Flashcards: Toughest GRE Words
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snadeem on November 7, 2007
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Agog | highly excited |
| Piquancy | pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind. |
| Caucus | meeting where party leaders are elected and strategy is determined |
| Augury | sign of what will happen, omen |
| Tandem | coming one after another |
| Rhapsodize | to express oneself in an immoderately enthusiastic manner. |
| Preeminence | importance, significance; superiority, supremacy; distinctiveness, state of being distinguished; advantage |
| Tenacity | firmness or persistence |
| Nave | central part of the church |
| Elf | below 3 kilohertz; Synonym : extremely low frequency. Extremely Low Frequency) |
| Obtain | PREVAIL, be in force. for e.g. rules obtaining in other jurisdictions |
| Palter | to act insincerely or deceitfully |
| Discommode | to cause inconvenience to : TROUBLE |
| Entrench | establish so firmly that change is difficult : |
| Mulish | unreasonably and inflexibly obstinate like a mule |
| Inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : RAIL |
| Imbue | fill with a feeling or quality |
| Xerophagy | fast which includes the eating of dry foods only |
| Balky | refusing or likely to refuse to proceed, act, or function as directed or expected |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : ALLUREMENT |
| Surly | gruff; bad : tempered and unfriendly |
| Ennui | feeling of listlessness, boredom, and dissatifaction |
| Ream | 500 sheets of paper |
| Ladle | a long handled spoon with a deep bowl for serving soup, stew etc |
| Speculative | risky; based on guesswork rather than knowledge |
| Ensnare | keep someone in a situation from which they canot escape |
| Ensue | to follow as a consequence or result |
| Knoll | a small rounded hill or mound; a hillock |
| Incontrovertible | impossible to dispute; unquestionable |
| Moxie | courage or nerve . the ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage; aggressive energy |
| Tintinnabulation | the ringing or sounding of bells |
| Skein | a length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil; a flock of geese or similar birds in flight |
| Manna | hardened sugary exudation of various trees; food that God gave the Israelites during the exodus |
| Stentorian | extremely loud |
| Vicissitude | a change or variation. The quality of being changeable; mutability |
| Purism | strict observance of or insistence on traditional correctness, especially of language |
| Japery | acting like a clown or buffoon; a trick or practical joke |
| Dolorous | marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain |
| Tort | damage, injury, or a wrongful act done willfully, negligently, or in circumstances involving strict liability, but not involving breach. |
| Pettifogger | a petty, quibbling, unscrupulous lawyer. One who quibbles over trivia |
| Slatternly | slovenly; untidy |
| Muckrake | to search for and expose misconduct in public life. |
| Mordant | bitingly sarcastic |
| Francophile | a person who admires France, its people, or its culture |
| Foursquare | characterized by firm and unwavering conviction; a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four : sided regular polygon |
| Enfeoff | to invest with a feudal estate or fee |
| Ineluctable | impossible to avoid or evade |
| Malfeasance | misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official |
| Malcontent | a chronically dissatisfied person; one who rebels against the established system; discontented as toward authority |
| Hull | the dry outer covering of a fruit, seed, or nut; body of a ship |
| Cron | A time unit equal to 1000000 years; used in reference to evolutionary processes |
| Votary | One zealously devoted to a religion |
| Croon | To sing softly or in a humming way |
| Quisling | A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country |
| Termagant | A person, traditionally a woman, who persistently nags or criticizes |
| Coterie | A small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently |
| Humdrum | Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring , dull; monotonous talk or routine. |
| Happenstance | An unexpected random event |
| Cord | a unit of wood cut for fuel equal to a stack 4 x 4 x 8 feet or 128 cubic feet . To pile (wood) in cords; a line made of twisted fibers or threads |
| Diazepam | A tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; |
| Sagitta | A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Aquila and Vulpecula |
| Marrow | The most central and material part; the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience |
| Forage | Food for domestic animals; fodder. The act of looking or searching for food or provisions |
| Quart | A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to / 4 gallon or 32 ounces |
| Shuck | A husk, pod, or shell, as of a pea, hickory nut, or ear of corn. The shell of an oyster or clam |
