GRE Beyond Hit Parade 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abjure | to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
| Adumbrate | to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
| Anathema | a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
| Anodyne | soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
| Apogee | farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
| Apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
| Apotheosis | deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection |
| Asperity | severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
| Asseverate | to aver, allege, or assert |
| Assiduous | diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
| Augury | omen, portent |
| Bellicose | belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
| Calumniate | to slander, to make false accusation |
| Captious | disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
| Cavil | to find fault without good reason |
| Celerity | speed, alacrity |
| Chimera | an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
| Contumacious | insubordinate, rebellious |
| Contumely | insult, scorn, aspersion |
| Debacle | rout, fiasco, complete failure |
| Denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
| Descry | to discriminate or discern |
| Desuetude | disuse |
| Desultory | random; aimless; marked by lack of plan or purpose |
| Diaphanous | transparent, gauzy |
| Diffident | reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
| Dirge | a song of grief or lamentation |
| Encomium | glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
| Eschew | to shun or avoid |
| Excoriate | to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
| Execrate | to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil |
| Exegesis | critical examination, explication |
| Expiate | to atone or make amends for |
| Extirpate | to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out |
| Fatuous | silly, inanely foolish |
| Fractious | quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
| Gainsay | to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose |
| Heterodox | unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
| Imbroglio | difficult or embarrassing situation |
| Indefatigable | not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged |
| Ineluctable | certain, inevitable |
| Inimitable | one of a kind, peerless |
| Insouciant | unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
| Inveterate | deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
| Jejune | vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile |
| Lubricious | lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
| Mendicant | a beggar, supplicant |
| Meretricious | cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show |
| Minatory | menacing, threatening (Minotaur) |
| Nadir | low point, perigee |
| Nonplussed | baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think |
| Obstreperous | noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
| Ossified | tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone |
| Palliate | to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
| Panegyric | formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
| Parsimonious | cheap, miserly |
| Pellucid | transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
| Peroration | the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
| Plangent | pounding, thundering, resounding |
| Prolix | long-winded, verbose |
| Propitiate | to appease; to conciliate |
| Puerile | childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
| Puissance | power, strength |
| Pusillanimous | cowardly, craven |
| Remonstrate | to protest, to object |
| Sagacious | having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage |
| Salacious | lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
| Salutary | remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
| Sanguine | cheerful, confident, optimistic |
| Saturnine | gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
| Sententious | aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
| Stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
| Stygian | gloomy, dark |
| Sycophant | toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite |
| Tendetious | biased; showing marked tendencies |
| Timorous | timid, fearful, diffident |
| Tyro | novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
| Vitiate | to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective |
| Voluble | fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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