Flashcards: Barron's GRE Hi-Freq wds 6
All 53 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 rescind | cancel |
| resolution | determination |
| resolve | determination; firmness of purpose |
| reticent | reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence |
| reverent | respectful; worshipful |
| sage | person celebrated for wisdom |
| salubrious | healthful |
| sanction | approve; ratify |
| satiate | satisfy fully |
| saturate | soak thoroughly |
| savor | enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality |
| secrete | hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism |
| shard | fragment; generally of pottery |
| skeptic | doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view |
| solicious | worried, concerned |
| soporific | sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness |
| specious | seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional) |
| spectrum | colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism |
| sporadic | occurring irregularly |
| stigma | token of disgrace; brand |
| stint | be thrifty; set limits |
| stipulate | make express conditions, specify |
| stolid | dull; impassive |
| striated | marked with parallel bands; grooved |
| strut | pompous walk |
| strut | supporting bar |
| subpoena | writ summoning a witness to appear |
| subside | settle down; descend; grow quiet |
| substantiate | establish by evidence; verify; support |
| supersede | cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete |
| supposition | hypothesis; surmise |
| tacit | understood; not put into words |
| tangential | peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing |
| tenuous | thin; rare; slim |
| tirade | extended scolding; denunciation; harangue |
| torpor | lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy |
| tortuous | winding; full of curves |
| tractable | docile; easily managed |
| transgression | violation of a law; sin |
| truculence | aggressiveness; ferocity |
| vacillate | waver; fluctuate |
| venerate | revere |
| veracious | truthful |
| verbose | wordy |
| viable | practical or workable; capable of maintaining life |
| viscous | sticky, gluey |
| vituperative | abusive; scolding |
| volatile | changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly |
| warranted | justified; authorized |
| wary | very cautious |
| welter | turmoil; bewildering jumble |
| whimsical | capricious; fanciful |
| zealot | fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal |
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