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GRE
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| loquacious | very talkative; garrulous |
| querulous | Given to complaining; peevish; expressing a complaint or grievance |
| obsequious | fawning; obedient or attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner |
| garrulous | given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative; wordy or rambling |
| servile | abjectly submissive; slavish; of or relating to servitude or forced labor |
| churlish | boorish or vulgar; difficult to work with; having a bad disposition |
| affable | easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable; gentle and gracious |
| insipid | lacking spirit; boring; unpalatable; lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest |
| gregarious | sociable; tending to move in or form groups with others of the same kind |
| probity | uprightness; integrity; confirmed integrity |
| aversion | avoidance because of dislike |
| repugnance | extreme dislike or aversion; the relationship of contradictory terms |
| ignobility | not noble in quality, character, or purpose; common |
| parsimony | unusual or excessive frugality; extreme stinginess |
| frugal | sparing; thrifty; costing little; inexpensive |
| precocious | early maturation, especially in mental aptitude |
| pernicious | deadly; wicked or malicious; destructive |
| deleterious | having a harmful effect; injurious |
| innocuous | harmless; insipid; having no adverse effect |
| magnanimous | generous and nobe; unselfish |
| malediction | slanderous accusation or comment |
| malevolent | exhibiting ill will; malicious; evil or harmful influence |
| depravity | moral corruption or degradation |
| complacency | contentment or self-satisfaction; smugness |
| penury | extreme poverty, scarcity; destitution; barrenness or insufficiency |
| destitution | extreme want of resources; a deficiency; utter poverty |
| destitute | utterly lacking; devoid; completely impoverished; bereft |
| bereft | deprived of something; lacking something needed or expected |
| bereave | to leave desolate or alone |
| eminence | a position of great distinction or superiority; high rank, or fame; a high or raised piece of ground |
| opulence | an abundance or wealth; wealth; affluence; profusion |
| affluence | great quantity; a plentiful supply of money, goods, or property |
| profusion | the state of being profuse; extravagance; lavish or unrestrained expense |
| indigence | poverty; neediness |
| expurgate | to amend (publishing); to remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material before publication |
| interdict | to forbid or debar, especially authoritatively; to prohibit under legal sanction |
| extradite | to give up or deliver to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority |
| turgid | swollen and distended; congested; complex style in language |
| ornate | flashy; showy; heavily or elaborately decorated |
| cowed | frightened by threats or a show of force |
| timorous | full of apprehension; timid; fearful |
| ecclesiastical | of or relating to a church |
| lackluster | lacking brightness, luster, vitality, animation, or liveliness |
| aberrant | deviating; behaving in an abnormal or untypical way |
| erudite | having or showing extensive scholarship; learned |
| nascent | coming into existence; emerging; being born |
| acrimonious | bitter and sharp in language, tone, or temper; rancorous |
| rancorous | bitter long lasting resentment; deep |
| benignant | favorable; beneficial; kind; gracious |
| profligate | dissolute; recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant |
| dissipation | wasteful expenditure or consumption ; unrestrained indulgence |
| dissolute | lacking moral restraint; indulging in sensual pleasures or vices |
| debauched | to debase or corrupt; to lead away from excellence or virtue; |
| inure | to habituate to something undesirable; accustom |
| inveterate | firmly and long established; deep rooted; habitual |
| decorous | proper; characterized by propriety in manners |
| puerile | juvenile; immature; trivial |
| prescience | knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight |
| mercurial | quick and changeable in temperament; volatile; eloquent; shrewd |
| eloquent | characterized by persuasive, powerful discourse |
| perorate | to conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation |
| peregrination | to journey or travel from place to place; a voyage |
| quandary | a state of uncertainty or perplexity; needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy |
| filigree | an intricate, delicate, or fanciful ornamentation |
| recalcitrant | not susceptible to control or authority; stubborn resistance |
| quotidian | everyday; commonplace |
| tyro | a novice or beginner |
| desiccant | a drying agent; a substance that has a high affinity for water |
