gre vocab V
Terms
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- heinous
- odious (of crime)
- heresy
- belief contrary to what is generally accepted
- hermetic
- sealed by fusion
- heterogeneous
- made up of different kinds
- hew
- make by hard work cut (by striking)
- highbrow
- (person) with superior tastes
- hirsute
- hairy shaggy
- hoax
- mischievous trick played on smb for a joke
- hoi
- polloi the masses the rabble
- hollow
- not soled with hole
- holster
- leather case for a pistol
- homiletics
- act of preaching
- hone
- stone used for sharpening tools
- hoodwink
- trick mislead
- hospitable
- liking to give hospitality
- hubris
- arrogant pride
- hush
- make or become silent
- husk
- worthless outside part of anything
- hypocrisy
- falsely making oneself appear to be good
- iconoclast
- person who attacks popular beliefs
- idiosyncrasy
- personal mannerism
- idolatry
- excessive admiration of
- idyll
- a carefree episode or experience
- ignoble
- dishonorable common undignified
- ignominious
- shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
- illicit
- unlawful forbidden
- imbroglio
- complicated and embarrassing situation
- immaculate
- pure faultless
- imminent
- likely to come or happen soon
- immutable
- that cannot be changed
- impair
- worsen diminish in value
- impassive
- unmoved feeling no sign of passion
- impecunious
- having little or no money
- impede
- hinder get in the way of
- impediment
- smth that hinders (e.g. stammer)
- impending
- imminent being about to happen expected
- imperative
- urgent essential
- imperious
- commanding haughty arrogant
- impermeable
- that cannot be permeated
- imperturbable
- calm not capable of being excited
- impervious
- not allowing to pass through (of materials)
- imperviousness
- haughty arrogant commanding
- impetuous
- having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
- impiety
- lack of reverence or dutifulness
- implacable
- incapable of being placated unpleasable
- implicate
- show that smb has a share
- implicit
- implied though not plainly expressed
- implosion
- collapse bursting inward
- importune
- beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
- imprecation
- an invocation of evil a curse
- impromptu
- without preparation
- impudent
- rash indiscreet
- impugned
- challenged to be doubted
- impute
- to attribute to a cause or source ascribe
- inadvertent
- not paying proper attention
- inane
- silly senseless
- inasmuch
- since because
- incense
- make angry
- incessant
- often repeated continual
- inchoate
- not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
- incipient
- beginning
- incise
- engrave make a cut in
- incite
- stir up rouse
- inclined
- directing the mind in a certain direction
- incongruous
- out of place not in harmony or agreement
- incorrigibility
- cannot be cured or corrected
- incredulous
- skeptical unwilling to believe
- inculcate
- fix firmly by repetition
- incumbents
- official duties
- incursion
- a raid a sudden attack
- indefatigability
- not easily exhaustible tirelessness
- indelible
- that cannot be rubbed out
- indigence
- poverty
- indigenous
- native
- indistinct
- not easily heard seen clearly marked
- indolence
- laziness
- indomitable
- not easily discouraged or subdued
- indulge
- gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
- indulgent
- inclined to indulge
- ineffable
- to great to be described in words
- ineluctable
- certain inevitable
- inept
- unskillful said or done at the wrong time
- ineptitude
- quality of being unskillful
- inferno
- hell
- infuriate
- fill with fury or rage
- infuse
- put pour fill
- ingenuous
- naive young artless frank honest sincere
- ingest
- take in by swallowing
- inimical
- harmful or friendly
- inimitable
- defying imitation unmatchable
- innocuous
- causing no harm
- inscrutable
- incapable of being discovered or understood
- insensible
- unconscious unresponsive unaffected
- insinuate
- suggest unpleasantly make a way for smth gently
- insipid
- without taste or flavor
- insouciant
- unconcerned carefree
- insularity
- narrow-mindedness isolated
- insurrection
- rising of people to open resistance to
- interdict
- prohibit forbid
- interim
- as an installment
- intersperse
- place here and there
- intransigence
- unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
- intransigent
- uncompromising
- intrepid
- fearless brave undaunted
- introspection
- examining one's own thoughts and feelings
- inundate
- flood cover by overflowing
- inured
- accustomed to adapted
- invective
- abusive language curses
- inveigh
- to attack verbally denounce deprecate
- inveterate
- deep-rooted. long-established
- invincible
- too strong to be defeated
- involute
- complex
- irascible
- irritable easily angered
- irate
- angry
- ire
- anger
- irksome
- tiresome
- irresolute
- hesitating undecided
- irrevocable
- final and unalterable
- itinerate
- to travel from place to place to peregrinate
- jabber
- talk excitedly utter rapidly
- jibe
- gibe make fun of
- jocular
- meant as a joke
- judicious
- sound in judgment wise
- knit
- draw together unite firmly
- labyrinthine
- to entangle the state of affairs
- lachrymose
- causing tears tearful
- lackluster
- (of eyes) dull
- lament
- show feel great sorrow
- lassitude
- weariness tiredness
- latent
