GRE Bullshit Vocabulary Part 2

Anomacy

not normal or abnormal or atypical

Erroneous

describing something that has an error; something that is wrong

Maladroit

to be clumsy; not good with their hands

Magniloquent

liking to use very big words to communicate to others

Prolific

creating lots of something

Extemporaneous

to do something on the fly; impromptu without rehearsal

Calumniate

to slander someone

Propitious

a favorable start or beginning of process

Choleric

someone who is always angry and spiteful; in a bad mood

Inchoate

its not fully formed; something that starting off but not finishing

Doctrinaire

someone that has to do everything by the book; someone who follows orthodoxy

Laconic

uttering one or two word answers; not saying much; a synonym for RETICENT

Peruse

to be very careful and look closely and slowly to certain things

Nonplussed

to be bewildered; to have no idea what’s going on

Histrionic

someone is melodramatic; overemotional

Preclude

to prevent something from happening

Ponderous

to move about in a very labored and difficult fashion; moving with great difficulty

Confound

to utter confusion

Extant

something that is still in existence; exIStant

Verisimilitude

very similar ti the original thing; a high degree to reality (very-similar-to the real deal)

Cupidity

to be excessively greedy (the greedy cupid who tries to take things from everyone)

Slipshod

to be careless; it does not have method or any organization to it

Flounder

to have great difficulty in something (the company is failing due to a low profit margin)

Discrete

to put things into two distinct categories

Maintain

to assert something

Check

to hold something back; to limit something

Qualify

to take a statement and restrict the extent of it; taking a normal statement then adding an exception

Wanting

to lack something

Flag

getting tired; to fatigue

Appropriate

to take something; to seize something

Plausible

to be believable; it describes a story or an account

Abstain

to hold back from doing something

Engender

to give rise to; to make a beginning; to bring something into existence

Sully

to damage a reputation

Rebuff

to reject someone outright

Elicit

to draw out something or someone; to make an emotion or response come out

Empirical

something that can be measured; something for which you can collect data; listing facts about someone/thing

Catalyst

it is something that speeds up a process

Irrefutable

something that cannot be disproven no matter what

Debunk

to prove something to be false

Irreconcilable

things that show different things about a certain theory; to data pieces are not able to be connected together

Astronomical

very, very large object

Clairvoyant

to clearly see the future

Pusillanimous

lily-livered or craven and cowardly; someone being scared of things

Salubrious

something that is healthy or health-giving

Cacophony

something that is harsh-sounding

Satiety

the condition of being full or gratified beyond point of satisfaction

Bouyant

to be full of energy; very bouncy; a live with happiness

Ingratiate

being so nice to people; to come off as really likable; over-the-top niceness

Table

to put aside for another time; talk about an issue at another time for later in the next meeting

Amiable

to be fun and friendly; trying to get along with people

Conciliate

being a peacemaker when a conflict is present

Revitalize

to give new life; reboot a old movie franchise

Draconian

something that describes rules or laws to be super strict and severe

Ephemeral

short-lived event; fleeting; not lasting for a long time

Apogee

somebody or someone that is at the highest point/rank

Modicum

just the slightest amount if something

Decry

to speak out against something/someone; disagreeing with someone

Contentious

someone who habitually argumentative; someone who is never really happy; always trying to argue something

Factious

to be funny or humorous; to be joking around

Redress

to take something that is bad and counterbalance it; counteract a bad trait or situation into a good thing

Misanthrope

someone who is very grouchy and hates people or other things

Juggernaut

any unstoppable force that just pushes anything and everything out of its way

Stalwart

someone who is loyal and hardy; they stick by people’s side on an issue

Nefarious

being wicked and villainous and evil (Dr. Nefario from Despicable Me)

Bamboozle

to trick someone; to cheat; to deceive

Punctilious

someone who is very nit-picky; everything has to be in perfect order