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GRE Vocab list
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| PROPHETIC | Foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention |
| HARBINGER | 1. Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something else 2. Anything that foreshadows a future event |
| AFFABLE | 1. Pleasantly easy to approach and talk to. 2. Showing warmth and friendliness |
| STARK | 1. Completely, Extremely, Downright [stark madness] 2. Harsh, grim, desolate (as a view or place) 3. Bluntly or sternly plain; not softened or glamorized 4. Stiff or rigid in substance |
| RIFE | 1. Excessively abundant 2. Most frequent or common, widespread |
| FORTUITOUS | Occurring by lucky chance, accidental |
| PRESAGE | 1. Something that foreshadows a future event; an omen or warning indication |
| DICHOTOMY | 1. Division into 2 parts or kinds 2. Division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups |
| ACUMEN | Shrewdness shown by keen insight |
| FASTIDIOUS | 1. Excessively particular or demanding 2. Requiring excessive care or delicacy |
| DIDACTIC | 1. Intended for instruction 2. Teaching a moral lesson |
| ICONOCLAST | 1. A person who attacks traditional beliefs 2. A breaker of images, especially those for religious veneration |
| POLEMIC | A controversial argument |
| CAPRICIOUS | Subject to, or lead by, whim or eccentricity |
| CORROBORATE | To make more certain/confirm |
| DEBUNK | To expose a claim as being false or exaggerated |
| COPIOUS | 1. Large in quantity 2. Exhibiting abundance or fullness |
| ACERBIC | 1. Sour in taste 2. Harsh or severe, as of temper |
| SCATHING | 1. Bitterly sever, as a remark 2. Harmful, injurious, or searing |
| MISERLY | Stingy or cheap |
| DIFFIDENCE | 1. Quality of lacking confidence or shy 2. Restrained/reserved in manner |
| FRUGAL | 1. Economical in use or expenditure, not wasteful 2. Requiring few resources, entailing little expense |
| PRUDENT | 1. Wise or judicious in practical affairs 2. Careful in providing for the future |
| ILLIBERAL | Narrow-minded |
| TENUOUS | 1. Thin or slender in form 2. Lacking substance or significance |
| FLORID | 1. Elaborately or excessively ornamented 2. Reddish, rosy [florid complexion] |
| EGALITARIAN | Favoring social equality |
| EPHEMERAL | Short lived |
| INORDINATE | 1. Not within proper or reasonable limits; excessive 2. Uncontrolled or unrestrained in conduct, feelings |
| PLUTOCRACY | A political system governed by the wealthy people |
| DIFFIDENT | 1. Lacking confidence in one's own ability 2. Restrained or reserved in manner, conduct. |
| DISQUIETING | Causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing |
| ACCEDE | 1. To give consent or approval 2. To attain or assume an office, title, or dignity |
| BELIE | 1. To show to be false; contradict 2. To misrepresent |
| FRIVOLOUS | 1. Of little value or significance 2. Characterized by lack of seriousness or sense |
| PENITENT | Feeling or expressing sorrow for wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant |
| AUSTERE | 1. Severe in manner or appearance; strict or forbidding 2. Rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral 3. Without excess, luxury, or ease. |
| PROLIX | 1. Extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy |
| IMPETUOUS | 1. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought 2. Marked by violent force |
| PRODIGAL | Recklessly wasteful, extravagent |
| VOLUBILITY | The quality of being fluent in speech/writing |
| FACILE | 1. Easy or unconstrained 2. Moving or acting with ease, sometimes with superficiality 3. Easily influenced |
| PELLUCIDITY | 1. Allowing the maximum passage of light; translucent 2. Clear in meaning, easy to understand |
| IMPERIOUS | Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those viewed as unworthy |
| THORNY | 1. Full of difficulties, complexities, or controversial points. 2. Painful, annoying |
| RUMINATION | 1. To chew again or over and over 2. To meditate on, to ponder |
| PROSAIC | 1. Dull, unimaginative. |
| HACKNEYED | Made commonplace. Overdone, overused. |
| INDECOROUS | Lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct |
| ALOOF | Remote in manner, especially in feeling or interests |
| BESIEGE | 1. Harass with questions or requests 2. To surround as to force to give up |
| PLACID | 1 Pleasantly calm or peaceful, undisturbed |
| SKITTISH | 1. Unpredictably excitable, restless 2. Fickle, uncertain, shy |
| VOCIFEROUS | Conspicuously and offensively loud |
| SHORE UP | To support, to carry the weight of |
| MERCURIAL | 1. Changeable, volatile, flighty 2. Animated, lively, quick-witted |
| TACITURNITY | The state of being reserved in conversation |
| COVETOUS | Greedy, eagerly desirous |
| SORDID | Unethical or dishonest |
| BIGOT | A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own |
| MITIGATE | Make less severe or harsh |
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