GRE Prep Verbal

Belie

to give false impression of or contradict

Brevity

Briefness

Bucolic

relating to rural or countryside

Capricious

Changing suddenly or often

Congenial

friendly

Deft

skillful or quick

Dubious

doubtful

Eschew

avoidance

extol

worship

Garrulous

Talkative

Innocuous

Harmless

Insipid

uninteresting

Melliflous

pleasent and flowing sound

Ostentatious

wants to attract attention

Prescient

can predict the future

reticent

reluctant to reveal thoughts

Taciturn

not talkative

Contemporaneous

existing during the same period of time

Aloof

Not friendly or approachable

Abstruse

Difficult to understand

Apropos

Apropriate to a situation

Credence

Accepting something as true

Didactic

intended to teach

Dissolute

Lacking moral restraint/no morals

Disparate

Different

engender

to bring about

Improvident

not providing for the future

Intransigent

Stubborn

Pithy

short but sweet verbage

Prodigal

bad with money

Prolix

too many words

Protean

changing quickly

Salient

relevant

Verve

Energy and enthusiasm

Attenuate

to weaken

Diatribe

long angry speech

ephemeral

lasting a short time

equanimity

even composure

Furtive

Secretive

Heterodox

different from standard belief

Indolent

lazy

Mawkish

Sentimental

Myopic

Shortsighted

Neophyte

Beginner

Parsimonious

Really frugal

Preeminent

Most important

Prodigious

Impressively large

Propitious

Indicating future success

Quotidian

Ordinary or everyday

Surreptitious

To do secretly

Tyro

beginner

Vituperation

angry or abusive criticism

Duplicity

deceitfulness

vexation

annoyance and frustration

ebullient

cheerful

Solicitous

showing interest or concern

Munificent

giving an excess of money/gift

irresolute

hesitancy or uncertainty

laconic

using few words

Fastidious

concerned with accuracy/detail

Basenss

Lack of moral character

Prevarication

Avoiding the truth

Mendacity

lying

Modish

Conformist

intractable

uncontrollable

evansecant

temporary

recrudescent

Relapse/breaking out again

inimical

obstructive/harmful