GRE list F - Q
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- FACTIOUS
- INCLINED TO FORM FACTIONS; CAUSING DISSENSION "Many nobles sought good government, rather than being factious, and were only forced into war by the king's incompetence"
- FACTITIOUS
- ARTIFICIAL; SHAM
- FAIN
- GLADLY, IN A WILLING MANNER “Men and birds are fain of climbing high.”
- FECKLESS
- futile, irresponsible, inefficient
- FELL
- CRUEL, DEADLY
- FEY
- OTHERWORLDLY, DOOMED, APPROACHING DEATH, UNDER A SPELL CRAZY, CLAIRVOYANT
- FINICAL
- TOO FUSSY ABOUT FOOD, CLOTHING, ETC.
- FLAGRANT
- CONSPICUOUSLY WICKED
- FLIP
- SARCASTIC, IMPERTINENT “flip remarks”
- FLOUT
- TO DEMONSTRATE CONTEMPT FOR “the rebel flouted all the rules”
- FLURRIED
- TO BECOME AGITATED AND CONFUSED
- FOMENT
- TO NURSE TO LIFE OR ACTIVITY; TO ENCOURAGE..(INSTIGATE) “Cynical politicians may even foment conflicts among groups to advance their own power.”
- FORBEARANCE
- PATIENCE, WILLINGNESS TO WAIT
- FORENSICS
- THE STUDY OR ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE
- forfend
- to prevent
- fortnight
- 2 weeks
- forswear
- renounce, disallow, repudiate
- FROWARD
- INTRACTABLE, NOT WILLING TO YIELD OR COMPLY, STUBBORN “the forward mule wouldn’t budge”
- FROWZY
- SLOVENLY; UNKEMPT; DIRTY
- FULMINATE
- ATTACK LOUDLY OR DENOUNCE
- FULSOME
- OFFENDING OR DISGUSTING BY EXCESS, OR GROSSNESS; CLOYING.
- FUSTIAN
- POMPOUS; BOMBASTIC
- GAINSAY
- TO DENY, OR DISPUTE
- GALL
- BITTERNESS, CARELESS NERVE (V.- TO IRRITATE)
- GALLANT
- A FASHIONABLE YOUNG MAN
- GALVANIZE
- TO STIMULATE OR EXCITE AS IF BY SHOCK
- GAME
- COURAGEOUS
- GAMBOL
- SKIP, PLAY, FROLIC
- GARBLE
- MAKE UNFAIR SELECTION FROM FACTS "Moore's movie garbled the facts through editing"
- GARNER
- TO GATHER AND STORE
- GOSSAMER
- DELICATE, TENUOUS, INSINCERE
- GRADATION
- PROCESS OCCURRING IN REGULAR DEGREES OR STAGES, VARIATION IN COLOR
- HECTOR
- A BULLY
- HIBERNAL
- WINTERY
- HIDEBOUND
- EXCESSIVELY RIGID, DRY, STIFF
- HOARY
- VERY OLD, WHITE FROM AGE
- HOI POLLOI
- THE MASSES; THE RABBLE
- HOMONYM
- WORDS IDENTICAL IN PRONUNCIATION BUT DIFFERENT IN MEANING
- HOMILY
- A SERMON, A MORALLY UPLIFTING LECTURE, A PLATITUDE
- HOMILETICS
- ACT OF PREACHING
- IGNOMINIOUS
- SHAMEFUL, DISHONORABLE, UNDIGNIFIED, DISGRACEFUL
- IGNORAMUS
- AN IGNORANT PERSON
- ILLIMITABLE
- LIMITLESS
- IMMATERIAL
- EXTRANEOUS, INCONSEQUENTIAL, NONESSENTIAL
- IMMURE
- TO IMPRISION
- IMPASSIVE
- SHOWING NO EMOTION
- IMPERVIOUSNESS
- ARROGANCE, COMMANDING PRESENCE, OVERBEARINGNESS
- IMPERTINENT
-
NOT TO THE POINT, IRRELEVANT, INAPPLICABLE; TRIFLING;
FRIVOLOUS; NOT GOOD MANNERS.. “impertinent of a child to lecture a
grownup.” "mentioned several impertinent facts before coming to the point" - IMPETUOUS
- HASTILY OR RASHLY ENERGETIC, IMPULSIVE AND VEHEMENT
