GRE Vocabulary #6

Question 1

oscillate

Answer 1

to swing back and forth

Question 2

ossify

Answer 2

to become rigid

Question 3

probity

Answer 3

integrity

Question 4

proselytize

Answer 4

to covert someone from one religion or doctrine to another

Question 5

pundit

Answer 5

an expert in a particular field

Question 6

recondite

Answer 6

hard to understand

Question 7

spendthrift

Answer 7

wasteful especially with money

Question 8

vacuous

Answer 8

lacking ideas

Question 9

coda

Answer 9

a passage concluding a musical composition

Question 10

penchant

Answer 10

strong liking

Question 11

abstruse

Answer 11

hard to understand or grasp

Question 12

cognizant

Answer 12

perceptive

Question 13

gainsay

Answer 13

to deny

Question 14

garner

Answer 14

to gather and store

Question 15

obdurate

Answer 15

stubborn

Question 16

propinquity

Answer 16

nearness

Question 17

ribald

Answer 17

vulgar language

Question 18

sinuous

Answer 18

having many cuves

Question 19

veracity

Answer 19

truthfulness

Question 20

chronology

Answer 20

an order of events from earliest to latest

Question 21

economical

Answer 21

frugal

Question 22

conjoin

Answer 22

to join

Question 23

pagegyric

Answer 23

lofty praise

Question 24

pedagogue

Answer 24

a strict teacher

Question 25

reprobate

Answer 25

a sinful person

Question 26

untoward

Answer 26

unfavorable, improper

Question 27

welter

Answer 27

a commotion

Question 28

inchoate

Answer 28

not organized

Question 29

problematic

Answer 29

questionable

Question 30

timbre

Answer 30

the quality of a sound independent of pitch and loudness

Question 31

disavow

Answer 31

to deny