GRE Vocabulary 3 2
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- expurgate
- to remove obscenity, purify, censor
- extant
- existing, not destroyed or lost
- extemporaneous
- improvised; done without preparation
- extirpate
- to destroy, exterminate, cut out, pull out by the roots
- fallow
- untilled, inactive, dormant
- fatuous
- slly, inanely foolish
- fawn
- to flatter or praise excessively
- feckless
- ineffectual; irresponsible
- felicitous
- apt; suitably expressed, well chosen, apropos; delightful
- fell
- a barren or stony hill; an animal's hide
- fervent
- greatly emotional or zealous
- fetid
- stinking, having a heavy bad smell
- fetter
- to shackle, put in chains, restrain
- filibuster
- intentional obstruction, usualy using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
- filigree
- an ornamental work, especially of delicate lacelike patterns; resembling such a pattern
- flag
- v. to sage or droop, to become spiritless, to decline
- flip
- adj. sarcastic, impertinent
- florid
- adj flushed with color, ruddy, ornate
- flout
- v. to demonstrate contempt for
- foment
- v. to stir up, incite, rouse
- forbearance
- n. patience, willingness to wait
- forswear
- v. to remounce, disallow, repudiate
- fracas
- n. noisy fight or quarrel, brawl
- fractious
- adj. quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, cranky
- froward
- adj. intractable, not willing to yield or comply, stubbornly disobedient
- fulminate
- v. to attack loudly or denounce
- furtive
- adj. marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
- gambol
- v. to skip about playfully, frolic
- garner
- v. to gather and save, store up, acquire
- gauche
- adj. crude, awkward, tasteless
- germane
- adj. relevent to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
- glib
- adj. marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
- gossamer
- adj. delicate, insubstantial or tenuous; insincere
- grandiloquence
- n. pompous speech or expression
- gregarious
- adj. sociable; outgoing; enjoying the complany of other people
- grouse
- v. to complain or grumble
- guile
- n. trickery, duplicity, cunning
- guy
- n. a rope or cord attached to something as a brace or guide
- hackneyed
- adj. rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
- halcyon
- adj. calm and peaceful, prosperous
- hallow
- v. to set apart as holy
- harrow
- v. to distress, create stress or torment
- hermetic
- adj. airtight, impervious to outside influence
- heterodox
- adj. unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
- hirsute
- adj. hairy, shaggy
- homily
- n. a sermon or morally instructive lecture, a platitude
- hubris
- n. arrogant presumption or pride
- hyperbole
- n. an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech
- idyll
- n. a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode or experience; a literary or musical piece describing such
- ignominious
- adj. shameful, dishonorable, ignoble, undignified, disgraceful
- imbroglio
- n. difficult or embarrassing situation
- immutable
- adj. not capable of change
- impecunious
- adj. lacking funds; without money
- imperious
- adj. commanding, masterful, arrogrant, domineering, haughty
- impetuous
- adj. hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
- importune
- v. to ask incessantly, beg, nag
- impugn
- v. attack or assail verbally, censure, execrate, deny
- impunity
- n. immunity from punishment, penalty or harm
- impute
- v. to attribute to a cause or source, ascribe, assign as a characteristic
- incipient
- adj. beginning to come into being or to become apparent