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GRE Stack A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstruse | difficult to understand; obscure |
| Blithe | free-spirited; carefree |
| Credulous | gullible; ready to believe anything |
| Repudiate | shun; eschew |
| Reprieve | a respite; postponement of a sentence |
| Abrogate | cancel; deny; repeal |
| Plaudit | statement giving strong praise |
| Engender | cause |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time; transient |
| moot | debatable |
| incorrigible | not reformable; delinquent; unruly |
| genteel | polite; stylish |
| premonition | foreboding; prediction; portent |
| kleptocracy | a government characterized by greed and corruption |
| apogee | apex; climax |
| pogrom | organized massacre or persecution of minority |
| soliloquy | monologue revealing character's deep emotions |
| opprobrium | disgrace; shame |
| opine | give one's opinion about something |
| anomie | social or political unrest from loss of values |
| autodidact | self-taught person |
| litigiousness | prone to engage in lawsuits |
| fastidious | having high standards; meticulous |
| receptacle | container; receiver |
| precarious | unstable; impermanent |
| internecine | destructive to both sides |
| inviolate | safe from injury or violation |
| fiduciary | (n) a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another; (adj) involving trust or confidence |
| vicissitude | unpleasant or unwelcome change in fortune or circumstance |
| boilerplate | writing expressing cliched or general opinions |
| antipathy | deep-seeded feeling of dislike |
| concomitant | naturally associated or accompanying |
| diffident | modest or shy from lack of confidence |
| dirge | mournful lament or narrative |
| taciturn | reserved or uncommunicative in speech |
| penury | extreme poverty or destitution |
| allay | ameliorate, placate or resolve |
| grovel | to behave demurely or apologetically |
| polemicist | strong opponent |
| demagogue | leader seeking popular support by playing on people's prejudices |
| glib | talkative but shallow and insincere |
| sojourn | a short stay somewhere |
| slapdash | ad hoc, whimsical, hurriedly |
| subvention | grant money from government |
| portent | foreshadowing, adumbration |
| self-immolation | set one's self on fire |
| prim | stiffly formal |
| labile | likely to change; capricious |
| Acquiesce | to agree to; give in to |
| Bombast | arrogant, pompous language |
| Epicure | someone who appreciates good food and drink |
| Lampoon | ridicule; spoof |
| Tenuous | flimsy; not solid |
| Tentative | not certain |
| furtive | sly; surreptitious; stealth |
| enigmatic | resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious |
| acrid | sharp, pungent smell or taste |
| boorish | ill-mannered |
| poised | calm; collected; self-possessed |
| resplendent | shining; glowing; incandescent |
| languid | tired and slow |
| Lammas | harvest festival |
| sic | intentionally so written |
| bower | an attractive dwelling or retreat; arbor |
| irrefragable | irrefutable |
| variegated | various; diverse; varied |
| retrocede | to go back; recede |
| diluvial | related to a flood |
| adventitious | occurring sporadically from source that's not innate |
| fillip | to flick |
| predial | related to land or fruits thereof |
| gumption | common sense; enterprise; initiative |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity |
| defenestration | to throw a person or thing out a window |
| thole | to endure |
| propinquity | nearness, association, proximity |
| toplofty | haughty; arrogant |
| vaticination | prediction; act of prophesying |
| ungainly | akward clumsy appearance; difficult to control |
| kerfuffle | disturbance; fuss |
| objurgation | a harsh rebuke |
| expedite | to execute promptly; speed up |
| imbibition | act of imbibing; absorbing fluid |
| homiletic | related to a homily; preachy; platitudinous |
| whirligig | whirling children's toy; events that change continuously |
| torpor | a state of mental slugishness, apathy or dullness |
| indite | to compose in writing |
| quid pro quo | tit for tat arrangement |
| precatory | wishful |
| mettle | staying quality; stamina; vigorous temperment |
| tropism | innate, natural inclination; propensity |
| dovetail | to fit with |
| avidity | keen eagerness; consumption greed |
| microcephalic | having a small head with a small braincase |
| acuity | sharpness; perspicacity; mental keenness |
| hidebound | rigid in opinion; favoring established ideas |
| languish | weaken; fade away; decay |
| obsequious | servile, submissive, timorous |
| polemical | causing debate or argument |
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