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GRE Vocab-Princeton5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aggrandize | v.) increase in intensity, power, influence or prestige, cause something to seem or be greater, bigger |
| anachronism | n.) something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context, error in time placement |
| astringent | adj/n.) having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something w/ a tightening effect on tissue |
| contiguous | adj.) sharing a border; touching; adjacent; abutting |
| credulous | adj.) tending to believe too readily; gullible; naïve |
| desiccate | v.) to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull; take moisture out of |
| dilettante | n.) one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge, rookie |
| disparage | v.) slight or belittle, criticize |
| flout | show contempt for, as in a rule or convention, ridicule, taunt, repudiate |
| garrulous | adj.) pointlessly talkative, talking too much, loquacious, verbose |
| immutable | adj.) not capable of change, unchangeable, perpetual, inflexible |
| impetuous | adj.) hastily or rashly energetic, impulsive and vehement, act w/o thinking |
| inimical | adj.) damaging; harmful; injurious; antagonistic; noxious; pernicious |
| intractable | adj.) not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate; difficult; obdurate |
| intrepid | adj.) steadfast and courageous, dauntless, gallant |
| laconic | adj.) using few words; terse, short, to the point |
| obfuscate | v.) to deliberately obscure; to make confusing; complicate; confound |
| pervade | v.) to permeate throughout, affect strongly, spread through |
| probity | n.) adherence to highest principles; complete & confirmed integrity; uprightness; righteousness |
| proclivity | n.) natural predisposition or inclination, tendency, propensity |
| profligate | adj.) excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant; lavish; prodigal |
| prosaic | adj.) dull; lacking in spirit imagination, banal, commonplace, trite |
| quixotic | adj.) foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals; dreamy, unrealistic |
| quotidian | adj.) occurring or recurring daily; commonplace, ordinary, trivial |
| recondite | adj.) hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure; cryptic, mysterious, pedantic, esoteric |
| refulgent | adj.) radiant; shiny; brilliant; glowing |
| renege | v.) to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise, reverse, weasel out |
| sedulous | adj.) diligent; persistent, hardworking, determined, laborious |
| soporific | adj.) causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep, hypnotic, soothing |
| spendthrift | n.) one who spends money wastefully, prodigal, profligate, imprudent |
| tacit | adj.) implied; not explicitly state, tacit understanding, assumed |
| terse | adj.) brief & concise wording, abrupt, short, curt, laconic |
| tout | v.) publicly praise or promote, acclaim, show off |
| trenchant | adj.) sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating, sarcastic, acerbic, acute |
| untenable | adj.) indefensible, not viable, uninhabitable, unsound, flawed, illogical |
| vacillate | v.) waver indecisively, b/n one course of action or opinion & another, wave |
| variegated | adj.) multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
| vexation | n.) annoyance; irritation |
| vituperate | v.) to use harsh, condemnatory language, to abuse or censure severely or abusively, berate |
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