GRE Vocab 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ardor | intense and passionate feeling (devotion, enthusiasm, fervency, fervidity, fervidness, fervor, fire, passion, zeal, zealousness) |
| articulate | able to speak clearly and expressively (eloquent, expressive, fluent, lucid, silver-tongues, smooth-spoken) |
| assuage | to make something unpleasant less severe (allay, alleviate, appease, comfort, conciliate, ease, lighten, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, relieve, soothe, sweeten) |
| attenuate | to reduce in force or degree; to weaken (debilitate, devitalize, dilute, enervate, enfeeble, rarefy, sap, thin, undermine, undo, unnerve, water, weaken) |
| audacious | fearless and daring (adventuresome, aggressive, assertive, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, game, heroic, intrepid, mettlesome, plucky, stout, stouthearted, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, venturous) |
| austere | severe or stern in appearance; undecorated (bleak, dour, grim, hard, harsh, severe) |
| banal | predictable, cliched, boring (bland, bromidic, cliched, commonplace, fatuous, hackneyed, innocuous, insipid, jejune, musty, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, shopworn, stale, stereotypic, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, vapid, worn-out) |
| bolster | to support; to prop up (brace, buttress, prop, support, sustain, underpin, uphold) |
| bombastic | pompous in speech and manner (bloated, declamatory, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, magniloquent, orotund, pretentious, rhetorical, self-important) |
| cacophony | harsh, jarring noise (discord, chaos, disharmony, noise, clamor, din) |
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