GRE 2
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- careen
- lurch; stagger; sway from side to side
- canny
- shrewd in money matters; thrifty
- contemn
- to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt
- wangle
- achieve by cleverness or trick; wiggle out; fake
- truculence
- aggressiveness; ferocity
- raiment
- clothing; garments
- perfidy
- breach of trust
- obtrude
- intrude
- turret
- a little tower; specifically: an ornamental structure at an angle of a larger structure
- rapport
- close relationship; emotional closeness; harmony
- promulgate
- announce; proclaim a doctrine or law; make known by official publication
- comport
- conduct oneself in the specified way; behave
- euphony
- sweet sound
- ethereal
- like a spirit or fairy; unearthly light; unusually refined
- transcendent
- exceeding ordinary limits
- dais
- raised platform for speakers or other important people
- rampart
- defensive mound of earth
- tutelage
- guardianship; training
- bathos
- insincere or grossly sentimental pathos; an anticlimax
- susurrus
- a soft murmuring; a whisper; a rustling sound
- prattle
- babble meaninglessly
- isthmus
- narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land
- rake
- immoral or dissolute
- interregnum
- period between two successive reigns or governments
- tamp
- tap or drive down by repeated light blows
- truss
- a rigid framework, as of wooden beams or metal bars, designed to support a structure, such as a roof
- temerity
- rashness, recklessness
- vise
- tool with tightened jaws for holding work in place
- tutelary
- protective; pertaining to guardianship
- primogeniture
- state of being the first-born child; right of the eldest child (to inherit the entire property of one or both parents)
- touchstone
- criterion; standard
- numismatist
- person who collects coins
- coquette
- girl or woman who flirts
- whimsical
- full of odd and fanciful ideas
- rebus
- puzzle in which pictures or letters stand for words
- ventral
- of the abdomen
- expatiate
- talk at length; speak or write in detail
- axiomatic
- taken as a given
- carping
- faultfinding; petty criticism
- salvo
- a simultaneous discharge of two or more guns in military action or as a salute
- profligate
- wasteful (of money); dissipated; wildly immoral; dissolute
- thresh
- beat out or separate from husks of wheat, etc using a machine or (esp formerly) an implement held in the hand
- abjure
- renounce; avoid
- turpitude
- depravity
- dally
- treat without the necessary seriousness; procrastinate
- ragamuffin
- dirty child in torn clothes; person in torn clothes
- nugatory
- worthless; futile
- chrysalis
- the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly
- troth
- pledge of good faith
- nosology
- a classification or list of diseases
- prophylactic
- used to prevent disease
- recondite
- abstruse; not easily understood; profound; secret
- pantheon
- a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustrious dead of a nation; the gods of a particular mythology considered collectively
- cronyism
- # the practice of favoring one's close friends, esp. in political appointments
- prescience
- foreknowledge of events
- callow
- youthful; immature; inexperienced
- corpuscle
- any of the red or white cells in the blood; any minute particle
- syncretism
- the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion
- intrigue
- make secret plans; plot; arouse the curiosity of
- progenitor
- ancestor
- debacle
- sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster
- obsidian
- black volcanic rock
- collate
- examine and compare in order to find differences; to assemble in proper numerical or logical sequence
- prognosticate
- predict (according to present indications)
- quandary
- dilemma; state of uncertainty
- crux
- most vital or difficult part of a matter or an issue; the part of an issue requiring resolution
- implacable
- not capable of being appeased or changed
- cosset
- to treat as a pet; pamper
- dereliction
- neglect of duty; abandonment
- exiguous
- small in amount; minute
- sacerdotal
- of or like a priest
- demur
- question or oppose
- equivocate
- use ambiguous language to deceive
- whelp
- young animal (esp. of the dog or cat family); young wolf, dog, tiger, etc.
