1 "-(o)logy" "study, science, theory" "noun " "biology
archeology" "Suffix" "MSU" 2 "a
an" "without
not " "Greek/Latin root" " Atypical=not typical
Atheist =one who does not believe in God
Atrophy=wasting away
deterioration" "asexual
amoral
anarchy
anhydrous
Anabaptist
anachronism " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 3 "ab
abs
a" "apart
away from " "Greek/Latin root" "Abnormal=deviating normal
Abhor=to hate
detest
Abominate=to detest
Abduct=to take by force
Abstruse=hard to understand
Abstract=considered apart normal existence
abnormal
abduct
abductor (muscle)
abscission " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 4 "abate" "become less in amount or intensity, possibly to nothing" "verb" "to cause to diminish in intensity,
Syn: subside, die away, die down
attenuate=get less, get thinner (without getting to nothing)" "The Covid pandemic will, with or without successful retaining measures, eventually abate" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 5 "ac" "sharp
bitter" "Greek/Latin root" "Greek: be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce.
SUBFORMS ARE
akros = at the end, at the top, outermost; consummate, excellent
akis= sharp point
akros= at the farthest point, highest, outermost
akantha= thorn
akme=summit, edge
oxys=sharp, bitter" "Acute=sharp, severe
Acerbic=sour or astringent in taste
Acrid=unpleasantly sharp or bitter
Acidic=something that is sour
Acrimony-bitter animosity
acrylic (liquid originally found in onions that make eyes tear)" "Root words" "Aristotle" 6 "aberrant" "markedly different from an accepted norm" "adj. " " Latin lit. & fig. ,: ab =""off, away "" + errare=""to wander, stray"""". Meaning= to wonder off and fig. ""deviation the normal type" "With this aberrant mindset there is little chance of success in ethical business, so some choose crooked ways to earn their keep. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 7 "aberration" "a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected" "noun" "Latin lit. & fig. ,: ab =""off, away "" + errare=""to wander, stray"""". Meaning= to wonder off and fig. ""deviation the normal type" "The unexpected results were a statistical aberration" "Least Difficult" "FT" 8 "abjure" " to reject or renounce" "verb" " Latin abiurare ""deny on oath"" ab ""off, away "" (see ab-) + iurare ""to swear,


Syn: relinquish, reject, disavow" "Since 1986 he has been asking candidates for public office to sign his Taxpayer Protection Pledge, in which they abjure tax increases of any sort forever. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 9 "-able, -ible" "able, can do " "adj. , verb" "capable
agreeable
visible " "Suffix" "MSU" 10 "abreast" "Up to date with the latest news, ideas, or information" "adj. " "Syn: in touch with, plugged into" "These daily updates were designed to help readers keep abreast of the market" "Least Difficult" "FT" 11 "evince" "to show or express clearly or to make plain, often something hidden -usually a feeling" "verb" "evince has same wood root as ""evict""
Syn: express, show" "1a. Despite the shock of receiving such news, she was observed to evince no particular emotion at all.
1b. John was never able to evince even a pretense of interest during his economics class. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 12 "abscond" "run away, often taking something or somebody along" "verb" "Latin: ab=""off, away "" + condere ""put together, store"" itself com- ""together"" + -dere ""put""" "The boarding school scholar absconded from the school grounds without informing anyone" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 13 "abstain" " to voluntarily refrain from doing something" "verb" "Syn: refrain, desist, hold back" "Doctors encourage their patients to abstain from smoking cigarettes. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "FT" 14 "abet" "aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage" " verb" "The verb abet can be used to generally mean encouragement, but people usually expect to see it in relation to some crime" "Alexander was on the lookout while his older sister swiped cookies from the cookie jar, thus abetting her mischief. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 15 "abyss" "a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm" "noun" "Syn: gorge, ravine, void" "President Maduro announced that, while his country now stood at the edge of an abyss, he would confidently take the country one step forward!" "Least Difficult" "FT" 16 "acumen" " keen judgment and perception, the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain" "noun" "Syn: astuteness, awareness, acuity
Deutsch: Scharfsinn, Geschick" "He was unable to run a profitable restaurant because he lacked business acumen" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 17 "ad" "toward
to" "Greek/Latin root" "Sometimes broader than ad
e. g. (ac
al
af
an
ap
as
at)" "adhere=stick to
adductor=muscle brings hips together
adumbrate=to create shadowy(umbra) outline" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 18 "-ade" "result of action " "noun, verb" "blockade
lemonade " "Suffix" "MSU" 19 "adept" "Very skilled or proficient at something; very good at doing something that is not easy" "adj. " "Syn: expert, proficient, accomplished" "An abundance of clever people — adept in English law as much as in finance— are employed at well paying banks and hedge funds" "Least Difficult" "FT" 20 "admonish" " scold or to advise firmly" "verb" "The security guard admonished the customer to wear a face mask in the store during these CoVid times" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 21 "adulterate" "make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance" "verb" "World class chefs use fresh produce and refuse to adulterate their dishes with canned ingredients. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 22 "abhor" "fill with horror and loathing; horrify; hate" " verb" "Latin abhorrere — ""to shrink back in horror" "Taking out the trash is a chore many kids abhor. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 23 "advocate" " to recommend, support, or advise, to speak, plead, or argue for a cause, or in another’s behalf. (n) -- one who advocate" "verb" "n. one who advocates" "The teacher advocated for students with special needs" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 24 "aesthetic" "characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste" "adj. " "ic=nature of, like" "The critics admire the work of art for its aesthetic value" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 25 "affectation" " fake or artificial behavior, often meant to impress or conceal the truth" "noun" "The poor man’s affectation of wealth did not fool any of the elite at the part" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 26 "-age" "act of
state of
collection of " "suffix" "added to root words (often French) to form a noun " "salvage
storage
forage " "Suffix" "MSU" 27 "agere" "act " "Greek/Latin root" "agent
agency
agenda
manager" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 28 "discriminate" "1. make a clear distinction;
2. make distinctions on basis of category without regard to individual merit; show preference or prejudice" " verb" "1a. I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish
1b. “Cancel culture” doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints; it takes and it takes and it takes
2. Apartheid was a system of racial discrimination" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 29 "aggrandize" "to make greater, to increase, thus, to exaggerate. enlarge or increase, esp. wealth, power, reputation" "verb" "The arrogant man’s self-aggrandizing is so annoying that I refuse to listen to him br" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 30 "agog" " Very eager or curious to hear or see something" "adj. " "Syn: excited, impatient, in suspense" "The little kids were agog as they waited for Santa Claus to arrive. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 31 "-al" "relating to " "noun, verb, adj. " "sensual
gradual
manual
natural " "Suffix" "MSU" 32 "alacrity" "liveliness and eagerness" "noun" "
Deutsch: Verve, Eifrigkeit" "Although Apple has in the past expanded its production capacities with alacrity, it was not always able to meet demand" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 33 "-algia" "pain " "Greek/Latin root" "neuralgia(pain caused by nerve)
arthralgia (joint pain)
" "Suffix" "MSU" 34 "alleviate" " to relieve a problem or ease a burden" "verb" " latin: alleviare = to lift up, to raise, to lighten.
Deutsch: mildern, erleichtern" "Do good works, alleviate the suffering and misery, comfort and refresh the sick
Alleviate the effects of the pandemic" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 35 "allure" "the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating" "noun" "Syn: attraction, lure, draw.
Deutsch: Reiz, Fazination, Anziehungskraft" "Yet it was the allureof the Model T for millions of consumers that finally drove the horse off the road. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 36 "altruism" "the belief in or practice of selfless concern for the well-being of others" "noun" "Syn: selflessness, compassion, goodwill.
Deutsch: Uneigennützigkeit, Selbstlosigkeit.
Latin/(old french): alter/(altrui) = other" "He was not the first to wonder about the connection between religion and altruism" "Least Difficult" "FT" 37 "abhorrent" "disgusting, loathsome" " adj. " "Latin abhorrere — ""to shrink back in horror" "Taking out the trash is abhorrent for many kids" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 38 "amalgamate" " to combine to or mix together" "verb" "Amalgan = Hg metal alloy for tooth fillings" "The 2 companies amalgamated into one" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 39 "ablution" "washing or cleansing of the body, especially as part of religious rite" " noun" "Latin: ab ""off, away from"" + luere ""to wash=>wash off" "Because each daughter’s daily ablution seems to take forever, mornings in a house with four teenage girls and one bathroom are unbearable. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 40 "ambiguous" "having more than one possible meaning" "adj. " "adj. open to multiple interpretations. PIE root *ambhi- ""around"") + agere ""drive, lead, act"".
Deutsch: unklar" "Partly cloudy with a chance of rain makes for an ambiguous weather forecast" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 41 "ambiguous
ambivalent" "vague; capable of various interpretations" "adj. " "valence = strong, power. being of two minds
holding conflicting feelings or attitudes
ambivalent is one of the 5 most common mistakes made in the GRE! " "Not only were the statements ambiguous, but further adding to the confusion was the fact that the author was ambivalent in his opinion. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 42 "ambivalent" "having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone" "adj. " "ambivalent is one of the 5 most common mistakes made in the GRE!
It does NOT mean indifferent!!!S
ynonyms: equivocal, uncertain, unsure" "Right from the start Yahoo was ambivalent about whether it should be a media or a technology company. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 43 "abnegation" "1. repudiation; the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief
2. self-sacrifice; renouncing your own interests in favor of interests of others" " noun" "Latin: ab ""off, away from"" + negare ""to deny
Syn: 1. denial
2. self-denial, self renunciation" "1. abnegation of the Holy Trinity by agnostics
2. If you wish to be a monk, you must not have a problem with the abnegation of worldly possessions" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 44 "ambrosial" "extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia)" "adj. " "The garden with its ambrosial and exotic blossoms and fruit trees is a place for relaxation and privacy" "Common GRE" "MSU" 45 "ameliorate" "make better" "verb" " French, latin: améliore" "Longer breaks significantly ameliorated the working conditions in the factory. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 46 "amenable" "1a. Someone/something who is open to do something or have done to them
1b. easily convinced or persuaded
2. liable to answer to a higher authority" "adj. " " French, latin: ad + mener (= to lead (F), to drive cattle (Latin)
Syn: obedient, docile, tractable,
amenable suggests a willingness to yield or cooperate because of a desire to be agreeable or because of a natural open-mindedness" "1a(i). Peter's friend wanted to try sky diving and Peter was amenable to the idea, so 2 days later Peter was jumping out of a plane.
1a(ii). The tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment
1a(iii). “This region seems to be really amenable to finding dual professional careers,” Shaver said
2. The president is amenable to the constitutional court. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 47 "amphi
" "round
" "Greek/Latin root" "amphitheater
amphibian
" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 48 "-an, ian" "native of, pertaining to " "adj. , noun" "American
Martian
antediluvian " "Suffix" "MSU" 49 "abrade" "1. wear away by friction; scrape;
2. erode" " verb" "
Syn 1: scour.
2. wear-away, corrade, rub-off" "1. Using sandpaper, John was able to abrade the rough edges of the wood into a smooth finish.
2. The constant battering of the waves abraded the coastline away" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 50 "anachronism" " something old-fashioned, a person or artifact appearing after its own time or out of chronological order (adj: anachronistic)" "noun" " Latin/Greek: ""against"" (see ana-) + khronos ""time"" (see chrono-)= something appearing in a time period where it does not belong" "A steam engine in our modern digitised world is nothing more than an anachronism. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 51 "analogous" " comparable, similar" "noun" " Greek: ana ""throughout; according to"" + logos ""ratio, proportionn.
Deutsch= entsprechend Noun = appropriate for analogy" "One can solve all the other problems in an analagous manner. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 52 "-ance, ancy" "action, process, state " "noun, verb" "assistance
allowance
defiance " "Suffix" "MSU" 53 "annul" "Declare invalid" "verb" "Syn: repeal, reverse, rescind" "The election results were annulled after electoral fraud was proven to have taken place. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 54 "anoint" " to choose for a particular office or position" "verb" "v. to use oil on a person in a religious ceremony" "Using holy oil, the pastor placed his hands on the woman’s head in order to anoint her" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 55 "anomalous" "peculiar; unique, contrary to the norm (n: anomaly)" "adj. " " Latin/Greek anomalia= ""inequality, uneven, irregular"" an- ""not"" + homalos ""even" "His anomalous behaviourwas a first sign that he had a problem. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 56 "anomaly" " an exception or unusual case" "noun" " Latin/Greek anomalia= ""inequality, uneven, irregular"" an- ""not"" + homalos ""even" "The student’s poor performance on the latest test was an anomaly since she had previously earned excellent grades" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 57 "-ant" "performing, agent " "noun, verb" "assistant
servant " "Suffix" "MSU" 58 "ante" "before " "Greek/Latin root" "sometimes anti (when comes Italian)
where ante and anti have merged to one word (eg. Antipasti)" "antedate
anteroom
antecedent
anterior " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 59 "antediluvian" "ancient; outmoded; " "adj. " " latin: ante= before, + deluge = literally ""before the flood"" (of Noah)" "For the development of this logo we chose an ancient antedeluvian technique: the traditional Chinese seal. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 60 "anthrop" "man " "Greek/Latin root" "anthropology
anthropomorphic " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 61 "anti" "against " "Greek/Latin root" "antipathy
antitank
anticlimax " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 62 "abridge" "condense; shorten; reduce length of written text" " verb" "French origin, Abbreviate is the same word directly from Latin. (compare similar ""g"" from ""v"" shift in deluge(French) from deluvium(Latin))" "His agent told him that he needed to abridge some of the content of his novel so that it would be under 400 pages. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 63 "antipathy" " strong dislike or hatred, hostility toward, objection, or aversion to" "noun" " Latin/Greek antipathia: anti- + pathein=""to feel, suffer""" "The students voiced their antipathy for homework very loudly. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 64 "antithetical" " contrary to the very nature of" "adj. " "Greek/Latin: anti- + tithenai ""to put, place""" "Some critics say that democracy is antithetical to the Islamic way of life. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 65 "apathy" "Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. state of total disinterest or unenthusiasm" "noun" "Syn: indifference, passivity, ennui" "Political parties try to engage young voters who are more prone to apathy than older citizens. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 66 "abrogate" "abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority" " adj. " "ab- ""away"" and rogare ""to propose a law.""=>repeal a law, revoke, cancel, abolish" "A good father would never abrogate his parental responsibilities. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 67 "appease" " to placate, to pacify, to satisfy" "verb" " latin, french: a ""to"" (see ad-) + paix/paicem ""peace"" = to pacify. Sometimes also means to satisfy (an appetite, a need)" "These gestures were meant to appease the religious right " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 68 "appropriate" "1. adj. correct, proper, or in good taste.
2. v. to take for one's own use. to take possession of, without consent. A polite word for ""steal""" "adj. , verb" "Note how the 2 uses of appropriate have diametrically opposite ethical values. As an adjective it is good, as a verb it is bad. " "1. The appropriate use for toothpaste is for brushing teeth
2. The advancing army appropriated food and other supplies the territories they occupied. " "Homonym" "MSU" 69 "aqua" "water " "Greek/Latin root" "aquarium
aqueous " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 70 "arbiter" "a person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter" "noun" " French arbitre= ""arbiter, judge""
Syn: authority, judge, controller" "The arbiter helps the divorcing couple come to terms on a settlement" "Least Difficult" "FT" 71 "arbitrary" "Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system" "adj. " "Syn: capricious, random, chance" "Since Jake’s teacher disliked him, she came up with an arbitrary punishment to help him remember his homewor" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 72 "accede" "agree; give consent, often at insistence of another; concede" " verb" " Latin accedere= ""approach or enter upon.""It differs slightly from concede, which also means consent, but a more reluctant kind. If you were to concede to your mom's 10 PM curfew rather than accede to it, you'd be doing so against your will. " "Do not accede too readily to his demands or he will think you are a wimp!" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 73 "arbitrate" "to settle a dispute via mediation (n: arbitration)" "verb" " Latin: arbiter ""a judge, umpire, mediator"". See arbitre (French) = umpire. Verb is arbitratation" "The mediator arbitrated the dispute between the two parties. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 74 "arcane" " secret or known only to a select group" "adj. " "Deutsch: geheimnisvoll, Obskur. Latin arcanus ""secret, hidden, private, concealed" "The traditional healer's arcane rituals confused her. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 75 "archaic" " old-fashioned, adj. no longer in the common usage" "adj. " "archaios=""old""+ic=""nature of, like" "In comparison to portable laptop computers, typewriters are considered archaic" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 76 "archaios" "ancient " "Greek/Latin root" "archeology
archetype
archaic
archeozoic " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 77 "arch" "leader
first
chief " "Greek/Latin root" "monarchy
oligarchy
anarchy
archetype
architect
archbishop" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 78 "arduous" "characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion" "adj. " " Latin arduus ""high, steep"" also figuratively""difficult, hard to reach, " "Mountain climbing is fun but quite arduous. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 79 "articulate" " exhibiting considerable communication skills, well-spoken" "adj. , verb" "Deutsch: 1. redegewandt UND
2. ein Gelenk bilden" "1. His vast vocabulary allowed him to clearly articulate his opinions.
2. The lower jaw articulates with the skull. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 80 "acclivity" "upward slope, as of hill" " noun" "Latin: ad-: “toward, ” + clivus, + “slope. ”=> upward slope" "Although I love biking, I fear a steep acclivity. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 81 "artless" "simple and natural; without cunning or deceit" "adj. " "Syn: candid, direct, forthright. adj. natural, untrained" "With her artless look, the girl next door looked beautiful even though she had no make-up on and didn’t style her hai" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 82 "-ary, ery, ory " "relating to place where or quality" "adj. , noun" "dictionary
bravery
dormitory
aviary
ordinary
auditory" "Suffix" "MSU" 83 "ascetic" " austere or self-denying" "adj. " " Greek: asketes ""monk, hermit"" + ïc""nature of, like" "The monk leads an ascetic life. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 84 "accolade" "award of merit; expression of approval; praise" " noun" " French accoler meant to ""embrace the neck"" which was done as part of a knighthood ceremony. " "Mrs. Smith is such a great teacher that she is always getting one accolade after another. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 85 "assuage" " to provide relief from an unpleasant feeling. to make less severe; to appease or satisfy" "verb" "v. to satisfy a need or appetite" "A massage can assuage the soreness in your muscles. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 86 "astonishment" " total surprise, shock" "noun" " Old French estoner ""to stun, daze, deafen, astound"" Vulgar Latin *extonare,
Latin ex ""out"" + tonare ""to thunder""" "The homeless man looked at me in astonishment when I gave him the bag of money. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 87 "-ate" "cause, make " "verb" "liquidate
segregate " "Suffix" "MSU" 88 "attenuate" "become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude" "verb" " Latin: ad ""to"" (see ad-) + tenuare ""make thin""
Deutsch: dämpfen, abschwächen
abate is similar but means ""get less, possibly zero" "The contract includes a safeguard clause to attenuate possible additional costs demands. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 89 "accretion" "growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion" " noun" "The noun accretion implies an accumulation that causes increase" "If you don't floss and brush your teeth, you will have a steady accretion of plaque on your teeth. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 90 "acerbity" "1. bitterness of speech and temper;
2. sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone" " noun" "Latin: acerbus means “sour-tasting.
Syn: bitter, bitterness" "1. With great acerbity, the coach reprimanded his star player for missing curfew.
2. The high acerbity of the salad dressing was caused by putting too much vinegar into it. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 91 "audacious" " showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks. extremely bold; fearless, especially said of human behavior (n: audacity)" "adj. " "Syn: bold, daring, fearless" "The new CEO pursued audacious initiatives to save the company from bankruptcy.
The student’s audacious remark earned her a seat in afternoon detentio" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 92 "audio" "hear
sound" "Greek/Latin root" "audiophile(someone who likes music)
audiometer(something that measures sound)
auditory(somewhere where one listens to lectures)" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 93 "acidulous" " slightly sour in taste or in manner; sharp; caustic" " adj. " "Latin acidulus ""slightly sour"" a diminutive of acidus
acid, acidic, acidulent, sour" "1. The acidulous drink burned my tongue
2. Because the salesclerk spoke to me in an acidulous tone, I chose to take my business elsewhere. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 94 "austere" " severe, unadorned. Having an extremely plain and simple style or appearance" "adj. " " Old French austere ""strict, severe, harsh, cruel""
Syn: unadorned, subdued, stark" "Instead of being bleak and austere , hospitals should be warm and cheery. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 95 "auto" "self " "Greek/Latin root" "automatic
automaton
auto-immune " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 96 "avarice" " greed" "noun" " Latin (via French) avaritia ""greed, inordinate desire" "The third of the 7 deadly Christian sins is avarice - greed" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 97 "discursive" "1. moving from topic to topic without order
2: proceeding coherently from topic to topic: marked by analytical reasoning" " adj. " "Latin discursus ""a running about""
Note that def 1. and def 2. are in essence opposites
ito Def 1. being a random move from point to point &
Def. 2. being a structured moving from point to point.
Def 2. is often in academic context" "1. I started reading the book, but the rambling discursive contents soon put me off.
2. Her discursive dissertation on Colonial American women was well-argued and well-reasoned, impressing her professors. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 98 "aver" " to assert or allege. to declare" "verb" "Deutsch: beteuern, behaupten.
Latin ad ""to"" + verus ""true"" - later meaning to assert with confident" "Many of those who voted for the President, his opponent averred, did so because they were rooked by devious lies" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 99 "disembodied" "divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. " " adj. " "dis=Reverse + embody= ""a soul or spirit that has been put into a physical form""" "The magians' trick made it appear that a disembodied head was floating in the air" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 100 "banal" " boring, cliché, repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse" "adj. " "I was bored to death because of his banal conversation" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 101 "barefaced" "unconcealed, shameless, or brazen" "adj. " "with face uncovered or shaven; "" see bare + face: Thus""unconcealed" "It would be a barefaced lie to claim that there is freedom in Venezuela" "Common GRE" "MSU" 102 "belie" " give a false impression (intentional or unintentional) in word, appearance, or deed" "verb" "Old English beleogan (Deutsch: belügen" "Janice hoped her smile would belie the sadness she felt. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 103 "bene" "well
favorable " "Greek/Latin root" "benefit
benevolent
benefactor
beneficent " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 104 "benign" " gentle, harmless" "adj. " " Latin ""well born"" bene ""well"" + "" genus ""birth"" " "Grandfather fortunately had a benign form of cancer" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 105 "bi" "two " "Greek/Latin root" "bi-partisan
bisexual
biennial
binary
bicuspid
bivalve " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 106 "biased" " prejudiced, displaying partiality" "adj. " "From French: biais: a slant, a slope, an oblique, later figuratively: giving a bias to, causing to incline to one side" "The bigot admits that he is u>biased toward immigrants and stereotypes people according to their race before he ever meets them" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 107 "bible" "book " "Greek/Latin root" "bibliography
Bible
bibliophile " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 108 "bio" "life " "Greek/Latin root" "biology
biography
bio-active " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 109 "blandishment" "speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something, the use of flattery (sweet-talk) and enticements to persuade somebody gently to do something" "noun" " Latin blandiri ""flatter, soothe, caress, coax""
Deutsch: Schmeichelrei, schönrede" "Even though the salesman produced every blandishment he could think of from his bag of tricks, his prospect wouldn’t be budged by his flattery. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 110 "blight" "a thing that spoils or damages something" "noun" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie: ""bleichen"".
Syn: affliction, scourge, bane" "1. Because of the urban blight that has taken over the downtown area, many of the stores have relocated.
2. The torrential rain blighted the crop. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 111 "blithe" "showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper, carefree and unconcerned" "adj. " "Syn: indifferent, unconcerned, blasé" "The rebellious teenager was blithe about her failing grades. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 112 "blowhard" "a person who blusters and boasts in an unpleasant way" "noun" "Syn: boaster, bragger, show-off" "The self-promoting blowhard talked about his own accomplishments until his guests were bored to tears" "Least Difficult" "FT" 113 "bolster" "support or strengthen" "verb" "Old English bolster ""bolster, cushion, something stuffed so that it swells up
Deutsch: gleiche Urspurng Polster" "The prosecutor worked to find evidence that would bolster her case against the defendant. " "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 114 "bombast" "pompous speech (adj: bombastic)" "noun" "Bombast was originally a material of cotton applied to a stuff of soft, loose texture, used to swell a garment.
Deutsch= der erste Teil vom Wort ""Baumwolle"" ist ähnlich wie""Bom""" " Madam President, Commissioner, we have no need for sentimentality and bombast on such a serious issue " "Common GRE" "MSU" 115 "disgorge" "1. bring up and expel from throat or stomach; vomit
2. discharge or pour forth contents from a container" " verb" "dis=remove +gorge=throat
Syn 1barf, be sick, chuck, throw up, vomit, vomit up
disgorge often used for animals
Syn2: shed, spill" "1. llamas disgorge stomach juices to show pique or displeasure.
2. The train disgorged its passengers" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 116 "bombastic" " overblown, theatrical. High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated " "adj. " "bombast + ic=""nature of, like""
Syn: pompous, blustering, turgid" "If you want to sell your energy drink, then you must use bombastic claims in your commercials. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 117 "bore" "1. v. to cause one to lose interest.
2. v. to drill a hole. adj. similar to or pertaining to objects that drill holes. " "verb" "1. the lecturer repeated everything we already knew and bored all in the class
2. Pickleworms bore into the fruit of cucumber and squash plants to feed on their flesh. " "Homonym" "MSU" 118 "boycott" "a punitive ban that forbids relations with certain groups" "noun" "Syn: veto, shunning, rejection" "Conversely some prominent black women have called for a boycott, seeing Mr. Parker’s past as a disqualifying stai" "Least Difficult" "FT" 119 "brazen" " bold or open to the point of shocking" "adj. " "Old English bræsen""of brass, - which then led to brazen-faced (shameless) and then hardened in war" "In a brazen assault, the gang fired their weapons at the policeman. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 120 "breach" "a lapse, gap or break, as in a fortress wall. To break or break through. " "noun, verb" "old English for ""break"". Most typical uses are ""breach of contract"" or ""breach of peace"". But also ""breach"" of defenses, breach of etiquette " "The club members never forgot his breach of ettiquette. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 121 "disinter" "dig up; unearth; dig up or remove from grave or tomb; bring to public notice" " verb" """inter"" is not the std. ""inter"" here. It is from ""in""+ ""terre""= earth. Also pronounced differently. " "They disintered Bonaporte's body to check the theory that he had died of arsenic poisoning. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 122 "dismantle" "1. to take apart, disassemble
2. to destroy the integrity or functioning of" " verb" "French: strip of a cloak, tear down a fortress" "1. will have to dismantle the engine
2. The program was later dismantled due to a lack of funding" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 123 "burgeon" " flourish, bloom, to grow or flourish; a bud or new growth (adj: burgeoning )" "noun, verb" "of uncertain origin" "Left untreated, the garden weeds will burgeon and take over the entire property within days" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 124 "burlesque" " a variety show" "noun" "Syn: skit, farce, striptease" "Madame JoJo’s, a burlesque bar in London’s Soho, had its license revoked in 2014 after two bouncers brandished a baseball bat at a rowdy cr" "Least Difficult" "FT" 125 "buttress" "a support usually of stone or brick" "noun, verb" " old French" "Her good arguments buttressed her credibility" "Common GRE" "MSU" 126 "caco" "Bad " "Greek/Latin root" " PIE Kaka=to defecate" "cacophony (bad sound)
cacography(bad handwriting)
cacostocracy(government by the worst in society)" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 127 "disputatious" "argumentative; fond of arguing; inclined to dispute" " adj. " "Same root word origin as ""dispute"".
" "This was a strangely obtuse debate between two disputatious old lawyers" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 128 "cacophony" " loud and chaotic noise. a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds" "noun" "Syn: racket, noise, clamor" "The cacophony of the middle school band warming up was nearly unbearable for the audience. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 129 "cadge" "to get something by taking advantage of someone" "verb" " old English ""to get by begging""" "By flirting with the bartender, the pretty girl was able to cadge free drinks. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 130 "calumny" " lie or slander, often to damage somone's reputation" "noun" " Old French calomnie/Latin calumnia ""trickery, subterfuge, misrepresentation, malicious charge" "The film was supposed to be a true story, but in fact it was a huge calumny to tarnish the star’s reputation" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 131 "candid" " honest, open" "adj. " "When questioned, she held nothing back and gave a candid /response" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 132 "canon" " accepted rules and tenets of a discipline" "noun" """canon written with 1 ""n"" - unlike the one you shoot cannonballs!
n. sacred works/scripture;
in this sense it is also used to refer to notable literary and artistic works of a culture or discipline" "At the same time, canon law is part of the temporal legal system, and bishops are appointed jointly by the Prime Minister and the head of state" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 133 "capacity" " the capability to perform a particular action or fulfill a given function" "noun" "n. a particular position or role " " she served in an advisory capacity" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 134 "caprice" "an impulsive act" "noun" "French caprice=""whim""" "Because John did not think before acting, he could spend years in prison for a silly caprice. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 135 "acrimonious" "bitter and sharp in language, tone, or manner" " adj. " "But while acrid is still most commonly used in a literal sense (as in ""an acrid odor""), acrimonious is now used to describe things like angry and bitter speeches or debates. " "Your acrimonious arguments about religion only sever friendships. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 136 "acrimony" "animosity, sharp or bitter hatred" " noun" "
Syn acerbity, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness" "After a drawn-out court case, there was a lingering acrimony stirred up during the trial" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 137 "castigate" " to scold or berate strongly. to chastise or criticize severely" "verb" "Latin castigatus""to correct, set right; purify; chastise, punish"" from castus ""pure"" + agere ""to do" "The boss misused performance reviews to castigate his employees" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 138 "adage" "an old saying, that has obtained credit by long use" " noun" "Syn: byword, proverb, saw" "Moms and dads love adages such as ""early to bed, early to rise"" and ""an apple a day keeps the doctor away. """ "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 139 "addle" "muddle; drive crazy; become confused" " verb" "addle like muddle" "Smoking marijuana can addle your brain and make it difficult for you to concentrate" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 140 "adjudicate" "1. hear and settle a case by judicial procedure
2. bring to an end; settle conclusively by decision" " verb" "Latin: ad=toward + judge=judge torward (someone)" "1.
2. The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance”" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 141 "caustic" " corrosive. capable of dissolving by chemical action; highly critical:adj. bitterly sarcastic" "adj. " " + ic=""nature of, like""
" "His caustic remarks spoiled the mood of the party" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 142 "censure" " to express intense condemnation, an official reprimand" "verb" " French, censurer.
