GRE 7
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- incredulous
- withholding belief; showing disbelief; skeptical
- suppurate
- to form or discharge pus
- congenital
- of or pertaining to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment; having aby nature a specified character
- fain
- gladly
- mulct
- defraud a person of something; swindle
- quisling
- traitor who aids invaders
- eclat
- brilliant or conspicuous success
- monastic
- relating to monks; removed from worldly concerns
- functionary
- person with official duties
- impugn
- attack as false or questionable; challenge; gainsay
- barb
- openly cutting remark
- cabal
- small group of people secretly united to promote their own interests
- juggernaut
- overwhelming advancing force that crushed everything in its path
- array
- align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
- junta
- group of military officers ruling a country after seizing power
- sylph
- a slender, graceful woman or girl
- baroque
- highly ornate
- solicitous
- anxious; worried; concerned; eager
- coterie
- group that meets socially; select circle
- flotilla
- a fleet of ships; an indefinite large number
- predicate
- to proclaim, declare, affirm, assert; to connote or imply; to base (one's actions on)
- incur
- bring upon oneself
- ellipsis
- omission of words from a text
- exscind
- to cut out, cut away
- junket
- trip taken for pleasure by a public official
- aviary
- enclosure for birds; large cage
- bedizen
- dress or adorn in a gaudy manner
- topography
- a description or an analysis of a structured entity, showing the relations among its components
- moribund
- dying; at the point of death
- motile
- able to move spontaneously
- crone
- hag; ugly old woman
- bedraggle
- wet thoroughly
- somnolent
- half-asleep; drowsy
- edacious
- devouring; voracious; consuming
- flak
- anti-aircraft guns; criticism
- solecism
- nonstandard grammatical construction; violation of etiquette
- goldbrick
- to shirk duty or responsibility
- encomiastic
- praising; eulogistic
- pinion
- restrain and immobilize by binding the wings or legs
- jingoist
- extremely aggressive and warlike patriot
- bacchanal
- noisy party with a lot of drinking
- crabbed
- peevish; difficult to read as handwriting
- funk
- to draw back as with fear or pain
- environ
- enclose; surround
- plaudit
- praise; enthusiastic approval; round of applause
- incidental
- not essential; minor
- misogamy
- hatred of marriage
- smattering
- a slight or superficial understanding of a subject
- minutiae
- petty or trivial details
- pillory
- punish by placing in a wooden frame; subject to criticism or ridicule
- hydrophobia
- an acute viral disease of the nervous system; madness
- baleful
- evil; malignant; deadly; threatening; ominous
- quicksilver
- mercury
- backslide
- revert (to bad habits)
- arrogate
- to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right; to attribute or assign to another; ascribe
- frowzy
- dirty and untidy; slovenly; ill-smelling; musty
- avocation
- secondary or minor occupation
- morphology
- the form or structure of anything; word formation
- convoke
- call together
- fustian
- pompous; bombastic
- millennium
- hopeful period of happiness and prosperity
- slake
- quench; sate
- incontinent
- lacking self-restraint; licentious
- piquant
- pleasantly tart-tasting; spicy; pleasantly stimulating
- soliloquy
- monologue; long speech manipulating a conversation
- bandy
- discuss lightly and glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
- epicurean
- believing that pleasure is good and suffering is bad and should be avoided
- disarticulate
- to make or become disjointed, as the bones of a body or stems of a plant
- jetsam
- things thrown from a ship to lighten the load
- worldling
- a person devoted to the interests and pleasures of this world; a worldly person
- plane
- carpenter's tool for smoothing and leveling wood
- copacetic
- completely satisfactory
- galley
- long flat ship, usu rowed by slaves or criminals; a kitchen in a ship; a long, narrow tray, usually of metal, for holding type that has been set
- incursion
- temporary invasion
- gestalt
- a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its part
- emblazon
- ornament richly
- awl
- pointed tool used for piercing
- echelon
- an arrangement of a body of troops; a level of responsibility or authority in a hierarchy; a rank
- philology
- the study of language and words
- hearken
- to give heed or attention to what is said; listen
- bane
- poison; cause of ruin
- cornice
- projecting molding on a building
- emetic
- substance causing vomiting
- ramble
- a stroll; a promenade
- kismet
- fate; destiny
- importune
- beg repeatedly; make requests (in an annoying way)
- guy
- rope or chain used to keep something steady or secured, e.g. to hold a tent in place
- barrack
