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Useful Words for GRE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ancillary | subordinate, subsidiary; auxiliary, supplementary |
| serendipity | the phenomenon of finding valuable things not sought for |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly; weakly and effusively sentimental |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence; exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age |
| senescence | the state of being old: the prcoess of becoming old; the growth phase in a plant or plant part from full maturity to death |
| parsimony | thrift; the quality or state of being stingy |
| ornery | cantankerous |
| prohibitive | forbidding; sure to perform |
| privy | private, withdrawn; sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private) |
| propitious | benevolent; auspicious; advantageous |
| sophistic | specious |
| fugue | a disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the acts performed; memoryless stupor |
| copacetic | very satisfactory |
| provincial | lacking urban refinement |
| indisposed | slightly ill; averse |
| gingerly | careful, cautious |
| prophylactic | preventive |
| ineffable | unspeakable |
| delusory | deceptive, delusive |
| facsimile | exact copy |
| pecuniary | of or relating to money |
| unvarnished | not adorned or glossed; artless, frank |
| verve | energy, vitality |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| abnegation | denial: self-denial |
| irascible | hot tempered |
| prurient | arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| imprimatur | sanction, approval; mark of approval or distinction |
| demulcent | soothing |
| ignescent | volatile |
| sublime | to elevate or exalt; lofty, grand; of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth; complete utter |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct; to make (oneself) modestly or shyly inconspicuous |
| pertinacity | perversely persistent; stubbornly tenacious |
| bravado | a pretense of bravery |
| candor | kindliness; warmhearted or gentle |
| artifice | clever or artful skill: ingenuity |
| cloying | disgusting or distateful by reason of excess; excessively sweet or sentimental |
| bonny | beautiful |
| teratoid | grotesquely deformed |
| doughty | marked by fearless resolution: valiant |
| iridescent | displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow |
| pavonine | like a peacock; colorful |
| edify | build, establish; to instruct and improve |
| cauterize | to make insensible, to make incapable of feeling |
| penitential | of or relating to penitence or penance |
| skittish | capricious, variable, flunctuating; easily frightened: restive |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control; marked by impatience or uneasiness |
| paradisiacal | of, relating to, or resembling paradise |
| schism | division, seperation: discord, disharmony |
| saccharine | overly or sickishly sweet |
| catharsis | purgation; purification of the emotions primarily through art |
| skein | a lossely coiled length of yarn or thread wound on a reel |
| disaffect | to alienate the affection or loyalty of |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy: condole |
| impertinence | irrelevance, inappropriateness |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| lampoon | ridicule |
| recompense | to pay for |
| miser | a mean grasping person; one who is extremely stingy with money |
| prig | thief |
| largesse | generosity |
| hypertrophy | exaggerated growth or complexity |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| primacy | the state of being first |
| jurisprudence | the science of philosophy of law |
| salve | a remedial or soothing influence or agency |
| tepid | lacking in passion, force, or zest; marked by an absence of enthusiasm or conviction |
| dour | stern, harsh; obstinate, unyielding; gloomy, sullen |
| bouyant | cheerful |
| concierge | doorkeeper; bellboy |
| sinewy | tough, stringy; marked by the strength of sinews (tendons); marked by striations |
| thewy | muscular |
| pneumatic | moved or worked by air pressure; having a well-proportioned feminine figure: having a full bust |
| flocculent | consisting of loosely aggregated particles or soft flakes;having or resembling tufts of wool |
| ebullient | marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm; effusive; cheerful and full of energy |
| burke | bypass, avoid |
| fete | festival; to pay high honor to |
| obloquy | a strong condemnatory utterance: abusive language |
| recreant | cowardly |
| redolent | exuding fragrance: aromatic; evocative |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth: probable |
| noisome | noxious, harmful; highly obnoxious or objectionable |
| mephitic | foul-smelling |
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