gre vocab VI
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- spurn
- have nothing to do reject or refuse
- squalid
- foul filthy
- squander
- spend wastefully
- squat
- crouch/settle without permission
- stanch
- to stop the flow of a fluid
- steeply
- rising or falling sharply
- stentorian
- extremely loud and powerful
- stickler
- person who insists on importance of smth
- stigma
- mark of shame or disgrace
- stigmatize
- describe smb scornfully
- sting
- smth sharp
- stingy
- spending using unwillingly
- stint
- to be thrifty to set limits
- stipple
- paint with dots
- stipulate
- state or put forward as a necessary condition
- stolid
- showing no emotion impassive
- stray
- wander lose one's way
- streak
- long thin move very fast
- striated
- striped grooved or banded
- stride
- walk with long steps
- strut
- a supporting bar
- stygian
- hence dark gloomy
- stymie
- to hinder obstruct or block
- subdue
- overcome bring under control
- sublime
- extreme astounding
- submerge
- put under water liquid sink out of sight
- suborn
- induce by bribery or smth to commit perjury
- subpoena
- written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
- substantiation
- giving facts to support (statement)
- subsume
- include under a rule
- succor
- assistance relief in time of distress
- suffice
- be enough
- suffocate
- cause or have difficulty in breathing
- sullied
- to be stained or discredited
- summarily
- briefly without delay
- sumptuous
- magnificent
- sundry
- various miscellaneous separate
- supercilious
- disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
- superfluous
- more then is needed or wanted
- superimpose
- put smth on the top
- supersede
- take the place of
- supine
- lying on the back slow to act passive
- suppliant
- asking humbly beseeching
- supplicate
- make a humble petition to
- suppress
- prevent from being known put an end to
- surcharge
- additional load/charge
- surfeit
- satiate feed to fulness or to excess
- susceptibility
- sensitiveness
- swerve
- change direction suddenly
- sycophant
- person who flatter to the rich and powerful
- synopsis
- summary or outline
- taciturn
- untalkative silent
- tadpole
- form of a frog when it leaves the egg
- talon
- claw of a bird of prey
- tamp
- tap or drive down by repeated light blows
- tamper
- interfere with
- tangential
- suddenly changeable
- tarnished
- lost brightness
- tassel
- bunch of threads
- taunt
- contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
- taut
- tightly stretched
- tautology
- a repetition a redundancy
- tawdry
- cheap gaudy showy tacky
- teetotal
- oppose to alcohol
- temerity
- boldness brashness intrepidness
- temperance
- abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
- temperate
- showing self-control
- tenacity
- firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
- tenuous
- insubstantial flimsy weak
- tepid
- lukewarm
- terse
- brief and to the point
- testiness
- witness/evidence
- thrift
- care economy thriving prosperous
- thwart
- obstruct/frustrate
- timid
- shy easily frightened
- timorous
- fearful timid afraid
- toady
- obsequious flatterer
- tonic
- smth giving strength or energy
- topple
- be unsteady and overturn
- torment
- severe pain or suffering
- torpid
- sleeping sluggish lethargic dormant
- torque
- twisting force causing rotation
- tortuous
- devious/not straightforward
- tractable
- easily controlled or guided
- transgress
- break go beyond (a limit)
- transient
- temporary fleeting
- transitory
- brief
- travesty
- parody/imitation
- trenchant
- forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
- trepidation
- alarm excited state of mind
- trickle
- flow in drops
- trifling
- unimportant
- trite
- not new
- truce
- (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
- truculence
- aggressiveness ferocity
- trudge
- walk heavily
- turbid
- muddy having the sediment stirred up
- turbulence
- being uncontrolled violent
- turgid
- excessively ornate swollen or bloated
- turmoil
- trouble disturbance
- turpitude
- wickedness shamefulness
- turquoise
- greenish-blue precious stone
- tyro
- tiro beginner
- ubiquitous
- present everywhere
- ulterior
- situated beyond
- umbrage
- offense resentment
- uncouth
- rough awkward
- underbid
- make a lower bid then smb else
- undermine
- weaken gradually at the base make smth under
- undulate
- to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
- unearth
- discover and bring to light
- unencumbered
- easy-going trifle
- unfeigned
- not pretended sincere
- unscathed
- unharmed unhurt
- untoward
- unfortunate inconvenient
- upbraid
- scold reproach
- urbane
- elegant refined in manners
- vacillation
- being uncertain hesitating
- vagary
- strange act or idea
- vain
- without use result conceited
- valiant
- brave
- valorous
- brave
- vanquish
- conquer
- veer
- change direction
- venal
- ready to do smth dishonest
- veneer
- surface appearance covering the TRUE nature
- veneration
- regard with deep respect
- veracity
- truth
- verdant
- fresh and green
- verisimilitude
- appearing TRUE or real
- veritable
- real rightly named
- verve
- spirit vigor enthusiasm
- vestige
- trace or sign
- vex
- annoy distress trouble
- vigilance
- watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
- vigilant
- member of a vigilance committee
- vigorous
- strong energetic
- vilify
- slander say evil things
- vindictive
- having a desire to revenge
- virago
- a loud domineering woman a scold or nag
- visceral
- of the internal organs of the body
- viscous
- sticky/semi-fluid
- vitiate
- lower the quality weaken the strength
- vituperate
- curse abuse in words
- vivacious
- lively high-spirited
- volatile
- changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
- volubility
- fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
- voluble
- fluent
- waffle
- talk vaguely and without much result
- waft
- scent waving movement carry lightly through
- wag
- merry person
- warmonger
- person who stirs up war
- warrant
- authority written order guarantee
- wean
- to turn away (from a habit)
- weigh
- measure hoe heavy smth is
- welter
- turmoil a bewildering jumble
- wend
- to go proceed
- whimsical
- full of odd and fanciful ideas
- wince
- show bodily or mental pain
- woo
- try to win
- writ
- written order