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GRE Vocab-Princeton2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abate | v.) to lessen in intensity or degree, diminish |
| accolade | n.) an expression of praise, award |
| adulation | n.) excessive praise; intense adoration, flattery |
| ameliorate | v.) to make better or more tolerable |
| ascetic | n.) one who practices rigid self |
| avarice | n.) greed, esp. for wealth (adj. avaricious), covetous |
| axiom | n.) a universally recognized principle, truth |
| burgeon | v.) to grow rapidly or flourish, bloom |
| bucolic | adj.) rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants, agricultural |
| cacophony | n.) harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
| canon | n.) an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature, dogma |
| castigation | n.) severe criticism or punishment |
| caustic | adj.) burning or stinging; causing corrosion, abrasive |
| chary | adj.) wary; cautious; sparing, restrained |
| cogent | adj.) appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing, justified |
| contrite | adj.) regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness, remorseful |
| dearth | n.) smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack, insufficiency |
| demur | v.) to question or oppose, dissent |
| didactic | adj.) intended to teach or instruct, informational |
| dogmatic | adj.) expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principles, unyielding |
| ebullience | the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings, animation |
| elegy | n.) a mournful poem, esp one lamenting the dead, requiem |
| emollient | adj.) soothing, esp. to the skin,; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smoothes the skin |
| enigmatic | adj.) mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand, puzzling |
| ephemeral | adj.) brief, fleeting, short |
| esoteric | adj.) intended for or understood by a small, specific group, obscure |
| exonerate | v.) to remove blame, acquit, exculpate |
| furtive | adj.) marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious, sneaky |
| harangue | to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long pompous speech, rant |
| heretical | adj.) violating accepted dogma or convention |
| hyperbole | n.) exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech, embellishment |
| impecunious | adj.) lacking funds; without money, poor |
| incipient | adj.) beginning to come into being or to become apparent, developing, nascent, inchoate |
| inert | adj.) unmoving, lethargic, sluggish, inanimate intransigent |
| inveigle | v.) to obtain by deception or flattery, seduce |
| odious | adj.) evoking intense aversion or dislike, repulsive |
| prodigious | adj.) abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary, great |
| putrefy | v.) to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor, decompose |
| quaff | v.) to drink deeply, gulp |
| quiescence | n.) stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest, dormant |
| redoubtable | adj.) awe |
| squalid | adj.) sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect, grimy |
| stoic | adj.) indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
| supplant | v.) to take place of; supersede, substitute |
| torpid | adj.) lethargic; sluggish; dormant; inert |
| ubiquitous | adj.) existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread, ever present, pervasive |
| urbane | adj.) sophisticated; refined; elegant, cultured |
| vilify | v.) to defame; to characterize harshly, denigrate |
| penurious | adj.) penny pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous, necessitous |
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