conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound, not in agreement or harmony | dis-cord |
| ennui | dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy | Annoyed, anything new? |
| inured | accustomed to accepting something undesirable | great i'm injured again |
| onerous | troubling; burdensome | weighing on us |
| perspicacious | acutely perceptive; having keen discernment, being able to figure things out | good perspective; figure out why i'm perspiring |
| precipitate | 1)acting with excessive impulse 2) to cause or happen before anticipated or required 3) to fall | 1) sip b4 taste, don't impulsively drink 2)precipitates outside b4 u think |
| refute | to disprove; successfully argue against | |
| relegate | to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position | make relatives stand at the gate |
| veracity | truthfulness, honesty | accuracy |
| virulent | extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic | violent |
| ascetic | one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion | ascetics leave all aesthetics |
| contentious | argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy or disagreement | content-ew U.S.- that would cause controversy |
| contrite | regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness | not right- regret it |
| exonerate | to remove blame | ex- 1st rate criminal |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent | recipient of awareness |
| inveigle | to obtain by deception or flattery | wear a veil, deceive someone to think your face is pretty |
| pious | extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion | thank god for the pie |
| redoubtable | awe-inspiring; worthy of honor | someone able to read your doubts is worthy of honor |
| supplant | to take the place of | substitute |
| amalgamate | to combine several elements into a whole | a mall game, ppl gather into one |
| fortuitous | happening by accident or chase | by fortune |
| hedonism | devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses | devoted to getting head n jizm |
| hegemony | the consistent dominance of one state or ideology of others | he got money- dominance over others |
| impassive | revealing no emotion | passive |
| impunity | immunity from punishment or penalty | immunity from punishment |
| opprobrium | disgrace; contempt; scorn | opium and drug test |
| pedagogy | the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing | |
| pervasive | having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout | persistent, pervasive cancer |
| pithy | precise and brief | pi-symbol is brief but number is precise |
| platitude | a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful, obvious remark | common platitude |
| profuse | in great quantity or abundance | |
| proliferate | to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly | production lifted |
| querulous | prone to complaining or grumbling | one who queries everything |
| solvent | able to meet financial obligations or able to dissolve another substance | |
| specious | plausible but false | speculation |
| succinct | brief; concise | suck less ink out for a brief letter |
| aggrandize | to increase in intensity, power, influence or prestige | a grand size |
| amenable | agreeable, responsive to suggestion | amen-agreeable |
| derision | scorn, ridicule | division from the cool kids, made fun of |
| dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge | |
| disparage | to slight or belittle, express a negative opinion of | display a rage |
| glib | marked by ease, or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial | a glib promise |
| impetuous | hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive | impatient just have to go and be impulsive |
| indifferent | having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice | |
| inimical | damaging; harmful; injurious | mimic enemy |
| pervade | to permeate throughout | |
| tout | to publicly praise or promote | shout |
| unfeigned | genuine; not false or hypocritical | un-dope feigned |
| vexation | annoyance; irritation | fixation on chewing |
| vituperate | to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusive | spit when u vituperate |
| antediluvian | ancient | auunty deluvian |
| antipathy | hostility towards, objection, or aversion to | opposite of sympathy |
| arbitrate | to settle a dispute by impulse, mediate | mediate |
| attenuate | weaken | a tin you ate, now your weakend vaccine attenuated the speed of the virus |
| blandishment | speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something | common it won't be bland |