| Evacuant | Of, relating to, or tending to eliminate; tending to cleanse or purge, especially causing evacuation of the bowels |
| Frisky | Playful |
| Quatrain | A stanza or poem of four lines |
| Vulgaris | Being of the usual type; common |
| Frill | Something costly and unnecessary |
| Swath | A path or strip; the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine |
| Sagittal | Of or relating to the suture uniting the two parietal bones of the skull; |
| Pelf | Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired |
| Stultify | cause to feel bored or enervated. 2)cause to appear foolish or absurd |
| Faradic | Of, relating to, or using an intermittent asymmetrical alternating electric current produced by an induction coil |
| Grovel | To support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior; to behave in a servile or demeaning manner |
| Shoal | A shallow part of a body of water : shallow; measuring little from bottom to top or surface, a large number of fish swimming together. |
| Glut | To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate |
| Pallid | Having an abnormally pale or wan complexion; lacking intensity of color or luminousness |
| Batten | Grow fat,thrive upon others |
| Conch | Large seashell |
| Ingenue | An artless girl;an actress who plays such parts |
| Orison | Prayer |
| Rambunctious | Boisterous and disorderly |
| Carpophagous | Feeding on fruit; fruit : eating |
| Fustian | A coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and flax; pretentious speech or writing; pompous language; pompous, bombastic, and ranting |
| Compunction | A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt; a feeling of regret for one's sins or misdeeds; a feeling of uncertainty about the fitness or correctness of an action; regret, sorrow |
| Afferent | Carrying inward to a central organ or section, as nerves that conduct impulses from the periphery of the body to the brain or spinal cord; transmitting impulses from sense organs to nerve centers |
| Stultify | To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible; cause to appear foolish; deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; cripple |
| Instate | to set or establish in a rank or office:INSTALL |
| Shrivel | To become or make much less or smaller; dwindle; to become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying; to lose or cause to lose vitality or intensity; dehydrate, dry up |
| Caginess | Having or showing a clever awareness and resourcefulness in practical matters; secretive; wary; careful; shrewd |
| Cadge | To beg or get by begging, BEGGAR, bummer, moocher, panhandler |
| Bibulous | Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink; very absorbent, as paper or soil; inclined to drink; of or relating to drink or drinking |
| Fustian | Pretentious, pompous speech or writing; a coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and flax; pompous or pretentious talking or writing |
| Fallow | Land left unseeded during a growing season; inactive; plowed but left unseeded during a growing season : fallow farmland |
| Immure | To confine within or as if within walls; imprison; lock up or confine, in or as in a jail |
| Armageddon | The scene of a final battle between the forces of good and evil, prophesied to occur at the end of the world; a decisive or catastrophic conflict |
| Pastiche | A mixture of materials, forms, motifs, and/or styles; often incongruous; dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent; an artistic effort that imitates or caricatures the work of another artist |
| Reagent | A substance used in a chemical reaction to detect, measure, examine, or produce other substances |
| Cow | To frighten with threats or a show of force; browbeat, intimidate; |
| Lop | To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising; to hang limply, loosely, and carelessly; cut off from a whole |
| Jejune | Not interesting; dull; lacking maturity; childish; lacking in nutrition |
| Cruet | A small glass bottle for holding a condiment, such as vinegar or oil; a small vessel for holy water or for water or wine used in the consecration of the Eucharist |
| Preclude | To make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; to exclude or prevent (someone) from a given condition or activity |
| Bunion | A bunion is an abnormal enlargement of the joint; a painful, inflamed swelling of the bursa at the first joint of the big toe, characterized by enlargement of the joint and lateral displacement of the toe |
| Hospice | 1) a home providing care for the sick or terminally ill. 2) a lodging for travellers, especially one run by a religious order |
| Jerry | A German, especially a German soldier; offensive terms for a person of German descent |
| Glean | To gather grain left behind by reapers; to collect (something) bit by bit; gather facts in small quantities |
| Gruffness | A throaty harshness; an abrupt discourteous manner |
