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GRE PTest Words
Difficult Words taken from Practice Tests
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pundit | expert; person with authority on subject; scholar |
| fawn | to flatter; to serve; to ingratiate oneself to |
| offhand | casual; done without prior thought; careless; impromptu |
| tractability | obedience; docility; agreement |
| indefatigability | hard work; perseverance |
| noisome | offensive; putrid; disgusting; foul-smelling |
| raucous | noisy; rough |
| repulse | rejection; give cold shoulder; push away |
| odious | hateful; horrible; foul; repulsive related: odium |
| audacious | daring; bold |
| refractory | stubborn; unruly |
| intransigence | stubbornness |
| laconic | brief; short; to the point |
| sordid | filthy; vile; vulgar; bad |
| derisive | ridiculing; insulting; rude |
| abrogate | formally put an end to; abolish |
| hapless | unfortunate; cursed; ill-fated |
| sedulous | determined; hard-working; persevering |
| insularity | confinement; isolation; provincial; narrow-mindedness |
| perfidious | deceitful; misleading; untrustworthy |
| irascible | angry; irritable |
| prevarication | dishonesty; deceitfulness |
| minatory | threatening; ominous |
| excoriation | to denounce or berate; to remove skin from |
| chary | cautious; careful; shy; choosy |
| exigent | urgent; pressing |
| epithet | a nickname; a curse |
| peccadillo | a minor offense; a faux pas; an indiscretion |
| viscid | sticky; viscous |
| turpitude | vile; shameful; wicked |
| philistine | barbaric; crass; rough; offensive |
| affability | friendliness; agreeability; graciousness |
| abacus | calculator |
| feint | artifice; deceit; hoax |
| nascent | developing; beginning |
| assay | appraisal; evaluation |
| nice | precise; accurate; meticulous |
| gainsay | contradict; disagree |
| harrow | demolish; destroy; ruin |
| idyll | charming; picturesque; pastoral |
| stolid | unemotional; impassive |
| trenchant | incisive; cutting; sharp; energetic |
| plaintive | melancholy |
| prescience | foresight; foreknowledge |
| sap | energy; vitality |
| satiate | mercenary; open to bribery; |
| peripatetic | itinerant; walking about |
| fatuous | stupid; foolish |
| florid | embellished; ornate; baroque; flamboyent |
| malinger | fake; evade; dodge |
| opprobrium | disgrace; disrespect; humiliation |
| grievous | severe; serious; agonizing |
| prolixity | wordiness; loquacity |
| feckless | without purpose; careless; ineffective |
| probity | fairness; honesty; integrity |
| profundity | wisdom; acumen; reason |
| cadge | beg; mooch; panhandle |
| damp | to stop a vibration |
| abraded | scrape; erode; rub off |
| anodize | to coat with a metallic material |
| fell | chop down; cut; raze |
| quarry | excavate; dig |
| rarefy | thin; diminish; weaken |
| supine | lying down (on back); inactive; idle |
| pith | core; center; importance |
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