gre vocab #3
Terms
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- refulgent
- radiant
- trenchant
- incisive or penetrating, as perception or wit
- variegated
- showing variety or diversity, esp. in having patches, spots, streaks, or the like of various colors
- alloy
- to make impure by combining with something else; the combination of metals
- essay
- to attempt to do something
- fell
- ruthless, destructive, fatal
- guy
- a rope or similar device used to guide or secure something
- meet
- proper; suitable
- pied
- multi-colored
- prize
- like to pry out
- scurvy
- vile, contemptible, or worthless
- stand
- group of trees
- strut
- a brace used to support a structure against pressures from the side
- wag
- one who is humorous, droll, or mischievous; joker
- adumbrate
- vaguely foreshadow; sketchily outline
- anodyne
- relieves physical or emotional suffering
- apostate
- a person who abandons her religious faith, principles, etc
- celerity
- alacrity; speed
- cavil
- petty compliants or objections
- captious
- faultfinding; intended to deceive
- desuetude
- lack of use
- execrate
- to loathe; to denounce
- exegesis
- a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, esp. of religious texts
- expiate
- to make amends for something
- fractious
- cranky, quarrelsome; unruly
- heterodox
- deviating from an officially approved belief or doctrine
- insouciant
- carefree
- jejune
- childish, juvenile, or unsophisticated
- lubricious
- slippery; shifty; lewd
- meretricious
- lacking sincerity; showy and shallow
- minatory
- threatening, menacing
- nadir
- low point
- nonplussed
- perplexed, bewildered
- palliate
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to lessen the effect of; make less severe
(esp. illness or crime) - pellucid
- transparent (light or meaning)
- peroration
-
summing up points in a conclusion;
a flowery, bombastic speech - plangent
- deep, loud, mournful sound
- puissance
- great strength or power
- salutary
- beneficial; heathful
- sententious
- marked by pompous moralizing; using truisms
- stentorian
- extremely loud and powerful
- tendentious
- biased