TPR GRE Set 3

• d: infamy, disgrace
• p: uh-proh-bree-uh m

s: They're going ahead with the plan despite publicopprobrium.

• d: to influence or persuade
• p: weed-l

s: She pleaded and wheedled, but I wouldn't be swayed.

• d: coward
• p: krey-vuh n

s: <a craven refusal to deliver the unwelcome news personally>

• d: accidental; fortunate, lucky
• p: fawr-too-i-tuh s

s: from a cost standpoint, the company's timing is fortuitous

• d: confirm
• p: kuh-rob-uh-reyt

s: the witnesses corroborated the policeman's testimony

• d: evil, harmful
• p:

s: <the novel grossly oversimplified the conflict as a struggle between relentlessly malevolent villains on one side and faultless saints on the other>

• d: gloomily
• p: 

s: He became morose and withdrawn and would not talk to anyone.

• d: distrustful, hater of humankind
• p: mis-uhn-throhp

s: <a former misanthrope who now professes a newly discovered love of mankind>

• d: inappropriate, not opportune, inconvenient
• p: 

s: He always shows up at the most inopportune times.

• d: boring, w/o interesting qualities
• p: 

s: <an apple pie with a mushy, insipid filling that strongly resembled soggy cardboard>

• d: to accustom to hardship; to take/have effect
• p: in-yered

s: the man had inured to the cold

• d: appease, make favourably inclined
• p: pruh-pish-ee-eyt

s: the waiter propitiated the annoyed customer in an attempt to get a larger tip

• d: mix, merge, combine, unite
• p: un-mal-guh-mate

s: bronze is made by amalgamating copper and tin

• d: delay, slow, hinder/impede
• p: rih-tahrd

s: The problems have retarded the progress of the program.

• d: sincere, not feigned
• p: uhn-feynd

s: <the young soprano retains an unfeigned humility that is surprising, given the critical acclaim she has received>

• d: very irate, easily provoked
• p: ih-rasiuh-buhl

s: he has an irascible disposition

• d: scolding; intense verbal attack
• p: huh-rang

s: the soup nazi harangued the inattentive customer

• d: stingy
• p: my-ser

s: Uncle Pennybags was rich but miserly

• d: not to be appeased, inexorable
• p: im-plak-uh-buh l

s: <an implacable judge who knew in his bones that the cover-up extended to the highest levels of government>

• d: puzzled; perplexed
• p: non-pluhs

s: <I was nonplussed by his openly expressed admiration of me.>

• d: a glutinous nature or consistency; thick, slow
• p: vis-kuh s

s: molasses is extremely viscous

• d: scold; caution, adivse or counsel against something
• p: admon-ish

s: <my physician is always admonishing me to eat more healthy foods>

• d: restoration of (or compensation for) property/rights previously taken away; restoration to fomer/original state or position
• p: res-ti-too-shuh n

s: the restitution of her stolen property

• d: meeting or formal assembly;
• agrement, compact or contract; international agreement;
• a rule, melhod or practice established by custom
• p: kuh n-ven-shuh n

s:  the convention of showing north at the top of a map.

• d: to free from restraint, liberate
• p: uhn-fet-er

s: <authorities eventually unfettered the menagerie of wild animals that had been kept illegally as pets>

• d: inclined to silence; stern and silent in expression
• p: tas-i-turn

s: a taciturn man, he almost never initiates a conversation

• d: to remove or destroy utterly
• p: ih-rad-i-keyt

s: His ambition is to eradicate poverty in his community.

• d: shameless or impuent boldness; barefaced audacity
• p: ih-fruhn-tuh-ree

s: She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples.

• d: use of exaggeration; study/ability of the effective use of language
• p: ret-er-ik

s: <the mayor's promise to fight drugs was just rhetoric, since there was no money in the city budget for a drug program>

• d: not genuine, counterfeit; bastard
• p: spyoo r-ee-uh s

s: <a spurious Picasso painting that wouldn't have fooled an art expert for a second>

• d: irritation, annoyance
• p: vek-sey-shuh n

s: <the repeated vexations guaranteed that she wouldn't get any work done>

• d: concise
• p: luh-kon-ik

s: <the sportscaster's color commentary tends to be laconicbut very much to the point>

• d: lack of moderation/restraint; excessive indulgence
• p: in-tem-ter-uh ns

s: <in his harangue on the perils of drink, the prohibitionist claimed that intemperance has always been the number one destroyer of marriages>

• d: situation on the border, outer limits
• p: mahr-juh-nl

s: There has been only a marginal improvement in her condition.

• d: to make less severe
• p: mit-i-geyt

s: Emergency funds are being provided to help mitigate the effects of the disaster.

• d: aversion
• p: an-tip-uh-thee

s: There has always been strong antipathy between the two groups.

• d: not easily excited, apathetic, calm
• p: fleg-mati-ik

s: <a strangely phlegmatic response to what should have been happy news>

• d: respectful or courteous
• p: def-er-uh ns

s: He is shown much deference by his colleagues.

• d: wasteful/recklessly extravagant
• p: prod-i-guh l

s: <the prodigal child always spent her allowance the minute she got it>

• d: fearless; dauntless
• p: in-trep-id

s: <an intrepid explorer who probed parts of the rain forest never previously attempted>