GRE Vocab 1
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- burgeon
- grow forth, send out buds
- boorish
- crude, offensive, rude
- pungency
- sharpness; stinging quality
- castigate
- to chastise, correct by punishing
- recreancy
- cowardice, a cowardly giving up
- torpor
- lethargy, sluggishness, dormancy
- multifarious
- varied, motley, greatly diversified
- quiescent
- at rest, dormant, torpid
- laconic
- brief, to the point, terse
- discomfit
- to defeat, put down
- tenacity
- firmness, persistency, adhesiveness, tending to hang on
- hirsute
- hairy, shaggy
- imprecation
- an invocation of evil; a curse
- welter
- turmoil; a bewildering jumble
- audacious
- daring; bold
- lachrymose
- causing tears, tearful
- apostate
- one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
- turbid
- muddy, having the sediment stirred up
- venal
- corruptible, bribable, unprincipled
- squalid
- foul, filthy
- ossify
- to turn to bone; to settle rigidly into an idea or practice, become closed-minded
- insensible
- unconscious, unresponsive, unaffected
- disingenuous
- sophisticated, artful, trying to deceive, cunning
- epitome
- representative, a summary or abstract, a typical example
- saturnine
- gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
- erudite
- learned, scholarly
- diaphanous
- transparent, gauzy
- abeyance
- suspended action
- misogynist
- one who hates women/females
- misanthrope
- one who hates mankind
- auspicious
- favorable, successful, prosperous
- auspice
- protection or support, patronage
- refractory
- stubborn, unmanageable, intractable
- apprehension
- misgiving, dread. Also a stopping or arrest. Also an understandingprosaic
- credulous
- gullible, too willing to believe
- verisimilitude
- appearing true or real
- edacious
- voracious, devouring
- punctilious
- precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette
- urbane
- elegant, refined in manners
- contentious
- quarrelsome, competitive, quick to fight, pugnacious
- boisterous
- loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint
- guileless
- without deceit, honest
- implacable
- incapable of being placated, unpleasable
- render
- deliver, provide, represent
- hallow
- to make holy; consecrate
- baleful
- harmful, ominous, causing evil
- garner
- to gather and save; to store up
- dissemble
- present false appearance; deceive
- dilatory
- causing delay, procrastinating
- lugubrious
- mournful, excessively sad
- intractable
- unruly, refractory, stubborn
- fervid
- intense, zealous
- exscind
- to cut out, cut away
- nostrum
- a quack remedy, an untested cure
- quail
- lose courage, turn frightened
- wend
- to go, proceed
- imbroglio
- difficult or embarrassing situation
- salutary
- remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
- salacious
- obscene
- personable
- pleasing in appearance, attractive
- expostulate
- argue earnestly to dissuade, correct, or protest
- sublime
- lofty, noble
- aver
- affirm, assert, prove, justify
- upbraid
- reprove, reproach
- pellucid
- transparent, easy to understand
- craven
- cowardly
- lassitude
- weariness, tiredness
- effete
- infertile, worn out, weak
- supine
- lying on the back. Also slow to act, passive.
- pith
- heart of the matter, basic trait. Also force, strength, or vigor
- contumacious
- insubordinate, rebellious
- obstreperous
- noisy, loud
- arrant
- in every way, being completely such.
- feckless
- lacking purpose or vitality; ineffective; careless
- remonstrate
- to protest, object
- impute
- to attribute to a cause or source, ascribe
- inveigh
- to attack verbally, denounce, deprecate
- anachronism
- something out of place for its time
- pragmatic
- practical, favoring utility.
- precepts
- rules establishing standards of conduct
- veritable
- unquestionable, true.
- decorum
- propriety, properness.
- arabesque
- a complex, ornate design. Also a dance position.
- penchant
- strong inclination, a liking.
- garrulity
- talkativeness. Adjective is garrulous
- equivocate
- lie, mislead, conceal the truth.
- seminal
- like a seed; constituting a source, originative.
- striated
- striped, grooved, or banded. Having stripes.
- assay
- an analysis, examination, test. To put to a test
- consequential
- pompous, self important. Also having consequence, important. Also following as a result, or being an effect of some cause.
- paucity
- scarcity, a lacking of
- malinger
- to fake illness or injury, in order to shirk a duty.
- assiduous
- diligent, hard-working, sedulous.
