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GRE Toughies
Words to learn after taking my practice tests
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Diffidence | the state of being hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence |
| Fawn | to show affection |
| Imperiousness | befitting or characteristic of one of eminent rank or attainments |
| Equivocate | to avoid committing oneself in what one says |
| Coddle | to treat with extreme or excessive care or kindness |
| Permissiveness | granting or tending to grant |
| Covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| Rapacious | living on prey |
| Outmoded | no longer acceptable, current, or usable |
| Ostentatious | marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious display |
| Offhand | without premeditation or preparation |
| Disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| Divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| Tractability | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled |
| Noisome | noxious, harmful |
| Precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| Assuage | to lessen the intensity of |
| Antipathy | an object of aversion |
| Ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| Burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| Raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident |
| Sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form |
| Audacious | recklessly bold |
| Trepidation | timorous uncertain agitation |
| Refractory | resistant to treatment or cure |
| Intransigent | characterized by refusal to comprmise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude |
| Laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words |
| Voluble | characterized by ready or rapid speech |
| Cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced |
| Derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| Incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory |
| Reparation | repairing or keeping in repair |
| Abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action |
| Hapless | Having no luck |
| Aver | to verify or prove to be true in pleading a cause |
| Placate | to soothe or mollify especially be concessions |
| Sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| Insular | of, relating to, or constituting an island |
| Epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| Prevaricate | to deviate from the truth |
| Amortize | to pay off gradually usually by periodic payments of principal and interest of by payments to a sinking fund |
| Emaciate | to waste away physically |
| Cogent | having power to compel or constrain |
| Chary | discreetly cautious |
| Usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| Epithet | a characterizing word of phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| Disparage | to lower in reputation |
| Peccadillo | a slight offense |
| Lambaste | to assault violently |
| Extol | to praise highly |
| Vicid | having an adhesive quality |
| Philistine | a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values |
| Aesthete | one having or affecting sensitivity to the beautiful especially in art |
| Odium | the start or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| infatuate | to inspire with a foolish or extravagant love or admiration |
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