GRE Wordlist 21 - 25
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- gainsay
- v. deny; contradict; speak or act against; oppose
- galaxy
- n. collection of brilliant personalities
- gale
- n. windstorm; emotional outburst
- gall
- n. bitterness; nerve; impudence; effrontery
- gambit
- n. opening sacrificial move in chess; any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage; remark made to open or redirect a conversation
- gambol
- v. /ˈgæmbəl/ romp; skip about; leap playfully
- gamely
- adv. spirited; with courage
- garish
- adj. overbrightly colored; gaudy
- garrulous
- adj. /ˈgærələs, ˈgæryə-/ loquacious; wordy; talkative
- gauche
- adj. clumsy; coarse and uncouth
- generic
- adj. characteristic of an entire class
- gentry
- n. class just below nobility
- genuflect
- v. bend the knee as in worship
- germane
- adj. pertinent; bearing on the case at hand
- germinal
- adj. pertaining to a germ; creative; being in the earliest stage of development
- glean
- v. to collect or gather anything little by little or slowly; to gather what is left by reapers.
- gesticulation
- n. motion; gesture
- gibe
- v. mock; taunt; deride
- glower
- v. scowl
- gouge
- v. overcharge
- gourmand
- n. epicure, taking excessive pleasure in food and drink
- grandiloquent
- adj. pompous; bombastic; using pretentious language
- gregarious
- adj. sociable; living in flocks or herds, as animals
- grill (v)
- v. question severely
- grouse (v)
- v. complain; fuss; grumble
- guile
- n. deceit; duplicity; insidious cunning in attaining a goal
- guileless
- adj. without deceit; artless
- gull (v)
- v. trick; hoodwink; cheat
- guy
- n. cable or chain providing bracing or support
- habituate
- v. accustom of familiarize; cause physiological or psychological habituation, as to a drug
- hackles
- n. hairs on back and neck, esp. on a dog
- hackneyed
- adj. commonplace; trite
- halcyon
- adj. calm; peaceful; rich; wealthy; prosperous; happy; joyful; carefree; pertaining to the halcyon/kingfisher
- hale (adj)
- adj. healthy
- hap
- n. chance; luck
- hapless
- adj. unfortunate
- harangue
- n. long, passionate, vehement speech; scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; long, pompous speech; diatribe
- harbinger
- n. forerunner; anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign
- hegemony
- n. /hɪˈdʒɛməni, ˈhɛdʒəˌmoʊni/ dominance, esp. of a nation; aggression or expansionism by large nations in an effort to achieve world domination
- hermetic
- adj. obscure and mysterous; occult
- heterodox
- adj. unorthodox; unconventional
- hew
- v. cut to pieces with an ax or sword
- hireling
- n. one who serves for hire, usu. used contemptuously
- histrionic
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adj. theatrical; deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech
n. actor - hoary
- adj. white with age
- homily
- n. sermon; serious warning; admonitory or moralizing discourse; inspirational saying or cliché
- hone
- v. sharpen; make more acute or effective; improve; perfect
- hoodwink
- v. deceive or trick
- hortatory
- adj. encouraging; exhortive
- hubris
- n. excessive pride; arrogance
- hue and cry
- n. outcry
- hummock
- n. small hill
- humus
- n. decayed vegetable matter
- hurtle
- v. rush violently; move with great speed; fling
- husband (v)
- v. use sparingly; conserve; save
- husbandry
- n. frugality; thrift; agriculture
- hydrophobia
- n. rabies
- iconoclastic
- adj. attacking cherished traditions
- idolatry
- n. worship of idols; excessive admiration
- ignominy
- n. /ˈɪgnəˌmɪni, ɪgˈnɒməni/ deep disgrace, shame, or dishonor; public contempt
- illusive
- adj. /ɪˈlusɪv/ causing illusion; deceptive; misleading; of the nature of an illusion; unreal
- illusory
- adj. /ɪˈlusəri, -zə-/ causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.; of the nature of an illusion; unreal.
- imbroglio (embroil v.)
- n. /ɪmˈbroʊlyoʊ/ complicated situation; painful or complex misunderstanding; confused mass
- imbue
- v. satuarte; fill
- immolate
- v. offer as a sacrifice
- immure
- v. imprison; enclose within walls, shut in, seclude or confine
- impassive
- adj. without feeling; stoic
- impecunious
- adj. without money
- impel
- v. drive or force onward
- impenetrable
- adj. not able to be pierced or entered; beyond understanding
- imperious
- adj. domineering; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing
- impertinent
- adj. insolent; rude; intrusive or presumptuous; not pertinent, irrelevant
- impetuous
- adj. violent; hasty; rash
- impinge
- v. infringe; touch; collide with; encroach
- implacable
- adj. incapable of being pacified
- impolitic
- adj. unwise; not expedient or judicious
- imponderable
- adj. weightless; not measurable; that cannot undergo precise evaluation
- import (n)
- n. significance
- importunate
- adj. /ɪmˈpɔrtʃənɪt/ urging; urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so
- importune
- v. demand with urgency or persistence; make improper advances toward (a person)
- imprecation
- n. /ˌɪmprɪˈkeɪʃən/ curse
- impropriety
- n. improperness; unsuitableness; erroneous or unsuitable expression, act, etc; improper use of a word or phrase
- improvident
- adj. without thrift, wasteful; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary
- impugn
- v. dispute or contradict, usu. insultingly; challenge; gainsay
- impuissance
- n. /ɪmˈpyuəsənt, ˌɪmpyuˈɪsənt, ɪmˈpwɪsənt/ powerlesness; feebleness
- impunity
- n. exemption from punishment; immunity from detrimental effects, as of an action
- impute
- v. /ɪmˈpyut/ attribute; ascribe; the children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- inalienable
- adj. not to be taken away; nontransferable
- inane
- adj. silly; senseless
- incarnate
- adj; endowed with flesh; personified or typified, as a quality or idea
- incendiary (n)
- n. arsonist
- incense (v)
- v. enrage; infuriate
- inchoate
- adj. /ɪnˈkoʊɪt, -eɪt or, especially Brit., ˈɪnkoʊˌeɪt/ recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
- incommodious
- adj. not spacious; inconvenient
- incontinent
- adj. lacking self-restraint; licentious
- incontrovertible
- adj. indisputible; not open to question
- incorporeal
- adj. lacking a material body; insubstantial
- incorrigible
- adj; not correctible
- increment
- n. increase; something added or gained
- incubus
- n. demon who visits during sleep, esp. to mate with women; mental burden; nightmare
- inculcate
- v. teach; implant by repeated statement or admonition
- incumbent
- adj. obligatory; currently holding office
- incursion
- n. temporary invasion
- indemnify
- v. make sure against loss; compensate for loss
- indigence
- n. poverty
- indite
- v. to compose or write, as a poem.; to treat in a literary composition.
- indolent
- adj. lazy; having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful
- ineffable
- adj. not expressable in speech
- ineluctable
- adj. /ˌɪnɪˈlʌktəbəl/ unavoidable; inescapable - an ineluctable destiny
- inerrancy
- n. infallibility; lack of error; the belief that the bible is free from error in matters of science as well as those of faith
- inexorable
- adj. relentless; unyielding; unalterable; not capable of being persuaded by entreaty
- infamous
- adj. nororiously bad
- infirmity
- n. physical weakness or ailment; moral weakness or failing