GRE Group 2

Adulterate

Damage the quality of; corrupt

Advocate

support; be in favor of

Aggrandize

enhance one’s power or standing

Alacrity

eagerness to do something

Ambivalent

having conflicting emotions; unsure

Ameliorate

Improve a bad feeling or bad situation

Amenable

Receptive to change; open

Anachronistic

of the wrong time or era

Audacious

Bold; unafraid of risks

Avaricious

Greedy; always wanting more

Banal or banality

unoriginal and dull; lacking creativity

Benign

harmless; having little effect; kind

brazen

shameless and excessively forward

Calumny

slander and defamation

Candid

honest; without deception

castigate

scold someone harshly

Caustic

(of speech) hostile and bitter

Construe

Understand something subjectively

Contrite or contrition

Feeling regretful or guilty

convoluted

difficult to understand or follow