GRE Hit Parade #3
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- abate
- to lessen in intensity
- avarice
- greed, esp. for wealth
- castigation
- severe criticism
- catalyst
- accelerates the chemical reaction without changing itself
- caustic
- burning or stinging
- chary
- cautious
- cogent
- appealing to reason; convincing
- contrite
- regretful
- dearth
- lack of quantity
- demur
- to question or oppose
- didactic
- intended to teach or instruct
- dogmatic
- stubbornly opinionated
- ebullience
- lively expression of feelings
- emollient
- making less harsh, esp. to the skin
- empirical
- based on observation
- esoteric
- understood by a small group
- exonerate
- to remove blame
- furtive
- marked by stealth; covert
- harangue
- to deliver a pompous speech
- impecunious
- lacking funds
- incipient
- beginning to come into being
- inert
- lethargic
- innocuous
- harmless
- intransigent
- refusing to compromise
- inveigle
- to obtain by deception
- odious
- evoking intense aversion
- prodigious
- abundant in size or force; extraordinary
- putrefy
- to rot or decay
- urbane
- sophisticated
- equipoise
- equal distribution of weight
- eschew
- to shun
- estimable
- worthy
- exegesis
- critical examination
- exemplar
- typical or standard
- expiate
- to atone or make amends for
- expostulate
- to argue earnestly in order to dissuade, correct, or protest
- exscind
- to cut out
- extirpate
- to destroy
- fallow
- inactive; dormant
- fatuous
- foolish
- feckless
- irresponsible
- felicitous
- well-chosen
- fetid
- stinking
- fetter
- to put in chains
- filigree
- an ornamental work
- foment
- to incite; to rouse
- forbearance
- patience
- forestall
- to prevent an action
- forswear
- to renounce
- fractious
- rebellious; unruly
- frieze
- raised-surface ornamental facade to a building
- froward
- not willing to comply
- gambol
- to skip about playfully
- garner
- to store up
- gauche
- crude; awkward
- gossamer
- delicate; insincere
- hermetic
- airtight
- heterodox
- unorthodox
- hirsute
- hairy
- homiletics
- the art of preaching
- idyll
- carefree person or event
- imbroglio
- difficult situation
- imperious
- arrogant
- importune
- to beg
- impugn
- to attack verbally
- indolent
- lazy
- ineluctable
- certain
- inimical
- hostile; unfriendly