GRE Set 1
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PutrBug919 on September 18, 2009
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58 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abscond | to run off and hide |
| aberrant | deviating from the norm |
| alacrity | liveliness and eagerness |
| approbation | official recognition or approval |
| austere | without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
| axiomatic | self-evident truth |
| canonical | following an agreement |
| capricious | change one's mind erratically |
| censure | criticize, officially rebuke |
| chicanery | trickery |
| convoluted | complex |
| disabuse | to undeceive, to set right |
| discordant | conflicting, dissonant |
| disparate | distinct, different |
| effrontery | extreme blodness, presumptuousness |
| enervate | weaken, reduce in vitality |
| ennui | restlessness from boredom, apathy |
| equivocate | use language purposefully to deceive |
| erudite | scholarly |
| exculpate | to clear of blame |
| exigent | urgent, a pressing matter |
| extemporaneous | improvised |
| fulminate | to loudly attack or denounce |
| ingenuous | frank, lacking in sophistication |
| inured | accepting something undesirable |
| irascible | easily angered |
| laud | to praise highly |
| lucid | clear, easily understood |
| magnanimity | personality trait of being noble in mind and heart |
| nascent | coming into being |
| neologism | new term |
| noxious | harmful, injurious |
| obviate | to anticipate and make unnecessary |
| onerous | troublesome, burdensome |
| paean | psalm; hymn |
| perennial | year round |
| perfidy | treachery |
| perfunctory | cursory, done without care or interest |
| perspicacious | perceptive |
| prattle | filibuster, idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
| precipitate | acting with haste |
| predilection | preference |
| prescience | knowing events before they happen |
| prevaricate | to avoid the truth |
| qualms | misgivings |
| relegate | forcibly assign to lower ranks |
| reticent | quiet, reserved |
| solicitous | concerned and attentive |
| sordid | characterized by filthe and grime |
| stupefy | to amaze, baffle |
| stymie | to block |
| synthesis | combination to make a whole |
| tortuous | winding, twisting |
| truculent | fierce and cruel |
| veracity | truthfulness, honesty |
| virulent | extremely harmful or poisonous |
| voracious | ravenous, "a slave to..." |
| waver | to move to and fro, to sway |
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