GRE set 34
Terms
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- panache
- flair, flamboyance
- parochial
- narrow in outlook, provincial
- palate
- roof of the mouth, sense of taste
- parameter
- limit
- pean
- song or praise or joy
- palpable
- tangible, easily perceptible
- parlance
- language, idiom
- passive
- not active
- parley
- conference
- panegyric
- formal praise
- pariach
- social outcast
- palpitate
- throb, flutter
- paroxysm
- fit of attack or pain
- pall
- grow tiresome
- partial
- incomplete
- partition
- divided into parts
- parsimony
- miserliness
- parody
- spoof
- palette
- board on which painter mixes pigments
- parity
- equality
- ovoid
- egg shaped
- palatable
- agreeable, pleasing to taste
- pauper
- very poor person
- paancea
- cure all
- patois
- local or provincial dialect
- parry
- ward off a blow, deflect
- pathos
- tender sorry pity, quality in art or literature that produces these feelings
- parquet
- flood made of wood strips
- patina
- green crust on old bronze works
- palimpest
- parchment used for second time after original writing has been erased
- pantomime
- acting without dialogue
- overwrought
- extremely agitated, histerical
- paramour
- ilicity lover
- pandemic
- widespread
- pastiche
- imitation of anonther's style in music or writing
- paramount
- supreme
- pandemonium
- wild tumult
- pallet
- small bed
- paraphernalia
- equipment, odds and ends
- palliate
- ease pain
- paranoia
- pyschosis marked by delusions of grandeur
- paltry
- insignificant, petty
- pallid
- pale, wan
- parched
- extremely dry
- panoramic
- denoting an unobstructed and comprehensive view
- patent
- open for public to read, obvious
- parasite
- animal or plant living on another body
- patrician
- noble, aristrocratic
- parable
- short simple story with a moral
- papyrus
- ancient paoper
- paradigm
- model, example
- partisan
- one sided
- pacify
- soothe
- pastoral
- rural
- pathological
- pretaining to disease
- partiallity
- inclination, bias
- paleontology
- study of prehistoric life
- paradox
- contradictory in nature
- palatial
- magnificent
- paucity
- scarcity
- parallelism
- similarity
- pander
- cater to the low desires of others
- paraphrase
- restate a passage in one's own words
- pachyderm
- thick skinned animal
- patronize
- support
- passe
- old fashioned, past
- pecadillo
- slight offense
- painstaking
- showing hard work, taking great care
- pathetic
- causing sadness, pity
- pacifist
- one opposed to force, antimilitarist
- paragon
- model of perfection
- pan
- criticize harshly
- patriarch
- father or ruler of a family