MASTER GRE VOCAB GROUPS Flashcards
1
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raillery
A
funny
2
Q
harangue
A
criticize/criticism
3
Q
cacophony
A
harsh-sounding
4
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rue
A
embarrass
5
Q
erroneous
A
falsehood
6
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ameliorate
A
pacify/satisfy
7
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soothe
A
pacify/satisfy
8
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advocate
A
assist
9
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venal
A
greedy/corruptible/bribable
10
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beneficial
A
healthy
11
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recreant
A
timid/craven/turncoat/coward (re+create excuses=cowardly)
12
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expatiate
A
wandering
13
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propitiate
A
luck
14
Q
lull
A
gaps/openings
15
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countenance
A
assist
16
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melancholy
A
sorrow
17
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sinuous
A
not a straight line
18
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berate
A
criticize/criticism
19
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axiom
A
wisdom
20
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peripatetic
A
walking about
21
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circuitous
A
not a straight line
22
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vortex
A
inescapable/ not a straight line
23
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pique
A
bad mood
24
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forlorn
A
sorrow
25
aspersion
criticize/criticism/calumny/slander
26
mundane
boring
27
venerate/veneration
praise
28
cadaver
death/mourning
29
quintessence
copy
30
equity
equal
31
churlish
hostile/rude/impolite
32
grandiloquent
overblown/wordy
33
capricious
changing quickly
34
sojourn
wandering/visit/short journey
35
precursor
copy
36
frankness
truth
37
petulant
bad mood/cranky/peckish
38
partisan
favoring/not impartial
39
disparage
criticize/criticism
40
pernicious
harmful
41
interregnum
gaps/openings
42
dissipated
carousal (overindulging in sensual pleasures)
43
slothful
lazy/sluggish
44
limpid
easy to understand (Limpid, Lucid, Liquid)
45
pedestrian
boring
46
hector
nag
47
abet
assist
48
licentious
carousal
49
duplicity
falsehood
50
unstinting
generous/kind/unsparing/unselfish
51
esurient
poor
52
askance
suspicion/disapproval/squint
53
curmudgeon
hostile
54
indolent
lazy/sluggish
55
untoward
indecent/indecorous/unbecoming
56
distaff
female
57
pillory
criticize/criticism
58
consanguine
family
59
lament
sorrow
60
ardor/ardent
favoring/partial/fervour
61
absolve
forgive
62
lucid
easy to understand
63
bilious
bad mood
64
anomalous
eccentric/dissimilar
65
canny
smart/learned
66
iconoclast
unusual
67
fortuitous
luck
68
objurgate
criticize/criticism
69
dilettante
beginner/amateur
70
bereave
death/mourning
71
inhibit
prevent/obstruct
72
orifice
gaps/openings
73
injurious
harmful
74
fallacious
falsehood
75
discrete
eccentric/dissimilar
76
flippant
funny
77
awry
not a straight line/when things go wrong
78
aggrandize
praise
79
terse
abbreviated communication
80
munificent
generous/kind
81
admonish
nag
82
altruistic
generous/kind
83
canard
falsehood
84
precipitate
act quickly
85
rescind
withdrawal/retreat