- tureen
- deep dish for serving soup
- tryst
- meeting arranged by lovers
- exchequer
- treasury
- inveigh
- denounce; utter censure or invective
- evanescent
- vanishing
- ingenuous
- artless; frank and candid; lacking sophistication
- dogmatic
- expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved principles
- extirpate
- root up; uproot; destroy completely
- detente
- a relaxing of tension, esp. between nations, as by negotiations or agreements
- oculist
- physician who specializes in treatment of the eyes
- invidious
- designed to create ill will or envy
- deciduous
- (of leaves) falling of in a specific season
- precipitate
- hasty, impulsive
- obtuse
- stupid; unclear in expression
- prolix
- wordy
- turbid
- muddy, unclear
- obfuscate
- cause confusion; make needlessly complex
- premonitory
- serving to warn
- refractory
- stubbornly disobedient
- ethos
- underlying character or idea of a culture, group, or person
- pith
- essence; important part
- transpose
- reverse the order or position of
- canker
- any ulcerous sore; evil
- fugacious
- lasting a short time; evanescent
- trammel
- a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint
- ravel
- fall apart into tangles; untangle; unravel or untwist
- turncoat
- traitor
- perennial
- recurrent all year
- deprecate
- deplore; protest against; belittle
- fulminate
- loudly attack or denounce
- decry
- express strong disapproval of; condemn openly
- escarpment
- a steep slope in front of a fortification
- cavort
- to walk or move in a spirited manner; prance
- perspicacious
- acutely perceptive
- vertex
- summit; highest point or top; apex
- eugenic
- pertaining to the improvement of race
- immure
- imprison
- isotope
- varying form of an element
- truism
- self-evident truth
- pretention
- claim (without foundation)
- chevron
- a sleeve badge that usually consists of one or more stripes that indicates the wearer's rank and service
- inveigle
- deceive; lead astray by deception; wheedle
- canto
- division of a long poem
- comity
- friendly social atmosphere; social harmony
- recant
- retract a belief
- totem
- animal, plant, or object serving as the symbol of a clan
- invective
- a vehement or violent denunciation; an insulting or abusive word or expression
- blackguard
- a thoroughly unprincipled person; a scoundrel
- undergird
- strengthen the base of
- precipitate
- cause or happen prematurely
- ascetic
- one who practices rigid self-denial
- facetious
- playful, humourous
- tumid
- swollen (body part); bombastic
- exegesis
- explanation, especially of Biblical passages
- trenchant
- cutting, incisive; keen
- interstice
- narrow space between things
- demotic
- of or pertaining to the people
- tribulation
- suffering; ordeal; distress
- canard
- unfounded false rumour
- castigate
- criticize severely
- spurious
- false; forged
- clarion
- loud, clear and rousing; a shrill, trumpet-like sound
- impute
- blame; credit, attribute
- halcyon
- calm and peaceful
- balky
- refusing or likely to refuse to proceed, act, or function as directed or expected
- viscid
- sticky; gooey
- nova
- star that suddenly becomes much brighter then returns to its original brightness
- iridescent
- exhibiting rainbow-like colours
- prefigure
- be a sign of; foreshadow
- writ
- written order
- ramify
- branch out; divide into branches
- obloquy
- slander; disgrace; infamy
- carillon
- a set of bells (often in a tower)
- presentiment
- premonition; foreboding; feeling something will happen; anticipatory fear
- cloture
- closing; device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
- nostrum
- questionable medicine; quack medicine
- constringe
- to constrict; compress; cause to contract
- circumlocution
- a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea
- recapitulate
- summarize
- decollete
- having a low-cut neckline
- dabble
- move noisily in a liquid
- paean
- hymn of praise
- interpolate
- insert between
- caliber
- ability; quality; diameter of the inside of a sphere
- unlettered
- lacking facility in reading and writing and ignorant of the knowledge to be gained from books
- daub
- smear; cover with something sticky
- debonair
- (of men) friendly, charming, and fashionably dressed
- whimsy
- tendency to behave amusingly strangely
- capillary
- resembling a hair; fine and slender
- backset
- setback
- tonsorial
- of or relating to a barber or the work of a barber
- volley
- simultaneous throwing of a number of stones or firing of a number of bullets
- casbah
- a North African castle; the native section of a North African city
- feckless
- lacking strength of character
- depose
- dethrone; remove from office; testify
- evince
- show clearly
- idolatrous
- given to excessive devotion
- node
- a knot, protuberance, or knob; a centering point of component parts
- diatribe
- harsh denunciation
- carousal
- drunken revel
- nubile
- marriageable; of marriageable age; young and desirable
- exigent
- urgent, pressing
- cant
- insincere speech; speech used by a small group of people; an oblique surface
- tendinous
- consisting of tendons; sinewy
- cineast
- a film or movie enthusiast
- privation
- lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life; hardship; want
- oblique
- indirect; slanting
- invocation
- prayer for help; calling upon for a reference or support
- demagogue
- person who appeals to people's prejudice
- turgid
- swollen (liquid), distended
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend; recondite
- catarrh
- inflammation of a mucous membrane; especially : one chronically affecting the human nose and air passages
- travesty
- copy that misrepresents the true nature of the thing; parody
- obstreperous
- boisterous; noisy and uncontrollable
- tractable
- docile; easily managed
- obdurate
- unmoved by persuasion
- unfledged
- immature; not having the feathers necessary to fly
- germane
- relevant to the subject at hand
- swarthy
- of a dark color, complexion, or cast
- ratiocination
- reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises
- rasp
- rub with something rough
- declivity
- downward slope
- obsequy
- funeral ceremony