- IMPOSING
- DIGNIFIED, GRAND
- IMPRECATION
- AN INVOCATION OF EVIL, A CURSE
- IMPUGN
- TO ATTACK VERBALLY
- IMPUGNED
- CHALLENGED, TO BE DOUBTED
- IMPUTE
- TO ATTRIBUTE TO A CAUSE
- INCARNADINE
- BLOOD-RED IN COLOR
- INCLEMENT
- PHYSICALLY SEVER OR ROUGH, SHOWING NO MERCY
- INCIPIENT
- BEGINNING
- INCORPOREAL
- IMMATERIAL, WITHOUT A BODY
- INCREDULOUS
- SKEPTICAL, UNWILLING TO BELIEVE
- INDENTURE
- BOUND TO ANOTHER BY CONTRACT
- INDICT
- TO ACCUSE FORMALLY
- INFLAMMABLE
- EASILY LIT
- INGLORIOUS
- LACKING FAME OR HONOR, SHAMEFUL
- INNERVATE
- ENERGIZE (ANT:ENERVATE)
- INSENSIBLE
- UNAWARE
- INSCRUTABLE
- INCAPABLE OF BEING DISCOVERED OR UNDERSTOOD
- INSOLUBLE
- TO ABLE TO BE SOLVED OR EXPLAINED
- INSOUCIANT
- UNCONCERNED, CAREFREE, NONCHALANT
- INTEMPERATE
- NOT MODERATE
- INTER
- TO BURY
- INTERDICT
- PROHIBIT, FORBID, BAN
- INTERLOCUTER
- SOMEONE TAKING PART IN A DIALOGUE
- INTERNECINE
- DEADLY TO BOTH SIDES
- FACETIOUS
- HUMEROUS
- INDISCRETION
- INABILITY TO DECIDE RESPONSIBLY
- FERMENT
- A STATE OF DISORDER, UNREST
- INTERREGNUM
- INTERVAL BETWEEN REIGNS
- INTERSPERSE
- TO DISTIBUTE AMONG, MIX WITH
- INTERSTICE
- A SPACE BETWEEN THINGS
- INTRANSIGENT
-
REFUSING COMPROMISE OR MODERATE AN EXTREME POSITION;
intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" - INDOLENCE
- LAZINESS
- INELUCTABLE
- CERTAIN, INEVITABLE
- INEXORABLE
- RELENTLESS, UNYIELDING, IMPLACABLE
- INIMITABLE
- DEFYING IMITATION, UNMATCHABLE
- INORDINATE
- UNRESTRAINED; EXCESSIVE
- INSENSATE
- WITHOUT FEELING
- INVEIGH
- TO COMPLAIN OR CRITICIZE STRONGLY.. “Reuther never hesitated to inveigh against "poverty, hunger, and disease."
- INVOLUTE
- COMPLEX
- INVESTITURE
- CEREMONY CONFERRING AUTHORITY (ANT: DIVESTITURE)
- JANGLING
- HARSHLY UNPLEASANT IN SOUND, CLASHING
- JIBE
-
AGREE, TO BE IN HARMONY WITH, GIBE
to poke fun at - JUNKET
-
TRIP ESPECIALLY ONE TAKEN FOR PLEASURE BY AN OFFICIAL AT PUBLIC
EXPENSE - JUNTA
-
CABAL; GROUP OF MILITARY OFFICERS RULING AFTER SEIZING POWER
(BY FORCE) - KEN
- RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE
- KNELL
- TOLLINH OF A BELL TO SIGNIFY DISASTER OR A FUNERAL
- LABILE
- UNSTABLE
- LAGNIAPPE
- TRIFLING PRESENT GIVEN TO A CUSTOMER, AN UNEXPECTED BENEFIT (ALSO CALLED A "BOOT")
- LAPIDARY
- WORKER IN PRECIOUS STONES
- LARDER
- PLACE WHERE FOOD IS STORED
- LASCIVIOUS
- LEWD, LUSTFUL
- LEGERDEMAIN
- TRICKERY
- LIEN
- RIGHT TO POSESS AND SELL THE PROPERTY OF A DEBTOR
- LESION
- UNHEALTHY CHANGE IN STRUCTURE; INJURY
- LIBEL
-
STATEMENT THAT DAMAGES REPUTAION
A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation.
written statement of a plaintiff's complaints
A SATIRE - LIBERTINE
- AN IMMORAL PERSON
- LIBRETTO
- TEXT OF AN OPERA
- LILLIPUTIAN
- OF VERY SMALL SIZE; DIMINUTIVE; DWARFED..
