GRE 1
Terms
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- abacus
- frame with balls for calculating
- abate
- to lessen to subside
- abdication
- giving up control authority
- aberration
- straying away from what is normal
- abet
- help/encourage smb (in doing wrong)
- abeyance
- suspended action
- abhor
- to hate to detest
- abide
- be faithful to endure
- abjure
- promise or swear to give up
- abraded
- rubbed off worn away by friction
- abrogate
- repeal or annul by authority
- abscond
- to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend obscure
- abut
- border on
- abysmal
- bottomless extreme
- acarpous
- effete no longer fertile worn out
- acclaimed
- welcomed with shouts and approval
- accolade
- praise approval
- accretion
- the growing of separate things into one
- adamant
- kind of stone inflexible
- admonitory
- containing warning
- adorn
- add beauty decorate
- adulteration
- making unpure poorer in quality
- affable
- polite and friendly
- affinity
- close connection relationship
- aggravate
- make worse irritate
- agile
- active quick-moving
- agog
- eager/excited
- ail
- trouble be ill
- alacrity
- eager and cheerful readiness
- alcove
- recess/partially enclosed place
- allegiance
- duty support loyalty
- alleviate
- make (pain) easier to bear
- alloy
- to debase by mixing with something inferior
- aloof
- reserved indifferent
- amalgamate
- mix combine unite societies
- ambidextrous
- able to use the left hand or the right equally well
- ambiguous
- doubtful uncertain
- ambivalent
- having both of two contrary meanings
- ameliorate
- improve make better
- amortize
- end (a debt) by setting aside money
- anguish
- severe suffering
- animosity
- strong dislike
- antidote
- medicine used against a poison or a disease
- antithetical
- direct opposing
- apartheid
- brutal racial discrimination
- aplomb
- self-confidence
- apostate
- one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
- apotheosis
- deification glorification to godliness
- appease
- make quiet or calm
- apprehensive
- grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
- apprise
- give notice to inform
- approbation
- approval
- apropos
- appropriate to the situation apt
- apt
- well-suited quick-witted
- arabesque
- a complex ornate design
- arboreal
- of connected with trees
- ardor
- enthusiasm
- arduous
- steep difficult ascent laborious
- argot
- jargon slang
- arrant
- in the highest degree
- arrogance
- proud superior manner of behaviour
- articulate
- speak distinctly connect by joints
- ascend
- go or come up
- ascertain
- get to know
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial austere stark
- ascribe
- consider to be the origin of or belonging to
- aseptic
- surgically clean
- asperity
- roughness harshness ill temper irritability
- aspersion
- slander
- assail
- with attack violently
- assiduous
- diligent hard-working sedulous
- assuage
- make smth (pain desire) less
- asterisk
- the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
- astringent
- substance that shrinks
- astute
- clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
- atonement
- repayment death of Jesus
- attenuate
- make thin. weaken enervate
- attune
- bring into harmony
- audacious
- daring foolishly bold impudent
- augury
- omen sign
- august
- majestic venerable
- auspicious
- favorable successful prosperous
- austere
- severely moral and strict simple and plain
- auxiliary
- helping supporting
- aver
- affirm assert prove justify
- aversion
- strong dislike
- avid
- eager greedy
- avow
- admit. Declare openly
- baleful
- harmful ominous causing evil
- balk
- obstacle purposely to get on the way of
- baneful
- causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive
- barrage
- artificial obstacle built across a river
- barren
- not good enough unable to have young ones without value
- bask
- in enjoy warmth and light
- beatify
- to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
- bedizen
- to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
- belabor
- beat hard
- bellicose
- belligerent pugnacious warlike
- belligerent
- (person nation) waging war
- benefactor
- person who has given help
- benevolence
- wish or activity in doing good
- benign
- kind and gentle mild (climate)
- bequest
- arrangement to give smth at death
- berate
- scold sharply
- bereft
- rob or dispossess of smth (material)
- bewilder
- puzzle confuse
- bigot
- stubborn narrow-minded person
- bilge
- bulge the protuberance of a cask
- blandishment
- flattery coaxing
- blandness
- polite manner comforting uninteresting
- blatant
- noisy and rough
- blithe
- cheerful casual carefree
- bogus
- sham counterfeit not genuine
- boisterous
- loud noisy rough lacking restraint
- bolster
- give greatly needed support
- boorish
- crude offensive rude
- brash
- hasty rush cheeky saucy
- brass
- yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
- brazen
- made of brass
- breach
- opening broken place breaking
- brittle
- easily broken
- broach
- bring up announce begin to talk about
- brook
- to tolerate endure
- buoyant
- able to float light-hearted
- burgeon
- grow forth send out buds
- burnish
- to polish rub to a shine
- cabal
