gre vocab #2
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- aposite
- apt, relavant (as in information)
- arable
- suitable for plowing (land)
- welter
- turmoil; confused mass
- macerate
- soften by steeping in liquid (can include stomach juices)
- commodious
- roomy, spacious
- voluable
- fluent, talkative
- blithe
- merry, cheerful
- contravene
- to act contrary to, against
- truculent
- fierce, savage
- cant
- jargon of a group; hypocritical statements of high ideals
- convoke
- call to assemble
- foist
- to pass off as real
- cogitate
- to ponder
- recalcitrant
- stubbornly rebellious
- veracious
- truthful; conforming to fact
- polemicist
- person skilled in debate
- tensile
- undergoing or exterting tension
- parsimony
- excessive thrift
- august
- imposing or magnificent
- torpid
- sluggish, lethargic
- nostrum
- a questionable remedy
- knotty
- puzzling, hard to explain
- munificent
- lavishly generous
- apocryphal
- counterfeit
- luxuriant
- grown with energy and in great abundance
- approbatory
- approving, sanctioning
- invenerate
- a habit/practice settled into over a long period of time
- intrepid
- fearless, bold
- abase
- to degrade, humiliate
- abject
- the worst or lowest degree
- adament
- not yielding, firm
- adroit
- clever; expert
- sunder
- to break; to rip in two
- unwonted
- not usual
- aspirant
- ambitious person
- pernicious
- dangerous, harmful
- chagrin
- distress, shame
- choloric
- grumpy, cantankerous, irascible
- chimera
- an impossible fancy
- baneful
- deadly; harmful; causing distress
- recondite
- hard to understand; known to few (scholars)
- livid
- irate; black and blue
- anchorage
- something that can be relied on
- hackneyed
- commonplace, trite
- zephyr
- gentle wind, breeze
- abstemious
- sparing in use of food or drink
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- gainsay
- to deny; to speak against
- coterie
- a social clique
- astringent
- something that causes tightening; stern; austere
- cloture
- a parlimentary procedure to end debate and begin a vote
- penurious
- extremely needy or poor; producing little; miserly
- citadel
- fortress up high to defend city
- maculate
- stained, impure
- parochial
- narrow-minded; religious
- pique
- resentment at being slighted; to provoke
- diffident
- unsure of oneself; shy; demure
- catholic
- all-encompassing or wide-ranging; pertaining to the catholic church
- obtuse
- dull, insensitive
- paean
- a song or hymn sung as an expression of praise
- perfidy
- intentional treachery
- perspicacious
- keenly perceptive or understanding; discerning
- percipitate
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to cause to occur sooner than planned or desired; hasten
rash or hasty; impetuous - torque
- the measured ability of a force to produce turning or twisting
- redoubtable
- inspiring respect, reverence, or fear
- opprobrium
- disgrace, shame, ignominy
- neophyte
- a beginner or novice