- LIMPID
- CLEAR AND SIMPLE, SERENE, TRANSPARENT, UNTROUBLED
- LINIMENT
- MEDICINAL LIQUID USED TO EASE PAIN
- LISSOME
- EASILY FLEXED, LIMBER, AGILE
- LIST
- LEAN TO ONE SIDE
- LODE
- METAL BEARING VEIN
- LOUT
- CLUMSY PERSON
- LOW
- TO MAKE A SOUND LIKE A COW
- LUBRICIOUS
- LEWD, WANTON, GREASY, SLIPPERY
- LUCUBRATE
- WRITE IN A SCHOLARLY FASHION
- LURID
- HARSHLY SHOCKING, GLOWING
- MACULATED
- HAVING SPOTS OR BLOTCHES, BLEMISHES.. (ANT = IMMACULATE)
- MACROBIOTICS
- ART OF PROLONGING LIFE BY DIET OF ORGANIC, NON-MEAT SUBSTANCES
- MAINSTAY
- CHEIF SUPPORT
- MANNERED
- ARTIFICIAL OR STILTED
- MANUMISSION
- RELEASE FROM SLAVERY
- MALINGER
- TO FEIGN ILLNESS SO AS TO AVOID WORK
- MATRILINEAL
- TRACING ANCESTRY THROUGH MOTHERÂ’S LINE RATHER THAN FATHERÂ’S
- MAUNDER
- TO TALK OR MOVE AIMLESSLY, MUTTER
- MEGALOMANIA
- MENTAL STATE WITH DELUSIONS OF WEALTH AND POWER
- METTLE
- COURAGEOUSNESS, ENDURANCE
- METTLESOME
- COURAGEOUS, HIGH-SPIRITED
- MIDDLING
- FAIRLY GOOD BUT NOT VERY GOOD
- MILITATE
-
TO HAVE WEIGHT OR INFLUENCE ON, TO WORK AGAINST, TO ARGUE (AGAINST)
“the presidents advisors warned him that the volatility of the situation militated against any
rash action” - MONASTIC
- EXTREMELY PLAIN OR SECLUDED, AS IN A MONASTERY
- NATTY
- NEAT
- NEOLOGISM
- NEW WORD OR EXPRESSION EX. “EMO”
- NETHER
- LOCATED UNDER OR BELOW
- NETTLE
- TO IRRITAE, STING, VEX
- NEXUS
-
A CONNECTION, TIE, LINK
CORE OR CENTER
A CONNECTED SERIES - NIBBLE
- SHOW SOME INCLINATION TO ACCEPT (AN OFFER)
- NICE
-
1) SCRUPULOUS/HARD TO PLEASE OVERDELICATE OR FASTIDUOUS, FUSSY
2)PRECISE, SENSITIVE TO SUBTLENESS a nice distinction; a nice sense of style.
3) WANTON - NICETY
- DELICATE FEATURE, MINUTE DISTINCTION
- NIGGLING
- TRIFLING, PETTY
- NIHILISM
- BELIEF THAT TRADITIONAL VALUES ARE MEANINGLESS
- NOISOME
- STINKING, PUTRID
- NONDESCRIPT
- DULL, LACKING INTERESTING OR DISTINCTIVE QUALITIES
- NONPLUSSED
- AT A TOTAL LOSS OF WHAT TO SAY OR DO
- NON SEQUITUR
- A CONCLUSION NOT FOLLOWING FROM APPARENT EVIDENCE
- NOSEGAY
- A BUNCH OF FLOWERS
- NOSTRUM
- PLACEBO, A QUACK REMEDY
- NOVITIATE
- A PERIOD OF BEING A BEGINNER OR NOVICE
- NUMISMATICS
- COIN COLLECTING
- OBLOQUY
- ABUSIVELY DETRACTIVE LANGUAGE, SHARP CRITICISM, ILL REPUTE
- OBSEQUY
- FUNERAL CEREMONY
- OBSTREPEROUS
- NOISY, LOUDLY STUBBORN
- OBTUSE
- BLUNT/STUPID, INSENSITIVE
- OCCULT
- HIDDEN, CONCEALED, BEYOND COMPREHENSION
- ONTOLOGY
- THEORY ABOUT THE NATURE OF EXISTANCE
- OPPROBRIOUS
- DISGRACEFUL, CONTEMPTUOUS
- OROTUND
- POMPOUS
- OVERWEENING
- PRESUMPTUOUSLY ARROGANT, OVERBEARING, IMMODERATE, BEING A JERK
- PAEAN
- SONG OF HIGH PRAISE
- PALATIAL
- MAGNIFICENT
- PALAVER
- IDLE TALK
- PALISADE
- FENCE MADE UP OF STICKS, ON A CLIFF
- PANACHE
- FLAMBOYANCE, VERVE
- PANEGYRIC
- EULOGY, PRAISE
- PANOPLY
- IMPRESSIVE ARRAY
- PARE
- TO TRIM
- PARITY
- EQUALITY
- PATENT
- OBVIOUS, UNCONCEALED
- PARTISAN
- BIASED
- PECULATION
- THEFT OF MONEY OR GOODS
- PEDAGOGUE
- TEACHER
- PEDAGOGY
- THE PROFESSION OF TEACHING
- PEDANTIC
- OSTENTATIOUS DISPLAY OF LEARNING, EXCESSIVE ATTENTION TO DETAIL, UNIMAGINATIVE
- PEDESTRIAN
- COMMONPLACE, TRITE, UNREMARKABLE
- PEDIMENT
- TRIANGULAR GABLE ON A ROOF OR FACADE
- PENUMBRA
- PARTIAL SHADOW
- PERCIPIENT
- DISCERNING, ABLE TO PERCIEVE
- PERIHELION
- POINT OF ORBIT FARTHEST FROM THE SUN (ANT:APHELION)
- PERIPHRASTIC
- CONTAINING TOO MANY WORDS
- PERTINACIOUS
- PERSISTANT, STUBBORN
- PERVADE
- TO PERMEATE THROUGHOUT
- PETTISH
- FRETFUL
- PEREMPTORY
-
DISALLOWING DELAY, COMMANDING, EXPRESSING URGENCY; DECISIVEAND IMPERIOUS..
