Baron's GRE Vocab
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- diffidence
- shyness
- aberrant
- abnormal or deviant
- amalgamate
- combine; unite in one body
- ambivalence
- state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
- anachronism
- something or someone misplaced in time
- antipathy
- aversion; dislike
- apathy
- lack of caring; indifference
- apprise
- inform
- approbation
- approval
- artless
- without guile; open and honest
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial
- assiduous
- diligent
- assuage
- ease or lessen
- attenuate
- make thin; weaken
- audacious
- daring; bold
- banal
- hackneyed; commonplace; trite
- belie
- contradict; give a false impression
- beneficent
- kindly; doing good
- boorish
- rude; insensitive
- burnish
- make shiny by rubbing; polish
- cacophonous
- discordant; inharmonious
- capricious
- unpredictable; fickle
- castigation
- severe criticism; punishment
- coagulate
- thicken; congeal; clot
- cogent
- convincing
- commensurate
- equal in extent
- compendium
- brief, comprehensive summary
- compliant
- yielding; conforming to requirements
- conciliatory
- reconciling; soothing
- confound
- confuse; puzzle
- contention
- a struggle between or among people or ideas; strife; argument
- contentious
- quarrelsome
- craven
- cowardly
- daunt
- intimidate; frighten
- default
- failure to act
- deference
- courteous regard for another's wish
- delineate
- portray; depict; sketch
- denigrate
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to deny the worth of;
sneer at;
belittle - deride
- ridicule; make fun of
- desultory
- aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
- dirge
- lament with music
- discerning
- mentally quick and observant; having insight
- dichotomy
- split; branching into two parts
- disingenuous
- not naive; sophisticated
- disinterested
- unprejudiced
- disparage
- belittle
- dissonance
- discord; opposite of harmony
- distend
- expand; swell out
- divest
- strip; deprive
- eclectic
- selective
- efficacy
- power to produce desired effect
- elicit
- draw out by discussion
- empirical
- based on experience
- equanimity
- calmness of temperament; composure
- equivocate
- lie; mislead; attempt to conceal truth
- erudite
- learned; scholarly
- esoteric
- hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
- euphemism
- a mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
- exacerbate
- worsen; embitter
- exingency
- urgent situation
- extrapolation
- projection; conjecture
- facetious
- joking(often inappropriately)
- fatuous
- foolish; inane
- felicitous
- apt; suitable expressed; well chosen
- fervor
- glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
- fledgling
- inexperienced
- foment
- stir up; instigate
- futile
- useless; hopeless; ineffectual
- gainsay
- deny
- goad
- urge on
- gouge
- overcharge
- gregarious
- sociable
- guileless
- without deceit
- hyperbole
- exaggeration; overstatement
- immutable
- unchangeable
- impede
- hinder; block
- imperturbable
- calm; placid
- impervious
- impenetrable, incapable of being damaged or distressed
- inchoate
- recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
- incongruity
- lack of harmony; absurdity
- indigence
- poverty
- indolent
- lazy
- ingenuous
- naive and trusting; unsophisticated
- innocuous
- harmless
- insipid
- lacking in flavor
- insularity
- narrow-mindedness; isolation
- intractable
- unruly; stubborn; hard to manage
- intransigence
- refusal of any compromise; stubbornness
- inundate
- overwhelm; flood
- inured
- accustomed; hardened
- invective
- abuse
- irascible
- irritable; easily angered
- laconic
- brief and to the point
- lassitude
- languor; weariness
- latent
- potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
- laud
- praise
- levity
- lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity
- lucid
- easily understood; clear; intelligible
- magnanimity
- generosity
- malingerer
- one who feigns illness to escape duty
- mendacious
- lying; habitually dishonest
- misanthrope
- one who hates mankind
- mitigate
- appease; moderate
- mollify
- soothe
- morose
- ill-humored; sullen; melancholy
- mundane
- worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday
- neophyte
- recent convert; beginner
- obdurate
- stubborn, unyielding
- obsequious
- slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
- obviate
- anticipate and make unnecessary; get rid of
- occlude
- shut; close; block
- officious
- meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services
- onerous
- burdensome
- opprobrium
- infamy; vilification
- ostentatious
- showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
- paragon
- model of perfection
- partisan
- one-sided
- pathological
- pertaining to disease
- paucity
- scarcity
- pendantic
- showing off learning; bookish
- penchant
- strong inclination; liking
- penury
- severe poverty; stinginess
- perennial
- long-lasting
- perfidious
- treacherous; disloyal
- perfunctory
- superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm
- pervasive
- spread throughout
- phlegmatic
- calm; not easily disturbed
- piety
- devoutness; reverence for God
- placate
- pacify; conciliate
- platitude
- trite remark; commonplace statement
- pragmatic
- practical (as opposed to idealistic)
- precarious
- uncertain; risky
- precipitate
- rash; premature; hasty; sudden
- prevaricate
- lie
- pristine
- characteristic of earlier times; primitive, unspoiled
- probity
- uprightness; incorruptibility
- prodigal
- wasteful; reckless with money
- proliferate
- grow rapidly; spread; multiply
- propitiate
- appease
- propriety
- fitness; correct conduct
- proscribe
- ostracize; banish; outlaw
- pungent
- stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
- qualified
- limited; restricted
- quiescent
- at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
- rarefied
- made less dense (of a gas)
- recalcitrant
- obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority
- recant
- disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement
- recondite
- abstruse; profound; secret
- refractory
- stubborn; unmanageable
- refute
- disprove
- relegate
- banish to an inferior position; 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 purpose
- reticent
- reserved; uncommunicative
- reverent
- respectful; worshipful
- sage
- person celebrated for wisdom
- salubrious
- healthful
- sanction
- approve; ratify
- secrete
- hidden away or cache
- shard
- fragment
- solicitous
- worried, concerned
- soporific
- sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness
- specious
- seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading
- stigma
- token of disgrace; brand
- stint
- be thrifty; set limits
- stipulate
- express conditions; specify
- stolid
- dull, impassive
- supposition
- hypothesis; surmise
- tacit
- understood; not put into words
- tenuous
- thin; rare; slim
- torpor
- lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
- tortuous
- winding; full of curves
- tractable
- docile; easily managed
- transgression
- violation of a law; sin
- truculence
- aggressiveness; ferocity
- vacillate
- waver; fluctuate
- venerate
- revere
- veracious
- truthful
- verbose
- wordy
- viable
- practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
- viscous
- sticky; gluey
- vituperative
- abusive; scolding
- warranted
- justified; authorized
- wary
- very cautious
- welter
- turmoil; bewildering jumble
- zealot
- fanatic; excessive zeal