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GRE Hit List 1
Hit Parade Group 1, Princeton Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abscond | to depart secretly (clandestinely); to steal off and hide |
| aberrant | straying from the norm |
| alacrity | eager and enthusiastic willingness |
| anomaly | straying from the normal order, form, rule; abnormality |
| approbation | an expression of approval or praise |
| arduous | strenuous, taxing; requiring a lot of effort |
| audacious | daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
| austere | without adornment; bare; severely simple |
| axiomatic | taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
| canonical | following tradition |
| capricious | inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable |
| assuage | to ease or lesson; to appease or pacify |
| censure | to criticize severely |
| chicanery | trickery or hiding something (subterfuge) |
| connoisseur | to be an expert on something |
| convoluted | complicated |
| disabuse | to set right |
| discordant | conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
| disparate | distinct; not similar |
| effrontery | extreme boldness |
| eloquent | well spoken |
| enervate | to weaken |
| ennui | dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom |
| equivocate | to use ambiguous language with the intention to trick someone |
| erudite | scholarly |
| exculpate | exonerate; clear of blame |
| exigent | urgent |
| extemporaneous | improvised; done without preparation |
| filibuster | longed speechmaking to delay legislative action |
| fulminate | to loudly attack or denounce |
| ingenuous | artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
| inured | accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
| irascible | easily angered |
| laud | to praise highly |
| lucid | clear |
| magnanimity | the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving |
| martial | associated with war and the armed forces |
| mundane | of the world; typical of the ordinary |
| nascent | coming into being; in early development stages |
| nebulous | vague; cloudy |
| neologism | a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses |
| noxious | harmful |
| obtuse | lacking sharpness or intellect |
| obviate | to anticipate and make unnecessary |
| onerous | troubling; burdensome |
| paean | a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
| parody | a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect usually in literature and art |
| perennial | recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
| perfidy | intentional breach of faith; treachery |
| perfunctory | cursory; done without care or interest |
| perspicacious | very perceptive |
| prattle | to babble meaninglessly |
| precipitate | to cause or happen before anticipated |
| predilection | a preference |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events |
| prevaricate | to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
| qualms | reservations; causes for hesitation |
| recant | to retract, esp. a previously held belief |
| refute | to disprove; to successfully argue against |
| relegate | to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower position |
| reticent | quiet; reserved |
| solicitous | concerned and attentive; eager |
| sordid | characterized by filth, grime; foul |
| sporadic | occurring only occasionally or randomly |
| squander | to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
| static | not moving |
| stupefy | to stun, baffle, amaze |
| stymie | to block; to thwart |
| synthesis (noun) | the combination of parts to make the whole |
| torque | a force that causes rotation |
| tortuous | winding, twisting; VERY complicated |
| truculent | fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
| veracity | truthfulness, honesty |
| virulent | extremely harmful or poisonous |
| voracious | having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
| waver | to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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