GRE Group 25

Adept

Highly skilled (proficient, expert)

Adverse

Harmful or unfavorable (detrimental, hostile)

Appropriate

Take for oneself (seize, commandeer)

Archetype

Perfect example (prototype, epitome)

Articulate

Clearly expressed (eloquent, coherent)

Auspicious

Favorable or promising (propitious, fortunate)

Bereft

Lacking something, or feeling great loss (deprived, void)

Captious

often expressing criticisms about matters that are not important (critical, carping)

Conclusive

Decisive or final (definitive, irrefutable)

Conspire

Secretly plan together (collude, scheme)

Delineate

Describe or outline in detail, very accurate (depict, specify)

Disentangle

Free from complications, to separate things that have become joined or confused (unravel, untangle)

Exhort

Strongly urge, to strongly encourage or try to persuade someone to do something (encourage, implore)

Frailty

Weakness or flaw (infirmity, fragility)

Grievance

Cause for complaint , a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly (injustice, objection)

Harangue

Aggressive speech (tirade, rant)

Ploy

Cunning plan, Something that is done or said in order to get an advantage, often dishonestly (scheme, tactic)

Poise

Calm and confidence in a person's way of behaving (balance, assurance)

Pomposity

Self-importance (arrogance, pretentiousness)

Proxy

Representative authority, authority given to a person to act for someone else (substitute, delegate)

Relent

to become less severe or unkind; to agree after refusing at first (yield, acquiesce)

Rhetoric

Persuasive speech (oratory, discourse)

Rigor

Strictness or precision (severity, exactness)

Sparse

Thinly spread (scant, meager)

Steadfast

Loyal and resolute, staying the same for a long time and not changing quickly or unexpectedly (faithful, unwavering)

Suspect

Doubtful or questionable (suspicious, dubious)

Tedious

Boring and repetitive (monotonous, dull)

Vitality

Liveliness and energy (vigor, exuberance)

Whimsical

Unusual and strange in a way that might be funny or annoying (fanciful, quirky)

Yield

An amount of something positive, such as food or profit, that is produced or supplied (generate)