GRE 3

(adv) harsh-sounding, dissonant, discordant, inharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, unvocal

Our church choir sounds cacophonous

(adv) (n) not reformable: depraved, delinquent, unruly

AW was incorrigible.

(adv/n) of or relating to conversation : conversational

used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation; also unacceptably informal

To use the colloquial expression--to rube me the wrong way.

A colloquial essay on what makes marriage successful.

(n)

A man who gives exaggerated attention to personal appearance.

Andy and I are not quite to the dandy point but we do care.

(n) mass for the dead

solemn chant for the repose of the dead

I can't recall an orthodox requiem.

to make soft or supple: soothing especially to the skin or mucous membrane (a balm or lotion)

Making less intense or harsh: mollifying

diverging from each other (divergent paths)

differing from each other from a standard

adj of doubtful authenticity : spurious

• apocryphally (adv)
• Apocryphalness (n)

I'm worried about the apocryphalness of codex w.

adj

• lasting one day only
• lasting a very short time

fleeting, brief, deciduous, momentary, evanescent, flash, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory

n.

Part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point

A minor flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior: weakness (admired their teacher despite his foibles)

demerit, dereliction, failing, fault, frailty, shortcoming, sin, vice, want, weakness

promptness in response : cheerful readiness

amenability, gameness, goodwill, obligingness, willingness

a period of temporary delay

an interval of rest or relief

providing or being temporary care in relief of a primary caregiver

to set free

discharge, disenthral, emancipate, enfranchise, enlarge, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter

• v to possess with or as if with a devil
• to cause distress : trouble
• to change for the worse : spoil
• to confuse utterly : bewilder
• agonize, anguish, afflict, beset, besiege, curse, excuciate, harrow, persecute, plague, rack, torment, torture

• v to offer in sacrifice ; especially : to kill as a sacrificial victim
• to kill or destroy often by fire

• excessively thin and angular
• cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, skeletal, wasted

• bereft, forsaken, sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion : desoltate
• being in poor condition : miserable, wretched
• nearly hopeless
• alone

• being an omen : portentous
• resembling or befitting a prodigy : strange, unusual
• exciting amazement or wonder
• extraordinary in bulk, quantity or degree : enormous
• monstorous, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, awful, eye-opening, famulous, miraculous, portentous, marvelous, staggering, stunning, stupendous, sublime, surprising, wonderful, wondrous

lukewarm

Marked by an absence of enthusiasm or conviction

halfhearted, uneager, unenthusiastic

fully or abundantly provided or filled

abundantly fed, fat, stout

complete

blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy, portly, pudgy, fat, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating

deeply or violently bitter : acrimonious

bitter, acrimonious, embittered, hard, rancorous, resentful, sore

brilliantly lively, stimulating, or witty

scintillate means to emit sparks

easily bent or flexed, characterized by easy flexibility and grace

a mixture composed chiefly of moistened clay, a coarse molding sand used in founding

a soil consisting of a friable mixture of varying proportions of clay, silt, and sand

immeasurably or incalculably small

a prolonged discourse

a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing

ironic or satirical criticism

promptness in response : cheerful readiness

defeated, vanquished

lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted

chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-livered, cowardly, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered, poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow

not easily managed, handled, or used : cumbersome

awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, clunky, cranky, cumbrous, ponderous, ungainly, unhandy, cumbersome

marry

to take up and support as a cause : become attached to

to champion

not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless