GRE Set 2 (100)
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- POLITIC
- shrewd and practical in managing or dealing with things; diplomatic
- PROLIFERATE
- to increase in number quickly
- PRECIS
- short summary of facts
- POSIT
- to assume as real or conceded; propose as an explanation
- PUNGENT
- sharp and irritating to the sense
- PREVARICATE
- to lie or deviate from the truth
- POLEMIC
- controversy, argument; verbal attack
- PLASTIC
- able to be molded, altered, or bent
- PULCHRITUDE
- beauty
- PHILANTHROPY
- charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
- PHLEGMATIC
- calm and unemotional in temperment
- PERVADE
- to be present throughout, to permeate
- PERFUNCTORY
- done in a routine way indifferent
- PLEBEIAN
- crude or coarse; characteristic of commoners
- PEREGRINATE
- to wander from place to place; to travel, especially on foot
- PERMEATE
- to penetrate
- POTENTATE
- a monarch or ruler with great power
- PLACATE
- to soothe or pacify
- PROCLIVITY
- a natural inclination or predisposition
- PERFIDIOUS
- willing to betray one's trust
- PUSILLANIMOUS
- cowardly, without courage
- PUGILISM
- boxing
- PITHY
- profound, substantial; concise, succinct, to the point
- PRAGMATIC
- practical, as opposed to idealistic
- PRATTLE
- meaningless, foolish talk
- PEJORATIVE
- having bad connotations; disparaging
- PUERILE
- childish, immature, silly
- PERSPICACIOUS
- shrewd, astute, keen-witted
- QUERULOUS
- inclined to complain, irritable
- PATHOGENIC
- causing disease
- PLUCKY
- courageous, spunky
- PHALANX
- a compact or close-knit body of people, animals, or things
- PROFLIGATE
- corrupt, degenerate
- PHILISTINE
- a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
- PRUDENCE
- wisdom, caution or restraint
- PECCADILLO
- minor sin or offense
- PRECIPITATE
- to throw violently or to bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
- PARRY
- ward off or deflect, especially by a quick-witted answer
- PASTICHE
- piece of literature or music imitating other works
- PROPITIATE
- to conciliate, to appease
- PRESCIENT
- having foresight
- PLETHORA
- excess
- POLYGLOT
- a speaker of many languages
- PRISTINE
- fresh and clean, uncorrupted
- PROBITY
- complete honest and integrity
- PRODIGAL
- lavish, wasteful
- PROPRIETY
- the quality of behaving in a proper manner, obeying rules and customs
- PENURY
- an oppressive lack of resources (as money); severe poverty
- PEDANT
- someone who shows off learning
- PERIPATETIC
- wandering from place to place, especially on foot