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GRE Stack B
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ostensible | for show; intended for display; plausible |
| xylography | printing with wooden blocks; artistic wood carving |
| decathlon | athletic competition with ten events |
| equivocate | speak ambiguously; avoid telling truth |
| Larceny | robbery; theft; stealing |
| timorous | cowardly; fearful |
| Janus-faced | two-faced; looking two directions; having two contradicting aspects |
| suzerain | feudal overlord; dominant state ruling dependent state |
| synod | assembly of church delegates |
| Gregorian Calendar | Western/Christian Calendar |
| sotto voce | low, whispering voice not to be overheard |
| aegis | Zeus's breastplate; protection; sponsorship; auspices |
| revanche | state seeking to regain territory lost |
| bonhomie | good-natured easy friendliness (bonhomous) |
| rigmarole | complex procedure; confused meaningless talk |
| hauteur | arrogance; haughtiness; superciliousness |
| ad hominem | attacking character rather than addressing issues; playing on prejudices, no intellect |
| decorum | polite genteel behavior |
| adroit | skillful |
| largess | generosity |
| pontificate | speak pompously or dogmatically |
| equidistant | equal in distance between two things |
| ineluctable | inevitable; unchangeable |
| bristle | show irriation |
| histrionic | theatrical; exaggerated |
| obstreperous | noisy and boisterous |
| titter | giggle quietly |
| hoary | gray or white with age |
| facetious | not serious; humorous |
| pedantic | to be showy with knowledge; heavily concerned with details |
| brusque | blunt; abrupt |
| defoliate | cause leaves to fall off, especially prematurely |
| obviate | to avoid; make unnecessary |
| torpid | inactive, lazy, stagnant |
| motley | variegated; made of incongruous elements |
| paradisiacal | related to or resembling paradise |
| effusive | great outpouring of emotion; outpouring of lava |
| fungible | interchangeable; items of equal value to each other |
| sate | to satisfy or appease |
| parsimonious | being frugal to the point of stinginess |
| emolument | wages from employment; compensation |
| evitable | capable of being avoided or evaded |
| aver | to assert in pleading; to declare positively |
| pachyderm | hooved, nailed, thick skinned mammals that chew cud (elephants, rhinos, hippos) |
| ruminant | contemplative or meditative; cud-chewing |
| bulwark | defensive wall; protection; buffer |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty; impoverished |
| verbose | wordy |
| windily | verbosely; bombastically |
| bloviate | to speak or write verbosely or windily |
| obloquy | a condition of discredit; bad repute |
| perjury | false swearing; lying under oath |
| serendipity | the instance of finding something favorable without looking for it |
| contempt | willful disobedience or disrespect of the court, judge or legislative body |
| incontinent | unable to restrain urine or feces; lacking self-restrain |
| preternatural | exceeding what is normal; extraordinary |
| expiation | the act of making atonement |
| puerile | juvenile; childish |
| assiduous | marked by careful, unremitting attention |
| donnybrook | free-for-all; brawl; public quarrel or dispute |
| cotton | to take a liking to; to come to understand |
| ethereal | celestial, heavenly, spiritual |
| flippant | lacking seriousness or respect |
| plonk | cheap or inferior wine |
| odious | detestable, repugnant, disgusting, hateful |
| Hypochondriac | someone excessively worried about heath; someone with obsessive fear of illness |
| officious | aggressive in offering one's unwanted help or services; meddlesome |
| totter | to walk with unsteady, faltering steps as if from extreme weakness |
| alacrity | eagerness; enthusiasm; avidity |
| deleterious | harmful; injurious |
| ogle | to stare blatantly, even flirtatiously |
| postulate | hypothesize; propose |
| tractable | easy to manage or control; docile; malleable |
| intractable | difficult to control; incorrigible |
| eponym | the person/thing after which something is named; the source for some name |
| alchemy | medieval chemistry; attempting to turn base metal into gold |
| burnish | to polish |
| euphony | pleasant sounds |
| levity | flippancy; facetiousness |
| olfactory | concerned with the sense of smell |
| comely | aesthetically pleasing; beautiful |
| epochal | unparalleled; momentous; highly significant |
| intuit | to understand by intuition |
| delineation | demarcation; explanation; definition; outlining |
| transcribe | copy |
| alderman | a member of a city legislative body |
| tuckpointing | to apply putty to lines between bricks |
| byline | a line that tells you who wrote the article |
| demur | to back away; hesitate; refuse (see also: "Demure") |
| ignominious | shameful |
| liniment | soothing lotion |
| ruse | a wily trick; stratagem; subterfuge |
| wily | crafty |
| incandescent | brilliant; resplendent |
| effervescent | showing liveliness or exhilaration; bubbling with gas (pumice) |
| adiposity | animal blubber; fat |
| derriere | ass; buttcheeks |
| stalwart | marked by outstanding strength, vigor or stamina |
| indolence | laziness; sloth |
| begrudge | to concede reluctantly |
| disparate | distinct in quality or character; variegated or motley |
| putative | commonly assumed to exist or have existed |
| insinuate | to imply cleverly and subtly |
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