GRE Hit Parade Group 3

Keen, accurate judgment or insight

To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

To combine several elements into a whole (noun form: amalgamation)

Outdated; associted with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time

To state as a fact; to declare or assert

To provide support or reinforcement

Pompous; grandiloquent (noun form: bombast)

A harsh denunciation

To distinguish or conceal; to mislead

Departing from norms or conventions

Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people

Tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

To make worse or more severe

Greatly emotional or zealous (noun form: fervor)

Happening by accident or chance

Relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter

Pompous speech or expression (adj form: grandiloquent)

Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

Calm and peaceful

Devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses (a hedonist is someone who pursues pleasure)

The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others

One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

Given to intense or excessive devotion to something (noun form: idolatry)

Revealing no emotion

Marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness

Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

Immunity from punishment or penalty

In an initial stage; not fully formed

Unfortunate; innappropriate

Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland

Extremely talkative (noun form: loquacity)

Characterized by brightness and the emission of light

Having or showing often viscious ill will, spite, or hatred (noun form: malevolence)

Capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable

The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty (adj. form: mendacious)

Charachterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail

One who hates all other humans (adj. from: misanthropic)

To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate

Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable

Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

To obstruct or block

Disgrace; contempt; scorn

The profession or principles of teaching, or instructing

Overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about ones knowledge

Poverty; destitution

Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout

To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor

To illegally use or reproduce

The essential or central part

Precise and brief

To appease; to calm by making concessions

A superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful

To plunge or drop straight down

Controversial; argumentative

Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish

Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant

To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly

Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations

Prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish

Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment (noun form: rancor)

Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage

To refuse to have anything to do with; disown

To invalidate; to repeal; to retract

Marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect (noun form: reverence)

The art or study of efectctive use of language for communication and persuasion

Promoting health or well-being

Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance

Seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false

Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit

A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

Brief; concise

Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

An overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess

The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination (adj form: tenacious)

Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak

A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation

Fleeting; passing quickly; brief

Fervent; ardent; impassioned; devoted to a cause (a zealot is a zealous person)