GRE hard vocab
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- aberrant
- abnormal or deviant
- abeyance
- suspended action
- abscission
- cutting off
- abstemious
- sparing in eating or drinking
- accede
- agree
- acclivity
- sharp upslope of a hill
- accoutre
- equip
- accretion
- growth, increase
- acerbity
- bitterness of speech or conduct
- acrophobia
- fear of heights
- actuarial
- calculating
- actuate
- motivate
- adjuration
- solemn urging
- adjutant
- assistant
- aegis
- shield, defense
- aerie
- nest of bird of prey
- aggregate
- gather, accumulate
- alacrity
- cheerful promptness, eagerness
- alimentary
- supplying nourishment
- amity
- friendship
- ancillary
- aid or accessory
- animadversion
- critical remark
- animus
- hostile feeling or intent
- anneal
- reduce brittleness and improve toughness
- anodyne
- drug that relieves pain
- antecede
- precede
- anthropoid
- manlike
- apiary
- home for bees
- apothegm
- short pithy saying
- apposite
- appropriate
- appurtenences
- subordinate possessions
- arable
- fit for growing crops
- argot
- slang
- arroyo
- gully
- artless
- without guile
- assay
- analyze, evaluate
- assidious
- dilligent
- astral
- having to do with stars
- atavism
- resemblance to remote ancestors, a throwback
- attenuate
- to make thin or weaken
- attrition
- gradual decrease in numbers
- aureole
- sun's corona, a halo
- badinage
- cheerful banter
- baleful
- deadly
- benison
- blessing
- betoken
- signify, indicate
- bilious
- irritable, suffering from indigestion
- biviouac
- temporary encampment
- blandishment
- flattery
- bowdlerize
- expurgate, purge
- brackish
- slightly saline
- brindled
- tawny or grayish with streaks or spots
- buffet
- slap, batter, knock about
- bugaboo
- object of baseless terror
- canard
- unfounded rumor
- cant
- insincere expressions of piety
- callow
- youthful, immature
- calorific
- heat-producing
- capacious
- spacious
- captious
- faultfinding
- carapace
- shell of an animal, ie. turtle
- carillion
- bells capable of being played
- carping
- petty criticism
- cavil
- to make frivolous objections
- celerity
- speed
- censorious
- critical
- cerebration
- thought
- chaff
- worthless product of an endeavor
- chary
- cautious
- chasten
- discipline, punish
- chimerical
- fantastically improbable
- chisel
- to cheat or swindle
- clangor
- loud, resounding noise
- cloying
- sickeningly sweet
- coda
- concluding section of a musical composition
- coeval
- existing at the same time
- comity
- civility, courtesy
- concatenate
- to link together as a chain
- concomitant
- that which accompanies
- condign
- appropriately severe
- connubial
- conjugal, having to do with marriage
- consanguinity
- kinship
- contumacious
- disobedient, resisting authority
- coterie
- group that meets socially, select circle
- craven
- cowardly
- cynosure
- object of general attention
- debonair
- friendly, aiming to please
- deciduous
- falling off, as leaves
- declivity
- sharp downslope of a hill
- default
- failure to act
- demagogue
- person who appeals to prejudice
- demotic
- pertaining to the people
- demur
- object, hesitate
- denizen
- inhabitatn, resident
- depredation
- plundering, destruction
- descry
- catch sight of
- desultory
- aimless, haphazard
- dialectical
- relating to the art of debate
- diffuse
- wordy, rambling
- dilatory
- delaying, dilly-dallying
- disabuse
- to make right, correct a false impression
- disgorge
- surrender something
- disingenuous
- unnaive, sophisticated
- disport
- amuse
- disquisition
- formal systematic inquiry
- doctrinaire
- unable to compromise about points of doctrine
- dyspeptic
- suffering from indigestion
- effete
- worn-out
- effluvium
- noxious smell
- egregious
- notorious, conspicuously bad
- emendation
- correction of errors
- encomiastic
- praising, eulogistic
- encomium
- high praise
- endemic
- prevailing among a specific group
- enervate
- weaken
- enjoin
- command, forbid, order
- epaulet
- ornament worn on shoulder
- errant
- wandering
- eugenic
- pertaining to improvement of race
- evanescent
- fleeting, vanishing
- exchequer
- treasury
- exculpate
- exonerate
- execrable
- very bad
- execrate
- curse, express abhorrence for
- exegesis
- explanation, especially of biblical passages
- expatiate
- talk at length
- extirpate
- root up, provoke
- factious
- inclined to form factions
- fatuous
- foolish, inane
- febrile
- feverish
- fell
- cruel, deadly
- fetid
- malodorous
- fiat
- command
- flout
- reject, mock
- foment
- stir-up, investigate
- fractious
- unruly
- fructify
- bear fruit
- fulminate
- thunder, explode
- fulsome
- disgustingly excessive
- gambit
- opening in chess wherein a piece is sacrificed
- germane
- pertinent
- gouge
- overcharge
- grandiloquent
- pompous, bombastic
- harangue
- long, passionate speech
- guy
- cable or chain attached to something that needs to be braced or steadied