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GRE STUDY GUIDE 104 words

July 30, 2007 By Clinton S.

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  1. megalomaniac
    a pathological egotist
  2. eclectic
    selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
  3. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  4. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  5. endermatic
    acting by absorption through the skin
  6. fortuitous
    occurring by happy chance
  7. pantheism
    the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God
  8. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  9. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  10. wanton
    lewd or lascivious woman
  11. philander
    talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
  12. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success
  13. auspicious
    auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
  14. inculcate
    teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
  15. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  16. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  17. puissant
    powerful
  18. punctilious
    marked by precise accordance with details
  19. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  20. pugnacious
    tough and callous by virtue of experience
  21. pulchritude
    physical beauty (especially of a woman)
  22. beatitude
    a state of supreme happiness
  23. austerity
    the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
  24. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  25. prose
    ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  26. puerile
    displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  27. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  28. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
  29. protean
    taking on different forms
  30. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  31. putative
    purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds
  32. languid
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  33. protract
    lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
  34. salubrious
    promoting health; healthful
  35. indolent
    disinclined to work or exertion
  36. otiose
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  37. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  38. retentive
    having the capacity to retain something
  39. adroit
    quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
  40. deft
    skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
  41. reticence
    the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
  42. rife
    excessively abundant
  43. provident
    providing carefully for the future
  44. presbyopic
    able to see distant objects clearly
  45. impious
    lacking piety or reverence for a god
  46. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
  47. tractable
    easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
  48. amenable
    disposed or willing to comply
  49. temporal
    of or relating to or limited by time
  50. servile
    submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
  51. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  52. sycophantic
    attempting to win favor by flattery
  53. veracious
    habitually speaking the truth
  54. opaque
    not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
  55. glaucous
    having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants
  56. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  57. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  58. turgid
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  59. orotund
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  60. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  61. pretentious
    making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
  62. sesquipedalian
    a very long word (a foot and a half long)
  63. pontifical
    proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
  64. veracity
    unwillingness to tell lies
  65. tumult
    a state of commotion and noise and confusion
  66. recidivist
    someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
  67. recondite
    difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
  68. abstruse
    difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
  69. scurrilous
    expressing offensive reproach
  70. opprobrious
    expressing offensive reproach
  71. septic
    of or relating to or caused by putrefaction
  72. purulent
    containing pus
  73. putrefacient
    causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction
  74. septicemic
    characteristic of septicemia
  75. voracious
    devouring or craving food in great quantities
  76. edacious
    devouring or craving food in great quantities
  77. sententious
    concise and full of meaning
  78. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  79. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
  80. pleonastic
    repetition of same sense in different words
  81. tautological
    repetition of same sense in different words
  82. eulogize
    praise formally and eloquently
  83. extol
    praise, glorify, or honor
  84. expurgate
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  85. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect
  86. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  87. bellicose
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  88. trepidation
    a feeling of alarm or dread
  89. intrepidity
    resolute courageousness
  90. perturbation
    the act of causing disorder
  91. trite
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  92. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  93. axiom
    (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident
  94. apposite
    being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
  95. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
  96. amicable
    characterized by friendship and good will
  97. benison
    a spoken blessing
  98. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  99. adulation
    servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise
  100. animus
    a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
  101. carping
    persistent petty and unjustified criticism
  102. anachronism
    something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
  103. bland
    lacking taste or flavor or tang
  104. caustic
    of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action