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GREVocabWalter
GRE Vocab for Walter to Study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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