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GRE Hit List 6
Beyond the Hit Parade Group 2, Princeton Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adjure | to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
| adumbrate | to foreshadow vaguely or imply; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
| anathema | a solemn or religious curse; a person or thing that is loathed |
| anodyne | soothing; or something that comforts or soothes pain |
| apogee | farthest or highest point; zenith |
| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political beliefs |
| apotheosis | glorification to godliness; an exalted example or a model of perfection |
| asperity | severity |
| asseverate | to assert |
| assiduous | diligent; hardworking |
| augury | omen |
| bellicose | belligerent (hostile/aggressive); pugnacious |
| calumniate | to slander or make false accusation |
| captious | disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
| cavil | to find fault without good reason |
| celerity | speed, alacrity THINK accelerate |
| chimera | an illusion |
| contumacious | insubordinate, rebellious |
| debacle | fiasco |
| denouement | an outcome or solution |
| descry | to discriminate or discern |
| desuetude | disuse (the state of not being used) |
| desultory | random; aimless; having a lack of plan or purpose |
| diaphanous | transparent, gauzy (thin) |
| diffident | reserved, shy, THINK lack in confidence |
| dirge | a song of grief |
| encomium | glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric (public speech), eulogy |
| eschew | to shun or avoid |
| excoriate | to censure or upbraid (scold) |
| execrate | to denounce; to declare to be evil |
| exegesis | critical examination, explication (to unravel or unfold) |
| expiate | to atone or make amends for |
| extirpate | to destroy |
| fatuous | silly |
| fractious | quarrelsome, rebellious |
| gainsay | to deny or oppose |
| heterodox | unorthodox, heretical |
| imbroglio | embarrassing situation |
| indefatigable | not easily exhaustible, dogged (has persistence) |
| ineluctable | certain, inevitable |
| inimitable | one of a kind |
| insouciant | carefree |
| inveterate | deep rooted |
| jejune | vapid (not interesting); childish |
| lubricious | lewd, greasy |
| mendicant | a beggar, supplicant (supplicate: to beg) |
| meretricious | cheap |
| minatory | menacing |
| nadir | low point, perigee |
| nonplussed | baffled |
| obstreperous | noisily and stubbornly defiant |
| ossified | tending to become more rigid, conventional,sterile with age; literally, turned into bone |
| palliate | to make something seem less serious |
| panegyric | formal praise, eulogy |
| parsimonious | cheap |
| peroration | the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
| plangent | pounding, thundering |
| prolix | long-winded, verbose |
| propitiate | to appease |
| puerile | childish |
| puissance | power |
| pusillanimous | cowardly, pussy |
| remonstrate | to protest, object |
| sagacious | having sound judgment |
| salacious | lustful |
| salutary | remedial, wholesome |
| sanguine | cheerful, confident, optimistic |
| saturnine | gloomy, dark |
| sententious | aphoristic or moralistic |
| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
| stygian | gloomy, dark |
| sycophant | toady, servile; parasite |
| tendentious | biased |
| timorous | timid |
| tyro | novice |
| vitiate | to corrupt |
| voluble | fluent |
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