50 GRE Words

Question 1

Audacious

Answer 1

fearless and daring

Question 2

Glib

Answer 2

a politician can be a glib speaker. Casual

Question 3

Impetuous

Answer 3

quick to act without thinking (adjective)

Question 4

Machination

Answer 4

plot / scheme (noun)

Question 5

Malediction

Answer 5

a curse

Question 6

Mendacious

Answer 6

dishonest

Question 7

Iniquity

Answer 7

sin

Question 8

Legerdemain

Answer 8

trickery

Question 9

Neologism

Answer 9

new word or expression

Question 10

Pastiche

Answer 10

copy of something famous

Question 11

Panache

Answer 11

noun, with flamboyant

Question 12

Perfidious

Answer 12

willing to betray someone’s trust

Question 13

Polemic

Answer 13

controversy, argument, verbal attack

Question 14

Profligate

Answer 14

wasteful OR a dissolute person “softbank has now ended its profligate spending” “he is a drunkard and a profligate”

Question 15

Proliferate

Answer 15

multiply

Question 16

Prescient

Answer 16

having foresight

Question 17

Tangential

Answer 17

diverging

Question 18

Usury

Answer 18

practice of lending money at exorbitant rates

Question 19

Salient

Answer 19

notable

Question 20

Unequivocal

Answer 20

absolute, certain

Question 21

Prolixity

Answer 21

wordy, long-windedness

Question 22

Subterfuge

Answer 22

use of deceit for on winning

Question 23

Abrogate

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to abolish

Question 24

Sessile

Answer 24

immobile

Question 25

Pellucid

Answer 25

translucent (pellucid water)

Question 26

Maladroit

Answer 26

clumsy or ineffective

Question 27

Malefactor

Answer 27

a person that commits a crime/some other wrong

Question 28

Dismal

Answer 28

depressing, disgracefully bad

Question 29

Pugnacity

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characteristic of being aggressive

Question 30

Auspicious

Answer 30

conductive to success

Question 31

Obstreperous

Answer 31

stubbornly resistant to control (a child would be obstreperous)

Question 32

Eminence

Answer 32

title for someone honorable

Question 33

Riparian

Answer 33

wetlands adjacent to rivers

Question 34

Inculcate

Answer 34

teaching persistiently or repeatedly

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Aspersion

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an attack on reputation

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Rebuke

Answer 36

express sharp disapproval or criticism

Question 37

Abridge

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shorter

Question 38

Terse

Answer 38

short/terse

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Clement

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merciful

Question 40

Limpid

Answer 40

clear

Question 41

Rectify

Answer 41

make right

Question 42

Panacea

Answer 42

a cure-all, universal cure

Question 43

Enmity

Answer 43

state of hostility

Question 44

Fetter

Answer 44

to restrict. All the rules just fetter the employees creativity

Question 45

Disparage

Answer 45

criticize, discredit. WP disparaged Basid’s work.

Question 46

Oscillate

Answer 46

vacillate, waver

Question 47

Ascertain

Answer 47

find out for certain

Question 48

Impassive

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not showing emotions

Question 49

Pundit

Answer 49

an expert in a field

Question 50

Cantankerous

Answer 50

bad tempered, argumentative and uncooperative