GRE Words 3 Flashcards
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Facsimile
An exact copy of something
Factitious
Artificially created or developed
Vicarious
Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
Aspersion
An attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something
Calumny
False or defamatory statements about someone aimed at damaging their reputation
Diatribe
A forceful bitter attack against someone or something
Disparage
To regard or characterize someone or something as of little worth
Harangue
A lengthy and aggressive speech
Gainsay
To deny or contradict a statement, to speak against or oppose someone
Impugn
To dispute the truth, validity, or honestly of something / to call into question
Inveigh
To speak about something with great hostility
Objurgate
To rebuke severely, to scold
Obloquy
Strong public criticism or verbal abuse / disgrace
Remonstrate
To make a forcefully reproachful protest
Reprove
To censure or reprimand
Vituperative
Bitter and abusive
Peremptory
Insisting on immediate action or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way
Abstruse
Difficult to understand, obscure
Recondite
Little known or difficult to understand and obscure
Invidious
Likely to arouse or incur anger and resentment in others
Pellucid
Clear, easy to understand, transparent
Rebarbative
Unattractive or objectionable
Noisome
Of extremely foul smell
Aberrant
Departing from normal or acceptable behaviour
Iconoclast
A person who attacks cherished beliefs and institutions or destroys religious imagery
