Magoosh GRE Words

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  1. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  2. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  3. veracity
    unwillingness to tell lies
  4. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  5. maintain
    keep in a certain state, position, or activity
  6. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  7. laconic
    brief and to the point
  8. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  9. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  10. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  11. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  12. candid
    openly straightforward and direct without secretiveness
  13. erratic
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  14. bleak
    unpleasantly cold and damp
  15. profuse
    produced or growing in extreme abundance
  16. extant
    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
  17. contentious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  18. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  19. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  20. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  21. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  22. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  23. stem
    grow out of, have roots in, originate in
  24. check
    examine to determine accuracy or quality
  25. checkered
    patterned with alternating squares of color
  26. raft
    a large number or amount or extent
  27. involved
    highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
  28. retiring
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  29. expansive
    friendly and open and willing to talk
  30. moment
    importance in effect or influence
  31. base
    having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
  32. imbibe
    receive into the mind and retain
  33. inundate
    fill or cover completely, usually with water
  34. scintillating
    having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
  35. benighted
    lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
  36. galvanize
    stimulate to action
  37. hedge
    minimize loss or risk
  38. flush
    having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
  39. fell
    able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  40. arch
    naughtily or annoyingly playful
  41. beg
    dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
  42. tender
    offer or present for acceptance
  43. intimate
    marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
  44. wanting
    inadequate in amount or degree
  45. becoming
    according with custom or propriety
  46. start
    move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
  47. fleece
    rip off; ask an unreasonable price
  48. telling
    disclosing information or giving evidence about another
  49. wax
    increase in phase
  50. check
    lessen the intensity of
  51. qualify
    make more specific
  52. miserly
    characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
    negative connotation
  53. frugal
    avoiding waste
    positive connotation
  54. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  55. variance
    the quality of being subject to change
  56. histrionic
    overly dramatic or emotional
  57. demure
    shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
  58. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
  59. beatific
    experiencing or displaying extreme joy or bliss
  60. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  61. preemptive
    designed to prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence
  62. peremptory
    offensively self-assured or exercising unwarranted power
  63. indigent
    poor enough to need help from others
  64. indigenous
    originating where it is found
  65. indignant
    angered at something unjust or wrong
  66. errant
    straying from the right course or from accepted standards
  67. arrant
    complete and without qualification
  68. err
    make a mistake
  69. artless
    simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
  70. artful
    not straightforward or candid
  71. artifice
    the use of deception or trickery
  72. expurgate
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  73. expunge
    remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
  74. censure
    harsh criticism or disapproval
  75. censor
    a person authorized to suppress unacceptable material
  76. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  77. imponderable
    difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision
  78. kowtow
    bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
  79. powwow
    (informal) a quick private conference
  80. junta
    a group of officers who rule a country after seizing power
  81. imbroglio
    an intricate and confusing interpersonal situation
  82. juggernaut
    a massive inexorable force
  83. Schadenfreude
    delight in another person's misfortune
  84. amuck
    wildly; without self-control
  85. pariah
    a person who is rejected from society or home
  86. nabob
    a wealthy man
  87. Zeitgeist
    the spirit of the time
  88. sang-froid
    great coolness and composure under strain
  89. parvenu
    a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
  90. arriviste
    an ambitious social climber or status seeker
  91. melee
    a noisy riotous fight
  92. lagniappe
    a small gift given by a merchant to a customer
  93. picayune
    small and of little importance
  94. eponym
    the person for whom something is named
  95. memorize
    learn by heart
  96. gerrymander
    divide voting districts unfairly and to one's advantage
  97. hector
    talk to or treat someone in a bossy or bullying way
  98. pollyannaish
    pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
  99. chauvinist
    a person with a prejudiced belief in his own superiority
  100. pyrrhic
    relating to a victory that is offset by staggering losses
  101. kafkaesque
    having a surreal, nightmarish, and oppressive quality
  102. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  103. maudlin
    very sentimental or emotional
  104. Pangloss
    an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire
  105. malapropism
    misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
  106. quisling
    someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
  107. Byzantine
    highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Created on Thu Nov 01 12:58:03 EDT 2012 (updated Sat Nov 03 11:45:20 EDT 2012)

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