MASTER GRE VOCAB GROUPS Flashcards
raillery
funny
harangue
criticize/criticism
cacophony
harsh-sounding
rue
embarrass
erroneous
falsehood
ameliorate
pacify/satisfy
soothe
pacify/satisfy
advocate
assist
venal
greedy/corruptible/bribable
beneficial
healthy
recreant
timid/craven/turncoat/coward (re+create excuses=cowardly)
expatiate
wandering
propitiate
luck
lull
gaps/openings
countenance
assist
melancholy
sorrow
sinuous
not a straight line
berate
criticize/criticism
axiom
wisdom
peripatetic
walking about
circuitous
not a straight line
vortex
inescapable/ not a straight line
pique
bad mood
forlorn
sorrow
aspersion
criticize/criticism/calumny/slander
mundane
boring
venerate/veneration
praise
cadaver
death/mourning
quintessence
copy
equity
equal
churlish
hostile/rude/impolite
grandiloquent
overblown/wordy
capricious
changing quickly
sojourn
wandering/visit/short journey
precursor
copy
frankness
truth
petulant
bad mood/cranky/peckish
partisan
favoring/not impartial
disparage
criticize/criticism
pernicious
harmful
interregnum
gaps/openings
dissipated
carousal (overindulging in sensual pleasures)
slothful
lazy/sluggish
limpid
easy to understand (Limpid, Lucid, Liquid)
pedestrian
boring
hector
nag
abet
assist
licentious
carousal
duplicity
falsehood
unstinting
generous/kind/unsparing/unselfish
esurient
poor
askance
suspicion/disapproval/squint
curmudgeon
hostile
indolent
lazy/sluggish
untoward
indecent/indecorous/unbecoming
distaff
female
pillory
criticize/criticism
consanguine
family
lament
sorrow
ardor/ardent
favoring/partial/fervour
absolve
forgive
lucid
easy to understand
bilious
bad mood
anomalous
eccentric/dissimilar
canny
smart/learned
iconoclast
unusual
fortuitous
luck
objurgate
criticize/criticism
dilettante
beginner/amateur
bereave
death/mourning
inhibit
prevent/obstruct
orifice
gaps/openings
injurious
harmful
fallacious
falsehood
discrete
eccentric/dissimilar
flippant
funny
awry
not a straight line/when things go wrong
aggrandize
praise
terse
abbreviated communication
munificent
generous/kind
admonish
nag
altruistic
generous/kind
canard
falsehood
precipitate
act quickly
rescind
withdrawal/retreat
temporal
time
antithetic
hostile/sharp contrast
obloquy
criticize/criticism/opprobrium/defamation
sonorous
pleasant-sounding
exhort
nag
chagrin
embarrass
kismet
luck
hiatus
gaps/openings
covetous
greedy/avaricious/jealous
meander
wander/ramble/not a straight line
diffident
timid
forfend
prevent/obstruct
vindictive
hostile
martinet
nag/disciplinarian/moralist
oscillate
hesitate
trite
boring/banal
volatile
changing quickly
lambaste
criticize/criticism
defamation
criticize/criticism
vacillate
hesitate
mainstay
assist/pillar/prominent supporter
optimum
luck
truculent
hostile
portentous
predict
recalcitrant
stubborn
rent
gaps/openings
craven
timid
counterpart
copy
iniquity
evil/injustice/unfairness/wickedness
ludicrous
funny
portentous
done in pompous way
guile
falsehood
fetter
prevent/obstruct/restraint
dour
hard-hearted/stubborn/dogged/persistent
laud/laudatory
praise
riposte
funny
mitigate
pacify/satisfy
fealty
truth/allegiance/indebtness to
amulet
luck
defunct
death/mourning
redress
forgive/remedy/restitution
prognosticate
predict
acidulous
biting wit
dissonant
harsh-sounding/variable
vitiate
weaken
retrograde
withdrawal/retreat
aberration
unusual
reprove
criticize/criticism
abortive
withdrawal/retreat
perspicacious
smart/learned
harmonious
pleasant-sounding
trenchant
biting wit/forceful/clear-cut
cavil
nag
endogamous
family
legitmate
truth
apocryphal
falsehood
obdurate
stubborn
burgeoning
beginning/young
enjoin
nag
abatement
gaps/openings
spurious
falsehood
forage
wandering
iconoclast
eccentric/dissimilar
adulterate
weaken
doleful
sorrow
epigram
wisdom
recant
withdrawal/retreat
impetuous
act quickly
salubrious
healthy
demur
withdrawal/retreat/take exception to
fledgling
beginner/amateur
filial
family
fawn
praise
extol
praise
prolix
overblown/wordy
acclaim
praise
undermine
weaken
decamp
withdrawal/retreat
insidious
harmful
quotidian
boring
scathing
hard-hearted
impugn
criticize/criticism
talisman
luck
chicanery
falsehood
compendious
terse/compact/succinct
taciturn
terse/uncommunicative/untalkative
exonerate
forgive
abnegation
withdrawal/retreat
facetious
funny (make funny faces)
pellucid
easy to understand
respite
gaps/hiatus/abatement/reprieve
malice
hatred
vindicate
forgive/exonerated/justify
apothegm
wisdom
naive
innocent/inexperienced
reproof
nag
intractable
stubborn
novitiate
innocent/inexperienced
bolster
assist
neophyte
beginner/amateur
adage
wisdom
ersatz
falsehood
equitable
equal
recidivism
withdrawal/retreat/habitual relapse into crime
penultimate
next to last
dudgeon
bad mood
turpitude
carousal/state of depravity
abridge
abbreviated communication
implacable
stubborn
dolorous
death/mourning
carom
not a straight line/rebound/ricochet
harbinger
predict
morose
sorrow
occlude
prevent/obstruct
deleterious
harmful
synchronous
time
waspish
bad mood
refractory
stubborn
asperity
hard-hearted/harsh/acrimony/acerbity
tyro
innocent/inexperienced
fissure
gaps/openings
strident
harsh-sounding
inveigh
criticize/criticism
reprobate
carousal
harangue
nag
adventitious
luck
ancillary
assist
pusillanimous
timid
inhibit
weaken
circumlocution
overblown/wordy
expiate
embarrass/atone/abye/make amends for
vicarious
copy/indirect/derivative
exacerbate
to make worse
aberrant
eccentric/dissimilar
antagonism
hatred
cursory
hasty/perfunctory
caustic
biting wit
labyrinth
not a straight line
anomaly
unusual