My GRE Vocab Words
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- Pundit (n)
- A learned person
- Imperiousness (adj)
- Arrogance, hautiness
- Rapacious (adj)
- Greedy, ravenous
- Ostentatious (adj)
- Pretentious
- Placid (adj)
- Calm or quiet
- Arabesque (n)
- An intricate or elaborate pattern or design
- Dirge (n)
- A funeral hymn or lament
- Emollient (n)
- Softening and soothing, especially to skin
- Dynamo (n)
- A generator, especially one for generating direct current
- Misanthrope (n)
- One who hates or mistrusts humankind
- Implacable (adj)
- Impossible to appease.
- Perfidious (adj)
- Treacherous
- Elegy (n)
- A poem, especially composed as a lament for a deceased person.
- Curmudgeon (n)
- An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions.
- Xenophone (n)
- A person fearful of strangers
- Miscreant (n)
- An evildoer or villian.
- Raconteur (n)
- One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill.
- Sextant (n)
- A navigational instrument used to determine latitude and longitude from the stars.
- Levee (n)
- An embankment raised to prevent a river from overflowing.
- Cordon (n)
- A line of people stationed around an area to guard it.
- Mercurial (adj)
- Quick and changable in temperment.
- Conviviality (n)
- A convivial spirit or humor; festivity.
- Limn (v)
- To describe
- Stint (v)
- To restrict or limit