GRE vocab 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Avaricious | greedy |
| Bilk | to cheat someone out of something, to escape from |
| Bruit | a rumor, noise |
| Cadge | to beg |
| Calumniate | to slander |
| Cant | insincere expression of enthusiasm for high ideals |
| Capitulate | to surrender |
| Cloying | sickeningly sweet |
| Commodious | spacious |
| Conflate | to merge |
| Contumacious | stubbornly rebellious |
| Cravat | cloth worn about the neck |
| Demur | to object |
| Desultory | inconsistent, disconnected, random |
| Diatribe | bitter criticism |
| Dirge | funeral song mourning the dead |
| Disabuse | to free from a false idea |
| Disingenuous | insincere |
| Droll | amusing in an odd way |
| Dross | waste matter |
| Egregious | conspicuously and outrageously bad |
| Encomium | high praise |
| Extant | existing, not extinct |
| Foppish | excessively refined and fastiduous in taste and manner |
| Hallow | to make sacred |
| Lambaste | to berate harshly |
| Molt | to shed |
| Monolithic | composed of only one large piece |
| Nostrum | fake medicine sold by a quack |
| Nugatory | trifling |
| Obloquy | abusive language, bad repute |
| Obstreperous | unruly |
| Obverse | the front or principle surface of anything |
| Occlude | to close up |
| Odious | detestable |
| Odium | intense hatred |
| Onerous | burdensome |
| Opprobrious | outrageously disgraceful |
| Opprobrium | the disgrace caused by shameful conduct |
| Paean | a song of praise or joy |
| Parse | to analyze a sentence in term of its constituent parts |
| Peccadillo | a trifling fault |
| Perfidious | unfaithful, treacherous |
| Pernicious | causing harm or ruin |
| Peroration | a long pompous speech |
| Perspicacious | perceptive |
| Phlegmatic | sluggish, calm, composed |
| Pied | any confusing mixture |
| Pillory | to ridicule in public |
| Pith | the heart or core of something |
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