| cadge | to get something by taking advantage of someone | wear a badge to get in |
| caustic | not only does it mean burning or capable of dissolving, but HIGHLY CRITICAL | CAUSTIC REMARKS |
| corporeal vs corporal | corporeal tangible, having to do with material as opposed to spiritual...corporal means of the body | corporate ppl vs corpse |
| deference | submission or courteous yielding | he held his tongue in deference to his father |
| deprecation | belittlement | de-appreciation |
| diffident | lacking self-confidence, modest | de-confidence |
| dogged | stubborn or determined | hound dog looking, wont give up |
| effluent | the quality of flowing out or something that flows out | fluid |
| engender | to give rise to, to cause | 2 genders give rise to a child |
| exorbitant | exceeding customary or normal limits, esp in quantity or price | orbitz gum has a lot of pieces and very pricey |
| feign | to give false appearance or impression | feigned illness |
| imperious | commanding | emperor |
| implication | insinuation or connotation | |
| indelible | permanent, uneraseable, strong | in-deletable |
| obviate | to prevent by anticipatory measures; to make unnecessary, prevent from happening | deviate the situation |
| ponderous | heavy, massive awkward; dull | pounds, a ponderous book is better than a sleeping pill |
| propitiate | to conciliate, to appease | prof pitty, propitate her angry students |
| turpitude | corrupt | moral turpitude |
| baseness | lack of higher values | base, bottom |
| venerate | great respect or reverence | ven u rate someone high |
| vex | to annoy, to bother; to perplex; to puzzle | vex the t-rex perplex'ed and annoyed |
| appropriate | to take for one's own use, confiscate | appropriate this toy because it is not appropriate |
| brook | to tolerate, to endure | Brooke is hard to endure |
| damp | to diminish the intensity | |
| exact | to demand, call for, require | even a victorious war exacts a heavy price |
| fell | inhumanly cruel | fell beasts |
| flag | to sag or droop, become spiritless | |
| flip | sarcastic | |
| ford | to wade across shallow part of river or stream | |
| grouse | to complain or grumble | |
| intimate | to imply, suggest, or insinuate | are you intimating that I am being intimate |
| list | to tilt or lean to one side | a list tilting in the wind |
| lumber | to move heavily and clumsily | |
| meet | fitting, proper | meets standards, it is meet that he is in the hall of fame |
| mince | pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak to carefully OR to Walk daintily (in a refined, delicate mannor) | |
| obtain | to be established, accepted, or customary | sustain, those standards no longer obtain |
| pedestrian | commonplace, trite, quotidian | |
| pluck | courage, spunk | need courage to pluck eyebrows |
| rail | to complain about bitterly | i hate that rail |
| rent | torn | rent his garments, ripped |
| quail | to lose courage, turn frightened | quail-man not as brave anymore |
| sap | 1)to enervate or weaken the vitality of 2) a fool or nitwit | zapped, that race sapped my strength you dumb sap |
| singular | exceptional, unusual, odd | one of a kind, singular |
| scurvy | despicable | |
| stand | a group of trees | |
| table | to remove from consideration | hit the table with gavel..they tabled the notion |
| tender | to offer | bartender offers drinks |
| wag | wit, joker | groucho marks a well known wag, wag tail to joke around |
| asseverate | to aver, allege, asssert | asssert |
| calumniate | to slander, make a false accusation | cal u a name |
| calumny | slander (abuseive attack at a persons character) | cal u a anme |
| captious | disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in agrument, fault finding | captian finds faults in everything the crew does |
| cavil | to find fault without good reason | evil |
| celerity | speed, alacrity | accelerate |
| contumely | insult, scorn | kahn tumacious (contumacious menas rebellious, insubordinate) |
| denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | denouncement |
| desuetude | disuse | after years of desuetude my skill were finally put to use |
| censure | chew out, scold | |
| denounce | speak out against | |
| exegesis | critical examination, explication (detailed explanation) | explain Jesus |
| expiate | to atone (do pentinence) make amends for | ex pirate expiates his guilt |
| voluble | fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language | volumeable |
| vitiate | to corrupt, spoil, make ineffective | contaminate |
| tendentious | biased, showing marked tendencies | tendency |
