Quizlet GRE Vocab 2

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  1. imimitable: one of a kind
  2. iniquity: gross injustice; wickedness
  3. innervate: to supply with nerves
  4. inscrutable: incapable of being discovered or understood
  5. insensible: unconscious; unresponsive
  6. insouciant: unconcerned; carefree
  7. interdict: to prohibit; to forbitd; to band
  8. inveigh: to attack verbally
  9. inveterate: deep-rooted; ingrained
  10. involute: intricate; complex
  11. jejune: vapid; uninteresting; immature; puerile
  12. jibe: to agree
  13. jocose: humorous; gay; blithe
  14. labile: readily open to change
  15. lassitude: listlessness. languor
  16. limn: to draw; to outline indetail
  17. limpid: transparent; serene; clear
  18. lubricious: lewd; wanton; greasy
  19. luculent: easily understood
  20. macerate: to waste away; to soften or wear away by excessive fasting
  21. maculate: marked with spots or blotches; impure
  22. maunder: to digress
  23. mellifluous: sweetly flowing, usually used to decsribe use of words
  24. meretricious: cheap; gaudy; tawdry
  25. mettle: strength of spirit
  26. mettlesome: courageous; high-spirited
  27. militate: to have weight; to bear on
  28. minatory: menacing; threatening
  29. multifarious: varied; motley
  30. natty: trimly neat and tidy; smart
  31. nonplused: baffled; in a quandry;
  32. nostrum: panacea; cure-all
  33. nugatory: trifling; inconsequential
  34. obloquy: abusively detractive language; sharp criticism
  35. obstreperous: noisy; loud
  36. officious: meddlesome; pushy in one's services
  37. ostensible: seeming; appearing as such
  38. overweening: presumptuosly arrogant
  39. palliate: to make something appear less serious
  40. panegyric: formal praise; eulogy
  41. parsimonious: cheap; miserly
  42. peremptory: admitting of no contradiction; haughty; imperious
  43. perigee: closest or lowet point; nadir
  44. peripatetic: itinerant; traveling; nomadic
  45. peroration: the concluding part of a speech; grandiloquent speech
  46. petrous: like a rock; hard; stony
  47. phlegmatic: impassive; stoical; lethargic
  48. pillory: to punish; to hold up to public scorn
  49. piquant: agreeably pungent; stimulating
  50. pique: resentment; to annoy, irritate, or offend
  51. plangent: pounding; thundering
  52. plumb: to measure the depth; to examine critically
  53. prate: to chatter; to babble
  54. precept: rule establishing standards of conduct
  55. precis: concise summary of essential points
  56. preempt: to replace; to supersede; to appropriate
  57. profligate: spendthrift; prodigal; wildly extravagant
  58. prolix: long-winded; verbose
  59. propinquity: nearness in time or place; affinity of nature
  60. propitiate: to appease; to conciliate
  61. proscribe: to ostracize; to banish
  62. provident: frugal; looking to the future
  63. puissance: power; strength
  64. punctilious: precise; paying attention to trivialities
  65. pusillanimous: cowardly; craven
  66. querulous: habitually complaining; whining
  67. raffish: tawdry; flashy; vulgar; base
  68. ramify: to be divided or subdivided; to branch out
  69. rapacious: voracious; greedy
  70. rebus: riddle; a representation of words by pictures or symbols
  71. recidivism: relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
  72. recondite: abstruse; profound; arcane
  73. recreant: coward; cowardly
  74. recumbent: leaning; resting; prone
  75. redolent: fragrant; suggestive or evocative
  76. refractory: stubborn; unmanageable
  77. regale: to delight or entertain
  78. remonstrate: to protest; to object
  79. repine: to feel or express dejection or discontent
  80. repudiate: to disown; to disavow
  81. salacious: obscene
  82. salutary: wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health
  83. sanctimony: self-righteousness
  84. satiate: to surfeit
  85. seine: a large net dragged to catch fish
  86. seminal: like a seed; constituting a source
  87. sententious: aphoristic or moralistic
  88. sidereal: astral; relating to stars
  89. simper: to smirk; a silly smile
  90. sinuous: winding; undulating
  91. slake: to satisfy or quench
  92. sodden: soaked or drenchedl dull
  93. sophistry: fallacious reasoning; faulty logic
  94. splenetic: bad-tempered; irritable
  95. stentorian: extremely loud and powerful
  96. stint: to restrain; to be sparing or frugal
  97. striated: striped; grooved; banded
  98. succor: assistance; relief in time of distress
  99. sundry: various; miscellaneous; separate
  100. supercillious: disdainful; arrogant; haughty
  101. supine: mentally or morally slack; lying on one's back
  102. suppliant: asking humbly
  103. tamp: to plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows
  104. tautology: a repitition; a redundancy
  105. tendentious: biased; showing marked tendencies
  106. timorous: timid; fearful
  107. toady: sycophant; flatterer
  108. torrid: scorching; ardent; passionate
  109. tumid: swollen
  110. turbid: roiled; muddy clouded to the point of being opaque
  111. turgid: swollen; tumid; thick; pompous
  112. turpitude: depravity; prurience
  113. untoward: perverse; unruly; unseemly
  114. upbraid: to scold; to censure
  115. vaunt: to brag or boast
  116. venal: capable of being bought or bribed
  117. vitiate: to pervert; to debase; to spoil
  118. volubility: fluency; verbosity
  119. welter: to writhe; to toss about
  120. wend: to go; to proceed