- a scheme or plot a group of plotters
- cadge
- to beg to get by begging
- cajole
- use flattery or deceit to persuade
- calipers
- metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
- calumny
- slander aspersion
- candid
- frank straight-forward
- cant
- insincere talk/jargon
- cantankerous
- bad-tempered/quarrelsome
- canvass
- discuss thoroughly sort of touting
- castigate
- to chastise correct by punishing
- castigation
- severe punishment
- catalyst
- substance that causes speeding up
- caustic
- biting sarcastic
- censure
- expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
- centurion
- leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
- chary
- cautious wary
- chastened
- corrected punished
- chastisement
- punishment
- chauvinist
- a blindly devoted patriot
- chicanery
- legal trickery/false argument
- chisel
- steel tool for shaping materials
- churl
- bad-tempered person
- clamor
- shout complain with a lot of noise
- clientele
- customers
- clinch
- come to grips/settle conclusively
- cling
- to resist separation
- clot
- half-solid lump formed from liquid
- cloture
- closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
- coagulation
- change to a thick and solid state
- coalescing
- coming together and uniting into one substance
- coax
- get smb to do smth by kindness
- coda
- passage that completes a piece of music
- coddle
- treat with care and tenderness
- coerce
- compel to force to make obedient
- coeval
- of the same period coexisting
- cogent
- strong convincing
- cogitate
- think deeply mediate
- cognizant
- being fully aware of
- colander
- bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
- collusion
- secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
- combustion
- process of burning
- commemorate
- keep the memory of
- commodious
- having plenty of space for what is needed
- commuter
- person who travels regularly
- complaisance
- tending to comply obliging willingness to please
- compunction
- feeling of regret for one's action
- conceal
- hide keep secret
- conceit
- over-high opinion of too much pride
- conciliatory
- reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
- concord
- agreement or harmony
- concur
- agree in opinion happen together
- condense
- increase in density strength make laconic
- condone
- forgive
- congeal
- make or become stiff and solid
- conjoin
- to join together
- connoisseur
- a person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
- connotation
- suggestion in addition to
- consequential
- pompous self important
- console
- give comfort or sympathy to
- conspicuous
- easily seen remarkable
- consternation
- surprise and fear dismay
- constrain
- compel
- constrict
- make tight or smaller
- consume
- get to the end of
- consummate
- perfect/make perfect/complete
- contemn
- to scorn or despise
- contentious
- argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
- contiguous
- touching neighboring near
- contrite
- filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
- contumacious
- insubordinate rebellious
- conundrum
- a riddle dilemma enigma
- conviction
- convincing firm belief
- convoke
- call together summon
- convoluted
- complicated coiled twisted
- cordial
- warm and sincere
- cordon
- line (of police acting as a guard)
- cornucopia
- abundant supply
- corporeal
- physical of or for the body
- correlate
- have a mutual relation
- corroboration
- additional strengthening evidence
- countenance
- to favor or approve of
- counterfeit
- forgery
- countervail
- counterbalance
- covert
- disguised
- covetous
- eagerly desirous
- cower
- crouch shrink back
- coy
- shy/modest (esp of a girl)
- crass
- very great (es. stupidity)
- cravat
- piece of linen worn as a necktie
- craven
- cowardly
- crease
- line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
- credulity
- too great a readiness to believe things
- credulous
- ready to believe things
- crush
- press lose shape subdue overwhelm
- cryptic
- secret with a hidden meaning
- cumbersome
- burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
- curmudgeon
- bad-tempered person
- curriculum
- course of study
- cursory
- quick hurried
- curtail
- make shorter then was planned
- dainty
- pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
- daunt
- intimidate make fearful
- dawdler
- person who is slow waste of time
- dearth
- shortage
- debacle
- a breakup overthrow sudden disaster
- decorum
- propriety properness
- decree
- order given by authority
- decry
- disapprove of
- defer
- postpone give way (to show respect)
- deferential
- showing respect
- defiance
- open disobedience or resistance
- delineate
- to portray depict sketch out
- deluge
- great flood heavy rush of water
- demagogue
- person appealing not to reasons
- demur
- to hesitate raise objections
- denigrate
- blacken belittle sully defame
- denouement
- an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
- deplete
- use until none remains
- deposition
- dethronement depositing
- deprave
- make morally bad corrupt
- deprecate
- protest against express disapproval of
- dereliction
- deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
- derision
- ridicule mockery deriding