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GREVocabWalter

GRE Vocab for Walter to Study

QuestionAnswer
EXIGENT (adj) urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
PREVARICATE (verb) to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
TRUCULENT (adj) fierce and cruel; eager to fight
EFFRONTERY (n) extreme boldness; presumptuousness
PERFUNCTORY (adj) cursory; done without care or interest
OBVIATE (verb) to anticipate and make unnecessary
CONTRITE (adj) regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
INTRANSIGENT (adj) refusing to compromise
IMPECUNIOUS (adj) lacking funds; without money
INVEIGLE (v) to obtain by deception or flattery
PENURIOUS (adj) penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
SPECIOUS (adj) seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false
OBDURATE (adj) unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
SPURIOUS (adj) lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
INFELICITOUS (adj) unfortunate; inappropriate
MENDACITY (n) the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty (adj form
PITHY (adj) precise and brief
IMPLACABLE (adj) not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
OPPROBRIUM (n) disgrace; contempt; scorn
RECALCITRANT (adj) obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
RANCOROUS (adj) characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment (noun form
REPUDIATE (v) to refuse to have anything to do with; disown
OBSEQUIOUS (adj) exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
PHLEGMATIC (adj) calm; sluggish; unemotional
TRENCHANT (adj) sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
IMPETUTOUS (adj) hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
RAREFY (v) to make or become thin, less dense; to refine
OBSTINATE (adj) stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
REFULGENT (adj) radiant; shiny; brilliant
SOPORIFIC (adj) causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
INIMICAL (adj) damaging; harmful; impending
LACONIC (adj) using few words; terse
HUBRIS (n) overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance
SEDULOUS (adj) diligent; persistent; hardworking
PROBITY (n) adherence to highest principles; complete ad confirmed integrity; uprightness
OBFUSCATE (v) to deliberately obscure; to make confusing
MOLLIFY (v) to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity
RECONDITE (adj) hidden, concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
DERISION (n) scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment
TACIT (adj) implied; not explicitly stated
PROFLIGATE (adj) excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
DISPARAGE to slight or belittle
RENEGE (v) to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
OBSTINATE (adj) stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
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