| Mortar | A vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle; a machine in which materials are ground and blended or crushed; an ancient field weapon that fires a projectile in a high arch to reach an impact point; plastic material to bond stones and bricks together |
| Leviathan | One that is extraordinarily large and powerful; any large animal, as a whale; a monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Bible; something unusually large of its kind, especially a ship |
| Repletion | The condition of being fully supplied or completely filled; a state of excessive fullness |
| Orc | A mythical monster of varying descriptions; any of several cetaceans especialy the grampus of the dolphin family |
| Maroon | To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon; to abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape; a fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries; a dark reddish brown to dark purplish red |
| Fiesta | A festival or religious holiday, especially a saint's day celebrated in Spanish : speaking countries |
| Gaily | In a joyful, cheerful, or happy manner; merrily; with bright colors or trimmings; showily |
| Fealty | The fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord. The oath of such fidelity |
| Ensconce | To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably; to place or conceal in a secure place; hide; tuck away; fix firmly |
| Votary | A person bound by vows to live a life of religious worship or service; a faithful follower; an enthusiast |
| Demurral | The act of demurring, especially a mild, polite, or considered expression of opposition; a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings |
| Vouchsafe | To condescend to grant or bestow (a privilege, for example); deign; to let have as a favor, prerogative, or privilege; to descend to a level considered inappropriate to one's dignity; ose; grant |
| Paroles | conditionally released from jail; pledge or promise made by a prisoner that he will obey the terms of his release |
| Seraph | A celestial being having three pairs of wings; the first of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology |
| Fabric | a structure or framework |
| Bolt | 1) a roll of fabric, originally as a measure 2) run away suddenly3 ) BAR, LOCK, catch, latch, fastener |
| Suppliant | Asking humbly and earnestly; beseeching; one praying humbly for something |
| Jarring | Disagreeable to the sense of hearing; making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; characterized by rough motion |
| Tirade | A long angry or violent speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe |
| Glean | To gather grain left behind by reapers; to collect (something) bit by bit |
| Abandon | To give up completely; to desert; careless disregard for consequences; leave behind, relinquish; leave in troubled state; careless, often reckless disregard for consequences |
| Rancour | A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill : will |
| Desecrate | To violate the sacredness of; profane; spoil or mar the sanctity of; abuse, violate |
| Quartet | A group of four musicians or singers; also, a piece of music for four instruments or voices; composition for four voices or four instruments or four parts; four performers or singers who perform together |
| Rickety | Not physically steady or firm; unsound, broken : down; shaky; likely to fall apart |
| Triad | A group of three; a chord of three tones, especially one built on a given root tone plus a major or minor third and a perfect fifth; set of three similar things considered as a unit |
| Preposterous | Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; ridiculous, bizarre; completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; senseless as to be laughable |
| Puckish | Mischievous; impish; naughtily or annoyingly playful |
| Delusion | An erroneous perception of reality; misconception, misbelief |
| Aplomb | Self : confident assurance; poise; assurance of manner or of action; a firm belief in one's own powers; stable, calm state of the emotions |
| Stupor | A state of reduced or suspended sensibility; state of mental numbness, as that resulting from shock; a daze; condition of dullness, often resulting from stress; unconsciousness |
| Benedict | A newly married man who was previously considered a confirmed bachelor |
| Arboretum | A facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition; botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and woody plants, forming a living collection of trees intended at least partly for scientific study |
| Grouch | A habitually complaining or irritable person; a grumbling or sulky mood; complaint; a grudge |
| Animadversion | Strong criticism; a critical or censorious remark; harsh criticism or disapproval |
| Uncouth | Crude; unrefined; awkward or clumsy; ungraceful; archaic; foreign; unfamiliar; clumsy, uncultivated; lacking in delicacy or refinement |
| Provenance | Place of origin; derivation; the history of the ownership of an object, especially when documented or authenticated |
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