Flashcards: GRE Words
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French | English |
|---|---|
 nascent | beginning to exist or develop |
| fetor | strong, offensive smell; stench |
| surrogate | substitute |
| hail | to acclaim; approve enthusiastically |
| hemorrhage | to lose assets, esp. in large amounts |
| fief | a territory held in fee |
| beset | to attack on all sides; assail; harass |
| quell | to suppress; put an end to; extinguish |
| furor | fury, rage, madness |
| fold | to envelope or confine |
| milieu | environment; setting |
| epitomized | typified; characterized; personified |
| scuttlebutt | gossip, rumor |
| flummox | to bewilder; confound; confuse |
| shrill | marked by great intensity; keen |
| hew | to uphold, follow closely, or conform |
| fettle | state; condition |
| provision | to supply with needed items |
| pong | an unpleasant smell; stink |
| towrope | a rope used in towing boats |
| fugacious | lasting but a short time; fleeting |
| divest | to rid or free from |
| acrid | harsh, bitter |
| acrimony | bitterness, animosity |
| aggregate | collective mass or sum; total |
| perambulator | a baby carriage |
| diaphanous | allowing light to pass through |
| capricious | whimsical; changeable |
| clinch | to settle decisively |
| cusp | a point or pointed end |
| legerdemain | slight of hand |
| fractious | refractory or unruly |
| antipode | a direct or exact opposite |
| bifurcate | to divide or fork into two branches. |
| biped | a two footed animal |
| bursary | the treasury of a monastery. |
| charnel | a repository for dead bodies. |
| hauteur | haughtiness; arrogance |
| cession | act of ceding, as by treaty |
| chromatic | pertaining to color or colors. |
| expatiate | to speak or write at length |
| circumspect | watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent |
| countermand | to revoke or cancel (a command, order, etc.) |
| concord | agreement between persons, groups, nations, etc.; concurrence in attitudes, feelings, etc.; unanimity; accord |
| corpulent | large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat |
| corpuscle | an unattached cell, esp. of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell |
| cosmonaut | a Russian or Soviet astronaut |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity |
| inculpate | to charge with fault; blame; accuse |
| incubus | an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons, esp. one fabled to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep. |
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