“Putting an end to all debate or action: a peremptory decree.
Not allowing contradiction or refusal; imperative: The officer issued peremptory commands. Having the nature of or expressing a command; urgent: The teacher spoke in peremptory tone. Offensively self-assured; dictatorial: a swaggering, peremptory manner. “ - PHILISTINE
- A SMUG IGNORANT PERSON; ONE WHO LACKS KNOWLEDGE
- PHILOLOGY
- THE STUDY OF WORDS
- PHARISICAL
- HYPOCRITICALLY SELF-RIGHTEOUS AND CONDEMNATORY, SANCTIMONIOUS
- PITTANCE
- MEAGER AMOUNT OR WAGE
- PICARESQUE
- INVOLVING CLEVER ROGUES OR ADVENTURERS (not picturesque!)
- PLANGENT
- POUNDING, THUNDERING, RESOUNDING, WAILING SOUND
- PLEBIAN
- CRUDE, LOWER-CLASS, VULGAR
- PLOD
- CONTINUE TO DO SOMETHING WITHOUT RESTING
- PLUCK
- COURAGE
- PONDEROUS
-
Having great weight.
Unwieldy from weight or bulk.
Lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull: a ponderous speech. - PONTIFICATE
- TO SPEAK IN A PRETENTIOUS MANNER
- PORE
- TO STUDY CLOSELY
- POSTERITY
- FUTURE GENERATIONS, ALL OF ONE'S DESCENDENTS
- PRECEPT
- RULES OF CONDUCT
- PRECIS
- SHORT SUMMARY OF FACTS
- PREDICATE
- TO FOUND OR BASE ON
- PRESCIENT
- HAVING FORESIGHT
- PRESENTIMENT
- PREMONITION, SENSE OF FOREBODING
- PRESTIDIGITATION
- SLEIGHT OF HAND
- PRIVATION
- LACK OF USUAL NECESSETIES OR COMFORTS
- PROFLIGATE
- CORRUPT
- PROPITIATE
- TO WIN THE FAVOR OF; TO CAUSE TO BECOME FAVORABLY INCLINED; TO APPEASE “propitiate the gods with a sacrifice”
- PROPITIATORY
- CONCILIATORY, APPEASING, MITIGATING
- PROPITIOUS
- AUSPICIOUS, PRESENTING FAVORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES “the clearing of the sky was a propitious omen that the storm had passed”
- PROPOUND
- TO OFFER FOR CONSIDERATION; TO EXHIBIT (PROOPUND AN ARGUMENT)
- PROSAIC
- DULL
- PROXY
- THE POWER TO ACT FOR ANOTHER
- PROVISIONAL
- OF THE PRESENT TIME ONLY
- PRUNE
- SILLY PERSON
- PRURIENT
- LEWD
- PUGILISM
- BOXING
- PURBLIND
- BEING UNABLE TO SEE
- PUSILLANIMOUS
- COWARDLY, CRAVEN
- QUAIL
- LOSE COURAGE
- QUALIFY
- TO LIMIT “he qualified the harshness of his criticisms by smiling as he said them”
- QUIXOTIC
- GENEROUS, UNSELFISH
- QUIZZICAL
- BANTERING, COMICAL, HUMOROUSLY SERIOUS
- PROGENITOR
-
A direct ancestor. See Synonyms at ancestor.
An originator of a line of descent; a precursor.
An originator; a founder: progenitors of the new music. - NEPOTISM
-
Favoritism shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in business.
I got a job there as a result of my grandfather being on the board of directors -- a lesson in loyalty here, or, should I say, just plain old nepotism