GRE Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ebb | to reduce in amount or severity |
| Relent | to become less severe, soften |
| Lapse | to reduce in amount, severity |
| Ennoble | to elevate, to raise in rank |
| Wax | To increase in power, and reputation |
| Apotheosize | to elevate to divine status |
| Augment | to increase in power, and reputation |
| Allay | to make more bearable |
| Assuage | to make more bearable |
| Palliate | to make more bearable |
| Commingle | To mix |
| Commix | to mix |
| Equivocal | doubtful; can be misinterpreted, ambiguous |
| Pacify | to make better |
| Lassitude | lack of interest/emotion |
| Phlegm | lack of interest/emotion |
| Listlessness | lack of interest/emotion |
| Bygone | archaic |
| Outmoded | archaic |
| Antediluvian | archaic |
| Passe | archaic |
| Conciliate | make compatible with; make something unpleasant less severe |
| Assuage | make something unpleasant less severe |
| Propitiate | make something unpleasant less severe |
| Palliate | make something unpleasant less severe |
| Mollify | make something unpleasant less severe |
| Placate | make something unpleasant less severe |
| Attenuate | to reduce in force or degree; weaken |
| Sap | to reduce in force or degree; weaken |
| Devitalize | to reduce in force or degree; weaken |
| Enfeeble | to reduce in force or degree; weaken |
| Doughty | audacious |
| Dour | stern |
| Innocuous | not causing disapproval |
| Quotidian | cliched |
| Bromidic | dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality |
| Fatuous | predictable, cliched |
| Platitudinous | predictable, cliched |
| Hackneyed | predictable, cliched |
| Jejune | predictable, cliched |
| Prosaic | predictable, cliched |
| Grandiloquent | pompous |
| Magniloquent | pompous |
| Declamatory | pompous |
| Orotund | pompous |
| Fustian | pompous |
| Din | harsh noise |
| Trenchant | biting in wit |
| Mordant | biting in wit |
| Pettifoggery | deception by means of craft or guile |
| Subterfuge | deception by means of craft or guile |
| Buttress | support |
| Corroborate | provide supporting evidence |
| Obeisance | respect |
| Gibe | Mockery |
| Desultory | Jumping from one thing to another |
| Fulmination | Condemnatory speech |
| Harangue | Condemnatory speech |
| Malediction | Condemnatory speech |
| Invective | Condemnatory speech |
| Obloquy | Condemnatory speech |
| Jeremiad | Condemnatory speech |
| Demure | lacking self-confidence |
| Coy | lacking self-confidence |
| Expatiate | to expand |
| Flagging | intending to delay |
| Laggard | intending to delay |
| Tyro | someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
| Dabbler | someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
| Espy | to perceive |
| Descry | to perceive |
| Dissension | harsh sounds |
| Dissent | harsh sounds |
| Peremptory | dictatorial in one's opinion |
| Cozen | Dupe |
| Ape | to copy |
| Evasive | to use expressions of double meaning |
| Equivocate | to use expressions of double meaning |
| Arcane | understood by few |
| Abstruse | understood by few |
| Meritorious | admirable |
| Circumlocution | euphemism |
| whitewash | euphemism |
| Boot-lick | fawn |
| Pander | fawn |
| Frenzied | Fanatical |
| Toady | fawn |
| Parsimony | to be thrifty |
| Foment | to arouse |
| Rococo | excessively decorated |
| Loquacious | talking a lot |
| Congenial | sociable |
| Connivery | deceit |
| Maverick | one who opposes beliefs |
| Impetuous | quick to act without thinking |
| Implacable | unable to be calmed down |
| Inexorable | unable to be calmed down |
| Amorphous | not full formed |
| Inchoate | not fully formed |
| Artless | innocence |
| Ingenuous | showing innocence |
| Recalcitrant | hostile |
| Inimical | hostile |
| Inexorable | uncompromising |
| Irascible | easily made angry |
| Cantankerous | easily made angry |
| Terse | using few words |
| Deplore | lament |
| Torpid | lethargic |
| Opulent | lavish |
| Limpid | clear |
| Resplendent | sublime |
| Scrupulous | extremely careful |
| Mollify | to lessen |
| Palliate | to lessen |
| Assuage | to lessen |
| Ingenuous | lacking experience |
| Tenacious | hardened in feeling |
| Recalcitrant | hardened in feeling |
| Mulish | obstinate |
| Tenacious | stubborn |
| Pertinacious | Stubborn |
| Disrepute | public disgrace |
| Ignominy | public disgrace |
| Infamy | public disgrace |
| Arduous | burdensome |
| Exacting | burdensome |
| Servile | overly submissive |
| subservient | overly submissive |
| conspicuousness | excessive showiness |
| Apotheosis | model of excellence |
| altruism | charity |
| Surfeit | excess |
| Superfluity | excess |
| Suffuse | to penetrate |
| Imbue | to penetrate |
| Traitorous | willing to betray tust |
| Prevaricate | to lie |
| Profligate | lavish |
| Placate | to appease |
| Circumspection | wisdom |
| Poignant | pungent |
| Piquant | pungent |
| Repudiate | reject the validity of |
| Taciturn | silent |
| Undemonstrative | silent |
| cloy | satiate |
| Surfeit | satiate |
| Somnolent | causing sleep |
| Slumberous | causing sleep |
| Spurious | deceptively attractive |
| Ostensible | deceptively attractive |
| Opprobrium | mark of shame |
| Phlegmatic | unemotional |
| August | grand |
| Regal | grand |
| resplendent | grand |
| unuttered | done without using words |
| Fulmination | harsh speech |
| Revilement | harsh speech |
| Vilification | harsh speech |
| Harangue | harsh speech |
| languor | physical and mental sluggishness |
| Ephemeral | temporary |
| Evanescent | temporary |
| Vacillate | sway |
| Probity | truthfulness |
| Exactitude | truthfulness |
| Superfluous | wordy |
| Prolix | wordy |
| Chafe | annoy |
| Nettle | annoy |
| Dither | waver |
| ardency | zeal |
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