GRE Class Cards
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- Jaunty
- Sprightly in manner and appeareance
- knell
- an indication of the end or failure (a bell)
- exiguous
- excessively scanty
- evanescent
- tending to vanish like vapor
- fluvial
- of relating to or living in a stream or river
- miasma
- an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt
- anodyne
- serving to assuage pain; not likely to arouse tensions
- vacuity
- an empty space; the state, a fact or quality of being
- prolix
- unduly or drawn out; wordy
- insouciant
- lighthearted unconcern
- adroit
- having or showing skill, cleverness, or resoucefulness
- obstreperous
- stubbornly resistant to control
- censoriuos
- marked by or given to censure
- invidious
- of an unpleasant or objectionable nature
- dissolute
- lacking restraint and marked by indulgence in things
- factitious
- produced by humans rather than natural forces
- indemnify
- to secure against hurt, loss, or damage; to make compensation to for incurred hurt, loss, or damage
- maritime
- of the sea
- penury
- severe poverty
- servile
- cravenly submissive
- empyreal
- celestial; sublime
- peroration
-
the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration;
a highly rhetorical speech - veldt
- a grassland especially of southern Africa usually with scattered shrubs or trees
- serpentine
- subtly wily or tempting; winding or turning one way and another
- somnambulism
- sleepwalking
- abjure
- to renounce upon oath; to reject solemnly; to abstain from
- aquisitive
- strongly desirous of acquiring and possessing
- welter
- to rise and fall or toss about in or with waves; to become deeply sunk, soaked, or involved; to be in turmoil
- pied
- of two or more colors in blotches; also; wearing or having a parti-colored coat
- vituperative
- characterized by verbal abuse
- proletariat
- the lowest social or economic class of a community; the laboring class; especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live
- bourgeois
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the townsman or of the social middle class; marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity; dominated by commercial and industrial interests
- profusion
- abundance
- fetters
- constrains
- prediliction
- to love more; prefer
- louche
- not reputable or decent
- parietal
- of or relating to the walls of a part or cavity; of, relating to, or forming the upper posterior wall of the head;the regulations governing the visiting privileges of members of the opposite sex in campus dormitories
- acrid
- sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor; deeply or violently bitter
- impervious
- not allowing entrance or passage; not capable of being damaged or harmed; not capable of being affected or disturbed
- repose
- to lie at rest; to lie dead; to remain still or concealed; to take a rest
- profundity
- intellectual depth; something profound or abstruse; the quality or state of being profound or deep
- cabalistic
- a traditional, esoteric, occult, or secret matter; esoteric doctrine or mysterious art
- disavow
- to deny responsibility for; to refuse to acknowledge
- recondite
- hidden from sight; difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend; of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure
- pernicious
- highly injurious or destructive
- preternatural
- existing outside of nature; exceeding what is natural or regular; inexplicable by ordinary means
- fetid
- having a heavy offensive smell
- claimant
- one that asserts a right or title
- drollery
- something that is droll; especially : a comic picture or drawing; the act or an instance of jesting or burlesquing; whimsical humor
- captious
- marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections; calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument
- laberinthine
- of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth; of, relating to, affecting, or originating in the internal ear
- hidebound
- having a dry skin lacking in pliancy and adhering closely to the underlying flesh; having an inflexible or ultraconservative character
- imbroglio
- a confused mass; an intricate or complicated situation; an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding; a violently confused or bitterly complicated altercation
- imbibe
- to receive into the mind and retain; to assimilate or take into solution; to take in or up
- proviso
- an article or clause that introduces a condition; a conditional stipulation
- obsequious
- marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
- abstemious
- marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol
- inter
- to deposit a dead body in the earth or in a tomb
- insipid
- lacking taste or savor; lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge
- bomb
- fail
- foray
- raid; a brief excursion or attempt especially outside one's accustomed sphere
- valediction
- an act of bidding farewell
- aphorism
- a concise statement of a principle; a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment
- pithy
- having substance and point : tersely cogent
- ebullience
- the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings
- vigilante