- enervate
- weaken, deprive of strength, attenuate.
- precarious
- uncertain, risky, dangerous.
- attenuate
- make thin. weaken, enervate.
- partisan
- one-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced.
- complaisance
- tending to comply, obliging, willingness to please
- ostensible
- seeming, appearing as such, professed
- tractable
- easily influenced, obedient, docile
- qualify
- to limit
- phlegmatic
- calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional
- ignoble
- dishonorable, common, undignified
- inimitable
- defying imitation, unmatchable
- mince
- pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully. Also to take tiny steps, tiptoe
- obdurate
- stubborn, inflexible, adamant
- inveterate
- deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
- tyro
- novice, amateur
- forswear
- renounce, disallow, repudiate
- umbrage
- offense, resentment
- extirpate
- to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind
- lucubrate
- write in scholarly fashion
- irresolute
- unresolved, indecisive
- wag
- to be incessantly active, to waddle; also a mischievous person
- overweening
- presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate, being a jerk
- transient
- temporary, fleeting
- illusory
- deceptive; an illusion
- impair
- worsen, diminish in value
- cabal
- a scheme or plot, a group of plotters
- sycophant
- flatterer, parasite; a suck-up
- bellicose
- belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
- perfunctory
- superficial, listless, not thorough
- impetuous
- impulsive, forceful, with energy
- libertine
- immoral person
- luculent
- easily understood, lucid, clear
- nascent
- coming into existence, emerging
- polemical
- controversial, argued
- apprise
- give notice to, inform
- pusillanimous
- cowardly, craven
- reprobate
- person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency
- Quixotic
- extravagantly chivalrous, romantically idealistic, impractical
- equipoise
- equal distribution of weight; equilibrium
- impassive
- without feeling, not affected by pain
- harrow
- to distress, create stress or torment
- dross
- waste product, sludge; something worthless, common, or trivial
- prodigal
- wasteful, reckless with money
- intrepid
- fearless, brave, undaunted
- salient
- conspicuous, highly relevant, prominent
- demur
- to hesitate, raise objections
- morose
- gloomy, sullen
- piquant
- agreeably pungent, stimulating
- raffish
- disreputable; tawdry
- tawdry
- cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
- loquacious
- talkative, garrulous
- desiccate
- to dry up, dehydrate
- nice
- precise, sensitive to subtleness
- volubility
- fluency, verbosity, easy use of spoken language
- abysmal
- extreme; low, like an abyss
- ardor
- warm interest, passion, enthusiasm, zeal
- insouciant
- unconcerned, carefree
- anomalous
- unexpected, not normal, odd
- mellifluous
- sweetly flowing; usually used to describe use of words (sweetly flowing words, as when the speech is characterized by high volubility.
- dulcet
- melodious, harmonious
- approbation
- approval
- taciturn
- untalkative, silent
- stolid
- showing no emotion; impassive
- pariah
- an outcast, a rejected and despised person
- pique
- resentment at being slighted
- provident
- frugal; looking to the future
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial, austere, stark
- daunt
- intimidate, make fearful
- delineate
- to portray, depict, sketch out
- indefatigability
- not easily exhaustible; tirelessness
- desuetude
- cessation of use; disuse
- denouement
- an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
- conundrum
- a riddle, dilemma, enigma
- perfidious
- violating good faith, treacherous, dishonest
- sodden
- soaked, saturated
- quaff-drink large quantities
- fulminate
- berate, vituperate, to thunder out, to explode,
- dynamo
- a generator, something that produces electric current; an energetic person
- sophistry
- fallacious reasoning, faulty logic
- felicitous
- apt; suitably expressed, well chosen, apropos
- disabuse
- to undeceive, correct a false impression
- vituperate
- berate, rail against, attack verbally
- diffidence
- shyness
- apropos
- appropriate to the situation; apt
- strut
- a supporting bar
- gainsay
- deny
- resigned
- unresisting, submissive
- countenance
- (n) mien, face (v) approve of
- prevaricate
- stray from or avoid the truth; equivocate
- dogmatic
- positive, certain, arbitrary, without room for discussion
- antipathy
- aversion, dislike
- inveigle
- wheedle, led astray
- hapless
- unlucky, unfortunate
- adamant
- hard and inflexible; unyielding
- ]pillory
- to punish, hold up to public scorn
- turgid
- excessively ornate; swollen or bloated