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GRE Vocab Review
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abeyance | Temporary inactivity, suspension, or cessation |
| Abnegate | To refuse or deny oneself, to relinquish or give up |
| Abrogate | To abolish by formal or official means, to put an end to something |
| Abstemious | Sparing or moderate in drinking or eating. |
| Abstruse | Hard to understand, esoteric |
| Accosting | Confronting boldly |
| Accouter | To equip or outfit (with equipment and gear) |
| Adroit | Expert or nimble in the use of hands or body; skillful, resourceful or ingenious |
| Affectations | Artificiality in appearance; the pretense of possession. |
| Alacrity | Liveliness; briskness; cheerfulness |
| Anecdote | A short account of an event that is, in particular, interesting. |
| Antediluvian | Very old-fashioned |
| Antipathy | A natural or basic repugnance, aversion etc. |
| Apocryphal | Of doubtful authorship or authenticity |
| Apocryphal | Of doubtful authorship or authenticity |
| Approbation | Approval or commendation |
| Appropriate | To take possession of for oneself |
| Artifice | A clever trick or stratagem; trickery, guile, craftiness |
| Attrition | Wearing down of resistance (through acts of harassment) ; reduction in numbers or strength. |
| Avouch | Affirm a statement |
| Axiomatic | Self-evident, obvious |
| Ballad | A song that has a story to it. |
| Becloud | To make confused; darken or obscure |
| Belfry | A bell tower |
| Bellicose | Inclined or eager to fight, just like pugnacious |
| Bestir | To stir up or to rouse to action. |
| Bucolic | Of, or pertaining to, a rural life style. |
| Capitulate | Surrender unconditionally, give up resistance |
| Caprice | A tendency to change one's mind, without apparent or adequate motive |
| Celerity | Swiftness and speed |
| Chaff | Husk of grains that are removed; outer layer |
| Choleric | Extremely irritable or easily angered, irascible |
| Circumlocutory | A roundabout or indirect way of speaking |
| Clement | Favorable weather |
| Coddle | To treat gently, nurse carefully, pamper |
| Colonnade | A series of regularly spaced columns |
| Complaisant | Willing to please others; obliging; agreeable |
| Concision | Concise quality; brevity; terseness |
| Consternation | Dismay, a sudden or alarming feeling of dread resulting in confusion |
| Contrition | The state of feeling remorseful and penitent |
| Contumacious | Stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient |
| Corporeal | Of nature to the physical body |
| Corral | An enclosure for horses; a circular enclosure by wagons to protect against attacks |
| Countenance | Approve or favor, to permit or tolerate |
| Countermand | Revoke (and order) |
| Craven | Cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous |
| Cursory | Going rapidly over something, without noticing details |
| Dappled | Having spots in a different shade, tone or color from the background. |
| Deaden | To make less active, energetic, forcible |
| Decadence | Deterioration or decay |
| Deferential | Showing respect |
| Desuetude | No longer used or practiced. |
| Diffident | Shy, lacking confidence in one's ability |
| Disabuse | To free a person from deception or error |
| Discomfit | Make someone uncomfortable |
| Dispatch | Sending off; dispose of speedily |
| Dissonance | Inharmonious sound |
| Divert | Distract; draw off onto a different course |
| Edifice | A building, esp. of large size or importance; any large system, complex or organization |
| Egregious | Extraordinary in some bad way, flagrant, glaring |
| Ellipsis | Error in which something is missed out. |
| Engender | To produce, give rise to, beget something |
| Ennoble | To elevate in standing, to exalt. |
| Ephemeral | Lasting a very short time, short-lived, transitory |
| Epigram | Witticism, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed |
| Equanimity | Mental or emotional stability, especially under stress or strain |
| Erudite | Characterized by great knowledge, scholarly |
| Esoteric | Belonging to only a select few; private, secret, confidential. |
| Evanescent | Vanishing, fleeting, fading away |
| Evince | To show clearly, to make evident |
