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GRE Prep V1
GRE Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| mercenary | person concerned w/ making money |
| miserly | stingy |
| renitent | unyielding |
| elegiac | having mournful quality |
| lugubrious | sounding sad |
| plaintive | sounding sad |
| threnody | a lament |
| auspice | prophetic token |
| fey | fated to die |
| presage | be a sign or warning |
| periphrastic | indirect and circumlocutory |
| prolix | too many words |
| turgid | tediously pompous |
| askance | attitude of suspicion |
| carom | strike and rebound |
| sidle | walk sideways |
| portentous | done in a pompous way |
| propitiate | regain favor |
| indolent | avoid activity; lazy |
| inert | lacking ability or strength to move |
| phlegmatic | unemotional and calm |
| quiescent | period of inactivity |
| assay | determine content or quality |
| ingenuous | innocent |
| novitiate | novice |
| baleful | menacing |
| baneful | harmful |
| inimical | tending to harm |
| perfidious | deceitful |
| pernicious | harmful effect |
| implacable | inflexible; incapable of being pleased |
| pernicious | very harmful |
| canny | smart; founded on common sense |
| abjure | to reject, abandon formally |
| bromide | a dull, commonplace person or idea |
| anodyne | something that calms or soothes pain |
| decamp | to leave suddenly |
| apothgm | a short instructive saying |
| acidulous | sour in taste or manner |
| declivity | downward slope |
| cavil | to raise trivial objections |
| comeliness | physical grace and beauty |
| mawkish | sickeningly sentimental |
| dotard | senile old person |
| chide | to scold |
| abominate | to hate |
| eschew | to abstain from, avoid |
| dictum | formal pronouncement from authority |
| epigram | remark expressing idea cleverly |
| sententious | given to moralizing |
| enervate | cause someone to feel drained of energy |
| vitiate | spoil the quality of |
| diffident | modest because of lack of self-confidence |
| recreant | coward |
| antecede | predate |
| antedate | precede in time |
| inexorable | impossible to stop |
| obstinate | stubborn |
| engender | generate |
| nascent | just coming into existence |
| acidulous | sharp tasting or sour; bitter remark |
| asperity | harshness of tone |
| factitious | artificially created |
| temperate | showing self-restraint |
| chagrin | feel humiliated |
| diffidence | modesty from lack of confidence |
| expiate | speak or write at length |
| gaucherie | embarrassing |
| rue | regret |
| apocryphal | doubtful authenticity |
| canard | unfounded rumor |
| ersatz | not real/genuine |
| perfidy | deceitfulness |
| prevaricate | evade |
| interregnum | period of suspension |
| interstice | an intervening space |
| rent | tear in a fabric |
| respice | examine a point in time |
| fell | cruel/fierce |
| malevolent | having wish to do harm to others |
| sardonic | grimly cynical |
| fulsome | excessively flattering |
| unctuous | excessively flattering |
| cavil | making unnecessary objections |
| belabor | argue in excessive detail |
| enjoin | urge to do something |
| bacchanalian | drunken revelery |
| dissipated | over indulging in sensual pleasures |
| iniquity | immoral behavior |
| libidinous | lustful |
| reprobate | express disapproval of; predestined to damnation |
| turpitude | depravity |
| insipid | lacking flavor |
| trite | overused/of little importance; lacking originality |
| pettish | childishly bad tempered |
| pique | stimulate; feel irritated |
| waspish | expressing anger |
| mainstay | thing that something else depends on |
| sustenance | nourishment |
| impetuous | done quickly without thinking |
| inscrutable | impossible to understand |
| turbid | cloudy, opaque |
| dither | indecisive behavior |
| vacillate | alternate / waver |
| probity | honesty and decency |
| expatiate | speak or write at length |
| peregrination | traveling around |
| sojourn | temporary stay |
| abeyance | temporary suspension/disuse |
| abnegation | self-denial |
| abrogate | repeal (law, right, etc.) |
| demur | raise doubts |
| recidivism | act of repeating undesirable behavior |
| dilettante | amateur interest |
| proselyte | person who is converted from one opinion/party to another |
| mercenary | person concerned w/ making money |
| miserly | stingy |
| penurious | extremely poor |
| venal | corruptible |
| clement | mild, merciful |
| unstinting | unsparing |
| flippant | not showing serious or respectful attitude |
| gibe | a taunt |
| raillery | good humored teasing |
| riposte | quick clever response to an insult/criticism |
| simper | smirk |
| conjugal | relating to marriage |
| consungaine | related by blood |
| distaff | female side of a family |
| progenitor | ancestor |
| scion | descendant of a notable family |
| dogmatic | inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true |
| peremptory | not open to appeal; final |
| elegy | poem of serious reflection |
| knell | sound of bell rung at funeral |
| obsequies | funeral rites |
| sepulchral | gloomy and dismal |
| wraith | ghost/ghostlike image |
| excoriate | criticize severely |
| inveigh | speak/write about with great hostility |
| objurgate | scold |
| obloquy | public criticism |
| rebuke | sharp disapproval |
| reprove | sharp disapproval |
| vituperate | blame in strong language |
| hector | talk in a bullying way |
| defer | submit humbly to |
| propitiate | win/regain favor |
| slake | satisfy |
| esurient | hungry/greedy |
| impecunious | having little/no money |
| encomium | praising speed or piece of writing |
| venerate | revere |
| invective | insulting/highly critical language |
| impudent | not showing due respect |
| insouciant | indifferent |
| jejune | naive and superficial |
| flippancy | frivolousness |
| unpropitious | unfavorable |
| discomfit | defeat/put down |
| lugubrious | sounding sad |
| mawkish | sickly sentimentality |
| calumnious | slanderous |
| ignominious | deserving of public disgrace |
| vicissitude | change of fortune |
| sagacious | shrewd |
| assiduous | unremitting |
| alacrity | brisk and cheerful readiness |
| ebullient | quality of being cheerful |
| eclat | brilliant display |
| corpulence | obesity |
| penurious | extremely poor |
| peremptory | not open to appeal |
| perspicacious | understanding of things |
| phlegmatic | having unemotional disposition |
| puckish | playful in mischievous way |
| mullish | stubborn |
| laconic | terse; concise |
| inveterate | unlikely to change |
| inviolable | never to be broken |
| capricious | sudden change of mood |
| paltering | trifle with |
| contravene | violate the order of |
| encomiast | person who publicly flatters someone else |
| salient | fortification that juts out |
| sedition | speech inciting people to rebel |
| gall | make someone feel annoyed |
| harrow | cause distress to |
| vitiate | spoil the quality of |
| repine | feel discontent |
| reprobate | feel disapproval |
| stodgy | dull/uninspired |
| contrite | affected by guilt |
| perfidious | decietful |
| plangent | loud |
| stolid | calm dependable person |
| sapient | wise |
| evanescent | quickly fading |
| staid | unadventurous |
| volitional | with deliberate intention |
| improvident | thoughtless |
| indefeasible | not able to be lost |
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