GRE Vocabulary I
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lexicsjones on December 7, 2011
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Vocabulary I've compiled from my first Verbal Reasoning practice set.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Assuage | To make milder or less severe; relieve; mitigate |
| Histrionic | overly dramatic in behavior or speech |
| Inimical | unfavorable; unfriendly; hostile |
| Abstruse | hard to understand; recondite; esoteric |
| Panned | Criticize someone severely. |
| Deriding | To laugh at in scorn or contempt; mock |
| Supercilious | Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous |
| Sardonic | characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking |
| Fatuous | Silly; unreal |
| Ribald | Vulgar or indecent in speech |
| Mellifluous | Sweet or pleasing |
| Laconic | Terse; concise; using very few words |
| Euphonic | Pleasing to the ear |
| Strident | Having a shrill, irritating quality or character |
| Genesis | Any origin, creation or beginning |
| Emphatic | Using emphasis |
| Punctilious | Precise, demanding, careful |
| Vociferous | Crying out noisily; clamorous |
| Waggish | Roguish (playfully mischievous) in merriment and good humor |
| Mien | air, bearing, demeanor |
| Truculent | Fierce, cruel, savagely brutal |
| Panegyrical | Formal or elaborate praise |
| Ebullient | Overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm or excitement |
| Phlegmatic | Apathetic; calm; composed |
| Timorous | Extremely cautious or shy |
| Vacillating | Move unsteadily from one side to the other |
| Catholic | Diverse or widespread |
| Dilettantish | Dabbler (in art esp.) implies amateurishness |
| Ambrosial | exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell |
| Eclectic | Made up of different sources |
| Eschewed | To abstain or keep away; shun; avoid |
| Deprecated | To protest against |
| interpolate | interject |
| devaluation | A reduction of value, status |
| Incinerated | to burn up completely, reduce to ashes |
| prosaic | commonplace, dull |
| reticent | disinclined to speak |
| congenial | compatible, agreeable, friendly |
| brusque | rough and abrupt in manner and speech |
| scurrilous | vulgarly abusive |
| Arcane | Mysterious, secret, obscure, esoteric |
| Acclamation | demonstration of welcome, goodwill, or approval |
| shrewdness | astute or sharp in practical matters; keen |
| infallibility | quality of being absolutely trustworthy |
| abjured | To renounce or retract especially with formality |
| Befuddlement | To confuse |
| Chagrin | a feeling of vexation market with disappointment or humiliation |
| bemusement | to confuse |
| altruism | unselfish concern or devotion for others |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing; act in violation of public trust |
| relativism | philosophy that truth is subjective |
| patronized | To behave in an offensively condescending manner towards |
| toothsome | palatable or desirable |
| imprudent | unwise |
| ingenuous | innocent or sincere; candid |
| ignominious | discreditable, humiliating |
| inconspicuous | not noticeable |
| fraudulent | given to using fraud |
| acumen | mental sharpness |
| acridity | sharp taste or smell |
| trenchancy | sharp analysis or remark; incisive or keen (trenchant) |
| adroitly | expert in the use of hands and body; clever |
| circuitous | roundabout; not direct |
| rigid | stiff or unyielding; inflexible |
| extirpate | destroy totally, exterminate; to pull up by the roots |
| detritus | waste or debris |
| bedlam | scene or state of wild uproar or confusion |
| gaudiness | ostentatious; showy in a cheap way |
| repudiation | to reject the authority or validity of |
| non-sentient | not conscious |
| vindicate | clear from an accusation; defend; uphold someone's argument |
| enfeebled | to make feeble; weaken |
| redolent | having a pleasant odor; reminiscent of |
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health; healthful |
| apogee | the pinacle; the very top of |
| cerebral | the use of intellect |
| collusive | fraudulently contrived by agreement |
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