GRE 1 from Kaplan
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- objurgate
- to rebuke
- obloquy
- widespread cnsure or abuse; or disgrace from
- dolorous
- full of pain or grief
- knell
- sound of bell at funeral; warning of death; to sound slowly, ominously
- obsequies
- funeral rites/solemnities
- wraith
- an appaition; thin/pale person
- spartan
- rigorously severe; trained to endure privation
- turbid
- muddy, thick, disordered
- abash
- to diconcert; mortify
- chagrin
- which wears the mind; annoyance
- gaucherie
- tactless act
- canard
- false rumor
- dissemble
- to pretend; assume a false appearance
- craven
- a coward, spiritless; cowardly
- pussilanimous
- lacking firmness of mind; cowardly
- recreant
- surrendering; a craven
- fealty
- intense loyalty
- feckless
- worthless; inefficient
- expatiate
- talk/write at length
- stultify
- cause to appear foolish and so without effect; to dull the mind
- vitiate
- to render faulty; to taint
- apothegm
- a startling/paradoxical aphorism
- baleful
- full of evil (bale = evil)
- baneful
- destructive (bane = destruction)
- minatory
- menacing
- strident
- loud and grating
- churlish
- of a rustic ill bred person
- fulsome
- gross to senses; profuse in praise; full/complete
- unctous
- oily; ostentatiously holy or fervent; too suave
- assay
- to test
- indolent
- idle; lazy
- impudent
- shamelessly bold; insolent
- languid
- feeble, sluggish, spiritless
- cavil
- to make empty objections
- hector
- to annoy, play the bully
- martinet
- a strict disciplinarian
- dyspepsia
- indigestion
- effigy
- crude figure of a hated person
- fusillade
- continuous discharge of firearms
- junta
- government after (military) coup
- adjure
- to charge on oath
- abjure
- to renounce on oath
- obstreperous
- noisy, unruly
- pertinacious
- holding strongly to an opinion/purpose; hard to gte rid of
- impetuous
- impulsive; done with sudden headlong energy
- munificence
- great liberality in giving; bountifulness
- dudgeon
- resentment
- pettisd
- peevish; sulky
- umbrage
- suspicion of injury; offense
- waspish
- spiteful
- tyro
- one learning a skill; not yet well-aqauinted with it
- acidulous
- sharp/bitter/acid in manner
- mordacious
- biting in style/manner (also mordant)
- ribald
- a low caharacter; licentious, foul-mouthed
- factitious
- produced artificially
- noisome
- injurious to health; foul-smelling
- careen
- to lean/cause to lean sideways; tilt
- sidle
- move sideways, esp. to edge along
- turgid
- swollen; bombastic
- slake
- quench, satisfy
- fey
- fated; strange and unusual
- forfend
- to protect/preserve
- disconsolate
- dejected, forlorn
- lugubrious
- mournful, esp. exaggeratedly
- plaintive
- mournful (plaint = lamentation)
- refractory
- unruly, unmanageable
- untoward
- not easily guided; perverse; unseemly
- tendentious
- having a deliberate tendency
- palliate
- extenuate; soften by favorable representations
- droll
- odd; amusing
- raillery
- mockery; good-natured banter
- riposte
- retaliatory maneuver
- simper
- smile in an affected, silly manner
- abate
- make or become less
- interstice
- crack; crevice
- clement
- mild; kind, merciful
- mercenary
- done for money only
- venal
- able to be sold or bought for a price; mercenary/coorupt
- dour
- obstinate, sullen , grim
- fell
- cruel, fierce, bloody, deadly
- mordant
- biting and caustic
- sardonic
- forced or bitter (of a smile)
- truculent
- very fierce and threatening
- importune
- to ask urgently and repeatedly
- exercrate
- detest utterly (execrable)
- insidious
- marked by treachery; more dangerous than seems evident
- insensate
- without regard for feeling; cold
- dissolute
- loose (in morals)
- extenuate
- to make (a crime, etc.) seem less
- pettish
- ill-tempered
- carom
- collide and rebound
- esurient
- hungry; greedy
- canny
- shrewd with own things; frugal
- unstinting
- bestowed liberally
- tractable
- easily managed or taught
- adventitious
- coming from outside, added by chance
- verdure
- greenness, freshness of growth