1-100 Words for 160+ Score Flashcards
Underwrite
'’The government has agreed to underwrite the project with a grant of £5 million’’
Douse
'’Keep a bucket of water nearby to douse the fire should it get out of hand.’’
Animus
'’Whenever I am around the girl who stole my boyfriend, I experience an animus that makes me want to break something.’’
Proclivity
'’After watching others succeed by working hard, I have a proclivity to behave like them.’’
anti-thetical
Being in direct and clear opposition
conjecture
an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information
speculation
assumption
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‘‘He conjectured that the population might double in ten years.’’
surfeit
excess supply of
Real GRE can use this as disgust caused by excess or an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something
cause (someone) to desire no more of something as a result of having consumed or done it to excess.
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‘‘The country has a surfeit of cheap labour.’’
‘‘It’s no good for your health to surfeit yourself.’’
metamorphosis
(Dragon Ball Z)
to become transformed
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‘‘We have watched her metamorphosis from a shy schoolgirl into a self-confident businesswoman’’
embraced
to hug or to accept readily
(the latter is used 99% of the time)
panacea
'’Imprisonment continues to be used as the chief penalty and most trusted panacea for all crime.’’
primitive
assumed as a basis / not derived / original
ceded to
'’this province had been ceded to Great Britain in 1713’’
gratify
'’Hopefully the chocolate bar will gratify my desire for something sweet.’’
evanescent
'’The definition of evanescent is something fleeting that passes out of sight or mind quickly. An example of evanescent is a rainbow that appears for only a moment after a storm.’’
unwieldy
(how you wield a weapon)
not easily managed or handled
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‘‘But the trucks are unwieldy, easily thrown off balance.’’
harbinger
one that pioneers or initiated a big change. also known as a precursor
rescinded
'’The vendor claimed that he had rescinded the contract on the purchaser’s failure to comply with the notice to complete.’’
evocatively
'’The question is, why is it evoking such a powerful response?’’
furtive
shady
attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.
suggestive of guilty nervousness
intrepid
'’He was a skilled knight and a daring huntsman intrepid on the field of battle.’’
specious
having a deceiving nature
delusive
‘‘his argument is rather specious than sound’’
eclectic
(Pakistan ki electric car)
composed of elements drawn from various sources (can be interchanged for heterogeneous)
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‘‘The restaurant serves an eclectic mix of seafood, poultry, red-meat and vegetarian dishes.’’
spurious
'’He was arrested in 1979 on spurious corruption charges’’
quirk
(Doug Demuro)
a particular trait
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‘‘quirks and features of a car’’
lionized
to treat an object with great interest or importance
eulogized
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‘‘Arshad Nadeem is lionized everywhere after the commonwealth games’’
ratiocinate
(from the word rational)
reason
collate
form judgements by a process of logic
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‘‘Abraham arrived at this belief through ratiocination’’
agglomerate
'’A large number of floating populations from countryside invade the cities, and are tending to agglomerate.’’
juxtapose
(pose)
to place side by side
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‘‘It is interesting to juxtapose the lifestyle of today’s teenage generation with their grandparents’ generation.’’
interpose
(inter)
to intervene
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‘‘He tried to interpose himself between the people who were fighting’’
unruliness
(un-rule-able)
refusal to obey
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‘‘The people must respond with disobedience and unruliness’’
artifact
something created by humans usually for a practical purpose
mainstay
(your main friends)
something or someone to which one looks for support
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‘‘My mother has always been the mainstay of our family.’’
mendacity
fabrication
lie
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‘‘Because Melinda was known for her mendacity, she was the first suspect the police interviewed.’’
restorative
beneficial to the body or mind
Real GRE can use this as wholesome
unmistakable
clear
decisive
genteel
(gentleman)
stylish
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‘‘The mansion had an atmosphere of genteel elegance and decay.’’
bumble
'’they bumbled around the house’’
‘‘the succeeding speakers bumbled’’
panegyric
'’After the princess died a popular singer wrote a panegyric to honor her life.’’
rebuke
to criticize sharply
mocking
reject and refuse
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‘‘I was rebuked by my manager for being late.’’
precocious
'’She is a precocious child, wise beyond her years’’