+ 50 GRE Words Flashcards
Futility
pointlessness or uselessness
Decry
publicly denounce
Approbate
approve formally
Verisimilitude
the appearance of being true or real
Expunged
erase completely (a minor might have their record expunged)
Transmuting (transmute)
change in form, nature or substance
Contentious
likely to cause an argument, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, belligerent
Prognostication
foretell, or prophesy of future event (verb)
Splenetic
bad tempered
Callous
cruel disregard (callous comments)
Fulminate
denounce strongly (fulminated against the evils)
Sequester
keep separate
Assimilate
absorb or understand. It’s not easy to assimilate into the French culture.
Atrophied
withered (muscles had atrophied)
Jounced
jump up and down
Abhorrence
feeling of repulsion, disgusted loatheing
Aboriginal
indigenous
Reeled
wavered (reeled out of the bar) or fell back as from a blow (he reeled from the blow)
Revered
honored
Chastened
the director was somewhat chastened by his recent flops (having a restraining effect on)