GRE 100

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  1. acolyte
    a devoted follower or assistant
  2. adamant
    very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
  3. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  4. ascribe
    attribute or credit to
  5. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  6. bastion
    projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
  7. boorish
    ill-mannered and coarse in behavior or appearance
  8. bumptious
    offensively self-assertive
  9. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  10. cajole
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
  11. cant
    a slope in the turn of a road or track
  12. chauvinism
    fanatical patriotism
  13. chimerical
    like a grotesque product of the imagination
  14. coquettish
    like a flirtatious woman
  15. corpulence
    the property of excessive fatness
  16. deign
    do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
  17. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  18. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  19. diffidence
    lack of self-assurance
  20. dint
    force or effort
  21. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  22. dupe
    fool or hoax
  23. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  24. elysian
    relating to the abode of the blessed after death
  25. emendation
    a correction by emending
  26. engender
    call forth
  27. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  28. fastidious
    giving careful attention to detail
  29. fodder
    coarse food composed of plants or leaves and stalks
  30. fulminate
    cause to explode violently and with loud noise
  31. glib
    artfully persuasive in speech
  32. ignominious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  33. incorrigible
    impervious to correction by punishment
  34. incumbent
    necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
  35. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  36. ingenuous
    lacking in sophistication or worldliness
  37. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  38. itinerant
    traveling from place to place to work
  39. knavery
    lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
  40. lachrymose
    showing sorrow
  41. laconic
    brief and to the point
  42. livid
    furiously angry
  43. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  44. maverick
    someone who exhibits independence in thought and action
  45. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  46. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  47. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  48. nugatory
    of no real value
  49. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  50. odious
    extremely repulsive or unpleasant
  51. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  52. pastiche
    a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
  53. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  54. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  55. penchant
    a strong liking or preference
  56. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
  57. penurious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  58. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  59. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  60. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  61. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  62. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  63. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  64. pristine
    immaculately clean and unused
  65. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  66. progenitor
    an ancestor in the direct line
  67. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  68. pungent
    strong and sharp to the sense of taste or smell
  69. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
  70. rancor
    a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
  71. recondite
    difficult to understand
  72. repose
    freedom from activity
  73. respite
    a pause from doing something
  74. rife
    excessively abundant
  75. risible
    arousing or provoking laughter
  76. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  77. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  78. savant
    a learned person
  79. sedition
    an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority
  80. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  81. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  82. specious
    plausible but false
  83. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  84. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  85. stultify
    deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
  86. subjugate
    make subservient; force to submit or subdue
  87. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  88. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  89. tortuous
    marked by repeated turns and bends
  90. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  91. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
  92. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  93. turbid
    clouded as with sediment
  94. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
  95. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  96. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  97. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
  98. vituperate
    spread negative information about
  99. winnow
    the act of separating grain from chaff
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