Magoosh

Josh L. (United States of America)
Words from Magoosh. Not sure that the GRE list or my grand list of words to learn is hacking it. So TA DA here's my not so comprehensive solution. These are words that I came across while using Magoosh (which by the way is the best GRE and GMAT prep that I've used). There isn't any order to it other than I wanted to keep it short. I hope it helps you.
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  1. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  2. aplomb
    great coolness and composure under strain
  3. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  4. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  5. munificent
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  6. impertinent
    improperly forward or bold
  7. persnickety
    characterized by excessive attention to trivial details
  8. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  9. retiring
    of a person who has held and relinquished a position
  10. longitudinally
    with respect to longitude
  11. heretic
    a person whose religious beliefs conflict with church dogma
  12. inquisitor
    a questioner who is excessively harsh
  13. humdrum
    tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
  14. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  15. carping
    persistent petty and unjustified criticism
  16. cavil
    raise trivial objections
  17. inimical
    tending to obstruct or cause harm
  18. apotheosis
    model of excellence or perfection of a kind
  19. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
  20. taken with
    marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
  21. apogee
    the farthest point in an orbit around the Earth
  22. nadir
    the lowest point of anything
  23. zenith
    the highest point of something
  24. perigee
    the nearest point in an orbit around the Earth
  25. precocity
    intelligence achieved far ahead of normal development
  26. sublimated
    passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid
  27. untoward
    not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper
  28. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
  29. inclement
    severe, of weather
  30. fastidious
    giving careful attention to detail
  31. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
  32. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
  33. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  34. ingratiate
    gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
  35. thoroughgoing
    performed comprehensively and completely
  36. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  37. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  38. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  39. nettlesome
    causing irritation or annoyance
  40. ameliorate
    make better
  41. ebb
    the outward flow of the tide
  42. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
    Naturally slow of speech, he grew still more reserved and taciturn. Maclean, John
  43. dysphoric
    generalized feeling of distress
    He never replied to the fellow student’s last text message, asking if he wanted to talk about dysphoric mania. New York Times (Aug 26, 2012)
  44. stalwart
    having rugged physical strength
  45. unflappable
    not easily perturbed, excited, or upset
  46. proscription
    a decree or act that prohibits something
  47. truculence
    stubborn and defiant aggressiveness
  48. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  49. braggadocio
    vain and empty boasting
  50. provocation
    a means of arousing or stirring to action
  51. meteoric
    relating to small objects in or from outer space
  52. self-effacing
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  53. churlish
    having a bad disposition; surly
  54. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  55. erudition
    profound scholarly knowledge
  56. culpability
    a state of guilt
  57. intrepid
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  58. affluent
    having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
  59. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  60. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  61. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  62. obtuse
    slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
  63. benighted
    overtaken by darkness
  64. arcane
    requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
  65. illicit
    contrary to accepted morality or convention
  66. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  67. iconoclastic
    characterized by attack on established beliefs
  68. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  69. tenable
    based on sound reasoning or evidence
  70. stultify
    deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
  71. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  72. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  73. herald
    a person who announces important news
  74. provident
    giving something useful for the future
  75. provident
    careful in regard to your own interests
    Good harvests make men prodigal, bad ones provident. Preston, Thomas
  76. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  77. prescience
    the power to foresee the future
  78. conflate
    mix together different elements
  79. Tacitus
    Roman historian who wrote major works on the history of the Roman Empire (56-120)
    The Roman historian Tacitus claimed that Germanic tribes held their important councils while drunk, as they thought it made effective lying harder.
  80. amenable
    disposed or willing to comply
  81. artifice
    the use of deception or trickery
  82. faint
    lacking clarity, brightness, or loudness
  83. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
  84. espionage
    the systematic use of spies to obtain secrets
  85. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  86. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  87. illusory
    having the nature of something unreal or deceptive
  88. misanthrope
    someone who dislikes people in general
  89. sociopath
    a person with an antisocial personality disorder
  90. aberrant
    markedly different from an accepted norm
  91. operant
    having influence or producing an effect
  92. aberrate
    diverge or deviate from the straight path
  93. abacinate
    blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes
  94. puckish
    naughtily or annoyingly playful
  95. uxorious
    foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife
  96. exhort
    spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
  97. enjoin
    give instructions to or direct somebody to do something
  98. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  99. cuspidate
    having cusps or points
  100. chauvinist
    a person with a prejudiced belief in his own superiority
  101. pathological
    relating to the study of diseases
  102. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  103. corpulent
    excessively large
  104. vernal
    suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
  105. sartorial
    of or relating to tailoring or clothing
  106. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  107. nascent
    being born or beginning
  108. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  109. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  110. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  111. consummate
    having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
  112. semblance
    the outward or apparent appearance or form of something
  113. chum
    a close friend
  114. repute
    the state of being held in high esteem and honor
  115. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  116. parsimony
    extreme stinginess
  117. chimera
    a grotesque product of the imagination
  118. apothegm
    a short pithy instructive saying
  119. epigrammatic
    terse and witty
  120. dispatch
    the act of sending off something
  121. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  122. milieu
    the environmental condition
  123. inimical
    tending to obstruct or cause harm
  124. periapsis
    the point in an orbit closest to the body being orbited
Created on Sun Nov 03 15:38:28 EST 2013 (updated Thu Nov 28 22:43:45 EST 2013)

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