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GRE Vocab-Princeton4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abjure | v.) to renounce or reject, solemnity, to recant, to avoid, give up, renege, forswear |
| adumbrate | v.) to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow, obfuscate, indicate |
| anathema | n.) a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing, enemy, bane, abomination |
| anodyne | adj/n.) soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts, anesthetic, sedative |
| apogee | n.) farthest or highest point, culmination; zenith, pinnacle, summit |
| apostate | n.) one who abandons long held religious or political convictions, traitor, dissenter |
| apotheosis | n.) deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection, idolization |
| asperity | n.)severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability, bad temper |
| asseverate | v.) to aver, allege, assert, state categorically, avow, affirm, express, maintain assiduous |
| augury | n.) omen, portent, promise |
| bellicose | belligerent, pugnacious, warlike, antagonistic |
| calumniate | v.) to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion, blaspheme, libel |
| captious | adj.) disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument, very critical, disparaging |
| cavil | v.) to find fault without good reason, criticize |
| celerity | n.) speed, alacrity, swiftness |
| chimera | n.) an illusion, originally, an imaginary fire breathing she |
| contumacious | adj.) insubordinate, rebellious, contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion, headstrong, obstinate |
| denouement | n.) an outcome or solution, the unraveling of a plot, end result, culmination |
| descry | discriminate or discern, discover, determine, reveal |
| desuetude | n.) disuse ie after years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use, inactivity |
| desultory | adj.) random, aimless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose, haphazard, erratic |
| diaphanous | adj.) transparent, gauzy, see |
| diffident | adj.) reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking in self confidence, hesitant, demure |
| dirge | n.) song of grief or lament, elegy |
| encomium | n) glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric, tribute, eulogy, accolade, salutation |
| eschew | v.) shun or avoid, have nothing to do with, renounce |
| excoriate | v.) to censure scathingly, to upbraid, castigate, vilify, rebuke |
| execrate | v.) denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil, hate, damn, objurgate, excoriate, reprobate, imprecate, vilify |
| exegesis | n.) critical examination, explication, interpretation, exposition |
| expiate | v.) to atone or make amends for, absolve, correct |
| extirpate | v.) to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind, weed out, eliminate |
| fatuous | adj.) silly, inanely foolish, stupid, senseless |
| fractious | adj.) quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable, ill |
| gainsay | v.) to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose, disagree with |
| heterodox | unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic, renegade, apostate, unconventional |
| imbroglio | n.) difficult or embarrassing situation, mess, complication |
| indefatigable | adj.) not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged, industrious, determined |
| ineluctable | adj.) certain, inevitable |
| inimitable | adj.) one of a kind, peerless, unparalleled |
| insouciant | adj.) unconcerned, carefree, heedless, nonchalant |
| inveterate | adj.) deep |
| jejune | adj.) vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile |
| lubricious | adj.) lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
| mendicant | n.) a beggar, supplicant |
| meretricious | adj.) cheap, gaudy, tawdry, fleshy, showy, attracting by false show, kitsch |
| minatory | adj.) menacing, threatening, ie Minotaur |
| nadir | n.) low point, pedigree, lowest, bottom |
| nonplussed | adj.) baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think, stunned |
| obstreperous | adj.) noisily and stubbornly, defiant, aggressively boisterous, uncontrollable |
| palliate | v.) to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense, alleviate, ease |
| panegyre | n.)formal praise, eulogy, encomium, expressing elaborate praise, tribute |
| parsimonious | adj.) cheap, miserly, penny |
| pellucid | adj.) transparent, easy to understand, limpid, unclouded |
| peroration | n.) concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
| plangent | adj.) pounding, thundering, resounding, resonant, loud |
| prolix | adj.) long |
| propitiate | v.) to appease; to conciliate, propitious means auspicious, favorable, placate, mollify |
| puerile | adj.) childish, immature, jejune, nugatory, infantile |
| puissance | n.) power, strength, puissant, powerful, strong pusillanimous |
| remonstrate | v.) protest, object, argue against |
| sagacious | adj.) having sound judgment, perceptive, wise, knowledgeable |
| salacious | adj.) lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
| salutary | adj.) remedial, wholesome, causing improvement, beneficial |
| sanguine | adj.) cheerful, confident, optimistic, hopeful |
| saturnine | adj.) gloomy, dark, sullen, morose, moody, melancholy |
| sententious | adj.) aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively, sanctimonious |
| stentorian | adj.) extremely loud and powerful, strong, resonant |
| stygian | adj.) gloomy, dark |
| sycophant | n.) toady, servile, self |
| tendentious | adj.) biased; showing marked tendencies |
| timorous | adj.) timid, fearful, diffident |
| tyro | n.) novice, greenhorn, rank, amateur, newcomer |
| vitiate | v.) to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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