Gre AV Group 6 Flashcards
runic
(adjective) mysterious; magical
sagacious
(adjective) having sound judgment; perceptive; wise
salacious
(adjective) obscene
salient
(adjective) prominent; protruding; conspicuous; relevant
salutary
(adjective) wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health
sanctimony
(noun) self-righteousness
sanguine
(adjective) cheerful; confident; optimistic
satiate
(verb) to surfeit; to overindulge
saturnine
(adjective) gloomy; dark; sullen; morose
seine
(noun) a large net dragged to catch fish
seminal
(adjective) like a seed; constituting a source; originative
sententious
(adjective) aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
sidereal
(adjective) astral; relating to stars or constellations
simper
(verb)/(noun) to smirk; a silly smile
sinecure
(noun) position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
sinuous
(adjective) winding; undulating; serpentine
slake
(verb) to satisfy or quench
sodden
(adjective) soaked or drenched; unimaginative; dull
solder
(verb) to weld, fuse, or join
sophistry
(noun) fallacious reasoning; faulty logic
sophomoric
(adjective) self-assured though immature; affected; bombastic; lacking maturity
splenetic
(adjective) bad-tempered; irritable
stanch
(verb) to stop the flow of fluid
stentorian
(adjective) extremely loud and powerful
stint
(verb) to restrain; to be sparing or frugal
striated
(adjective) striped; grooved; banded
stygian
(adjective) gloomy; dark
succor
(noun) assistance; relief in time of distress
sundry
(adjective) various; miscellaneous; separate
supercilious
(adjective) disdainful; arrogant; haughty
supine
(adjective) mentally or morally slack; literally, lying on one’s back; prone
suppliant
(adjective) supplicant; asking humbly; beseeching
supplicant
(noun) beggar; mendicant
tamp
(verb) to plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows
tautology
(noun) a repetition; a redundancy
tawdry
(adjective) cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky; meretricious
tendentious
(adjective) biased; showing marked tendencies
timorous
(adjective) timid; fearful; diffident
toady
(noun) sycophant; flatterer
torrid
(adjective) scorching; ardent; passionate
tractable
(adjective) docile; obedient; easily led
travesty
(noun) mockery; caricature; parody
tumid
(adjective) swollen
turbid
(adjective) roiled; muddy; clouded to the point of being opaque
turgid
(adjective) swollen; tumid; thick; pompous; bombastic
turpitude
(noun) depravity; prurience
tyro
(noun) novice; greenhorn; rank amateur
umbrage
(noun) offense; resentment; pique
undulate
(verb) to move in wavelike fashion; to fluctuate
untoward
(adjective) perverse; unruly; unseemly
upbraid
(verb) to scold; to censure; to rebuke; to chastise
usury
(noun) the practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest
vaunt
(verb) to brag or boast
venal
(adjective) capable of being bought or bribed; mercenary; purchasable
venerate
(verb) to revere; to worship
verisimilitude
(noun) appearance of truth or reality
veritable
(adjective) authentic; honest-to-goodness
virago
(noun) a loud, domineering woman; a scold or nag
vitiate
(verb) to pervert; to debase; to spoil· to make ineffective
volubility
(noun) volume; (verb)osity; easy use of spoken language
waft
(verb) to cause to move as if by a light breeze
welter
(verb) to writhe; to toss about; to be in turmoil
wend
(verb) to go; to proceed; to walk