GRE VOCA- 1
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- Coda:
- A conclusion or closing part of a statement or of a musical or literary composition
- Deride:
- To ridicule, make fun of
- Alacrity:
- cheerful promptness, eargerness, willingness
- Amalgamate:
- combine, unite in one body, To combine into a unified or integrated whole; unite
- Apathy:
- Lack of caring, indifference
- Apprise:
- Inform, to give notice
- Complaisant:
- To exhibit a desire to please or trying to please, obliging
- Conundrum:
- riddle, difficult problem,paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem
- Quixotic:
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Unreachable goals, idealistic without regard to practicality, impracticle
Hint: Antonymn(opposite): pragmatic - Default:
- Failure to act, Failure to perform a task or fulfill an obligation
- Restiveness:
- impatience or uneasiness, restless
- Mirth:
- Gladness and gaiety
- Docile:
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Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
Yielding to supervision, direction - Craven:
- Cowardly,abject fear; cowardly.
- Petulance:
- irritable or ill-tempered; peevish
- Decorum:
- Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety, The conventions or requirements of polite behavior
- Pugnacious:
- Combative in nature, belligerent, resort to force or violence
- Perspicacity:
- Acuteness, discernment, or understanding.
- Desiccate:
- Dry up, To make dry, dull, or lifeless.
- Temerity:
- Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness
- Suppliant:
- To ask humbly and earnestly; beseeching
- Pithy:
- Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief:
- Delineate:
- To portray, depict, sketch: To depict in words or gestures; describe
- Epigram:
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A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.
A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement. - Desultory:
- aimless, haphzard, digressing at random
- Rococo:
- Style of art, especially architecture and decorative art, that originated in France in the early 18th century and is marked by elaborate ornamentation, as with a profusion of scrolls, foliage, and animal forms.
- Welter:
- turmoil, bewildering jumble
- Dirge:
- music play at funeral, A funeral hymn or lament
- Volatile:
- Changeable, explosive
- Abscond:
- To depart secretly and hide