GRE Vocab

v. to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

adj. deviating from the norm (n. abberation)

n. eager and enthusiastic willingness

n. deviation from the normal order form, or rule; abnormality (adj. anomalous)

n. an expression of approval or praise

adj. strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort

v. to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify

adj. daring and fearless; recklessly bold (n. audacity)

adj. without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic (n. austerity)

adj. taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth (n. axiom)

adj. following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards (n. canon)

adj. inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erractic, unpredictiable

v. to criticize severely; to officially rebuke

n. trickery or subterfuge

n. an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert

adj. complex or complicated

v. to undeceive; to set right

adj. conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

adj. fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

n. extreme boldness; presumptuousness

adj. well-spoken, expressive, articulate (n. eloquence)

v. to weaken; to reduce in vitality

n. dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

v. to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent (adj. equivocal)

adj. very learned; scholarly (n.erudition)

v. exonerate; to clear of blame

adj. urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention

adj. improvised; done without preparation

n. intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action

v. to loudly attack or denounce

adj. artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication

adj. accustomed to accepting something undesirable

adj. easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts

v. to praise highly (adj. laudatory)

adj. clear; easily understood

n. the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving (adj. magnanimous)

adj. assocaited with war and the armed forces

adj. of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary

adj. coming into being; in early developmental stages

adj. vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form

n. a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses

adj. harmful, injurious

adj. lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression

v. to anticipate and make unnecessary

adj. troubling; burdensome

n. a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

n. a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art

adj. recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly

n. intentional breach of faith; treachery (adj. perfidious)

adj. cursory; done without care or interest

adj. acutely perceptive; having keen discernment (n. perspicacity)

v. to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner

adj. acting with excessive haste or impulse

n. a disposition in favor of something; preference

n. foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring (adj. prescient)

v. to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead

n. misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy

v. to retract, esp. a previously held belief

v. to disprove; to successfully argue against

v. to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position

adj. quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings

adj. concerned and attentive; eager

adj. characterized by filth, grim or squalor; foul

adj. occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances

v. to waste by spending or using irresponsibly

adj. not moving, active or in motion; at rest

v. to stun, baffle, or amaze

v. to block; thwart

n. the combination of parts to make a whole (v. synthesize)

n. a force that causes rotation

adj. winding, twisting, excessively complicated

adj. fierce and cruel; eager to fight

n. truthfulness, honesty

adj. extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic

adj. having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuitl ravenous

v. to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion

v. to lessen in intensity or degree

n. an expression of praise

n. excessive praise; intense adoration

adj. dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful

v. to make better or more tolerable

n. one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religion devotion

n. greed esp. for wealth (adj. avaricious)

n. a universally recognized principle (adj. axiomatic)

v. to grow rapidly or flourish

adj. rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

n. harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance (adj. cacophonous)

n. an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature (adj. canonical)

n. severe criticism or punishment (v. castigate)

n. a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change

adj. burning or stinging; cusing corrosion

adj. wary; cautios; sparing

adj. appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing

n. the willingness to comply with the wishes of others (adj. complaisant)

adj. argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement

adj. regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness (n. contrition)

adj. deserving blame (n. culpability)

n. smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack

v. to question or oppose

adj. intended to teach or instruct

n. caustious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions (adj. discreet)

adj. free of bias or self-interest; impartial

adj. expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principles (n. dogma)

n. the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings (adj. ebullient)

adj. composed of elements drawn from various sources

n. a mournful poem esp. one lamenting the dead (adj. elegiac)

adj./n. soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smoothes the skin

adj. based on observation or experiment

adj. mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand (n. enigma)

adj. brief; fleeing

adj. intended for or understtod by a small, specific group

n. a speech honoring the dead (v. eulogize)

v. to remove blame

adj. playful; humorous

n. an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief (adj. fallacious)

adj. marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

adj. sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people

v./n. to deliver a pompous speech or tiradel; a long, pompous speech

adj. violating accepted dogma or convention (n. heresy)

