GRE Vocabulary BCD
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- Banal
- hachneyed, commonplace, boring
- Belie
- Contradict, give a false impression
- Beneficent
- Kindly, doing good
- Bolster
- support, reinforce
- Bombastic
- pompous, using inflated language
- Boorish
- rude, insensitive
- Burgeon
- grow forth, send out buds
- Burnish
- make shiny by rubbing, polish
- Buttress
- support, prop up
- Cacophonous
- discordant, inhormonous
- Capricious
- unpredictable, fickle
- Castigation
- punishment, severe criticism
- Catalyst
- agent that brings about a chemical change
- Caustic
- sarcastically biting, burning
- Chicanery
- trickery, deception
- Coagulate
- thicken, clot, congeal
- Coda
- Concluding section of musical or literary composition
- Cogent
- convincing
- Commensurate
- equal in extent
- Compendium
- brief, to the point
- Complaisant
- pleasing
- Compliant
- yielding, confirming to requirements
- Conciliatory
- reconciling, soothing
- Condone
- overlook, forgive
- Confound
- confuse, puzzle
- Connoisseur
- person competent to act as a judge of art etc
- Contention
- claim, thesis
- Contentious
- quarrelsome
- Contrite
- penitent
- Conundrum
- difficult problem, riddle question
- Converge
- approach
- Convoluted
- coiled around, involved
- Craven
- cowardly
- Daunt
- intimidate, frighten
- Decorum
- propriety, orderliness and good taste in manners
- Default
- failure to act
- Deference
- Courteous respect
- Delineate
- portray, depict, sketch
- Denigrate
- blacken
- Deride
- ridicule
- Derivative
- unoriginal
- Dessicate
- dry up
- Deselutory
- aimless
- Deterrant
- Something that discourages
- Diatribe
- Bitter Scolding
- Dichotomy
- split, brancing into two parts
- Diffident
- shyness
- Diffuse
- wordy, rambling, spread out
- Digression
- wandering away from the subject
- Dirge
- lament with music
- Disabuse
- Correct a false impression
- Discerning
- Mentally quick and observant
- Discredit
- Defame, disbelieve, destroy confidence
- Discrepancy
- lack of consistency, difference
- Discrete
- separate, unconnected
- Disingenuous
- not naive, sophisticated
- Disinterested
- unprejudiced
- Disjointed
- disconnected
- Dismiss
- eliminate from consideration
- Disparage
- Belittle
- Dissemble
- disguise, show false appearance
- Disseminate
- Distribute, spread, scatter
- Dissolution
- Disintegration; looseness in morals
- Dissonance
- discord, opposite of harmony
- Distend
- expand, swell out
- Distill
- purify, refine
- Diverge
- vary, go in different directions
- Divest
- strip, deprive
- Document
- provide written evidence
- Dogmatic
- openionated, arbitrary, doctrinal
- Dormant
- sleeping, lethargic, latent
- Dupe
- someone easily fooled