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GRE Vocab Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| compendium | brief summary |
| apace | at a quick pace |
| countenance (v.) | to sanction |
| munificent | liberal or lavish |
| dudgeon | state of indignation |
| irascible | hot temper, easy to anger |
| pique (n.) | feeling of wounded vanity |
| waspish | petulant |
| dilettante | individual with superficial interest in a branch of knowledge, dabbler |
| neophyte | new convert |
| proselyte | new convert |
| novitiate | novice |
| tyro | a beginner |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication |
| engender | to produce, cause beginning of |
| inchoate | partly in existence, formless, nebulous, incoherent |
| trenchant | sharply perceptive, caustic |
| bacchanal | revelry, orgy |
| libertine | a free-thinker, unconstrained |
| reprobate | to condemn |
| turpitude | inherent baseness |
| paradigm | example; also a theoretical framework |
| aspersion | a false charge to harm a reputation |
| calumny | defamation |
| objurgate | harsh rebuke |
| obloquy | strong condemnation |
| dolorous | expressing misery, grief |
| wraith | ghost |
| esoteric | requiring special knowledge, not attainable to public |
| recondite | concealed, obscured |
| invidious | envious |
| noisome | highly offensive, objectionable (especially to sense of smell) |
| rebarbative | irritating |
| limpid | transparent |
| pellucid | easy to understand |
| iconoclast | one who attacks established beliefs |
| expiate | to end the guilt for, to put an end to, to make amends for |
| tantamount | equivalent |
| paramount | superior |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity |
| chicanery | trickery |
| dissemble | to hide under false appearances |
| ersatz | artificial, inferior substitute |
| mendacity | a lie |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth |
| specious | having a deceptive allure |
| spurious | of a deceitful nature |
| consanguine | descended from the same ancestors |
| tendentious | biased |
| palliate | to moderate the intensity of |
| riposte | a retaliatory measure |
| rapacious | covetous, greedy |
| baleful | threatening evil |
| truculent | scathing, vitriolic |
| vituperation | sustained, railing condemnation |
| antithetic | being in direct opposition |
| unctuous | marked by smug, ingratiating, or false earnestness |
| propitiate | to appease |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| prolix | excessively wordy |
| slake | to satisfy, appease (Also to ____ lime means to hydrate it, causing it to crumble) |
| esurient | hungry, greedy |
| augur | a fortune-teller, one who predicts |
| fey | visionary (less common: doomed to die, quaintly refined-campy) |
| presage | warning of the future |
| prognosticate | foreboding |
| compendious | coherent, comprehensive |
| diurnal | daily |
| penultimate | the next to the last |
| pusillanimous | timid |
| anachronism | out of place chronologically |
| peregrine | having a tendency to wander |
| bromide | a commonplace statement or notion |
| sententious | terse or moralistic in expression |
| abscond | leave secretly |
| antipathy | extreme dislike |
| tenuous | shaky, weak, flimsy |
| tenuity | lack of substance |
| catholic | comprehensive, universal |
| dilatory | intended to delay |
| enervate | reduce in strength |
| malinger | to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
| misanthrope | one who dislikes others |
| paragon | model of excellence |
| soporific | causing sleep or lethargy |
| torpor | extreme sluggishness |
| philistine | one uninformed in an area of knowledge |
| opprobrium | fall from grace |
| approbation | praise |
| antediluvian | ancient (connotation: out of date) |
| otiose | futile |
| obdurate | stubborn in wrongdoing |
| puerile | childish, juvenile |
| ululate | howl, wail |
| abrogate | to annul |
| fugacious | short in duration, evanescent |
| regnant | exercising rule, dominant, widespread |
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