GRE Verbal Deck 6

Question 1

Opprobrium

Answer 1

Harsh criticism

Question 2

Ostentatious

Answer 2

Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress

Question 3

Paragon

Answer 3

A model of excellece or perfection

Question 4

Paucity

Answer 4

Small quantities

Question 5

Perfidious

Answer 5

Decietful and untrustworthy

His performance was pefidious as he doesn’t put in any work

Question 6

Pervasive

Answer 6

Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people

Question 7

Platitude

Answer 7

A remark or statement that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful

Boring Remark

Question 8

Precarious

Answer 8

Collapsable or Unstable

Question 9

Prevaricate

Answer 9

Evasively Speak or Act

Question 10

Prodigal

Answer 10

Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant

Question 11

Propensity

Answer 11

Behavioural Tendency

Propensity is different in city folks

Question 12

Propitiate

Answer 12

To win or regain the favor of a god, spirit, or a person by doing something that pleases them

Question 13

Propriety

Answer 13

Conformity to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals

Question 14

Proscribe

Answer 14

To forbid, especially by law

Question 15

Quiescent

Answer 15

In a state or period of inactivity or dormancy

Question 16

Rarefied

Answer 16

Esoteric

Question 17

Recalcitrant

Answer 17

Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline

Uncooperative attitude

Question 18

Recant

Answer 18

To say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief

Question 19

Refractory

Answer 19

Stubborn or unmanageable

Question 20

Relegate

Answer 20

To consign or dismiss to an inferior rank or position

Question 21

Reproach

Answer 21

To express disapproval or disappointment

Question 22

Reprobate

Answer 22

An unprincipled person

Question 23

Repudiate

Answer 23

To refuse to accept or be associated with

Question 24

Rescind

Answer 24

To revoke, cancel, or repeal

Question 25

Reticent

Answer 25

Deep respect for someone or something | Revere

Question 26

Sage

Answer 26

A proundly wise person

Question 27

Salubrious

Answer 27

Health-giving; healthy

Question 28

Salutary

Answer 28

Producing good effects; beneficial

Question 29

Satiate

Answer 29

To satisfy (a desire or appetite) to the full

Question 30

Sensual

Answer 30

Relating to or involving gratification of the senses, especially sexual pleasure

Question 31

Sensuous

Answer 31

Relating to or affecting the senses rather than the intellect

Question 32

Sentient

Answer 32

Able to percieve or feel thingsl conscious

Question 33

Solicitous

Answer 33

Showing concern or care for someone's well-being

Question 34

Soporific

Answer 34

Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

Question 35

Specious

Answer 35

Superficially plausible, but acutally wrong; misleadingly attractive

Question 36

Stipulate

Answer 36

To demand or specify a condition as a part of an agreement

Question 37

Stolid

Answer 37

Calm, dependable, and showing little emotion

Question 38

Subsume

Answer 38

To include evidence to support or prove the truth of something

Question 39

Supposition

Answer 39

An uncertain belief or assumption

Question 40

Taciturn

Answer 40

Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

Question 41

Tenous

Answer 41

Very weak or slight; insubstantial

Question 42

Torpor

Answer 42

A state ofphysical or mental inactivity; lethargy

Question 43

Tortuous

Answer 43

Full of twists and turs; excessively complicated

Question 44

Tractable

Answer 44

Easy to control or influence; manageable

Question 45

Trangression

Answer 45

An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offense

Question 46

Truculence

Answer 46

Aggressively defiant or hostile behaviour

Question 47

Untenable

Answer 47

Not able to be maintained or defended against criticism or attack

Question 48

Vascillate

Answer 48

Be indecisive

Question 49

Vapid

Answer 49

Dull

Question 50

Venerate

Answer 50

Revere ## Footnote two "e"s

Question 51

Verbose

Answer 51

Wordy

Question 52

Vitiate

Answer 52

To spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of something

Question 53

Vituperative

Answer 53

Bitter and abusive in language or criticism

Question 54

Whimsicial

Answer 54

Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way