| Eviscerate | To deprive of vital or essential parts. |
| Execrate | To curse, denounce and damn. |
| Exhaustive | Comprehensive, or to drain |
| Exhume | Dig out (something buried, esp. a corpse) from the ground) |
| Expiation | The means by which atonement or reparation is made |
| Extenuated | To represent as, or make to look, less serious than something actually is |
| Extenuation | Something that serves as a partial excuse. |
| Facetious | Not meant to be taken seriously, in jest, amusing and humorous, lacking serious intent. |
| Faddish | Short-lived, fleeting |
| Fatuous | Foolish or inane, esp. in an unconscious or complacent manner. |
| Fatuous | Foolish or inane, in an unconscious and complacent manner. |
| Felicitous | Well suited for the occasion, aptly expressed |
| Felicity | A state of being happy or in bliss |
| Ferment | To cause agitation or excitement in someone. |
| Ferret | To drive out, to worry or torment. |
| Fervid | Heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm etc. |
| Fester | To infect, form pus, rot or ulceration |
| Festoon | To adorn with festival-like decorations |
| Fetid | Having an offensive odor, stinking |
| Fitful | Reappearing in spurts and spells, not continuous |
| Flippant | Frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness |
| Floret | A small flower |
| Foibles | A minor weakness of character, slight flaw or defect. |
| Fortitude | Mental and emotional strength in facing adversity or difficulty |
| Furnish | To provide or supply |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative in a round-about manner. |
| Gaucherie | Tactlessness |
| Genial | Warmly and pleasantly courteous; cordial; characterized by GENIUS |
| Glaucous | Light bluish-green or greenish-blue |
| Glower | To look or stare with sullen discontent, dislike or anger |
| Grandiloquent | Speaking or expressed in a lofty, often bombastic style. |
| Gustatory | Pertaining to taste or tasting |
| Hapless | Unlucky, luckless, or unfortunate. |
| Headlong | Without delay or deliberation |
| Hedge | Limit or qualify (something) by conditions or exceptions; protect against loss by making balancing or compensating contracts or transactions |
| Hidebound | A narrow or rigid opinion, inflexible, extremely conservative |
| Hidebound | Narrow, rigid in opinion, inflexible |
| Hoary | Gray or white with age; ancient, stale or tedious with age |
| Husbandry | Careful or thrifty management; frugality |
| Hypothetical | Conjectural or conditional |
| Impel | Drive, force, or urge (someone) to do something |
| Imperiousness | Domineering in a haughty manner |
| Impresario | Manager, a person who organizes public entertainment |
| Improvidence | Neglecting to provide for future needs; incautious, unwary, lacking foresight |
| Impugn | To challenge as false |
| Inclement | Severe, rough or harsh weather. |
| Indemnity | Security or protection against a loss or other financial burden |
| Indigence | Seriously impoverished condition; poverty |
| Indolent | Lazy, slothful, not willing to exert |
| Indubitable | Something that cannot be doubted |
| Ineluctable | Inescapable, cannot be avoided |
| Ingenuous | Candid or sincere, naive or innocent |
| Inimical | Unfavorable towards or hostile towards something |
| Innocuous | Not harmful or injurious, harmless |
| Insalubrious | Unfavorable to health, unwholesome |
| Insidious | Something intended to entrap or beguile; operating seemingly inconspicuously but with grave effect. |
| Insipid | Without distinctive, interesting or stimulating qualities |
| Insuperable | Incapable of being surmounted |
| Interdict | To forbid or prohibit |
| Intricacy | Characterized by obscurity, complexity and being puzzling |
| Inundation | To flood, cover with, or overwhelm with something. |
| Inured | Accustomed to hardship, difficulty or pain |
| Jejune | Juvenile, immature and childish; lacking knowledge or experience |
| Jingoist | Bellicose chauvinism |
| Jocular | Given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious |
| Kernel | Core, center part. |
| Labored | Done with great difficulty and effort. |
| Laconic | Using few words; concise. |
| Limerick | A humorous, short poem |
