GRE Hit Parade Group 1 2
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- Abscond (v)
- To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
- Aberrent (adj)
- Deviating from the norm
- Alacrity (n)
- Eager and enthusiastic willingness
- Anomaly (n)
- Abnormality
- Approbation (n)
- An expression of approval or praise
- Arduous (adj)
- Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
- Assuage (v)
- To appease
- Audacious (adj)
- Recklessly bold
- Austere (adj)
- Severely simple
- Axiomatic (adj)
- Possessing self evident truth
- Canonical (adj)
- Following accepted, traditional standards
- Capricious (adj)
- Inclined to change one's mind impulsively
- Censure (v)
- To criticise severely
- Chicanery (n)
- Trickery; subterfuge
- Connoisseur (n)
- An astute judge in matters of taste
- Convoluted (adj)
- Complicated
- Disabuse (v)
- To undeceive; to set right
- Discordant (adj)
- Conflicting
- Disparate (adj)
- Fundamentally dissimilar
- Effrontery (n)
- Presumptuousness
- Eloquent (adj)
- Expressive and articulate
- Ebervate (v)
- To weaken; to reduce in vitality
- Ennui (n)
- Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting froom boredom or apathy
- Equivocate (v)
- To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
- Erudite (adj)
- Very learned; scholarly
- Exculpate (v)
- To exonerate; to set right
- Exigent (adj)
- Urgent
- Extemporaneous (adj)
- Improvised
- Filibuster (n)
- Intentional obstruction, esp using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
- Fulminate (v)
- To attack loudly or denounce
- Ingenuous (adj)
- Artless; frank and candid
- Inured (adj)
- Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
- Irascible (adj)
- Easily angered
- Laud (v)
- To praise highly
- Lucid (adj)
- Clear
- Magnanimity (n)
- Quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp in forgiving
- Martial (adj)
- Associated with war and the armed forces
- Mundane (adj)
- Typical of the ordinary
- Nascent (adj)
- In the early developmental stages
- Nebulous (adj)
- Vague
- Neologism (n)
- Creation or use of new words or senses
- Noxious (adj)
- Harmful
- Obtuse (adj)
- Not clear or precise in thought or expression
- Obviate
- To anticipate and make unnecessary
- Onerous (adj)
- Troubling
- Paean (n)
- A song or hymn of praise or thanksgiving
- Parody (n)
- A humorous imitation meant to ridicule
- Perennial (adj)
- Occurring repeatedly through the year or over many years
- Perfidy (n)
- Intentional breach of faith
- Perfunctory (adj)
- Cursory; done without care or interest
- Perspicacious (adj)
- Acutely perceptive
- Prattle (v)
- To babble meaninglessly
- Precipitate (adj/v)
- Acting with excessive impulse; to cause to happen before anticipated
- Predilection (n)
- Disposition in favour of something
- Prescience (n)
- Foreknowledge of events
- Prevaricate (v)
- To mislead
- Qualms (n)
- Misgivings
- Recant (v)
- To retract
- Refute (v)
- To disprove
- Relegate (v)
- To forcibly assign, esp to a lower position
- Reticent (adj)
- Quiet and reserved
- Solicitous (adj)
- Eager
- Sordid (adj)
- Foul
- Sporadic (adj)
- Occurring at scattered instances
- Squander (v)
- To waste by using irresponsibly
- Static (adj)
- Unmoving
- Stupefy (v)
- To baffle
- Stymie (v)
- To thwart
- Synthesis (n)
- Combination of several parts to make a whole
- Torque (n)
- A force that causes rotation
- Tortuous (adj)
- Winding; excessively complicated
- Truculent (adj)
- Fierce and cruel
- Veracity (n)
- Honesty
- Virulent (adj)
- Extremely harmful; bitterly hostile
- Voracious (adj)
- Having an insatiable appetite
- Waver (v)
- To sway; to be undecided in opinion