- present but not yet active developed or visible
- laudatory
- expressing or giving praise
- lavish
- giving or producing freely liberally or generously
- legacy
- smth handed down from ancestors
- levee
- formal reception/embankment
- levity
- lack of seriousness
- libel
- statement that damages reputation
- liberality
- free giving generosity
- libertine
- immoral person
- lien
- legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
- limn
- paint portray
- limp
- lacking strength walking unevenly
- lionize
- treat as a famous person
- lithe
- bending twisting
- loll
- rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
- lope
- move along with long strides
- loquacious
- talkative garrulous
- lucubrate
- write in scholarly fashion
- luculent
- easily understood lucid clear
- lugubrious
- mournful excessively sad
- lull
- become quiet or less active
- lumber
- move in a clumsy/noisy way
- luminary
- star light-giving body
- lurk
- be out of view ready to attack
- lustrous
- being bright polished
- macabre
- gruesome suggesting death
- macerate
- make or become soft by soaking in water
- machination
- plot scheme (esp. evil)
- maladroit
- tactless clumsy
- malapropism
- misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
- malevolence
- wishing to do evil
- malign
- injurious speak ill of smb tell lie
- malinger
- to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
- malleable
- yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
- manacle
- chains for the hands or feet
- massacre
- cruel killing of a large number of people
- matriculation
- be admitted enter a university as a student
- maudlin
- sentimental in a silly or tearful way
- maul
- hurt by rough handling
- maverick
- rebel nonconformist
- mellifluous
- sweetly flowing
- mendacity
- dishonesty
- mendicant
- a beggar
- mercurial
- quick changeable in character fleeting
- meretricious
- attractive on the surface but of little value
- mesmerize
- hypnotize
- meticulous
- giving great attention to details
- mettle
- quality of endurance or courage
- mettlesome
- courageous high-spirited
- middling
- fairly good but not very good
- minatory
- menacing threatening
- mince
- pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
- misanthrope
- person who hates mankind
- mischievous
- harmful causing mischief
- miser
- person who loves wealth and spends little
- misogynist
- one who hates women/females
- moderation
- quality of being limited not extreme
- mollify
- make calmer or quieter
- molt
- moult lose hair feathers before new growing
- morbid
- diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
- morose
- ill-tempered unsocial
- muffler
- cloth worn round the neck/silencer
- multifarious
- varied motley greatly diversified
- mundane
- worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
- myriad
- very great number
- nadir
- lowest weakest point
- nascent
- coming into existence emerging
- nebulous
- cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
- negligent
- taking too little care
- neophyte
- person who has been converted to a belief
- nexus
- a connection tie or link
- nibble
- show some inclination to accept (an offer)
- noisome
- offensive disgusting (smell)
- nonchalant
- not having interest
- nonplused
- greatly surprised
- nostrum
- a quack remedy an untested cure
- noxious
- harmful
- nugatory
- trifling/worthless
- obdurate
- hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
- obfuscate
- to darken make obscure muddle
- oblivious
- unaware having no memory
- obloquy
- abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
- obsequious
- too eager to obey or serve
- obstreperous
- noisy loud
- obtain
- to be established accepted or customary
- obtrusive
- projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
- obtuse
- blunt/stupid
- obviate
- to make unnecessary get rid of
- occluded
- blocked up
- odious
- repulsive hateful
- odium
- contempt dislike aversion
- odor
- smell favor reputation
- officious
- too eager or ready to help offer advice
- ominous
- threatening
- onerous
- needing effort burdensome
- opaqueness
- dullness/not allowing light to pass through
- opprobrious
- showing scorn or reproach
- ossify
- to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
- ostensible
- seeming appearing as such professed
- ostentation
- display to obtain admiration or envy
- ostracism
- shut out from society refuse to meet talk
- overhaul
- examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
- overweening
- presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
- paean
- song of praise or triumph
- palate
- roof of the mouth sense of taste
- palatial
- magnificent
- palliate
- lessen the severity of
- palpability
- can be felt touched understood
- palpitate
- tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
- panegyric
- formal praise eulogy
- paradigm
- a model example or pattern
- parenthesis
- sentence within another one smth separated
- pariah
- an outcast a rejected and despised person
- parsimonious
- too economical miserly
- partisan
- one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
- paucity
- scarcity a lacking of
- peccadillo
- small sin small weakness in one's character
- pedantic
- bookish showing off learning
- pedestrian
- commonplace trite unremarkable
- pellucid
- transparent easy to understand