GRE Vocab

pugnacious

quick to argue

bellicose

violent, aggressive

phlegmatic

unemotional, stolid

execrable

extremely unpleasant

circumscribed

restricted by limits

stolid

stoic

intransigent

stubborn, intractable

ineluctable

inevitable

invidious

hateful/spiteful

plangent

loud/resounding

nugatory

inconsequential, trifling

pusillanimous

cowardly

benignant

favorable, compassionate

capricious

impulsive, unpredictable

expurgate

censor

indigence

extreme poverty

opulent

wealthy

pernicious

deadly

parsimonious

frugal, stingy, penurious

ignobility

of low character

probity

honesty, integrity

polemical

controversial

furtive

guilty nervousness

stentorian

loud

vociferous

vehement, clamorous

sanguine

confident, optimistic

vainglory

excessive pride

restive

on edge, restless

prolix

wordy

obstreperous

uncontrollable

perfunctory

hasty

spurious

false/fake

insolent

disrespectful

profligate

recklessly wasteful, prodigal

maladroit

ineffective, clumsy

panegyric

speech or text in praise of something

quiescient

dormant, inactive

fatuous

silly and pointless

prevarication

lying, mendacity

fulminate

denounce/protest

avarice

insatiable desire for wealth/gain

recondite

little known, abstruse

sedulous

dedicated, diligent

perfidy

untrustworthiness

sophistry

using incorrect arguments to decieve

mendicant

beggar

anodyne

inoffensive

inure

habituate to something undesirable

prosaic

commonplace

vituperative

bitter and abusive

capitulate

cease to surrender

limpid

unclouded, clear

verisimilitude

seeming true

specious

superficially plausible, but wrong

noisome

unpleasant

hermetic

impervious to external influence

opprobrium

criticism

vitiate

spoil

providential

favorable, opportune

inimical

hostile, adverse

recrudescent

recurrence of undesirable activity

evanescent

quickly vanishing

expedient

means to an end

solicitous

attentive care and concern

irresolute

hesitant

laconic

succinct

intractable

stubborn, intransigent

impetuous

careless

pithy

brief

obdurate

stubborn

gainsay

deny, contradict

inchoate

nascent

propitiate

pacify

fractious

Irritable, querulous

tawdry

gaudy

sycophant

one who flatters for personal favor, toady

unctuous

smarmy

conjecture

opinion formed with incomplete info

dilatory

slow to act

presage

foreshadowing/omen

paltry

negligible/worthless

circumspect

wary

disgorge

cause to pour out/expel

contrite

remorseful

equivocal

purposefully ambiguous

deft

skillful, clever

pejorative

disapproving

disquietude

uneasy/anxious

obviate

prevent

overweening

excessive pride

munificent

overly generous

doctrinaire

applying doctrine without practical consideration

abeyance

temporary disuse

abrogate

repeal

abstemious

not self-indulgent

alacrity

enthusiasm

celerity

speed

anathema

curse

aplomb

composure

apostate

deserter