- a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily
- appropriate
- to take exclusive possession of; to set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use; to take or make use of without authority or right
- cistern
- an artificial reservoir (as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (as rainwater; a large usually silver vessel formerly used (as in cooling wine) at the dining table; a fluid-containing sac or cavity in an organism
- cabal
- the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united to bring about an overturn or usurpation especially in public affairs; also : a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues
- propituous
- favorably disposed; being of good omen
- incise
- to cut into; to carve figures, letters, or devices into
- scepter
- a staff or baton borne by a sovereign as an emblem of authority; royal or imperial authority
- simper
- to smile in a silly manner
- misanthrope
- a person who hates or distrusts mankind
- bantam
- small, diminuative; pertly combative
- fatuous
- complacently or inanely foolish
- daphanous
- insubstantial; vague; characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through; characterized by extreme delicacy of form
- adage
- a saying often in metaphorical form that embodies a common observation
- tortuous
- winding <a tortuous path>; tricky or crooked
- helical
- of, relating to, or having the form of a helix; spiral
- sepal
- one of the modified leaves comprising a calyx
- sagacious
- shrewd; keen in sense perception; caused by or indicating acute discernment
- divination
- the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers; unusual insight : intuitive perception
- avarice
- greediness; cupidity
- antebellum
- existing before a war
- flout
- to treat with contemptuous disregard
- eddy
- a current of water or air running contrary to the main current; whirlpool
- foppish
- foolish; silly
- lumen
- measurement of light; the cavity of a tubular organ <the lumen of a blood vessel>; the bore of a tube (as of a hollow needle or catheter)
- prosaic
-
dull, unimaginative; everyday, ordinary
characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : - sampler
- decorative piece of needlework typically having letters or verses embroidered on it in various stitches as an example of skill
- machination
- scheming or crafty action or artful design intended to accomplish some usually evil end
- epitaph
- an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there; a brief statement commemorating or epitomizing a deceased person or something past
- elision
- the use of a speech form that lacks a final or initial sound which a variant speech form has (as 's instead of is in there's) b : the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable in a verse to achieve a uniform metrical pattern; the act or an instance of omitting something
- emend
- to correct usually by textual alterations
- waggish
- mischievous merriment; jest
- vend
- to sell especially as a hawker or peddler; to sell by means of vending machines; to utter publicly
- vendable
- saleable
- surreptitious
- done, made, or acquired by stealth; acting or doing something clandestinely
- minatory
- having a menacing quality
- felicitous
- very well suited or expressed; pleasant
- insouciance
- lighthearted unconcern
- mountebank
- a person who sells quack medicines from a platform; a boastful unscrupulous pretender
- levy
- to impose or collect by legal authority <levy a tax>; to enlist or conscript for military service
- grouse
- bird; to complain or grumble
- effrontery
- shameless boldness
- temerity
- unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition
- insolent
- insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct
- limpid
- marked by transparency; clear and simple in style; absolutely serene and untroubled
- solidity
- the quality or state of being solid; something solid
- capitulation
- a set of terms or articles constituting an agreement between governments; the act of surrendering or yielding; the terms of surrender
- halcyon
- bird; calm, peaceful, happy, golden; prosperous
- unflappable
- marked by assurance and self-control
- apocryphal
- of doubtful authenticity
- hallow
- to make holy or set apart for holy use; to respect greatly
- encomium
- glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise; also : an expression of this
- epistle
- one of the letters adopted as books of the New Testament;a formal or elegant letter
- fervid
- very hot; burning; impassioned
- antipathy
- settled aversion or dislike
- rune
- any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3d to the 13th centuries
- annals
- historical records : CHRONICLES
- ab·ro·gate
- to abolish by authoritative action : ANNUL to treat as nonexistent
- accretion
- the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup
- apposite
- highly pertinent or appropriate
- approbation
- an act of approving formally or officially; COMMENDATION, PRAISE
- avow
- to declare assuredly; to declare openly, bluntly, and without shame
- chary
- discreetly cautious
- patina
- an appearance or aura that is derived from association, habit, or established character; a superficial covering or exterior