Do not confuse with ""censor""(=prevent publication)
Do not confuse with ""sensor""(=something that senses/measures"")" "Since the marine left base without permission, he is expecting both a censure and punishment when he returns tomorrow. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 143 "chauvinist" " someone who believes prejudicially that their own group is the superior one, exaggerated, blind nationalism; patriotism degenerated into a vice" "noun" "French: chauvinisme, after behaviour of N. Chauvin, soldier of Napoleon who idolized Napoleon long after he was history" "His sister was chauvinist when it comes to feminism, as she gets both angry and irritated when someone opposes her point of view" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 144 "chicanery" "deception by trickery, often to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose" "noun" " French chicanerie ""trickery"" Middle French chicaner ""to pettifog, quibble""" "Instead of being truthful on his campaign for sheriff, he resorted to chicanery" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 145 "adjure" "1. command or enjoin solemnly, as under oath,
2. ask with a more demanding tone, appeal to or entreat earnestly; " " verb" "Syn1 burden, charge, saddle
Syn2: beseech, bid, conjure, entreat, press" "1. She adjured him to present the events precisely as he witnessed them.
2. I adjure each and every one of you to never disclose to anyone what has been spoken here today. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 146 "chorale
corral" "n. a type of hymn (sung) or a choir
n. a fenced enclosure for cattle or horses. v. to herd cattle or horses (or people) into one place" "noun" "Corral is of Spanish origin. The protective wide circle of ox-wagons called laager by the Afrikaners was called corral by the Americans travelling West in their wagons. " "Maimie always corraled Marnie into serving as secretary for the meetings.
The chorale originated when Martin Luther translated sacred songs into the vernacular language " "Homophone" "MSU" 147 "chronic" "(Of a problem) long lasting and difficult to eradicate" "adj. " "Greek: chronos=time+ic=nature of/like=>lasting a long time
Syn: constant, continuing, persistent " "Pessimists think the productivity problem is chronic. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 148 "chronological" " ordered by time" "adj. " "Latin: chrono=time+logo=theory, science, doctrine+ ic/ical=word-forming element making adj. s" "He went through the events in chronological order" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 149 "-cian" "having a specific skill " "noun " "magician
optician
physician " "Suffix" "MSU" 150 "cide" "kill " "Greek/Latin root" "Killer of ( ): homicide
parricide (parents)
germicidal (germs)
ecocide (environment)
suicide (self)
fungicide (fungi)
senicide (old men)
libricide (old books)
legicide (laws)
uxoricide (wife)
filicide (son/daughter)
floricide (flowers)
infanticide (infants)
genocide (race/kind)
regicide (the king)" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 151 "adornment" "embellishment; decoration; something that beautifies or adorns; ornament" " noun" "Latin root is adornare""equip or embellish. """ "A small adornment of parsley was added to the chef’s dish to make it look better. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 152 "adroit" "skillful and adept under pressing conditions" " adj. " "French:droit: ""right"" a=to + droit=right =>do it right"", ""properly""
Deutsch Wortstamm: rechtens (aber nicht ganz die gleiche Bedeutung)
Ant:maladroit" "The child was an adroit pianist at an early age" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 153 "coda" "a concluding event, remark or musical composition" "noun" "Syn: ending, finale" "The final section of the song was sealed with a coda that sounded like an entirely different melody. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 154 "cogent" "powerfully persuasive, very clear and easy for the mind to accept and believe" "adj. " " French/Latin: com=with + agere=action, ie. Co-alignment, compelling" "The politician's clear cogent argument against the war won him many votes in the election" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 155 "commensurate" "corresponding in size or degree or extent" "adj. " " Latin com ""with, together"" + mensuratus, pp mensurare ""to measure => with measure
Deutsch: mit Mass" "You will get a salary increase commensurate with your additional responsibilities and work" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 156 "adumbrate" "1. give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly;
2. summarize;
3. overshadow; shade" " verb" "Latin: ad ""to"" + umbrare=> ""to cast in shadow"", to foreshadow, to cast a shadow of something bigger
umreißen, ankündigen, vorausahnen lassen, skizzieren " "1. The scene where the princess dreams of the vampire adumbrates her later discovery that her little brother is, in fact, a vampire. ""
2. The purpose of the summary is to adumbrate the movie’s plot. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 157 "compelling" " captivating, very persuasive" "adj. " "Latin com ""with, together"" + pellere ""to drive""" "The jury seemed moved by the lawyer’s compelling argument" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 158 "complaisant" "showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others" "adj. " "com=with, plaisant=pleasure/pleasing" "Because John is too complaisant in his willingness to please others, people often take advantage of him" "Common GRE" "MSU" 159 "comprehensive" " complete and thorough" "adj. " "com=with/together, preandre=seize/hold" "Heather’s comprehensive workout helps tone all of the muscles in her bod" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 160 "affable" "easily approachable; warmly friendly" " adj. " "Latin affābilis=""kind, friendly.
Syn: genial, hospitable, and gracious" "She welcomed her guests with an affable smile. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 161 "conflagration" "1. a great fire
2. a conflict or war" "noun" "con=with/togethe+ =flagrare ""to burn, blaze, glow" "1. The combustion products such as smoke, heat and hot conflagration gases generated during a fire rise upwards
2. It seems as though the conflagration in the Middle East has been going on for centuries " "Common GRE" "MSU" 162 "agnostic" "one who is skeptical of existence of a god or any ultimate reality" " noun" "Greek: a-, = ""not"" + ""gnostos""""known""=>doesn't know whether God exists" "Jill’s agnostic beliefs had her wondering if there was a deity who guided her life. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 163 "confound" " to confuse or astonish. Prove (a theory, expectation, or prediction) wrong" "verb" "Syn: contradict, counter, go against" "Yet in another sense, the Fed has confounded predictions—at least, those it made itself" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 164 "connoisseur" " an expert in a particular subject matter area, usually relating to the fine arts or cultural pursuits" "noun" " French. Connaisseur (with an ""a"") is a specialist, and connoisseur (with an ""o"") is ""higher ranked"", as they are a conaisseur AND their opinions are valued!" "Since you are a wine connoisseur, I thought I would ask your opinion on the best wines for my dinner party" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 165 "consequential" " as a result of""following as an effect or result""" "adj. " "con=with a sequence
adj. significant or memorable" "The consequential damages of the critical reactor breaking down were significant, as the entire plant had to shut for months" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 166 "constitutus" "stand " "Greek/Latin root" "constitution
statute " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 167 "construe" " to interpret" "verb" "same latin/French origin as ""construct"", ie. With/together + piling up= interpret" "Although I tried to pay you a compliment, you have decided to construe my words as an insult" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 168 "consumption" " utilization (esp. of a resource)" "noun" "Excessive alcohol consumption has been linked to liver damage" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 169 "contend" " assert or claim" "verb" " old French comptendre: engage in rivalry, compete" "In order to obtain custody of her children in the divorce, Bridgett will contend nasty things about her husband" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 170 "contentious" " controversial, causing or likely to cause an argument" "adj. " " Latin contentiosus ""obstinate, quarrelsome" "As a rule, I tend to avoid contentious topics of conversation which might lead to arguments" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 171 "allurement" "temptation; enticement; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action" " noun" "allure is the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction while
allurement is attractiveness; appeal, charisma. " "Its allurements draw you in, then the trap door slams shut and it devours you. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 172 "convoluted" " roundabout, not straightforward" "adj. " " Latin: to roll together"" com ""with, together"" (see con-) + volvere ""to roll""" "My head began to hurt as I listened to the professor’s convolute spee" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 173 "copious" " plentiful or abundant" "adj. " " Latin: ""abundant, plentiful""" "Take copious notes in class so that you have plenty of review material for the test. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 174 "corporal" "1. of the body: ""corporal punishment.""
2. a non-commissioned officer ranked between a sergeant and a private. " "adj. " "1. corporal punishment will still in use during my father's school days. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 175 "corporeal" "of or having to do with material, as opposed to spiritual; tangible. (In older writings, coeporeal could be a synonym for corporal. This usage is no longer common)" "adj. " "Latin: ""of a material or physical nature, not mental or spiritual"" with adjectival suffix -al preceded by corpus ""body"" (living or dead), " "As Jack reached for the ghost, he realized it was not corporeal when his hands went straight through the shape. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 176 "corpus" "body " "Greek/Latin root" "corpse
corporal punishment
corpus callosum " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 177 "corroborate" "to strengthen or support: (n: corroboration)" "verb" " Latin: form of com ""with, together"" + roborare ""to make strong"" robur, robus ""strength"" - same root as robust" "The scientist was able to corroborate his hypothesis with data gathered from multiple sources. The witness corroborted his story. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 178 "corroborate
collaborate" "It's ""L"" like Royalty…. . don't ge""L"" and ""R"" confused" "verb" "During the president's election, the 2 scientists collaborated together to find facts to corrobarate their joint theory. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 179 "cosmopolitan" " of or relating to a large city or massive urban area" "adj. " "belonging to all parts of the world, limited to no place or society.
adj. sophisticated" "With its hugely diverse population, New York City is considered one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 180 "covet" " to desire something that does not belong to you" "verb" "old French: to desire or wish for inordinately or without regard for the rights of others, " "In the book by Dickens, the miser did nothing but covet money
10th commandment: You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, . . etc" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 181 "covetous" "displaying greed for another individual’s belongings" "adj. " "Syn: greedy, acquisitive, grasping, avaricious" "1a. The advertising industry’s goal is to make you covetous of the things that other people have
1b. The sister was jealous of her brother's success and covetous of his possessions
1c. He looked at his boss's new car with covetous eyes." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 181 "cracy" "rule " "Greek/Latin root" "democracy
theocracy
technocracy " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 182 "craft" "n. skill" "noun" "as adjective it means ""cunning""- a crafty pickpocket" "The retired teacher is looking for a new craft to take up since she is good at making things with her hands" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 183 "allusion" "an indirect reference" " noun" "Latin: ad ""to"" + ludere ""to play""=>a playing with
Deutsch: Anspielung" "Pink! included an allusion about her ex-boyfriend in her song. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 184 "craven" " cowardly to the point of being shameful" "adj. " " Latin/French where originally cravant initially =""defeated, vanquished, overcome, conquered"", but changing later to cowardly" "Because police officers must be fearless, craven people should not apply for positions in law enforcement. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 185 "credence" " belief or trust" "noun" " Medieval Latin credentia ""belief"". ""credentials""""credit"", all have the same roots" "The crazy man’s UFO story was so ridiculous that not a single person gave it any credence. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 186 "cred" "belief " "Greek/Latin root" "credence=belief that something is true or valid
credulous=believing things too easily
gullible
incredible=unbelievable
incredulous=skeptical
disbelieving" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 187 "amble" "moving at an easy pace; walk slowly or leisurely" " noun" " Latin ambulare= ""to walk about"" as in ambulatory, ambulance
sDeutsch: chlendern" "I like to amble through the old Town of Ravensburg" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 188 "-cule, ling " "very small " "adj. , noun " "molecule
miniscule
" "Suffix" "MSU" 189 "culpable" "deserving of blame (n: culpability)" "adj. " " Old French coupable" "The judge found the man culpable of the crime and sentenced him to life in prison" "Common GRE" "MSU" 190 "-cy " "action, function " "noun " "advocacy
hesitancy
prophecy
normalcy " "Suffix" "MSU" 191 "dearth" "lack, scarcity" "noun" " Old English deore ""precious, costly"" (see dear) + abstract noun suffix -th" "The prosecutor complained about the dearth of concrete evidence against the suspect. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 192 "decorum" "appropriate manners and conduct" "noun" "same root at déco" "Not understanding decorum at a formal dinner, Jake ate his salad with his dinner fork" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 193 "amenity" "1. a feature that contributes to comfort or value.
2. the overall pleasantness that results from all those cool features. " " noun" "1. The walk-in closet was my favorite amenity in the apartment.
2. he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age”" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 194 "deference" "courteous regard for people's feelings" "noun" " French déférence (16c. ), défé""to yield, comply" " He held his tongue in deference to his father. (n: deferential. v. defer)" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 195 "deflect" " divert or cause to ricochet" "verb" "de=away + flect = bend" "He deflected the attack with a defty response" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 196 "deft" " skill, acumen, manual dexterity" "adj. " "unclear origin" "The deft musician was able to play the harmonica and the piano at the same time. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 197 "deign" "Do something that one considers to be beneath one's dignity" "verb" "Syn: come down one's high horse" "If the Senate deigns to consider and confirm a nominee, do not expect changes overnight. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 198 "delineate" " 1. to describe very accurately, to clearly describe or portray something
2. to clearly demarcate a boundary, to render an outline" "verb" "Latin: de- ""completely""+ lineare ""draw lines, " "1. While I cannot delineate the style of car she drove, I can give you the license plate number.
2. Jason put a fence up to delineate his property from his neighbor’" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 199 "demos" "people " "Greek/Latin root" "democracy
demographic " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 200 "analgesic" " a medicine that takes away physical pain (but without loss of consciousness, like an anaesthetic may be)" " adj. " "Aspirin is not only a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), but primarily an analgesic" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 201 "denigrate" "1. attack the good name and reputation of someone
2. to deny the importance or validity of" "verb" "Latin denigratus ""to blacken; to defame"" de- ""completely"" + nigr-, stem of niger ""black"" " "1. During the election, the crooked politician did everything in his power to denigrate his rival.
2. The professor denigrated the achievements of a rival, trying to position his research as more important" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 202 "depict" "to show, create a picture of. " "verb" " Latin depictus, past participle of depingere ""to portray, paint, sketch; describe, imagine"" de ""down"" (see de-) + pingere ""to paint""" "The drawings on the cave walls depict the lives of the earliest men on the planet. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 203 "deprecate (deprecation)
depreciate (depreciation)" "to deprecate is “to disapprove, " "verb" "self-deprecating =to belittle
In the world of computing, deprecated means phased out or soon to be phased out
Depreciate is primarily a financial term(Deutsch=Abschreibung), generally loss of book value" "When John heard that Jane climbed Mt. Everest, he deprecated her achievement and said it wasn't more than a walk up a hill.
The software had already had its full book value depreciated in the finance department" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 204 "deprecation" "disapproval, earnest expression of feeling against" "noun" "Has the word ""Pray"" in its origins, in the sense ""pray, do not""
Do NOT confuse with deprecIation, a finance term" "Ingrid is well-known for her self-deprecation, as she constantly looks down on herself and harshly judges all of her actions. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 205 "depredation" "the act of preying upon or plundering. To act as a predator. " "noun" "French/latin: de- ""thoroughly"" (see de-) + praedari ""to plunder"" literally ""to make prey of"" praeda ""prey""" "The depredations of the invaders demoralized the population. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 206 "ancillary" "serving as aid or accessory; auxiliary" " adj. " "He asked to ensure that enough nursing and ancillary staff to run 155 ICU beds be made available" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 207 "derivative" "a compound obtained from another compound" "adj. " "Applies to words (words derive a parent) to chemistry (a product derives another one) and to mathematics" "The new antibiotic is listed as a derivative of penicillin because it was produced from a penicillin base. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 208 "descry" "to make clear, to say" "verb" "Deutsch: entdecken, wahrnehmen" "If you descry illegal content on the linked websites, we beg for notification" "Common GRE" "MSU" 209 "animus" "feeling of animosity" " noun" "Same word root as ""animosity""" "Obama felt that Trump had a bizarre personal animus against him, all rooted in the birther lie, until he realised Trump himself was bizarre. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 210 "desiccate" "1. to dry out completely
2. to suck out the vitality and passion" "verb" " de- ""thoroughly"" (see de-) + siccare ""to dry""
Not the spelling, with double ""c""" "1. One should use sliced fruits within one day as the insides quickly desiccate.
2. The professional soccer player became desiccated after being in a car accident that left him in a coma. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 211 "desultory" "marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm" "adj. " "French: de:-about + sultor(sauter)-jump=>jump about
Deutsch: 1. )halbherzig ODER
2. )herumspringend" "1. The bronze medal winner managed a desultory smile.
2. The students were confused by the teacher’s desultory lecture which seemed to have no real foc" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 212 "detachment" " objectivity or aloofness, devoid of interest or feelings" "noun" " French détachement (17c. ), détacher (see detach). Meanin""that which is detached"", also in a military sense.
Deutsch: Ablösun" "The woman’s air of detachment made the police question her involvement in her husband’s de" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 213 "determinant" " a strong factor in an outcome" "noun" "Latin: de= ""off"" + terminare ""to mark the end or boundary
Deutsch: Bestimmungsfaktor" "The key determinant for social security deductions are the conditions at year end " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 214 "di" "two
double " "Greek/Latin root" "deductions are the conditions on 31 December of the tax period or at the end of the tax liability. " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 215 "dia" "across
through " "Greek/Latin root" "diagonal
dialectic
dialogue
diagnosis " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 216 "antedate" "be earlier in time; go back further" " verb" "Latin: ante=earlier + date=time=> be earlier in time.
antecede, forego, forgo, precede, predate" "World War I antedates World War II. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 217 "anthology" "book of literary selections by various authors" " noun" "The poetry club published an anthology of their favorite poems. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 218 "didactic" " educational or with an instructive purpose; often includes an element of moralizing" "adj. " "French didactique,
Latinized form of Greek didaktikos ""apt at teaching
didact=teach +ic=nature of, like" "Because Mrs. Jones came up with lessons that were not only didactic but also fun, everyone thought she was a fantastic teacher. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 219 "die" "1. v. to cease to live.
2. n. a mold used for shaping pieces of metal for incorporation into tools or other products" "verb, noun" "1. sterben
2. Deutsch = Pressform, Modell, " "1. the old man died
2. These car models are so similar that the same die can be used to make most body parts, such as the doors, hood, roof, and trunk cover. " "Homonym" "MSU" 220 "antithesis" "the total opposite of an object or person; contrast; " " noun" "Greek antithesis ""opposition, resistance""" "In the movie, Robert’s character of an abusive husband is the antithesis of the caring spouse the actor really is" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 221 "diffident" " shy, timid, or reserved due to a lack of confidence" "adj. " " Latin dis- ""away"" (see dis-) + fidere ""to trust""=>""to mistrust, lack confidence""" "Because she felt unattractive, Mary was diffident and kept to herself at parties. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 222 "diffident
different
deference" "diffident = shy, timid, or reserved due to a lack of confidence and
deference is respect for others. " "adj. " "If you treat others with deference, then people will respect you back, and acting differently will not lead to shy diffidence" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 223 "antler" "entire horn, or any branch of the horn" " noun" "As the family name is Bocken, my father is thinking of putting an antler of a mountain goat on the wall. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 224 "dirge" "1. funeral or mourning lament.
2. any sad, slow song" "noun" "In the catholic burial mass, the first answer sung is Psalms v. 9, which begins in Latin: ""Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam (""Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy sight""). So, Dirge is a bastardization of first word of Psalm v. 9 and summarizes whole tone, sentence and mass" "Elton John wrote and sang the dirge at Lady Di's funeral. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 225 "dis" "not
apart, off, away
the opposite of
completely
in every direction" "Greek/Latin root" "disperse
disinherit
disenfranchise
distend " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 226 "aphasia" "loss of speech (or ability to read) due to injury or illness" " noun" "Greek; a- ""without"" + phasis ""utterance=>inability to speak" "Cees suffered from mild aphesia and had difficulty speaking after his serious bicycle accident" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 227 "disabuse" "free somebody from an erroneous belief" "verb" "dis=""to free, apart, off""+ ""mistake, fallacy, or deception""" "We had to disabuse her of the notion that she was invited. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 228 "discern" " to perceive, to recognize the difference or distinction between two or more things" "verb" " dis- ""off, away"" + cernere ""distinguish, separate, sift" "Because Bradley wore sun glasses, I could not discern whether or not his eyes were red. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 229 "discomfort (n)
discomfit (vt)" "1. discomfort is a noun the lack of ease or comfort whereas
2. discomfit is a verb and the act of disconcerting or making uncomfortable for othersor to other" "noun, verb" "To discomfit someone is to make them feel uncomfortable or upset. An easy way to discomfit another person is to use the age-old, childish trick of ignoring them. " "1. I sat there in discomfort
2. He was discomfited with the impolite behaviour of the visitor" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 230 "discrepancy" " a difference or inconsistency especially between things that should be the same" "noun" "dis= ""apart, off"" + crepare=""to rattle, crack""" "The police were confused by the discrepancy between the testimonies of the two witnesses who saw the same event. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 231 "disingenuous" "not candid or sincere, generally by pretending one knows less than one actually does" "adj. " "from dis- ""opposite of"" + ingenuous(=naïve)
Syn: dishonest, deceitful, duplicitous" "The detective was a disingenuous man who played dumb to trick others into confessing" "Least Difficult" "FT" 232 "disinterested / uninterested" "1. disinterested = objective, unbiased, unaffected by concern for one's own welfare
2. uninterested = not interested" "adj. " "if you're disinterested, you're unbiased; you're out of the loop.
2. But if you're uninterested, you don't give a hoot; you're bored. " "1. The referee should be disinterestedin which team wins the game, but
2. grandmother was uninterested in who won the football game. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 233 "disparage" " to belittle" "verb" "Originally meant to marry below one's rank, ie. Dis=away + parage=rank. Not it means to push somone lower, to belittle them" "I cannot believe that you belittle and disparage people who have little in common with you. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 234 "disparaging" "belittling (n: disparagement. v. disparage)" "adj. " "His mother's disparaging comments made him feel awful" "Common GRE" "MSU" 235 "disparate" " dissimilar to such a degree that comparison is not possible" "adj. " " Latin disparatus, dis- ""apart"" + parare ""get ready, prepare ie. => Dislike in kind" "The identical twins have such disparate personalities that it’s impossible to get them confused. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 236 "aphorism" "definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion. " " noun" "1a. ""People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"" is a good example of an aphorism.
1b. “Time is money” is not just a hackneyed aphorism" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 237 "dispassionate" " impartial or cool; calm; objective; unbiased" "adj. " "from dis- ""the opposite of"" + passionate" "Liza is a dispassionate person who rarely displays her emotions to others" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 238 "disregard" " to ignore or pay no attention to" "verb" "dis= away + regard=look at" "If you disregard the red light at an intersection you are not only breaking the law but also endangering your life" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 239 "apiary" "place where bees and beehives are kept, especially where bees are raised for their honey" " noun" "Syn:beehouse" "Although he spent many hours daily in the apiary, he was seldom stung by a bee. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 240 "dissemble" " to mislead or conceal the truth, esp. with respect to one’s motives. to conceal one's real motive, to feign" "verb" " Latin dissimulare ""make unlike, conceal, disguise"" dis- ""completely"" (see dis-) + simulare ""to make like, imitate, copy, " "Rather than answer the reporter’s questions directly, the politician chose to mislead and dissembled his responses" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 241 "dissemble
disassemble" "Disassemble is to take something apart, like an old car motor, but dissemble is sneaky — it means to hide your true self, to lie to misrepresent oneself - like the guy who said he was a mechanic but had never actually seen a motor, much less put one back togethe" "adj. , verb" "dis= reverse +assemble+collect in one place=> take aprt
dis=not + semble=appear=>not true representation" "the word is that these are Chinese actors who have been hired to resemble and dissemble North Korean fans. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 242 "disseminate" " to spread widely (esp. information)" "verb" "Latin: dis- ""in every direction"" (see dis-) + seminare ""to plant, propagate"" from semen (genitive seminis) ""seed""" "The pollen will disseminate into the region by Thursday, causing further burdens for allergy sufferers. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 243 "dissonance" "disagreeable sounds, a clash between two elements that don’t blend well, a lack of harmony or agreement, " "noun" "Latin: dissonantem""differ in sound"", ie lack of harmony" "The school board’s meeting lasted for hours due to the length debate fueled by dissonance among opinion" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 244 "diverge" " to split apart, esp. a road or path" "verb" "Laitin: assimilated form of dis- ""apart"" + vergere ""to bend, turn, tend toward""
opposite of converge" "Knowing that everyone would diverge after graduation, she was worried that she would not see her friends anymore. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 245 "docile" "Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive" "adj. " " Latin: docilis ""easily taught""
Syn: compliant, obedient, pliant" "Docile with humans, dogs are fierce defenders of territory and their young. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 246 "doff" "Remove (an item of clothing)" "verb" "Syn: lay hold of, take hold of" "To don shoes, to doff them, or even to throw them at somebody?" "Least Difficult" "FT" 247 "dogged" "stubborn or determined" "adj. " """having the qualities of a (bull)dog"", in a negative sense" "Her dogged pursuit of the degree eventually paid off. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 248 "dogma" " the official beliefs or tenets of particular sect or group" "noun" "Latin: dogma ""philosophical tenet, " "Although Jake considered himself to be quite religious, he did not blindly follow the dogma of the church. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 249 "dogmatic" "relying upon doctrine or dogma, as opposed to evidence" "adj. " "dogma + -ic (= nature of, like)" "The dogmatic leftist thought all rich people to be evil" "Common GRE" "MSU" 250 "-dom" "quality, realm, office" "noun " "freedom
kingdom
wisdom
thralldom " "Suffix" "MSU" 251 "dominus" "lord
master" "Greek/Latin root" "dominant
dominion " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 252 "dote" "be extremely and uncritically fond of" "verb" "Syn: adore, love dearly, be devoted to" "Falling birth-rates allowed parents to dote on fewer children, who were increasingly likely to go to school. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 253 "dupe" " to deceive or fool" "verb" "French, duper" "My brother is a schemer who is always trying to dupe people out of their money. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 254 "dynasthai" "be able " "Greek/Latin root" "dynamic
dynamo
dynasty
dynamite " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 255 "disquiet" "make uneasy or anxious; trouble" " verb" "Latin: dis""lack of"" or ""not""+ quietus""calm, at rest, or free from exertion. ""=>lack of calm" "The next few days were disquieting for the country, especially after the premier was transferred to intensive care. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 256 "eccentric" " quirky or unusual" "adj. " " Greek astronomy referring to planet orbitals: ekkentros ""out of the center"" (as opposed to concentric), ek ""out"" (see ex-) + kentron ""center""+ ic=nature of, like. Meaning now modified to ""odd or whimsical person""" "The eccentric artist was quite happy to walk around with green hair" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 257 "apocryphal" "untrue; of questionable authorship or authenticity; erroneous; fictitious" " adj. " "Originally, apocryphal was reserved for religious writings that were not included in the Torah or the New Testament as their text divinity was not certain. " "The old man often shared apocryphal ghost stories with anyone who would listen. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 258 "eclectic" "selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas" "adj. " "ic=nature of, like" " Many modern decorators prefer an eclectic style. (n: eclecticism)" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 259 "-ee" "one who receives the action " "noun " "employee
nominee
refugee " "Suffix" "MSU" 260 "effect
affect" "affect is usually a verb, and it means to impact or change. Effect is usually a noun, an effect is the result of a change. So, if A affects B, B experiences the effect of A’s actio" "noun, verb" "affect is a verb and effect is a noun. At least (spoiler alert!), most of the time. Here’s a mnemonic: A is for action. Verbs are about action. Affect starts with an A, so it’s a verb. Also, Think of the common phrase cause and effect. Cause ends with an E, and effect begins with an E. So not only does a cause lead to an effect, but also cause’s E leads to effect’s E, giving you a handy noun bridge to step across and remember which spelling" "The most common side effects of antibiotics affect the digestive system. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 261 "apogee" "the highest point; point in orbit most distant from the body being orbited.
Also figuratively: peak, highest value" " noun" "Latin: apo= ""furthest""+ geo=""earth""=>point at which the moon is farthest from the earth""
apoapsis
Antnym:perigee. " "Child stars sometimes reach their apogee by 20, and there's nowhere to go but down from there" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 262 "efficacy" "effectiveness; capability to produce a desired effect" "noun" "Latin: efficacia ""efficacy, efficiency""" "The instructor’s efficacy was reduced by the lack of educational materials" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 263 "effluent" "the quality of flowing out. something that flows out, such as a stream from a river (n: effluence)" "adj. , noun" "Latin: ex ""out"" + fluere ""to flow""" "Paques builds plants that ensure that wastewater effluent is cleaned" "Common GRE" "MSU" 264 "ego" "I
self " "Greek/Latin root" "ego
egomaniac
egocentric
" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 265 "elegy" "a mournful poem; a lament for the dead" "noun" "Greek elegeia ode ""an elegaic song"", where elegos= ""poem or song of lament" "When the princess died, one of her favorite songwriters wrote a moving elegy for her. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 266 "elicit" " to provoke a response" "verb" "Latin roots e/ex=out +citus ""set in motion=>to get a response out of
Syn: provoke" "In the experiment, the scientist hoped to elicit a response from a mouse by piping high-pitched sounds into a sealed cage. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 267 "eloquence" " persuasive and articulate speech" "adj. " "French/Latin: ""eloquent"" from ex ""out"" + loqui ""to speak""" "Since the girl spoke from the heart, the eloquence in her words allowed everyone to completely understand and believe what she was saying. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 268 "elusive
effusive" "elusive is when not quite able to catch/find/get hold of whereas effusive is when showing or expressing gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner" "adj. " "Latin: eludere =elude, frustrate + -ive. " "The elusive criminal was finally captured and his former inmates were effusive on his return to prison" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 269 "eminent" " well-known, respected, distinguished" "adj. " "ex ""out"" (see ex-) + -minere, which is related to mons ""hill""" "Everyone was looking forward to taking the class with such an eminent professor. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 270 "emollient" "softening; something that softens" "adj. , noun" "mollig= fett und weich
mollify=soften up and mollification=the softening up in literal and figurative sense" "The lotion was a great emollient for her dry skin" "Common GRE" "MSU" 271 "empirical" "derived from experiment and observation rather than theory" "adj. " "reek: empeiros ""experienced (in a thing), proven by use, en ""in"" + peira ""trial, experiment""" "Our data is based on empirical evidence collected in numerous studies" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 272 "apostate" "one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs" " noun" "After Katie exposed Scientology's secrets, she was regarded as an apostate that should be ruined" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 273 "emulate" " to imitate or attempt to equal in accomplishment to strive to equal or excel (n: emulation)
It is about the setting a goal to equal or exceed what someone else achieved, not necessarily doing it their way. " "verb" "Latin: aemulari ""to rival. """ "Sue is going to emulate her brother's strong work ethic in order to be successful. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 274 "emulate
imitate" "Emulate means ""to try to be as good or successful as. ""
Imitate means ""to copy or fashion oneself after. """ "verb" "He did not limit his actions to imitating his role model, but wished to go further and emulate his idol's success" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 275 "-en" "made of, make " "adj. , noun" "silken
frozen
oaken
wooden
lighten " "Suffix" "MSU" 276 "-ence, ency " "action, state of, quality " "noun " "difference
conference
urgency " "Suffix" "MSU" 277 "encomium" "a formal eulogy or speech of praise" "noun" "Greek: enkōmion=belonging to the praise or reward of a conquero" "Mrs. Poundstone was surprised and delighted on the last day of school when the students in her most difficult class presented her with an encomium they had written, praising her work as a teacher. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 278 "apotheosis" "elevation to godhood; fact or action of becoming a god; an ideal example of something
ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint" " noun" " Greek:apo ""from+ ""theos= god => person, place, or thing that is so out-of-this-world amazing that it seems as if it's ""from God. """ "Leonardo da Vinci was the apotheosis of genius and the Mona Lisa is the apotheosis of all his paintings" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 279 "endemic
epidemic" "endemic is an inherent characteristic whereas epidemic is an illness wave that affect many in the population at the same time" "noun" "ic=nature of, like" "As the syphyllis epidemic spread eastwards from Portugal, each successive nation claimed the disease was endemic to the nation west of itself" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 280 "endow" "Provide with a quality, ability, or asset" "verb" "Syn: equip, bless, give" "Good and inspiring teachers, meanwhile, such as. J. K. Rowling’s Minerva McGonagall, are portrayed as endowed with supernatural gifts. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 281 "appellation" "name; title; act of naming; act of appealing for aid, sympathy" " noun" "French: appeller: to call" "George Herman Ruth's parents may have known him as George, but the rest of the world knew this famous slugger by his appellation, Babe.
