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HF GRE Words
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| abstemious | sparing in use of food or drinks |
| apposite | apt, pertinent, appropriate |
| ascetic (adj) | rigorously abstinent |
| ascetic (n) | one who leads a simple life of self-denial |
| assiduous | carefully attentive; industrious |
| baleful | harmful; malign; detrimental |
| bombast | pompous speech; pretentious words |
| burgeon | to grow or develop quickly |
| cant | insincere or hypocritical statements of high ideals; the jargon of a particular group or occupation |
| caprice | a sudden, unpredictable, or whimsical change |
| coda | in music, a concluding passage |
| cogent | to the point; clear; convincing in its clarity and presentation |
| comeliness | beauty; attractiveness in appearance or behavior |
| contravene | to act contrary to; to oppose or contradict |
| decorous | suitable; proper; seemly |
| diatribe | a bitter or abusive speech |
| diffident | timid; lacking self-confidence |
| discreet | showing good judgement in conduct |
| dissemble | to pretend; to feign; to conceal by pretense |
| ebullience | an overflowing of high spirits; effervescence |
| effervescence | to show liveliness or exhilaratio |
| engender | to bring about; beget; to bring forth |
| ephemeral | very short-lived; lasting only a short time |
| evince | show clearly |
| excoriate | scold with biting harshness |
| exegesis | explanation, especially of biblical passage |
| expediate | suitable; practical; public |
| expiate | make amend |
| facetious | joking in an awkward or improper manner |
| garish | overbright in color |
| garrulous | extremely talkative or wordy |
| grouse | complain; fuss |
| hubris | arrogance;excessive self-conceit |
| ignoble | unworthy; not noble |
| ignominy | deep disgrace; shame or dishonor |
| impaccable | faultless |
| imperturbable | calm; not easily excited |
| indemnify | compensate for loss |
| ineluctable | irrestible |
| inexorable | unyielding |
| ingratiate | become popular with |
| iniquitous | wicked; immoral; unrighteous |
| insipid | uninteresting, boring, flat, dull |
| irascible | prone to anger |
| levity | lack of seriousness |
| litotes | understatement for emphasis |
| meretricious | flashy; tawdry |
| mordant | biting; sarcastic; stinging |
| mulct | defraud a person of something |
| obsequious | servilely attentive; fawning |
| obviate | to make unnecessary |
| panegyric | high praise |
| parochial | narrow |
| pedantic | emphasizing minutiae or form in scholarship or teaching |
| penurious | stingy, miserly |
| peremptory | leaving no choice |
| phlegmatic | indifferent |
| prevaricate | to speak equivocally or evasively, i.e. to lie |
| profligate | wasteful |
| pulchritude | state of possessing beauty |
| quiescence | state of being at rest or without motion |
| recondite | hard to understand; concealed; characterizd by profound scholarship |
| relegate | banish |
| sinews | solid resilient strength |
| suborn | persuade to act unlawfully |
| traduce | expose to slander |
| transport | strong emotion |
| tumid | swallon; pumpous; bombastic |
| turpitude | depravity |
| unbrindled | violent |
| unconscionable | excessive |
| vagary | caprice whim |
| vaunted | boasted; bragged; highly publized |
| vernal | pertaining to spring season |
| vicissitude | ups and downs |
| vitiate | spoil the effect of; make inoperative |
| waggish | mischivious; humorous; tricky |
| welter | wallow |
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