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GRE Hit List 4
Hit Parade Group 4, Princeton Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acerbic | having a sour taste |
| aggrandize | to increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige |
| alchemy | a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals (turning base metals to into gold) |
| amenable | agreeable |
| anachronism | something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
| astringent | having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh |
| contiguous | sharing a border; touching |
| convention | a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
| credulous | gullible |
| cynicism | the belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
| decorum | polite behavior |
| derision | scorn, ridicule |
| desiccate | to dry out |
| dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
| disparage | to belittle or slight |
| divulge | to reveal a secret |
| fawn | to flatter or praise excessively |
| flout | to show contempt for, as in a rule |
| garrulous | talks too much |
| glib | nonchalant, marked by ease or informality |
| hubris | arrogance |
| imminent | about to happen |
| immutable | not capable of change |
| impetuous | rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
| indifferent | having no interest; showing no bias or prejudice |
| inimical | damaging; harmful |
| intractable | not easily managed; stubborn |
| intrepid | courageous |
| laconic | using few words |
| maverick | an independent person who doesn't go along with group or party |
| mercurial | characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
| mollify | to calm/ soothe |
| neophyte | a beginner |
| obfuscate | to make confusing |
| obstinate | stubborn |
| ostentatious | showy; a pretentious display |
| pervade | to permeate throughout |
| phlegmatic | calm; sluggish; unemotional |
| plethora | a surplus |
| pragmatic | practical rather than idealistic |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds; taking liberties |
| pristine | pure; clean |
| probity | follow the highest principles; uprightness |
| proclivity | a natural predisposition |
| profligate | very wasteful |
| propensity | a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
| prosaic | dull |
| pungent | characterized by a strong smell/taste |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romance ideals |
| quotidian | recurring daily; commonplace |
| rarefy | to make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
| recondite | hidden; difficult to understand; obscure |
| refulgent | radiant |
| renege | to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
| sedulous | diligent |
| shard | a piece of broken pottery/glass |
| soporific | causing drowsiness |
| sparse | thin |
| spendthrift | one who spends money wastefully |
| subtle | not obvious; elusive |
| tacit | implied |
| terse | brief |
| tout | to publicly praise or promote |
| trenchant | very perceptive; keen; penetrating |
| unfeigned | genuine |
| untenable | indefensible; uninhabitable |
| vacillate | to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another |
| variegated | multicolored |
| vexation | annoyance |
| vigilant | very watchful |
| vituperate | to use harsh condemnatory language; to censure severely |
| volatile | rapidly changing to a vapor; fickle; explosive |
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