High Frequency GRE words 2
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- solicitous
- worried; concerned
- stint
- thrifty; limits
- striated
- marked with parallel bands; grooved
- strut
- supporting bar
- subpoena
- writ summoning a witness to appear
- supersede
- set aside; obsolete
- supposition
- hypothesis
- tenuous
- thin; rare
- tortuous
- winding; full of curves
- tractable
- easily managed; docile
- transgression
- sin
- truculence
- aggresiveness
- viscous
- sticky
- vituperative
- abusive; scolding
- wary
- cautious
- welter
- turmoil; bewildering jumble
- axiomatic
- taken as a given; universal principle
- accolade
- expression of praise
- adulation
- praise; adoration
- acumen
- keen; accurate
- aver
- state as a fact; declare
- acerbic
- bitter
- alchemy
- science of metals
- amenable
- agreeable
- astringent
- harsh; severe
- contiguous
- adjacent; neighboring
- alloy
- make impure
- august
- majestic
- broach
- announce; bring about
- brook
- endure
- cardinal
- major
- bucolic
- rural
- canonical
- following or in agreement with accepted standards
- censure
- criticize
- chary
- cautious
- cynicism
- negativity; selfishness
- dearth
- scarcity; small
- demur
- question; oppose
- didatic
- intended to teach or instruct
- eccentric
- deviating from conventions
- ennui
- dissatisfaction or restlessness
- extemporaneous
- improvised; done without preparation
- filibuster
- intentional delaying
- evanescent
- vanishing
- emollient
- mollifying
- fervent
- zealous; emotional
- fulminate
- attack or denounce
- furtive
- stealthy
- fortuitous
- accidentally; lucky
- germane
- appropriate in subject matter
- hackneyed
- common
- halcyon
- calm
- hedonism
- pleasure pursuit
- hegemony
- dominance of one ideology over others
- glib
- lacking in depth
- hubris
- arrogance
- intrepid
- courageous
- mercurial
- moody
- grouse
- complain
- impunity
- immunity from punishment
- inveigle
- obtain by deception or flattery
- heretical
- violating accepted dogma
- hyperbole
- exxagerated statement
- impecunious
- lacking funds; without money
- incipient
- come into being; become apparent
- infelicitous
- inappropriate
- malevolent
- ill-will; hatred
- nascent
- coming into being
- nebulous
- vague
- neologism
- new words, expression, sense
- noxious
- harmful
- obtuse
- not clear
- obfuscate
- make obscure
- pervade
- permeate
- polemical
- controversial
- pithy
- precise or brief
- pith
- essential or central part
- pine
- yearn; desire
- pedagogy
- teaching
- perspicacious
- acutely perceptive; discernment
- pernicious
- harmful
- peruse
- examine with great care
- predilection
- prefence
- prescience
- foreknowledge
- qualms
- reservations
- preen
- to dress up
- prodigious
- abundance
- putrefy
- to rot; decay
- quaff
- to drink deeply
- querulous
- prone to complaining
- rancorous
- bitter
- proclivity
- a natural predisposition or inclination
- profligate
- prodigal
- prosaic
- dull
- quixotic
- noble deeds; difficult tasks
- quotidian
- daily; commonplace
- refulgent
- radiant; shiny
- renege
- failure
- sedulous
- diligent
- succint
- brief
- satire
- a work that ridicules through humor
- sordid
- dirty; filth; foulplay
- sporadic
- occurring occasionally
- stymie
- block
- squalid
- dirty; sordid
- stoic
- indifferent
- supplant
- take the place of
- torpid
- sluggishness
- ubiquitous
- widespread; exisitng everywhere
- surfeit
- excess
- terse
- brief
- tout
- praise or promote
- trenchant
- perceptive; keen
- variegated
- multicolored
- untenable
- not viable
- unfeigned
- genuine
- vilify
- defame
- urbane
- elegant
- virulent
- harmful
- voracious
- greedy
- abjure
- renounce or reject
- adumbrate
- vague foreshadow
- anathema
- curse
- anodyne
- soothe
- apogee
- zenith; highest point
- apostate
- one who has abandoned his principles
- apotheosis
- paragon
- asperity
- severity
- asseverate
- to declare; affirm; assert; allege
- augury
- omen
- bellicose
- warlike
- calumniate
- false accusation
- captious
- find trivial faults
- cavil
- find fault
- celerity
- speed
- chimera
- illusion
- contumacious
- rebellious
- debacle
- failure
- denouement
- outcome; unraveling
- descry
- catch sight of; discriminate; detect
- desuetude
- disuse
- diaphanous
- transparent
- encomium
- enthusiastic; praise
- eschew
- avoid
- excoriate
- tear off; scold
- execrate
- curse
- exegesis
- critical explanation or analysis
- expiate
- give up
- extirpate
- destroy
- fractious
- quarrelsome
- gainsay
- deny; dispute
- heterodox
- unorthodox
- imbroglio
- difficult or embarassing situation
- indefatigable
- not fatigued
- ineluctable
- certain
- inimitable
- one of a kind; peerless; incomparable
- insouciant
- indifferent; carefree
- inveterate
- habitual
- jejune
- uninteresting; childish
- lubricious
- slippery
- mendicant
- beggar
- meretricious
- showy; flashy
- minatory
- threatening
- nadir
- low point
- nonplussed
- bewildered
- obstreperous
- stubbornly defiant
- ossified
- conventional
- palliate
- to make less severe
- panegyric
- eulogy; praiseworthy
- parsimonious
- cheap; miserly
- pellucid
- easy to understand
- peroration
- flowery; effective
- plangent
- pounding; thundering
- prolix
- verbose
- puerile
- immature
- puissance
- strength
- pusillanimous
- cowardly
- remonstrate
- protest
- sagacious
- like a sage
- salacious
- lustful
- salutary
- remedial
- sanguine
- cheerful; optimistic
- saturnine
- gloomy
- sentenious
- moralistic
- stentorian
- powerful
- stygian
- gloomy
- sycophant
- parasite
- tendentious
- biased
- timorous
- timid
- tyro
- novice
- vitiate
- corrupt; spoil
- voluble
- fluent