GRE Vocab set 1
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- Abdicate
- To give up
- Acquiescent
- to carry out orders or wishes of another wihtour protest
- Bilked
- to defraud, cheat, swindle, to elude
- Blithe
- carefree and lighthearted; lacking due consern, casual
- Buptious
- crudely or loudly assertive; pushy
- Calumniate
- to make knowinglyfalse statements
- Circumspect
- cautious
- Concillatory
- overcoming distrust or hotility
- Consternation
- a state of paralyzing dismay
- Delectation
- enjoyment
- Delude
- to decieve the mind or judgment
- Denigrate
- to blacken the reputation
- Diffident
- shy, unconfident
- Dour
- marked by sternness or harshness
- Elucidate
- to explain
- Equable
- unvarying, stedy, free of extremes, undisturbed
- Excoriate
- to condemn scathingly
- Extricate
- to escape
- Fulsome
- offensively flattering or insincere
- Graft
- to unite
- Ignoble
- dishonorable
- Ignominious
- dishonorable
- Imbroglio
- an entanglement
- Impenitent
- not remorseful, impervious to moral persuasion
- Incisive
- perceptive
- Indelibl
- enduring, permanent
- Ineffable
- indescribable
- Inexorable
- not capable of being persuaded by entrety; relentless
- Jingoism
- extreme nationalism characterized by belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism
- Lachrymose
- very sad
- Lackadaisical
- sluggish, apathetic
- Lugubrious
- sad, mounrnful
- Martinet
- strict
- Moribund
- dying, decaying
- Nepotism
- Favoritism shown or patronage granted to relatives
- Obsequious
- full of or exibiting servile compliance; fawning
- Oviate
- to make unnecessary, to foresee and prevent
- Operative
- most important
- Ostensible
- apparent
- Parsimony
- stingyness
- Percipient
- having the power of perciving
- Peremptory
- putting an end to debate; offensivly self-assured; dictatorial
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Perfidy
Perfidious - untrustworthy
- Pittance
- small amount
- Ponderous
- having great weight; lacking grace; labored and dull
- Propitious
- presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
- Provident
- Frugal; providing for the future
- Rarefy
- refine
- Remitted
- To pardon; to restore to former condition
- Remuneration
- Something, such as a payment, that remunerates
- Reprisal
- Retaliation for an injury
- Restiveness
- impatient under restriction; resisting control; refusing to move
- Revile
- Verbally abuse
- Sanguine
- Cherfully optimistic
- Sardonic
- Cynical
- Seminal
- dealing with the begining
- Solemnity
- a solemn observance or proceeding
- Strident
- loud, harsh, unpleasent noise
- Supercilious
- arrogant; haughty; overbearing
- Surreptitious
- secret
- Sybarite
- person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
- Temerity
- reckless
- Timerous
- Timid
- Unprepossessing
- not overyly impressive; unremarkable; nondescript
- Voluble
- marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent; or turning easily on an axis; rotating
- Voluptuary
- person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures
- Yoke
- to join together
- Ubiquitous
- omnipresent
- Requite
- to avenge; to make repayment or return for
- Solemn
- serious and sober; gravely impressive; gloomy, somber; invoking religion; performed with full ceremony