click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
GRE vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assiduous | careful, diligent, and persistent in attention or application |
| engender | to give rise to, create, or cause |
| bombastic | overblown, pompous, inflated, or pretentious |
| inchoate | incipient, still developing, or incomplete |
| judicious | demonstrating sound judgement, wise |
| buttress | to support, strengthen, or shore up |
| nugatory | trifling, worthless, of no real value |
| mercurial | changeable, erratic, volatile, flighty, fickle |
| Inveigle | entice or lure Ex: can i inveigle anyone inro buying me dinner tonight? |
| Deleterious | harmful or damaging, ' ex: deleterious effects is indeed the way it is most often used |
| Pellucid | clear, transparent, easy to understand\\ Ex: The journalist pellucid article, was acclaimed as tis years winner |
| Daunt | difficult |
| Vex | confuse |
| inculcate | convicted, entrap, incorporate |
| opaque | unclear, |
| eclectic | eccentric |
| cede, ceding | giving way |
| colloquially | language of ordinary or familiar conversation; informally. ex: "the storms hit several states along a corridor colloquially referred to as “tornado alley”" |