GRE Vocabulary OPQ
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- Obdurate
- stubborn
- Obsequious
- servile, slavish
- Obviate
- make unnecessary, get rid of
- Occulde
- shut, close
- Officious
- meddlesome, excessively pushy in offering one's services
- Onerous
- burdensome
- Opprobrium
- infame, vilification
- Oscillate
- vibrate, waver
- Onstentatious
- showy, pretentious
- Paragon
- model of perfection
- Partisan
- one-sided, prejudiced, committed to a party
- Pathological
- pertaining to disease
- Pedantic
- bookish
- Penchant
- strong inclination, liking
- Penury
- severe poverty, stinginess
- Perennial
- somthing long lasting
- perfidious
- disloyal, trecherous
- Perfunctory
- superficial
- Permeable
- penetrable, porous, allowing liquids or gas to pass through
- Pervasive
- spread throughout
- Phlegmatic
- calm, not easily disturbed
- Piety
- devoutness
- Placate
- pacify, conciliate
- Plasticity
- ability to be molded
- Platitude
- trite remark, common place statement
- Plethora
- excess, overabundance
- Plummet
- fall sharply
- Porous
- full of pores, like a sieve
- Pragmatic
- practical
- Preamble
- introductory statement
- Precarious
- risky, uncertain
- Precipitate
- rash, hasty, sudden
- Precursor
- forerunner
- Presumptous
- arrogant, taking liberties
- Prevaricate
- lie
- Pristine
- unspoiled, charactertistic of earlier times, primitive
- Probity
- uprightness, incorruptibility
- Problematic
- doubtful, unsettled, questionable
- Prodigal
- wasteful, reckless with money
- Profound
- deep, not superficial, complete
- Prohibitive
- tending to prevent, inclined to prevent or forbid
- Prolifirate
- spread, multiply
- Propensity
- Natural inclination
- Propitiate
- appease
- Propriety
- fitness, correct conduct
- Proscribe
- banish, outlaw
- Pungent
- stinging
- Qualified
- limited, restricted
- Quibble
- objection, complaint
- Quiscent
- at rest, temporarily incative