Other Words for GRE. P. R. Flashcards
August (adj)
Majestic, venerable
An august king / an august performance of the religious drama.
Brook (verb)
Tolerate, endure, countenance
I will brook just a little noise.
Damp (verb)
to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound.
Acoustic damping is important at the cinema to not bother the neighbors.
Fell
to cause to fall by striking(verb) Inhumanly cruel(adj)
To fell a tree
The fell poison
Ford (verb)
Wade across shallow part of the river
He will Ford the river with his friends to get to the other side.
Grouse (verb)
To complain or grumble.
They grouse about anything that makes them angry.
Intimate (verb)
Imply, suggest or insinuate.
There was no intimation that the letter was written by the king.
List (verb)
To tilt or lean to one side.
It seems that the boat began to list to the other side.
Lumber (verb)
To move heavy and clumsy.
overloaded wagons lumbering down the dirt road.
Meet (adj.)
Fitting, proper.
It seems that the refrigerator is really meet, considering its place and the rest of the kitchen
Milk (verb)
Exploit, squeeze every last ounce of.
The swindler milked her of all her savings.
Nice (adj.)
Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
They’re much too nice in their dining habits to enjoy an outdoor barbecue.
Plastic (adj.)
Moldable, not rigid.
clay and other plastic substances.
Pluck (noun)
Courage, spunk, fortitude
A hero needs to have pluck to face such a calamitous situation.
Prize (verb)
To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils.
Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.
Sap
To enervate or weaken (verb)
A fool or nitwit (noun).
Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
Qualify (verb)
To limit.
I’d like to qualify my criticisms of the school’s failings, by adding that it’s a very happy place.
Stand (noun)
Group of trees
Steep (verb)
To saturate or completely soak, as in to let tea bag steep.
to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.
Strut (noun)
Supporting Cross-part of a wing
Table (verb)
To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
Waffle (verb)
To equivocate, change one’s position.
to waffle on an important issue.
to waffle a campaign promise.
Wag (noun)
Wit, joker.
The man was a wag, a wit. He usually says/ writes epigrams for the delectation of everybody.
Anathema (noun)
A solemn ou ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing.
That subject is anathema to him.
This guy is an anathema. He have received an anathema from our priest.
Apotheosis (noun)
Deification, glorification to godliness,an exalted example, a model of perfection (epitome).
This poem is the apotheosis of lyric expression.
He has turned into god in an apotheosis.
Asseverate (verb)
To aver, assert or allege.
Please, asseverate that everything is in order.
Cavil (verb)
To find fault without good reason.
He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
Contumacious (adj.)
Insubordinate, rebellious. Contumely means scorn, insult, aspersion.
His father threatened to get the contumacious boy out of the party if he doing contumely in there.
Descry (verb)
To discriminate, discern.
I’m able to descry between green and blue.
Desuetude (noun)
Disuse.
The problem with buying and keeping too much is the desuetude that follows, as it is impossible to keep using all things.
Diaphanous (adj.)
Transparent, Gauzy .
This is the most diaphanous glasses I’ve seen.
Exegesis (noun)
Critical examination, explication.
This was great exegesis of the Bible.
Fractious (adj.)
Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable .
a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness
an incorrigibly fractious young man.
Lubricious (adj.)
Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery.
The oil is lubricious, specially on a siren.
Meretricious (adj.)
Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show.
The show was meretricious like second level “samba school “
Minatory (adj.)
Menacing, Threatening.
All this aggregate of enemies holding weapons is quite minatory for me.
Nonplussed (adj.)
Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think.
The second place contenders was nonplussed by the time of the winner announcement.
Pellucid (adj.)
Transparent, easy to understand, limpid.
a pellucid way of writing.
Peroration (noun)
The concluding part of a speech, retrorockets speech.
The best part of the speech was the peroration.
Pusillanimous (adj.)
Cowardly, craven.
This guy should be less pusillanimous and more mettlesome
Remonstrate (verb)
To protest, to object.
We are remonstrating against pollution.
Saturnine (adj.)
Dark, gloomy, sully, morose.
The Stygian darkness in the house was condign to the saturnine owner.
Sycophant (noun)
Toady, servant, self-seeking servile, parasite
That lackey was in fact a sycophant that only wanted to use his boss for accomplishing his own goals in a wanton manner.
Chicanery (noun)
Trickery or subterfuge
Excess of chicanery is the problem with Brazilian culture. “Jeitinho “
Connoisseur (noun)
An informed jury in maters of taste; an expert.
Please bring a connoisseur to judge this. The current professional in the verification process knows nothing.
Convoluted (adj.)
Complex or complicated.
His language is way too convoluted for the common people to grasp the meaning of his words.
Recant (verb)
To retract, specially a previous held belief.
Witnesses threatened to recant their testimony when the court released their names to the paper.
Burgeon (verb)
Grow rapidly, flourish.
The austere policy enacted by the frugal finance minister should reduce the burgeoning fiscal deficit.
Disinterested (adj.)
Free of bias or self interest.
a disinterested decision by the referee.
Morose(adj)
Sad, sullen, melancholy .
Sometimes a depressive person gets morose.
Peruse (verb)
Examine with great care.
to peruse a report.
Pious
Extremely reverent or devout.
The pious old women are sometimes boring and prone to judging others.
Pith (noun)
Central part.
The pith of the matter.
Pithy
Precise and brief.
a pithy observation.
Subpoena (noun)
A court order requiring appearance and/Or testimony.
The witness has received the subpoena.
Surfeit (verb)
Over abundant supplies; excess.
The is a surfeit of stupid voting people in Rio. The prime minister have surfeited the FX reserves
Zealous (adj.)
Fervent, ardent, impassioned, devoted to a cause.
I am zealous in my fight against bolivarianism and communism.
Anachronism (noun)
Someone or something out of place in terms of historical or chronological context.
To defend communism one must be full of anachronism
Astringent (adj.)
Having tightening effect on on living tissue; harsh, severe.
The guy spoke with his astringent criticism.
Fawn (verb)
Flatter or praise In excess
That was a good opportunity to blandish or entreat, or at least to laud, by the guy had fawned too much his boss and that sounded fake.
Maverick (noun)
An Independent individual who does not go along with group or party.
The guy was a Maverick like wolverine.
Pervade (verb)
To permeate throughout.
The nurse has pervaded his skin to infuse the medicine with a pervasive medical instrument.
Plethora (noun)
Over abundance, surplus.
The is a surfeit of stupid voting people in Rio.
Sedulous (adj.)
Diligent, hard working,persistent.
Lava Jato staff consists of sedulous officials.
Shard (noun)
Piece of broken glass, pottery.
The glass cup has fallen and turned into many shards.
Spendthrift (noun)
One who spends money wastefully.
The guy is not frugal. He is a spendthrift, totally prodigal.
Tout (verb)
To publicly praise or promote (advertise)
The guy is disturbing everybody with this aggressive touting.
Renege (verb)
Fail to honor commitment ; go back on promise.
After realizing that it would be too hard to pass the needed austerity measures in congress, the president reneged his previous fiscal targets.
