GRE supplemental 6 Flashcards
(134 cards)
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vitiate
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v. to corrupt, debase, spoil; to make ineffective
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adj. long-winded, verbose
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prolix
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adj. eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight; bellicose
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pugnacious
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contumacious
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(esp. of a defendant’s behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority
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adj. lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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lubricious
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adj. tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age
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ossified
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indefatigable
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adj. not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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adj. disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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captious
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pugnacious
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adj. eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight; bellicose
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adj. transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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pellucid
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n. bitterness or ill feeling
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acrimony
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voluble
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adj. fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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adj. cheerful, confident, optimistic
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sanguine
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plangent
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adj. pounding, thundering, resounding
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bawdy
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adj. dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent
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stentorian
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adj. extremely loud and powerful
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adj. extremely loud and powerful
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stentorian
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v. to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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abjure
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n. a pain killing drug; something that assuages or allays adj. soothing
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anodyne
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n. deification; a model of excellence or perfection
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apotheosis
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meretricious
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adj. cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
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gainsay
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v. to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
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parsimonious
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adj. cheap, miserly
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n. omen, portent
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augury
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salacious
adj. lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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adj. menacing, threatening
minatory
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adj. conducive to success; favorable; adj. giving or being a sign of future success
auspicious
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lewd
adj. crude and offensive in a sexual way
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lascivious
adj. feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire
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v. to censure scathingly, to upbraid
excoriate
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cavil
v. to find fault without good reason
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excoriate
v. to censure scathingly, to upbraid
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v. to discriminate or discern
descry
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execrate
v. to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil
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apotheosis
n. deification; a model of excellence or perfection
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(esp. of a defendant's behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority
contumacious
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v. to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
gainsay
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n. rout, fiasco, complete failure
debacle
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v. to atone or make amends for
expiate
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n. an illusion
chimera
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n. a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
anathema
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descry
v. to discriminate or discern
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peroration
n. the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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pellucid
adj. transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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n. glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
encomium
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adj. one of a kind, peerless
inimitable
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encomium
n. glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
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nadir
n. low point, perigee
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dogged
adj. having or showing tenacity and grim persistence
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adj. not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
indefatigable
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sanguine
adj. cheerful, confident, optimistic
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n. difficult or embarrassing situation
imbroglio
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desuetude
n. disuse
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n. severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
asperity
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remonstrate
v. to protest, object
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calumny
n. slander, aspersion
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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
diffident
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imbroglio
n. difficult or embarrassing situation
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adj. (of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked adj. (esp. of a woman) sexually immodest or promiscuous literary: growing profusely, luxuriant; lively, playful
wanton
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ossified
adj. tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age
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refractory
adj. stubborn or unmanageable; adj. resistant to process or stimulus
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n. power, strength
puissance
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adj. lustful, lascivious, bawdy
salacious
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salutary
adj. remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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asperity
n. severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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adj. feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire
lascivious
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v. to cut off or out
exscind
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v. to find fault without good reason
cavil
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extirpate
v. to destroy, exterminate; to cut out, to exscind
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adj. unconcerned, carefree, heedless
insouciant
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adj. dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent
bawdy
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debacle
n. rout, fiasco, complete failure
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adj. deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
inveterate
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diffident
reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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sagacious
adj. having sound judgment; perceptive; wise
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v. to find fault with someone; scold
upbraid
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v. to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil
execrate
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nugatory
adj. of no value or importance; useless; futile
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anathema
n. a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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v. to appease; to conciliate
propitiate
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adj. having sound judgment; perceptive; wise
sagacious
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chimera
n. an illusion
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saturnine
adj. gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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v. to corrupt, debase, spoil; to make ineffective
vitiate
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wanton
adj. (of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked adj. (esp. of a woman) sexually immodest or promiscuous literary: growing profusely, luxuriant; lively, playful
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adj. crude and offensive in a sexual way
lewd
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propitious
adj. auspicious, favorable
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adj. aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
sententious
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adj. remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
salutary
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auspicious
adj. conducive to success; favorable; adj. giving or being a sign of future success
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insouciant
adj. unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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expiate
v. to atone or make amends for
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puissance
n. power, strength
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captious
adj. disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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adj. cheap, miserly
parsimonious
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v. to destroy, exterminate; to cut out, to exscind
extirpate
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inimitable
adj. one of a kind, peerless
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n. the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
peroration
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n. a beggar, supplicant
mendicant
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adj. pounding, thundering, resounding
plangent
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anodyne
n. a pain killing drug; something that assuages or allays adj. soothing
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adj. showy but cheap and of poor quality adj. sordid or unpleasant
tawdry
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mendicant
n. a beggar, supplicant
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adj. gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
saturnine
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adj. auspicious, favorable
propitious
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adj. of no value or importance; useless; futile
nugatory
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prolix
adj. long-winded, verbose
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adj. stubborn or unmanageable; adj. resistant to process or stimulus
refractory
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nonplussed
adj. baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
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augury
n. omen, portent
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v. to protest, object
remonstrate
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sententious
adj. aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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lubricious
adj. lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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eschew
v. to shun or avoid; abstain from
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minatory
adj. menacing, threatening
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acrimony
n. bitterness or ill feeling
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adj. baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
nonplussed
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adj. cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
meretricious
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v. to shun or avoid; abstain from
eschew
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epigram
n. a pithy statement expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way n. a short poem (esp. a satirical one having a witty or ingenious ending)
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adj. fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
voluble
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propitiate
v. to appease; to conciliate
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n. slander, aspersion
calumny
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n. speed, alacrity
celerity
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n. low point, perigee
nadir
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n. a pithy statement expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way n. a short poem (esp. a satirical one having a witty or ingenious ending)
epigram
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celerity
n. speed, alacrity
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tawdry
adj. showy but cheap and of poor quality adj. sordid or unpleasant
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inveterate
adj. deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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upbraid
v. to find fault with someone; scold
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adj. having or showing tenacity and grim persistence
dogged
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exscind
v. to cut off or out
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abjure
v. to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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n. disuse
desuetude