Champagne is an appellation for the bubbly white wine that comes from the Champagne region of France" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 282 "apposite" "strikingly appropriate and relevant; well-suited" " adj. " "Latin: appositus and apponere. A=to + Ponere=to place=>apponere is ""well-placed or well-put.""
Don't confuse apposite with opposite; they have almost opposite meanings!" "Jake drinks red wine with each meal and does not worry about what wine connoisseurs say is apposite for each dish. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 283 "appropriation" "1. taking something and making it your own, either in a positive or negative sense
2. setting money aside or budgeting to do something as act of legislature" " noun" "1. I appropriated my mother's french fries while she was not looking.
1b. Cultural appropriation is one of the issues that gets het most upset
2. The government committee appropriated sufficient funds to agricultural renewal program" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 284 "engender" " to cause or give rise to" "verb" "from in- ""in"" + generare ""bring forth, beget, produce"" itself from genus ""give birth, beget""" "His slip of the toungue engendered much laughter. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 285 "engender
endanger" "engender is to bring into being, whereas endanger is to put at risk" "verb" "Some people believe violent video games engender feelings of hostility in young people, thereby endangering them and those around them. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 286 "enhance" " intensify, increase, augment" "verb" "French via low germanic origine = similar to German ""erhöhe""" "When Jane paints her bedroom yellow she is going to really enhance the room and make it appear brighter. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 287 "enigma" "a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand" "noun" "Latin: aenigma=""riddle""
Syn: puzzle, mystery" "Scientists continue to research cancer to solve the enigma of its primary cause, which will hopefully lead to a cure. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 288 "entitlement" " belief that one deserves things one has not earned, the rights one is afforded under the law" "noun" "The spoiled girl’s sense of entitlement to any object in sight resulted in her inability to make frien" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 289 "aquifer" "underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc" " noun" "Latin:aqui-: ""water"" + -fer ""bearing"" from ferre ""to bear, carry""" "China will never let go of Nepal, as its aquifers under the Himalayas are the world's largest reserves of water. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 290 "ephemeral" "anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day" "adj. " "Syn: fleeting, passing, short-lived" "An ephemeral moment of victory may last mere seconds, but it can remain as a triumphant memory for decades. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 291 "aquiline" "curved or hooked like an eagle's beak, generally referred to noses. " " adj. " "Latin aquilinus ""of or like an eagle""" "The Nazi's generally depicted Jews with an aquiline nose" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 292 "epi" "upon
over " "Greek/Latin root" "epidermis
epidemic
epigram
epitaph
epithet
epiphyte
epistasis
epinephrine
epiphysis " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 293 "equable" " even-tempered, not given to much change or variation" "adj. " "Because she is so equable, my even-tempered mother rarely gets upset. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 294 "equivocal" "ambiguous; unclear; subject to more than one interpretation -- often intentionally so: (v. equivocate)" "adj. " "Latin: (multiple opinions given) equal voice. => ie. unclear" "Republicans complained that Bill Clinton's answers were equivocal. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 295 "equivocate" " to use ambiguous language in order to mislead or deceive" "verb" "Equivocate is one of the 5 most common mistakes made in the GRE! It does NOT mean equal. " "Whenever the politician responded to questions, he would avoid eye contact and equivocate his answers. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 296 "-er, or " "on who, that which " "Suffix" "baker
carpenter
brewer " "Suffix" "MSU" 297 "erroneous" " incorrect" "adj. " "Despite the fact that you used an erroneous method to solve the problem, somehow you managed to arrive at the correct solution. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 298 "arboreal" "tree-dwelling; treelike; living in trees" " adj. " "Latin arboreus= ""pertaining to trees" "1. The arboreal primates arrived at the Zoo from the Congo.
2. our cabin is in a forest and thus we have stunning arboreal views from the deck. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 299 "erudite" " learned; scholarly; displaying deep intensive learning. (n: erudition)" "adj. " "Latin: ex ""out"" + rudis ""unskilled, rough, unlearned""=>bring out from the rough" "High school students often struggle with novels that are more erudite than they are entertaining. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 300 "-escent" "in the process of becoming" "adj. , noun " "adolescent
obsolescent
convalescent
nascent" "Suffix" "MSU" 301 "eschew" " avoid or abstain from" "verb" "same root as: German scheuen ""to fear, shun, shrink from""" "True vegetarians eschew food items that come from living animals. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 302 "-ese" "a native of " "adj. , noun " "Javanese
Vietnamese " "Suffix" "MSU" 303 "-esis, osis" "action, process, condition " "noun " "genesis
hypnosis
neurosis
osmosis " "Suffix" "MSU" 304 "archetype" "prototype; original model or type after which other similar things are patterned" " noun" "Greek: arkhē ""beginning, origin, first place"" + typos ""model, type, blow, mark of a blow""=>first model" "If you have long blonde hair, a sparkly ball gown, and a fairy godmother hovering over your head, you're the archetype of a fairytale princess. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 305 "esoteric" " obscure, arcane, intended for or understood by only a few" "adj. " "Syn: abstruse, obscure, arcane
ic=""nature of, like" "The esoteric discussion confused some people. (n: esoterica)
The subjects at hand often sound esoteric, if not silly, but the questions may prove more than merely academic. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 306 "-ess" "female " "noun " "poetess
goddess " "Suffix" "MSU" 307 "estimable" " deserving respect, esteem, and admiration" "adj. " "Our estimable professor is constantly being recognized for his cancer research" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 308 "-et, ette " "small one, group " "noun " "midget
octet
baronet
" "Suffix" "MSU" 309 "ethos" "the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community" "noun" "Syn: character, atmosphere, climate" "Mr. Cotton presented himself as a member of the generation moved by the patriotic spirit. leaving civilian careers to join the army and learn a ‘warrior ethos" "Least Difficult" "FT" 310 "arraign" "officially charge someone in a court of law" " verb" "Latin: ad ""to"" + *rationare, from ratio ""argumentation; reckoning""=> ie. presenting an account — a record — of the thing the person has done wrong. " "The accused was arraigned in court: the official charge was read and the accused responded by saying ""not guilty. """ "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 311 "eulogy" " memorial speech for one who has passed, normally given at a funeral" "noun" "The rabbi’s eulogy was both heartfelt and inspiring." "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 312 "ex" "out " "Greek/Latin root" "exotic
exterior
extraneous
extemporaneous
exophalmic
exogenous
exothermic
exoskeleton " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 313 "arrears" "being in debt; unpaid, overdue debt or an unfulfilled obligation" " noun" " Old French ariere ""behind, backward""" "Because Jill’s credit card payment has been in arrears for three months, the card issuer is suspending her account. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 314 "exacerbate" " to make worse; to increase the bitterness or violence of; to aggravate" "verb" "The decision to fortify the border exacerbated tensions. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 315 "exacting" " challenging, demanding, grueling" "adj. " "Sarah’s exacting client insisted she work during the holiday" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 316 "arrogate" "claim without justification; claim for oneself without right" " verb" "Demonstrators arrogated a 6 block zone in Seattle called CHOP" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 317 "exculpate" "pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; to demonstrate or prove to be blameless " "verb" "The evidence tended to exculpate the defendant. (adj: exculpatory)" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 318 "exigent" " urgent or pressing; demanding or pressing" "adj. " "French: exiger=demand, Latin: exigentia ""urgency""
Syn: urgent demand" "An exigent officer is difficult to get along with because he asks ridiculous things of his soldiers. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 319 "exonerate" " to clear of charges of wrongdoing" "verb" "The testimony from the witness will hopefully exonerate my husband of all charges. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 320 "exorbitant" "exceeding customary or normal limits, esp. in quantity or price:" "adj. " " The cab fare was exorbitant, so I suspected the driver had taken a round about route. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 321 "expatiate" " to elaborate on something in great detail" "verb" "During his book signing, Clark will expatiate on his military adventures for as long as you are willing to listen" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 322 "explicate" " to explain in detail" "verb" "ic=nature of, like
" "If the auditor finds an error in the accounting records, the treasurer will need to explicate the mistake. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 323 "explicit" "fully and clearly expressed" "adj. " "The bank representative made sure the borrower was aware of the explicit terms of the loan agreement. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 324 "exposition" " a thorough explanation" "noun" "n. a public show or fair" "The researcher gave a full exposition of his research results. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 325 "extant" "in existence, still existing " "adj. " "Syn: living, still existing, remaining" "The only extant representative of that species. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 326 "extant
extent" "extant usually refers to the last surviving example in existence(eg. Book, species) whereas extent is the length or amount of something" "adj. " "The last extant white rhinos are still being hunted down for randy Asian geriatrics.
The extent of corruption in the bureaucracy was well known. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 327 "extraneous" " irrelevant or superfluous" "adj. " "If you slip off your diet, the extraneous calories will make you gain all the weight you lost. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 328 "extrapolate" " to estimate or conjecture about the future based on presently available information or facts" "verb" "The scientist tried to extrapolate the future results by looking at data from previous testing dates" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 329 "artifice" "subtle but base deception; trickery; cleverness or skill; ingenuity" " noun" "During the treasure hunt, we will make use of an artifice to trick our opponents into searching in the wrong area. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 330 "facetious" " Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor" "adj. " "Syn: flippant, glib, tongue-in-cheek.
""Facetious"" stresses a desire to produce laughter and may be derogatory in implying dubious or ill-timed attempts at wit or humor" "More disturbing, ' says Mr. Hart, I didn't note that his column was facetious. In tone, it was indeed, and I should have noted that. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 331 "facilitate" " to make something easier or simpler" "verb" "facile=easy in French. " "Going to all lectures and doing all tutorials greatly facilitates passing the exam" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 332 "faction" "a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics" "noun" "Syn: contingent, section, sector" "One particular separatist faction is now widely accepted to have been responsible for a string of small bombs which detonated in August. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 333 "fallacious" "containing or based on incorrect reasoning" "adj. " " fallacy
Deutsch: irreführen" "He clung to the fallacious hope that she would return. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 334 "fallow" "Inactive" "adj. " "Syn: dormant, quiet, slack" "Their fickle attention might waver for a few fallow years of rebuilding, but Angel Stadium will still be standing. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 335 "falter" "Move unsteadily or in a way that shows lack of confidence" "verb" "Syn: stumble, fumble" "His early steps were faltering, and a frailer soul might have been daunted by his mentors’ fate. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 336 "fastidious" " meticulous" "adj. " "adj. invested in cleanliness" "Constantly licking themselves, cats are fastidious creatures. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 337 "fathom" "1. a measure of length (six feet) used in nautical settings.
2. to penetrate to the depths of something in order to understand it " "noun, verb" "Old English fæðm ""length of the outstretched arm"" (a measure of about six feet)" "1. Nautical charts in the US measure water depth in feet as well as fathoms
2. I couldn't fathom her reasoning on that issue. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 338 "ascendancy" "superiority or decisive advantage; domination" " noun" "Latin:ascendere ""to mount, ascend, go up""" "As early as round three of the boxing match, Frazier had created an ascendancy that permitted him to easily knock Ali around the ring. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 339 "fawn" "1. n. a baby deer.
2. v. to behave in an excessively humble or obsequious manner. , to seek favor or attention" "noun, verb" "noun: same Latin word root as fetus
verb: same root as ""feiern"" in Deutsch" "1. bambi was a fawn
2. Charlie always fawned over his professors so much that all the other students disliked him. " "Homonym" "MSU" 340 "federis" "league
pact " "Greek/Latin root" "federation
confederate " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 341 "feign" "to give false appearance or impression " "verb" "He feigned illness to avoid going to school. (adj: feigned)" "Common GRE" "MSU" 342 "fervid, fervent" "highly emotional; hot: (n: fervor)" "adj. " "The partisans displayed a fervent patriotism. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 343 "-fic" "making, causing " "adj. " "scientific
specific " "Suffix" "MSU" 344 "fission
fusion" "fission= division into two or more parts whereas fusion is the the reverse, ie. The joining of multiple parts into one" "noun" "Nuclear fission is the principle behind current nuclear weapons, but the energy source of the future is nuclear fusion" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 345 "flag" "1. n. banner.
2. v. to wane or weaken" "noun, verb" "2. Bedeutung als Verb kommt vom gleichen germanischen Wortstamm wie ""flattern""" "2. When the runner's strength begins to flag, she walks for a few minutes, then gradually increases her speed. " "Homonym" "MSU" 346 "flail" "flail means to wave around wildly or in an extended sense: Flounder; struggle uselessly" "verb" "Latin word flagellum, which is a whip
Syn: thrash, thresh, squirm" "The man stranded on the deserted island flailed his arms in the air to get the passing by ship captain’s attention. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 347 "flaunt
flout" "flaunt is to display brazenly or pretentiously whereas flout is to to show an obvious disregard or disrespect for; to treat contemptuously" "verb" "Flaunt is to show off, but flout is to ignore the rules. Rebels do both — they flaunt their new pink motorcycles by popping a wheelie, and flout the law by running a red ligh" "He came into the Church, flaunting his riches with his designer clothes, flouting all rules by dancing on the altar. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 348 "fledgling" "1. a baby bird;
2. an inexperienced person; inexperienced. " "adj. , noun" "Same German word root as ""Flügel"", d. h. get wings.
Also implies potential to improve" "1. The fledgling storks start to leave the nest about 2 months after hatching.
2. Jill is a fledgling skater who must work on her turns more. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 349 "aseptic" "preventing infection; having cleansing effect" " adj. " "Greek: a-=not + septic= “characterized by putrefaction""(ie. Rotting of flesh)=>sterile" "Nurses stored the unused sterile syringes in aseptic containers for future use. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 350 "floundering" "struggling" "adj. " "Dutch/German roots ""flattern""" " We tried to save the floundering business. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 351 "fluctuate" " to shift without apparent pattern" "verb" "Each day, the price of gold will fluctuate on the market" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 352 "fluke" "Unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck" "noun" "originally a lucky shot at billiards
Sometimes written: ""' flook ""
Syn: coincidence, accident, a twist of fate" "The ball sank into the net after 2 deflections in what can only be called a lucky fluke" "Least Difficult" "FT" 353 "foil" "1. n. a thin sheet made of metal.
2. n. a type of rapier or sword. foils: the sport or practice of fencing with such swords.
3. n. a person or thing used in a comparison in order to make another person or thing seem superior.
4. v. to spoil or thwart; to prevent the success of. " "noun" "1. Dad wrapped the spare ribs in aluminium foil before putting them on the grill.
2. The fencing competition took place with rubber-ball capped foils
3. She had brought so many unsuitable suitors home to her parents that these were nothing but foils, so the introduction of John led her parents to happily agree to the marriage.
4. The early return of their parents foiled their plans for a party. " "Homonym" "MSU" 354 "foment" " to foster unrest or discontent" "verb" "Latin fomentum ""warm application, poultice""on the notion of ""encourage the growth of"" similar to ferment" "the police are here to keep people calm, not to foment violence" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 355 "forage" "(of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions" "verb" "Syn: hunt, scavenge, grub" "And you must be ready to abandon tired orthodoxies of the left and right and forage for good ideas across the political spectrum. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 356 "forestall" "keep from happening or arising; make impossible" "verb" "Syn: pre-empt, get in before, get ahead of" "To forestall a social crisis, he mused, governments should consider a tax on robots; if automation slows as a result, so much the better. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 357 "fortuitous" "Happening by a lucky chance" "adj. " "Syn: fortunate, advantageous, opportune" "Thanks to these sensible policies, and the fortuitous tailwind of higher productivity growth, the economy boomed and prosperity was shared. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 358 "dissimulate" "pretend; hide feelings from other people" " verb" "Has nothing to do with ""dis-similar"", but means to ""simulieren""(Deutsch im negativen Sinn) with a negative intent of hiding one's true feelings.
Hide one feelings is what one has to remember here"" " "As Louis XI once said ""He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.""" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 359 "frater" "brother " "Greek/Latin root" "fraternize
fraternity
fraternal
fratricide " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 360 "frugal" " economical, thrifty" "adj. " "Be more frugal with your expenses, and you will not be in debt. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 361 "fry" "1. v. to cook in hot oil.
2. n. baby fish" "noun" "2. The police were not interested in the small fry drug dealers, but wanted to catch the drug kingpin. " "Homonym" "MSU" 362 "-ful" "full of " "adj. " "frightful
beautiful
helpful " "Suffix" "MSU" 363 "-fy" "make " "verb " "fortify
simplify " "Suffix" "MSU" 364 "gainsay" " deny or oppose, Speak against or oppose (someone), deny" "verb" "Literally: Say against
Syn: be against, object to, be hostile to" "It is impossible to gainsay the importance of a good education in today’s competitive job market" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 365 "galvanize" " to prod someone into action" "verb" "figurative sense of ""galvanize by electricity""" "By holding a rally, the politician hoped to galvanize young people to vote " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 366 "dissolute" "lacking moral restraint; indulging in sensual pleasures or vices" " adj. " "
Syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous
Ant: pure, uncorrupt, uncorrupted" "His father's half sister chose to lead a dissolute lifestyle: she partied all the time, got addicted to heroin, found work too much of an effort and generally wasted her life. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 367 "asperity" "harshness of manner, roughness" " noun" "French.
Syn1: sharpness
Syn2: grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity" "1. The police officer’s dislike of me was obvious from the asperity with which he demanded my driver’s license.
2. I could not get used the asparity of the Nordic winters" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 368 "gauche" " socially inept, inappropriate, or awkward" "adj. " "gauche = left oder in Deutsch: links" "His gauche statements made eveyone feel uncomfortable" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 369 "geo" "earth " "Greek/Latin root" "geology
geography
geocentric
geomancy " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 370 "germane" " relevant to the matter at hand, closely connected, relevant" "adj. " "Latin: germanus = having the same parents" "The president will only respond to media questions that are germane to the economic crisis. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 371 "glib" "speaking in a smooth, easy way that is insincere. " "adj. " "From German ""glibberig"", now used in a figurative sense" "Because she is so conceited, Linda is constantly fishing for compliments, and she takes all the glib flattery seriously. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 372 "aspirant" "one who aspires, as to advancement, honors, or a high position" " noun" "linked to word root: to aspire" """The lofty aspirant had to start her career as an understudy to the prima ballerina. """ "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 373 "graph
gram" "write
record " "Greek/Latin root" "graphic
graphite
graphology
telegram" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 374 "gregarious" "temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others, sociable" "adj. " " Latin: gregarius=""pertaining to a flock" "Humans are by nature gregarious, and like to live close together" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 375 "guile" "skillful deceit " "noun" "(v. bequile; adj: beguiling. Note, however, that these two words have an additional meaning: to charm (v. ) or charming (adj:), while the word guile does not generally have any such positive connotations)" "The devious conman well known for his guile. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 376 "assent" "express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept" " verb" "Syn: accede, acquiesce
Ant:dissent" "1a. “The Maestro assented to the request for an encore”
1b. He nodded his head in assent" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 377 "guileless" "honest; straightforward (n: guilelessness)" "adj. " "The peasant's simple guileless comments made for refereshing talk" "Common GRE" "MSU" 378 "hack" "1. v. to chop.
2. n. a bad or unoriginal writer. " "verb" "1. He hacked a path through the jungle with his panga
2. Even though he worked for the New York Times, he always felt like a hack. " "Homonym" "MSU" 379 "hackneyed" "overused, so overused as to have become uninteresting, repeated too often, cliché, trite, banal" "adj. " "Named after London Borough of Hackney where small horses were let out for hire, so figuratively: ""used many times over that it has become uninteresting""" "Too often used by young girls, the word “like” has become hackneyed" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 380 "assimilate" "to make similar, to incorporate or absorb into" " verb" "Latin: ad ""to"" + simulare ""make similar"" " "The USA country assimilates immigrants very quickly" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 381 "harangue" "a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion" "noun" "Syn: tirade, diatribe, rant
Deutsch: Moralpredigt, Tirade" "State-run China Central Television (CCTV) has broadcast harsh criticisms of some multinationals, including an absurd harangue over Starbucks’ prices. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 382 "headlong" "headfirst; impulsive; hasty. impulsively; hastily; without forethought" "adj. " " They rushed headlong into marriage. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 383 "hedonism" " the pursuit of pleasure" "noun" "Freddie Mercuy was known to be a great singer and a non-stop hedonist" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 384 "hetero" "mixed
unlike " "Greek/Latin root" "heterogeneous
heterosexual
heterodox
heterodont
hetero atom
heterocyclic
heterozygous
" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 385 "hierarchical" " arranged in rank order or hierarchy" "adj. " "The hierarchic structure of the company led to internal problems" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 386 "homo" "same
alike " "Greek/Latin root" "homogeneous
homogenized
homozygous
homolytic fission
Homo sapiens
homonid
homeostasis
homophone" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 387 "astigmatism" "eye defect that prevents proper focus" " noun" "Greek: a-: ""without.""+ stigma: ""point"" =>so an eye that is ""without point"", ie. Light can't focus. " "After being diagnosed with an astigmatism, Jansen started wearing glasses. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 388 "homogenous" "of the same or similar kind" "adj. " " uniform, identical" "There are very few truly homogenous cultures since social diversity is increasingly widespread. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 389 "-hood" "order, quality " "noun " "neighborhood
motherhood " "Suffix" "MSU" 390 "husband" "1. n. a male spouse.
2. v. to farm, to manage frugally. to conserve" "noun" "Long ago husbands were robust men of the Earth — farmers, in other words. That meaning died out, but its current meaning survives as a remnant of it. " "1. My mother's husband is my father.
2. Our animal husbandry, or animal care, staff—the ones who clean cages and feed the animals—is physically isolated down the road. " "Homonym" "MSU" 391 "hyperbole" " obvious exaggeration for effect" "noun" "hyper=too much + bole=to throw=> to throw too far. " "Obviously the network is overreacting and engaging in hyperbole when they say 55 million people are in danger! Due to normal thunderstorms" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 392 "-ic" "nature of, like " "adj. " "metallic
heroic
poetic " "Suffix" "MSU" 393 "-ice" "condition, state, quality " "noun " "justice
malice " "Suffix" "MSU" 394 "at loggerheads" "engaged in a dispute" " adj. " "The U. K. and the EU are trying to secure a new trade deal, but remain at loggerheads on several key issues. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 395 "iconoclast" " a person who attacks traditional religious and cultural institutions" "noun" "Syn: critic, skeptic, dissenter" "He has overtaken Manuel Valls, the centre-left prime minister, as the left’s most outspoken iconoclast, and shown up the Socialist left as die-hard conservative" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 396 "-id, ide " "something connected to or belonging to " "adj. , noun " "fluid
fluoride
torrid
canid " "Suffix" "MSU" 397 "idem" "the same " "Greek/Latin root" "identity
idiopathic
I
individual " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 398 "ideo" "idea " "Greek/Latin root" "ideology
ideation
ideal " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 399 "ideological" " relating to a particular belief system or theory" "adj. " "Due to the criminal’s ideological perspective that he is always right, the criminal would hurt people if they wronged h" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 400 "idios" "one's own " "Greek/Latin root" "idiom
idiosyncrasy
idiopathic " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 401 "imminent" " about to happen" "adj. " "French/ Latin: ""overhanging; impending""" "When the Secret Service arrived, everyone knew the president’s arrival was imminent. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 402 "immutable" "Unchanging over time or unable to be changed" "adj. " "Latin:""not changeable. ""
Syn: permanent, set, steadfast" "As memories can fade over time, they are not considered to be immutable. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 403 "impair" "make worse or less effective" "verb" "French/latin: impeiorare ""make worse" "Inure means to get used to something difficult, painful, or unpleasant. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 404 "impecunious" "penniless; poor" "adj. " "Latin: in- ""not, opposite of"" +pecuniosus ""rich, money" "He spent more than he earned, so he was always impecunious" "Common GRE" "MSU" 405 "impediment" " barrier, hindrance, or obstruction" "noun" "French/Latin in:""into, in"" + gen. pedis: ""foot = >""to shackle the feet""" "I am not letting my broken wrist be an impediment to me keeping fit" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 406 "imperious" "commanding, domineering; expecting ones' orders to be followed" "adj. " "Latin imperiōsus""command, supreme power, empire. ""
Syn: arrogant, overbearing, and domineering" "In an imperious tone, the police officer ordered the driver to step out of the car. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 407 "imperturbable" " remaining calm under any circumstance, not disturbed or excited easily" "adj. " "French/ Latin:, in- ""not, opposite of"" + perturbare ""to confuse, disturb""=""that cannot be disturbed""" "The imperturbable Apollo 11 commander calmly landed the lunar module with 20 seconds of fuel remaining!" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 408 "implacable" " unforgiving, relentless, not capable of being appeased" "adj. " "French/Latin: in- ""not, opposite of"" + placabilis ""easily appeased""=unappeasable" "Even after being offered a free gift card, the angry customer remained implacable. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 409 "implication" "insinuation or connotation (v. implicate)" "noun" "Latin:in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + plicare ""to fold""= ""an interweaving, an entanglement"" " "Bill resented the implication he was a drug dealer simply because he carried a large amount of cash in his pockets. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 410 "implicit" " implied or insinuated without being directly stated" "adj. " "Latin:in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + plicare ""to fold""= ""an interweaving, an entanglement"" " "Although you never stated I could use your car, your permission was implicit when you handed me your car keys. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 411 "imply" "to suggest indirectly; to entail: (n: implication)" "verb" "Latin:in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + plicare ""to fold""= Meaning ""to involve something unstated as a logical consequence" " She implied she didn't believe his story. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 412 "improvidence" "an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events " "noun" "Latin: im-""not"" and providentia""foresight. ""
Syn: shortsightedness" "Their improvidence resulted in the loss of their home. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 413 "imprudence" " bad judgment, often through quick and rash decisions" "noun" "Latin: imprudentem means ""not forseeing, unaware, or inconsiderate. ""
Syn: a)heedlessness, mindlessness, rashness b)improvidence, shortsightedness, c)lightheadedness, d)extravagance, prodigality, profligacy, e) thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness" "Phil’s imprudent turn on the highway caused a six-car accident" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 414 "impudent" " disrespectful" "adj. " "Latin: im=without + pudens=shame
Syn:impertinent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise, forward, flip, insolent, snotty-nosed, disrespectful" "The boy is an impudent scoundrel who doesn’t seem to respect rules or people" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 415 "in
il
im
ir" "in: Deutscher Stamm: ""in""" "Greek/Latin root" "This is the first of 2 generic meanings of ""in"". The other is 'not'" "incarcerate
incorporate
inculcate
induction
inductance
indigenous
indicator
inspiration " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 416 "in
im " "not, against: Deutscher Stamm: ""un-""" "Greek/Latin root" "This is the SECOND of 2 generic meanings of ""in"". The other is ÏNTO" "incredible
ignoble
inglorious
inhospitable
infinite
infinitesimal
immoral " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 417 "inadvertent" " by accident or unintentional" "adj. " "Latin: in- = ""not+ ad =""to, toward"" + vertere= ""to turn.""=> inadvertent means “not turning the mind to
Syn: accident, unintended" "Because the principal neglected to turn off the microphone on the PA system, some statements were inadvertently broadcat to all. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 418 "atrial" "of or pertaining to an atrium, especially the upper chambers of the heart" " adj. " "My father was treated for a disorder known as atrial flutter, a non-life-threatening condition in which the heart beats less efficiently" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 419 "inchoate" " rudimentary, in the beginning stages" "adj. " "of uncertain origin. Probably something like to start strapping up the ox, ie. Start work" "The act of writing forces one to clarify vague inchoate thoughts. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 420 "inconclusive" " indeterminate or unresolved" "adj. " "Latin: in- ""not, opposite of"" + con:""together"" + -cludere: ""to shut""=>not shut together, not finalised
Syn: equivocal, indeterminate, head-to-head, neck and neck, nip and tuck, nisi, indecisive, indeterminate, undetermined" "An autopsy was inconclusive on how Mason died. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 421 "incorrigible" "not capable of being corrected" "adj. " "Latin: in: ""not, opposite of"" + corrigibilis""to correct""=> not correctable
Syn:a) unreformable, unregenerate b) uncontrollable, uncorrectable, unmanageable c) disobedient" "The school board finally decided the James was incorrigible and expelled him from school. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 422 "incredulous (credulous) versus
incredible (credible)" "incredulous is when a person is disbelieving, very doubtful - but when the statement or action is incredible, then IT is difficult to believe" "adj. " "The incredulous judge listened to the witness' incredible story that he had been kidnapped by aliens in a UFO" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 423 "indebted" " owing money" "adj. " "adj. owing gratitude to someone or something" "Because his friend saved him from drowning in the pool, Carl felt indebted to return the favor somehow. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 424 "indefatigable" " cannot be made tired" "adj. " "in: ""not"" + de:""toward"" + fatigue:""tiredness"" =>not to bring to tiredness" "The Kenyan marathon runner was indefatigable, and finished in 2 hours" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 425 "indelible" "permanent; unerasable; strong" "adj. " "Latin: in- ""not""+ delere ""destroy, blot out"" => cannot be erased" "The Queen made an indelible impression on her subjects. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 426 "indigenous
indigent" "1. local, native
2. poor, needy" "adj. " "The indigenous population was hungry and indigent" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 427 "indolent" " lazy" "adj. " "Latin indolentem: causing no pain, painless""" "The indolent schoolboy failed the test. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 428 "-ine" "having the nature or characteristic of " "adj. , noun " "feminine
masculine
medicine " "Suffix" "MSU" 429 "ineffable" "undescribable; inexpressible in words; unspeakable" "adj. " "The joy I experienced at the birth of my first child was ineffable. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 430 "attrition" "1. wearing down by rubbing against each other.
2. gradual decrease in numbers; reduction in work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment" " noun" "Latin:""abrasion, scraping, the rubbing of one thing against another""" "1. WW1 was a classic war of attrition.
