PReview GRE Set 1
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- alacrity
- eager and enthusiastic willingness
- approbation
- expression of approval or praise
- axiomatic
- taken as given, possessing self evident truth
- canonical
- following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
- censure
- to criticize severely
- discordant
- conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound
- effrontery
- extreme boldness, presumptuosness
- ennui
- dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
- extemporaneous
- improvised, done without preparation
- fulminate
- to loudly attack or denounce
- inured
- accustomed to accepting something undesirable
- magnanimity
- the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart
- nascent
- coming into being, in early developmental stages
- neologism
- a new word expression or usage
- noxious
- harmful, injurious
- obtuse
- lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression
- obviate
- to anticipate and make unnecessary
- paean
- song or hym of praise and tahnks giving
- perennial
- recurrening thruogh the year or many years
- perfidy
- intentional breach of faith, treacherous
- perspicacious
- acutely perceptive
- precipitate
- acting with excessive haste or impulse (adj). to cause or happen before anticipated (v)
- predilection
- a dispostion in favor of something, preference
- prescience
- foreknowledge of events
- relegate
- forcibly assign
- solicitous
- concerned and attentive, eager
- sordid
- characterized by fitlth grime
- squander
- to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
- stymie
- to block or thwart
- tortuous
- winding complicated
- truculent
- fierce and cruel, eager to fight