GRE Vocab Flashcards
Etiolated
Appear pale or sickly
Inured
Toughened to point if nonresponse
Sidereal
If or with respect to distant stars
Invidious
Causing envy
Plangent
Full of lamentation
Ineluctable
Inescapable, unavoidable
Antediluvian
Before the biblical flood, outdated
Pusillanimous
Showing lack of courage or determination
Jejune
Naive, simplistic; dry and uninteresting
Antedate
Come before
Herpetologist
Studies reptiles
Ichthyologist
Studies fish
Superannuation
Payment made by an employee to a future pension
Senescence
Deterioration with age
Supercilious
Seeming or behaving superior
Aureole
Circle of light or brightness surrounding something
Lachrymose
Sad
Augury
Omen
Concomitant
Naturally accompanying or associating
Laudatory
Excessive praise