2. The CEO decided to reduce costs by not replacing personnel lost to natural attrition" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 431 "infer" " to conclude from implicit evidence (as opposed to explicit facts)" "verb" "Latin in- ""in"" + ferre ""to carry, to bear""=>to 'bring in' as a conclusion of a process of reasoning""" "New genetic evidence led some zoologists to infer that the red wolf is actually a hybrid of the coyote and the gray wolf. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 432 "imply
infer " "Imply means to suggest or to say something in an indirect way. Infer means to suppose or come to a conclusion, especially based on an indirect suggestion" "verb" "The presenter implied indirectly that his colleague may be late and the audience inferred from the suble hint that the colleague would be late. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 433 "ingenious" "clever: (n: ingenuity)" "adj. " "Latin: In=in + genious=born, ie. for inborn talent" "She developed an ingenious method for testing her hypothesis. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 434 "augury" "sign of something coming; art or practice of foretelling events by signs or omens" " noun" "Latin ""augur"", a religious official in ancient Rome who foretold events by observing signs" "According to the psychic, the black cat was an augury of my impending death. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 435 "ingenuous" " naive or innocent; unsophisticated; artless; straightforward; candid " "adj. " "Latin: ingenuus ""with the virtues of freeborn people, of noble character, frank, upright, candid""
naïve, innocent" "The scam artist preyed on ingenuous nursing home residents. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 436 "ingenious (ingenuity)
ingenuous (and disingenuous)" "Ingenious indicates cleverness, particularly relating to inventive, while ingenuous refers to sincerity or a naive nature. " "adj. " " Latin: ingenuus ""having the qualities of people born free, noble, honest, open
""genuous comes same root as genuine" "Einstein was ingenious while his wife was ingenuous" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 437 "inhibit" "to hold back, prohibit, forbid, or restrain (n: inhibition, adj: inhibited)" "verb" "PIE / Latin: in= not + hibere = have (haben auf Deutsch) => to hinder
Syn: a) hinder, impede b)conquer, curb, stamp down, subdue, suppress c) hold back, keep, keep back, restrain " "1. Contact between young adults was inhibited by strict social customs
2. The trace component inhibited the rate of a chemical reaction " "Common GRE" "MSU" 438 "inimical" " harmful or hostile" "adj. " "Latin inimicus ""unfriendly; an enemy""" "NATO is seen to be inimical to the best interests of the Russian people. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 439 "avocation" "activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment" " noun" "A vocation is the work you do because you have to; an avocation is what you do for pleasure, not pay. " "My father says that gardening is the type of avocation he enjoys in his spare time. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 440 "innocuous" "harmless; having no adverse affect; not likely to provoke strong emotion" "adj. " "from in- ""not"" + nocuus ""hurtful""
Syn: a) harmless, innoxious b) innocent, harmless c) unobjectionable, inoffensive" "Because the virus was innocuous, the hospital staff had no need to worry about the leak. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 441 "inscrutable" " enigmatic, incomprehensible" "adj. " "in- ""not, opposite of"" + scrutari ""examine, ransack""=> that cannot be discovered by searching
Syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, mysterious, mystifying, incomprehensible, inexplicable" "Not even the leading experts in criminology could understand the killer’s inscrutable motives. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 442 "insensible" "barely able to be perceived" "adj. " "Wayne was rendered insensible by a blow to the head.
They were insensibile to the suffering of others.:" "Common GRE" "MSU" 443 "insensible
insensitive" "When used as adjectives, insensible means unable to be perceived by the senses, whereas insensitive means not expressing normal physical feelings or not acting with normal interpersonal skills" "adj. " "X-rays are insensible to humans, but doctors can be insensitive to patients" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 444 "avowal" "open declaration; frank acknowledgment" " noun" "noun of ""to avow"", itself from French: avouer ""to solemnly declare, to admit""" "Are you ready to make an avowal of love to your bride during your wedding ceremony?" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 445 "insipid" "lacking interest or significance or impact" "adj. " "Syn: boring, vapid, dull.
Deutsch: Geschmacklos, fad.
Latin in- ""not"" + Latin sapidus ""tasty"" sapere " "It was a stultifying procession of patriotic songs, nothing but insipid skits and bald propaganda. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 446 "avuncular" "in manner of uncle, pertaining to uncle; kind, genial, benevolent or tolerant" " adj. " "Latin:avunculus, meaning ""maternal uncle""" "My physics teacher at school was avuncular, kind and patient and generally indulgent with people younger than he was. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 447 "insular" " of or pertaining to an island, thus, excessively exclusive: tight-knit and isolated; uninterested in matters outside one’s immediate spher" "adj. " "gleicher Wortstamm wie ""insel"" " "Newcomers found it difficult to make friends in the insular community. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 448 "intensive" " 1. concentrated and in-depth
2. of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor" "adj. " "1. “the questioning was intensive”, “intensive care”, “research- intensive”, “a labor- intensive industry”
2. “intensive agriculture”" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 449 "inter" "between " "Greek/Latin root" "interact
interstellar
interpret
interstitial " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 450 "intermediary" " a go-between" "noun" "inter- = between, + medius= the middle =>go-between or a mediator between two other people.
Syn: go-between, intercessor, intermediator, mediator" "For online exchanges, I use PayPal because it is an intermediary that performs secure financial transactions. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 451 "intimate" " close (as in a relationship)" "adj. " "Syn: particularly private, often sexual in nature
Deutsch: intim" "The teacher was fired for having an intimate relationship with a student" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 452 "intractable" "difficult to manage or mold" "adj. " "in=not + tract= manage (like contract) => not manageable
Syn: a) defiant, noncompliant b) disobedient c) obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate d) untamed, wild e) balking, balky f) refractory, stubborn g) uncontrollable, unmanageable h) unmalleable" "1. Additional police officers were called to the scene when the crowd became intractable
2. It took six paramedics to handle the intractable task of lifting the eight hundred pound woman. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 453 "azure" "sky blue; light purplish-blue" " adj. " "Jane has a ring with an azure stone that perfectly matches her blue eyes. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 454 "intransigent" " uncompromising, obstinate, stubborn, immovable, unwilling to change " "adj. " "in-: ""not"" + trans=movement =>is not moving
Syn: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness" "He was an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 455 "intrepid" " bold and adventurous" "adj. " "in- ""not"" + trepidus ""alarmed, tremble"". => no fear
same root as trepidation=fear" "To be an astronaut, you must be an intrepid person who craves adventure and is not afraid of heights. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 456 "inveterate" " ingrained, habitual" "adj. " " associated with chronic disease in middle English. Now refers to something that is a signature habit with a person.
Syn: chronic, usual" "Mark is an inveterate liar who could not tell the truth even if you paid him" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 457 "invulnerable" " indestructible, impervious to harm" "adj. " "Syn: unconquerable, protected, safesecure, air-tight, airtight, bombproof, shellproof, defendable, defensible, impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable, unattackable, tight, sheltered, untouchable" "Gunners shot at the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 458 "-ion, sion, tion " "act of, state of, result of " "noun " "contagion
infection
aversion " "Suffix" "MSU" 459 "bacchanalian" "drunken; relating to reveling and drunkenness" " adj. " "Latin:bacchanalis ""having to do with Bacchus, god of wine""
Bachanalian festivals become so excessively drunken that they were banned in 186 BC.
Syn:Dionysian (Dionys was another name for Baccus)" "Although the corporate party was supposed to be a formal affair, it quickly turned into a bacchanalian party fest" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 460 "irascible" "quickly aroused to anger" "adj. " "Syn: irritable, quick-tempered, short-tempered" "He survived, but some of his contemporaries thought that the accident changed his personality from pleasant to irascible. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 461 "irresolute" "uncertain how to act or proceed" "adj. " "Syn: indecisive, discouraged, infirm, unstable, vacillant, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed" "Because Jack is irresolute about the future of the stock market, he is hesitant to make a large financial investment at this time. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 462 "-ish" "origin, nature, resembling " "adj. , noun" "Spanish
foolish
impish" "Suffix" "MSU" 463 "-ism" "system, manner, condition " "noun " "alcoholism
feminism
heroism
communism " "Suffix" "MSU" 464 "-ist" "one who, that which " "noun" "pianist
elitist " "Suffix" "MSU" 465 "-ite" "nature of, quality of " "adj. , noun" "dynamite
graphite
sulfite
neophyte " "Suffix" "MSU" 466 "-ity, ty " "state of, quality " "Suffix" "captivity
clarity " "Suffix" "MSU" 467 "-ive" "causing " "Suffix" "conclusive
festive
restive
abusive " "Suffix" "MSU" 468 "-ize" "to make (like) " "verb " "emphasize
anthropomorphize " "Suffix" "MSU" 469 "parricide" "Person who kills a parent or near relative" "adj. " "Latin: parus ""relative"" + cida ""killer""=> killer of relative
see -cide (nr. 150)" "The young criminal committed parricide in the hope of getting the inheritance early. " "AMB" "RATMW" 470 "laconic" " taciturn, reserved, succinct, using few words; terse: (of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words" "adj. " "Persons from Lakonia, Sparta, Greece, whose inhabitants famously cultivated the skill of saying much in few words.
Syn: brief, concise, terse" "1a. Maths proofs can sometimes be very short and laconic
1b. Philip of Macedon threatened Laconians with""If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta to the ground"" the laconic ' reply was""If. """ "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 471 "latent" "potentially existing but not presently evident or realized" "adj. " "Middle English from Latin latēre: ""to lie hidden. ""
Syn:possible, potential" "If Janet is anything like her mother, she will show a latent skill for singing when she reaches her teenage years. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 472 "laud" "praise, glorify, or honor often in a very public manner" "verb" "Syn: exalt, extol, glorify, proclaim, canonise, canonize, ensky, crack up, hymn" "Because the soldier saved the president, everyone is going to laud him at a huge event" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 473 "doctrinaire" "unable to compromise about points of doctrine; unyielding" " adj. " "from doctrine.
Syn:dogmatic, instructive" "The leftist doctrinaire was completely unwilling to accept any belief other than her own" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 474 "laudable" "praiseworthy; commendable (v. laud)" "adj. " "Providing affordable healthcare for all citizens is a laudable goal. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 475 "legis (lex) " "law " "Greek/Latin root" "legal
legislature " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 476 "-less" "without " "adj. " "worthless
mindless
guileless " "Suffix" "MSU" 477 "leviathan" "giant whale, therefore, something very large" "noun" "from Hebrew livyathan ""dragon, serpent, huge sea animal
a) freak, lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity b) mythical creature, mythical monster" "The tree was a leviathan among redwoods" "Common GRE" "MSU" 478 "lexis" "word " "Greek/Latin root" "lexicon
lexicography " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 479 "liber" "free
book " "Greek/Latin root" "liberty
library
liberal " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 480 "lied" "1. v. past tense. to tell an untruth.
2. n. (plural: lieder) German. a song, lyric, or ballad. " "verb, noun" "Selbsterklaerend" "2. This opera was inspired by a traditional lied. " "Homonym" "MSU" 481 "badinage" "teasing conversation; good-humored, playful conversation" " noun" "French playfullness, jestful, " "The two actors are best friends and are often seen exchanging humouress badinage during interviews" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 482 "litigation" " legal proceedings" "noun" "Latin: act of carrying on a lawsuit" "Charles entered into litigation when he opened a civil suit, attempting to hold his former employer liable for withholding wages" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 483 "locus" "place " "Greek/Latin root" "locality, local, circumlocution
locus, allocate, dislocate,
local, locale, locate,
locomotive, relocate. " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 484 "bailiff" "legal officer to whom some degree of authority, eg. Maintaining order in courtroom" " noun" "The job varies per country. In the UK, they normally execute repossessions. In both cases, they act on orders of the court. " "A teary Gregorio waved to onlookers as bailiffs led him away in handcuffs. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 485 "baleful" "to give an omen or anticipatory sign of evil; harmful in intent or effect. " " adj. " "Syn: forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening" "The witness was frightened when the defendant gave her a baleful glance filled with hatred. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 486 "doggerel" "poor verse; of crude or irregular construction" " noun" "Probably from pejorative suffix -rel + dog " "William McGonagall wrote such bad doggerel that he would regularly get belted with rotten eggs, tomatoes and the like during his poetic readings. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 487 "beatific" "completely happy and contented; showing or producing exalted joy" " adj. " "Latin beatus ""blessed, happy"" + -ficus ""making doing=>make/doing blessed/happy
Syn: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly" "The bride looked angelic and wore a beatific expression as she walked down the aisle. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 488 "lugubrious" "weighty, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an excessive degree: ""Jake's lugubrious monologues depressed his friends. """ "adj. " "Latin lugubris ""mournful, doleful, pertaining to mourning""
Syn: mournful, gloomy, sad" "After his wife left him, he walked around in a lugubrious condition for months" "Common GRE" "MSU" 489 "lumber" "1. n. wood used for building.
2. v. to move heavily or without grace. " "noun, verb" "2. The Frankenstein monster lumbered toward the little girl. " "Homonym" "MSU" 490 "luminous" "softly bright or radiant" "adj. " "Latin luminosus ""shining, full of light, conspicuous""" "One luminous bulb produces enough light to brighten both the kitchen and the dining room. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 491 "-ly" "like " "adv. " "clearly
fearlessly " "Suffix" "MSU" 492 "macro" "large " "Greek/Latin root" "macroeconomics
macroscopic
macrophage " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 493 "beatitude" "blessedness; state of extreme happiness" " noun" "Syn: cerulean, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue" "Jane has a ring with an azure stone that perfectly matches her blue eyes" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 494 "magnanimity" "nobility and generosity of spirit" "noun" "Latin: magnus ""great"" + animus ""mind, soul, spirit""=>""having a great soul"" " "Moved by magnanimity, the boxing champion reached his hand out to congratulate the runner-up on putting up a good fight" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 495 "maladroit" " clumsy, awkward, inept whether in movement or in words" "adj. " "from French word of same meaning
It means clumsy, but with a hint of overall incompetence.
Syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed, inept, tactless, uncoordinated, awkward" "1. His own party criticizes what many call his maladroit communication on an anxiety-inducing subject.
2. a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 496 "malevolent" "malicious; evil; having or showing ill will " "adj. " "Latin: male ""badly"" + volentem ""to wish""=>ill-disposed, spiteful, envious" "Failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful”
ant. Benevolent" "Common GRE" "MSU" 497 "bedeck" "adorn or ornament in a showy fashion" " verb" "Deutscher Stamm: bedecken" "Each Advent we bedeck our front tree with a scattering of small lights. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 498 "malleable" "1. pliant or pliable
2. easily influenced" "adj. " "Latin verb of malleus ""to hammer""=> to be beaten by a hammer" "Children’s moods are often malleable since children are greatly affected by their surrounding" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 499 "mania" "obsession " "Greek/Latin root" "maniac
Beatlemania " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 500 "maverick" " an unorthodox person or rebel, tending to choose a different path from everyone else" "noun" "called after Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870), Texas cattle owner who was notoriously negligent in branding his calves. His grandson, was also the only Southerner to vote against the anti-lynching bills in the 30's" "My maverick boss has made his fortune by using a selling strategy different from that of his competitors. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 501 "mendacity" " untruthfulness, dishonesty" "noun" " Latin mendax ""lying; a liar""" "A first sign of a new drug addict is their mendacity, not necessarily the effects of the drugs. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 502 "-ment" "act of, result " "noun" "contentment
amendment " "Suffix" "MSU" 503 "mercurial" " easily changeable, fickle, subject to sudden or unpredictable changes" "adj. " "Latin: Mercurius ""pertaining to the god Mercury, having the form or qualities attributed to Mercury"", ie. ""light-hearted, sprightly, volatile, changeable, quick" "As my sister has ""mercurial moods we never know how she will be feeling from one moment to the next. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 504 "meter" "measure " "Greek/Latin root" "metronome
speedometer
odometer " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 505 "meticulous" " paying close attention to detail" "adj. " "French méticuleux""timorously fussy""" "This accounting job requires a meticulous person. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 506 "micro" "small " "Greek/Latin root" "microscope
micron
micrometer
microorganism " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 507 "milk" "1. n. opaque liquid secreted by the mammary glands.
2. v. to extract by action similar to milking. to drain the strength from or exploit. " "noun, verb" "2. John became very good at milking his misfortunes for all the sympathy he could get. " "Homonym" "MSU" 508 "beget" "produce; give rise to" " verb" "word is usually used to refer to having children, although it can be used to refer to anything that generates something else " "“Abraham begot Isaac”" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 509 "misanthrope" "someone who dislikes people in general" "noun" "Greek: misein ""to hate"" + anthrōpos ""man""=>hating mankind" "He was a true misanthrope and hated even himself. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 510 "misnomer" "incorrect name or word for something" "noun" "self explanatory: mis-named" "Some historians claimed that China was the likely source of the deadliest flu pandemic in history, the 1918 Spanish Flu — a misnomer itself. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 511 "misogynist" "one who hates or distrusts women" "noun" "Greek: miso- ""hatred"" +gynḗ ""a woman.""+ -ist""= person who hates women
misandrist=hates or distrusts men" "Others stated the women were not the property of men and called the rapper a misogynist" "Common GRE" "MSU" 512 "beguile" "mislead; delude; deceive by guile" " verb" "Middle English, guile involves deceit, to beguile means to spend time pleasantly, even if it involves trickery.
Syn: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance" "The car salesman tried to beguile the customer with an offer of free gas for a year. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 513 "mitigate" "lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of" "verb" "Latin: mītis ""soft"" + agere ""to do/act"" => ""to soften. """ "He was trying to mitigate the damage he had done. (n: mitigation)" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 514 "mit
miss" "send " "Greek/Latin root" "mission
transmit
remit " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 515 "beleaguer" "1. besiege or attack; harass; surround with troops
2. to constantly request, ask or annoy" " verb" "Deutsch: belagern, stürmen
Syn1 besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround
Syn2: badger, bug, pester, tease" "2. The babysitter found the children annoying because they beleaguered her with requests for candy, cookies, games, and piggyback rides all at the same time" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 516 "mollify" "1. cause to be more favorably inclined
2. to soften" "verb" "Latin mollificare ""make soft, mollify""
Syn: 1. appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, pacify, placate
2. soften, season, temper" "She managed to mollify the angry customer" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 517 "mono" "one
single " "Greek/Latin root" "monocle
monopoly
monogamy
monovalent
monomania
monarchy " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 518 "monotony" " boredom and repetition" "adj. " "Greek: monos ""single, alone"" + tonos ""tone=>""of one and the same tone""
Syn: humdrum, sameness" "He had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 519 "mor(t)" "death " "Greek/Latin root" "mortician
mortuary
moribund
morbid
mortal=certain to die Morbid=gruesome
grisly Morose=gloomy moribund=dying
decaying immortal=living forever
unable to die" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 520 "muffler" "1. n. an object for suppressing noise.
2. n. a scarf worn around the neck for warmth. " "noun" "Syn: scarf" "2. Our mother would never let us leave the house without our mufflers and mittens in the winter. " "Homonym" "MSU" 521 "mundane" " everyday, boring" "adj. " "Old French mondain/Latinmondulus: ""of this world, worldly, terrestrial"" " "Going about his everyday routine, the man’s mundane schedule had him bored to tears. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 522 "munificent" " very generous" "adj. " "Syn: bountiful, lavish, handsome" "Anyone with a few million dollars to spare can join in. The initial awards for physics, for example, were followed by equally munificent prizes in life sciences and mathematics. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 523 "naïv" " inexperienced or gullible" "adj. " "Syn: credulous, uninformed, childlike, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, simple, wide-eyed, credulous, fleeceable, green, gullible, ingenuous, innocent, simple-minded, unsophisticated, unworldly" "He was so naive and excited to be there that he didn’t even really see an issue. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 524 "benediction" "blessing; invocation of divine blessing; expression of good wishes" " noun" "Latin: bene ""well"" + dicere ""to say, speak""=>to bless" "Today the Pope will make a benediction for all those who are sick and hungry. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 525 "nefarious" "wicked
evil " "adj. " "Latin: ne- ""not"" + fas ""right, lawful""=>""wicked in the extreme""
Syn: dastardly, villainous, wicked" "Batman and Superman are always fighting evildoers and stopping their nefarious plots" "Common GRE" "MSU" 526 "neglect" " to abandon or leave uncared-for" "verb, noun" "Latin: nec ""not"" + legere ""pick up, select""=>omit to pick up, do or perform; Syn: (verb)drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit, fail, fail to attend to, disregard, ignore. (noun)neglectfulness, state of disuse, disregard, " "1. (as verb) He neglects his children.
2. (as noun) The house was in a terrible state of neglect" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 527 "-ness" "state of " "adj. , noun" "carelessness
uselessness " "Suffix" "MSU" 528 "bilious" "1. suffering from indigestion;
2. appearing as if affected by disorder; sickly, green
3. irritable" " adj. " "root word bile, a foul green fluid made in the liver and stored in the gall bladder to assist with digestion" "3. Our bilious neighbor in Gempen was known for his bad attitude. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 529 "nomen" "name " "Greek/Latin root" "noble
ignominy
nomenclature
nominal " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 530 "blare" "loud, harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of light" " noun" "Same word root as ""blären"" in Deutsch" "A club is allowed to blare its dance music, but if you blare music at home your neighbours would probably complain" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 531 "notoriety" " fame for doing something negative or criminal" "noun" "Just remember: Notoriety's not al-righty
Syn: ill-fame" "Because of John’s notoriety for being a mean drunk, he is rarely invited to parties where alcohol is served. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 532 "nuance" " subtle shades of difference" "noun" "Latin nūbēs ""a cloud"", a shade of colour" "Without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 533 "blench" "draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; turn pale, as if in fear" " verb" "Had my escort blenched for an instant our fate was sealed - but our sign of confidence got us through " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 534 "obdurate" " stubborn, obstinate, stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion" "adj. " "Latin: ob ""against"" (see ob-) + durare ""harden, render hard""=>stubborn, inexorable, unyielding; hardened.
syn: cussed, obstinate, unrepentant, unregenerate, unregenerated" "The obdurate three-year-old refused to eat any vegetables, no matter how they were prepared. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 535 "obscure" " mysterious or not well-known" "adj. " "v. to cover something up or make it more difficult to perceive" "For some obsure reason, he decided not to go ahead with the agreed-to plan. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 536 "obsequious" "attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery" "adj. " "Latin: ob ""after"" + sequi ""to follow""=>to accommodate oneself to the will of another
Syn: bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish, insincere" "obsequious shop assistants scutter about to meet the customer's every wish" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 537 "obstinate" "beyond stubborn, tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield" "adj. " " obstinate is most definitely negative(although stubborn can be positive)
Syn: stubborn, unregenerate, inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising, disobedient, bloody-minded, cantankerous, bolshy, stroppy, bullet-headed, bullheaded, pigheaded, dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding, contrarious, cross-grained, determined, hardheaded, mulish, stiff-necked, strong-minded, strong-willed, intractable" "The more the parent pushes, the more obstinate the youngling becomes. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 538 "blindside" "1. to take by surprise
2. to attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed" " verb" "Term from US Football, 1968" "The Corona economic downturn blindsided many investors" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 539 "obviate" "1. do away with
2. to prevent" "verb" "Latin ob ""in front of, against"" + viam, ""way""=> go against.
prevent, avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, stave off, ward off" "1. Doing one thing doesn’t obviate the need to do the other.
2. If you want to obviate the risk of skin cancer throughout your life, it’s important that you are protected from sun exposure from the time you are an infant" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 540 "boisterous" "rough and stormy; loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline" " adj. " "The boisterous crowd rose to its feet, stamping their feet and loudly cheering for the football star after he scored a game-winning goal " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 541 "bonny" "handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful" " adj. " "presumably from French: bon= ""good""" "My bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie lies over the sea, oh bring back, oh bring back my bonnie to me', sang the homesick soldiers. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 542 "occult" " the mystical and supernatural" "noun" "Latin occultus, = “hidden, secret. ”" "Although the pretend psychic has no occult powers, she leads people to believe she does" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 543 "offset" "1. to counterbalance or counteract
2. produce by offset printing technique
3. the distance or amount by which something is out of line" "verb, noun" "1. My new car's ability to get 3l per 100km offset the rise in the price of petrol
2. He placed the rubber cylinder in the offset printing machine.
3. After the earthquake, several places on the ridge were offset by several feet" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 544 "-oid" "like (often suggests flawed or partial resemblance)" "adj. , noun" "asteroid, tabloid, anthropoid, rhomboid, ovoid" "Suffix" "MSU" 545 "olfactory" " relating to smell or the sense of smell" "adj. " "One way to try to remember the meaning of the word olfactory is to think of factory. Your nose is the ""factory"" where odors are processed. What visual is to the eyes, olfactory is to the nose. " "Healthy, adult polar bears possess olfactory gifts that boggle the mind: they can smell a seal under the ice from over a kilometer away" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 546 "olig" "few " "Greek/Latin root" "oligarchy
oligopoly " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 547 "omniscience" " the quality or state of being all-knowing" "noun" "Latin omnis: ""all"" + scientia: ""knowledge. """ "Because he believes in God’s omniscience, the child is sure that his creator is aware of everything he does all day. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 548 "onerous" "burdensome or difficult to endure" "adj. " "Latin; onus ""burden. " "The professional musicians expected their 8 year old daughter to practise the piano many onerous hours a day. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 549 "opaque" "not transparent or transluscent; dense; difficult to comprehend, as inopaque reasoning" "adj. " "Medical jargon includes many opaque terms like macrosomic, which describes a newborn who weighs more than, grams. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 550 "bounteous" "liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts" " adj. " "Syn: bountiful, big, bighearted, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded" "1. The farmers planting their crops in the spring hoped for a bounteous harvest in the summer
2. The bounteous goodness of God" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 551 "opportunism" " the practice of taking advantage of opportunities as they arise without particular concern for morality or ethics" "noun" " Kevin’s opportunism led him to investing in any business idea he came up with, which in the long term led to failure" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 552 "bounty" "1. copious abundance.
2. payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military" " noun" "same word root as bonus" "1. A bounty of qualified, enthusiastic candidates vied for the company’s newest management position
2. News filtered through that Moscow offered bounties to Afghan militants who killed U. S. soldiers. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 553 "oscillate" "move or swing from side to side regularly" "verb" "The pendulum oscillated from left to right" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 554 "ossified" "turned to bone; hardened like bone; Inflexible:" "adj. " "The root is ossify""to turn into bone"" from the Latin word for ""bone"" os. " " The ossified culture failed to adapt to new economic conditions and died out. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 555 "ostentatious" " overly showy in a way that is gaudy or vulgar, excessive display of wealth" "adj. " "Latin word ostentare""to display,
Syn: pretentious, flaunty, flamboyant, showy, splashy" "Owning a mansion doesn’t imply ostentation, but traveling exclusively by private jet certainly can" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 556 "outstrip" " to overtake or outrun" "verb" "“If you want to outstrip the competition, then you need to work out at the gym, ” the coach told his athletes. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 557 "overshadow" " to literally cast a shadow over" "verb" "v. to appear more notable than, to dominate, eclipse, to dwarf" "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 558 "painstaking" " attentive to detail, meticulous" "adj. " "Old English: paynes taking""assiduous and careful labor""" "The technology seems to work but persuading the concrete industry to sign on is proving a painstaking and costly process" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 559 "panegyric" "a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing" "noun" "The Latin, L. panegyricus,: altered slightly to mean ""public eulogy,
Syn: encomium, eulogy, paean, pean" "After the princess died a popular singer wrote a panegyric to honor her life. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 560 "partial" "1. a. incomplete
2. v. fond of, showing favouritism toward" "adj. " "1. There was a partial eclipse of the moon last month.
2. Clearly the woman was still partial to here ex-boyfriend" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 561 "partisan" "a fervent and even militant proponent of something" "noun" "The bill introduced recieved partisan support from the party that introduced the bill" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 562 "patently" " blatant, obvious" "adj. " "Latin: patere = ""lie open"" or ""be open. ""
patently as an adjective serves to emphasize how apparent or clear your observation is. " "It's patently clear that your 10 year old son hates spinach. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 563 "pater" "father " "Greek/Latin root" "paternal
paternity
patricide " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 564 "bridle" "headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins" " noun" "1. With the bridle attached to the reins, the girl tugged the reins pulling the horse’s head to its chest
2. His common sense is a bridle to his quick temper. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 565 "peccadillo" "a small sin or fault" "noun" "Spanish peccado: ""sin"" + dillo:diminutive=> a small sin. " "He ignored his children's pecadilloes of forgetting to say thank-you and please" "Common GRE" "MSU" 566 "ped" "foot " "Greek/Latin root" "pedestrian
pedal
pedicure
podiatrist " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 567 "brimful" "full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow" " adj. " "brim is the top edge of a cup or glass" "My parents are brimful of chicken and brocoli" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 568 "pedantic" " overly concerned with irrelevant detail, fussy; showing a narrow concern for rules or formal book learning; making an excessive display of one's own learning:pedant, pedantry). " "adj. " "Pedantic means ""like a pedant"" someone who's too concerned with literal accuracy or formality. " "When the teacher covered my daughter’s term paper with red marks, I felt she was being way too pedantic in her review" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 569 "pedestrian" "1. n. As a noun, it's someone walking around — sidewalks are for pedestrians.
2. adj. boring, monotonous, run-of-the-mill" "adj. " "Latin pedester meaning ""going on foot"" but also ""plain. ""
Meaning 0f noun and adj. ver different!" "A large number of people fell asleep during the pedestrian play. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 570 "perfidious" "deliberately treacherous; dishonest (n: perfidy)" "adj. " "Latin: from phrase per fidem decipere ""to deceive through trustingness.
In So in order for perfidy to happen, there has to have first been a sense of faith in place, which was then broken or betrayed. " "the perfidious Judas kissed Jesus on the cheek" "Common GRE" "MSU" 571 "perfidy" " treachery or deceit" "noun" "Latin: from phrase per fidem decipere ""to deceive through trustingness.
