GRE stymies
GRE words I got stuck on over and over and over
Terms
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- expurgate
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- desultory
- marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose
- droll
- dryly amusing
- ebullient
- Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling.
- cosset
- treat with excessive indulgence
- erudite
- having or showing profound knowledge
- enervate
- weaken mentally or morally
- craven
- lacking even the rudiments of courage
- diffident
- lacking self-confidence
- effrontery
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- disparate
- fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
- efficacy
- capacity or power to produce a desired effect
- credulous
- showing a lack of judgment or experience
- ephemeral
- enduring a very short time
- eschew
- to shun; to avoid.
- blithe
- carefree and happy and lighthearted
- euphony
- any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
- capricious
- determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
- calumny
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
- encomium
- a formal expression of praise
- contumacious
- wilfully obstinate
- ersatz
- an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
- effigy
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- dilettante
- showing frivolous or superficial interest
- cogent
- powerfully persuasive
- dissonance
- a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
- edify
- instruct, correct morally
- elegy
- a mournful poem
- exponent
- a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
- exculpate
- to free from guilt or blame
- coterie
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- distaff
- of, like or pertaining to the female branch of a family or women's work