G.E.D. VOCABULARY

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  1. abstemious
    marked by temperance in indulgence
  2. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  3. anachronism
    locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed
  4. antediluvian
    of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  5. apotheosis
    model of excellence or perfection of a kind
  6. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  7. astringent
    tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue
  8. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  9. bourgeois
    being of the property-owning class
  10. bucolic
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  11. burnish
    polish and make shiny
  12. careen
    move at high speed and in an uncontrolled way
  13. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
  14. contrive
    make or work out a plan for; devise
  15. cynicism
    a pessimistic feeling of distrust
  16. dapper
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  17. diaspora
    the dispersion of something that was originally localized
  18. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  19. impermanent
    not lasting
  20. impetus
    a force that makes something happen
  21. indulgence
    the act of gratifying a desire
  22. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  23. invocation
    the act of appealing for help
  24. jaunt
    a journey taken for pleasure
  25. libertine
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  26. mire
    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  27. morbid
    suggesting the horror of death and decay
  28. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
  29. pedagogy
    the profession of a teacher
  30. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  31. plebeian
    of or associated with the great masses of people
  32. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
  33. precipitous
    extremely steep
  34. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  35. propensity
    a natural inclination
  36. resolute
    firm in purpose or belief
  37. rout
    an overwhelming defeat
  38. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  39. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  40. stalwart
    having rugged physical strength
  41. suppliant
    humbly entreating
  42. temperate
    not extreme
  43. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  44. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
  45. vitiate
    make imperfect
  46. vex
    disturb, especially by minor irritations
  47. replete
    filled to satisfaction with food or drink
  48. subservient
    compliant and obedient to authority
  49. convoluted
    highly complex or intricate
  50. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  51. abdicate
    give up power, duties, or obligations
  52. aberration
    a state or condition markedly different from the norm
  53. abstain
    refrain from doing, consuming, or partaking in something
  54. adversity
    a state of misfortune or affliction
  55. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  56. amicable
    characterized by friendship and good will
  57. anachronistic
    chronologically misplaced
  58. arid
    lacking sufficient water or rainfall
  59. asylum
    a shelter from danger or hardship
  60. benevolent
    showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
  61. bias
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
  62. boisterous
    marked by exuberance and high spirits
  63. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  64. brusque
    rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
  65. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
  66. canny
    showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
  67. capacious
    large in the amount that can be contained
  68. capitulate
    surrender under agreed conditions
  69. clairvoyant
    someone who can perceive things not present to the senses
  70. collaborate
    work together on a common enterprise or project
  71. compassion
    a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
  72. compromise
    an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
  73. condescending
    characteristic of those who treat others with arrogance
  74. conformist
    someone who follows established standards of conduct
  75. convergence
    the act of coming closer
  76. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  77. demagogue
    a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions
  78. digression
    a message that departs from the main subject
  79. diligent
    quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness
  80. discredit
    the state of being held in low esteem
  81. disdain
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  82. divergent
    tending to move apart in different directions
  83. empathy
    understanding and entering into another's feelings
  84. emulate
    strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
  85. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  86. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
  87. exemplary
    worthy of imitation
  88. extenuating
    partially excusing or justifying
  89. florid
    elaborately or excessively ornamented
  90. forbearance
    a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges
  91. fortitude
    strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity
  92. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  93. fraught
    filled with or attended with
  94. frugal
    avoiding waste
  95. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  96. haughty
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  97. hedonist
    someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
  98. hypothesis
    a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
  99. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
  100. impute
    attribute or credit to
  101. inconsequential
    lacking worth or importance
  102. inevitable
    incapable of being avoided or prevented
  103. intrepid
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  104. intuitive
    spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
  105. jubilation
    a feeling of extreme joy
  106. lobbyist
    someone who is employed to persuade how legislators vote
  107. longevity
    the property of having lived for a considerable time
  108. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
  109. nonchalant
    marked by casual unconcern or indifference
  110. opulent
    rich and superior in quality
  111. orator
    a person who delivers a speech
  112. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  113. parched
    extremely thirsty
  114. perfidious
    tending to betray
  115. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  116. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  117. pretentious
    creating an appearance of importance or distinction
  118. procrastinate
    waste time or postpone doing what one should be doing
  119. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  120. prosperity
    the condition of having good fortune
  121. provocative
    serving or tending to excite or stimulate
  122. prudent
    marked by sound judgment
  123. querulous
    habitually complaining
  124. reclusive
    withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
  125. reconciliation
    the reestablishment of cordial relations
  126. restrained
    under control
  127. reverence
    a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
  128. sagacity
    the trait of having wisdom and good judgment
  129. scrutinize
    examine carefully for accuracy
  130. spontaneous
    said or done without having been planned in advance
  131. spurious
    plausible but false
  132. submissive
