GRE VOCAB I MADE
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 lascivious | feeling an overt or often offensive sexual desire |
| malleable | able to be hammered or pressed w/o breaking |
| pliable | flexible |
| lust | strong sexual desire |
| tyranny | cruel & oppressive government |
| morose | sullen & ill-tempered |
| ignominious | deserving or causing public disrace or shame |
| noxious | harmful; poisonous |
| prescient | showing knowledge of events before they take place |
| exuberant | lively energy & excitement |
| voracious | wanting or devouring great quantities of food |
| frank | open & honest |
| gambit | (in chess) an opening which a player makes a sacrifice |
| penury | poverty |
| sustenance | food; support |
| infirmity | weakness; illness |
| prosaic & mundane | dull & unoriginal |
| ascetic | severe & w/o luxuries |
| obdurate | stubborn |
| clamorous | noisy, seeking attention |
| loquacious | talkative |
| taciturn | silent |
| peremptory | in a commanding manner |
| salacious | not wholesome |
| profligate | wasteful |
| stoic | able to tolerate |
| mendacious | lying, untruthful |
| fulsome | glowing, excessive |
| incumbent | occupies an office |
| neophyte | beginner |
| vagrant | no place to live |
| abode | home |
| magnate | powerful person |
| symphony | long form of music |
| anecdote | short amusing story |
| confluence | coming together of streams |
| smelting | refining |
| abnegation | renouncing |
| dissipation | waste |
| bellicose | aggressive; warlike |
| pliant | not stubborn, flexible |
| tractability | flexability |
| somber | gloomy |
| regale | entertain |
| divert | 1. distract 2. sned on detour 3. entertain |
| scuttle | sink |
| encapsulated | surround |
| expurgate | censor |
| aggrandize | exaggerate |
| ameliorate | make something better |
| elucidate | make clear |
| engender | cause |
| capacious | able to hold a lot |
| voluble | talke a lot |
| discursive | digressing from subject to subject |
| ramification | a consequence of an action or event |
| indubitable | unquestionable |
| indomitable | impossible to defeat |
| perfunctory | (about an action or gesture) carried out with minimum effort |
| meticulous | showing great attention to detail |
| mellifluous | sweet or musical |
| protracted | drags on & on |
| expeditious | done speedily |
| paucity | shortage |
| glut | excess |
| avouch | affirm a statement |
| recant | retract |
| predilection | inclined towards; or a strong liking |
| disinclination | a lack of inclination |
| pugnacious | aggressive |
| docile | gentle |
| providence | foresight or economy |
| prodigality | wastefulness/ opposite of economy |
| hidebound | fixed & rigid |
| slight | minor insult |
| xenophobic | afraid of strangers |
| pervasive | found everywhere |
| abrasive | someone who annoys people |
| inordinate | excessive |
| mundane | dull |
| venal | showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery |
| preternatural | beyond what is normal or natural |
| irascible | easily made angry |
| jaundiced | affected by jaundice, unnaturally yellow |
| placatory | reduce anger |
| unrequited | not returned or rewarded |
| antipathetic | showing or feeling a strong aversion |
| contentious | cause argument |
| ebullient | cheerful and full of engergy |
| morose | gloomy |
| prescient | having or showing knowledge of events before they take place |
| feral | in a wild state esp. after escape form captivity |
| coalesce | sticke together |
| agglomerate | collect or form into a mass or group |
| bamboozle | fool or cheat |
| canalize | convert ( a river) into a navigable chanel |
| moderate | average in amount |
| moribund | (of a person) at the point of death |
| antediluvian | of or belonging to the time before the biblical flood; old fashioned |
| salutary | beneficial |
| hidebound | unable to change because of tradition or convention |
| burgeoning | begin to grow or increase rapidly |
| hortatory | tending or aiming to exhort |
| exhort | strongly urging someone |
| subterranean | existing, or occurring under the earths surface |
| preponderant | predominant in influence, number, or importance |
| ineluctable | unable to avoid |
| esoteric | intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest |
| diurnal | daily, or each day |
| inquietude | disturbed state |
| temerity | excessive confidence, or boldness |
| punctiliousness | showing great attention to detail or correct behavior |
| excision | cut out surgically |
| buoyant | optimistic & happy |
| stolid | calm; dependable |
| tractable | easy to control or influence |
| refractory | stubborn or unmanageable |
| diaphanous | light, delicate, and translucent |
| volatile | liable to change unpredictably |
| noncombatant | someone who does not fight |
| stalwart | loyal, reliable, and hardworking |
| proletarian | of or related to working-class people |
| jester | a professional joker or fool, at a medieval court |
| puerile | childishly silly and trivial |
| serpentine | convoluted & winding |
| caustic | sharply attacking |
| treacly | too sentimental |
| pulchritude | beauty |
| perspicacious | mentally sharp |
| upshot | outcome |
| inception | beginning |
| elipsis | an error in which something is missed out |
| tautology | redundancy |
| boast | talk using arrogant language |
| swagger | behave arrogantly |
| gait | style of walking |
| belittle | disparage |
| deride | ridicule |
| jeopardize | put in danger |
| efface | wipe out |
| augment | increase |
| innocuous | harmless |
| reprehensible | very bad |
| virtuoso | an accomplished person; expert |
| philanthropist | a generous person |
| aesthete | someone who appreciates art & beauty |
| servile | groveling |
| hedonist | pleasure seeker |
| fraught | troubled |
| fastidious | picky |
| conspicuous | easily visible |
| ignominious | shameful |
| irrevocable | cannot change |
| abstemious | does not indulge |
| diffident | resistant |
| profligate | wasteful |
| gregarious | sociable |
| belied | contradicted |
| nullified | canceled |
| ratified | gave approval to |
| alienate | estrange; separate |
| bantering | playful |
| amicable | friendly |
| antipathy | hatred |
| jovial | jolly |
| exasperating | frustrating |
| geniality | friendliness |
| didactic | intending to preach or instruct |
| conciliatory | brining disputing sides together |
| prolific | productive |
| contumacious | stubborn |
| impermanence | short lived |
| endeavor | effor |
| dearth | shortage |
| futility | waste |
| forthright | truthful |
| prevaricate | lie; avoid truth |
| mendacious | telling lies |
| capitulate | give into |
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