GRE Master Words X
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- Languish (v)
- lose animation or strength
- Maladroit (adj)
- lacking adroitness; bungling
- Madrigal (n)
- pastoral song
- Legerdemain (n)
- sleight of hand
- Lucre (n)
- money
- Libel (n)
- slander
- Ludicrous (adj)
- laughable b/c of absurdity
- Lank (adj)
- long and thin
- Limn (v)
- draw; outline
- Lugubrious (adj)
- mournful
- Lexicographer (n)
- compiler of a dictionary
- Malapropism (n)
- comic misuse of a word
- Maculated (adj)
- spotted; stained
- Laity (n)
- laypersons
- Magniloquent (adj)
- boastful, pompous
- Lectern (n)
- reading stand
- Livid (adj)
- lead-colored; black and blue; ashen; enraged
- Malfeasance (n)
- wrongdoing
- Leonine (adj)
- like a lion
- Mawkish (adj)
- maudlin; mushy and gushy
- Manumit (v)
- emancipate free from bondage
- Matrix (n)
- point of origin; mold or die; array of numbers
- Low (v)
- moo (like cows)
- Lilliputian (adj)
- extremely small
- Lope (v)
- gallop slowly
- Lode (n)
- metal-bearing vein
- List (v)
- lean over; tilt
- Limpid (adj)
- clear
- Malediction (n)
- curse
- Ligneous (adj)
- wood-like
- Malaise (n)
- uneasiness; vague feeling of ill health
- Magisterial (adj)
- authoritative; imperious
- Libertine (n)
- debauched person, roué
- Macerate (v)
- soften by soak in liquid; waste away
- Lexicon (n)
- dictionary
- Libido (n)
- emotional urges behind human activity
- Lurid (adj)
- wild; sensational; graphic; gruesome
- Libretto (n)
- text of an opera
- Litotes (n)
- understatement for emphasis
- Largess (n)
- generous gift
- Litany (n)
- supplicatory prayer
- Lancet (n)
- small surgical tool for making incisions
- Martinet (n)
- strict disciplinarian
- Lineaments (n)
- features, especially of the face
- Maritime (adj)
- bordering on the sea; nautical
- Lien (n)
- legal claim on property
- Lassitude (n)
- languor; weariness
- Maudlin (adj)
- effusively sentimental
- Mannered (adj)
- affected; not natural
- Manacle (v)
- restrain; handcuff