Verbal Reasoning Flashcards
Forestall
Prevent/obstruct an anticipated action/event by taking action ahead of time
Scanty
Small or insufficient in quantity/amount
Panegyric (n)
Elaborate praise or laudation
Gauche (adj)
Tactless
Unstinting (adj)
Bestowed liberally
Limpid (adj)
Characterized by transparent clearness; easily intelligible; calm and untroubled
Fatuous (adj)
Foolish (especially in a smug or self-satisfied way)
Teratoid (adj)
Monstrously deformed
Decorous (adj)
Marked by propriety and good taste
Felicitous (adj)
Very well suited or expressed; pleasant or delightful
Diffident (adj)
Hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence
Capricious (adj)
Impulsive; unpredictable
Facile (adj)
Easily accomplished or attained; readily manifested and often lacking sincerity or depth (facile tears)
Bellicose (adj)
Favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars
Doughty (adj)
Marked by fearless resolution
Retrench (v)
To cut down; reduce
Rebuke (v)
To criticize severely
Sophistry (n)
Subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation
Exacerbate (v)
To make more violent, bitter, or severe (exacerbate the situation)
Expiate (v)
Extinguish the guilt incurred by; make amends for
Coruscate (v)
To give off or reflect bright beams or flashes; to be brilliant or showy in technique or style
Preternatural (adj)
Existing outside of nature
Teleological (adj)
Exhibiting or relating to design or purpose–especially in nature
Countenance (n)
Calm expression; mental composure
Preclude (v)
To make impossible by necessary consequence
Variance
The fact or state of being in disagreement; state of being a variable
Consonant (adj)
Being in agreement or harmony
Candor (n)
Freedom from prejudice or malicious; unreserved, honest, or sincere expression;
Forthrightness
Edify (v)
To instruct and improve–especially in moral and religious knowledge
Cadge (v)
Beg
Mendicate (v)
To beg
Allay (v)
To reduce the intensity of; relieve; to calm or pacify
Anodyne (adj)
Capable of soothing or eliminating pain; relaxing