GRE Group 17

Acclaim

Enthusiastic praise (applaud, commend)

Ascertain

To discover or make certain something (discover, verify)

Assertive

behaves confidently and is not frightened to say what they want or believe (bold, forceful)

Bogus

False or fake (counterfeit, phony)

Cataclysmic

Disastrously impactful (catastrophic, devastating)

Circumscribe

Restrict within limits (confine, constrain)

Complementary

Completing something (harmonious, matching)

Contentious

Likely to cause argument (controversial, combative)

Disingenuous

Insincere, dishonest (deceitful, dishonest)

Divulge

To make something secret known (disclose, expose)

Dogmatic

tending to force one’s own opinions on other people (rigid, doctrinaire)

Fallacious

wrong, mistaken or showing false reasoning (erroneous, misleading)

Foolhardy

brave in a silly way (rash, imprudent)

Hinder

To limit the ability of someone to do something, or to limit the development of something (impede, delay)

Impair

Weaken, to make less effective or efficient (damage, diminish)

Impugn

Challenge as false (dispute, question)

Incessant

Non-stop (unceasing, constant)

Inclined

Likely or leaning (disposed, prone)

Inveterate

Habitual, someone who does something habitually and cant stop doing it (entrenched, chronic)

Miserly

Not generous, small amount (stingy, tacaño)

Patent

very obvious (evident, clear)

Petulant

Childishly irritable (peevish, cranky)

Pithy

expressing an idea cleverly in a few words (concise, succinct)

Pliant

Easily influenced or controlled, with flexible ideas (docile, malleable)

Sanctimonious

acting as if morally better than others (hypocritical, smug)

Sound

showing or based on good judgment, not harmful or wrong (valid, solid)

Tarnish

to make people think that someone or something is less good (stain, sully)

Tepid

Lacking enthusiasm (lukewarm, indifferent)

Upbraid

to forcefully or angrily tell someone they should not have done a particular thing and criticize them for having done it (reprimand, rebuke)

Vexation

State of annoyance (irritation, exasperation, irritación)