GRE verbal - qualities that you wouldn't want in a friend
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- profligate
- Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant
- desultory
- Half-hearted; inconsistent
- peevish
- Cranky, easily irritated and annoyed
- impudent
- Marked by casual disrespect
- unpreposessing
- creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression
- dilatory
- not prompt
- injudicious
- unwise or imprudent
- picayune
- insignificant, not worthy of attention
- fulsome
- disgusting or offensively excessive
- dogmatism
- Arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief
- stoic
- someone unaffected by emotion
- petulant
- Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
- feral
- Existing in a wild or untamed state
- garrulous
- Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative.
- torpor
- A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.
- ostentatious
- Extremely showy
- laxity
- Lack of discipline; carelessness
- dour
- Sullen, gloomy
- slothful
- lazy
- torpid
- Slow, apathetic, sluggish
- hyperbole
- Exaggeration
- prattle
- To talk freely and carelessly
- maladroit
- Clumsy
- gull
- A person who is easily tricked or cheated; a dupe
- curmudgeon
- grumpy person
- vapid
- Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull
- turgid
- Swollen or bloated; overly ornate or full of meaningless
- boor
- crude, vulgar person
- effrontery
- impudence
- callow
- immature
- surly
- Sullenly ill-humored; gruff
- peripatetic
- wandering or itinerant
- slovenly
- messy, careless
- timorous
- timid
- chary
- very wary, shy
- complacent
- satisfied or smug
- drake
- Male duck.
- crochety
- complaining, grouchy or irritable
- misogyny
- Hatred of women
- brood
- Worry about something at great length.
- spendthrift
- One who spends money recklessly or wastefully.
- imperiousness
- quality of being overbearing or domineering
- pariah
- outcast
- stolid
- hard to move to emotion