GRE 2 Flashcards by Julia Nauman

Astringent

sharp or severe in manner or style; acerbic; trenchant

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Contiguous

sharing a border; touching; adjacent

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Credulous

gullible

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Decorum

polite or appropriate conduct or behavior

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Derision

The act of ridiculing or laughing at someone or something.

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Dilettante

one with amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge

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Flout

Disregard

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Glib

insincere and shallow; lacking in depth; superficial

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Immutable

Not capable of change

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Impetuous

acting or done quickly without thought or care

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Inimical

Unfriendly and damaging

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Intractable

Hard to deal with; stubborn; obstinate

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Intrepid

Fearless, adventurous

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Laconic

Few words

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Maverick

person who refuses to follow the customs or rules of a group; independent

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Mercurial

characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood

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Obfuscate

to deliberately obscure; to make confusing

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Ostentatious

characterized by or given to pretentious display; showy

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Capricious

impulsive, unpredictable

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Effrontery

Pompous

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Enervate

weaken

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exculpate

exonerate, clear of charges

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exigent

urgent, pressing

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fulminate

loudly attack/denounce

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Ingenuous

honest, naïve

Inured

accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant.

magnanimity

generosity

onerous

(of a task, duty, or responsibility) involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome.

Paean

hymn of thanks

perfidy

treachery

perspicacious

having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

Predilection

disposed in favor of something

prevaricate

speak or act in an evasive way.

Reticent

quiet, reserved

Solicitous

full of anexity/conern

sordid

filthy/foul

stymie

to block/thwart

tortuous

winding, twisting

truculent

fierce, cruel, eager to fight

veracity

truthfulness

virulent

extremely harmful

voracious

ravenous

Acerbic

harsh, biting, sharp, bitter

aggrandize

increase the power/status/wealth of

amenable

agreeable, responsive to suggestion

pervade

to permeate throughout

phlegmatic

calm, sluggish, unemotional

pragmatic

practical

presumptuous

forward/bold

proclivity

a natural inclination

profligate

excessively wasteful

prosaic

dull

quixotic

foolishly impractical

quotidian

ordinary, mundane

rarefy

to make thin, less dense, refine

recondite

(of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse.

refulgent

radiant, shiny

Renege

go back on a promise, break your word.

Sedulous

diligent, persistent, hardworking

soporific

drowsiness

spendthrift

spends money wastefulness

tacit

implied, not explicitly stated

terse

brief/concise in word

trenchant

forceful, vigorous or incisive in expression or style.

unfeigned

genuine

untenable

not viable

vacillate

to waver indecisively between 1 course of action and another

variegated

multicolored

vituperate

to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abuively; to berate

decadent

characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline; wasteful indulgence or extravagance

ingratiating

intended to gain someone's favor or approval (If someone in your class places an apple on your teacher's desk in an ingratiating manner, that means he's making a calculated move to suck up and win your teacher's favor.)

perquisite

perks

extant

old things that are still around

restiveness

nervousness

cupidity

extreme greed

protracted

long in duration, drawn out

largesse

extreme generosity

stricture

severe criticism

hobble

hamper action/progress of

panacea

solution/remedy

perpetuity

thing that last forever for an indefinite period

brusquely

in blunt direct manner

indecorous

conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct

punctilious

pays attention to detail, carful about behaving properly

vociferous

expressing feelings or opinions in a very loud or forceful way

edify

to help someone understand

curry

give a neat appearance to; groom

Tendentious

promoting a specific, controversial point of view

egregious

outstandingly bad; shocking

superlative

of the highest quality or degree

Genteel

marked by refinement in taste and manners

Picayune

things that are so small, trivial, and unimportant that they're not worth getting into

replete

completely stocked or furnished with something; filled

disseminate

cause to become widely known

anodyne

not offensive

celerity

a rapid rate

feckless

irresponsible, incompetent

indelible

cannot be undone

bloviate

to talk at length, in a pompous manner

cadre

specially trained people prepared to lead or instruct others; group