86
temporal
time
87
antithetic
hostile/sharp contrast
88
obloquy
criticize/criticism/opprobrium/defamation
89
sonorous
pleasant-sounding
90
exhort
nag
91
chagrin
embarrass
92
kismet
luck
93
hiatus
gaps/openings
94
covetous
greedy/avaricious/jealous
95
meander
wander/ramble/not a straight line
96
diffident
timid
97
forfend
prevent/obstruct
98
vindictive
hostile
99
martinet
nag/disciplinarian/moralist
100
oscillate
hesitate
101
trite
boring/banal
102
volatile
changing quickly
103
lambaste
criticize/criticism
104
defamation
criticize/criticism
105
vacillate
hesitate
106
mainstay
assist/pillar/prominent supporter
107
optimum
luck
108
truculent
hostile
109
portentous
predict
110
recalcitrant
stubborn
111
rent
gaps/openings
112
craven
timid
113
counterpart
copy
114
iniquity
evil/injustice/unfairness/wickedness
115
ludicrous
funny
116
portentous
done in pompous way
117
guile
falsehood
118
fetter
prevent/obstruct/restraint
119
dour
hard-hearted/stubborn/dogged/persistent
120
laud/laudatory
praise
121
riposte
funny
122
mitigate
pacify/satisfy
123
fealty
truth/allegiance/indebtness to
124
amulet
luck
125
defunct
death/mourning
126
redress
forgive/remedy/restitution
127
prognosticate
predict
128
acidulous
biting wit
129
dissonant
harsh-sounding/variable
130
vitiate
weaken
131
retrograde
withdrawal/retreat
132
aberration
unusual
133
reprove
criticize/criticism
134
abortive
withdrawal/retreat
135
perspicacious
smart/learned
136
harmonious
pleasant-sounding
137
trenchant
biting wit/forceful/clear-cut
138
cavil
nag
139
endogamous
family
140
legitmate
truth
141
apocryphal
falsehood
142
obdurate
stubborn
143
burgeoning
beginning/young
144
enjoin
nag
145
abatement
gaps/openings
146
spurious
falsehood
147
forage
wandering
148
iconoclast
eccentric/dissimilar
149
adulterate
weaken
150
doleful
sorrow
151
epigram
wisdom
152
recant
withdrawal/retreat
153
impetuous
act quickly
154
salubrious
healthy
155
demur
withdrawal/retreat/take exception to
156
fledgling
beginner/amateur
157
filial
family
158
fawn
praise
159
extol
praise
160
prolix
overblown/wordy
161
acclaim
praise
162
undermine
weaken
163
decamp
withdrawal/retreat
164
insidious
harmful
165
quotidian
boring
166
scathing
hard-hearted
167
impugn
criticize/criticism
168
talisman
luck
169
chicanery
falsehood
170
compendious
terse/compact/succinct
171
taciturn
terse/uncommunicative/untalkative
172
exonerate
forgive
173
abnegation
withdrawal/retreat
174
facetious
funny (make funny faces)
175
pellucid
easy to understand
176
respite
gaps/hiatus/abatement/reprieve
177
malice
hatred
178
vindicate
forgive/exonerated/justify
179
apothegm
wisdom
180
naive
innocent/inexperienced
181
reproof
nag
182
intractable
stubborn
183
novitiate
innocent/inexperienced
184
bolster
assist
185
neophyte
beginner/amateur
186
adage
wisdom
187
ersatz
falsehood
188
equitable
equal
189
recidivism
withdrawal/retreat/habitual relapse into crime
190
penultimate
next to last
191
dudgeon
bad mood
192
turpitude
carousal/state of depravity
193
**abridge**
abbreviated communication
194
implacable
stubborn
195
dolorous
death/mourning
196
carom
not a straight line/rebound/ricochet
197
harbinger
predict
198
morose
sorrow
199
occlude
prevent/obstruct
200
deleterious
harmful
201
synchronous
time
202
waspish
bad mood
203
refractory
stubborn
204
asperity
hard-hearted/harsh/acrimony/acerbity
205
tyro
innocent/inexperienced
206
fissure
gaps/openings
207
strident
harsh-sounding
208
inveigh
criticize/criticism
209
reprobate
carousal
210
harangue
nag
