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Kim GRE Words
gre vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| garrulous | loquacious, wordy, talkative |
| contrite | penitent, serving penance |
| complaisant | trying to please, overly polite, obliging |
| propitiate | appease |
| compendium | brief, comprehensive summary |
| proliferate | grow rapidly, spread, multiply |
| chicanery | trickery, deception |
| torpor | lethargy, sluggishness, dormancy` |
| occlude | shut, close |
| stolid | dull, impassive |
| coda | something that rounds out, summarizes, or concludes |
| commensurate | corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc; proportionate |
| vacillate | waver, fluctuate |
| tractable | docile, easily managed |
| empricial | based on experience |
| gainsay | deny |
| ebullient | showing excitement, overflowing with enthusiasm |
| truculence | aggressiveness, ferocity |
| proscribe | ostracize, banish, outlaw |
| endemic | prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country |
| levity | lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity |
| desiccate | dry up |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| enervate | weaken |
| mendacious | lying; habitually dishonest |
| implacable | incapable of being pacified |
| inchoate | recently begun, rudimentary, elementary |
| prodigal | wasteful, reckless with money |
| equanimity | calmness of temperament; composure |
| diffidence | shyness |
| irascible | irritable, easily angered |
| neophyte | recent convert; beginner |
| quiescent | at rest, dormant, temporarily inactive |
| rarefied | made less dense (of a gas); distant from the lives or concerns of normal people (fig) |
| vituperative | abusive, scolding |
| recalcitrant | obstinately, stubborn; determined to resist authority |
| abate | subside or moderate; lessen, reduce or remove |
| welter | turmoil; bewildering jumble |
| aberrant | abnormal or deviant |
| abeyance | a state of temporary disuse or suspension |
| indigence | poverty |
| abstemious | sparing in eating and drinking, temperate |
| indolent | lazy |
| disabuse | correct a false impression; undeceive |
| distend | expand, swell out |
| exculpate | clear from blame |
| obdurate | stubborn |
| recondite | little known, obscure |
| refractory | stubborn, unmanageable |
| alacrity | cheerful promptness, eagerness |
| amalgamate | combine, unite in one body |
| antipathy | aversion, dislike |
| obsequious | slavishly attentive; servile |
| obviate | make unnecessary; get rid of |
| apprise | inform |
| approbation | approval |
| ascetic | practicing self-denial, austere |
| reprobate | person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency |
| repudiate | disown, disavow |
| salubrious | healthful |
| stint (v) | be thrifty, set limits |
| laconic | brief and to the point |
| opprobrium | infamy, vilification |
| intransigence | refusal of any compromise, stubborness |
| inured | accustomed, hardened |
| paragon | model of perfection |
| paucity | scarcity |
| penury | severe poverty, stinginess |
| exigency | urgent situation; pressing needs or demands |
| lassitude | languor, weariness |
| perfidious | treacherous, disloyal |
| phlegmatic | calm; not easily disturbed |
| precipitate (adj) | rash, premature, hasty, sudden |
| fatuous | brainless, inane, foolish, yet smug |
| assiduous | diligent |
| attenuate | make thinner, weaken or lessen |
| foment | stir up, instigate |
| forestall | prevent by taking action in advance |
| aver | assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as fact |
| belie | contradict; give a false impression |
| beneficent | kindly, doing good |
| castigation | punishment, severe criticism |
| prevaricate | lie |
| probity | uprightness, incorruptibility |
| craven | cowardly |
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