GRE Word Deck

Abominable

detestable; loathsome

Acrimonious

Angry & bitter; rancorous; virulent

Adulterate

degrade: make it impure

Antediluvian

Old fashioned and outdated

Apocryphal

of doubtful authenticity

Assuage

to make something unpleasant less severe

Balk

refuse or oppose stubbornly

Banal

Boring, unoriginal

Benignant

Benevolent

Beseech

Ask urgently to do smth; implore; entreat

Candor

Frankness; Honesty; Sincerity

Capricious

Fickle; Erratic

Choleric

Bad-tempered; irritable

Cognate

Analogous; kindred; comparable

Commensurate

proportional; correspondent; similar

Comportment

bearing, demeanor, behavior

Corroborate

to support with evidence

Depraved

Morally corrupt; wicked

Desiccate

to dry up; lack of interest

Didactic

Instructive; Educational

Dogmatic

opinionated; assertive; imperative

Eclectic

Extensive; Derived from diverse sources

Engender

to cause; to give rise to

Engima

a puzzle; a mystery

Ephemeral

short-lived; transient

Erudite

learned; scholarly

Etiolate

become weak or lose vigor

Eulogize

as in praise

Exacerbate

Aggravate; Make worse

Exasperate

Ugh 🙄; Annoy; Irritate

Execrable

Extrêmement mauvais; Unpleasant

Expurgate

Censor; remove smth offensive or questionable

Extradite

Hand over someone to a judicial system

Felicitous

Apt, well-chosen; fortunate

Fervid

passionate; fervent

Implacable

Relentless; Unstoppable

Inconsequential

Trifling, unimportant, negligible

Inconspicuous

Unremarkable; not attractive; unassuming

Incredulous

hard to believe, skeptical; dubious

Indigence

Penury; poverty

Ineluctable

Unable to resist; inescapable

Inept

Unskilled; clumsy

Insolvent

bankrupt; penurious; impecunious

Intransigence

refuse to change belief; stubborn asf

Interdict

To forbid, to prohibit

Inured

Accustomed to

Invidious

Incur resentment; unpleasant; unfair

Jejune

Naive, simple, or boring

Jubilation

Exultation; great happiness or triumph

Lackluster

Dull or mediocre

Loquacious

talkative; "loqui" as in talk

Neurotic

emotionally unstable; maladjusted; maladaptive

Noisome

Stinking; Putrid; Mephitic

Obtuse

dull-witted

Onerous

Arduous; Burdensome

Parsimony

Frugality, stinginess

Pedant

excessively concerned w/ minor details/rules; display academic learning; in short, a ****ing show-off

Pedantic

Scholarly in a narrow-minded way (pedant)

Perturbation

anxiety; deviate from regular path; unease

Phlegmatic

calm disposition; stolid; impassive

Placate

to appease, soothe, pacify

Plangent

Loud, reverberating, melancholic

Postulate

hypothesize; propose

Pragmatic

practical; realistic

Precipitate

bring about unexpectedly, prematurely, or suddenly

Precocity

Exhibiting certain activities or proclivities (iow tendencies) at an unusually early age

Predilection

Preference, special liking, affinity

Prepossessing

Attractive or appealing in appearance; comely

Prerogative

Privilege; entitlement; right

Probity

Honesty; integrity

Prodigal

lavish; wasteful

Prodigious

enormous; immense

Propriety

conforming to accepted standards; decorum

Revel

take great pleasure; enjoy

Repatriate

Deportation

Sedulous

Meticulous; "sedulus" "sedulo" sincerely

Senescence

Process of deteriorating with age

Sordid

dishonorable; ignoble; 2nd meaning - squalid

Spurious

Fake; False; Counterfeit

Spurn

reject scornfully

Squalor

filthy, shabby (from neglect or poverty)

Stolidity

showing no emotion

Tenet

tenacity; hold to be true (belief)

Timorous

Fearful; timid; cower

Turgid

(1) swollen, congested; (2) bombastic, pompous

Quiescent

Inactive, dormant, latent, inert

Unabashedly

Without embarrassment or shame