211
adventitious
luck
212
ancillary
assist
213
pusillanimous
timid
214
inhibit
weaken
215
circumlocution
overblown/wordy
216
expiate
embarrass/atone/abye/make amends for
217
vicarious
copy/indirect/derivative
218
exacerbate
to make worse
219
aberrant
eccentric/dissimilar
220
antagonism
hatred
221
cursory
hasty/perfunctory
222
caustic
biting wit
223
labyrinth
not a straight line
224
anomaly
unusual
225
foible
embarrass
226
fervid
intensely enthusiastic or passionate
227
tyro
beginner/amateur
228
compunction
embarrass
229
auspicious
luck
230
circumvent
not a straight line
231
disingenuous
insincere
232
ingenuous
innocent/inexperienced
233
palliate
assuage/forgive/allay/lessen
234
progenitor
family
235
disconsolate
sorrow
236
eclectic
eccentric/dissimilar
237
eloquent
easy to understand
238
peregrination
wandering
239
gullible
innocent/inexperienced
240
fatuous
boring
241
appease
pacify/satisfy
242
propitious
luck
243
contrition
embarrass
244
indigent
poor
245
veracious
truth
246
calumny
criticize/criticism
247
articulate
easy to understand
248
inert
lazy/sluggish
249
specious
falsehood
250
ascertain
investigate
251
abrupt
act quickly
252
fey
strange/slightly insane
253
loathing
hatred
254
satiate
pacify/satisfy
255
inexorable
stubborn
256
philanthropic
generous/kind
257
encomium
praise
258
espouse
assist
259
inimical
harmful
260
curtail
abbreviated communication
261
simper
funny/smirk
262
rhetoric
overblown/wordy
263
abjure
withdrawal/retreat
264
zealot
favoring/fanatical/uncompromising
265
sententious
wisdom
266
corroborate
assist
267
platitude
boring/cliche/bromide/banality
268
remission
withdrawal/retreat
269
susstenance
assist
270
credulous
innocent/inexperienced
271
novitiate
beginner/amateur
272
anachronism
eccentric/dissimilar
273
feigned
falsehood
274
depraved
carousal
275
epoch
time
276
stalwart
assist/loyalist/sturdy
277
aphorism
wisdom
278
trepidation
timid
279
plaintive
sorrow
280
syllabus
abbreviated communication
281
hinder
prevent/obstruct
282
torpid
lazy/sluggish
283
millennium
time
284
careen
rush/ sway/ tilt/ not a straight line
285
tantamount
equal
286
abeyance
withdrawal/retreat
287
appraise
investigate
288
fell
hard-hearted/cruel/vicious
289
sincere
truth
290
truism
wisdom
291
slake
pacify/satisfy
292
assay
investigate
293
largess
generous/kind
294
gaucherie
embarrass
295
enervate
weaken
296
munificent
assist
297
fulsome
insincere
298
tirad
criticize/criticism
299
dolor
sorrow
300
aperture
gaps/openings
301
scion
family
302
tendentious
favoring/not impartial
303
proponent
assist
304
fratricide
family
305
clement
generous/kind
306
timorous
timid
307
baneful
harmful
308
phlegmatic
lazy/sluggish (unemotional/calm)
309
serrated
not a straight line
310
lassitude
lazy/sluggish
311
garrulous
overblown/wordy
312
lugubrious
sorrow
313
sidle
move sideways/ not a straight line
314
acerbic
biting wit
315
esoteric
eccentric/dissimilar
316
apace
act quickly
317
remonstrate
criticize/criticism
318
rift
gaps/openings
319
exculpate
forgive
320
verity
truth
321
penurious
greedy
322
discomfort
prevent/obstruct/irritation
323
doctrinaire
stubborn/dogmatist
324
proselyte
beginner/amateur
325
enmity
hatred
326
pithy
terse/abrupt/blunt/gruff
327
melodious
pleasant-sounding
328
noisome
nasty/fetid
329
truculent
hard-hearted
330
decry
criticize/criticism
331
expiate
forgive
332
vexing
stubborn/annoying/galling/plaguy
333
loquacious
overblown/wordy
334
dauntless
bold
335
perfidious
harmful
336
renege
withdrawal/retreat
337
discursive
