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GRE Vocab89
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| diffidence | lacking confidence in one's own ability, being shy |
| belies | to misrepresent, to contract. "The newspaper belied the facts. His trembling hands belied his calm voice |
| penitential | regret for one's wrongdoing, repentance |
| austerity | rigorously self-disciplined, grave/solemn/serious, strict/forbidding |
| taciturnity | the state of being reserved or reticent in conversation |
| pellucidity | clear |
| impetuous | sudden rash action, emotion. moving with great force |
| prosaic | commonplace or dull, having the form of prose rather than poetry |
| skittish | restless or excessively lively, fickle/uncertain |
| illiberality | narrowminded, bigoted |
| acerbic | sour in taste, harsh, or sever |
| polemical | a controversial argument, a person who argues in opposition to another |
| didacticism | intended for instruction, teaching, inclined to lecture too much |
| iconoclasm | attacking religious images/art |
| caprice / capricious | sudden and unexplained change in emotion or behavior |
| demur | to raise doubts or objections |
| sartorial | related to clothes, dress |
| panache | flamboyant confidence of manner or style |
| gawkiness | clumsy or inelegant |
| quixotic | exceedingly idealistic |
| attenuation | weakening in force or intensity |
| lurid | vivid, sensational |
| intransigent | unwilling to change one's views or to agree about something |
| obsequious | obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree |
| probity | the quality of having strong moral principles, honesty, decency |
| disapprobation | strong disapproval on moral grounds |
| acquistive | excessively interested in acquiring money |
| profligate | recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources |
| tendentiousness | an intentional and contrversial bias |
| profundity | deep insight, knowledge |
| inimical | tending to obstruct or cause harm to |
| facetious | treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor |
| vexation | the state of being annoyed, frustrated, worried |
| cunning | skill in achieving one's goals via deceit |
| laconic | using very few words (to describe a person, speech, style of writing) |
| munificent | larger or more generous than is necessary |
| mandacity | untruthfulness |
| prevarication | a lie, a statement that perverts the truth |
| baseness | unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values |
| avarice | extreme greed for wealth or material gain |
| eclectic | deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources |
| debased | reduce in quality or value, degrade |
| normative | establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm |
| modish | conforming to or following what is currently popular and fashionable |
| salubrious | healthy, not run-down |
| pernicious | having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way |
| discomfiting | making someone feel uneasy or embarrassed |
| remedial | giving or inteded as a remedy or cure |
| calumnious | harmful and often untrue statements, defamatory |
| inveigling | persuade to do something by means of deception or flattery |
| timorous | showing nervousness, fear, lack of confidence (timid) |
| intractable | hard to control or deal with, stubborn |
| evanescent | quickly passing out of sight, memory, existence |
| recrudescent | the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement |
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