TEST 3 GRE

Facetious

sarcastic

laudable

praisworthy

painstaking

Very careful

Trite

idea that is dull, unoriginal

Retrospection

the act of thinking about the past

Equivocal

unclear

Sanguine

optimistic

Pernicious

destructive; deadly

counterintuitive

opposite of what you would normally expect

salubrious

healthy; beneficial

Sparing

using very little

viable

able to survive

infallibility

always correct

Expedient

convient or practicle

imminent

about to happen very soon

Timorous

fearful

diffident

timid or shy

calumnious

making false statemnts about someone; slanderous

inveigling

persuading someone through deception or trickery

unobjectionable

not likely to casue a diagreement

innocuos

harmless; not dangerous

viable

capable of working successfuly

dubious

doubtful

Evanescent

fading away

transitory

not permanent

resurgent

becoming strong or active again

recurdescent

breaking out after being inactive

inimical

harmful

Coerced

forced

Coherent

clear and logical

impenetrable

difficult to understand

polemical

A harsh attack against a principle

inscrutability

difficult to undestand

venality

Willingness to do dishonest things for money

courteous

polite and respectful

impudence

rude or disrespectful behaviour

nettles

annoys

exposition

detailed description

objurgation

harsh criticism

contemptuous

showing disrespect looking down on someone

portentous

important or significant

antiquity

ancient times

elusive

difficult to catch or understand

contemporary

modern

circumstantial

indirect evidence

vestigial

leftover from something in the past

Nascent

begining to develop; emerging

flaccid

lacking strength or energy

Passive

not acting; letting something happen rather then taking action