Flashcards: 52 Most Common GRE Words (33-52)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Advocate | (v) To aid the cause of by approving or favoring: back, champion, endorse, get behind, plump for, recommend, side with, stand behind, stand by, support, uphold. Idioms: align oneself with, go to bat for, take the part of |
| Antipathy | (n) Extreme hostility and dislike: abhorrence, abomination, aversion, detestation, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repugnancy, repulsion, revulsion. |
| Bolster | (v) To keep from yielding or failing during stress or difficulty: buoy (up), prop, support, sustain, uphold |
| Cacophony | (n) Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
| Deride | (v) To make fun or make fun of: gibe, jeer, jest, laugh, mock, ridicule, scoff, scout, twit |
| Dissonance | (n) A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord |
| Enervate | (v) To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: attenuate, debilitate, devitalize, enfeeble, sap, undermine, undo, unnerve, weaken |
| Eulogy | (n) A laudatory speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died |
| Garrulous | (adj) Given to conversation: chatty, conversational, loquacious, talkative, talky, voluble |
| Ingenuous | (adj) Free from guile, cunning, or deceit: artless, guileless, innocent, naive, natural, simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly |
| Lethargic | (adj) Lacking mental and physical alertness and activity: hebetudinous, sluggish, stupid, stuporous, torpid |
| Malleable | (adj) Capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out, as by hammering or pressure: ductile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, supple, workable |
| Misanthrope | (n) A person who dislikes others |
| Obdurate | (adj) Completely lacking in compassion: callous, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, compassionless, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, stonyhearted, unfeeling |
| Ostentation | (n) Boastful self-importance or display: grandioseness, grandiosity, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, pretentiousness |
| Paradox | (n) A contradiction or dilemma |
| Philanthropic | (adj) Of or concerned with charity: altruistic, benevolent, charitable, eleemosynary |
| Prevaricate | (v) To stray from or evade the truth: equivocate, palter, shuffle |
| Venerate | (v) To regard with respect, reverence, or heartfelt deference: adore, idolize, revere |
| Waver | (v) To exhibit irresolution or indecision: vacillate, swing |
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