GRE Hit Parade #5
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- aggrandize
- to increase in intensity of power
- anachronism
- something out of place or context
- astringent
- having a tightening effect on tissue; severe
- contiguous
- sharing a border
- derision
- scorn or ridicule
- desiccate
- to dry out
- dilettante
- someone with a superficial interest in something
- disparage
- to belittle
- inimical
- harmful
- neophyte
- a beginner
- pristine
- pure; clean
- proclivity
- inclination
- profligate
- wildly extravagant
- propensity
- inclination or tendancy
- prosaic
- dull; unimaginative
- quotidian
- commonplace
- rarefy
- to make thin
- recondite
- profound
- refulgent
- radiant
- renege
- to go back on a promise
- tacit
- implied
- terse
- brief and concise in wording
- tout
- to publicly praise
- trenchant
- sharpely perceptive
- unfeigned
- genuine
- untenable
- not viable; uninhabitable
- vacillate
- to waver
- vexation
- annoyance
- vigilant
- alertly watchful
- vituperate
- to condemn
- pellucid
- transparent
- penchant
- strong inclination
- peregrination
- wandering
- peremptory
- ending all debate
- perigee
- closest or lowest point
- peripatetic
- traveling; nomadic
- peroration
- the concluding part of a speech
- personable
- attractive
- petrous
- like a rock
- petulant
- impatient
- picaresque
- involving adventures
- pillory
- to punish
- piquant
- agreeably pungent; stimulating
- plangent
- pounding
- plumb
- to measure depth; to examine
- poignant
- distressing
- precarious
- dangerous
- precept
- rule establishing standards of conduct
- precis
- consise summary
- prolix
- long-windid
- propinquity
- nearness in time or place
- propitiate
- to appease
- proscribe
- to ostracize
- provident
- looking to the future; frugal
- puerile
- childish
- puissance
- power; strength
- punctilious
- precise
- pundit
- one who gives opinions
- pusillanimous
- cowardly
- raffish
- flashy
- ramify
- to branch out
- rapacious
- greedy
- rebus
- riddle
- recidivism
- relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
- reconnaissance
- survey to gain information, esp. of an enemy
- recreant
- coward
- recumbent
- resting; prone
- redolent
- fragrant; suggestive
- refractory
- unruly
- regale
- to entertain
- remonstrate
- to protest
- repine
- to feel discontent; to long for