In So in order for perfidy to happen, there has to have first been a sense of faith in place, which was then broken or betrayed. " "Judas' infamous kiss was a despicable act of perfidy" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 572 "perfunctory" " done without much effort, care, or thought" "adj. " "Latin: per ""through"" + fungi ""perform""=>done mechanically or without interest or zeal and merely for the sake of being rid of the duty of doing it; done so as to conform to the letter but not the spirit""" "When we went out to dinner last night, the bored hostess gave us a perfunctory hello" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 573 "peri" "around " "Greek/Latin root" "peripatetic
periscope
perineum
peritoneum " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 574 "peripheral" " 1 . on the edge or periphery;
2. not centrally important" "adj. " "Anything peripheral is on the margin, or outside Also a common term in eye exams, where peripheral vision is how far toward the outer right and left edges you can see. Peripheral also describes nerves from the body's peripheral system, which are secondary to the main system" "1. a. “Russia's peripheral provinces”,
1b. “peripheral suburbs”
2. energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 575 "permeate" " to pervade or penetrate throughout" "verb" "Latin: per ""through"" + meare ""to pass""=>pass through
" "The rain permeated his pullover until he was drenched. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 576 "perseverance" " persistence in the face of obstacles" "noun" "Per=completely + servere=strictly=>endurance" "The disabled young man’s perseverance allowed him to complete the marathon. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 577 "peruse" "1. to read something carefully and closely
2. to read something informally or quickly (ie. Just the opposite meaning!)" "verb" "(context is important for this word)
Syn: browse or skim" "1. The customer perused the wine list in great detail
2. The customers peruse the bookshelves in the bookstore" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 578 "pervasive" " found everywhere, widespread; often has a negative connotation" "adj. " "As I entered the French restaurant, the pervasive odor of garlic hit my nostrils" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 579 "petulant" "easily or frequently annoyed, especially over trivial matters; childishly irritable" "adj. " "The petulant child threw a tantrum at the supermarket when his mother wouldn't buy him the sweets he so wanted. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 580 "phage (see roots section also) " "eat " "Greek/Latin root" "phagocyte
phagocytosis " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 581 "brindled" "of brownish, tawny colour, with streaks, spots, or patterns" " adj. " "Deutscher Wortstamm: brennen
has come to mean the streaky brown and gray color of something burned, especially on animals" "Patches was a perfect name for the brindle coated boxer puppy the boy adopted from the shelter" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 582 "philanthropy" "tendency or action for the benefit of others, as in donating money or property to a charitible organization" "noun" "The students were grateful to receive financial support from philanthropic organizations that promote education. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 583 "philo" "love " "Greek/Latin root" "philosophy
philanthropy
philanthropist=one who loves humanity
philology=the love of words
philosophy=the love of wisdom
philatelist =one who loves or collects stamps
bibliophile = a lover of books" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 584 "bulwark" "earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends" " noun, verb" """The volunteers used sandbags to bulwark the levee in an attempt to prevent the flooded river from overflowing its banks. """ "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 585 "phlegmatic" " cool and unruffled; sluggish" "adj. " "ic=nature of, like
Syn: unemotional" "Those palace guards who wear the red coats and big hats and show absolutely no expression on their faces are phlegmatic. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 586 "phob" " irrational fear, horror, or aversion" "Greek/Latin root" "Hundreds of words in widespread popular use in combination with native words, either with -phobia (what is feared) or
phobe=person who fears" "phobe=person scared of acrophobe: p. s. o heights, necrophobe: p. s. o dead things Ophidiophobe: p. s. o snakes, technophobe: p. s. o technology, xenophobe: p. s. o others
phobia = fear of. acrophobia: f. o heights
aerophobia: f. o flying, arachnophobia: f. o spiders, astraphobia: f. o thunder and lightning, autophobia: f. o of being alone, claustrophobia: f. o confined or crowded spaces, Dentophobia: f. o. dentists, hemophobia: f. o blood, hydrophobia: f. o water, ophidiophobia: f. o snakes, zoophobia: f. o animals" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 587 "bursary" "treasury, especially of a public institution or religious order; scholarship granted to a university student in need" " noun" "Same word root as ""purse"", Börse (German)" "BAFÖG offers German students bursaries to finance their university studies" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 588 "pith" "1. soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
2. the essential substance of something" "noun" "Syn: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, substance, sum" "2. Instead of getting to the pith of his point and shouting ""HELP"", he instead said ""I would most appreciate some kind assistance""" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 589 "buxom" "healthily plump and ample of figure; full-bosomed; vigorous; jolly" " adj. " "The buxom waitress earns more tips when she wears tight blouses. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 590 "placate" " to calm, esp. an angry or upset person; to calm or reduce anger by making concessions:" "verb" "Syn: appease, pacify, mollify" " The professor tried to placate his students by postponing the exam. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 591 "plastic" "related to being shaped or molded; capable of being molded. (n: plasticity n: plastic)" "adj. " "ic=nature of, like" "The artist like to work with plastic substances such as wax or clay, as they could be easily molded" "Common GRE" "MSU" 592 "callow" "youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers" " adj. " "Same wordroot as ""Kahl"", used to descreibe a featherless bird" "The callow freshmen at high school stood out like sore thumbs" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 593 "canister" "small box or case for tea, coffee, etc" " noun" "In the kitchen, my Mom keeps a canister of sugar next to a canister of tea - both are round, of metal and have a fitted lid" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 594 "plausible" " believable, reasonable" "adj. " "Plausible things are not far-fetched at all. Things in fantasy stories — eg. Dragons & unicorns - are not plausible. A woman becoming president is plausible, a giraffe becoming head of state is NOT plausible" "When Jason forgot to do his homework, he tried to come up with a plausible excuse his teacher would believe. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 595 "canker" "1. corroding or sloughing ulcer;
2. anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy;
3. disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off" " noun" "Same word root as cancer" "1. Some people are prone to getting cankers on their mouths.
2. My parents might complain that the abandoned, run-down house two blocks away is a canker on your neighborhood.
3. When trees are under stress, they are more susceptible to canker and other fungal diseases. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 596 "cantankerous" "ill humored; irritable; marked by ill-tempered contradiction or opposition; ugly; malicious" " adj. " "Syn:cranky, bad-tempered, irritable, irascible. " "The cantankerous old man was uncooperative and difficult to get along with" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 597 "plummet" " to fall quickly and far" "verb" "Stock prices plumeted after the crash" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 598 "polarize" " to cause a sharp division between two groups" "verb" "President Trump has a knack at polarising the American nation" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 599 "polein" "sell " "Greek/Latin root" "monopoly " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 600 "polemical" " angry, hostile, harshly critical" "adj. " "Use polemical to describe a controversy or argument that could end up as a huge conflict, because polemical refers to a major disagreement" "With strong trade unions, privatisation is a major polemical issue in South Africa" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 601 "polis" "city " "Greek/Latin root" "political
metropolitan " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 602 "poly" "many " "Greek/Latin root" "polygamy
polyphonic
hoi polloi " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 603 "ponderous" "heavy; massive; awkward; dull " "adj. " "A ponderous book is better than a sleeping pill. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 604 "port
porto " "carry " "Greek/Latin root" "porter
export
transport
portable" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 605 "post" "after " "Greek/Latin root" "post script (p. s. )
ex post facto
post hoc
post-mortem " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 606 "cantata" "story or poem set to music that can be sung by chorus, usually religious" " noun" "Latin cantare ""to sing""" "Bach wrote many famous cantata's, the most famous being number 140. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 607 "pragmatic" "concerned with practical matters" "adj. " "ic=nature of, like" "A pragmatic approach to legislation can be difficult given the complexities of politics. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 608 "pre" "before " "Greek/Latin root" "premier
preview
premium
prescient " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 609 "precarious" "not secure; beset with difficulties" "adj. " " Latin: of precarious means ""obtained by asking or praying.""This fits well as precarious always signals that help is needed desperately.
Syn:shaky, insecure, unsafe, unstable, uneasy, parlous, perilous, touch-and-go, dangerous, unsafe" "Gripping with a lack of shelter, homeless people live in precarious conditions. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 610 "preceded" " went before" "adj. " "For precede, know that it's pre ""first"" + cedere ""go""=>go before
Syn: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, predate" "Pres. Oboma preceded Pres. Trump, who superseded President Oboma" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 611 "precipice" "cliff with a vertical or nearly vertical face; a dangerous place from which one is likely to fall;
metaphorically, a very risky circumstance, a point where danger, trouble, or difficulty begins" "noun" "Latin: ""headlong"" and ""abrupt descent""
cliff, drop, drop-off" "Because of competition from the big convenience chains, the mom and pop store is on the precipice of closing its doors. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 612 "capacious" "capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy" " adj. " "same word root as ""capacity""" "Since we have over five hundred people coming to the wedding, we need to find a capacious venue. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 613 "precipitate" "to cause (something) to happen quickly or suddenly" "verb" "adj. hastily and not well-considered" " Old World diseases precipitated a massive decline in the American Indian population. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 614 "caper" "1. a playful leap or hop, joke or game
2. a crime (especially a robbery)
3. pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces" " noun" "1. Deutsch: Kapriole
2. Deutsch: Wortsstamm ""kapern"", aber nicht Seejacking aber Raub
3. Kaper (zum essen)" "1. Grandpa insisted he was too old for that type of caper and wouldn’t play such trivial games with us
2. Suspense oozes through this Netflix caper series about a carefully curated team of robbers
3. Stirr the onions into the caper sauce. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 615 "precursor" " a forerunner; something (or someone) that precedes another:" "noun" " The assasination of the Archduke was a precursor to the war. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 616 "prescient" " knowing things before they happen, prophetic" "adj. " "Latin prefix pre-: ""before"" + science: ""to know""=> ""know beforehand.
" "Extraordinarily prescient, the 1905 book accurately predicted what is going on in today’s times.  " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 617 "presumptuous" "going beyond what is appropriate, permitted, or courteous" "adj. " "It is somewhat presumptuous to assume you know more about medicine than your doctor. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 618 "prevail" "1. to succeed, esp. with respect to vanquishing an opponent
2. v. to convince or persuade" "verb" "Latin"": ""before"" + valere ""have power, be strong""=>be successful, have power" "Even though our troops are tired and hungry, we will prevail against the enemy" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 619 "capitalize" "1. to use something to one's benefit for advantage
2. to supply a company with capital/equity/debt
to put in capital letters" " verb" "1. The Sumo wrestler capitalised on his size advantage to push his opponent out of the ring.
2. After the Corona-induced crisis, many companies needed to be re-capitalised" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 620 "prevaricate" " to evade or deceive without outright lying, avoid telling the truth by not directly answering a question" "verb" "Latin: walk crookedly" "1. When we asked him what his intentions were, he prevaricated. (n: prevarication; prevaricator)
2. During the trial, the lead witness was willing to prevaricate in order to protect his friend. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 621 "pristine" "immaculately clean and unused" "adj. " "Syn: clean, pure" "The pristine freshly fallen snow covered the village Flims " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 622 "pro" "before
in favor of " "Greek/Latin root" "project
projectile
" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 623 "probity" " integrity and honor" "noun" "Franch/latin probus ""worthy, good" "The person who returned the stolen necklace to the police showed a great deal of probity" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 624 "prodigal" "a person who leaves home and behaves recklessly, but later makes a repentant return" "adj. " " Americans' prodigal devotion to the automobile is unique.
The prodigal prince bought lavish gifts and planned expensive events. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 625 "captious" "nitpicking intended to confuse in an argument" " adj. " "Latin: apt to notice and make much of unimportant faults or flaws
same root as capture
It is usually used to imply a permanent character or personality flaw, as opposed to a momentary lapse in understanding. " "When my captious teacher grades my essays, she always finds a minor error in my work. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 626 "prodigious" " enormous, immense, gigantic" "adj. " "French/Latin" "As evidenced by Two-Ton Tina's weight, she has a prodigious appetite.  " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 627 "profligate" " extravagant and wasteful, esp. in an immoral way" "adj. " "Profligate behavior is a lot of fun, but you'll regret it later
Syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous, extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift" "The profligate ways of the Southern European states has led to them being seriously indebted during the financial crisis" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 628 "proliferate" "grow rapidly" "verb" "French: prolifère ""producing offspring""" "Once introduced, rabbits proliferated in Australia as they had no natural enemies" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 629 "carapace" "hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles" " noun" "French carapace ""tortoise shell""" "The small crustacean’s carapace was not able to protect its eyes and mouth when the predator attacked" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 630 "propitiate" " to obtain special favor from someone, esp. a powerful person or deity, by performing a pleasing action" "verb" "v. to appease someone who is angry" "They made sacrifices to propitiate angry gods. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 631 "propriety" " appropriateness, manners, decorum" "noun" "The students were instructed to behave with the utmost propriety while on their class field trip. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 632 "prospective" " potential or likely" "adj. " "Syn: applicable to the future
avoid confusing prospective with perspective. Perspective, which can mean “a reasonable point of view, ”" "Before applying to a university, you may want to visit the campus and could even meet other prospective students checking out the library, the dorms, and athletic facilities. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 633 "psych" "mind
soul " "Greek/Latin root" "psychology " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 634 "publicus" "people " "Greek/Latin root" "public
republic
pub
publican " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 635 "pulchritudinous" "of great physical beauty (n: pulchritude)" "adj. " "Latin origin
only used to describe people. " "My pulchritudinous bride was so full of grace, standing beneath our wedding canopy. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 636 "pusillanimous" "cowardly, timid, or irreselute; petty:" "adj. " " The pusillanimous leader soon lost the respect of his people. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 637 "qualification" "1 . The act of modifying or changing the strength of some idea
2. An attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something
3. A statement that limits or restricts some claim" "noun" "1. His new ideas involves a qualification of his party's platform
2. One of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree.
3. Newton's laws are still valid, subject to several extreme qualifications, such as speed of the body, etc. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 638 "careen" "lean to one side, as a ship under press of sail; sway from side to side" " verb" "Middle French carene ""keel""" "I yelled as I saw my drunk neighbor careen his car into his house. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 639 "quotidian" " relating to the everyday or mundane" "adj. " "Syn: day-to-day, average, daily" "They are seers, and mystics unfettered by the quotidian, connecting with the divine and reporting back. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 640 "rarefy" "1. to make or become thin
2. to purify or refine (n: rarefaction, adj: rarefied)" "verb" "Latin: to make rare" "1. A lack of calcium has caused the boy’s bones to rarefy and become brittle.
2. In the rariefied air at the top of the mountain, he was unable to run for longer periods of time" "Common GRE" "MSU" 641 "rationalize" " 1. to attempt to justify with reasons that are only superficially valid
2. improve the efficiency, especially in production of something" "verb" "v. to repair a relationship" "1. president of Veneuzuela rationalized his country's disastrous situation, repeatedly blaming the West, sanctions and those evil capitalists.
2. The production process was rationalised by adding an automatic welding machine" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 642 "reconcile" " to bring into harmony" "verb" "Instead of spending a fortune in court fees, the two parties have agreed to see a mediator to reconcile their differences. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 643 "recondite" " arcane or obscure, not understood or known by many people" "adj. " "Latin/French e=back: com=with; dere=put, ie. Put back again, hide" "Since I do not have a law degree, I find it hard to understand the recondite terms of the contract. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 644 "refute" "overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof" "verb" "Latin: re=back +futare =""to beat"", ie. To resist, repel, oppose" "The evidence provided by the prosecutor will refute the defendant’s claim of innocenc" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 645 "relentless" " never stopping, constant, unyielding, persistent" "adj. " "relentless and driven, the runner managed to finish the race despite his bruised ankle" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 646 "relevant" " relating to the topic or issue at hand" "adj. " "According to the judge, the witness’ identification of the suspect was not relevant because of her poor eyesight. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 647 "reproach" " to scold or express criticism" "verb" "As a law enforcement officer, Jack must always make sure his behavior is above reproach" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 648 "reproof" "the act of censuring, scolding, or rebuking. (v. reprove). " "noun" "Old French reprove ""reproach, rejection""
Syn: rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproval" "Without harsh reproof, the mother calmly explained the reasons why the boy shouldn’t throw the ball in the house. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 649 "repudiate" " to renounce or disown" "verb" "During his next speech, the president will repudiate blame for the economic situation. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 650 "carnage" "massive slaughter, as in war; massacre; corpses, especially of those killed in battle" " noun" "Syn: butchery, mass murder, massacre, slaughter" "The suicide bomber left immeasurable carnage in the mall. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 651 "rescind" " to take back or retract (an offer or statement); to repeal or annul" "verb" "Syn: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate" "In 1933, because none of the expected advantages had come to pass, the government decided to rescind the prohibition act. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 652 "respectively" "in the sequential order previously given" "adj. " "Each recipient was called up to receive their award, respectively. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 653 "restive
restful" "restive is impatient under delay, duress, or control while
restful is peaceful; having a peaceful aspect. " "adj. " "The horses, sensing the upcomping championship - become restive and were unable to get a restful night's sleep. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 654 "reticent" "hesitant to speak, reluctant to draw attention to oneself" "adj. " "adj. introverted or silent" "Rather than voice her political opinions, Eileen prefers to remain reticent" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 655 "reverent" "feeling or showing profound respect or veneration" "adj. " "During the funeral, humble and reverent silence filled the air of the sanctuary" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 656 "rhetoric" " the art of effective communication (written or verbal)" "noun" "ic=nature of, like
" "The senator will be a great president because he is big on action and low on rhetoric." "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 657 "riparia" "river " "Greek/Latin root" "riparian " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 658 "sagacious" "having a sharp or powerful intellect or discernment. (n: sagacity). " "adj. " " Latin sagacitatem""keenness of perception, quality of being acute""
same root as ""sage""
Syn: perspicacious, sapient, wise" "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions" "Common GRE" "MSU" 659 "salubrious" " health-promoting" "adj. " "Latin: salute and salubrious stem from the same salus, meaning ""welfare, health. ”" "Broccoli, chicken and peanut butter are salubrious foods which provide essential nutrients" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 660 "sanction" " to give official permission" "verb" "v. to impose a penalty for a particular action" "The US president sanctioned the killing of Osama Bin Laden before the special troops moved in." "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 661 "cataclysm" "an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; deluge or overflowing of water" " noun" "Greekrom kata ""down"" + klyzein: to wash=>wash down as in Noah's flood" "The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 was a cataclysm of destruction. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 662 "sap" "1. n. sugary liquid found in trees.
2. v. to deplete or weaken. " "noun, verb" "2. Chronic sleep deprivation will eventually sap the vitality of those who suffer it. " "Homonym" "MSU" 663 "sate" "to satisfy fully or to excess" "verb" "old English/German: Satt sein
Syn: fill, replete, satiate" "I will never be able to give my dog enough food to sate him. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 664 "satiate" " to completely satisfy (with respect to hunger or appetite)" "verb" "often used in situations in which a thirst, craving, or need is satisfied. However, when used to describe eating, it can take on a more negative, or even disgusted, tone. " "Hopefully this feast I am preparing will satiate your hunger" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 665 "saturnine" "having a gloomy or morose temperament, sad and solemn" "adj. " "Early English""born under the influence of the planet Saturn"", then believed to be furthest away from the sun, so ""gloomy, morose, sluggish, grave""" "As the widow accepted offers of sympathy at her husband’s funeral, she struggled to keep tears from her saturnine eyes. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 666 "cataract" "disease of the eye causing its opacity and, unless treated, leading to blindness" " noun" "Sam became blind in his right eye ten years ago, and now a cataractis clouding his left eye. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 667 "scope" "examine " "Greek/Latin root" "microscope
oscilloscope " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 668 "screen" "1. n. A flat surface on which to project an image.
2. n. A mesh designed to allow passage of some things while excluding others, as a window screen.
3. v. To select some items from a larger group. " "noun" "1. I scratched his TV screen
2. He passed the sand and stones through a screen
3. The applicants were screened based on their resumes. " "Homonym" "MSU" 669 "scrib
script" "write " "Greek/Latin root" "transcribe
scribe
script " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 670 "secular" " of or relating to the world or worldly matters (as opposed to religious ones)" "adj. " "Non-religious people are either atheists or agnostics. To describe things, activities, or attitudes that have nothing to do with religion, you can use the word secular. " "In the small village of Fallais, there was both a catholic and a secular school. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 671 "sediment" " material that settles at the bottom of a body of water" "noun" "Latin: sedere, = “to settle, ” or “sit. ”" "After the flood waters receded, there was a huge amount of sediment left behind. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 672 "sedulous" "diligent; persevering; persistent: dedicated and careful" "adj. " "Latin sedulus, with same meaning
Sedulous is one of the 5 most common mistakes made in the GRE!
(n: sedulity; sedulousness; adv. sedulously)
Syn: assiduous, painstaking, and diligent" "His sedulity was there for all to see: he worked hard and never gave up easily. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 673 "categorical" "absolute; having no exception; of using category or categories" " adj. " "Syn: categoric, flat, unconditional" "My boss's categorical denial let me know there was no need to ask again. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 674 "simultaneous" " occurring at the same moment" "adj. " "Latin:simul: ""at the same time. """ "The troops will carry out simultaneous attacks on their enemies, bombing three locations at once" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 675 "sin (sys before b
p
or m) " "together
with " "Greek/Latin root" "synchronize
symphony
sympathy
syncretic
syncope " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 676 "slight" "1. adj. small, as for quantity or amount.
2. n. an insult or other act showing disrespect.
3. v. to insult or show disrespect" "adj. , noun" "3. The director decided to list the actors' names alphabetically, so as not to slight anyone. " "Homonym" "MSU" 677 "solicitous" "1. considerate, attentive
2. full of anxiety and concern" "adj. " "Latin roots sollus ""entire"" and citus ""set in motion=>restless, uneasy, careful, full of anxiety" "1. I like good restaurant service, but sometimes the solicitous service in India goes too far me.
2. The parents were solicitous about their children's future. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 678 "sol" "alone " "Greek/Latin root" "solo
solitary
desolate=lonely
dismal
gloomy
solitary=done alone
by yourself
soliloquy–the act of speaking to onese" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 679 "caulk" "make watertight by filling in cracks" " verb" "Deutsch Wortstamm: Kalk
Latin:Calx = chalk
modern:mit silikon abdichten
vorher war das Abdichtungsmittel eine Mischung aus Kalk und Leinsamenoel" "He caulked the gap between the floor tiles and the wall with his caulking gun. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 680 "sparse" " scattered or scarce" "adj. " "adj. austere and unadorned" "With only a sparse amount of hair, the man decided to completely shave his head" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 681 "cavil" "criticise for petty or frivolous reasons; raise trivial objections" " verb" "
Syn: carp, chicane, quibble, quiddity" "Because my sister is so hard to please, she will cavil about the smallest of things. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 682 "specious" "plausible but false" "adj. " "Her argument, though specious, was readily accepted by many. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 683 "sporadic" " occasional or scattered" "adj. " "Greek: ""scattered. """ "In the mountains, internet service is sporadic so you will not be able to download videos. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 684 "spurious" " fake or false" "adj. " "Latin: spurius (n. ) ""illegitimate child""
Syn: inauthentic, unauthentic, counterfeit, imitative" "In the art-scene millions can be made with the help of so-called experts who can convert spurios works of art to authentic pieces via their certificates of authenticities. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 685 "stolid" " calm and dependable" "adj. " "Syn: dependable"" or ""calm"" but these can be overshadowed by other words for stolid — ""empty"" ""blank"" and ""vacant, " "He was a stolid man who did not even show his emotions at his mother’s funeral" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 686 "strut" "1. v. to walk in such a way as to show great pride or confidence.
2. n. a support for an airplane wing or other projecting part. " "verb, noun" "1. The beau strutted up and down the boardwalk, as if he were convinced he was God's greatest gift to all mankind.
2. Because the struts were made of inferior material, the wings of that plane became unstable. " "Homonym" "MSU" 687 "subjective" " open to personal interpretation; not based in objective fact" "adj. " "That Earth has one moon is objective — it's a fact. Whether the moon is pretty or not is subjective — not everyone will agree" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 688 "substantiate" "1. Make something solid or believable, eg. to corroborate or give evidence of something
2. to strengthen" "verb" "Syn1: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain,
Syn2: beef up, fortify, strengthen" "1. The theory was substantiated by a clear set of experimental facts
2. The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 689 "subter" "under
secret " "Greek/Latin root" "subterfuge
subtle
subaltern
subterranean " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 690 "subversive" " meant to undercut established institutions or norms" "adj. " "Latin: sub,: ""underneath"" + vertere""to turn. ""=> turn the system from underneath (by a sneaky revolutionary)" "The professor mis-used his lessons to teach subversive philosophies to his gullable students" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 691 "sufficient" " enough for a given purpose" "adj. " "Syn: ample, adequate, decent, enough" "The blanket would provide sufficient warmth for the night. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 692 "superbly" "excellently" "adj. " "Syn: marvellously, marvelously, terrifically, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously" "The soprano's voice was superbly disciplined" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 693 "superficial" "1. only covering the surface
2. concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious
3. of little substance or significance" "adj. " "Anything superficial has to do with the surface of something" "1. The car only had superficial damage to its paint.
2. her thinking was superficial and fuzzy, marked by lack of attention or insight.
3. she made a few superficial editorial changes" "Common GRE" "MSU" 694 "celerity" "swiftness of action or motion; speed" " noun" "celerity as in accelerate, with common Latin root ""celer"" = swift. " "Wei should never drink liquor because the alcohol moves through his body with a celerity that makes him act foolish in minutes. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 695 "supplant" " to overtake or replace" "verb" "Syn: replace, supercede, supersede, supervene upon" "The computer has supplanted the slide rule" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 696 "sycophant" " a fawning, insincere admirer, a person who tries to get what they want by excessively praising or complimenting someone in order to make them feel attractive or important" "noun" "Because she always kisses up to the teacher, Janice is considered the sycophant in first period. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 697 "synthesize" " 1. to combine disparate parts into a coherent whole
2. to create via chemical reaction" "verb" "It's becoming more common for doctors these days to synthesize Eastern and Western approaches to medicine" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 698 "cerebral" "intellectual rather than emotional" " adj. " "French cérébral: pertaining to the brain.
Use as in Clever is from 1929" "John generally made cerebral decisions using intelligence and cold, hard facts, instead of emotions like his drama queen sister" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 699 "tacit" " unspoken; implicit" "adj. " "Katie and carmella had a tacit agreement that they would not mention the dented fender to their parents. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 700 "cerebration" "thinking, mental activity" " noun" "Latin cerebrum ""brain""
Syn: intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process" "After several hours of cerebration, the mentally drained writer decided to take a break from working on the article" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 701 "taciturn" " reticent or reserved; tending towards silence; habitually untalkative or silent (n: taciturnity)" "adj. " "French/ Latin taciturnus ""not talkative, noiseless. """ "My shy brother is taciturn and rarely speaks in public. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 702 "tele" "distance " "Greek/Latin root" "telegraph, telephone, teleology, telemetry, " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 703 "temper" "1. n. emotional state or anger, as in ""she has quite a temper.""
2. v. to moderate or to strengthen. " "noun, verb" "2. She tried to remember to temper her words so as not to offend her listeners. " "Homonym" "MSU" 704 "temperance" " moderation and restraint, sometimes used to specifically describe abstinence from alcohol" "noun" "Latin temperare""restrain. """ "Tim exercised temperance whenever he went out, so he wouldn’t drink alcohol at all. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 705 "doldrums" "period of depression or unhappy listlessness; slack period; state of inactivity" " noun" "The doldrums is a seaman's term for an area around the thermal equator where there are frequenlty no winds, making sailing slow and difficult.
Syn abeyance, cold storage, deep freeze, dormancy, holding pattern, latency, moratorium, quiescence, suspended animation, suspense, suspension" "After Jane underwent a painful divorce, she was in the doldrums for quite a while. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 706 "tenuous" " weak, flimsy, insubstantial, weak and likely to change; having little substance or strength" "adj. " "The judge called the defense’s argument tenuous and ruled in favor of the plaintif" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 707 "timorous" " meek or timid" "adj. " "same root as ""timid""=shy" "The timorous kitten would not come out from under the bed" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 708 "exegesis" "An explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible)" "noun" "Greek: ex ""out"" + hegeisthai ""to lead, guide""=> Deutsch Aus + führung im Sinne von Interpretation" "Because the youth minister wanted the children to easily understand the scripture, he wrote a simple exegesis of the passage. " "AMB" "RATMW" 709 "tirade (diatribe)" "an angry speech or rant" "noun" " His angry tirade had gone on long enough. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 710 "torpor" "a state of motor and mental inactivity" "noun" " tiredness, lethargy" "During the winter, the bears fall into an intense torpor." "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 711 "pertinacity" "Pertinacity is a quality of sticking with something, no matter what. It's a type of persistent determination. " "adj. " "Latin: per ""very "" + tenicity =>very tenacious.
note spelllng, with ""I"" not ""a"" in tenicity
Syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, tenacity" "Well-practiced in the art of pertinacity, he shrugged at not getting into the elite university, writing it off as another lesson from which to learn when applying for the next. " "AMB" "RATMW" 712 "tortuous" " winding or twisty. twisted; excessively complicated " "adj. " "Note: Don't confuse this with torturous. . Synonum complicated" "Despite public complaints, tax laws and forms have become increasingly tortuous. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 713 "usurpation" "1. Wrongfully taking someone's power or property by force, especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority.
2. Entry to another's property without right or permission" "verb" "Syn1: capture, gaining control, seizure
Syn2: encroachment, intrusion, trespass, violation" "1. Some countries in South America have been ruled for centuries by a succession of generals who ruled by usurpation
2. " "AMB" "RATMW" 714 "prescind" "Cut off abruptly or prematurely" "verb" "Latin: pre- =""before"" + scindere =""to cut/split""=> ""cutting off"" one's attention from a subject. " "There is an opportunity to prescind from emotion and think critically about this very important subject" "AMB" "RATMW" 715 "trans" "across " "Greek/Latin root" "transport
transcend
transmogrify transient
transvaal" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 716 "transient" " passes quickly; short-lived" "adj. " "Latin transire""to pass over""
Often used formally with the ""nature""""threat""""source"" & ""cause""
can also be used for quickly changing things, like a transient feeling or facial expression
Syn:ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory, impermanent, temporary" "The snow is transient and will melt as soon as the sun appears. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 717 "turpitude" "depravity; baseness" "noun" " Latin turpitudo: ""repulsiveness. ""
Syn: depravity" "Prisons are filled with criminals who have engaged in acts of moral turpitude. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 718 "chthonic" "Relating to or inhabiting the underworld. " "adj. " "Greek khthonios ""of the earth, in the earth""
Usually about mythological creatures, but also, perhaps about our creepy basement
word frequency: every 195 k pages!" "Rammstein's song ""die Sonne"" is filled with chthonic scenes of dwarf miners intertwined with Snow White fantasies. " "AMB" "RATMW" 719 "ubiquitous" " ever-present or universal" "adj. " "Latin ubique: ""everywhere. ""
Syn: omnipresent, everywhere" "Singapore aims to cloak itself in ubiquitous, free Wi-Fi in the next few years" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 720 "unadorned" " plain; unembellished" "adj. " "
Syn:undecorated, bare, plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented" "“Yes, ” was the unadorned and quick answer" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 721 "undermine" " to weaken or compromise" "verb" "Deutsch: untergraben
Syn:counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, weaken" "Tammy tried to undermine the principal’s authority by taking complaints to the school board, so her contract was not renewed. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 722 "underscore" " to draw special attention to a fact, idea, or situation" "verb" "Syn:emphasize, underline" "The director used music to underscore key scenes of the movie" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 723 "untenable" " weak or unsupportable, esp. with respect to an opinion or situation" "adj. " "A COVID strategy that says we stay completely closed to everybody for the next 12 to 18 months is simply untenable" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 724 "utilis" "useful " "Greek/Latin root" "utility
utilitarian " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 725 "hetaera" "1. Mistress.
2. Typically a slave or foreign woman devoted to private or public entertainment. " "noun" "Greek: hetaira ""female companion""" "A number of the women had time to develop their minds in between flaunting their bodies, more like geisha girls, or the hetaerae of ancient Greece, than modern-day porn stars. " "AMB" "RATMW" 726 "vacuous" "1. empty; without contents;
2. void of expresssion
3. devoid of content.
