GRE Verbal Workout Extra Vocab 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 mendicant | (noun) a beggar |
| motility | (noun) spontaneous movement |
| noisome | (adj) offensive or disgusting; stinking; noxious |
| nominal | (adj) in name only; insignificant |
| novel | (adj) new; original |
| oblique | (adj) indirect; at an angle |
| palliate | (verb) to make less severe or intense; to make an offense seem less serious |
| panacea | (noun) something that cures everything |
| paradigm | (noun) a model or example |
| paradox | (noun) a true statement or phenomenon that seems to contradict itself |
| parsimonious | (adj) stingy; miserly |
| partisan | (adj) having a bias in support of a party, group, or cause |
| partisan | (noun) one who supports a particular party, group, or cause |
| patina | (noun) surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation |
| paucity | (noun) scarcity |
| pedestrian | (adj) unoriginal; banal |
| perturb | (verb) to disturb greatly |
| piquant | (adj) pleasantly pungent or tart |
| placid | (adj) pleasantly calm; peaceful |
| plaintive | (adj) expressing sadness or sorrow |
| plumb | (verb) to measure the depth of something |
| portent | (noun) an omen; a sign of something coming in the future |
| precipitous | (adj) steep |
| predilection | (noun) a natural preference for something |
| presage | (verb) to portend; to foreshadow; to forecast or predict |
| privation | (noun) lack of comforts or necessities; poverty |
| provincial | (adj) limited in outlook to one's own small corner of the world; narrow |
| prurient | (adj) having lustful thoughts or desires; causing lust |
| putative | (adj) commonly accepted; supposed; reputed |
| quay | (noun) a landing on the edge of the water; wharf; pier |
| queue | (noun) a line of waiting people or things |
| queue | (verb) to get in line |
| quintessential | (adj) being the most perfect example of |
| rampart | (noun) a fortification; a bulwark of defense |
| redolent | (adj) fragrant; aromatic; suggestive or reminiscent |
| remonstrate | (verb) to argue against; to protest; to raise objections |
| remuneration | (noun) payment; recompense |
| renaissance | (noun) a rebirth or revival |
| replete | (adj) completely filled; abounding |
| reproach | (verb) to scold, usually in disappointment; to blame; to disgrace |
| reprobate | (noun) a wicked, sinful, depraved person |
| reprove | (verb) to criticize mildly |
| respite | (noun) a period of rest or relief |
| ribald | (adj) characterized by vulgar, lewd humor |
| sagacious | (adj) wise |
| sagacity | (noun) wisdom |
| sage | (noun) a wise person |
| salutary | (adj) healthful; remedial; wholesome |
| sanguine | (adj) cheerful; optimistic; hopeful |
| surreptitious | (adj) sneaky; secret |
| sycophant | (noun) one who sucks up to others; a servile, self-seeking flatterer |
| taciturn | (adj) untalkative by nature |
| temerity | (noun) recklessness; audacity; foolhardy disregard of danger |
| turpitude | (noun) shameful wickedness or depravity |
| unalloyed | (adj) undiluted; pure |
| usury | (noun) lending money at an extremely high rate of interest |
| venal | (adj) capable of being bribed; corrupt |
| verdant | (adj) covered with green plants; leafy; inexperienced |
| vestige | (noun) a remaining bit of something; a last trace |
| vitiate | (verb) to make faulty or defective; impair; to corrupt morally |
| wizened | (adj) shriveled; withered; shrunken |
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