    inclined or willing to give in to orders or wishes of others
  133. substantiate
    establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
  134. subtle
    difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
  135. superficial
    of, affecting, or being on or near the surface
  136. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  137. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  138. tactful
    having a sense of what is considerate in dealing with others
  139. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  140. transient
    lasting a very short time
  141. venerable
    profoundly honored
  142. vindicate
    show to be right by providing justification or proof
  143. wary
    marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
  144. value
    the quality that renders something desirable
  145. proposition
    a suggestion offered for acceptance or rejection
  146. character
    a property that defines the individual nature of something
  147. personality
    the complex of attributes that characterize an individual
  148. benefit
    something that aids or promotes well-being
  149. passion
    a strong feeling or emotion
  150. purpose
    what something is used for
  151. attitude
    a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings
  152. behavior
    the way a person acts toward other people
  153. rational
    consistent with or based on or using reason
  154. emotional
    of or pertaining to feelings
  155. target
    a reference point to shoot at
  156. segment
    one of several parts that fit with others to make a whole
  157. consistency
    uniformity or stability in arrangement, behavior, or quality
  158. profile
    an outline of something, especially a face from the side
  159. perception
    the process of becoming aware through the senses
  160. reality
    the state of being actual
  161. accurate
    characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth
  162. amendment
    a statement that is added to a proposal or document
  163. suffrage
    a legal right to vote
  164. disenfranchise
    deprive of voting rights
  165. segregation
    the act of keeping apart
  166. emigration
    moving from one place in order to settle in another
  167. assimilation
    the process of absorbing one cultural group into another
  168. reservation
    the act of setting aside for some future occasion
  169. industrialization
    the development of commercial enterprise
  170. corporation
    a business firm recognized by law as a single body
  171. labor
    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
  172. acronym
    a word formed from the initial letters of several words
  173. allegory
    a short moral story
  174. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  175. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  176. ambience
    the atmosphere of an environment
  177. ambiguity
    unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
  178. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
  179. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  180. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  181. articulation
    the manner in which things come together and are connected
  182. artifact
    a man-made object
  183. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  184. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  185. censorship
    deleting parts of publications or theatrical performances
  186. characterization
    the act of describing essential features
  187. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
  188. cognate
    related by blood
  189. coherence
    the state of sticking together
  190. cohesion
    the state of sticking together
  191. collective
    done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
  192. noun
    a content word referring to a person, place, thing or action
  193. concept
    an abstract or general idea inferred from specific instances
  194. consonance
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
  195. context
    the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation
  196. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
  197. credibility
    the quality of being believable or trustworthy
  198. debate
    a discussion with reasons for and against some proposal
  199. delivery
    voluntary transfer of something from one party to another
  200. dictation
    an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
  201. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  202. emphasis
    intensity or forcefulness of expression
  203. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  204. ethics
    motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
  205. excerpt
    a passage selected from a larger work
  206. feature
    a prominent attribute or aspect of something
  207. article
    one of a class of artifacts
  208. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  209. idiom
    expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
  210. incongruity
    the quality of disagreeing
  211. inflection
    the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  212. interior
    inside and toward a center
  213. monologue
    a dramatic speech by a single actor
  214. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  215. application
    the action of putting something into operation
  216. literary
    relating to or characteristic of creative writing
  217. criticism
    a serious examination and judgment of something
  218. logical
    based on known statements or events or conditions
  219. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
  220. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
  221. medium
    the surrounding environment
  222. memorandum
    a written proposal or reminder
  223. methodology
    the techniques followed in a particular discipline
  224. mythology
    the body of stories associated with a culture or institution
  225. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  226. negotiate
    discuss the terms of an arrangement
  227. norm
    a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
  228. phrase
    an expression consisting of one or more words
  229. nuance
    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
  230. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  231. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  232. parable
    a short moral story
  233. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  234. pastoral
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  235. persona
    an image of oneself that one presents to the world
  236. propaganda
    information that is spread to promote some cause
  237. questionnaire
    a form with a set of queries to gain statistical information
  238. pronoun
    a function word that is used in place of a noun
  239. resume
    take up or begin anew
  240. rhetorical
    relating to using language effectively
  241. device
    an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
  242. sarcasm
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  243. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  244. opera
    a drama set to music
  245. soliloquy
    speech you make to yourself
  246. stream
    a natural body of water flowing on or under the earth
  247. consciousness
    an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself
  248. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  249. transparency
    the quality of being clear
  250. understatement
    something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast
  251. warranty
    written assurance that a product or service will be provided
  252. process
    a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
Created on Sat Nov 19 18:55:34 EST 2011 (updated Thu Dec 22 18:01:37 EST 2011)

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