4. no intelligence. " "adj. " "Latin vacuus ""empty, void, free""
vacuous is a smart-sounding way to describe something dumb.
Syn:1. empty,
2. blank, non-communicative, 3. asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, foolish" "1. a vacuous space
2. She flashed a vacuous smile.
3&4 his vacuous comments did not impress anyone. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 727 "venality" " the state of being capable of being bribed" "noun" "French/ Latin: ""capability of being bought""" "Apparently, there was no limit to former president Zuma's venality, with over 700 cases of corruption now being filed against him. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 728 "fecundate" "1. make fertile or productive
2. introduce semen into (a female)" "verb" "archaic use of fecund" "How is the extremely complex human body with its various physical characteristics built up from the nucleus of a fecundated cell, the ovum?" "AMB" "RATMW" 729 "venerate" " to give a high degree of respect; may border on worship, great respect or reverence " "verb" "The Chinese traditionally venerated their ancestors; ancestor worship is merely a popular misnomer for this tradition. (n: veneration, adj: venerable)" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 730 "veracity" " Truth and factual accuracy" "noun" "From Latin root: verax=truth
Voracious describes someone super hungry. . A voracious appetite makes you want to eat a whole cake. Veracious (with an ""e"") means truthful, as in a veracious child who cannot tell a lie. " "The police doubted the veracity of the suspect’s alibi. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 731 "fulgurate" "1. the act or process of flashing like lightning
2. electrodesiccation" "verb" "Latin: fulgur=lightning" "1. from the fulgurating Milky Way there shot forth streams of light
2. A high-frequency electric current is applied to fulgurate the biological tissue" "AMB" "RATMW" 732 "verbose" "using or containing too many words" "adj. " "Syn: wordy, loquacious, long-winded" "The instructor asked her verbose student make her paper more concise. (n: verbosity)" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 733 "vex" "to annoy; to bother; to perplex; to puzzle; to debate at length:" "verb" " Franklin vexed his brother with his controversial writings. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 734 "vexation" " state of being frustrated, irritated, or concerned. " "noun" "Note that Vexation is both something that causes annoyance AND the state of mind that results from being annoyed.
Syn:annoyance, chafe, irritation, " "In vexation, I watched the neighbor’s dog poop in my yard" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 735 "vide
visibil
vis" "see" "Greek/Latin root" "video
vision
visible" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 736 "aegis" "to be sponsored or protected by someone/an organisation" "verb" "Greek aigis ‘shield of Zeus’
Syn: auspices, egis, protection" "The negotiations were conducted under the aegis of the UN" "AMB" "RATMW" 737 "viscous
vicous" "Viscous are liquirds of high viscocity, whereas vicous is a highly aggressive being or animal. " "adj. " "Honey is a viscous liquid, but Honey, our friendly dog, was not vicous. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 738 "vanquish" "come out better in a competition, race, or conflict" "verb" "
syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach" "In the movies, the superheroes usually vanquish the villains. " "AMB" "RATMW" 739 "maenadic" "1. Bacchante, female attendant or priestess of Bacchus, whose festivals were celebrated with mad dancing and singing
2. acting like an unnaturally excited or distraught woman" "adj. " "Greek: mainas ""priestess of Bacchus""" "2. The demonstrators primarily consisted of maenads discontended with all in society" "AMB" "RATMW" 740 "voracious" "craving or devouring large quantities of food, drink, or other things. " "adj. " " She is a voracious reader. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 741 "wag" "1. v. to wave back and forth, as a dog's tail.
2. n. A joker. someone who keeps people amused with humorous stories" "verb, noun" "1. Honey, our dog, didn't have a tail to wag
2. John's reputation as a wag insured he would be invited to many parties. " "Homonym" "MSU" 742 "wave
waive" "wave, n. =a moving swell on the surface of a body of water.
wave, v. =to sweep the hand or arm or some object.
waive=to relinquish" "noun, verb" "waive same root word as ""weib"", as women in the middle ageswere exempted from the law, as they had no rights. " "We refuse to waive the reading of the indictment. " "Homophone" "MSU" 743 "preeminent" "someone/something considered to be truly outstanding or better than everyone else. Greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement" "adj. " "Latin: praeeminentem, “to project forward, rise above""" "Everyone expects the young chess prodigy to one day dethrone Nikolas, the preeminent player in the world. " "AMB" "RATMW" 744 "waver
waiver" "waver = vacillate or move back and forth
waiver = release or special exemption a rule" "verb" "waive same root word as ""weib"", as women in the middle ageswere exempted from the law, as they had no rights. " "Mike was not afraid of the bully and showed it by not letting his eyes waver from those of his enemy.
Most of the students tried to get waivers of their overdue fines. " "Homophone" "MSU" 745 "whimsical" "Full of or characterized by whims, which are odd ideas that usually occur to you very suddenly. Playful. Spontaneous" "adj. " "Syn: capricious, impulsive, freakish, erratic" " It's hard to make plans with such a whimsical best friend " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 746 "wretched" "extremely pitiful or unfortunate (n: wretch)" "adj. " "Poor Cinderella had a wretched childhood, living in wretched conditions with a wretched stepmother" "Common GRE" "MSU" 747 "vivify" "bring new excitement or life to something" "verb" "Latin: vivus=life
animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, come to, resuscitate, revive" "His remarks always vivify an otherwise dull discussion" "AMB" "RATMW" 748 "zeal" " passion or fervor, enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal (n: zealot; zealoutry. adj: zealous), Great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective" "noun" "Syn: passion, zealousness, fervor" "The great emperor’s crusading zeal led him to conquer many land" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 749 "upbraid" "Find fault with (someone)" "verb" "Syn: scold, reprimand, rebuke.
Deutsch: jdm Vorwürfe machen. Old English upbregdan""bring forth as a ground for censure""" "Mark 16/IV, King James version: Afterward Jesus appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, " "Least Difficult" "FT" 750 "welter" "a large number of items in no order; a confused mass" "noun" "Syn: confusion, jumble, tangle.
Deutscher Wortstamm ""wälzen""
Durcheinander, Mischmasch" "The classroom was in a welter when the teacher did not show up for class" "Least Difficult" "FT" 751 "winnow" "blow a current of air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff" "verb" "Syn: sift out, filter out" "Many lawmakers from both parties join Mr. Obama in wishing to winnow America’s overstuffed prisons" "Least Difficult" "FT" 752 "vitiate" "Destroy or impair the legal validity of" "verb " "Syn: put an end to, do away with, scrap.
Deutsch: Beeinträchtigen, verderben, zerstören.
Lati""vitiare""= to make faulty. Same origin as ""vice"", therefore same pronounciation root ""vishiate""" "As a child, I could never understand why my uncle could always prove, by taking his shoes off, that his toes were crossed while making the promise, thus vitiating his promise" "Least Difficult" "FT" 753 "fringe" "the unconventional, extreme, or marginal wing of a group or sphere of activity" "noun" "Syn: peripheral, radical, unorthodox" "Fringe beliefs reinforced in these ways can establish themselves and persist long after outsiders deem them debunked. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 754 "garner" "Gather or collect (something, especially information or approval)" "verb" "Latin granarium which means ""store-house"" usually for grain=> ie. Storage, gathering.
Syn: accumulate, amass, assemble" "Labs that garnered more pay-offs were more likely to pass on their methods to other, newer labs. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 755 "gist" "the substance or essence of a speech or text" "noun" "Syn: quintessence, main idea
Deutsch: Quintessenz, Kernpunkt" "The gist of the matter is " "Least Difficult" "FT" 756 "gossamer" "Used to refer to something very light, thin, and insubstantial or delicate" "adj. " "refers to the similarity in appearance of softness between geese down and cobwebs,
Syn: gauzy, gossamery, fine
Deutsch: Hauchdünn.
As a NOUN it means a""goose summer"", ie. referring to an autumn after a good summer -> ""goose summer"" (middle english)(Altweibersommer). " "1. Two days later, Taal Volcano erupted outside of Manila, coating the parked cars in Poblacion with a gossamer of white ash.
1b. Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least Difficult" "FT" 757 "grovel" "1. To crawl around on your belly
2. To beg, to be servile, suck up" "verb" "Syn: be servile, suck up, flatter.
Deutsch: Kriecherei, um Gnade winseln" """If you've done something or said something wrong apologize, but if not, for heaven's sake, stop groveling"" she said. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 758 "perennial" "Things that are permanent through the year or multiple years (plants), constant/persistent, or regularly repeated (eg. Arguments over the same thing)" "adj. " "Latin: per ""through"" + annus ""year""=>lasting through the years" "1a. Every election seems to continue to deal with the same perennial issues that have been the focus of all the previous elections.
1b. At our university digs, there was a perennial argument as to who cleaned the bathroom last . " "AMB" "RATMW" 759 "impetuous" "Acting or done quickly and without thought or care" "adj. " "Latin: in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + petere ""aim for, rush at""=> rapid movement, rush
Syn: impulsive, rash, hasty
Deutsch: unüberlegt, impulsi" "The report holds many lessons, including for this newspaper, which supported the invasion of Iraq: about the danger of impetuous decision-making" "Least Difficult" "FT" 760 "ingrate" "an ungrateful person" "noun" "
Deutsch: undankbar.
Latin: in- ""not"" + gratus ""pleasing, beloved, dear, agreeable""" "Greater liberty over the past generation is abused by ingrates who think it funny to depict their leaders pantless. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 761 "caducity" "1. the quality of being transitory or perishable
2. senility( as cognitave abilities are seen to be transitory)" "adj. " "French caducité= ""dilapidation, senility""" "2. Forgetting the name of an old friend was another painful reminder of her progressive caducity" "AMB" "RATMW" 762 "indictment" "a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime" "noun" "Syn: arraignment, citation" "A criminal indictment would, in all likelihood, force the prime minister to resign. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 763 "inert" "Lacking vigor" "adj. " "America’s founders believed that the 'greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 764 "lax" "Not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful" "adj. " "Syn: slack, slipshod, negligent.
Deutsch: Lasch" "Mario Draghi has faced attacks from critics in Germany (for being too lax) and Greece (for being too tight). " "Least Difficult" "FT" 765 "listless" "(Of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm" "adj. " "Syn: lethargic, enervated, lackadaisical" "As the professor went on and on and on, the students becoming increasingly listless, one even fell asleep and started snoring!" "Least Difficult" "FT" 766 "livid" "1. furiously angry
2. anemic looking from illness or emotion, bluish-gray (eg. sea, bruise, lips)
3. (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity" "adj. " "Latin: ""bluish-gray.
Syn: 1. infuriated, irate, fuming

2. black-and-blue, injured, ashen, blanched, bloodless, white, colourless
3. deathly" "1. A livid Vladimir Putin minced no words in his response, calling the downing a 'stab in the back'…
2. The livid bruises on Judy’s face took weeks to dissapear
3. livid lightning streaked the sky”" "Least Difficult" "FT" 767 "loll" "Sit, lie, or stand in a lazy, relaxed way" "verb" "From Dutch: loll= to doze
Syn: lounge, sprawl, drape oneself.
Deutsch: sich rekeln" "The pair loll on a green hillside at Murnau south of Munich where Münter had bought a house" "Least Difficult" "FT" 768 "lurid" "Presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms" "adj. " "Latin lūridis""ghastly, pale yellow""
Syn: melodramatic, exaggerated, overdramatized.
Deutsch: Reißerisch, grell. " "She asked the police officer to spare her the lurid details so that she did not have to have the shocking and ugly images put into her imagination. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 769 "to mar" "Impair the quality or appearance of" "verb" "Syn: spoil, ruin, damage
Deutsch: verderben, beeinträchtigen" "These oversights mar an otherwise engaging and interesting history of space, but then it is not unnatural for space to have a few gaping holes. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 770 "mince" "Use polite or moderate expressions to indicate disapproval" "verb" "mostly used with ""did not mince his words"". Same latin root as ""miniscule""" "President Barack Obama didn’t mince his words in a tweet on June 21st, the day after the Senate failed to pass four proposals. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 771 "minion" "a follower or underling of a powerful person" "noun" "Syn: henchman, yes-man, lackey.
Deutsch: Untergebener, lackai" "Its minions have set up thousands of social-media bots and other spamming weapons to drown out other content. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 772 "mirth" " Amusement, especially as expressed in laughter" "noun" "Syn: merriment, high spirits. Same root origin as ""merry"".
Deutsch: Heiterkeit. " "A further proposal, to cut the salaries of senior public managers by 25%, has caused both anger and mirth. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 773 "modest" "not excessively large, elaborate, or expensive" "adj. " "Syn: ordinary, simple, plain" "They can be seen in the modest dress, office decor and eating habits of Angela Merkel, the daughter of a Lutheran pastor. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 774 "morose" "Sullen and ill-tempered, feeling sad, in a bad mood, and not wanting to talk to anyone" "adj. " "Syn: sullen, sulky, gloomy" "When her dog died, the little girl was morose for months. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 775 "muse" " a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist" "noun" "Deutsch: Muse
Syn: inspiration, influence, stimulus" "Picasso took a habit of painting his many muses" "Least Difficult" "FT" 776 "oblique" "Not explicit or direct in addressing a point" "adj. " "Syn: indirect, inexplicit, roundabout" "The slight wink was Larry’s oblique way of flirting with me. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 777 "haute" "upper, exclusive, high" "adj. " "French, literally ""high""" "haute cuisine = high cuisine
haute couture = exclusive fashion
haute bourgeoisie = upper middle class " "AMB" "web" 778 "overwrought" "(of a piece of writing or a work of art) too elaborate or complicated in design or construction" "adj. " "wrought is old English for ""worked"". Ie. Overwrought=overworked.
Syn: overblown, contrived, exaggerated" "She made prodigious strides as a writer and learned to temper her overwrought outpourings. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 779 "pertain" "be appropriate, related, or applicable" "verb" "Syn: concern, relate to, be related to" "Religious exceptions to the law, such as those pertaining to animal welfare, should ideally be ended. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 780 "pine" "Miss and long for the return of" "verb" "Few DJs pine for the day of ones-and-twos; the possibilities of modern technology are too alluring. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 781 "covenant" "1. (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return
2. a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action" "Latin:com- ""together"" + venire ""to come=>agreement" "1. Before the battle of blood river, the Boers entered into a covenant with God, that they and their ancestors would honour the day forever, should He give them victory.
2. During the crisis, the company broke its loan agreement covenants with the bank, and needed to restructure. " "AMB" "TCE" 782 "platitude" "A remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting " "noun" "Syn: cliché, truism, commonplac" "The politician ended his speech with a platitude about every man’s right to vote. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 783 "plethora" "a large or excessive amount" "noun" "Despite the plethora of movies offered by the video store, Jason always rents the same movie over and over again. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 784 "posit" "Put forward as fact or as a basis for argument" "noun" "Syn: postulate, propound, submit" "The students were asked to posit their ideas about the dance through the school suggestion box. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 785 "chimerical" "fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative" " adj. " "A chimera was a fire-breathing monster from Greek mythology made from a lion at its head, a goat in the middle, and a serpent at the end. " "His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 786 "prophetic" " Accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future" "adj. " "ic=nature of, like
Syn: predictive, visionary" "If I had prophetic abilities, I would be picking up my lottery winnings right now. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 787 "purist" " a person who insists on absolute adherence to traditional rules or structures" "noun" "Syn: pedant, dogmatist, perfectionist" "Dressed in a suit and tie, the purist raised his hand every time to answer each question the teacher asked. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 788 "pyre" " a heap of combustible material, especially one for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony" "noun" "The tribesmen were burned on a pyre so the evil spirits could not capture their bodies. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 789 "quack" " a person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge in some field" "noun" "Syn: swindler, charlatan, fraud" "The quack claimed that consuming a few daily teaspoons of his miraculous snake oil would prevent and cure any signs of the Corona virus" "Least Difficult" "FT" 790 "reticence" " the quality of not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily" "noun" "Syn: reserve, introversion, restraint" "The shy wallflower’s reticence kept her from talking to anyone at the school dance. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 791 "rue" "Bitterly regret (something one has done or allowed to happen)" "verb" "Deutscher Stamm: reuen
Syn: deplore, lament, bemoan
don't confuse with ""rue""=street in French" "1a. to his rue, the error cost him the game
1b. He rued the day he took his first dose of heroin. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 792 "ruminate" "Think deeply about something" "verb" "Syn: contemplate, consider, mull over" "Alfred Sauvy, the French thinker, was prone to worry that the first world would become 'a society of old people, living in old houses, ruminating about old ideas. '" "Least Difficult" "FT" 793 "chug" "echoic of a working steam engine. " " verb" "The steam engine chugged along" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 794 "churlish" "deliberately rude, surly and sullen" " adj. " "Deutsch: gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Kerl"", im Sinne von Bauernhaft, grob" "The new manager is not going to put up with the churlish employee attitudes that have driven customers away" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 795 "sublime" "of very great excellence or beauty" "adj. " "Syn: awe-inspiring, awesome, majestic" "After the sublime meal, we asked to see the chef so that we could give him our compliments. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 796 "surly" "Bad-tempered and unfriendly" "adj. " "Old English surly's roots are in sirly, as in sir, meaning arrogant, haughty, and superior.
Syn: rude, snotty, sullen, mean and cranky can be added to the list of ill-natured, grumpy, glum
Deutsch:herrisch" "The surly man was yelling at the waitress because he didn’t get the right order from the restaurant. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 797 "syncopation" " A displacement of the beat or accents in (music or a rhythm) so that strong beats become weak and vice versa" "noun" "She dances an assortment of lissom steps, marvelously shedding shoes and socks as the Beethoven famously shifts from solemnity to syncopation. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 798 "taunt" " A remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone" "noun" "Same word root as the word ""tempt""
Syn: jeer, gibe, sneer" "But in the past two years taunts have turned into deadly attacks. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 799 "tawdry" "Showy but cheap and of poor quality" "adj. " "Named after St. Audrey (with the ""s"" dropped off)
Syn: gaudy, flashy, garish" "Most people consider reality shows to be tawdry forms of entertainment" "Least Difficult" "FT" 800 "temperate" "Relating to or denoting a region or climate characterized by mild temperatures; exercising moderation and self-denial; calm or mild (n: temperance)" "adj. " "Syn: mild, clement, pleasant" "The Netherlands, with its cool summers and mild winters is in a temperate climate zone. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 801 "terse" "Sparing in the use of words" "adj. " "Syn: curt, brusque, abrupt" "In a terse phone-call on Thursday night, President Barack Obama paused only briefly to congratulate Mr. Netanyahu on his victory. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 802 "tome" " a book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one" "noun" "Syn: volume, work, opus" "He went into the old library and saw tome after tome in the massive heavy bookshelves. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 803 "torrid" "Full of difficulty or tribulation" "adj. " "Torrid is an adjective that describes something that's extremely hot — in both the literal and the figurative senses" "The young man had a torrid love affair with the lady next door. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 804 "transgression" "the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle" "noun" "Latin ""act of crossing, passing over"" from transgredi ""to step or pass over. ""
Syn: offense, crime, sin" "Mark went to confession to apologize for his transgression. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 805 "treacherous" "Guilty of or involving betrayal or deception" "adj. " "Syn: traitorous, disloyal, perfidious" "In a treacherous move, he sold the secrets of the atom bomb to the Soviets" "Least Difficult" "FT" 806 "vapid" "offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland" "adj. " "Syn: insipid, uninspired, uninteresting" "Mr. Silver delighted in savaging commentators who relied on vapid clichés like 'momentum shifts' and 'game-changers. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 807 "vestige" " a trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists" "noun" "Syn: remnant, remainder, fragment" "He said this would remove a 'lingering vestige of the cold war. ' " "Least Difficult" "FT" 808 "vilify" "to utter slanderous and abusive statements against, spread negative information about" "verb" "vilify comes from the same root as the word vile
Syn: rail, revile, vituperate" "Unfortunately, the internet and social media have made it very easy for people to vilify their enemies. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 809 "viscous" "having a relatively high resistance to flow" "adj. " "Syn: gummy, glue-like, gluey" "Not all barrels of oil are alike. Crudes can be viscous like tar or so 'light' they float on water. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 810 "oxy" "sharp,
bitter" "Greek/Latin root" "oxy is a sub section of the Greek root ""ac"" = be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce. " "oxalic
oxide
oxygen(D=Sauerstoff)
oxymoron(oxy=sharp+moron=stupid=>a word with composites of opposite meaning)
paroxysm (sudden extension of disease)
anoxic(lack of oxygen)" "Root words" "SMB" 811 "waft" "Pass or cause to pass easily or gently through or as if through the air" "verb" "Syn: drift, float, glide" "The acrid scent of smoke wafts from his clothes. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 812 "wanton" "(of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked" "adj. " "Syn: malicious, malevolent, spiteful" "Over the decades these Christian non-people, without legal or any other sort of protection, have been the victims of wanton discrimination and violence" "Least Difficult" "FT" 813 "whitewash" "Deliberately attempt to conceal unpleasant facts about (a person or organization)" "verb" "Syn: cover up, sweep under the carpet" "Indeed, in trying to whitewash the past, the government may stir up prejudice instead. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 814 "circuitous" "being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course; going round in a circuit; not direct" " adj. " "Latin circuitus = ""a going around. """ "When I lost the directions to the restaurant, I ended up taking a circuitous route that made me late for my own birthday party. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 815 "whittle" "Reduce something in size, amount, or extend by a gradual series of steps" "verb" "Old English:to cut thin shavings from (something) with a knife
Syn: erode, wear away, diminish" "1a. The carver whittled away at a piece of wood.
1b. fig. Democrats had spent a nervous September watching that lead whittle away after Mrs. Clinton’s bout of pneumonia. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 816 "winsome" "Attractive or appealing in appearance or character in an open and delightful way" "adj. " "Syn: engaging, charming, winning" "After stealing food off the table, the dog begged for forgiveness by cocking his head and looking at his owner in a winsome manner. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 817 "wizened" "Shriveled or wrinkled with age" "adj. " "Syn: lined, creased, withered" "His son, himself wizened old man, had experienced too much to believe what he had just heard" "Least Difficult" "FT" 818 "wry" "Using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor" "adj. " "Syn: ironic, sardonic, satirical" "Catherine Merridale is one of the foremost foreign historians of Russia, combining wry insights with deep sympathy for the human beings. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 819 "circumlocution" "indirect or roundabout expression; evasion in speech or writing" " noun" "Latin: circum ""around, round about"" + locutionem ""a speaking, =>round about way of speaking" "I would never vote for a politician who avoids answering questions through the use of circumlocution. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 820 "abasement" "humiliation or degradation" "noun" " Latin: ad ""to, toward"" + bassus ""low, short"" Literal sense is archaic/obsolete, only figurative sense valid today
Syn: belittlement, disgrace" "Repeated abasement and humiliation by her abusive mother caused the mistreated girl to have very low self-esteem" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 821 "circumscribe" "limit narrowly; confine; draw a line around; encircle" " verb" "Latin: circum= ""around"" + scribere, = ""to write. ""=>draw a line around, set the boundaries of, limit, restrain, confine, " "In court the violent suspects wear shackles that circumscribe their ability to flee. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 822 "accession" "the action or process of formally joining an association or institution. Also, the acquisition of a higher rank than one is at present" "verb" "Latin accessionem (nominative accessio) ""a going to, approach; a joining; increase, enlargement""
Deutsch: Beitritt, Zuwachs
Syn: joining, signing up, enrollment" "After its accession to the EU, the country adopted the Euro. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 823 "acerbic" "(Especially of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright, expressing harsh or sharp criticism in a clever way" "adj. " "Latin acerbus ""harsh to the taste, sharp, bitter, sour""+ic=nature of, like
Deutsch: Bitter, Sauer
Syn: sardonic, biting, caustic" "The writer’s acerbic tone did not sit well with people who had an issue with harsh criticism" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 824 "cistern" "(underground) reservoir or water tank; Today, vessel to hold water for household uses such as watering garden, flushing toilets" " noun" "Greek word root same as Deutsch: ""Kiste""" "Since the plants in our garden need water, a cistern was built to capture rainwater" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 825 "apostle" " a vigorous and pioneering advocate or supporter of a particular cause" "noun" " Greek apóstolos: ""one who is sent out"", like the 12 apostles of Jesus
Syn: proponent, promoter, propagandist" "This apostle of anti-Americanism rejoices in the fact that the weakened United States need no longer be treated as an enemy. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 826 "apprise" "inform somebody of something" "verb" "French appris, pp of apprendre ""to inform, teach""
Syn: notify, let know, advise" "The secret services are useful in apprising their governments of the intentions of others" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 827 "armada" " a fleet of warships" "noun" "Spanish armada ""an armed force"", later became associated with a fleet of ships
Syn: flotilla, squadron, navy" "This month he also unveiled plans to send an armada of tiny spaceships, powered by laser beams and equipped with all sorts of sensors. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 828 "arson" " the criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property" "noun" "Same word root as ""ash""
Syn: incendiarism, pyromania" "Fire investigators suspected arson when they couldn’t find an electrical source for the fire" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 829 "clamorous" "speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud" " adj. " "Latin clamor= ""a shout""
Syn: vociferous, noisy, blatant, clamant, strident" "The clamorous noise of the rejoicing fans kept us up all night. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 830 "barrage" " A concentrated outpouring, as of questions or blows" "noun" "French: a retaining wall(eg. of a dam), later in WW1, a defense wall of non stop artillery fire
Syn: abundance, mass, profusion" "He drove into a hailstorm and his car was damaged by a barrage of hailstones" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 831 "bevy" " a large group of people or things of a particular kind" "noun" "word of unclear origin.
Syn: group, crowd, cluster" "Because my mother wrote a bevy of items on her grocery list, I was in the store for nearly two hours" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 832 "boor" " an unrefined, ill-mannered person" "noun" "Gleicher Wortstamm als ""bauer"", im Sinne von grob, unausgebildet, usw.
Syn: lout, oaf, ruffian" "Because Frank is so rude, I tend to think of him as a boor. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 833 "bucolic" "Relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life, pastoral, rustic, countryfied" "adj. " "Greek boukolos=cowherd or herdsman+ic=nature of, like
Same word root as ""bovine""and ""cow""
Syn: rustic, rural, pastoral" "General Electric. is now swapping its bucolic site for a collection of warehouses on the Boston waterfront. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 834 "canonical" "follows a principle or rule, usually in a religious or church-related situation. But also used in mathematics, music, art" "adj. " " Latin cononicus: ""according to rule""
mathematics= equation reduced to its most basic form
canonical music=a melody line is repeated at intervals
Syn: established, authoritative" "1a. His proposals were generally accepted as orthodox and
1b. The 4 gospels of the New Testament are key in establishing the Christian canon" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 835 "capricious" "given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior. mercurial, unpredictable, whimsical" "adj. " "Syn: fickle, inconstant, changeable" "The capricious supervisor would hand out raises one day and fire his entire staff the next. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 836 "chauvinism" " Excessive or prejudiced loyalty or support for one’s own cause, group, or gender" "noun" " a Napoleonic soldier, Nicholas Chauvin, was famous for his extreme patriotism, thus the origin
Syn: jingoism, excessive patriotism, sectarianism" "As recently as 2014, a biannual survey of right-wing attitudes in Germany found that xenophobia, chauvinism, anti-Semitism and authoritarian longings were declining. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 837 "circumspect" "Wary and unwilling to take risks" "adj. " " Latin circum=""around"" + spicere=""to look => ""to look around. ""
Syn: cautious, wary, careful" "This is an area where we need to be extraordinarily careful and circumspect', he said. 'We’re literally talking about life and death" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 838 "coalesce" "Come together and form one mass or whole" "verb" "Latin: com- ""together"" + alescere ""be nourished""=> "" grow together""
Syn: merge, unite, fuse" "As they radiate away, the waves tend to coalesce to form two main shock waves. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 839 "coffers" " the funds or financial reserves of a group or institution" "noun" "coffer = a strong chest or box that is used to store money or valuables
=Koffer in Deutsch,
but coffers= resources, money, finances" "The new tax filled public coffers but later slowed the economy" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 840 "condone" "Accept and allow (behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive)" "verb" "Things that are condoned are allowed, even if everyone isn't exactly thrilled about it.
Often used with ""don't""
Syn: disregard, let pass, excuse" "Rashad Ali argues that deradicalisation can be worse than useless if practitioners, while condemning ISIS, condone other violence. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 841 "contrite" "feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses" "adj. " "Syn: regretful, sorry, apologetic" "As the election results were coming in, a contrite Mr. Turnbull took 'full responsibility' for the government’s poor performance" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 842 "credulous" "having or showing too great a readiness to believe things. gullible, naïv" "adj. " "Syn: gullible, naive" "Supplements boast a unique trifecta: lax regulation, potent marketing and millions of credulous consumers keen to pin their hopes of a healthier life on a pill. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 843 "demur" "to object or protest to something" "verb" "demur from French/Latin: de + mor (as in moratium)= to linger, to tarry
Syn: object, take exception, take issue" "Mr. Sasse demurs . He does not want less fighting between the left and right. He wants more meaningful fighting about issues of substance. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 844 "depravity" " Moral corruption; wickedness, state of being depraved, degeneracy" "noun" "Syn: vice, perversion, deviance" "We moved to the quiet country to keep our children away from the depravity of city life.  " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 845 "deride" "Express contempt for; ridicule. to mock or ridicule" "verb" "French: de ""down""+ ridere(rire) ""to laugh""
Syn: mock, jeer at, scoff at" "Mr. Trudeau’s domestic critics—so far a minority—deride him as 'Prime Minister Selfie' for posing incessantly with fans and celebrities" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 846 "diatribe" " a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something" "noun" "Syn: tirade, harangue, onslaught" "CNN and other outlets were wrong to turn one disgruntled passenger’s Facebook diatribe into headline news" "357 prevalent GRE words" "FT" 847 "dictum" " a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle" "noun" "Latin: ""something said
Same word root as ""dictation""
Syn: saying, maxim, axiom" "Sometimes the old army dictum 'Don’t volunteer for anything' must be broken" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 848 "diffuse" "1. v. Spread out over a large area
2. adj. being both verbose and ill-organised " "verb" "Latin: dis- ""apart"" + fundere""to pour. ""=> to pour in different directions
Syn1: scattered, dispersed, not concentrated
Syn2: " "1. The forest was filled with a soft, diffuse light.
