More GRE Practice Words #3
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Catalan | English |
|---|---|
| edify |  instruct, correct morally |
| emboss | produce a design in raised relief |
| emetic | substance causing vomiting |
| emolument | salary, compensation |
| enclave | territory enclosed within an alien land |
| encomiastic | praising eulogistic |
| enfranchise | admit the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote) |
| enrapture | please intensely |
| entrance | put under a spell, carry away with emotion |
| environ | enclose, surround |
| epicure | connoisseur of food and drink |
| epigram | witty thought or saying, usually short |
| episodic | loosely connected |
| euphony | sweet sound |
| evanescent | fleeting, vanishing |
| exhume | dig out of the ground |
| exiguous | small, minute |
| expropriate | take possession of |
| expunge | cancel, remove |
| expurgate | clean |
| facsimile | copy |
| factious | incline to form factions, causing dissension |
| fancier | breeder or dealer of animals |
| fete | honor at a festival |
| firebrand | hothead, troublemaker |
| foible | weakness |
| fop | dandy, man excessively preoccupied with his clothes |
| ford | place where a river can be crossed on foot |
| fritter | waste |
| fructify | bear fruit |
| functionary | official |
| funereal | sad, solemn |
| fusillade | simultaneous firing or outburst of missiles, questions, etc |
| gadfly | animal-biting fly, an irritating person |
| gall | annoy, chafe |
| galvanize | stimulate buy shock, stir up, revitalize |
| gamut | entire range |
| gavel | hammerlike tool, mallet |
| gerontocracy | governemtn ruled by old people |
| glean | gather leavings |
| gourmand | epicure: person who takes excessive pleasure in food and rink |
| grotto | small cavern |
| gull | trick, hoodwink |
| guy | cable or chain attached to something that needs to be braced or steadied |
| gyroscope | apparatus used to maintain balance, ascertain direction, etc |
| hale | healthy |
| hermitage | home of a hermit |
| hibernal | wintry |
| hinterlands | back country |
| hoary | white with age |
| hydrophobia | fear of water, rabies |
| hypocritical | pretending to be virtuous, deciving |
| impasse | predicament from which there is no escape |
| impiety | irreverence, lack of respect for God |
| impolitic | not wise |
| importune | beg persistently |
| improvident | thriftless |
| inculcate | teach |
| indelible | not able to be erased |
| indices | signs, indications |
| indite | write, compose |
| inimical | unfriendly, hostile, harmful, detrimental |
| insensate | without feeling |
| jettison | throw overboard |
| laity | laypersons; persons not connected with the clergy |
| larder | pantry, place where food is kept |
| largess | generous girft |
| legerdemain | sleigh of hand |
| leonine | like a lion |
| lien | legal claim on a property |
| ligneous | like wood |
| lionize | treat as a celebrity |
| list | tilt, lean over |
| lode | metal bearing vein |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| lumen | unit of light energy |
| mace | ceremonial staff, clublike medieval weapon |
| macerate | soften by soaking in liquid, waste away |
| maculated | spotted, stained |
| madrigal | pastoral song |
| magniloquent | boastful, pompous |
| malapropism | comic misuse of a word |
| mannered | affected, not natural |
| martinet | strict disciplinarian |
| masticate | chew |
| maudlin | effusively sentimental |
| mealymouthed | indirect in speech, hypocritical, evasive |
| misogamy | hatred of marriage |
| modish | fashionable |
| molt | shed or cast off hair or feathers |
| mordant | biting, sarcastic, stinging |
| moribund | dying |
| mote | small speck |
| mountebank | charlatan, boastful pretender |
| mulct | defraud a person of something |
| natation | swimming |
| natty | neatly or smartly dressed |
| nib | beak, pen point |
| nicety | precision, minute distinction |
| niggardly | meanly stingy, parsimonious |
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