GRE - Manhattan Essential Word List - L10 Flashcards
Acme
Summit, peak, highest point
aggregate
Gather together, amount to (v); constituting a whole made up of constituent parts (adj)
Apathy
Not caring; absence of feeling; lack of interest or concern
Assuage
Make milder, relieve; soothe, pacify, or calm
Benign
Harmless; favorable; kindle, gentle, or beneficial; not cancerous
Candid
Open, sincere, honest
Clamor
Noisy uproar or protest, as from a crowd; a loud, continuous noise
Concur
Approve, agree
Conundrum
Riddle, the answer to which involves a play on words; a mystery
Counterpoint
Contrasting item, opposite; a complement; the use of contrast or interplay in a work of art
Daunt
Discourage, dishearten, lessen the courage of
Delineate
Mark the outline of; sketch; describe in detail
Digress
Go off-topic when speaking or writing
Dismiss
Allow to disperse or leave; fire from a job; put aside or reject, especially after only a brief consideration
Diverge
Differ, deviate; branch off or turn aside, as from a path
Eclipse
The obscuring of one thing by another, such as the sun by the moon or a person by a more famous or talented person (n); to obscure, darken, make less important (v)
Empirical
Coming from, based on, or able to be verified by experience or experimentation; not purely based on theory
Erroneous
Mistaken, in horror; improper, morally incorrect
Explicit
Direct, clear, fully revealed; clearly depicting sex or nudity
Fidelity
Faithfulness, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound or image
Frugal
Economical, thrifty, not wasteful with money; inexpensive
Gradation
A progression, a process taking place gradually, in stages; one of these stages
Hodgepodge
Mixture of different kinds of things, jumble
Implicit
implied, not stated directly; involbed in the very essence of something, unquestionable
Incorporate
Combine, unite; form a legal corporation; embody, give physical form to
Intrepid
Fearless, brave, enduring in the face of adversity
Lament
Mourn; express grief, sorrow, or regret (v); an expression of grief esp. as a song or poem (n)
Liberal
Favorable to progress or reform; believing in maximum possible individual freedom; tolerant, open-minded; generous(adj.); a person with such beliefs or practices (n)
Mendacious
Lying, habitually dishonest
Mundane
Common, ordinary, everyday
Obsequious
Servile, very compliant, fawning
Optimal or Optimum
Best, most desirable or favorable
Patent
Obvious, apparent, plain to see (adj.); a letter from a govt. guaranteeing an inventor the rights to his or her invention (n)
Pervasive
Tending to spread throughout
Polarized
Divided into sharply opposed groups
presumptive
Based on inference or assumption; providing reasonable grounds for belied
Profuse
Abundant, extravagant, giving or given freely
Pugnacious
Inclined to fight, combative
Remedial
Providing a remedy, curative; correcting a deficient skill
Restive
Impatient or uneasy under the control of another; resisting being controlled
Salubrious
Healthful, promoting health
Sedulous
Preserving, persistent, diligent in one’s efforts
Sound
Measure the depth of (usually of water) as with a sounding line; penetrate and discover the meaning of, understand (usually as sound the depths )
Stark
Complete, total, utter; harsh or grim; extremely simple, severe, blunt, or pain
Succeeding
Coming after or following
Tangential
Only slightly relevant, going off topic
Trifling
Trivial, not very important; so small as to be unimportant; frivolous, shallow
Venerate
Revere, regard with deep respect and awe
