Flashcards: MAT Word List (1)
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Created by:
skittinger on August 12, 2008
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miller's anology, gre, test prep
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Word sets from the Princeton Review MAT study guide
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 aberration | not typical, deviation from the standard |
| abstemious | sparing when eating |
| abstinent | volutarily not doing something |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| acclaim | praise or admiration |
| accolade | an award, high praise |
| accrete | to increase in growth |
| acquiesce | to give in or agree |
| acute | sharp or shrewd |
| alacrity | eagerness or liveliness |
| allocate | to distribute |
| allusion | indirect reference or hint in literature |
| amass | accumulate |
| ambiguous | unclear in meaning or confusing |
| ambivalent | undecided; blowing hot or cold |
| ambulatory | walking |
| ameliorate | to make tolerable |
| amiable | friendly |
| amity | friendship |
| anecdote | brief entertaining story |
| anomaly | abberation or deviation |
| antipathy | firm dislike or hatred |
| apathy | lack of emotion |
| apocryphal | false or doubtful origin |
| appease | soothe or pacify by giving in |
| arbiter | one who decides or a judge |
| arid | dry or dull |
| ascetic | hermitlike or practicing self-denial |
| assiduous | hardworking; busy; dilligent |
| assauge | to soothe or pacify (pain) |
| astute | perceptive; intelligent |
| audacity | boldness or reckless daring |
| augment | to make bigger |
| auspicious | promising or pointing to a good result |
| austere | stern, forbidding, without much money |
| authoritarian | dictator like |
| axiom | widely accepted saying |
| baleful | menacing or harmful |
| banal | ordinary |
| bastion | fortified place |
| beget | to cause or produce |
| belligerent | quarrelsome; waging war |
| benefactor | generous donor |
| beneficent | doing good |
| benevolent | kind hearted, generous |
| benign | gentle, not harmful, kind |
| bereave | to deprive or leave desolate regarding death |
| bias | prejudice, tendency, tilt |
| blithe | carefree or cheerful |
| brawn | bulk or muscles |
| brevity | briefness |
| brook | to tolerate something |
| cacophony | harsh-sounding mixture of words or sounds |
| cajole | to persuade someone to do something they don't want to do |
| candid | honest |
| capricious | likely to change at any moment, unpredictable |
| caustic | like acid or corrosive |
| censure | to condemn for doing bad |
| chronology | order of events |
| circumlocution | an indirect expression or wordy language |
| coalesce | to fuse or come together as one |
| coda | a passage at the end of a musical composition |
| cognizant | perceptive or observant |
| complacent | smug, pleased with oneself, or content to a fault |
| compliant | yielding; submissive |
| concillatory | making peace |
| congenial | agreeable suitable, pleasant |
| conjure | to summon |
| connoisseur | an expert in matters of art or taste |
| consensus | unanimity |
| conspicious | standing out or obvious |
| contempt | reproachful disdain |
| contentious | argumentative |
| contrite | remorseful |
| contumacious | stubbornly rebellious or disobedient |
| conundrum | a puzzle/riddle |
| conventional | common or customary |
| correlate | to find the relationship of two things |
| corroborate | to confirm |
| credulous | believing |
| cryptic | mysterious or mystifying |
| dearth | lack of or scarcity |
| debacle | sudden overthrow |
| debauchery | intemperance or wild living |
| decorous | good taste or orderly |
| deference | respect or courtesy |
| deleterious | harmful |
| denounce | to condemn |
| deplete | to use up or reduce |
| depravity | moral corruption |
| deride | to ridicule |
| desecrate | to make a place unholy |
| dessicate | to dry out |
| deter | to prevent or stop |
| didactic | instructive |
| diffident | timid or low self-esteem |
| digress | to go off topic |
| diligent | hardworking |
| disavow | deny |
| discernment | to see things clearly |
| discomfit | to confuse, frustrate, or deceive |
| discord | disagreement (opposite of concord) |
| discourse | to converse or discuss a subject |
| disdain | arrogant scorn or contempt |
| disinterested | unbiased |
| disparage | to belittle or talk about someone in an uncomplimentary way |
| disparate | different or incompatible |
| dispassionate | without passion or neutral |
| disseminate | to scatter or spreak widely |
| dissent | disagreement |
| dissonant | in disagrement |
| divergent | differing in opinion or deviating |
| diverse | varied |
| divert | to change course or amuse |
| doggerel | comic or loose verse |
| dogmatic | arrogantly claiming something is beyond dispute (of a belief system) |
| drone | to talk on in a dull way |
| dubious | doubtful or uncertain |
| eclectic | drawing from many sources |
| economical | frugal |
| efface | to erase or rub away the features |
| effluvium | noxious vapor or escaping gas |
| elusive | hard to pin down or evasive |
| engender | to create or produce |
| enigma | mystery |
| enthrall | to thrill |
| ephemeral | short lived or fleeting |
| equivocal | ambiguous, intentionally confusing |
| erratic | wandering or unpredictable |
| erudite | scholarly or deeply learned |
| esoteric | hard to understand, peculiar |
| euphony | pleasant sound |
| evanscent | vanishing or fading |
| exemplary | setting a good example |
| exemplify | to serve as an example |
| exhaustive | thorough or complete |
| exigent | urgent |
| exonerate | to free completely from blame |
| exorbitance | an exceeding large amount |
| expedient | providing an immediate advantage |
| expedite | to make faster or easier |
| exposition | expouding or explaining |
| extol | to praise |
| extraneous | irrelevant or extra |
| exuberant | extremely joyful or profuse in growth |
| facetious | humorous, clumsily humorous |
| facilitate | to make easier |
| fallacious | false |
| fanatic | extremely devoted to a cause or idea |
| fastidious | meticulous or demanding |