GRE word list 4
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- adroit skillful
- annex an addition to a building
- apiary place for storing beehives
- arbiter person appointed to decide something
- acerbic bitter or sour
- atavism resurgence of earlier traits
- auxiliary functioning in a supporting capacity
- betrothed engaged to be married
- blazon decorate with heraldic arms
- candor honesty and impartiality
- cauterize burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a
- chasten discipline
- churlish rude or irritable
- clique exclusive group of people
- collate sort together
- conflate colors or sounds
- consortium an association of companies for a purpose
- culvert transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway
- dearth insufficient amount
- demagogue politician who appeals to popular opinions
- denigrate cast aspersion on
- despot tyrannical dictator
- didactic excessively instructive
- discrepancy difference in things that should be the same
- disparate vastly different
- diurnal occurring during the day; occurring once a day
- draconian (of legislation) excessively strict
- edict authoritative decision (esp. by a judge)
- egalitarianism of the belief that all people are equal
- eloquence of clear speech or writing
- encapsulate contain the essential truths in
- entreaty urgent request
- esoteric secret mysterious; known only to an exclusive group
- exculpate Pronounce someone not guilty
- exorbitant high price
- expurgate remove parts of a text etc. that are deemed indecent
- extradite surrender the custody of
- fallacy argument that seems logical but is flawed
- flaccid Drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness
- gamine homeless girl
- genteel well-bred, refined
- guile craftiness, ability to deceive
- heuristic (of education method) allowing students to learn for themselves by trial and error;
- idiom phrase or saying; manner of speaking or use of language natural to native speakers
- implicate indicate someone as having part of the blame
- incandescent glowing with heat
- insidious attractive but harmful
- intranet private computer network that uses World Wide Web software
- laconic brief and to the point
- logistics art completing a task through correct management of human and physical resources
- malcontent person who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs
- maxim a saying universally accepted to be true
- merchant businessmen who buys and sells things for profit
- misnomer name that misrepresents its meaning
- munificent extremely generous
- nuance small difference in the meaning (especially of verbal expressions)
- oligarchy society governed by a few people
- ostensible of motives or facts that are apparent but not necessarily real or true
- panacea hypothetical remedy for all illness
- pathological caused by disease or mental illness
- permeate spread through
- phoneme sound that makes up an elementary part of a word
- polemic writer who argues for an opinion, against others; involving controversy
- practicable usable for a specific purpose
- prevalent most common
- prognosis prediction as to how a situation is expected to develop
- proprietary protected by trademark or copyright
- quorum the minimum number of members of a society necessary to make decisions
- regimen a plan designed to improve health and fitness
- resuscitate bring someone who is near death to a recovery
- retention keeping of something in ones body or possessions
- rustic to do with rural life
- sardonic sharply ironic and humorous
- semantic to do with the meaning of things (especially words)
- sluggard lazy person
- somnolent drowsy
- spasmodic characterized by involuntary muscular contractions
- stigmatize reject socially by giving blame to
- submersible capable of traveling underwater
- substantiate make real or solid; (of theories etc strengthened with solid evidence)
- superfluous not necessary; frivolous
- syllogism conclusion deduced from two premises
- tawdry cheap and tasteless
- thrall condition of being under the control of someone else
- tragicomedy play having elements of both comedy and tragedy
- translucent partially allowing light through
- tribulation hardship
- ubiquitous (seeming to be) present everywhere
- uncial (especially or Roman inscriptions) in capital letters
- unduly in an inappropriate manner or quantity
- unleavened bread that has not risen because it is made without yeast
- unseemly not proper or acceptable
- unyielding resisting force
- vacuous empty, meaningless
- venal capable of being corrupted
- verbose using very many words
- vertex highest point; point where lines intersect
- victuals stock of food
- virulent very poisonous or infectious
- wanton without reason or motivation
- wayfarer traveler
