GRE Common Vocab Flashcards
(114 cards)
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Askance
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With a look of suspicion or disapproval
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Impertinent
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Disrespectful; improperly bold
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Intrepid
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Fearless
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Precipitous
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Done with great haste without due deliberation
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Eschew
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To avoid or stay away from
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Magnanimous
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Noble and generous
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Polemic
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Extreme verbal attack
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Perfidy
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Act of deliberate betrayal
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Heretic
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One who holds unorthodox opinions
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Fallacious
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Of a belief based on faulty reasoning
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Acrimony
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Bitterness; ill-will
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Tractable
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Easily influenced; amenable
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Veracious
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Truthful
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Pernicious
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Exceedingly harmful
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Diffident
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Lacking self-confidence; modest
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Gall
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Impertinence; feeling of deep anger and ill-will
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Craven
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Pathetically cowardly
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Travesty
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An absurd presentation; mockery
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Inscrutable
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Not easily understood; unfathomable
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Languid
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Slow and relaxed
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Intransigent
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Unwilling to change one’s beliefs; stubborn
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Propitious
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Presenting favorable circumstances
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Dilatory
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Wasting time
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Inveterate
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Habitual
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Profligate
Spending resources wastefully
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Impudent
Improperly forward or bold; impertinent
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Involved
Complicated; difficult to understand
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Refractory
Stubbornly resistant to authority
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Capricious
Determined by chance or impulse
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Largess
Extreme generosity
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Culpability
State of guilt
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Burgeon
To grow and flourish
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Delineate
To describe in detail
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Munificent
Very generous
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Fastidious
Overly concerned with details
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Germane
Relevant and appropriate
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Egregious
Shockingly bad
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Truncate
To reduce the length of something
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Ambivalent
Mixed or conflicting emotions
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Garrulous
Full of trivial conversation
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Confound
To cause confusion; mistake one for another
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Admonitory
Serving to warn; expressing reproach for correction
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Pejorative
Expressing disapproval
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Petulant
Easily irritated or annoyed
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Obsequious
Attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
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Ignominious
Deserving disgrace and shame
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Pedantic
Marked by narrow focus on triviality
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Prevaricate
To speak evasively
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Belie
To give false representation to
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Predilection
Strong liking of
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Itinerant
Traveling from place to place
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Acerbic
Harsh in tone
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Espouse
To adopt or support an idea
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Panache
Distinctive and showy elegance
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Hackneyed
Trite
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Contrive
To pull off a plan or scheme, usually through skill or trickery
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Mawkish
Overly sentimental
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Vindicate
To clear of accusation / blame with argument or proof
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Parsimonious
Extremely frugal; miserly
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Upbraid
To reproach; scold
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Deleterious
Harmful to living things
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Iconoclast
One who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
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Winsome
Charming in a childlike way
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Taciturn
Habitually reserved and uncommunicative
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Gregarious
Likely to socialize with others
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Demur
To object or show reluctance
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Volubility
Quality of writing or talking easily
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Sycophant
A person who tries to please someone to gain favor
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Foment
To try to stir up public opinion
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Prodigal
Rashly or wastefully extravagant
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Ravenous
Extremely hungry
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Enervate
To sap energy from
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Recondite
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible
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Intimate
To suggest subtly
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Mendacity
Tendency to be untruthful
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Forthcoming
At ease talking to others
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Gauche
Lacking social polish
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Vociferous
Conspicuously and offensively loud
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Gainsay
To deny or contradict; speak against
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Insolent
Rude and arrogant
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Dogmatic
Highly opinionated
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Soporific
Inducing mental lethargy; sleep-inducing
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Nonplussed
Unsure of how to act or respond
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Efficacious
Producing the intended result; effective
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Edifying
Enlightening toward intellectual or moral improvement
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Unscrupulous
Without principles
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Dilettante
An amateur without serious intentions or knowledge
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Torpor
Inactivity resulting from lethargy
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Apocryphal
Of questionable authority
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Venality
Susceptibility to bribes or corruption
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Subsume
To contain or include
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Arcane
Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
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Ingenuous
Naïve; innocent
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Contrition
Feeling of remorse or guilt
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Scrupulous
Extremely careful with great effort; principled
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Calumny
False statement intended to injure one's reputation
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Equivocal
Confusing; ambiguous
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Austere
Practicing self-denial; unadorned; harsh in manner
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Spurious
Plausible but false
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Harange
A long, pompous speech; tirade
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Ignoble
Dishonorable
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Maladroit
Bumbling; clumsy
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Harried
Troubled persistently by petty annoyances
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Gossamer
Unusually light and delicate
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Platitude
A trite or obvious remark
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Inexorable
Impossible to stop or prevent
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Disaffected
Discontent toward authority
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Expound
To add details or explanation; clarify
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Querulous
Habitually complaining
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Decorous
Good taste in manners and conduct
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Specious
Deceptively false; spurious
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Forlorn
Showing hopelessness
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Tortuous
Marked by repeated turns and bends
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Prolific
Intellectually productive
