Barron's GRE Sentence Equivalence and Text Completion

Emily W. (United States of America)
20th Edition--words I need to review pgs. 67 - 79
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  1. heretofore
    up to this point or up to the present time
  2. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  3. iconoclastic
    characterized by attack on established beliefs
  4. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  5. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  6. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  7. belie
    be in contradiction with
  8. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  9. indigent
    poor enough to need help from others
  10. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  11. loath
    strongly opposed
  12. vaunt
    show off
  13. obtuse
    of an angle, between 90 and 180 degrees
  14. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  15. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  16. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  17. laggard
    someone who takes more time than necessary
  18. petulance
    an irritable feeling
  19. aggrieve
    cause to feel distress
  20. overawe
    subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)
  21. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  22. moribund
    being on the point of death
  23. curio
    something unusual, maybe worthy of collecting
  24. autocrat
    a cruel and oppressive dictator
  25. braggart
    a very boastful and talkative person
  26. denouement
    the outcome of a complex sequence of events
  27. foundering
    (of a ship) sinking
  28. plebiscite
    a vote determining public opinion on a question
  29. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  30. recidivist
    someone who lapses into undesirable patterns of behavior
Created on Wed Jul 24 20:20:50 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Jul 24 20:34:09 EDT 2013)

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