2. The diffuse report about the earthquake was both ill-organised and wordy. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 849 "dilate" "Make or become wider, larger, or more open" "verb" "Latin: dis- ""apart""+ lātus""broad, wide, widespread, extended"" (as in latitude)=""expand, distend, spread out, enlarge in all directions
Syn: enlarge, expand" "By being able to increase heartbeat, while dilating blood vessels, theobromine can help reduce high blood pressure. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 850 "discordant" "not in agreement or harmony" "adj. " "Latin: dis- ""apart"" + cor ""heart""=>not of the same heart
Syn: divergent, opposing, clashing
Ant: concord" "My friend believes that movies should entertain, but I insist that movies should inspire, so the two of us hold discordant views on the purpose of movies" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 851 "divest" "Rid oneself of something that one no longer wants or requires, such as a business interest or investment" "verb" "Whatever it is, when you divest something, you get rid of it. " "The protesters managed to have the city to divest their holdings in Apartheid South Africa" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 852 "droll" "Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement" "adj. " "French drôle ""odd, comical, funny""
Syn: funny, humorous, amusing" " He was a droll little man with a peculiar sense of humor " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 853 "echelon" "1. a level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society
2. a body of troops, planes, ships, birds arranged in a line diagonal to their movement. Sometimes also ""V"" shaped. " "noun" " French échelon""level, echelon"" literally ""rung of a ladder"" itself Late Latin scala ""stair
Syn: level, rank, grade" "1. He won the Olympics, cofirming that he had reached the upper echelon of athletics
2. The aircraft flew in echelon formation, providing each plane with excellent range of vision while allowing them to act as a single unit" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 854 "eddy" "(of water, air, or smoke) move in a circular way" "verb" "Syn: swirl, whirl, spiral. " "Leonardo Da Vinci could apply his research into eddies to the main aorta's valve closing mechanism centuries before modern science proved his theories to be correct" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 855 "effigy" " a sculpture or model of a person - which in demonstrations is then often hanged, burned, or otherwise abused when protesting a despised person's actions. " "noun" "Syn: statue, statuette, figure" "An effigy of the governor later was hanged in a tree on the state Capitol grounds. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 856 "elucidate" "Make (something) clear" "verb" "Latin: e-""thoroughly"" + lucidus""clear, bright. ""=>make things thoroughly lucid
Syn: explain, make plain, illuminate" "When asked for details, he declined to elucidate further. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 857 "endemic" "native to or confined to a certain region, locality or people" "adj. " "Greek endēmos: en= ""in"" + dēmos=""population""+ ic=nature of, like=> ""nature of being in the population. ""
Syn: local, regional. Don't confuse this word with epidemic. " "1a. Yellow fever is endemic in Africa, the continent where it evolved.
1b. Madagascar houses a huge number of endemic plants and animals, found nowhere else on earth. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 858 "epistemology" " the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope" "noun" "Greek: epi= ""over, near"" + stasthai=""to stand"" + ology=""science/study""=> The science that stands over (it all)" "Probably the coolest use of epistemology, though, is artificial intelligence: teaching computers how to learn. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 859 "epithet" " 1. a nickname or or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing
2. a defamatory nickname or abusive word or phrase" "noun" "Latin: epi ""in addition"" + tithenai ""to put, to place"" => (name) given in addition to""
Syn: name, label, smear, alias, byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet " "1. Alexander the Great was a fitting epithet for a great Macedonian king.
2. Many were offended by her use of racial epithets. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 860 "errant" "Erring or straying from the proper course or standards" "adj. " "2 origins to word 1) Same word root as ""error""""to err"": 2) errar'"" to wander""
thus sometimes particularly means to ""wander off course""
Syn: offending, guilty, culpable, naughty, off track" "1a. The errant student was given a warning for not going directly to class.
1b. The errant gunslinging cowboy is a standard character in western novels " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 861 "clamor" "loud outcry; loud sustained noise" " adj. " "Latin clamor= ""a shout""
Syn: howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, noise, outcry, roar, tumult, uproar, vociferation" "As soon as the people learn about the little boy’s murder, they are going to clamor for justice. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 862 "exemplar" " a person or thing serving as a typical example or excellent model" "noun" "Same root as ""example""
The adj. ""examplary"" is used more often
Syn: model, epitome, perfect example" "At times 'Utopia' seems less an exemplar of idealism, and more of a satire on it. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 863 "extol" "Praise enthusiastically" "verb" "Latin: ex ""up"" + tollere ""to raise""=> to praise
Syn: go wild about, wax lyrical about" "During the church service, the minister went out of his way to extol the contributions of the children’s youth choir. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 864 "cloying" "distasteful because excessive; excessively sweet or sentimental" " adj. " "Cloying comes in handy to describe things that are too sweet, both figurativley and literally. " "1a. My dad likes espresso so he feels Frappuccino too cloying.
1b. John liked to watch dark, edgy humor and thrillers, so he found romantic comedies with their hearts, flowers, and sappy happy endings cloying — so sweet and sentimental - that they make him want to retch. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 865 "fetid" "smelling extremely unpleasant" "adj. " "Latin origin.
Donkey's bridge: ""the feet did stink.
""Syn: stinking, smelly, foul-smelling" "The fetid smog that settled on Beijing in January 2013 could join the ranks of these game-changing environmental disruptions. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 866 "florid" "using unusual words or complicated rhetorical constructions. flushed with a rosy color, as in complexion; very ornate and flowery: ""florid prose. """ "adj. " "Latin floridus ""flowery, in bloom
Syn: extravagant, grandiloquent" "A victorious Governor Jerry Brown, his voice gruffer, his pate sparer and his metaphors more florid than during his first stint in office. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 867 "flout" "Openly disregard" "verb" "Old English origing: play the flute
Syn: defy, refuse to obey, go against" "He flouted the law and the concept of civilian safety by making a concerted effort to jaywalk every time he crossed a street" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 868 "foible" " a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character" "noun" "Same root word origin as ""feeble"", coming from French: faible=weakness.
Syn: idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, peculiarity" "The elder Bongo had among other foibles, a liking to show off his pet tiger to guests" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 869 "dole" "1. give out in small portions; distribute sparingly
2. money paid by the government to the unemployed" " verb" "Gleicher Wortstamm als ""teilen"" in Deutsch" "1. Once a week the priest would do his rounds and dole out food to the needy
2. Though he is receiving unemployment, Gary wants to find a job so he can get off the dole immediately" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 870 "frenetic" "Fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way" "adj. " "Latin phreneticus, meaning “delirious. ” ic=nature of, like
Syn: frantic, wild, frenzied" "He scurried around the kitchen frenetically trying to cook a last-minute dinner for 30 of his closest friends. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 871 "gall" "1. Bold, impudent behavior
2. bile from the gall-bladder
3. a skin sore caused by chafing" "noun" "Note this is the Noun. as a verb it often has the meaning of ""to irritate"" as in 3)
Syn: insolence, nerve, audacity" "1. With enough gall and entrepreneurial spirit, it suggests, anyone can end up driving a Porsche and living in a marble-floored luxury apartment.
2. The gallbladder stores digestive juices made in the liver
3. The ill-fitting saddle chafed the horse's skin and caused a parinful gall" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 872 "doleful" "sorrowful; filled with or expressing grief; mournful" " adj. " "French origin: deuil: to mourn
Syn:mournful, sad" "Because Jane has not received any news of her missing son, she has been doleful to the point of not being able to eat or sleep. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 873 "gambit" " a device, action, or opening remark, typically one entailing a degree of risk, that is calculated to gain an advantage" "noun" "originally a chess opening in which a pawn or piece is risked for advantage later
Deutsch = Bauernopferstrategie
Syn: plan, scheme, strategya" "What began as a gambit to hold together his divided Tory party is turning into an alarmingly close contest. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 874 "goad" "stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick" "verb" "Syn: spur, prod, egg on" "Her words were meant to goad officials into action" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 875 "cogency" "power of proving or of producing belief; quality of being highly probable or convincing; force; credibility" " noun" "Deutsch: überzeugend" "The defendant gave cogent reasons why he was innocent" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 876 "gouge" "1. to remove by making a hole
2. make a hole or dent or trough in something
3. Overcharge; swindle" "verb" "gouge as a noun is a chisel that is not flat, but has a trough to make a groove" "1. The mafiosi gouged out the eyes of his disloyal clan member
2. He skillfully gouged a trough into the plaster of Paris
3. They do not want monopolists to gouge consumers and stifle innovation with their overcharging. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 877 "grandiloquent" "Pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner" "adj. " "Latin: grandis ""big"" + -loquus ""speaking""=>speak pompously
Syn: pompous, bombastic, magniloquent" "The authors give it a rather grandiloquent name: the desire 'to force destiny, to create serendipity. '" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 878 "grouse" "complain pettily; grumble" "verb" "Syn: moan, groan, protest" "Some economists grouse about such rules, which can interfere with the smooth functioning of competitive labour markets. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 879 "hapless" "(Especially of a person) unfortunate" "adj. " """without hap""-""hap"" being another word for ""fortune"" or ""luck. ""
Same word root as ""happiness""
Syn: unlucky, luckless, out of luck" "The hapless motorist had barely paid his bill and driven away from the body shop when a truck ran into his car" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 880 "homage" " Special honour or respect shown publicly" "noun" "Syn: tribute, acknowledgement, admiration" "Over the past year, numerous young directors have been paying gushing homage to the movies which enchanted them in their youth. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 881 "imbue" "Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality" "verb" "Syn: saturate, fill, suffuse" "Some feminists argue, moreover, that the very framework of economics is imbued with subtler forms of sexism. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 882 "cogitate" "a fancy way of saying to think hard about, think earnestly or studiously; meditate; ponder; think deeply" " verb" "Latin cogitatus: ""to think""" "After not progressing at all, he sat down and consciously cogitated on what would be the right thing to do" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 883 "impasse" " a situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement" "noun" "French impasse ""impassable road
Syn: deadlock, dead end, stalemate" "Because the two countries have reached an impasse in their treaty negotiations, the war will continue. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 884 "inculcate" "Instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction" "verb" "Latin: in- ""in"" + calcare ""to tread, press in""=>force upon, insist
Syn: imbue, infuse, inspire" "The tests and ceremonies were to start inculcating a sense of common values that had previously been lacking. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 885 "indolence" " Avoidance of activity or exertion" "noun" "Latin indolentem: causing no pain, painless""" "The indolence of the Saudi society brought up to expect that oil riches will be lavished upon them is a large hurdle. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 886 "inquest" " a judicial inquiry to ascertain the facts relating to an incident, such as a death" "noun" "Same word root as enquiry
Syn: enquiry, investigation, inquisition" "A jury at a second inquest ruled that they were unlawfully killed. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 887 "cognate" "related by blood; having common ancestor; related or analogous in nature, character, or function" " adj. " "com ""together"" + gnatus, past participle of gnasci, older form of nasci ""to be born""=>common origin" "Dutchmen speak German easily because their language is cognate to German" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 888 "itinerant" "Traveling from place to place" "adj. " "Same word root as itineray
Syn: peripatetic, wandering, roving" "My father is an itinerant, spending weeks a year on a plane" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 889 "colander" "bowl-shaped strainer, used to wash or drain foods" " noun" "Latin colatorium ""strainer""" "After the spaghetti was cooked, he emptied the entire pot contents into a colander to drain the water from the pasta" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 890 "largesse" "large generosity, liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit" "noun" "French word of same meaning
Syn: liberality, munificence, magnanimity, openhandedness, gift" "All else equal, such largesse should indeed give the economy some temporary vim. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 891 "leery" "Cautious or wary due to realistic suspicions" "adj. " "Syn: careful, circumspect, on one's guard" "The past two decades have left working-class voters in many countries leery of globalisation. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 892 "limpid" "1. clear, serene and bright (often liquids)
2. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable" "adj. " "Syn: 1. crystal clear, crystalline, lucid, pellucid, transparent
Syn 2. lucid, plain, understandable" "1. I could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid mountain pool
2. He writes in a limpid style" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 893 "loquacious" "Tending to talk a great deal" "adj. " "Same word root as eloquent
Syn: talkative, voluble, communicative" "The loquacious professor was known for his five-hour lectures. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 894 "collate" "to assemble something in a logical sequence" " verb" "Latin: com ""with, together"" + lātus ""borne, carried""=to bring together
collate specifically means to put pages in a correct order, but can be used more generally to mean to put anything into the proper sequence.
Syn: sort, order" "The clerk will collate the folders into stacks based on the spelling of the client’s last name. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 895 "malign" "evil in nature or effect" "adj. " "Syn: harmful, bad, malevolent" "Other, darker interpretations of what malign force the monster may represent once again abound. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 896 "maudlin" "Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental" "adj. " "Maudlin was a form of the name Mary Magdalene, often represented in paintings as a weeping sinner asking forgiveness from Jesus.
Syn: emotional, tearful, lachrymose" "she posted maudlinly on social media about her excess weight and received no likes. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 897 "milieu" " a person’s social environment" "noun" "French: environment, social environment, the middle (of something)
Syn: sphere, background, backdrop" "Armed with a view of themselves in a seething milieu of particles careening around a stretchy space-time, readers are reminded they are 'an integral part of the world which we perceive. '" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 898 "mire" "involve someone or something in (a difficult situation)" "verb" "Old English: deep mud, bog, marsh, swampland
Deutsch Wortstamm ""Masch""
Syn: entangle, tangle up, embroil" "Ms Park is hopelessly mired in an ever-deepening influence-peddling scandal. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 899 "modish" "Conforming to or following what is currently popular and fashionable" "adj. " "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Mode"" in Deutsch
Syn: modern, trendy, in" "With these modish safety demonstrations becoming the norm, the question is what, exactly, do they accomplish?" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 900 "collateral" "1. adj. accompanying; concomitant
2. adj. descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
3. n a security pledged for the repayment of a loanguarantee, usually in the form of an asset, for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay" "adj. , noun" "Latin com ""with, together"" + lateralis ""of the side=>accompanying" "1. The paper machine supply contract specifically limited collateral damage due to loss of paper sales revenue caused by late machine delivery to 10% of contract value.
2. David and Alexander have Opa as a collateral ancestor
3. Banks only give you a loan if you can provide sufficient collateral. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 901 "nascent" "just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential" "adj. " "Latin: nat=birth + escent= emerging from => just coming into existence
Syn: emerging
beginning
dawning" "Weakening the legislature in a nascent democracy will not fix corruption by itself. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 902 "natty" "(of a person or an article of clothing) smart and fashionable" "adj. " "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""nett""
Syn: stylish, dapper, debonair" "Although the natty clothing was just her style, Terra couldn’t afford the boutique’s steep price tags. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 903 "nexus" " a connection or series of connections linking two or more things" "noun" "Latin: nectere= ""to bind or tie. ""
Syn: union, link" "Today Facebook seems to be the nexus of communication" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 904 "nonplussed" "(Of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react" "adj. " "Latin: non plus=""no more, no further.""=>go no further as I am confused, perplexed
Hat NICHTS mit ""nonplus ultra"" zu tun
Syn: baffled, confounded, at a loss, puzzled, perplexed" "The inexperienced teenage driver was nonplussed when his car began to slide on the ice. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 905 "normative" "Establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm" "adj. " "Same word root as ""norm"" and ""normal""
" "The Japanese philosopher was highly critical of the normative thought in the Japanese education system" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 906 "opine" "Hold and state as one’s opinion" "verb" "Same word root as opinion
Syn: suggest, say, declare" "Rather than disagree with my husband in public, I waited until we got home to opine my thoughts on the subject. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 907 "pallid" "(of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health" "adj. " "Same word root as pale
Syn: white, pasty, wan" "His pallid complexion is a definite indication that he spends all his time indoors" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 908 "panache" " Flamboyant confidence of style or manner" "noun" "Syn: self-assurance, style, flair" "Danielle always wears her stylish outfits with panache." "Medium Difficult" "FT" 909 "paragon" " a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality" "noun" "Syn: model, epitome, exemplar
Deutsch: Paradebeispiel" "As a paragon of purity, a nun would never dress inappropriately" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 910 "parry" "Answer (a question or accusation) evasively" "verb" "French: ""to turn aside or ward off"" the blow of a weapon. Parez! Is often heard in fencing lessons
Syn: evade, sidestep, avoid" "In the course of his business career, the president-elect has shown a remarkable ability to dodge and parry and reverse himself on everything. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 911 "penchant" " A strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something" "noun" "French: to incline:
Syn: fondness, inclination, preference" "Alex has a penchant for chicken and broccoli, so he eats it daily or wishes he did" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 912 "pithy" "concise and full of meaning" "adj. " "Pith is the core, white material under the skin of a citrus fruit.
Syn: concise, brief, compact" "The best greeting card messages are pithy and meaningful.
They finally got to the pith of the discussion." "Medium Difficult" "FT" 913 "commentariat" "all commentators of the news media collectively" " noun" "The political commentariat is beginning to say Mr. Trump has no chance of re-election. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 914 "commodious" "spacious and comfortable; fit; proper; convenient" " adj. " " Latin: commodiosus ""convenient, useful"", which was used for ""commodes""= toilet when one had ""room to spare""" "All the bedrooms in Maierhofer Halde are commodious" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 915 "presage" "be a sign or warning of (an imminent event, typically an unwelcome one)" "verb" "Latin: pre: ""before"" + sagus ""prophetic""=>say in advance
Syn: augur, forecast, foretell, predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate" "Dark clouds normally presage a storm" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 916 "prolific" "(of an artist, author, or composer) producing many works" "adj. " "Syn: productive, creative, inventive" "It is true that few artists have been so prolific. On average, he released a studio album every year. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 917 "proxy" " a person authorized to act on behalf of another" "noun" "Syn: representative, substitute, stand-in" "During the action sequence, a stand-in will act as a proxy for the A-list actor. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 918 "prudish" "having a tendency to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity" "adj. " "same word root as prude
is not to be confused with prudence
Syn: puritanical, prim, goody-goody" "My grandmother’s narrowminded and prudish viewpoints do not line up with today’s world views" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 919 "qualm" " an uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear" "noun" "Syn: misgiving, doubt, reservation" "I have a serious qualm about my teenage daughter dating an older man. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 920 "quell" "Suppress (a feeling, especially an unpleasant one)" "verb" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""quaelen"", aber hier im Sinne von etwas ""toeten, unterbinden, Ruhe geben lassen""
Syn: calm, soothe, pacify" "The old man drinks warm milk to quell his upset stomach. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 921 "quibble" "Argue or raise objections about a trivial matter" "verb" "Syn: object to, criticize, nitpick" "It is normal for married couples to quibble over small things like who controls the television remote" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 922 "compunction" "feeling of deep regret; strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt" " noun" "Latin: com- + pungere ""to prick, pierce"" => prick sharply
remorse, self-reproach" "The burglar acted without compunction when he stole the bicycle. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 923 "recalcitrant" "having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority" "adj. " "Latin: re = back + calcitrare= ""to kick""=> someone kicking back against what's wanted of them
Syn: uncooperative, intractable" "Over time, the hopeless soldiers became recalcitrant and refused to follow orders" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 924 "recant" "Say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief" "verb" "Latin: re-= ""bac"" + cantare=""to sing=>to take back (in a nice tone)
Syn: renounce, disavow, retract" "The judge ordered the magazine to recant the false statements it made about the actress. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 925 "salient" "Most noticeable or important" "adj. " "Syn: conspicuous, noticeable, obvious" "The reason for that emphasis may in part be because of the salient threat of terrorism" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 926 "sardonic" "grimly mocking or cynical" "adj. " "Linked to the sardon plant, whose poisonous juices would make victims smile at death.
Syn: satirical, sarcastic, ironic" "Ms Jefferson, it must be said, is a master of the arched-eyebrow, sardonic quip. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 927 "savant" " a learned person, especially a distinguished scientist" "noun" "French: knowing
Syn: intellectual, scholar, sage" "Since my aunt speaks over twenty languages, she is considered a verbal savant. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 928 "soliloquy" " an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself, especially by a character in a play" "noun" "Latin: solus ""alone"" + loqui ""speak""=> ""a talking to oneself.""
Syn: monologue, speech" "Patrick Stewart, for instance, reworked Hamlet’s soliloquy as an ode to the letter B ('B or not a B, that is the question')" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 929 "stigma" " a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person" "noun" "Syn: shame, disgrace, dishonour" "A stigma against adults having fun, strong in the aftermath of the Second World War, has faded. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 930 "stipulate" "Demand or specify (a requirement), typically as part of a bargain or agreement" "verb" "Syn: set down, set out, lay down" "In trade negotiations, size matters. Larger economies can stipulate terms that suit them. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 931 "stratum" " a thin layer within any structure" "noun" "Latin stratum ""thing spread out""
Syn: level, class, echelon" "But exalting Western aviation security to a higher stratum than that found in Africa is a delusion. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 932 "subpoena" " A writ ordering a person to attend a court" "noun" "Syn: summons, mandate, court order" "Subpoenas issued by a federal grand jury earlier this year demanded that the Port Authority hand over Mr. Samson’s personal travel records. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 933 "syntax" " the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language" "noun" "Fench/Latin/Greek: syn- ""together"" + tassein ""arrange"" (same word root as tactics)=> arranging it all together. " "The syntax in Jan’s sentences is incorrect as he doesn't follow the correct adjective sequence, viz: OSS-CAC-POMP, which stands for Opinion, Size, Shape, - Condition, Age, Color-, Pattern, Origin, Material & Purpose" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 934 "tenet" " a principle or belief" "noun" "Latin tenere ""to hold.
Syn: doctrine, precept, creed" "God exists is a tennet of most major religions." "Medium Difficult" "FT" 935 "concomitant" "1. adj. following or accompanying as a consequence
2. n. An event associated with or happening at the same time. " " adj. , noun" "Latin: con =with + comit=companion=>ompanion of the main event" "1. The concamitant effect of fitness training is a healthy glow and more happiness.
2. Doctors now administer several concomitant drugs to the patient in order to prevent the onset of AIDS. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 936 "urbane" "(Of a person, especially a man) courteous and refined in manner. Urbane people are sophisticated, polished, cultured, refined. " "adj. " "urbane: ""having the manners of townspeople, courteous, refined
Syn: suave, sophisticated, debonair" "Everything from the man’s tailored suit to his Italian shoes and expensive watch screamed urbane" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 937 "concubine" "in certain societies, such as imperial China, a woman contracted to a man as a secondary wife, often having few legal rights and low social status" " noun" "Latin: com ""with, together"" + cubare ""to lie down""=>mistress" "Though he loved his concubine the most, the king decided long ago just to have one wife. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 938 "whet" "1. To sharpen
2. Excite or stimulate (someone's desire, curiosity, interest, or appetite)" "verb" "Deutsch: wetzen
Syn: arouse, rouse, trigger" "1. He sharpened (whetted) the knife's blade with a whetting stone
2. As I walked up my grandmother’s steps, I realized the smell of her food was enough to whet my appetite" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 939 "abeyance" "temporary cessation or suspension" "noun" " French à""at"" (see ad-) + ba(y)er ""be open"" = status is still open/in suspense. The word ""bay"" also come this.
Syn: suspense, remission, reserve" "With the football leagues now in abeyance during Corona crisis, the question now is how and whether the season will finish" "Most Difficult" "FT" 940 "conscientious" "thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well; characterized by extreme care and great effort" " adj. " "
Syn: conscionable, ethical, honest, honorable, just, moral, principled, scrupulous" "1a. Everyone knew him to work hard and with great care and were convinced that he would continue with the conscientious application to the work at hand
1b. Because my brother is a conscientious objector, he refuses to serve in the military. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 941 "anodyne" "not likely to cause offence or disagreement and somewhat dull" "adj. " " Greek an= ""without"" + odyne ""pain= ""free pain or torment"" ""
Syn: bland, inoffensive, innocuous" "After days of discussion at the G20 conference, there was not much to show other than a dull and safe anodyne communique" "Most Difficult" "FT" 942 "bilk" "Obtain or withhold money from (someone) by deceit or without justification" "verb" "Syn: swindle, defraud, deceive" "Because the police in that country are not paid regularly, they bilk the system and get away with it, as their bosses have the same issue. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 943 "canard" " an unfounded rumor or story" "noun" " French canard ""a hoax"" literally ""a duck""
Syn: piece of gossip, whisper" "The newspaper claimed to identify a man living in California as the real masatermind behind the plot, but this turned out to be an embarrassing canard. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 944 "catalyst" " a person or thing that precipitates an event. something that speeds up a process or causes action. an agent of change (adj: catalytic; v. catalyze)" "noun" "Syn: stimulus, impetus, spark" "Jake’s termination from his job was the catalyst for his change of character" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 945 "catharsis" " the process of releasing and providing relief from strong or repressed emotions" "noun" " Latinized form of Greek katharsis "" a bodily purging, cleansing - (especially of the bowels) - now generally used in an emotional sense.
Syn: emotional release, relief" "Crying is a great catharsis for releasing pain and anger. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 946 "cloture" " (in a legislative assembly) a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote" "noun" "The French word for ""closure"", with the ""s"" dropped out, like hopital/hospital" "You need majority support of parliamentarians to invoke cloture and end the filibuster. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 947 "compendium" "a publication containing a variety of works" "noun" "Syn: compilation, anthology" "The entertainer relies on a crowdsourced compendium of fishermen’s tales and jokes. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 948 "conscript" "Enlist (someone) compulsorily" "verb" "Syn: draft, recruit, call up" "Most Israelis are conscripted into the military" "Most Difficult" "FT" 949 "cosset" "1. a pet lamb
2. Care for and protect in an overindulgent way" "verb" "Deutsch: 1. Hauslamm,
2. verhätscheln
Syn: indulge, pander" "From buying expensive toys to boxing vegetable-free lunches, the mother would cosset to her child's every whim" "Most Difficult" "FT" 950 "coterie" " a small group of people with shared interests or tastes" "noun" " French coterie ""circle of acquaintances"" originally in Middle French an organization of peasants holding land a feudal lord cotier ""tenant of a cote""
Syn: clique, circle, inner circle" "He rules through a tight coterie of loyal aides" "Most Difficult" "FT" 951 "daguerreotype" " A photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor" "noun" "Named after the French inventor of early Ag/Hg photograhy: L. Daguerre" "He showed her a plate daguerreotype of a stern-looking Victorian ancestor " "Most Difficult" "FT" 952 "dilettante" " a person who cultivates an area of interest without real commitment or knowledge. someone with an amateur, nonserious interest in something" "noun" "Syn: dabbler, potterer, tinkerer" "This is not the work of a dilettante, but a strong follow-up to her acclaimed short stories that came out in 2007. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 953 "diurnal" "(Of animals) active in the daytime" "adj. " " Latin dies=day + -urnus, an adjectival suffix denoting time (compare hibernus ""wintery"", nocturnal=active at night.
Syn: daily, everyday" "Our body clock follows a diurnal rhythm. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 954 "dross" " something regarded as worthless" "noun" "Old English dros=""the scum thrown off metals in smelting"" similar to German Drusen=""dregs, husks""
Syn: rubbish, junk, debris" "Some of the best properties could be sold quickly, but the dross might take more time to get rid of. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 955 "dyspeptic" "Of or having indigestion or consequent irritability or depression" "adj. " " Greek dyspeptos ""hard to digest"" dys- ""bad, difficult"" (see dys-) + peptos ""digested""ic=nature of, like
Syn: bad-tempered, short-tempered, irritable, depressed, pessimistic, misanthropic)" "As dyspeptic and irritable as she was, the woman was in a happy mood when she went to the beach" "Most Difficult" "FT" 956 "ebullient" "joyously unrestrained, Cheerful and full of energy" "adj. " "Latin: ""to boil over"", lit. /fig. , ex ""out, out of"" + bullire ""to bubble""
origin similar to boil, bubble
Syn: exuberant, buoyant, joyful" "Charlie’s ebullient upbeat character made him a favorite in the office" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 957 "edify" "Instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually" "verb" "Modern French édifier: ""build; install; teach, instruct (morally), Same root as the English word: edifice=building
Syn: educate, instruct, enlighten" "The Church school aims to edify its pupils mind and spirits" "Most Difficult" "FT" 958 "egress" " the action of going out of or leaving a place" "noun" " Latin egressus=""a going out""(ex=out+ PP of gredi= to step)
Deutsch: Austritt
Syn: departure, exit, withdrawal" "The data is stored in the router egress queue until it is serialised onto the physical wire" "Most Difficult" "FT" 959 "ersatz" "(Of a product) used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else" "adj. " "Deutsch: ersatz
Syn: artificial, substitute, imitation" "During the 2nd world war, many had to make do with ersatz coffee" "Most Difficult" "FT" 960 "erstwhile" "former" "adj. " " mid English, erst =""first, at first; once, long ago; till now"" itself Old English ærest soonest, earliest, ""
Syn: old, past, one-time" "The erstwhile owner and company founder kept a close eye on how the new shareholders grew his baby" "Most Difficult" "FT" 961 "euphony" " the quality of being pleasing to the ear" "noun" " Greek eu- ""good"" (see eu-) + phone ""sound, voice"" = well sounding
Syn: melodiousness, musicality" "I was moved by the melodious euphony of the spoken poem" "Most Difficult" "FT" 962 "expiate" "Atone for (guilt or sin)" "verb" "Latin: ex- ""completely"" + piare ""propitiate, appease"" =>act of making satisfaction or reparation for an offense, atonement, reparation
Syn: make amends for, make up for" "To expiate for breaking his neighbor’s window, John shovelled snow for three months" "Most Difficult" "FT" 963 "condole" "grieve; express sympathy; speak sympathetically to one in pain, grief, or misfortune" " verb" "Latin:com ""with, together"" + dolere ""to grieve""
Deutsch: kondolieren" "I condoled my classmate on the death of his mother" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 964 "fracas" " a noisy disturbance or quarrel" "noun" " French fracas=""crash, sudden noise; tumult, bustle, fuss""
Deutsch: Aufruhr
Syn: scuffle, brawl, affray" "A diplomatic fracas between the quarrelsome nations" "Most Difficult" "FT" 965 "frieze" " a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling" "noun" "A frieze on the wall of America's Supreme Court shows some of the great law-givers of history, including the Roman emperor Justinian, Moses and Muhammad. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 966 "fusillade" " a series of shots fired or missiles thrown all at the same time or in quick succession" "noun" " French fusillade, fusiller ""to shoot""
Syn: salvo, volley, bombardment" "But thanks to poor communication, many saw it as China’s first fusillade in a global currency war" "Most Difficult" "FT" 967 "gaffe" " an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator" "noun" " French gaffe ""clumsy remark""
Syn: blunder, mistake, error" "Goofy makes non-stop gaffes" "Most Difficult" "FT" 968 "congruent" "1. Geom: superposable (triangles) or Maths 2 numbers with same remainder when divided by same modulo.
2. suitable; agreeing; corresponding" " adj. " "Latin: come together" "1a. 38 and 14 are congruent modulo 12
1b. Two SAS triangles are always congruent
2. Daddy's approach of eating chocolate bars is not congruent with his weight loss plan. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 969 "gerontocracy" " a state, society, or group governed by old people" "noun" "Greek: geron ""old man"" + -cracy ""rule"" =>ruled by old men" "But Muhammad bin Salman is not merely a young face in a gerontocracy he is a dynamic and apparently purposeful one. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 970 "halcyon" "Denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful" "adj. " " from Greek mythology, 14 days of calm weather at the winter solstice, when a mythical Kingfisher bird bred on a nest floating on calm seas=>""calm, quiet, peaceful""
Syn: happy, golden, idyllic, also spelt ""alcyon""" "In their halcyon days the mainstream parties used to share most of the vote between them. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 971 "hegemony" " Leadership or dominance, especially by one group over others" "noun" "Greek hegemon ""leader"" or dominance of one city state over the other
Syn: leadership, dominance, dominion" "Yet if the hegemony of the dollar is unstable, its would-be successors are unsuitable.
