GRE Hit Parade (1 - 6)

Waver

to be unsettled; to sway

Volatile

Fickle; explosive

Vitality

Vigor; energy

Vital

Essential; necessary

Viscous

Thick; sticky

Vigor

Active body or mental strength

Tentative

Not definitive; uncertain

Synthesis

Combination of parts to make a whole

Stimulant

A substances that excites mental or physical activity

Sever

To remove by cutting off

Saturate

To fill until it can no longer absorb

Retard

To slow or delay

Rectify

To make right or to correct

Rarefy

To make or become thin; to refine

Prune

To cut back or clip branches of a plant

Propagate

Spread; multiply; reproduce

Proliferate

To grow or increase swiftly

Precursor

One that precedes another

Precipitate

To act with excessive haste

Plummet

To plunge or drop straight down

Plod

To trudge; to move slowly

Placate

To appease; to calm by making concessions

Pervasive

Having the tendency to spread around

Obviate

To anticipate and make unnecessary

Luminous

Bright; characterized by light

Lethargic

Lacking energy; sluggish; sleepy

Lackluster

Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity

Invigoration

The quality of being energized or filled with liveliness

Inundate

To flood or overwhelm

Intransigent

Refusing to compromise

Infuse

To imbue; to pour in

Incubation

Act of warming eggs to allow them to hatch

Inchoate

Initial stage; not fully form

Implode

To collapse inward

Facilitate

To aid by making easier

Extend

To lengthen or stretch

Expel

To force out; to discharge

Eradicate

To annihilate

Ephemeral

Brief; fleeting

Enervate

To weaken; to reduce in vitality

Divest

To remove or strip

Distill

To purify

Desiccate

To dry out or dehydrate

Decibel

Unit that measures intensity of sound

Corrosion

Process of causing deterioration

Conversion

Process of transforming from one form to another

Converge

To tend to the same spot or outcome

Centrifuge

A machine that spins around a center axis to separate substances

Caustic

Burning or stinging; causing corrosion

Catalyst

Person or thing that causes change

Capricious

Erratic; unpredictable

Buttress

A support or a prop up

Burgeon

To grow rapidly or flourish

Bolster

To provide support; reinforce

Assuage

To ease or lessen

Amalgamate

To combine several elements into a whole

Abscond

To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

Adversity

Hardship or difficulty; opposition

Aggravate

To worsen or intensify

Arduous

Strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort

Belie

To give a false impression of; to misrepresent

Bombast

Self important writing or speech

Cacophony

Harsh or jarring sound

Castigation

Severe criticism or punishment

Censure

to criticize severely; to officially rebuke

Chicanery

trickery or subterfuge

Coercive

Serving or intended to compel by force or authority

Condemn

To blame or denounce

Conspire

To secretly work together with the intent to commit a wrong or illegal act

Covert

Hidden; clandestine

Cower

To shrink in fear; to cringe

Craven

Contemptibly fainthearted; lacking any courage

Denigrate

To blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to disparage

Denounce

To publicly condemn or criticize

Derision

Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment

Diatribe

A harsh denunciation

Discomfit

To defeat; to put down

Disingenuous

Insincere; lacking in honesty or frankness

Dissemble

To disguise or conceal; to mislead

Exacerbate

To make worse or more severe; to increase in violence

Fraud

Deliberate deceit with the goal of gaining an unlawful advantage

Furtive

Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

Garrulous

Pointlessly talkative; talking too much

Harangue

To deliver an arrogant speech

Impudent

Bold and disrespectful

Inopportune

Ill timed and inappropriate

Irascible

Easily angered

Malevolent

Showing ill-will and hatred

Martial

Associated with war

Misanthrope

One who hates all other humans

Morose

Sad; Melancholy

Obdurate

Unyielding and stubborn

Obsequious

Fawning and attentive

Obstinate

Stubborn and uncompromising

Onerous

Troubling and burdensome

Opprobrium

Disgrace and scorn

Pedantic

Excessive attention to rules

Perjury

A false or misleading testimony

Provoke

To incite anger or resentment

Recalcitrant

Difficult to manage and defiant of authority