GRE Vocab words
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- Pernicious
- Extremely harmful; Potentially causing death
- Virulent
- Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
- Perfidy
- interntional breech of faith; treachery
- Avarice
- Greed; Esp for wealth
- Castigation
- Severe criticism or punishment
- Caustic
- burning or stinging; causing corrosion
- Chary
- wary; cautious sparing
- Cogent
- Convincing; appealing foricbly to the mind or reason
- Contrite
- Regretful; penitent; seeking forgivness
- Putrefy
- To rot' to decay and give off foul odor
- Odious
- Evoking intense aversion or dislike
- Inveigle
- To obtain by deception or flattery
- Intransigent
- Refusing to compromise
- Inert
- Unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
- Impecunious
- lacking funds; w/o money
- Heretical
- Violating accepted dogma or convention
- Harrangue
- To deliver a pompous speach or tirade
- Esoteric
- Intended for or understood by a small, specific group
- Dogmatic
- Stubbornly opinionated
- Demur
- to question or oppose
- Dearth
- Smallness or quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
- Fulminate
- to loudly attack or denounce
- Aberrant
- deviating from the norm
- Austere
- w/o adornment; bare; severly simple
- Ascetic
- one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religous devotion
- Ephemeral
- brief; fleeting
- Oviate
- to anticipate and make unnecessary
- Onerous
- troubling; burdensom
- Perfunctory
- Cursory; done w/o care or interest
- Prevaricate
- to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
- Relegate
- to focibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position
- Penurious
- Penny-pinching; excessivly thrifty; ungenerous
- Inured
- Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
- Stymie
- to block; thwart
- Effrontery
- Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
- Reticent
- Quiet; reserved; reluctant to espress thoughts and feelings
- Contentious
- arumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
- Irascible
- Easily angered; prone to tempramental outbursts
- Enervate
- to weaken; to reduce in vitality
- Equivocate
- to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
- Bombast
- self-important or pompous writing or speech
- Diatribe
- a harsh denunciation
- Flout
- to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention
- Garrulous
- Pointlessly talkative; talking to much
- Glib
- marked by ease or infromatlity; non-chalant; lacking in depth; superficial
- Hubris
- Arrogant presumption or pride
- Idolatrous
- Given to intense or excessive devotion to something
- Impetuous
- Hastily or rashly engergetic; implusive and vehement
- Implacable
- Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
- Laconic
- Using few words; terse
- Mendacity
- Dishonesty
- Mercurial
- Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood
- Odburate
- Unyeilding; hardhearted; intractable
- Obfuscate
- To deliberatly obscure; to make confusing
- Obstinate
- stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
- Opprobrium
- Disgrace; contempt
- Phlegmatic
- Calm; sluggish; unemotional
- Polemical
- Controversial; Argumentative
- Rancorous
- Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
- Soporific
- Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
- Anachronism
- Something or someone out of place in terns of historical or chronological context
- Derision
- Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
- Desiccate
- to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
- Dilettante
- one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
- Inimical
- Damaging; harmful; injurious
- Intractable
- Not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obistinate
- Profligate
- Excessivly wasteful; recklessly extravagant
- Quixotic
- foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romancti ideals
- Recondite
- hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
- Renege
- To fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
- Spendthrift
- One who spends money wastefully
- Tacit
- Implied; not explicitly stated
- Untenable
- Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
- Vacillate
- To waver indecisively b/w one course of action or opinion and another; to waver
- Vexation
- Annoyance; Irritation
- Vituperate
- To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severly or abusivly; to berate
- Dissemble
- To mislead; to disguise or conceal
- Grandiloquence
- Pompous speech or expression
- Hackneyed
- Rendered trite or common place by frequent usage
- Hegemony
- The consistent dominance of one state or ideaology over others
- Iconoclast
- One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
- Impassive
- Revealing no emotion
- Inchoate
- In an intial stage; not fully formed
- Infelicitous
- Unfortunate; inappropriate
- Occlude
- To obstruct or block
- Penury
- Poverty; desititution
- Querulous
- Prone to complaining or grumbling
- Reclacitrant
- Obstinately defiant of authority; diffifult to manage
- Tenuous
- Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
- Surfeit
- Excess; overindulgence
- Spurious
- Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
- Specious
- Seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
- Repudiate
- to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.