GRE Vocabulary VI (Princeton)

verb: to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

verb: to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

noun: a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

adj/noun: soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

noun: farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

noun: one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

noun: deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

noun: severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

verb: to aver, allege, or assert

adj: diligent, hard-working, sedulous

noun: omen, portent

adj: belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

verb: to slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

adj: disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

verb: to find fault without good reason

noun: speed, alacrity; think accelerate

noun: an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

adj: insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

noun: rout, fiasco, complete failure

noun: an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

verb: to discriminate or discern

noun: disuse

adj: random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

adj: transparent, gauzy

adj: reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

noun: a song of grief or lamentation

noun: glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

verb: to sun or avoid

verb: to censure scathingly, to upbraid

verb: to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

noun: critical examination, explication

verb: to tone or make amends for

verb: to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

adj: silly, inanely foolish

adj: quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

verb: to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

adj: unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

noun: difficult or embarrassing situtation

adj: certain, inevitable

adj: one of a kind, peerless

adj: unconcerned, carefree, heedless

adj: deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

adj: vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

adj: lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

noun: a beggar, supplicant

adj: cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

adj: menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)

noun: low point, perigee

adj: baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

adj: noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

adj: tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

verb: to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

noun: formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

adj: cheap, miserly

adj: transparent, easy to understand, limpid

noun: the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

adj: pounding, thundering, resounding

• adj: long-winded, verbose;
• prolixity means verbosity

• verb: to appease; to conciliate;
• propitious means auspicious, favorable

adj: childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

• noun: power, strength;
• puissant means powerful, strong

adj: cowardly, craven

verb: to protest, to object

adj: having sound judgement; perceptive, wise; like a sage

adj: lustful, lascivious, bawdy

adj: remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

adj: cheerful, confident, optimistic

adj: gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

adj: aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

adj: extremely loud and powerful

adj: gloomy, dark

noun: toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

adj: biased; showing marked tendencies

adj: timid, fearful, diffident

noun: novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

verb: to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

adj: fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language