GRE Hit Parade #2
Terms
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- abscond
- to steal off and hide
- ameliorate
- to make better
- austere
- very plain
- axiom
- universally recognized principle
- bucolic
- rustic and pastoral
- disabuse
- to set right; to undeceive
- effrontery
- extreme boldness
- ephemeral
- brief
- extemporaneous
- improvised
- fulminate
- to loudly attack
- hyperbole
- exaggerated statement
- oxcillation
- steady rhythm
- penurious
- penny pinching
- perfidy
- intentional treachery
- pernicious
- extremely harmful
- perspicacious
- acutely perceptive
- pious
- extremely religiously devoted
- precipitate
- acting impulsively
- predilection
- disposition in favor of something
- prolific
- producting large amounts
- reticent
- quiet & reserved
- sordid
- characterized by filth
- squalid
- wretched & dirty
- squander
- to use irresponsibly
- torpid
- lethargic
- ubiquitous
- existing everywhere at the same time
- veracity
- honesty
- vilify
- to defame
- virulent
- extremely harmful
- churlish
- vulgar; difficult
- coalesce
- to come together
- coeval
- coexisting
- commensurate
- matching; corresponding
- contemn
- to scorn; to despise
- contumacious
- insubordinate
- cozen
- to deceive
- curmudgeon
- hates people
- debacle
- complete failure
- defalcate
- to embezzle
- deposition
- build layer by later
- deprecate
- to put down; belittle
- depredate
- to destroy
- descant
- to comment at length
- descry
- to discriminate or discern
- desultude
- disuse
- desultory
- random; thoughtles
- detraction
- verbal attack
- diaphonous
- transparent
- diffident
- reserved or shy
- dilatory
- causing delay
- din
- loud sustained noise
- dirge
- songe of grief
- discomfit
- to defeat; to put down
- discursive
- passing from one topic to another
- distrait
- distracted
- doggerel
- trivial
- dross
- waste or foreign matter
- dulcet
- melodious
- edacious
- voracious; devouring
- effulvia
- outflow in stem of particles
- effusive
- excessively demonstrative
- egress
- exit
- encomium
- enthusiastic praise
- endemic
- restricted to a certain region
- epicure
- devoted to sensual pleasure
- episodic
- loosely connected
- epithet
- disparaging word/phrase
- eqaunimity
- compusure; self-possession