Set 2 - GRE words
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- Aesthetic
- concerning the appreciation of beauty
- Ameliorate
- to make better; to improve
- Arbitrary
- determined by chance or impulse
- Attenuate
- reduce in force or degree; weaken
- Burgeon
- to grow and flourish
- Candid
- impartial and honest in speech
- Catalyst
- something that brings about a change in something else
- Chauvinist
- someone prejudiced in favor of a group that he or she belongs to
- Credulous
- too trusting; gullible
- Desultory
- jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
- Eclectic
- selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
- Enervate
- to reduce in strength
- Enumerate
- to count, list, itemize
- Erratic
- wandering and unpredictable
- Foment
- to arouse or incite
- Garrulous
- tending to talk a lot
- Inimical
- hostile, unfriendly
- Intransigent
- uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled
- Laconic
- using few words
- Luminous
- bright, brilliant, glowing
- Ostentation
- excessive showiness
- Pedant
- someone who shows off learning
- Phlegmatic
- calm and unemotional in temperment
- Prevaricate
- to like or deviate from the truth
- Proclivity
- a natural inclination or predisposition
- Propitiate
- to conciliate, to appease
- Pungent
- sharp and irritating to the senses
- Repudiate
- to reject the validity of
- Torpor
- extreme mental and physical sluggishness
- Aberrant
- deviating from what is normal or expected
- Abyss
- an extremely deep hole
- Alleviate
- to make more bearable
- Anomaly
- deviation from what is normal
- Apathy
- lack of interest or emotion
- Ardor
- intense and passionate feeling
- Banal
- predictable, cliched, boring
- Coalesce
- to grow together to form a single whole
- Connoisseur
- a person with expert knowledge or discriminating tastes
- Deference
- respect, courtesy
- Dilate
- to make larger, expand
- Eloquent
- persuasive and moving, especially in speech
- Emulate
- to copy; to try to equal or excel
- Estimable
- admirable
- Exacerbate
- to make worse
- Exonerate
- to clear of blame
- Fawn
- to grovel
- Gullible
- easily deceived
- Imperturbable
- not capable of being disturbed
- Implacable
- unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
- Latent
- potential that is not readily apparent
- Lethargic
- acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner
- Metaphor
- a figure of speech comparing two different things, a symbol
- Mitigate
- to soften, to lessen
- Naive
- lacking sophistication or experience
- Obstinate
- stubborn, unyielding
- Onerous
- troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
- Permeate
- to penetrate
- Plethora
- excess
- Satiate
- to satisfy fully or overindulge
- Stigma
- a mark of shame or discredit
- Tacit
- done without using words
- Venerate
- to respect deeply
- Vex
- to annoy
- Waver
- to fluctuate between choices