GRE List 25
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- pilfer
- steal stealthily in small amts
- pillory
- expose to public contempt
- piquant
- agreeably stimulating to palate
- pique
- cause to feel resentment; he left in a fit of pique
- pithy
-
having substance and point
I enjoy reading his essays because they're always compact and pithy - pittance
- meager wage or remuneration
- plaintive
- sounding sad, mournful; a plaintive cry
- plangent
- having a loud and reverberating sound; orotund, resounding, rotund, sonorant, bibrant, consonant
- plasticity
- easily shaped
- platitude
- banal, trite
- plausible
- to provide plausible but untrue reasons for conduct
- plight
-
n. dangerous, difficult , unfortunate situation. The woeful plight of homeless people
v. pledge, promise; be plighted to (in engagement) - plodding
- working laboriously monotornously
- pluck
- courageous readiness to fight; the task took alot of plight
- stodgy
- dull
- plumb
-
1. measure depth ot water
2. extremely
2. explore or experience fully
she had plumbed the depths of depravity; plumb in the center; they must be plumb crazy - plutocracy
- government by the wealthy
- gerontocracy
- government by old people
- polarize
- divide into two opposing factions
- polemic
-
practice of disoutation (debate); polemos = war (Gr.)
strong verbal/written attack - politic
- seemingly sensible and judicious
- ponderable
- significant enough, appreciable
- ponderous
- great weight, heavy cumbersome; ponder = weight (Fr.)
- pontificate
- express opinions in pompous or dogmatic way
- portentous
- eliciting amazement or wonder
- posit
- base somthing on the truth of something else
- posture
- assume an artificial attitude
- potable
- suitable for drinking
- potboiler
- work of poor quality, produced quickly for profit
- potentate
- one who wields great power
- prate
- talk long and idly
- precarious
- lack of security; doubtful, ambiguous, dubious, equivocal, impugnable
- precipice
- steep cliff, rock face, sheer drop
- precipitous
- dangerously steep, sudden change
- preclude
-
prevent
Modesty precludes me from accepting the honor - precocious
- having developed earlier than usual
- predilection
- preference to liking something
- predisposition
- bent, inclined
- preeminent
-
having paramount rank
the king traveled to boston because he wanted the preeminent surgeon in the field to perform the operation - preempt
- take precedence over
- pregnant
- full of meaning
- preponderant
- having superior weight, ascendent
- prepossessing
- attractive
- prerogative
- the right