| maladroit | inept; tactless and insensitive in behavior or speech; clumsiness |
| inept | awkward; clumsy; lack of judgment, sense, or reason |
| impertinent | rude; insolent; exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners |
| calumnious | slanderous; containing or implying calumny |
| calumny | slander; the utterance of maliciously false statements |
| astute | perceptive; having insight or acumen |
| acumen | quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight |
| wallow | to swell or surge forth; to be plentifully supplied |
| discomposure | absence of composure |
| revel | to take great pleasure or delight; to engage in uproarious festivities |
| balk | to stop short; to turn away abruptly |
| synthesize | to combine so as to form a new, complex product |
| alleviate | to make more bearable |
| delineate | to draw or trace the outline of; to depict in words or gestures |
| intransigence | uncompromising; refusing to moderate an extreme position |
| comportment | conduct bearing; deportment |
| deportment | a manner of personal conduct; behavior |
| etiolate | to make weak by stunting the growth or development of |
| sidereal | relating to, or involving the stars |
| wan | suggestively or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness |
| stymie | to thwart; to stump; to hinder |
| mitigated | to moderate in force or intensity |
| obviate | to anticipate and dispose of effectively; render unnecessary |
| unanimity | the condition of being unanimous |
| contrive | to plan with cleverness or ingenuity; to scheme |
| extrasomatic | external to the body or group |
| provenance | place of origin; derivation |
| dyad | two individuals or units regarded as a pair |
| agonistic | combative; competitive |
| bide | to wait; to stay |
| replete | abundantly supplied; abounding |
| ambivalent | uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow |
| cessation | a ceasing; a bringing or coming to an end |
| labile | open to change; adaptable |
| automaton | one that behaves or responds in a mechanical way |
| interlope | a meddler; one that interferes with the affairs of others |
| proprietary | privately owned and controlled |
| extant | still in existence; not destroyed, lost, or extinct |
| interminable | being or seeming to be without an end; tedious |
| protract | to draw out or lengthen in time; prolong |
| polemicize | to write or deliver an argument; engage in controversy |
| parity | functional equivalence; equality, as in amount, status, or value |
| permutate | to alter the sequence or arrangement |
| predilection | bias; preference; a predisposition |
| ethology | the study of human ethos and its formation; scientific study of animal behavior, especially as it occurs in a natural environment |
| prerogative | an exclusive right or privilege |
| despot | a ruler with absolute power |
| incredulous | skeptical; disbelieving |
| monotony | wearisome routine; dullness; tedious sameness or repetitiousness |
| jubilant | exultingly joyful; expressing joy |
| prodigious | extraordinary; marvelous; enormous |
| accolades | strong praise or approval; acclaim |
| portent | An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; an omen. |
| preponderance | superiority in weight, force, importance, or influence |
| pragmatic | dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical |
| regency | a person or group selected to govern in place of an abesnt ruler |
| consummate | to bring to completion or fruition |
| domineering | overbearing; tending to domineer |
| execrable | deserving of execration; hateful; extremely inferior |
| execration | the act of cursing, loathing |
| apocryphal | of questionable authenticity |
| requisite | required; essential |
| stolidity | having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive |
| superfluous | being beyond what is required or sufficient |
| bombast | grandiloquent; pompous speech or writing |
| grandiloquent | pompous or bombastic speech or expression |
| demarcate | to set the boundaries of; delimit; distinguish |
| cladistic | a system of classification based on the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of groups of organisms |
| flagrant | offensive, reprehensible, blazing, conspicuously bad |
| expository | a setting forth of meaning or intent |
| brevity | concise expression; the quality or state of being brief in duration |
| libel | a false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a persons reputation |
| predicate | to base or establish as statement or assertion |
| lambast | to beat or whip severely; to reprimand or scold |
| garble | to mix up, scramble, or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible |
| extirpate | to pull up by the roots; to destroy totally; exterminate |
| odious | arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure |
| terse | brief and to the point; effectively concise |
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