GRE Vocabulary RtoZ
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- Rarefied
- made less dense[ of a gas]
- Recalcitrant
- obstinately stubborn
- Recant
- openly confess error, retract a previous statement
- Recluse
- hermit, loner
- Recondite
- abstruse, profound
- Refractory
- stubborn, unmanageable
- Refute
- disprove
- Relegate
- banish to an inferor position, assign, delegate
- Reproach
- express disapproval or disappointment
- Reprobate
- person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency
- Repudiate
- disown, disavow
- Rescind
- cancel
- Resolution
- determination
- Resolve
- determination, firmness of pirpose
- Reticent
- reserved, uncommunicative, inclined to silence
- Reverent
- respectful, worshipful
- Sage
- person celebrated for wisdom
- Salubruous
- healthful
- Sanction
- approve
- Satiate
- satisfy fully
- Saturate
- soak thoroughly
- Savor
- enjoy, have a distinctive falvour, smell, or quality
- Secrete
- hide away or cache
- Shard
- fragment, generally of pottery
- Skeptic
- doubtful
- solicitous
- worried, concerned
- Soporific
- sleep-causing, marked by sleepiness
- Specious
- misleading, seemingly reasonable but incorrect
- Spectrum
- colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
- Sporadic
- occuring irregularly
- Stigma
- token of disgrace, brand
- Stint
- be thrifty, set limits
- Stipulate
- specify, make express conditions
- Stolid
- dull, impassive
- Straited
- marked with parallel bands, grooved
- Strut
- supporting bar
- Subpoena
- writ summoning a witness to appear
- Subside
- settle down, descend
- Substantiate
- establish by evidence
- Supersede
- cause to be set aside, replace
- Supposition
- hypothesis, assumption
- Tacit
- understood
- Tangential
- peripheral, only slightly connected
- Tenuous
- thin, rare, slim
- Tirade
- extended scolding, denunciation, harnague
- Torpor
- lethargy, sluggishness
- Tortuous
- winding, full of curves
- Tractable
- docile, easily managed
- Transgression
- violation of law
- truculence
- aggressiveness, ferocity
- Vacillate
- waver, fluctuate
- Viable
- practical or workable, apable of maintaining life
- Viscous
- stickey, gluey
- Vituperative
- abusive, scolding
- Volatile
- changeable, explosive, evaporating rapidly
- Warranted
- justified, authorized
- Wary
- very cautious
- Welter
- turmoil; bewildering jumble
- Whimsical
- capricious, fanciful
- Zealot
- fanatic, person who shows excessive zeal