GRE Hit Parade #6
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- acumen
- quick or accurate knowledge
- dissemble
- to disguise or mislead
- evanescent
- vanishing
- exacerbate
- to make worse
- grandiloquence
- pompous speech
- iconoclast
- one who undermines tradition and convention
- impassive
- revealing no emotion
- impunity
- immunity from punishment
- inchoate
- not fully formed
- infelicitous
- unfortunate
- insipid
- bland
- mitigate
- to make less severe
- occlude
- to block
- pedagogy
- the art of teaching
- penury
- poverty
- pith
- the central part
- placate
- to calm or appease
- platitutde
- a superficial remark
- prodigal
- wasteful or extravagant
- recalcitrant
- difficult to manage
- repudiate
- to disown
- rescind
- to invalidate
- specious
- seeming true, but actually false; misleadingly attractive
- spurious
- false
- succinct
- brief
- surfeit
- excess
- tenacity
- pesistance to something valued
- tirade
- a long and harsh speech
- runic
- mysterious
- sagacious
- wise
- salacious
- obscene
- salient
- relevant
- salutary
- wholesome; causing improvement
- sanctimony
- self-righteousness
- sanguine
- cheerful
- saturnine
- gloomy
- seine
- a large net used to catch fish
- seminal
- like a seed; originative
- sententious
- moralistic
- sidereal
- relating to the stars
- simper
- to smirk
- sinecure
- position requiring little work
- sinuous
- winding
- solder
- to fuse
- sophistry
- faulty logic
- sophomoric
- immatture
- splenetic
- irritable
- stanch
- to stop the flow of liquid
- stentorian
- extremely loud and powerful
- stygian
- gloomy
- succor
- assistance
- sundry
- various
- supercilious
- arrogant
- supine
- prone; lying on one's back
- suppliant
- asking humbly
- supplicant
- beggar
- tamp
- to plug
- tautology
- a repetition
- tawdry
- cheap; showy
- tendentious
- biased
- timorous
- timid
- torrid
- passionate
- tractable
- obedient
- travesty
- mockery
- tumid
- swollen
- turbid
- muddy; opaque
- turpitude
- a corrupt act
- tyro
- an amateur
- umbrage
- offense; resentment
- undulate
- to fluctuate
- untoward
- perverse; unruly
- upbraid
- to scold
- usury
- the practice of charing an exorbitant rate of interest
- vaunt
- to brag
- venal
- capable of being bought or bribed
- virago
- a loud woman; a nag
- bitiate
- to pervert
- volubility
- fluency
- waft
- to cause to move slightly
- welter
- to be in turmoil
- wend
- to proceed