GRE List 23
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- obstinate
- bullheaded, mulish, perverse
- perverse
- being difficult, unreasonable
- obstreperous
- undisciplined, resistant to control; unruly
- obtuse
- lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect
- obviate
- to anticipate and prevent or make uncecessary
- occlude
- block
- occult
- not easily apprehended, recondite, abstruse, esoteric, hermetic
- odium
- hatred and condemnation; disrepute, discredit, detestation
- offhand
- an offhand manner, nonchalant; w/o previous consideration, dismissive
- offish
- standoffish
- omniscient
- all-knowing; having infinite awareness/insight
- onerous
- involving great effort, trouble, imposing, troublesome
- opine
- express opinions
- opprobrious
-
offensive reproach; abusive, vituperative, scurrile, truculent, contumelious, invective
2. notorious - oppugn
-
1. to question
2. to fight against - ornithology
- dealing with birds
- orthodoxy
- conforming to established doctrine, canon
- ossify
- become hardened, oppposed to change
- ostentatious
- conspicuous, vainglorious, and pretentious display
- oust
- remove or dispossess of property, position, thing by legal action; deprive, bereave, divest
- outset
- beginning
- outstrip
- move faster and overtake, exceed; supply far outstripped demand
- overbearing
- overpowering; harshly and haughtily arrogant (proud)
- oversight
- careless mistake, supervision
- overt
- done/shown openly
- manifest
- clear, obvious, inventory
- overture
- introduction
- pachyderm
- large animal with thick skin like elephant, pig, rhino
- paean
- joyous song, hymn of praise
- palatial
- magnificent
- pall
- lose interest, bore, tire, weary; the high life was beginning to pall. cast a pall over
- palliate
- reduce severness of disease; mask something bad
- pallid
-
pale, ashen, ashy, blanched, colourless
!= rubicund - palmy
- marked by prosperity
- palpable
- easily perceived
- palter
- deceit, lie, equivocate, falsify, fib, prevaricate
- paltry
- worthless, petty, measly, piddling, trifling. this is a paltry sum to pay for a masterpiece.
- pan
- criticize harshly
- panache
- flamboyance in style
- panacea
- solution; all-cure; bicycles aren't a panacea for the traffic problem
- pander
- to indulge in immoral habit
- panegyric
- eulogistic oration or writing
- parable
- simple story with moral value
- paradigm
- model, pattern
- paradox
- statement that's seemingly contradictory to common sense and yet is perhaps true
- paragon
- model of excellence, ideal, jewel, nonesuch, nonpareil
- parch
- dry or shrivel with heat
- ellipsis
- marks indicating omission
- pariah
- member of low caste, outcast
- parity
- equivalence, adequation
- paroxysm
- sudden, violent emotion or action; a paroxysm of weeping
- parquetry
- pattern on floor
- parrot
- repeat by rote (mechanically