GRE_3000_List8 Flashcards
dogged
1 continuing despite difficulties.
[E] gain respect through her dogged determination
[S] insistent; pertinacious;
[A] easily discouraged;
2 sticking to an opinion
[E] Your dogged adherence to a really lame argument in embarrassing.
[S] adamant; mulish; obdurate; ossified;
[A] acquiescent; amenable; pliant;
doldrums
1 a state or period of inactivity, stagnation;
[E] August is a time of doldrums for many enterprises.
[S] abeyance; dormancy; moratorium;
[A] continuation;
2 a state or spell of low spirits.
[E] The team had been in the doldrums ever since losing the championship.
[S] dejection; melancholy;
[A] bliss; exuberance; rapture;
dolt
a stupid person [E] What a dolt I have been. [S] idiot; fool; moron; simpleton [A] illuminati; [P] doltish;
domicile
1 a residence
[E] an alternative domicile in emergency
[S] habitation; abode;
2 to establish in or provide with a domicile
[E] The university domiciles students in a variety of buildings in and around its urban campus.
[S] bestow; accommodate;
[A] banish; expel;
doodle
1 to scribble aimlessly
[E] I often doodle when I am on the phone.
[S] mess around
2 to spend time in aimlessly activity
[E] I plan to spend the entire vacation just doodling.
[S] dawdle; trifle;
douse
1 to put out [E] douse a fire with water [S] quench; extinguish; [A] kindle; ignite; 2 to make wet [E] The heavy rain thoroughly doused the tourists. [S] deluge; soak; [A] dehydrate; desiccate; parsh
doyen
1 a person considered to be knowledgeable;
[E] a doyen in the industry
[S] authority; expert; master;
[A] amateur; layman; tyro; novice; neophyte; rookie; fledgling;
2 the senior member of a group;
[E] He’s the doyen of the admission committee, and his opinion has considerable weight.
[S] senior;
[A] junior;
draconian
exceedingly harsh
[E] abolish a draconian legal code
[S] rigid; stringent;
[A] lenient;
drawl
to speak slowly
[E] The old woman were drawling on and on.
[S] prolong; protract;
[A] drivel; gibber;
droll
amusingly odd [E] a droll man with strong dialect [S] farcical; uproarious; whimsical; [A] lame; [P] drollness;
drone
1 to talk in monotonous tone
[E] droning bees
[S] hum, buzz,
2 a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion
[E] hear the drone of a helicopter overhead
[S] burr; whir;
3 to spend time doing nothing
[E] Instead of getting a job, he preferred to drone and live off his parents.
[S] dally; dawdle;
ductile
1 malleable; [E] Gold is a kind of ductile metal [S] malleable; moldable; [A] inflexible; 2 easily influenced [E] a ductile personality [S] pliant; supple; [A] adamant; intractable;
dulcet
pleasing to hear
[E] dulcet tones from harps and flutes
[S] mellifluous; euphonic;
[A] cacophonous; grating;
duplicity
deliberate deceptiveness
[E] accidentally reveal their duplicity
[S] artifice; deceit; craft; fraudulence;
[A] honesty; sincerity;
dyspeptic
1 bad- tempered [E] The sultry day make us dyspeptic. [S] cantankerous; irascible; [A] amiable; 2 pertaining to, subject to or suffering from dyspepsia [P] dyspepsia
eavesdrop
to listen secretly to the private conversation of others
[E] eavesdrop on the conversation
[S] overhear
ebullient
enthusiastic [E] The ebullient dancers left a deep impression on us. [S] effervescent; [A] torpid; [P] ebullience;
effervesce
1 to bubble as gas escapes [E] effervesce with bubbles [S] bubble; foam 2 to show high spirits or animation [E] effervesce over the news of victory [S] jubilate; [A] grieve [P] effervescent; effervescence;
effete
1 depleted of vitality [E] an effete monarchy [S] debilitated; decadent; depleted; [A] hale; [P] effetely; 2 lacking strength of will [E] The government is too effete to take out the powerful special interests that really ruin the state. [S] frail; invertebrate; [A] firm; hard; strong;
doff
to take off; remove
[E] The blazing sun soon had the men doffing their jackets.
[S] put off;
[A] don; put on;
effluvium
1 an offensive smell [E] Repulsive effluvia made us vomit. [S] malodor; stink; stench [A] fragrance; aroma; [P] effluvial 2 a by-product especially in the form of waste [E] With nothing but effluvia obtained, researchers decided to abandon this method. [S] dross; trash
effrontery
flagrant disregard of courtesy
[E] The man has the effrontery to insult his father.
[S] audacity; brazenness;
[A] decorum; courtesy;
effulgent
shining brilliantly; resplendent; [E] an effulgent sunset on the Atlantic [S] bright; beaming; glorious; luminous; splendid; [A] dim; murky; [P] effulgence;
egalitarian
affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil right for all people;
[E] the egalitarian principle guiding his endeavor
[S] disinterested;
[A] inequitable; discriminating;
[P] egalitarianism
elate
to fill with joy or pride
[E] The phenomenal sales record elated him.
[S] excite; exhilarate; inspire;
[P] elated; elation
eleemosynary
charity
[E] an eleemosynary foundation funded by Bill Gates
[S] benevolent; philanthropic;
[A] parsimonious;
elegy
a song expressing sorrow
[E] a moving elegy played at the funeral
[S] dirge; lamentation; requiem
[A] ode
elliptical
1 obscurity [E] give an elliptical response to the inquiry [S] ambiguous; arcane; cryptic; enigmatic; [A] explicit; 2 ellipse; [S] oval; ovate [A] circular; round; [P] ellipse
emaciate
1 to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin
[E] become emaciated by long illness
[A] fatten; invigorate;
[P] emaciation;
2 to make feeble;
[E] His hesitation emanciated the force of his argument.
[S] droop; flag; sag;
emboss
to raise the surface of into bosses; especially to ornament with raised work
[E] embossed with a design of Shanghai skyline
[S] adorn; bedeck; blazon; garnish;
[A] flatten; efface;
emollient
making less intense or harsh
[E] soothe us in our grieves with emollient words
[S] appeasing; assuaging; mollifying; mitigating;
[A] aggravating;
enamel
1 to give a glossy or brilliant surface to
[S] glaze; varnish;
[A] efface;
2 a adorn with a brightly colored surface
[S] adorn; decorate;
[A] disfigure;
encomium
praise
[E] receive encomium from literary critics
[S] accolade; applause; panegyric; salutation; tribute;
[A] criticism; abuse; vituperation;
enervate
1 to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of
[E] His constitution was very enervated by lustful lifestyle;
[S] debilitate; enfeeble;
[A] fortify; invigorate; vitalize;
[P] enervation;
2 to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality
[E] A lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul.
[S] dampen; deaden; petrify;
[A] brace; energize; enliven;
ennui
listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interests
[E] The kind of ennui comes from having too much time on one’s hands and too little will to find something productive to do.
[S] doldrums; tedium;
[A] energy
ensemble
a work for two or more vocalists or instruments
[E] The actor performed an ensemble piece;
[A] solo
ensconce
1 to settle securely or comfortable; [E] ensconce oneself in a new job. [S] install; nestle; [A] dislodge; 2 to put in a hiding place [E] ensconce the spare house key in a place where no thief would think to look [S] bury; conceal [A] exhibit