n. an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech (adj. hyperbolic)

adj. lacking funds; without money

adj. beginning to come into being or to become apparent

adj. unmoving; lethargic; sluggish

adj. harmless; casuing no damage

adj. regusing to compromise (n. intransigence)

v. to obtain by deception or flattery

adj. sad; sullen; melancholy

adj. evoking intense aversion or dislike

adj. impenetrable by light; not reflecting light

n. the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterupted rhythm (v. oscillate)

adj. penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous

adj. extremely harmful; potentially causing death

v. to examine with greate care (n. perusal)

adj. extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion (n. piety)

n. one that precedes and indicated or announces another

v. to dress up; to primp; to grrom oneslef with elaborate care

adj. abundant in size, force or extent; extraordinary

adj. producing larger volumes or amounts; productive

v. to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor (adj. putrid)

v. to drink deeply

n. stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest (adj. quiescent)

adj. awe-inspiring; worthy of honor

n./v. authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to

n. a literary work that redicules or criticizes a human vice through humor and derision (adj. satirical)

adj. sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect (adj. squalor)

adj. indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast (n. stoicism)

v. to take the place of; supersede

adj. lethargic; sluggish; dormant (n. torpor)

adj. existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encoutered; wide-spread

adj. sophisticated; refined; elegant (n. urbanity)

v. to defame; to characterize harshly

adj. thick; sticky (n. viscosity)

n. keen; accurate judgement or insight

v. to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

v. to combine several elements into a whole (n. amalgamation)

adj. outdated; assocated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time

v. to state as a fact; to declare or assert

v. to provide support or reinforcement

adj. pompous; grandiloquent (n. bombast)

n. a harsh denunciation

v. to disguise or coneal; to mislead

adj. departing from norms or conventions

adj. characteristic of or foten found in a particular locality, region or people

adj. tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

v. to make worse or more severe

adj. greatly emotional or zealous (n. fervor)

adj. happening by accident or chance

adj. relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter

n. pompous speech or expression (adj. grandiloquent)

adj. rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

adj. calm and peaceful

n. devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses

n. the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others

n. one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

adj. given to intense or excessive devotion to something (n. idolatry)

adj. revealing no emotion

adh. marked bt extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness

adj. not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

n. immunity from punishment or penalty

adj. in an initial stagel not fully formed

adj. unfortunatel inappropriate

adj. without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland

adj. extremely talkative (n. loquacity)

adj. characterized by brightness and the emission of light

adj. having or showing often vicious ill will, spite or hatred (n. malevolence)

adj. capable of ebing shaped or formed; tractable; pliable

n. the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty (adj. mendacious)

adj. characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail

n. one who hates all other humans (adj. misanthropic)

v. to make or beocome less server or intense; to moderate

adj. unyielding; hardhearted; intractable

adj. exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

v. to obstruct or block

n. disgrace; contempt; scorn

n. the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing

adj. overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge

n. poverty; destitution

adj. having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout

v. to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor

v. to illegally use or reproduce

n. the essential or central part

adj. precise and brief

v. to appease; to calm by making concessions

n. a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful

v. to plunge or drop straight down

adj. controversial; argumentative

adj. recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish

adj. given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant

v. to grow or incraese swiftly and abundantly

n. questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations

adj. prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish

adj. characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment (n. rancor)

adj. obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage

v. to refuse to have anything to do with; disown

v. to invalidate; to repeal; to retract

adj. marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect (n. reverence)

n. the art of study of effective use of language for communication and persuassion

adj. promoting health or well-being

adj. able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance

adj. seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleading attractive; plausible but false

adj. lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit

n. a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

adj. brief; concise

adj. exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

n./v. an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess

n. the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination (adj. tenacious)

adj. having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak

n. a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation

adj. fleeting; passing quickly; brief

adj. fervent; ardent; impassioned; devoted to a cause (n. zealot)

adj. having a sour or bitter taste or chacter, sharp, biting

v. to increase in intensity, power, influence or prestige