GRE hit parade #6
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50 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
| prize | to pry (a tool for raising/moving something by leverage), to press/fprce with a lever; taken by force |
| contumacious | insubordinate (not submitting to authority; disobedient), rebelliuos; scorn, aspercion (a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander) |
| meet | fitting, proper |
| desuetude | disuse, the state of being no longer used or practiced |
| scurvy | contemptible (deserving of contempt or scorn; worthless; despicable) |
| desultory | random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose, lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected |
| fractious | quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
| rail | to complain about bitterly |
| diaphanous | transparent, gauzy (like gauze; transparently thin and light) |
| puissance | power, strength |
| excoriate | to censure scathingly (harsh), to upbraid (to rebuke severely) |
| sap | a fool or nitwit (a stupid or silly person); to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
| mince | to soften, moderate, or weaken (one's words), esp. for the sake of decorum or courtesy; euphemize (To express in delicate language) |
| grouse | to complain or gumble |
| sycophant | toady, one who does distasteful or unprincipled things in order to gain favor, servile, self-seeking flatterer, parasite |
| fatuous | silly, inanely foolish |
| celerity | speed, alacrity; think |
| acumen | quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight |
| aver | to state as fact; to confirm or support |
| dissemble | to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
| eccentric | departing from norms or conventions |
| exacerbate | to make worse or more severe |
| hedonism | devotion to pleasurable persuits |
| hegemony | the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others; leadership; predominance |
| iconoclast | one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
| impassive | revealing no emotion |
| impunity | immunity from punishment or penalty |
| inchoate | in an initial stage; not fully formed |
| infelicitous | unfortunate; inappropriate |
| mitigate | to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
| occlude | to obstruct or block |
| pedagogy | profession of teaching |
| penury | poverty; destitution |
| pith | the important, essential or central part; essence; core; heart |
| pithy | precise and brief |
| platitude | a superficial, a flat, dull, or trite remark offered as meaningful |
| plummet | to plunge or drop down; something that weighs down or depresses |
| prodigal | recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse (spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant ); lavish (using or giving in great amounts) |
| profuse | spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant |
| querrulous | prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
| rescind | to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
| specious | seemingly true but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
| spurious | lacking authensity or valitdity; false; counterfeit; forged |
| forge | to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape |
| succinct | brief; concise |
| surfeit | excess; overindulgence |
| tenacity | the quality of adherence or persistance to something valued |
| tirade | a long extremely critical speech; a harsh denounciation |
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