GRE Hit Parade 3
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- acumen
- keen, accurate judgement or insight
- adulterate
- to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
- amalgamate
- to combine several elements intoa whole
- archaic
- outdated, associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time
- aver
- to state as a fact, to declare or assert
- bolster
- to provide support or reinforcement
- bombastic
- pompous, gradiloquent
- diatribe
- a harsh denunciation
- dissemble
- to diquise or conceal, to mislead
- eccentric
- departing from norms or conventions
- endemic
- characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
- evanescent
- tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing
- exacerbate
- to make worse or more severe
- fervent
- greatly emotional or zealous
- fortuitous
- happening by accident or chance
- germane
- relevant to the subject at hand, apropriate in subject matter
- grandiloquence
- pompous speech or expression
- hackneyed
- rendered trite or commponplace by frequent usage
- halcyon
- calm or peaceful
- hedonism
- devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp to the pleasures of the senses
- hegemony
- the consistent dominace of one state or ideology over others
- iconoclast
- one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
- idolatrous
- given to intense or excessive devotion to something
- impassive
- revealing no emotion
- imperturbable
- marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness
- implacable
- not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
- impunity
- immunity from punishment or penalty
- inchoate
- in an initial stage, not fully formed
- infelicitous
- unfortunate, inappropriate
- insipid
- without taste or flavor, lacking in spirit, bland
- loquacious
- extremely talkative
- luminous
- characterized by brightness and the emission of light
- malevolent
- having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred
- malleable
- capable of being shaped or formed, tractable, pliable
- mendacity
- the condition of being untruthful, dishonesty
- meticulous
- characterized by extreme care and precision, attentive to detail
- misanthrope
- one who hates all other humans
- mitigate
- to make or become less severe or intense, to moderate
- obdurate
- unyielding, hardhearted, intractable
- obsequious
- exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
- occlude
- to obstruct or block
- opprobrium
- disgrace, contempt, scorn
- pedagogy
- the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing
- pedantic
- overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education, show-offish about one's knowledge
- penury
- poverty, destitution
- pervasive
- having the tendency to permeate or spread througout
- pine
- to yearn intensely, to languish, to lose vigor
- pirate
- to illegally use or reproduce
- pith
- the essential or central part
- pithy
- precise and brief
- placate
- to appease, to calm by making concessions
- platitude
- a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful
- plummet
- to plunge or drop straight down
- polemical
- controversial, argumentative
- prodigal
- recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish
- proliferate
- to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
- queries
- questions, inquires, doubts in the mind, reservations
- querulous
- prone to complaining or grumbling, peevish
- rancorous
- characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
- recalcitrant
- obstinately defiant of authority, diffcult to manage
- repudiate
- to refuse to have anything to do with, disown
- rescind
- to invalidate, to repeal, to retract
- reverent
- marked by, feeling or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
- rhetoric
- the art of study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
- salubrious
- promoting health or well-being
- solvent
- able to meet financial obligaitons, able to dissolve another substance
- specious
- seeming true, but actually being fallacious, misleadingly attractive, plausible but false
- spurious
- lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit
- subpeona
- a court order requiring appearance and or testimony
- succinct
- brief, concise
- superfluous
- exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
- surfeit
- an overabundant supply, excess to feed or supply to excess
- tenacity
- the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued, persistent determination
- tenouse
- having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak
- tirade
- a long and extremely critical speech, a harsh denunciation
- transient
- fleeting, passing quickly, brief
- zealous
- fervent, ardent, impassioned, devoted to cause