| sententious | short, but meaningful, PITHY | sentence-less |
| salacious | lustful, raunchy | bodacious |
| lascivious | driven by lust | |
| propitious | auspicious (auguring favorable circumstances), favorable | propitiate prof pitty, to appease |
| puissant | powerful strong | push pussy |
| prolixity | verbosity | prolix means long winded and verbose |
| peroration | the concluding part of a speech | |
| limpid | lucid | clearly was limp |
| meretricious | cheap, gaudy, flashy, show | merely to trick us |
| tawdry | tastelessly showy, gaudy | |
| inveterate | deep rooted, ingrained, habitual, chronic | veteran |
| ineluctable | certain, inevitable | inevitable |
| extirpate | to destroy, exterminate, cut out, | exterminate |
| peerless | unmatched, inimitable | peerless cleaners is one of a kind |
| discerned | sensed or known | |
| indignation | anger | dig nation has anger |
| copious | great quantity/abundance | make copies |
| antiquity | ancientness, oldness | antique |
| curator | person who manages or organizes a collection like a museum | |
| flag | 1)sag or droop 2)ease up, become less intense | flag in no wind flag! ease up bro |
| ingratiate | gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts | |
| deify | to make a god of something/someone, consider as godlike | |
| fecund | capable of producing offspring | |
| disconcerting | causing an emotional distrubance like discomfort | discomfort |
| embroiled | deeply involved | |
| charlatan | a fake, imposter, deceiving to be someone they're not | |
| beleaguered | plagued, beset by trouble | |
| moratorium | suspension of ongoing activity | |
| disparity | state of being unequal | |
| invective | verbal abuse | |
| mercenary | someone having a strong desire for money | |
| vindictive | desire revenge | |
| pundits | learned ppl who are or act with authority | |
| covetous | envious desire for possesions of others | |
| rapacious | exceedingly greedy or grasping | |
| placid | calm | lake placid |
| adversary | enemy | |
| divestiture | act of taking away, strip, deprive | |
| precariously | dangerously unstable | |
| prophetic | prophecy, fortelling | |
| propitiatory | intended to reconcile or appease | |
| evenhanded | fair, no partiality | |
| derisive | vocally abbusive, expressing ridicule | |
| subordination | the act of being subordinate or lower in rank or importance | |
| incursion | intrusion, penetration into others domain | |
| reparation | repayment for past transgressions | |
| abrogate | do away with | |
| insularity | state of being isolated or detatched | |
| boorish | ill-mannored behavior | |
| check | impede or get in the way of progression | |
| fetter | shackle for ankles/feet | |
| disseminate | cause to become widely known, circulate, spread widely | |
| accrue | increase by growth | accrue interest |
| provincial | lacking sophistication | |
| duplicity | deliberate deceptivenesss | |
| candor | quality of being honest and straightforward | |
| coda | finale | |
| embellish | add details to , fancify | |
| hull | outercovering of a fruit or seed or nut | |
| dynamo | generator used to cause current to flow | |
| miscreant | one who behaves badly | |
| digress | sidetrack, wander from a straight course | |
| allocate | distribute according to a plan or set a part of a special purpose | allocate money for college |
| amortize | decrease in amount gradualy like to liquidate a debt | |
| enmity | hostility | |
| reconcile | to make compatible or consistent | |
| usury | charging more than legal interest rates | |
| precarious | fraught with danger, insecure | |
| adroit | skillful | |
| extol | praise, glorify | |
| sextant | instrument generally used to measure the altitude of a celestial object above the horizon, for navigation | |
| stock | standard, normal | stock answer |
| bare | show, not hidden, out in the open | bare your breats |
| blithely | in a joyous care free mannor | andrew bly-th |
| coerce | to force or push someone to do something | force |
| feckless | generally incompetent, not fit to assume responsibility | feckless birds laying eggs in nests and leaving for others to take care of |
| penchant | preference, inclination for | there is a preference for the Pen-Chant at games |
| cumbersome | burdensome or hindering, difficult to use or handle | cumberbun is awkward, etc |
| espouse | adopt, embrace, to make ones's own | opposite of abjure, I made my espouse my own |
| accretion | accumulation | |
| vapid | bland, flat, flavorless | |
| outset | begginning, commencement, starting time | |
| univocal | having only one meaning, unambiguous | |
