GRE Vocabulary and Synonym Equivalence Notes

Vocabulary practice flashcards based on GRE word pairs and synonym equivalents from the lecture transcript.

Obscuring

Weakening

Belaboring

Overemphasizing

Craven

Cowardly

Decry

Condemn

Fastidious

Finicky

Shunning

Eschewing

Polarization of

Dichotomy between

Latitude

Leeway

Metamorphose

Transform

Clandestine

Surreptitious

Presaged

Heralded

Comprehensible

Intelligible

Forethought

Prudence

Opprobrium

Disdain

Contadict

Gainsay

Preventive

Prophylactic

Salient

Evident

Quell

Forestall

Idiosyncratic

Eccentric

Insularity

Parochialism

Assiduousness

Industry

Edifying

Instructive

Iconoclastic

Subversive

Tribute

Encomium

Deletrious

Pernicious

Nebulous

Amorphous

Antecedents

Precursors

Churlish

Ungracious

Itinerant

Peripatetic

Dismal

Lugubrious

Senescence

Decrepitude

Predilection

Partiality

Denounces

Lambastes

Brazen

Barefaced

Antagonistic

Inimical

Redolent

Reminiscent

Evince

Betray

Harangue

Rant

Saccharine

Cloying

Incisive

Trenchant

Vitriol & Obloquy

very strong public criticism

Panegyric

Eulogy

Cursory

Perfunctory

Clairvoyance

Prescience

Hauteur

Superciliousness

Specious

Unfounded

Chicanery

Subterfuge

Complaisant

Deferntial

Diffidence

Timorousness

Indolence

Sloth

Arcane

Esoteric

Dearth

Paucity

Obviate

Displace

Ingenuous

Guileless

Circumspect

Cautious

Derisive

Contemptuous

Paragons

Exemplars

Prosaic

Pedestrian

Ineptitude

Maladroitness

Nepotism

Cronyism

Cumbersome

Unwieldy

Pacific

Dovish

Impugn

Dispute

Stilted

Wooden

Acerbic

Vitrolic

Truculent

Pugnacious

Vilified for

Pilloried

Apogee

Pinnacle

Approbation

Commendation

Quiescent

Invariant

Fervid

Impassioned

Routine

Quotidian

Charitable

Munificent

Propitious

Auspicious

Choleric

Irascible

Contentious

Tendentious

Proscribe

Disallow