My Princeton GRE vocab
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- alacrity
- willingness
- bucolic
- pastoral
- inchoate
- not fully formed
- veracity
- honesty
- polemical
- contraversial
- truculent
- fierce / eager to fight
- erudite
- scholarly
- trenchant
- sharply perceptive
- solicitious
- eager
- impecenious
- broke (no money)
- probity
- attendence to high principles
- credulous
- gullible
- salubrious
- good for you
- opprobrium
- contempt
- variegated
- multicoloured
- quiescence
- stillness
- flout
- show contempt for
- fulminate
- loudly denounce
- prodigal
- extravagantly wasteful
- exculpate
- clear of blame (remove culpability)
- pith
- core
- iconoclast
- against dogma (for some reason makes me think of andy warhol)
- diatribe
- vehement verbal attack
- quotidian
- pedestrian / commonplace
- phlegmatic
- calm / sluggish
- dilletante
- person with superficial knowledge of an area
- inveigle
- obtain by deception
- vitoperate
- use harsh language against
- nascent
- developing
- acerbic
- sour / bitter
- penurious
- cheap
- incipient
- developing
- demur
- to take exception to
- contrite
- penitent
- aver
- state as fact
- intractable
- not easily managed
- insipid
- bland
- specious
- misleading
- dissemble
- conceal
- refulgent
- brilliant
- bombastic
- pompous
- quixotic
- foolishly impractical
- exigent
- urgent
- halcyon
- calm / peaceful
- penury
- poverty
- obsequious
- fawning
- mendacity
- dishonesty
- dearth
- lack
- infelicitious
- unfortunate
- perspicacious
- acute
- recondite
- hidden
- recalcitrant
- difficult to manage
- redoubtable
- awe inspiring
- laconic
- terse
- profligate
- wasteful
- disabuse
- make right
- extemporaneous
- improvised
- evanescent
- vapor like / disappearing
- approbation
- approval
- paean
- hymn, song of thanksgiving
- urbane
- refined
- prosaic
- dull
- querelous
- complaining
- ingenuous
- artless
- tout
- publicly praise
- garrulous
- talkative
- facetious
- unduly jolly
- lagubrious
- unduly sorrowful
- cogent
- convincing
- pernicious
- harmful
- irascible
- easily angered
- obviate
- anticipate and make unnecessary
- capricious
- inclined to change one's mind impulsively
- contentious
- argumentative
- disparate
- distinct
- filibuster
- intentional obstruction, especially through speach making
- hegemony
- consistent dominance of one thing over another
- nebulous
- cloudy, lacking defined form
- odious
- evoking aversion
- sedulous
- hardworking
- tenacity
- adherence to something valued