| coalescing | growing together, fusing | |
| dissident | disagreeing, objecting, protesting | |
| grievous | severe, heavy, monstrous, grave | a grievous mistake, opposite would be slight |
| veracious | precisely accurate, right | correct, i do have a veracious appetite..NOT VORacious, that means devouring or craving great quantities of food. |
| propagate | cause to be widely known, distribute , pass around , spread | |
| insolence | the trait of being rude or an offensive disrespectful act | made fun of my insulin pump |
| rogue | a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | |
| prudish | exaggeratedly proper | |
| propriety | correct or appropriate behavior | at the property u need to have the correct behavior |
| finicky | exacting especially about details, very particular and picky | fin was icky, didnt eat fish |
| stark | blunt | |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (grandiloquence) and elaborated with decorative details | ornament |
| tedium | bordem, ennui | tedious |
| consternation | fear resulting from the awareness of danger, alarm, dismay | terror nation |
| regale | to treat, entertain | regal cinemas |
| consolidated | joined together as a whole, amalgamated | |
| undermine | hinder normal operations, sabatoge, weaken | apple cannot undermine the whole mobile industry |
| perpetuate | cause to continue or prevail | a perpetuating myth, a perpetual calendar |
| ambivalent | uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | ambulance |
| culmination | closing, completion, windup, conclusion | had to leave b4 the culmination of the play |
| idiosyncrasy | mannerism, a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | |
| commensurate | corresponding in size or degree or extent | pay should be commensuRATE to the hours worked |
| docile | easily handled, managed, ready and willing to be taught | |
| lien | the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged | this property LIE EN My name now |
| floridness | extravagant elaborateness, flamboyantness | flor it zabel, rosacia and flamboyant |
| supposition | assumption, supposal, hypothesis | supose |
| churlish | rude and boorish | church-less |
| precedence | priority, or preceding in time | |
| preempt | take place of or have precedence over | |
| ail | to be ill | |
| unstinting | very generous lavash | un stingy |
| deter | discourage, dissuade (opposite of persuade) | |
| ostracism | banishment, exclude from society | |
| poignant | affecting, touching, arousing | a poignant song |
| plaintive | expressing sorrow, mornful | plaintive cries |
| dolt | A person who is not very bright | |
| countenance | formal and explicit approval | opposite condemn (dissaproval of) |
| affront | insult | |
| raze | tear down so as to make flat with the ground,take down | opposite is build. Raze=opposite of raise |
| implicit | implied though not directly expressed | |
| unsubstantiated | unsupported by other evidence, uncorroborated | |
| boon | a blessing | aaron boone's hr |
| acrimonious | bitter, marked by resentment | |
| callous | emotionally hardened | callous behavior |
| potable | drinkable | |
| dwelling | housing that someone is living in | |
| archipelago | a group of many islands in a large body of water | |
| pagan | a person who does not acknowledge your god | |
| stratify | form layers, divide, distribute | |
| impugn | assault attack, verbally attack | |
| incite | provoke or stir up | |
| adjudicator | a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes | |
| protean | taking on different forms | proteins can take on many forms they are not rigid |
| formidable | causing fear | |
| dismal | misserable, dreary, depressing, gloomy | |
| candid | blunt, straightforward | |
| lassitude | lethargy, tiredness, exhasution | |
| vvigor | energy, drive | |
| indigence | poverty, penury | |
| stagnant | inactive, sluggish | |
| tether | confine, restrain | a tether is a leash also |
| unavailing | producing no result or effect | |
| futile | unproductive of success | a futile search |
| shrewd/astute | sharp, marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | a smart shrewd businessman |
| inept | revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse | |
| provisions | a stock or supply of foods | a larder full of provisions |
| amicable | characterized by friendship and good will | |
| augur | indicate by signs | |
| Philistine | a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits, lacks appreciation of art and culture | Phil the teen |
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