GRE Hit Parade #4
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- acerbic
- having a sour, bitter taste
- amalgamate
- to combine
- amenable
- agreeable
- bolster
- provide support
- credulous
- gullible
- diatribe
- harsh denunciation
- fervent
- very emotional
- flout
- to show contempt for
- foruitous
- happening by chance
- garrulous
- talking too much
- germane
- relevant
- glib
- nonchalant; superficial
- halcyon
- calm; peaceful
- hubris
- arrogant pride
- idolatrous
- intense devotion
- imperturbable
- extremely calm
- implacable
- not capable of changing
- intrepid
- couragous
- laconic
- using few words
- maverick
- an independent person
- mendacity
- dishonesty
- mercurial
- rapidly changing (especially mood)
- obdurate
- unyielding
- obfuscate
- to make confusing
- obsequious
- showing a fawning attentiveness
- obstinate
- stubborn
- opprobrium
- disgrace
- ostentatious
- pretentious
- pedantic
- excessive attention to formal rules
- phlegmatic
- calm
- polemical
- controversial; argumentative
- rancorous
- bitter resentment
- rhetoric
- effective use of language for persuasion
- salubrious
- promoting good health
- sedulous
- hard working
- solvent
-
1. able to meet financial obligations
2. able to dissolve a substance - soporific
- causing drowsiness
- inimitable
- one of a kind
- iniquity
- wickedness
- inscrutable
- incapable of being discovered or understood
- insouciant
- carefree
- insular
- narrow-minded
- interdict
- to forbid
- inveigh
- to attack verbally
- inveterate
- deep-rooted
- involute
- complex
- jejune
- uninteresting
- jibe
- to agree
- jocose
- humorous
- labile
- readily open to change
- lachrymose
- causing tears; tearful
- lassitude
- weariness
- libertine
- someone unrestrained by morality
- limpid
- transparent
- lubricious
- slippery
- luculent
- easily understood
- macerate
- to waste away
- maculate
- impure
- malinger
- to avoid work
- maunder
- to digress
- mellifluous
- sweetly flowing (usually refers to words)
- mendicant
- beggar
- meretricious
- cheap; showy
- mettle
- stamina
- mettlesome
- courageous
- militate
- to have weight; to argue against
- minatory
- threatening
- misogynist
- one who hates women
- multifarious
- varied
- nadir
- low point
- natty
- trimly neat and tidy
- nexus
- a connection
- nonplused
- baffled
- nostrum
- questionable remedy
- nugatory
- inconsequential
- obloquy
- sharp criticism
- obstreperous
- noisy
- officious
- meddlesome
- ossified
- conventional; tending to become more rigid
- ostensible
- appearing as such
- overweening
- oberbearing
- palliate
- to make something appear less serious
- paradigm
- an example
- pariah
- an outcast
- parry
- to block
- parsimonious
- cheap
- paucity
- scarcity
- peccadillo
- a slight offense; minor sin