wandering
338
revile
criticize/criticism
339
diffidence
embarrass/self-doubt
340
opprobrium
criticize/criticism
341
evident
easy to understand
342
vituperation
hard-hearted
343
callow
beginning/young
344
prescient
predict
345
probity
truth
346
irascible
bad mood/hotheaded/choleric
347
sardonic
hard-hearted/mocking
348
encumber
prevent/obstruct
349
languid
lazy/sluggish
350
rebuke
criticize/criticism
351
elegiac
sorrow
352
baleful
hard-hearted/harmful/evil/sinister
353
dissemble
falsehood
354
stultify
weaken
355
misanthropic
hostile
356
indisputable
truth
357
facsimile
copy
358
propitiate
pacify/satisfy/appease
359
bromide
wisdom
360
salacious
carousal
361
gyrate
not a straight line
362
gainsay
criticize/criticism
363
acquit
forgive
364
accolade
praise
365
rancor
hatred
366
gibe
funny
367
peruse
investigate
368
acrimonious
biting wit/bitter cynicism
369
miserly
greedy
370
castigate
criticize/criticism
371
mercurial
changing quickly
372
augur
predict
373
dissemble
insincere
374
excoriate
criticize/criticism
375
renitent
stubborn/reluctant
376
mollify
pacify/satisfy
377
mercenary
greedy
378
antedate
time/precede
379
peripatetic
wandering
380
diatribe
criticize/criticism
381
candor/candid
truth
382
vitriolic
hard-hearted
383
platitude
cliche/commonplace/banality
384
providential
luck
385
oblique
misleading/indirect/devious
386
defer
pacify/satisfy
387
impede
prevent/obstruct
388
intransigent
stubborn
389
ambulatory
walking about
390
prevaricate
falsehood/mislead/equivocate
391
eulogize
praise
392
fetid
nasty
393
idiosyncrasy
unusual
394
irascible
hostile
395
vituperate
criticize/criticism
396
libidinous
carousal/lustful
397
dither
hesitate
398
din
harsh-sounding
399
mordant
biting wit/sinister/grim
400
bombastic
overblown/wordy
401
equivocate
falsehood
402
minatory
harmful
403
lethargic
lazy/sluggish
404
beneficent
generous/kind
405
belittle
criticize/criticism
406
interstice
gaps/openings
407
deride/derisive
criticize/criticism
408
banal
boring
409
antecede
time
410
engender
generate/cause/spawn/breed
411
rapacious
greedy
412
jocular
funny
413
periphrastic
overblown/wordy
414
compendium
abbreviated communication
415
turgid
overblown/pompous/bombastic/tumid
416
detestation
hatred
417
placate
pacify/satisfy
418
simulated
copy
419
hackneyed
boring
420
anachronism
time
421
diurnal
time/active during the day
422
anterior
time/prior/near front end
423
obstinate
stubborn
424
cogent
easy to understand/very persuasive
425
undulating
not a straight line/wobble/smooth up and down
426
pettish
bad mood/easily irritated
427
odium
hatred
428
succinct
terse
429
demise
death/mourning
430
abrogate
withdrawal/retreat
431
euphonious
pleasant-sounding
432
itinerant
wandering
433
curt
terse
434
mordant
biting humor
435
threnody
sorrow
436
reprehend
criticize/criticism
437
emulate
copy
438
courageous
bold
439
mendacious/mendacity
falsehood
440
inchoate
beginning/young/incipient/partially done
441
erudite
smart/learned
442
obviate
weaken
443
incipient
beginning/young/incomplete
444
insipid
boring (don't wanna sip it=boring)
445
waver
hesitate
446
perfidy
falsehood
447
sordid
carousal/sleazy
448
teeter
hesitate
449
ribald
carousal/risque/vulgar
450
verbose
overblown/wordy
451
paradigm
copy
452
antipathy
hatred
453
indubitable
truth/undoubtable
454
asperity
biting wit
455
raucous
harsh-sounding/loud/rough/strident
456
salutary
healthy
457
ostensible
insincere/apparent/seemingly
458
dictum
wisdom
459
malevolent
hard-hearted/hostile
460
prosaic
boring
461
eon
