GRE Vocab

Ameliorated

to make better or more tolerable

Orthodox 🙂

Conventional, normal

Underscore 💯

Emphasize

Austerity 😐

sternness or severity of manner or attitude

Obsolescence 💾

situation in which older products and processes become out-of-date

Jejune 💅💁‍♀️

(adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile, superficial

Desultorily 🐇🐇

jumping from one topic to another, haphazardly, without clear effort or plan

Staunchly 🗿

Loyal, firm, and dependable

Vitiating 🔨❌

spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of/ or legally

Ingenuous 😇

innocent, simple; frank, sincere

Debilitating

weakening, harmful

Arresting 💃

attracting attention; striking, impressive

Uncouth 💩📚

Lacking good manners

Abrogated 🙅‍♀️

to abolish, to do away with, to annul

Exonerated 🆓

declared blameless and free of guilt

Acquitted 🆓

found not guilty

Interred

buried (bury a corpse in a burial - he was interred with the military honors due to him)

Debacle 🌪️

a complete failure; a total collapse

Impasse ✋

dead end

Enigma

a puzzle; a mystery

Recrimate 👉👈

To return accusation to someone who has accused you (air is natural to recrimate against someone who has blamed you)

Vindicate 🆓

to free from blame

Repudiate

to reject the validity of, refuse to accept, deny the truth of

Adulterate

to make impure

Sojourning 🐇🗺️

staying temporarily (after soujourning in Thailand she went to Malaysia)

Confiscatory 👨‍✈️

Used to describe the act of something being taken away from someone by a government

Consummate 🔝

(adj.) complete or perfect in the highest degree; (She dressed with consummate elegance) (v.) to bring to a state of completion or perfection (or like have sex in a marriage)

Dogma 📖

a principle or belief held to be true by an authority

Tenet 📖

An idea held to be true - like dogma

Dogmatic 📣💥

A very opinionated person

Polity = ____+____

Noun - government, political + entity = polity

Inane

Adj silly (She likes to make inane jokes)

Spurious

not genuine; to be false, apparently but not actually valid (She made spurious claims to spur tension between the groups)

Fallacious

false; misleading, based on a mistaken belief (His argument is based on fallacious reasoning)

Terse 😶

Not using many words

Succinct 😶

Not using many words, concise

Blithe 👍👎

cheerful, lighthearted; casual, unconcerned, or someone who isn't paying attention the way they should

Renounce

to give up or resign something

Spurn 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

To reject scornfully, vehemently

Extol 👏

to praise highly

Eulogize 👏📚🗣️

write or speak in praise of someone

Deprecate 🗣️👇

(v.) to express mild disapproval; to belittle

Discountenance 😐

to express disapproval in, disturb the composure of

Vainglory n. 👸

Excessive pride in oneself or one's achievement

apothesosis n. 🔝

Best point in development, achieving god status

Beneficence 👍

Generous person, the act of doing good

Munificence👍

generosity in giving

Insouciant ☺️

Carefree

Moribund

Near death

Exalt 👏

To praise

Attenuate 🛡️

Reduce the force/effect of, become thinner and weaker

Commiserate

To symphatisize or pity

Affable 😄😁

Friendly (what an affable person)

Salutary 💊

Producing a beneficial effect, healthful

Indubitable adj. 🚫❓

Undoubted, unquestionable

Salacious 💋

HVing or conveying undue interest in sexual matters, or to be arousing to sexual desires

Abate 📉

To reduce in amount or severity

Abscond 😶‍🌫️

To leave secretly (He's trying to abscond to the gym to build his abs)

Aggrandize v. 👏

To increase in power, influence, and reputation (She wanted to aggrandize herself by claiming grand achievements that were actually untrue)

Anachronism 👵

Something out of place in time (She used anachronistic terms like groovy)

Antipathy 👎

Extreme dislike (The antipathy she had for dogs was clear with the lack of sympathy she had for their suffering)

Apathy 😐

Lack of interest or emotion (Her apathy at her father's funeral was shocking)

Arbitrate 👩‍⚖️

To judge a dispute between two opposing parties

Ardor ❤️‍🔥

Intense and passionate feeling (Her ardor for him was evident by the way she looked at him)

Hitherto

Until now, or until the point of discussion

Authoritative 👂

Able to be trusted as being accurate or true, reliable. Commanding and self- confident

Elucidate

Making something clear, explain

Elucidation

Explanation that makes something clear; clarification

Obfuscation 🚫

The action of making something obscure, unclear

Malapropism 🎃

The mistaken use of a word in a place of a similar sounding one (Grandma saying pumpkin pie)

Tepid 🔥❄️

Lukewarm, showing little enthusiasm

Emaciated

Abnormally thin or weak

Kismet n.

Destiny; fate

Imbroglio n. 😵

An extremely confused, complicated or embarrassing situation

Excoriate

Censure or criticize heavily, or damage and remove part of the skin

Aplomb 👸

Self confidence or assurance especially in a demanding situation

Taciturnity 😶

Trait of being uncommunicative, not volunteering anything more than necessary, saying little

Insolence 😒

Rude and disrespectful behavior

Hilarity n.

Extreme amusement (His joke was the cause of much hilarity)

Derision 😒

Mockery and ridicule

furtively 😶‍🌫️

Secretly

Stentorian 🗣️

Loud and powerful manner of voice

Expository

Intended to explain or describe something

Felicitous 👍

Well chosen or suited to the circumstance, appropriately expressed

Garrulous 🗣️🗣️

Excessively talkative in trivial matters

Poignant 😢 adj

Causing strong feelings

Vociferous adj. 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Offensively loud

Imbibe 🍹 v.

Drink, absorb ideas

Dispassion 😐

Unemotional or emotionally uninvolved

Trepidation 😟 / apprehension

Fear that something may happen, Anxiety

Imperturbation 😴

Calmness

Diaphanous adj

Light, delicate, almost transparent (alike for a fabric)

Esoteric

hard to understand; known only to a few

Dissenting

Disagreeing 🚫

Impetus 💃

The driving force

Bewail 😩

Express great regret, disappointment

Laud

Praise

Lament 😢

Express sorrow, mourn

Peruse

Examine, skim

Alacrity 😃

Cheerful readiness to do something, eager