(3) New GRE Vocab Words from Tests 3

indispensable (!)

indispensable (!)

essential; necessary

solipsistic

believing that oneself is all that exists (self-centered)

lucubration (elucubrate is the verb)

laborious study or thought, especially at night; the result of such work

"beyond reproach"

perfect (not called for any criticism)

dispel

to eliminate (to make disappear)

dispense (with)

to do without or to get rid of

underlie

to be at the basis of (aka to form the foundation of)

anhedonia

inability to experience pleasure in normally pleasurable acts

amortization

~payment

pertinacious

determined/persistent

remit

to cancel/stop (since unremitting is nonstop)

unremitting

relentless, incessant

confounding is also a noun

the act of treating or viewing different things as if they were the same (think Trump = Bernie)

euphuism (euphuistic, euphuize)

artificial elegance of language (pompousness)

divagation

diversion/digression/deviation (aka a tangent) (to diverge)

irrevocable

unalterable/irreversible (aka unable to revoke)

disportment

hobby

cultivate (yes)

to further/encourage, refine, court (to seek the society of), pursue, or to foster the growth or development of

portray

to depict, to describe, or to enact (aka to act out aka to play the role of)

(also associate with characterize and represent)

convey

to express/communicate

comity

courtesy and considerate behavior toward others

formative

serving to form something, especially having a profound and lasting influence on a person's development.

unflagging

persistent, tireless

needling (verb)

to provoke/annoy/torment (~bothering)

temperamental

liable to extreme changes of mood

vassal

more positive spin on servant (compared to minion or serf)

entropy

CHAOS, disorder, DISORGANIZATION, RANDOMNESS

cerebrate/cerebration

think/thinking(thought)

ecumenical

unifying/universal/catholic

recidivist

a habitual/repeated criminal

bluster (2 meanings)

to brag/swagger or (to be) windy/boisterous

pretension (2 meanings)

pretentiousness/affectation (aka overly trying to impress) or excuse/doubtful allegation (like pretext aka suggesting subterfuge)

intuit

to know, sense, or understand by intuition (~to figure out)

codify (!)

to systematize/classify/arrange (especially into law)

officiate

to perform/carry out

claque

a group of sycophants (~cult)

habiliments

clothes

fortitude

mental strength and courage

vocation (2 meanings) (as opposed to avocation)

occupation or calling

freewheeling

free/loose/footloose

frisson (yes)

a thrill/rush (also think shudder/shiver)

mar

to spoil/ruin

maven

expert

fabulist

liar

culling (2 meanings)

to choose / pick/single out or technical term for killing people to avoid overpopulation

doggerel

irregular, trivial, inferior

repartee (2 very similar meanings)

quick witty comeback (like retort) or general adroitness and cleverness in reply (aka the general skill)

kinship, rapport, and accord

similar to affinity

heady (focus most on the first definition)

rash/violent, exhilarated (~eager/enthusiastic), or clever/intelligent

pleonasm

redundancy in language

herald (2nd and 3rd meanings)

to praise (unheralded is the opposite)/announce

clangor

loud noise

vagrant

wanderer

proselyte

recent convert

awl

hole-punching tool

associate crotchet with crotchety

eccentricity

traipse

to walk in a roundabout, directionless way

circumambulate

to walk around in circles

downtrodden (!)

suffering oppression (aka oppressed)

effulgent

brilliant, dazzling, resplendent, refulgent

epaulet

something that ornaments or protects the shoulder

imperil/imperilment

to endanger/endangerment

heteromorphic

a plurality of forms

fungible (2 similar meanings) (!)

replaceable/interchangeable or flexible

animadversions (verb is animadvert)

strong criticisms

condign

deserved, appropriate

flagitious

flagrant, conspicuously bad, villiainous

costive (especially first definition) (no)

related to constipation (similarly slow/reluctant/unforthcoming aka slow in action/expression aka not at ease to talk to others) … or stingy

bathetic/bathos (2 meanings) (!)

banality/anticlimax/triteness or excessive pathos (saccharine)

georgic

dealing with agriculture or rural life

natty

stylish/sharp

pilfer/pilferer

to steal/one who steals

embezzle

to steal when something has been entrusted to you (for example, campaign funds)

knavish

dishonest

waggish

humorous/arch/teasing (mischievous; playful) … same root as “wag” (joker)

catharsis

purging of built-up emotions

emend

amending, in particular, a text

toothsome (2 meanings)

delicious or agreeable/attractive

distant

faraway

proximate (2 similar meanings)

imminent/close (similar to coterminous)

remote (2 meanings)

divergent (“statements remote from the truth”) or out-of-the-way/secluded

prolepsis/proleptic

anticipation/anticipatory

protract

to prolong

warrant can be used like license

okay

impose

to force/foist

obtrude (2 meanings) (no) (!)

to intrude (aka to thrust/force in) or to extrude (aka to thrust out)

apprehend (2 meanings)

to arrest or to comprehend

pertain

to concern/involve (pertaining = concerning)

incredulous

skeptical (disbelieving)

deprecate

to belittle, disparage, express disapproval

abet

like foment/instigate (to assist and encourage)

expunge (!)

to destroy/eliminate

envisage

envision

accentuate

to emphasize/amplify

bemoan (2 similar meanings)

to lament/bewail/deplore/mourn (these words, except for mourn, can be used to express sorrow/regret OR to complain)

subsist

to survive/persist

bewail

to express grief/complaint

deplore (2 meaning) (!)

to express grief/complaint or to abhor (to consider deserving of deprecation aka deplorable)

interlocutor

one who takes part in a dialogue/conversation

propulsive

having the quality of driving or pushing forward (aka propelling)