GRE Vocab Group 6

Admonish

Scold someone seriously. Give someone urgent advice.

Aesthetic

Pertaining to beauty or the appreciation thereof

Affectation

A pretense or show meant to impress others

Alleviate

Lessen the intensity or severity of something negative

Analogous

Comparable or similar to

Bolster

Lend support or boost

Chauvinistic

Excessively patriotic or biased in favor of a group or cause

Connoisseur

A discerning expert in matters of taste

Dissemble

Hide or misrepresent one’s true feelings or beliefs

Dogged

Demonstrating tenacity and an unwillingless to give up

Dupe

Trick or fool someone

Empirical

Based on an observation or experience rather than conjecture

Engender

Produce or stimulate the development of something

Entitled

Assuming oneself to be deserving of special rights or privleges

Pertinacious

Stubbornly holding onto a belief or course of action

Presumptuous

Overstepping boundaries, often in an overconfident way

Probity

The characteristic of having strong ethical standards

Proliferate

Rapidly increase or multiply in number

Specious

Seemingly reasonable but actually wrong

Spurious

Not genuine; bogus

Subjective

Pertaining to personal feelings rather than objective reality

Subvert

Undermine or weaken, typically an authority of some sort

Timorous

Displaying nervousness; lacking confidence

Tortous

Marked by numerous twists or turns. Overly complicated and long.

Tractable

Easily managed or controlled. Situation that is easy to solve or handle

Transient

Not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory

Ubiquitous

Being everywhere at once

Underscore

Emphasize or show the importance of something

Venal

Open to bribery or corruption

Venerate

Regard with deep respect or reverance