GRE_3000_List9 Flashcards
entreat
to plead in order to persuade
[E] He entreated his boss for another chance
[S] beseech; conjure; importune;
enunciate
1 to utter articulate sounds;
[E] Enunciate your words, ad then you won’t have to repeat them so often.
[S] articulate;
2 to make known openly or publicly
[E] Today the President enunciate a new foreign policy.
[S] annunciate; broadcast; herald; promulgate;
epicure
one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine
[E] Thomas was one of American’s first great epicures.
[S] gastronomist; gourmand;
epilogue
1 a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work
[A] preface;
2 the final scene of a play that comments or summarize the main action
[S] coda
epithet
a descriptive or familiar name given instead of on addition to the one beginning to an individual; a disparaging or abusive word or phrase
[E] King Richard I of England was given the very laudatory epithet “the Lion-Hearted”.
[S] alias; cognomen; sobriquet;
equable
not easily disturbed; [E] equable temperament [S] balmy; genial; gentle; moderate; temperate; [A] harsh; inclement; intemperate; [P] equanimity; [A] agitation; excitability
equivocate
to use equivocal language especially with intend to deceive;
[E] When asked his tax plan, the candidate didn’t equivocate
[S] fudge; hedge; weasel; prevaricate; palter;
[P] equivocal;
errant
1 traveling from place to place
[E] the errant gunslinger as a standard character in western novels.
[S] ambulant; fugitive; perambulatory; vagabond; vagrant; wandering;
2 straying from the proper course or standards.
[E] errant youngsters
[S] misbehaving; mischievous;
[A] behaved; nice;
esoteric
1 difficult to understand
[E] esoteric terminology
[S] abstruse; arcane; hermetic; recondite;
[A] shallow; superficial;
2 not known or meant to be known be the general populace;
[E] The actor must have some esoteric motive for leaving stage.
[S] confidential; inside; intimate;
[A] commonly accepted; generally known; open;
espouse
1 to take up and support as a cause [E] espouse the revolutionary cause [S] embrace; take up; [A] abjure; repudiate; 2 marry;
estrange
to arouse especially mutual enmity or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
[E] He estranged several of his coworkers.
[S] alienate; disaffect; disgruntle;
[A] reconcile;
etch
1 to produce on a hard material by eating into the material’s surface
[E] The artist etched his landscape on a copper plate.
[S] grave; incise; inscribe;
2 to provide a vivid impression of
[E] In just a few pages the writer etched an unforgettable portrait of one of the more remarkable First Ladies.
[S] imprint ; infix;
ethereal
1 delicate; [E] The bakery's scrumptious pastries have a wonderfully ethereal consistency. [S] fluffy; gossamer; [A] ponderous 2 of, relating to, or suggesting heaven [E] a land of ethereal beauty and tranquility [S] elysian; empyreal; supernal; [A] chthonic; hellish; infernal; 3 spiritual; not composed of matter; [E] the ethereal attribute that every performer should have --charisma. [S] bodiless; formless; incorporeal; [A] corporeal; material;
euphemism
the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
[E] using “eliminate” as a euphemism for “kill”.
euphonious
pleasing or agreeable to the ear
[S] mellifluous; canorous;
[A] cacophonous; tuneless;
euphoria
a state of overwhelmingly usually pleasurable emotion
[E] The initial euphoria following her victory in the election has now subsided.
[S] rhapsody; exhilaration;
[A] depression;
evict
to put out by legal process
[E] Her landlord has threatened to evict her if she doesn’t pay the rent soon.
[A] harbor;
evince
to make known through outward signs
[E] evince a strong desire
[S] bespeak; betray; declare; expose;
[A] conceal;
entice
to attract artfully or by arousing hope or desire [E] entice sb. into doing sth. [S] allure; bait; beguile; seduce; [P] enticing; [A] formidable;
excruciate
to inflict severe pain on; torture
[E] She has been long excruciated by a persistent pain in the back.
[S] plague;
[A] exult;
exculpate
to clear from guilt or fault
[E] I have gathered evidence that will exculpate my client.
[S] vindicate; acquit;
[A] inculpate; criminate;
excursive
passing from one topic to another
[E] an excursive story line that some readers of Melville’s novel find very rewarding
[S] desultory; rambling ;
execrate
1 to declare to be morally wrong or evil
[E] Leaders from all over the world execrated the terrorists responsible for the bomb blast.
[S] anathematize; censure; denounce;
2 to dislike strongly
[E] execrate anyone who would physically abuse children or animals
[S] abhor; abominate; despise;
[A] love
exemplary
1 being a pattern to be imitated
[E] As a hospital volunteer he has given exemplary service to his community.
[S] archetypal; imitable; paradigmatic;quintessential;
[P] exemplify;
2 serving as or offering a warning
[E] Armies have traditionally used public execution as an exemplary punishment for the crime of desertion.
[S] admonishing; admonitory; monitory; premonitory;
exigent
requiring immediate aid or action
[E] exigent circumstances
[S] compelling; dire; imperative; necessitous;
[A] deferrable; noncritical; nonurgent;
exorbitant
exceeding in the customary or appropriate limits
[E] exorbitant prices
[S] extravagant; intolerable; lavish;
[A] middling; moderate;
expiate
to extinguish the guilt incurred by
[E] expiate one’s sin
[S] mend; redeem; atone for;
expurgate
to remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from a book before publication
[E] an expurgated edition of the letters
[S] bowdlerize; obliterate; launder; clean-up
extenuate
lessen the seriousness;
[E] Try to extenuate their vandalism with the old refrain “Boys will be boys.”
[S] deodorize; excuse; gloss over
extraction
origin; ancestry
[E] a family of French extraction
[S] bloodline; genealogy; lineage;
facetious
joking or jesting often inappropriately;
[E] Stop being facetious, This is the life-and -death moment
[S] jocose; jocular;
fallacious
1 containing or based on fallacy [E] The once-common fallacious claim that girls just weren't any good at math. [S] illogical; invalid; [A] sound; valid; [P] fallacy; 2 tending to mislead or deceive; [E] fallacious testimony; [S] beguiling; fraudulent; [A] authentic; veritable;
fallow
1 left untilled or unsown after plowing [E] The field was lying fallow. [S] uncultivated; 2 not being in a state of use [E] The coal mine has been lying fallow since the drop in prices made it unprofitable; [S] dormant; inert; inoperative; [A] functioning; operative; operative;