| Limpid | Clear, pellucid and calm. |
| List | Tilt to one side |
| Macerate | To waste away, grow thin |
| Malady | Undesirable or disordered condition. |
| Mellifluous | Sweetly or smoothly flowing, sweet-sounding |
| Mendacious | Telling lies; habitually dishonest, or false and untrue |
| Mensuration | The act of measuring, the branch of geometry that deals with area, length and volume |
| Mettlesome | Spirited and courageous |
| Mince | To walk or move with short, affectedly dainty steps |
| Mire | A tract or area of wet, swampy ground |
| Mirth | Jollity, esp. when accompanied by laughter |
| Misfeasance | A wrongful and injurious exercise of lawful authority. |
| Mores | Folkways of central importance to a group of people, particularly concerning morals, that are not questioned. |
| Morganatic | Marriage of a high-ranking individual to a lower-ranking one |
| Moribund | In a dying state or near death |
| Moribund | In a dying state |
| Nascent | Beginning to exist or develop |
| Nostrum | A panacea (often fake) |
| Nugatory | Of no real value, trifling, worthless |
| Obstreperous | Resisting control; noisy, clamorous or boisterous |
| Opprobrium | The disgrace or reproach incurred by shameful behavior |
| Ostensible | Outwardly appearing as such. |
| Paean | Any song of praise, joy or triumph |
| Pallid | Pale or faint or deficient in color |
| Panache | Grand or flamboyant manner |
| Panegyric | Formal or elaborate praise |
| Pantomime | Gesture without speech; can be an art form |
| Peccadillo | A very minor or slight offense; a trifling fault |
| Pedantic | Overly concerned with minute details and formalisms. |
| Penitent | Feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant |
| Peremptory | Leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal, dictatorial |
| Perfidious | Deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful |
| Perfidy | Deliberate breach of faith or trust |
| Perfunctory | Performed merely as duty, hasty and superficial |
| Peripatetic | Walking or travelling about |
| Pernicious | Having a harmful effect, esp. in a gradual or subtle way. |
| Persnickety | Over-particular and fussy; arrogant and aloof, snottish |
| Perspicatioius | Mentally sharp |
| Phlegmatic | Not so easily excited to action or display of emotion |
| Picaresque | Of, pertaining to, or resembling rogues |
| Picayune | Of little value; petty, carping or prejudiced |
| Pinion | A shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear |
| Pinioned | Shackled or bound [to something] |
| Placid | Pleasantly calm or peaceful, unruffled, tranquil |
| Planetary | Wandering or erratic |
| Plenitude | A state of being full or complete |
| Pneumatic | Of or pertaining to air, gases or wind |
| Polemic | A controversial argument, or an individual who engages in controversial argumentation |
| Portentous | Ominously significant or indicative; momentous |
| Precis | A concise summary |
| Predilection | A strong inclination towards somethign. |
| Predilections | A tendency to think favorably about something. |
| Preponderant | Superior in weight, importance, influence, numbers |
| Prescient | Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place |
| Probity | Integrity and uprightness; honesty |
| Profundity | The state of being profound, deep. |
| Pronate | To turn into a prone position |
| Propinquity | Nearness in place or proximity; close |
| Propitiate | To make favorably inclined. |
| Proscribe | To denounce or condemn a thing as harmful, to outlaw. |
| Prosody | The study of poetic meters and versification |
| Providence | The provision of divine care; also means prudence and foresight |
| Puerile | Childishly silly and trivial |
| Pugnacious | Inclined to fight or quarrel readily, belligerent and quarrelsome |
| Pulchritude | Physical beauty, comeliness |
| Purulent | Full of, containing, forming or discharging pus |
| Purvey | To provide, furnish or supply, usually as a business |
| Pusillanimous | Lacking courage or resolution; faint-hearted and timid |
| Quandary | A state of perplexity or uncertainty; dilemma |
| Querulous | Full of complaints |
| Raconteur | A person skilled in relating anecdotes and stories interestingly |
