GRE Hit Parade 4 Trouble Words
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41 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| acerbic |  (adj) having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting |
| aggrandize | (verb) to increase in intensity, power, influence or prestige |
| amenable | (adj) agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
| astringent | (adj/noun) having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue |
| credulous | (adj) tending to believe too readily; gullible |
| decorum | (noun) polite or appropriate conduct or behavior |
| derision | (noun) scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
| desiccate | (verb) to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
| dilettante | (noun) one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
| flout | (verb) to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
| garrulous | (adj) pointlessly talkative, talking too much |
| glib | (adj) marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
| inimical | (adj) damaging; harmful; injurious |
| intractable | (adj) not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
| intrepid | (adj) steadfast and courageous |
| laconic | (adj) using few words; terse |
| mercurial | (adj) characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
| mollify | (verb) to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
| obfuscate | (verb) to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
| ostentatious | (adj) characterized by or given to pretentious display; showy |
| phlegmatic | (adj) calm; sluggish; unemotional |
| plethora | (noun) an overabundance; a surplus |
| presumptuous | (adj) overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); talking liberties |
| probity | (noun) adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
| profligate | (adj) excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
| prosaic | (adj) dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
| quotidian | (adj) occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
| rarefy | (verb) to make or become thin. less dense; to refine |
| recondite | (adj) hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
| refulgent | (adj) radiant; shiny; brilliant |
| sedulous | (adj) diligent; persistent; hard-working |
| soporific | (adj) causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
| spendthrift | (noun) one who spends money wastefully |
| tout | (verb) to publicly praise or promote |
| trenchant | (adj) sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
| untenable | (adj) indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
| vacillate | (verb) to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; waver |
| variegated | (adj) multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
| vexation | (noun) annoyance; irritation |
| vituperate | (verb) to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate |
| volatile | (adj) readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive |
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