GRE Vocabulary Group 7
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- abdicate
- to give up
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend
- adduce
- to offer as proof in an argument
- admonish
- to warn
- allusiveness
- quality of making many indirect references
- ambivalent
- having mixed feelings
- arable
- suitable for cultivation
- ardor
- extreme passion or feeling
- auspicious
- happening at an advantageous time; promising
- banal
- trite, hackneyed, commonplace
- blandish
- to coax with flattery
- boor
- a crude person; one lacking manners or taste
- brash
- having no regards for consequences; tactless
- capacious
- large, roomy; extensive
- circumspect
- cautious, wary
- commensurate
- proportional
- conciliatory
- overcoming distrust or hostility
- countermand
- to annul, cancel, make a contrary order
- craven
- cowardly
- curmudgeon
- a cranky, cynical person
- cynic
- someone who has a distrust of people's motives
- daunted
- intimidated
- decry
- to belittle, openly condemn
- delectation
- enjoyment
- denigrate
- to slur or blacken someone's reputation
- denounce
- to accuse, blame
- derivative
- copied or adapted; not original
- desultory
- random
- disarming
- charming; alleviating criticism
- disseminated
- spread far and wide
- dissension
- disagreement, difference of opinion
- dolt
- idiot, dim-wit, foolish person
- dulcet
- pleasant-sounding; soothing to the ear
- effusive
- full of emotion
- egregious
- conspicuously bad
- elude
- to escape from
- eminent
- celebrated, distinguished; towering, outstanding
- euphemism
- a way of saying something to make it less offensive
- extricate
- to free from; to disentangle
- genial
- kind; friendly
- hapless
- having bad luck, unfortunate
- haughty
- arrogant
- hidebound
- excessively rigid; dry and stiff
- ideology
- a system of beliefs
- ignoble
- dishonorable
- ignominious
- disgraceful and dishonorable
- impetus
- motivation, impulse
- impudence
- arrogance, audacity
- incentive
- motivating factors
- incisive
- perceptive, penetrating
- incite
- to start an action
- indelible
- permanent; not erasable
- indolent
- habitually lazy; idle
- ineffable
- not able to be described in words
- inept
- clumsy, awkward; nonsensical, foolish
- ingratiate
- to work oneself into the favor of someone
- interminable
- endless
- invidious
- likely to provoke ill-will; offensible
- irreverent
- disrespectful
- itinerant
- having a tendency to travel
- kindle
- to ignite; to inspire
- lachrymose
- very sad; tearful
- laconic
- using few words
- lambaste
- to attack verbally
- latent
- inherent in but hidden; potential
- lionize
- to treat as a celebrity
- low
- to make a sound like a cow, moo
- lucid
- clear and easily understood
- lugubrious
- sad, mournful
- lumber
- to move clumsily and slowly
- maelstrom
- agitated state of mind; turmoil
- malefactor
- evildoer; culprit
- martinet
- an extremely strict person; disciplinarian
- maudlin
- overly sentimental
- mercenary
- motivated only by greed
- mirthful
- jovial merry, causing or provoking laughter and glee
- misnomer
- an incorrect name or designation
- moribund
- dying, decaying
- multifarious
- diverse
- munificent
- generous
- myriad
- immense number; multitude
- nefarious
- vicious, evil
- noisome
- stinking, putrid
- obscure
- dark, mysterious; little known
- oligarchy
- government ruled by a few
- outgrowth
- by-product
- pallid
- lacking color or liveliness
- paradigm
- a model
- parley
- discussion, usually between enemies
- patriarchal
- dominated and controlled by men
- perspicacious
- shrewd, astute, keen-witted
- philology
- the study of literature and linguistics
- pittance
- a very small amount
- plutocrat
- a member of the wealthy ruling class
- poignant
- strong
- pragmatic
- practical, choosing the facts over ideals
- precarious
- uncertain
- predation
- the act of preying
- presumptuous
- rude; improperly bold
- progenitor
- originator, forefather, ancestor in a direct line
- proponent
- supporter, advocate
- protean
- readily assuming different forms or character
- prudent
- careful, cautious
- puissant
- powerful
- purge
- to free, especially from guilt
- putrefaction
- the process of living matter decomposing; corruption
- quell
- to crush or subdue
- rant
- to forcefully scold
- rapt
- deeply absorbed
- raucous
- harsh-sounding; boisterous
- rebuke
- to reprimand, scold
- rectilinear
- characterized by straight lines
- rejoinder
- response
- rend
- to forcibly take from; to tear apart
- repeal
- to revoke or formally withdraw, as a law
- reprehensible
- worthy of blame
- reprobate
- morally unprincipled person
- resolute
- determined; with a clear purpose
- revile
- to criticize with harsh language, to verbally abuse
- rout
- to beat badly. a humiliating retreat
- rubric
- category heading
- salient
- prominent or conspicuous
- sardonic
- cynical, scornfully mocking
- scant
- meager
- scintilla
- trace amount
- scourage
- plague
- seedy
- run-down
- seminal
- relating to the beginning of seeds of something
- skulk
- to sneak
- slate
- to schedule
- sloth
- sluggishness, laziness
- sodden
- thoroughly soaked; saturated
- sophisticated
- with it, worldly-wise; of high intellectual quality
- spurious
- false
- spurn
- to reject, to scorn
- stipend
- allowance; fixed amount of money paid regularly
- stolid
- emotionless
- strident
- loud, harsh, unpleasantly noise
- sumptuous
- lavish, splendid; delicious
- supercilious
- arrogant, haughty, overbearing, condescending
- surreptitious
- secret
- taciturn
- not vocal
- tawdry
- gaudy, cheap, showy
- tempestuous
- stormy, raging, furious
- tottering
- barely standing
- transgress
- to trespass, to violate a law
- travesty
- parody, exaggerated imitation, caricature
- trite
- shallow, superficial
- trounce
- to beat severely, to defeat
- upbraid
- to scold sharply
- vacuous
- empty, void, lacking intelligence
- venerate
- to treat with great respect
- versatile
- adaptable, all-purpose, able to do many things
- vestige
- something left over, a legacy
- waive
- to refrain from enforcing a law; to give up a legal right
- wan
- sickly pale
- whit
- the smallest part possible
- winsome
- charming, happily engaging
- wistful
- longingly melancholy
- writ
- written document, usually in law
- yoke
- to join together