| Rail | To utter discontentment or vehement denunciation |
| Raiment | Clothing, apparel or attire. |
| Rancid | Having a rank, unpleasant stale smell or taste, as through decomposition |
| Rarefy | To make rarer, less dense; to make more refined, spiritual or exalted |
| Rasp | To scrape or grate with a rough instrument |
| Reactionary | Conservative, preferring not to think before responding |
| Rectitude | Rightness of moral principle or conduct, moral virtue |
| Redolent | Having a pleasant odor or fragrance; suggestive or reminiscent (of) something |
| Refractory | Hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient; resisting ordinary methods of treatment |
| Regale | Entertain lavishly |
| Remit | To transmit (money); to forgive or relax |
| Rend | To tear apart or split. |
| Replete | Abundantly supplied or provided |
| Respite | A period of temporary rest |
| Ruddy | Of or having a fresh, healthy red color |
| Ruses | Tricks, stratagems or artifices |
| Salacious | Obscene and grossly indecent |
| Salubrious | Favorable to health, wholesome |
| Sanguine | Cheerfully optimistic |
| Sartorial | Of or pertaining to tailors or their trade |
| Scanty | Little in amount or quantity, not sufficient |
| Scurrilous | Grossly or obscenely abusive; coarsely jocular or derisive |
| Sententious | Given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous |
| Sibilant | Characterized by a hissing sound |
| Signal | Unusual, notable or outstanding |
| Simper | To smile in a silly, self-conscious way |
| Solecism | Non-standard usage, impropriety, breach of good manners |
| Solipsism | Egoistic self-absorption |
| Soporific | Causing or tending to cause sleep |
| Spate | A sudden increase in something |
| Specious | Apparently good or right but lacking real merit; pleasing to the eye but deceptive. |
| Spuriousness | Not genuine, authentic or true |
| Squelch | To strike down with overwhelming force; to suppress or put down |
| Staidness | Of settled and/or sedate character, not capricious or flighty |
| Stanch | To stop the flow of a liquid |
| Stand | A group of trees |
| Steamy | Passionate or erotic; or hot and humid |
| Stomach | Desire, inclination or liking; also can mean endure |
| Stridency | A harsh shound |
| Stupefy | To stun, or to overwhelm with amazement |
| Supercilious | Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or as a facial expression |
| Superfluity | An unnecessarily or excessively large amount or number of something |
| Surfeit | An excess of something. |
| Swath | The space covered by the stroke of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine |
| Sybarite | Person devoted to luxury and pleasure |
| Sybaritic | Characterized by loving luxury or sensuous pleasure |
| Taciturn | Inclined to silence, unwilling to join in speech, reserved |
| Temerity | Excessive confidence or boldness; audacity |
| Tendentious | Having or showing a tendency, purpose or bias |
| Torpor | Lethargic indifference or apathy |
| Torpor | Sluggish activity or inertia, lethargic indifference, apathy, dormancy (stupor) |
| Tractable | Easily managed or controlled, docile, yielding. |
| Treacle | Contrived or unrestrained sentimentality |
| Truculence | Fierce, cruel and savagely brutal |
| Turpitude | Vile, shameful or base character, depravity |
| Tyro | Beginner, novice |
| Unobtrusive | Inconspicuous, unassertive or reticent |
| Unqualified | Absolute, complete, or without reservation |
| Unstudied | Not possessing knowledge in something, or natural and unaffected |
| Untrammeled | Not deprived of freedom of action or expression; not restricted or hampered |
| Upshot | Outcome of something |
| Vapidity | Lacking or having lost life, sharpness or flavor, insipid or flat |
| Venial | Able to be forgiven or pardoned; excusable |
| Vernacular | Any mode of expression that reflects popular or local culture of a group of people. |
| Vivacity | Liveliness, animation or sprightliness |
| Volpine | Resembling a fox, cunning or crafty |
| Voluble | Fluent, characterized by a continuous flow of words |
| Wan | Pallid and lacking color, in ill health, or lacking in forcefulness |
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