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Additional Words 2
Useful GRE Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| collude | conspire, plot |
| anoint | to smear or rub with oil; to choose by or as if by divine election |
| normative | of, relating to, or determining norms or standards; conforming to norms; prescribing norms |
| prescribe | to lay down a rule: dictate |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| modish | fashionable, stylish |
| recrudescent | breaking out again: renewing |
| patent | making exclusive or proprietary claims or pretensions; readily visible or intelligible: obvious |
| retrospective | affecting things in the past: retroactive; of, relating to, or given to retrospection (act or progress or an instance of surveying the past) |
| patulous | spreading widely from a center |
| crass | gross; beneath one's dignity; guided by or indicative of base materialistic values |
| incensed | to arouse the extreme anger or indignation of; to perfume with incense |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume; loose and ample |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| balmy | soothing; mild ; crazy, foolish |
| entropic | chaotic |
| vacuity | the state of being vacuous |
| pariah | one that is despised or rejected |
| bile | inclination to anger; acrimony, vitriol |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood: mysterious |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| winnow | remove (people or things) from a group until only the best ones are left; find or identify; separate, sift |
| beleaguer | besiege; trouble, harass |
| rubicon | a bounding or limiting line; especially : one that when crossed commits a person irrevocably |
| sartorial | of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress |
| dossier | a collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject |
| unctuous | excessively or ingratiatingly flattering; oily |
| trenchant | vigorous or incisive in expression or style |
| rankle | cause annoyance or resentment that persists |
| impute | represent (something, especially something undesirable) as being done, caused, or possessed by someone; attribute |
| pabulum | something (as writing or speech) that is insipid, simplistic, or bland; intellectual sustenance |
| cagey | hesitant about committing oneself; wary of being trapped or deceived : shrewd; marked by cleverness |
| syllepsis | the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense |
| manqué | having failed to become what one might have been; unfulfilled. "a starlet manqué" |
| veneer | a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, display, or effect : facade, gloss ; a thin layer of wood or other material that is attached to the surface of something in order to make it look better |
| insouciance | lighthearted unconcern: nonchalance |
| inchoate | not completely formed or developed yet: formless, incoherent; incipient |
| millennium | a period of a thousand years mil·len·ni·um |
| cause célèbre | a legal case that excites widespread interest; a notorious person, thing, incident, or episode |
| blasé | having or showing a lack of excitement or interest in something especially because it is very familiar |
| intermediary | intermediate; acting as a mediator |
| crucible | a pot in which metals or other substances are heated to a very high temperature or melted; a difficult test or challenge; a place or situation that forces people to change or make difficult decisions |
| raconteur | a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way |
| method | a way of doing something; a careful or organized plan that controls the way something is done |
| détente | an ending of unfriendly or hostile relations between countries |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| carte blanche | complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best. |
| nocebo | a placebo with harmful effects |
| anonymity | the quality or state of being unknown to most people : the quality or state of being anonymous |
| raison d’etre | the most important reason or purpose for someone or something's existence |
| discursive | digressing from subject to subject |
| strengthening | make or become stronger |
| impute | to credit to a person or a cause : attribute ; to lay the responsibility or blame for often falsely or unjustly |
| anesthetize | deprive of feeling or awareness |
| prefigure | be an early indication or version of (something) |
| obstreperous | noisy and difficult to control |
| disrepute | the state of being held in low esteem by the public |
| jejune | naive, simplistic, and superficial |
| tawdry | showy but cheap and of poor quality |
| beatific | blissfully happy |
| soporific | tending to induce drowsiness or sleep |
| onanism | masturbation |
| haughty | blatantly and disdainfully proud |
| inter alia | among other things |
| mercurial | subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind |
| methodologically | meth·od·o·log·i·cal·ly |
| vitiate | spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of |
| confectionery | sweet foods (such as fudge and candy) |
| crestfallen | very sad and disappointed |
| turgid | (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic; swollen and distended or congested |
| espièglerie | the quality or state of being roguish or frolicsome |
| jocund | marked by high spirits and laughter |
| render | provide or give (a service, help, etc.); cause to be or become; make |
| panoply | a complete or impressive collection of things |
| punctilious | showing great attention to detail or correct behavior |
| harried | feeling strained as a result of having demands persistently made on one; harassed |
| suasion | persuasion as opposed to force or compulsion |
| dalliance | a casual romantic or sexual relationship |
| modality | a particular mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed |
| conniption | a fit of rage, hysteria, or alarm |
| amaranthine | unfading; everlasting |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke |
| foible | A minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character |
| velleity | the lowest degree of volition; a slight wish or tendency : inclination |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| retinue | a group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person |
| sobriquet | a descriptive name or epithet : nickname |
| verboten | forbidden |
| desiderata | desired things |
| proximate | closest in relationship; immediate |
| frenetic | fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| aspirate | to remove (liquid) from a person's body |
| pore | to read or study attentively —usually used with over |
| avulsion | a tearing away of a body part accidentally or surgically |
| causerie | an informal article or talk, typically one on a literary subject. |
| coif | to arrange (hair) by brushing, combing, or curling |
| uncharitably | severe in judging |
| elision | the act or an instance of omitting something : omission; the process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas. |
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