- shout boisterously for or against a team; building in which troops are lodged
- enjoin
- command; order; forbid
- jaundiced
- affected with prejudice, envy, hostility, or bias
- quietude
- tranquility; calmness
- aureole
- bright circle of light; halo; the sun's corona
- mettle
- courage to continue bravely in a difficult situation
- quash
- crush; suppress; squash
- allay
- to satisfy (a thirst); to assuage
- sleight
- dexterity; quickness of the hands in doing tricks
- bromide
- a platitude or trite saying; a person who is platitudinous and boring
- ensconce
- settle comfortably; place comfortably (in a secure place)
- emboss
- produce a design in raised relief
- improvident
- thriftless; not providing for the future
- knell
- tolling of a bell, especially to indicate a funeral or disaster
- fission
- splitting or division (esp. of cells)
- awry
- distorted; crooked; bent
- betoken
- signify; indicate; be a sign of
- contusion
- bruise
- ego
- the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment
- benediction
- blessing
- agonist
- a person engaged in a contest, conflict, struggle, etc., esp. the protagonist in a literary work; a person who is torn by inner conflict
- behemoth
- huge creature; something of monstrous size or power
- cathect
- to invest emotion or feeling in (an idea, object, or another person)
- plenary
- (of power) complete; full; fully attended by all qualified members
- metropolitan
- pertaining to or constituting a mother country
- mountebank
- charlatan; boastful pretender
- recriminate
- to bring a countercharge against an accuser
- balmy
- soft and mild (of air); fragrant
- mordant
- bitingly sarcastic; stinging; cutting; incisive
- jibe
- agree; be in harmony with
- shoal
- a place where a sea, river, or body of water is shallow
- sluggard
- lazy person
- grok
- get the meaning of something; dig; grasp
- ken
- range of knowledge
- bastion
- stronghold; something seen as a source of protection
- enclave
- territory enclosed within an alien land
- contumacious
- stubborn and disobedient
- electorate
- the body of qualified voters
- modish
- fashionable; conforming to the current fashion
- bauble
- trinket; cheap jewel; trifle
- belabor
- harp on; assail verbally; beat severely
- jocose
- given to joking (jocUND = merry)
- serried
- (of people) pressed together or compacted
- beleager
- besiege or attack (with an army); beset; harass
- ensign
- flag; badge
- incantation
- singing or chanting of magic spells; magic formula
- oneirism
- absentminded dreaming while awake
- belie
- contradict; give a false impression; disguise
- rectitude
- rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue; correctness
- benison
- blessing
- apologue
- a didactic narrative; a moral fable; an allegory
- corollary
- natural consequence
- sojourn
- temporary stay
- imponderable
- weightless; unable to undergo precise evaluation
- epicure
- connoisseur of food and drink; gourmet
- somatic
- pertaining to the body; physical
- froward
- intractable, not willing to yield or comply, stubborn
- knave
- untrustworthy person; rogue; scoundrel
- militia
- army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers
- inamorata
- woman whom a man loves
- gall
- to make sore by rubbing; chafe severely; to vex greatly
- whet
- to sharpen by grinding; to make keen and eager; stimulate
- quorum
- minimum number of members necessary to conduct a meeting
- piebald
- of different colours; mottled; spotted with different colours
- emolument
- salary; payment for an office
- countermand
- cancel; revoke (an order)
- physiognomy
- the face; the art of judging human character from the face
- moiety
- half; one of the portions into which something is divided
- impugn
- to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon
- sonorous
- producing sound; producing a full, deep sound
- coup
- highly successful action or sudden attack
- endue
- provide with some quality; endow
- smolder
- be liable to break out at any moment
- quintessence
- purest and highest embodiment; perfect example
- impregnable
- invulnerable; impossible to enter by force
- badinage
- teasing conversation; banter; joking talk
- slovenly
- untidy; careless in work habits
- sodden
- soaked; dull or stupid as if from drink
- beset
- harass or trouble from all directions
- culvert
- artificial channel for water (passing under a road)
- rapprochement
- an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations
- sleeper
- one that achieves unexpected success
- kernel
- central or vital part; core
- disquisition
- a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation
- plebiscite
- direct vote by all of the electorate
- jurisprudence
- the science of law
- pharisaical
- self-righteous; hypocritical
- adduce
- to advance evidence for
- foundry
- an establishment for producing castings in molten metal
- cordon
- extended line of men or fortifications