GRE Vocab set 4
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cgrauert19 on October 23, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 refinement | fineness or elegance of feeling, taste, manners and language |
| evaluation | to judge the worth of, appraising, instance of evaluating |
| refutation | to prove to be false or in error, disapprove something |
| resisted | to withstand, strive against or oppose |
| acknowledged | widely recognized and generally accepted |
| misdirected | to address wrongly or incorrectly; give wrong directions too |
| volatility | fluctuate sharply, break out in open violence, changeable |
| flexibility | capable of being bent without breaking, modifying something |
| creativity | having the quality or power of creating originality of thought, traditional ideas, rules and patterns |
| discipline | training to act in accordance with rules; training the develops into a skill; punishment inflected to correct and train |
| impertinence | unmannerly intrusion or presumption, not pertinent or relevant to anything; irrelevant |
| mundane | unimaginative; everyday, ordinary, pertaining to world and earth; contrasted with heaven |
| enduring | lasting, permanent, patient |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time, shortlived |
| derided | to laugh at in scorn or contempt, mock, scoff at |
| claimed | demand as a right or as due, assert recognition |
| emulated | imitate with effort to equal or surpass, rival with degree of success |
| virtuoso | person who has special knowledge or skill in a field; artistic excellence |
| bumpkin | an awkward, simple rustic (country person) |
| precursor | person or thing that precedes, goes before as in place, order, rank or importance |
| dissipated | spend/use wastefully; indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; scatter in various directions |
| enlightened | to give intellectual or spiritual light to; instruct; factually well informed |
| placid | pleasantly calm or peaceful, tranquil, unruffled |
| revolutionary | a person who actively participates in a revolution, major sudden impact on society |
| iconoclastic | one who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas; destroys sacred religious images |
| doctrinaire | a person inflexibly attached to a practice or theory without regard to its practicality; domineering (typically orthodox theories) |
| curtail | restrict; reduce in extent or quantity; deprive someone of something |
| encourage | give support, confidence or hope; give advice to do something |
| juxtapose | unexpected combinations of colors or shapes placed side by side to each other; opposites side by side |
| constraint | state of being checked, restricted, compelled to avoid; repression of ones feelings; to force by imposed structure and limitations |
| lyricism | the quality or state of being songfulness; artists expression of emotion in an imaginative and beautiful way |
| subterfuge | deceit used in order to achieve one's goal; deception in order to conceal, escape or evade |
| foster | to bring up; nurture; promote growth and development of |
| brandish | to wave or flourish menacingly or in a threatening way |
| eliminate | to put an end to; to get rid of; to remove |
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