Gre Vocab 4 2
Terms
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- serrated
- notched at the edge, grooved
- sidle
- to move sideways
- sinuous
- having many curves, winding
- vortex
- a whirling mass
- bombastic
- high-sounding, pretentous speaking/writing
- circumloquution
- a roudabout way of writing or speaking, using more words than necessary
- garrulous
- excessively talkative
- grandiloquent
- speaking or expressing in a lofty style, being bombastic
- loquatious
- talkative
- periphrastic
- roundabout, excessively wordy (circumloquatious)
- prolix
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long and wordy, tediously long
It was a cumbersome book, widely criticized for being prolix in style and maddeningly circular in argument. - rhetoric
- (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
- turgid
- bombastic
- verbose
- wordy
- ameliorate
- to make better/more satisfactory
- appease
- to bring to a state of peace
- assuage
- to make milder/less severe, to mitigate
- defer
- to yield respectfully in judgement or opinion
- mitigate
- to make less severe
- mollify
- to soften in feeling or temper, to calm
- placate
- to appease or pacify
- propitiate
- to make favorably inclined, appease
- satiate
- to satisfy, to supply in excess
- slake
- to allay by satisfying, to become less intense
- sooth
- soothing, soft
- euphonious
- pleasing in sound, agreeable to ear
- harmonious
- marked by agreement, pleasant consistency
- sonorous
- rich and full in sound
- esurient
- hungry, voracioius, greedy
- impecunious
- having little, penniless
- indigent
- needy, impoverished, lacking necessities because poor
- acclaim
- applaud
- accolade
- any award, honor, or laudatory role
- aggrandize
- to make something seem greater
- encomium
- a formal expression of praise
- eulogize
- to praise highly
- extol
- to praise highly
- fawn
- to seek favor by servile behavior
- laud/laudatory
- a song or hym of praise
- venerate
- to regard or treat with reverence
- augur
- to serve as an omen of
- auspice
- favorable signs or promising circumstances
- fey
- fated to die
- harbinger
- anything that forshadows a future event. a person sent in advance to herald something
- portentous
- momentous, ominously significant
- presage
- something that forshadows a future event
- prescient
- knowing things before they exist
- prognosticate
- to forcast or predict something future.
- encumber
- to weigh down, to impede or hinder
- fetter
- anything that confines or restrains
- forfend
- to fend off, avert, prevent
- hinder
- to prevent from doing something/acting
- impede
- to restrict in movement by obstacles, hinder
- inhibit
- to restrain, to hinder
- occlude
- to stop op. to shut in.
- astute
- keen, sagacious, clever
- canny
- careful, prudent, astute, shrewd
- erudite
- characterized by great knowledge
- perspicacioius
- having keen mental perception and undrstanding. discerning
- disconsolate
- unable to be consoled
- doleful
- sorroful, melancholy
- dolor
- sorow, grief
- elegiac
- expressing sorror or lamentation
- forlorn
- desolate or dreary, unhappy
- lament
- to feel or express sorrow or regret for
- lugubrioius
- mournful in a way that seems feigned.
- plaintive
- expressing sorror or melancholy
- threnody
- a poem or song of lamentation, a funeral song
- implacable
- not to be appeased, inexorable
- inexorable
- unyielding, unaffectable
- intractable
- not easily controlled or directed, not docile
- intransigent
- refusing to agree or compromise
- obdurate
- unmoved by persuasion/pity/feelings, stuborn
- obstinate
- stubbornly adhering to one's own purpose
- recalcitrant
- resisting authority or control
- refractory
- hard or impossible to manage
- renitent
- resisting pressure
- untoward
- unfavorable or unfortunate, hard to guide or control
- compendious
- succinct
- curt
- rudely brief
- laconic
- using few words, brief and to the point
- pithy
- precicely meaningful, meaningful in few words
- succinct
- expressed in few words
- taciturn
- inclined to silence. reserved in speech
- antecede
- to go before
- antedate
- to be of older date than, preceed in time
- anterior
- situated before, going before in sequence
- archaic
- marked by characteristics of an earlier period
- diurnal
- daily
- eon
- an indefinately long period of time
- epoch
- a period of time marked by distinctive events
- fortnight
- 2 wks (14 nights)
- millenium
- a thousand years
- penultimate
- next to last
- synchronous
- occuring at the same time
- temporal
- pertaining to the present time
- craven
- cowardly/timid
- diffident
- lacking self-confidence. shy, timid
- pusillanimous
- laacking courage or resolution, contemptibly fearful, cowardly
- recreant
- cowardly or craven
- timorous
- ful of fear, fearful
- trepidation
- tremulous fear
- candor/candid
- the state of being very frank and honest
- fealty
- fidelity
- frankness
- plainness of speach, candor
- indisputable
- that cannot be disputed or questioned
- indubitable
- cannot be doubted
- probity
- integrity and uprightnes, honesty
- veracious
- honest
- verity
- the truth
- anomaly
- deviation from the common rule
- ambulatory
- capable of wlaking
- itinerant
- traveling from place to place, esp for work
- peripatetic
- traveling about, itinerant
- discursive
- rambling, passing aimlessly from one subject to the next
- expatiate
- to be copious in description, to move or wander intellectually (to expatiate upon a theme)
- forage
- to wander in search of provision
- peregrination
- traveling from one place to another, esp on foot
- sojourn
- a temporal stay
- adulterate
- to weaken or make less pure by adding inferior elements
- enervate
- to weaken
- exacerbate
- to increase the severity of, to make more aggravated
- obviate
- to anticipate and prevent by effective means, to render unnecessary
- stultify
- to render futile and ineffective
- undermine
- to injure insiduously
- vitiate
- to impaire quality or effectiveness
- adage
- a traditional saying or proverb
- aphorism
- a short saying that embodies a general truth
- apothegm
- a shorty, witty, instructional saying
- axiom
- a self-evident truth that requires no proof
- bromide
- a platitude or trite saying
- dictum
- a saying/notion
- platitude
- a dull or trite remark
- sententious
- abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book
- abeyance
- emporary cessation or suspension
- abjure
- to renounce or give up under oath;
- abnegation
- to refuse or deny oneself, to give up
- abrogate
- To annul or abolish by an authoritative act.
- decamp
- to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously
- demur
- to make objection, esp. on the grounds of scruples
- recant
- to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), esp. formall
- recidivism
- A tendency to lapse into a previous condition or pattern of behavior; especially, a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits
- remission
- abatement or diminution, as of diligence, labor, intensity, etc.
- renege
- to go back on one's word
- rescind
- to take back, annul; revoke; repeal.
- retrograde
- moving backward. reversed order