time
462
levity
funny
463
magnanimous
generous/kind
464
noxious
nasty
465
chortle
funny
466
conjugal
family
467
factitious
copy/fictitious/artificial
468
astute
smart/learned
469
audacious
bold
470
abash
embarrass
471
destitute
poor
472
assuage
pacify/satisfy
473
droll
funny
474
impecunious
poor
475
belabor
nag
476
quiescent
lazy/sluggish
477
mordacious
biting wit
478
umbrage
offense/bad mood/take offense to
479
remonstrate
nag
480
unctuous
insincere/ excessive flatter
481
archaic
time
482
fortnight
time
483
anathema
hatred/something hated
484
lackadaisical
lazy/sluggish
485
libertine
carousal
486
nascent
beginning/young
487
synopsis
abbreviated communication
488
headlong
act quickly/headfirst/hasty
489
ephemeral
time/short lives
490
auspice
predict
491
descry
investigate/distinguish/detect
492
avaricious
greedy
493
denounce
criticize/criticism
494
itinerant
walking about
495
debauchery
carousal
496
abhorrence
hatred
497
presage
predict
498
bacchanalian
carousal
499
querulous
bad mood/whiney
500
laconic
terse
501
base
immoral
502
dispatch
expeditiousness/prompt/send off/kill efficiently
503
despondent
low spirits/without hope
504
halcyon
calm
505
legion
in large numbers
506
thoroughgoing
unqualified/arrant
507
lickspittle
a person who behaves obsequiously to those in power/suckup
508
self-effacing
not drawing attention to oneself; modest
509
demure
quiet and modest; reserved
510
bridle
restrain/control/govern
511
quibble
to argue over insignificant and irrelevant details
512
bristle
stiffen with fear or anger
513
beam
express happily
514
guffaw
sudden loud laughter
515
countermand
cancel; revoke (an order)
516
dispirited
dejected; discouraged; gloomy
517
diminutive
(adj.) small
518
deferential
respectful
519
inconsequential
trifling/unimportent
520
wayward
(adj.) disobedient
521
precocious
talented beyond one's age
522
bemoaning
complaining about
523
exorcise
to drive out/forced removal
524
maladroit
clumsy; inept
525
forthright
direct and without evasion; honest
526
subterfuge
an excuse or trick for escaping or hiding something/deceitfulness
527
tropes
figures of speech
528
anodynes
painkiller/something that soothes
529
auguries
signs or omens which are used to predict the future
530
impertinent
rude and disrespectful
531
moot
Open to discussion and debate
532
belies
means to falsely represent
533
solicitous
concerned and attentive; eager
534
fitfully
in an irregular way; unsteadily
535
prevarication
evasion of truth
536
aplomb
self-confidence
537
histrionic
overly dramatic/melodramatic
538
dissimilitude
lack of resemblance or similarity/diversity
539
affront
an insult
540
edifice
a large structure
541
stopgap
a temporary solution
542
diabolical
devilish; wicked or evil
543
ebb
To fade away
544
preclude
(v.) to make impossible/shut out
545
restiveness
restlessness
546
genial
friendly and cheerful
547
sacerdotal
priestly/sacred
548
equivocal
ambiguous
549
arriviste
a person who has recently reached a position of power; a social climber
550
malapropism
a word humorously misused
551
protean
changeable
552
cupidity
greed; avarice
553
blinkered
to have a limited outlook or understanding/blink and you wont understand
554
languish
lack spirit/neglected/lingering/weaken
555
heretic
someone who goes against accepted religious beliefs
556
inured
accustomed to things unpleasant
557
embellishment
excessive details/decorations
558
intrepid
fearless
559
bucolic
charmingly rural
560
merriment
high-spirited fun and enjoyment
561
idler
lazy person
