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ScumbagStevesGREpre2
ScumbagStevesGREprep2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nonplus | To bewilder, to puzzle. |
| Peroate | To make a long, formal speech, to sum up a speech. |
| Privation | a lack of comforts, poverty, a state of being deprived. |
| Protean | readily assuming different shapes or characters. |
| Provenance | origin, source, proof of past ownership. |
| Prurient | lascivious, have lustful thoughts or desires. |
| Puissance | power, strength |
| Sangfroid(SANG | FRWA) |
| Sententious | preachy, pompous, using wise sayings excessively |
| Shibboleth | a distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group, a slogan. |
| Simper | to smile foolishly. |
| Slatternly | untidy and dirty through habitual neglect. |
| Sylvan | forestlike, wooded. |
| Trice | a moment, a short period of time. |
| Vagary | a whim, an unpredictable action. |
| Vainglorious | boastful, pompous. |
| Wont | a custom, habit |
| Zaftig | full figured, plump. |
| Ablution | the act of washing one’s body. |
| Adventitious | accidental |
| Afflatus (AFF | FLAY |
| Agathism(A | GUH |
| Agnate | from the father’s side of the family |
| Aleatory | based on chance |
| Animus(n.) | a hostile feeling. |
| Antinomy | a contradiction between two seemingly true statements. |
| Arrant(adj.) | 1)notoriously, without moderation 2) downright |
| Arriviste | A social climber, an upstart. |
| Atrabilious | inclined to melanchololy |
| Melancholy | sad, gloomy or depressed. |
| Bailiwick | A particular area of expertise. |
| Banausic | routine, mechanical, boring. |
| Bellwether | A person who assumes leadership role or takes initiative. |
| Benison | blessing, benediction |
| Bibulous | highly absorbent, given to food or fond of alcoholic beverages |
| Bosky | covered with trees and shrubs |
| Brummagem | bogus, fraudulent, cheap, showy. |
| Caducity | the frailty of old age, the quality of being perishable. |
| Claque | 1)an audience paid to clap 2) an obsequious audience |
| Clerisy | the intellectual elite |
| Codicil | Addition to a will |
| Coeval | originating during the same period. |
| Concupiscence | ardent sexual desire. |
| Culvert | a sewer or drain |
| Daedal | ingenious or complex in design |
| Defalcate | to embezzle |
| Demimonde | 1)a distinct circle or world that is often an isolated part of a larger world(fringe society). 2) a class of women of lower social standing. |
| Denouement | the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel. |
| Diadem | a crown that indicates royalty. |
| Dolorous | sorrowful |
| Edacious | having an insatiable appetite, voracity. |
| Epicene | having characteristics of both male and female, neuter |
| Esculent | edible, suitable for eating. |
| Etiolate | to deprive of natural vigor : make feeble |
| Euthenics | the idea of improving the condition of humans by improving their environment |
| Evince | 1)to display outward evidence of. 2)To reveal |
| Froward | contrary, consistently disobedient |
| Fustian | ridiculously pompous, bombastic, grandiose in delivery |
| Galoot | a clumsy but somewhat likeable person |
| Grig | a lively person |
| Hegira | |
| Homologate | to confirm officially |
| Hortative | giving advice or exhortation |
| Imago | 1) an adult stage of an insect 2) An ideal image of a parent formed in childhood and remaining unconscious in adulthood. |
| Indubitable | unquestionably true, evident |
| Ineluctable | inescapable, cannot be avoided |
| Labile | unstable, adaptable, liable to change |
| Lambent | radiant, flickering, marked by lightness |
| Manumit | release from slavery |
| Melange | a mixture, often of incongruous elements |
| Mien(MEEN) | demeanor, the air or bearing of someone |
| Nefandous | a person or politician who can’t make up his mind, an independent |
| Nimbus | an atmosphere that surrounds a person( can be either positive or negative vibe) |
| Offal | the waste products of a product(often as a butchered animal), refuse, rubbish |
| Paralogism | illogical reasoning of which the reasoned is not aware |
| Parvenu | an upstart who has acquired wealth but hasn’t achieved the social acceptance or position |
| Plenary | complete, fully attended, not deficient in any way |
| Pluvial | rainy |
| Proscenium | the part of the stage in front of the curtain, the wall frame for the stage |
| Quiddity | the real nature of a thing, the essence |
| Quisling | a traitor who helps an enemy who occupies his country |
| Saporous | tasty, flavorsome |
| Satrap | a subordinate ruler |
| Sciolism | superficial knowledge |
| Senesence | the onset of old age |
| Sequacious | intellectually servile, incapable of independence of thought |
| Serried | crowded together |
| Supervene | to follow immediately after, to ensue |
| Surcease | cessation |
| Tatterdemalion | always in tatters |
| Tenebrous | dark and gloomy |
| Termagant | an overbearing and nagging woman |
| Tumid | 1) swollen, distended, a bulging shape 2)overblown 3)bombastic |
| Ukase(YOU-KAZE) | a proclamation by an emperor or government having the force of law |
| Votary | a person bound by vows to live a life of religious service |
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