GRE - List (5)

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List #5 : 55 words
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  1. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  2. reproof
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
  3. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  4. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  5. rescind
    cancel officially
  6. restive
    in a very tense state
  7. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  8. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  9. ribald
    humorously vulgar
  10. rigmarole
    a long and complicated and confusing procedure
  11. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  12. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  13. salubrious
    promoting health
  14. shibboleth
    a favorite saying of a sect or political group
  15. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  16. soporific
    inducing sleep
  17. specious
    plausible but false
  18. specious
    plausible but false
  19. spurious
    plausible but false
  20. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  21. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  22. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  23. tendentious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  24. terse
    brief and to the point
  25. torpor
    a state of motor and mental inactivity
  26. transitory
    lasting a very short time
  27. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  28. turgid
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  29. umbrage
    a feeling of anger caused by being offended
  30. untoward
    not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper
  31. vacillate
    be undecided about something
  32. veracity
    unwillingness to tell lies
  33. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  34. vex
    disturb, especially by minor irritations
  35. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
  36. vitiate
    make imperfect
  37. vitriolic
    harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone
  38. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  39. waver
    pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
  40. whimsical
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  41. zeal
    a feeling of strong eagerness
  42. apprise
    inform somebody of something
  43. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  44. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  45. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  46. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  47. implicit
    suggested though not directly expressed
  48. indolent
    disinclined to work or exertion
  49. insularity
    lack of openness to new ideas; narrow-mindedness
  50. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  51. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
  52. perfidious
    tending to betray
  53. proliferate
    grow rapidly
  54. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  55. supposition
    the cognitive process of conjecturing
  56. tangential
    of superficial relevance if any
  57. veracious
    habitually speaking the truth
Created on Thu May 23 14:54:29 EDT 2013 (updated Thu May 30 20:35:55 EDT 2013)

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