Feminists complain about the male hegemony of our system" "Most Difficult" "FT" 972 "hermetic" "Insulated or protected from outside influences" "adj. " "Hermes, a Greek god, invented a process of making glass airtight, thus the word hermetic
Syn: airtight, sealed" "North Korea is often called the ""hermetic kingdom""" "Most Difficult" "FT" 973 "heterodox" "not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs, often in a religious context. " "adj. " "Greek: heteros""the other"" + doxa""opinion. ""=>non conforming opinion
Syn: unorthodox, heretical, dissenting" "Among those discriminated against for holding heterodox religious views, the Bahai community continues particularly to suffer. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 974 "congruity" "1: the quality or state of being congruent or congruous
2: a point of agreement" " noun" "Syn: common denominator, commonality, correspondence, parallel, resemblance, similarity, similitude" "2. On closer observation, one found little congruity between her professed religious beliefs and her actual behavior" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 975 "conifer" "A tree or shrub bearing cones, normally with needles instead of leaves" " noun" "Latin: conus=cone+ fer=make/bear=> ""cone-bearing, bearing conical fruit""" "Our paved front yard is adorned with a conifer tree" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 976 "idyll" " an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene" "noun" "Syn: perfect time, ideal time, honeymoon" "That might just persuade them to forgive the scriptwriters for the unwelcome disruption to their rural idyll. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 977 "ignoble" "not honorable in character or purpose" "adj. " "ignoble meant not noble in old days, which was not a good thing.
Syn: dishonorable, unworthy, base" "Moreover, by controlling the body he controlled the equally unruly mind, keeping it pure from 'ignoble strife'. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 978 "impugn" "Dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of (a statement or motive)" "verb" "Latin: in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + pugnare ""to fight""=>attack by argument
Syn: call into question, challenge" "The media vilified the protesters and their cause by impugning their character. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 979 "incise" "Mark or decorate (an object or surface) with a cut or a series of cut" "verb" "Latin: in=in + cis=cut
Syn: engrave, etch, carve" "This 12th-century incense burner is incised with calligraphy that identifies its maker and first owner. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 980 "incubus" "a cause of distress or anxiety. originally, incubus = mythological character that visits people in their sleep, a kind of nightmare demon. " "noun" "Latin incubo""nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper""
incubate is linked to this word.
Syn: a) demon, devil, fiend b) nightmare c) a complex situation d) disagreeable person, unpleasant person" "An idea shot through her mind that she might call a policeman to rid her of this incubus" "Most Difficult" "FT" 981 "knell" " the sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral" "noun" "Syn: toll, ringing, chime" "The change in policy is a blow to the prison industry, but it hardly sounds a death knell for its business model. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 982 "lachrymose" "Inducing tears; sad" "adj. " "Latin: lacryma ""a tear""=> tearful
was in Stephan's GMAT!
Syn: sad, tearful, weepy" "This morning the world is not talking about a dubious song by the host, a lachrymose speech or even an appalling outfit. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 983 "lacuna" " an unfilled space or interval; a gap" "noun" "Latin lacuna ""hole, pit"" figuratively ""a gap, void, want""
Syn: interval, gap
same root as word ""Lake""""lagoon""" "Discovering the ancient text, historians were sad to discover there was a lacuna in the middle with several missing pages. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 984 "lambaste" "Criticize (someone or something) harshly" "verb" "Syn: castigate, chastise, condemn, correct, objurgate, bawl out, berate, call down, chew up, chide, dress down, jaw, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce, vituperate" "Yet the president was lambasted for his otherworldly complacency. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 985 "larceny" "legal term for theft of personal property, involving taking away something away" "noun" "Syn: stealing, robbery, pilfering
grand larceny = big theft, petty larceny=small theft" "The larceny charges were dropped when it was discovered he received verbal permission to use the car. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 986 "libertine" "1. a person who rejects accepted opinions in matters of religion, someone who lives life unencumbered by morals
2. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained" "adj. , noun" "Syn1: freethinker, hedonist, profligate
Syn2: debauchee, profligate" "1. There are aunts for every worldview, from libertine to puritan and from reactionary to radical.
2. A new pop archetype has emerged: the female libertine who brushed her teeth “with a bottle of Jack Daniels” before an all-nighter. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 987 "consign" "1. give over to another for care or safekeeping
2. to give, transfer, or deliver into the hands or control of another also: to commit especially to a final destination or fate
3. to send or address to an agent to be cared for or sold " " verb" "con = ""with, together"" + signare ""to sign, mark""=>formally hand over by signing" "1. She consigned her baggage to the service provider at the station.
2. After publishing a piece of politically incorrect writing, the author was consigned to oblivion
3. Since I consign my blankets to ebay agent stores, I don’t get paid until a sale is made" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 988 "maelstrom" "1. a powerful circular current of water
2. fig. a situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil" "noun" "old Dutch Maelstrom (modern maalstroom), literally ""grinding-stream - zu Deutsch: Mahlstrom
Syn: turbulence, tumult, turmoil
Syn:vortex, whirlpool" "The military is very concerned about getting pulled into the maelstrom of politics in an election year in order to push protesters. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 989 "magnate" " a wealthy and influential businessman or businesswoman" "noun" "Syn: industrialist, tycoon, mogul" "Several of America’s great industrialists built empires in Pittsburgh, including Andrew Carnegie, a steel magnate" "Most Difficult" "FT" 990 "malaproprism" " the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect" "noun" "French: Mal ""wrong/false"" + à propos""concerning"" = false with respect to
""Syn: misuse, solecism, blunder" "A malapropism: ""Mrs Malaprop was concerned that she was getting various veins"" - where various and varicose are mixed up. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 991 "misanthropy" " a dislike of humankind" "noun" "Greek: misein ""to hate"" + anthrōpos ""man""=>hating mankind
Syn: cynicism, hatred of mankind" "Labour did not fall into the traps of the old left: confusing individualism for misanthropy. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 992 "monolithic" "1. large, powerful, imposing in size or bulk or solidity
2. characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity" "adj. " "mono:one + lith: ""stone""+ ic:""nature of, like""=> being like a massive stone
Syn: inflexible, rigid, unbending" "1. The monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture”
2. But evangelicals are not a monolithic worldwide movement" "Most Difficult" "FT" 993 "consternation" "intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror" " noun" "Ahnlich zu Deutsch: konstaniert, aber stärker" "Witnessing a gruesome car accident paralyzed the woman with consternation. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 994 "myopic" "nearsighted" "adj. " "Greek: myein ""to shut"" + ōps ""eye"" ic=nature of, like=>short-sightedness
Syn: short-sighted, insular, small-minded" "They are also myopic, judging politicians’ economic management on the basis of only the very recent past" "Most Difficult" "FT" 995 "nadir" " the lowest point in the fortunes of a person or organization" "noun" "Arabic in astronomy, opposite of zenith
Syn: perigee, the all-time low, zero
Antonym: zenith, apogee" "Between its pre-crisis peak in late 2007 and its nadir at the end of 2009, the economy contracted by 11. 2%" "Most Difficult" "FT" 996 "neophyte" " a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief" "noun" "Greek: neo=new, phyte=grown=>newly grown
Syn: beginner, learner, novice, entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, newbie, newcomer, starter" "Even the best golfer in the world was once a neophyte at the sport of golf" "Most Difficult" "FT" 997 "noisome" "having an extremely offensive smell; harmful, offensive, destructive " "adj. " "Same word root as ""annoy"" + some=> bad smelling
Syn: irritating, disagreeable, unpleasant" "The noisome odor of the dump carried for miles. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 998 "nostrum" " a pet scheme or favorite remedy, especially one for bringing about some social or political reform or improvement" "noun" "Latin: nostrum remedium ""our remedy""
Syn: cure-all, snake-oil, prescription, answer to everything, panacea" "It became a nostrum among rank-and-file Republicans that mainstream opinion polls are biased and should be ignored. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 999 "occlude" "block passage through" "verb" "Latin: ob ""in front of, against"" + claudere ""to shut, close""=>to shut up or stop up so as to prevent anything from passing through
Syn: block, cover, shut in" "Mars will be as far away as 370m kilometres in 2013, and occluded for two weeks by the sun to boot" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1000 "paean" " a song of praise or triumph" "noun" "Paean was originally a song of praise for Apollo, or Paian as he was sometimes called
Syn: song of praise, hymn, alleluia, encomium, eulogy, panegyric, " "The boy wrote a paean for his dad, praising his many accomplishments. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1001 "panoply" " a complete or impressive collection of things" "noun" "Greek: pan- ""all"" + hopla""arms""=>complete suit of armour
Syn: array, range, collection" "Because the Orient is a luxury hotel, its panoply of premium services and amenities is unrivalled in the hotel industry" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1002 "pastiche" " an artistic work consisting of a medley of pieces taken from various sources" "noun" "Italian pasticcio ""medley, pastry cake,
Syn: mixture, blend, medley" "The mix of country, pop, and soul music made the album a fascinating pastiche of sounds. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1003 "paucity" "an insufficient quantity or number" "noun" "Same root as 'Poor, poverty""
Syn: scarcity, sparseness, dearth" "The paucity of talent at our school is going to prevent us from having a top-notch concert. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1004 "pellucid" "1. clear
2. Lucid in style or meaning; easily understood" "adj. " "Latin; per- ""through"" + lucere ""to shine""=>shine through
Syn: comprehensible, understandable" "A sentence that teaches a new vocabulary word should always be pellucid, that is, its style and meaning should be easily understandable so that you can derive the definition from the sentence" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1005 "phalanx" "1. a body of troops or police officers standing or moving in close formation, any closely ranked crowd of people
2. any of the bones of the fingers or toes" "noun" "Greek phalanx: ""line of battle, battle array"" " "1. They didn’t get far: On March 7, 1965, a phalanx of police blocked their exit from the Selma bridge.
2. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1006 "philistine" " A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts" "noun" "During the funeral service of a student killed in a 1693 town and gown dispute in Jena, Germany, Judges 16:20 ""the Philistines are upon you, Samson"" was read, whereupon from then on all understand backward, anti-learning and anti-arts (townspeople) to be “Philistines. """ "Jack is a philistine who unknowingly sold a vase valued at over a hundred thousand dollars for twenty bucks. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1007 "pique" "1. a feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight
2. to arouse/provoke interest" "noun" " Deutsch: Pieksen
French piquer""to prick.""Thus something that piques you could make you either excited OR angry
Syn1: annoyance, displeasure, indignation
Syn2:rouse, trigger (interest/curiosity/attention)" "1. The criticism piqued him and he kept quiet the whole evening
2. Hopefully the movie trailer will pique the interest of moviegoers and motivate them to buy tickets to see the film. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1008 "polemic" " a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something" "noun" "Greek polemikos: ""warlike, belligerent+ ic=nature of, like
Syn: diatribe, invective" "When the principal received an anonymous polemic about her leadership skills, she urged the writer to meet her face-to-face. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1009 "précis" " a summary or abstract of a text or speech" "noun" "Syn: synopsis, summation" "His latest book, 'Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking', is a précis of those 50 years, distilled into 77 readable and mostly bite-sized chapters" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1010 "prosaic" "Commonplace; unromantic" "adj. " " Latin prosa ""prose"" ordinary writing intended to communicate ideas and information+ ic=nature of, like
Syn: ordinary, everyday" "Because the biggest thing in my hometown is the grocery store, the city really is a prosaic little place. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1011 "pundit" " an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public" "noun" "From Sanskrit: a pundit was a ""learned Hindu"" or Sanskrit expert
Syn: authority, adviser" "And yet the prevailing view among pundits is that Russia is indeed back in Asia. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1012 "querulous" "Complaining in a petulant or whining manner" "adj. " "Same word root as quarrel
Syn: pettish, touchy, testy" "f there was an award for being querulous, my aunt would win because she is always complaining about something. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1013 "quiescence" " a state or period of inactivity or dormancy" "noun" "same word root as ""quiet""
Syn: inactivity, inertia, latency" "Any extended period of quiescence was a sure sign that the unusually quiet children were up to no good. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1014 "quixotic" "exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical" "adj. " "Spanish novel ""Don Quixote"" whose title character is given to unrealistic schemes and great chivalry+ic=nature of, like
Syn: unrealistic, impractical, romantic" "The idea of an obese person participating in a triathlon is a quixotic notion. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1015 "raconteur" " a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way" "noun" "French raconter ""to tell""
Syn: storyteller, spinner of yarns" "My father was a raconteur of stories of a dog with many strengths, named Pinkly" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1016 "redress" " remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance" "noun" "Syn: reparation, restitution, recompense" "Kate demanded redress from the builder when her deck collapsed. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1017 "repast" " a meal" "noun" "French/Latin: repas ""a meal""
Syn: feast, banquet" "Hoping to enjoy a romantic repast with her husband, Jill prepared his favorite dishes and lit candles. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1018 "ribald" "Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way" "adj. " "Syn: bawdy, indecent, risque" "When challenged about human rights in Chechnya, he replied with a ribald offer to arrange for the questioner's Islamic circumcision. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1019 "rococo" "Characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration" "adj. " "Rococo was a highly elaborate style in Europe in the 1700's " "The building, which once served as the local town hall, boasts rococo wall carvings, a statue of Pallas Athena" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1020 "sanguine" "Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation. cheerful; confident:" "adj. " "Latin sanguis ""blood"" In medieval medicine, red skin was a sign of an optimistic outlook
Syn: hopeful, buoyant, assured" " Her sanguine attitude put everyone at ease.
Some fear a future of mass unemployment. Others are sanguine that people will have time to adapt. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1021 "scintilla" " a tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling" "noun" "Syn: particle, iota, smidgen" "The investigator could not find a single scintilla of evidence to the claim" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1022 "semantic" "Relating to meaning in language or logic" "adj. " "ic=nature of, like
Syn: lingual, semasiological" "Semantic parsing also ensued over whether the modifier 'meaningful' is significantly (or meaningfully) different from 'significant. '" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1023 "sobriquet" " a person’s nickname" "noun" "Syn: appellation, moniker" "Alexander and Christina's sobriquets are Alex and Chrissy" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1024 "soporific" "inducing sleep" "adj. " "French/ Latin sopor ""deep sleep""+ic=nature of, like
Syn: sleep-inducing, somnolent, sedative" "While alcohol is soporific and can help you sleep, it does not take away your problems. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1025 "supine" "1. Failing to act as a result of moral weakness or indolence;
2. laying back with the face upward (opposite position to prone)" "adj. " "Latin: supinus= “thrown backwards” or “inactive. ”
Syn: weak, spineless" "1. The by-passers looked on as the crook robbed the old lady but were too supine to want to interfere.
2. After being sprayed with the poison, the roach flipped onto its back in a supine position and died. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1026 "synoptic" "Taking or involving a comprehensive mental view" "adj. " "Latin: syn-,: together, + -optic, meaning view or sight. => synoptic =pulls everything together as as to be seen
Syn: concise, succinct, compressed c" "At the beginning and the end of the course, synoptic presentations of the main physical theories were presented" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1027 "toady" "Act in an obsequious way" "verb" "In old days, traveling medicine men would come to town and their helper would eat an assumed to be poisonous toad which the doctor would then ""heal"" ? So toad-eater, later toady, was a person who would do anything to please his boss.
Syn: be servile towards, grovel to" "Britain’s Conservative government is accused of sacrificing the steel industry to toady up to China" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1028 "truculent" "Eager or quick to argue or fight" "adj. " "Syn: defiant, aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, disputatious, feisty, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome" "When my friend drinks too much, he becomes very truculent and will fight anyone. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1029 "turgid" "1. (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic
2. swollen" "adj. " "Latin turgidus: ""swollen, inflated. ""
Syn: overblown, inflated, grandiose, bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid" "1. It promotes a cult of personality around Mr. Baghdadi and churns out turgid propaganda about repaired bridges and newly opened schools.
2. He looked at the turgid leeches having had their fill of blood" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1030 "tyro" " a beginner or novice" "noun" "Syn: learner, neophyte, newcomer" " He easily took advantage of the tyro's inexperience and beat him easily" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1031 "umbrage" " Offense or annoyance" "noun" " Old French ombrage ""shade, shadow""
Syn: insult, affront" "Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president, takes umbrage at charges that reforms are lagging" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1032 "verdant" "(of countryside) green with grass or other rich vegetation" "adj. " "Feom French: Vert-= green
Syn: leafy, grassy, lush" "The lush, verdant hills of Ireland are the theme of the song ""the green, green grass of home""" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1033 "virulent" "1. extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
2. infectious; having the ability to cause disease or even death
3. harsh or corrosive in tone" "adj. " "Latin: poison ""virus""
Syn: toxic, deadly, destructive" "1. He was struck by a virulent insect bite.
2. If you get the most virulent form of cancer, you will probably not live longer than three months.
Parkhomeko's remark is another example of the virulent response to people who oppose leftist orthodoxy. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1034 "vitriol" " Cruel and bitter criticism" "noun" "Iron Sulphate has a glassy appearance, and was thus called vitriol (vitre=window/glass in French). When Iron Sulphate is heated, it creates sulphuric acid, and thus the link between biting, cruel and glass!
Syn: venom, nastiness" "Given the vitriol that has followed the film since its inception, it does well simply not to be a colossal misstep. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1035 "vociferous" "(Especially of a person or speech) vehement or clamorous. Vociferous isn't just loud, but annoying, too" "adj. " "Latin: vox ""voice"" + stem of ferre ""to carry""Syn: blatant, clamorous, noisy" "Ten weeks of ever-more vociferous argument, claims and counterclaims stretch between now the election date. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1036 "xenophobia" " Intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries" "noun" "Greek: xeno- ""foreign, strange"" + -phobia ""fear=> fear of strangers.
Syn: " "Africans in South Africa have repeatedly been victim of xenophobia, which has stunned and hurt them, as they thought the victims of Apartheid would be more tolerant" "Most Difficult" "FT" 1037 "yoke" " a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plow or cart that they are to pull" "noun" "Gleicher Wortstamm als Deutsch: Joch
Syn: bond, tie, subjection" "The existential consequences of throwing off the yoke of religion is debated in many countries. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 1038 "ambi" "both sides " "Greek/Latin root" "ambidextrous (both-handed)
ambivalent (be in 2 minds)" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1039 "consummate" "complete or perfect in every respect; supremely accomplished or skilled" " adj. " "Latin:com ""together, with"" + summus ""highest""=highest, most perfect
similar to ""summa com (lauda)""" "Even at a young age he was a consummate liar, lying to his grandmother that he was attending school every day while playing truant. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1040 "am
ami" "love" "Greek/Latin root" "amiable -friendly
pleasant
lovable
amicable=characterized by friendliness
amity -friendly and peaceful relations
amorous -showing romantic love
enamored=inflamed with love
captivated" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1041 "avi" "bird" "Greek/Latin root" "Aviary=a large enclosure for birds
Aviatrix=a female airplane pilot
Aviation=the art of designing or operating aircraft" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1042 "continence" "self control; self restraint; partial or complete abstention from sexual activity" " noun" "Latin: com ""with, together"" + tenere ""to hold""=>can hold back.
Ant: incontinence" "1a. He expressed doubt at a pregnancy-prevention program that put so much faith in the continence of teenagers
1b. During a rare moment of continence, Tom kept his smart comment to himself. 1c. The closure of public toilets during the Corona crisis has become a large problem for persons with continence issues. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1043 "cog" "to know" "Greek/Latin root" "Cognizant=fully informed
conscious
cognition=process of acquiring knowledge
incognito=disguised so no one knows you
recognize=to discover that one knows
cogitate=to think carefully about" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1044 "col
con
com" "with " "Greek/Latin root" "collaborate=to work together collision=smashingtogether colloquial -words formed by everyday interaction commemorate=to memorize together commune=living together while owning things in common concomitant=accompanying concur=to agree with someone" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1045 "dol" "pain
suffering" "Greek/Latin root" "Condolence=expression of sympathy
Indolence=a state of being lazy or slothful
Doleful=sorrowful
mournful
Dolorous=full of pain or sorrow" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1046 "dys" "abnormal
bad" "Greek/Latin root" "dyspepsia=abnormal indigestion
dystopia=an imaginary place of total misery
dyslexia=impairmentof the ability to handle word
dysfunctional=poorly functional" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1047 "eu" "good
well" "Greek/Latin root" "euphemism=replacing an offensive word with an inoffensive one
euphony=having a pleasant sound
euphoria=feeling of well=being
eulogy=speech in praise of someone
eugenics=the study of hereditary improvement of a race" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1048 "extra (part 1 of
2. " "outside
beyond" "Greek/Latin root" "extraordinary=beyond ordinary
extraterrestrial=outside the Earth
extrovert=an outgoing person
extradite=to hand over an accused to the state where crime was committed" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1049 "geno
gene
genesis" "birth
gender
family
kind
race (genre)" "Greek/Latin root" "genealogy=the study of the history of a family
generation=all the people born at approx the same
genetic=relating to heredity encoded in the genes
Congenital=existing from birth" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1050 "grat" "pleasing" "Greek/Latin root" "gratify=to pleasesomeone
grateful=feeling thankful
gratuity=a tip
token of appreciationin
gratiate=to bring oneself into the favor ofanother by deliberate efforts" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1051 "loc
loq" "speak" "Greek/Latin root" "Grandiloquent=pompous or inflated in language
eloquent=speaking beautifully and forcefully
loquacious=very talkative
circumlocution=roundabout talk
elocution=art of clear & expressive speaking
locution=talking
soliloquy=long solo talk" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1052 "mal
male" "bad
evil
ill " "Greek/Latin root" "malfunction=not functioning properly
malevolence=ill will
malicious=showing strong ill will
malediction=a curse
malign=to speak ill about someone
maladroit=clumsy
tactless" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1053 "meta" "beyond
change
between" "Greek/Latin root" "metaphysics=study of nature and reality
metamorphosis=a complete change of form
metastasis=the transmission of disease to other parts of the body. " "Root words" "Aristotle" 1054 "morph" "shape
form" "Greek/Latin root" "metamorphosis=complete change of form
morphology=the branch of biology that deals with the structure & form of organisms
amorphous=without distinct shape or form" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1055 "nat" "born" "Greek/Latin root" "innate=included since birth
nascent=starting to develop
natal=relating to birth
natural=gotten at birth
not afterward" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1056 "ob
op" "against
opposition
" "Greek/Latin root" "object=to be against something
obscure=hard to understand
obstruct=hinder
obfuscate=confuse
darken
obtuse –not sharp
dull
obstreperous –noisly defiant. Un" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1057 "omni" "all" "Greek/Latin root" "omnipotent=with all the power
omniscient=knowing all things
omnipresent=present everywhere
omnivorous=eating all foods" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1058 "pan" "all
any
everyone" "Greek/Latin root" "panacea=a cure for all diseases or problems
panorama=an allaround view
pantheism=the worship of all gods
pandemic=affecting all" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1059 "path" "feeling
emoition" "Greek/Latin root" "empathy=identification with & understanding of another’s feeling
sapathy=a lack of feeling or interest
sympathy=harmony or agreement
sharing someone’s feelings
antipathy=a feeling of great dis" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1060 "purge" "clean" "Greek/Latin root" "Purge=remove anything undesirable
purgatory=according to Roman Catholics a placewhere souls must clean themselves of sin
expurgate=remove objectionable passages from a publication" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1061 "sci" "to know" "Greek/Latin root" "conscience=sense of knowing right from wrong
conscious=knowing what is happening
omniscient=knowing everything
prescient=ability to perceive events before they occur" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1062 "somn" "sleep" "Greek/Latin root" "insomnia=inability to fall asleep
somniloquy=talking in one’s sleep
somnolent=feeling sleepy
Somnambulist=sleep walk" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1063 "theo" "god" "Greek/Latin root" "monotheism=belief in one god
polytheism=worshiping more than one God
theology=the study of religion, god, etc
theocracy=Form of govt where religion is the guiding principle" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1064 "tractable" " can be easily influenced or managed. ability to be easily managed or controlled " "Greek/Latin root" "attract =to pull nearer
distract =to drag attention away fromsomething
Intractable=stubborn" "Her mother wished she were more tractable. (n: tractibility)" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1065 "ver" "truth" "Greek/Latin root" "veracious=truthful
honest
veracity=the truth
verify=to make sure that something is true
veritable
averasseverate" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1066 "viv" "life" "Greek/Latin root" "Vivid=livelyrevival=the act of bringing back to life
vital=pertaining to live
vivacious=high-spirited and full of life
convivial=sociable" "Root words" "Aristotle" 1067 "ger" "old age" "adj. " "geriatrics=medicine pertaining to the elderly
gerontocracy=the rule of the elders
gerontology=the science of aging. " "Greek/Latin " "SMB" 1068 "grand" "large, imposing, principal, chief, most important" "adj. " "Latin grandis ""big, great; full, abundant""" "grandeur=the quality of being grand/magnificient
grandiose=pretentiously grand
aggrandize=to make something appear bigger or greater
grandiloquent=pompous or bombastic " "Greek/Latin " "SMB" 1069 "vac" "empty" "Greek/Latin root" "evacuate=to empty a dangerous place
vacant=empty
not occupied
acation=a time without work
vacuous=lacking intelligence" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 1070 "belli" "war" "Greek/Latin root" "bellicose=warlike in manner or temperament
belligerent=hostile
ready to fight
rebel=person who opposes and fights" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1071 "controvert" "oppose with arguments; attempt to prove to be false or incorrect; contradict" " verb" "a back-formation from controversy
Syn: rebut, refute, altercate, argue, argufy, bicker, brabble, brawl, dispute, fall out, fight, hassle, jar, quarrel, quibble, row, scrap, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle" "Many grew up learning that Columbus was the first European to land in America, but now we have evidence to controvert that idea and other explorers such as Leif Eriksson beat Columbus to America. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1072 "convalesce" "recover gradually from an illness" " verb" "Latin: com=with + valere =strong (same root at valour)=>gain strength
Syn: recover, recuperate, recuperate" "In order to help patients convalesce faster from COVID, doctors now administer a cheap anti-biotic steroid compound. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1073 "cis (sometimes scis)" "cut" "Greek/Latin root" "incision
precision" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1074 "cosm" "order
world" "Greek/Latin root" "cosmos
microcosm" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1075 "cycl" "circle" "Greek/Latin root" "cycle
cyclone" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1076 "crabbed" "characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical" " adj. " "from the crab's combative disposition
Syn: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered" "He seems to have been constantly crabbed, forbiddingly morose and harsh of manner. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1077 "dict" "word
speak
say" "Greek/Latin root" "dictate
dictation
dictator" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1078 "duc
duct" "carry
lead" "Greek/Latin root" "conduct
conducive" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1079 "fac
fact" "do
make" "Greek/Latin root" "facsimile
manufacture" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1080 "fect" "do
make" "Greek/Latin root" "perfect" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1081 "form" "shape" "Greek/Latin root" "uniform
reform" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1082 "fort" "strong" "Greek/Latin root" "fortify
fort
fortifications
" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1083 "conversant" "familiar, as by study or experience; able to converse knowledgeably" " adj. " "same root as conservation" "The intelligent and widely read young man was conversant on many topics" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1084 "convivial" "friendly and making you feel welcome, festive; occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company" " adj. " "Latin: com ""with, together"" + vivere ""to live""=>to (enjoy) life together, to feast" "Carl was a convivial party host who made everyone feel at home. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1085 "convoke" "call together; cause to assemble in meeting; convene" " verb" "Latin: con=with, together"" + vocare ""to call"" from vox ""voice""=>to call together, to meet" "The chairman decided to convoke a meeting to discuss the company’s budget issue. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1086 "log
logy" "speech
study of dialogue" "Greek/Latin root" "analogy" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1087 "man
manu" "hand" "Greek/Latin root" "manage
manual" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1088 "mater
matri" "mother
home" "Greek/Latin root" "matriarch
maternity" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1089 "medi" "middle" "Greek/Latin root" "median
mediocre" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1090 "cornet" "a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone" " noun" "The musician said that that the cornet sounds similar to a trumpet, but softer and mellower. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1091 "multi" "many" "Greek/Latin root" "multiply" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1092 "nom
nym" "name" "Greek/Latin root" "nominate
synonym:" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1093 "pater
patri" "father" "Greek/Latin root" "paternal
patriarch" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1094 "pathy" "feeling
suffering" "Greek/Latin root" "sympathy" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1095 "coronary" "The protective ring of blood vessels surrounding the heart and supplying it with oxygen and other nutrients. " " adj. " "The blood vessels surround the heart like a crone, therefore: coronary" "A coronary thrombosis is when the veins around the heart clog up and starve the heart of oxygen and nutrients and is commonly called a heart attack. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1096 "countermand" "cancel; revoke command or order; order or direct in opposition to; prohibit; forbid" " verb" "French: contre- ""against"" + mander- ""to order""=> to change or retract a command
Syn: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate" "After learning his troops would be outnumbered in battle, the colonel elected to countermand the order and return to camp" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1097 "scend" "climb" "Greek/Latin root" "ascend
descend" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1098 "script" "written language" "Greek/Latin root" "postscript" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1099 "secut" "follow" "Greek/Latin root" "consecutive
non sequitur" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1100 "sent" "feel
think" "Greek/Latin root" "sentient
consent
sentiment" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1101 "sequ" "follow" "Greek/Latin root" "sequence
subsequently" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1102 "tact" "touch" "Greek/Latin root" "contact
tactless (without feeling), tactful (with feeling), " "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1103 "tempor" "time" "Greek/Latin root" "contemporary, temporary, " "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1104 "tract" "pull
draw out" "Greek/Latin root" "tractor
attractive" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1105 "crag" "steep, rugged rock; rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge" " noun" "As the cliff climbers made their way up the mountain crag, the made sure to reach for the most sturdy pieces to hold on to. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1106 "vene" "assemble
meet" "Greek/Latin root" "convene" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1107 "vent" "come
go" "Greek/Latin root" "advent=coming to christmas" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1108 "vers" "turn" "Greek/Latin root" "reverse
versatile" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1109 "vert" "turn" "Greek/Latin root" "Do NOT confuse with French ""vert""
which means green" "convert" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1110 "voc
vok" "voice
call" "Greek/Latin root" "vocal
revoke" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1111 "vox" "voice" "Greek/Latin root" "vox populi=voice of the people" "WHO is morphing from vox populi neutrality to a more combative defense of its policies, decisions and players. " "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1112 "gullible" "easily persuaded to believe something" "adj. " "of uncertain origin" "The gullible little boy gave his older sister all of his allowance because she told him she would buy a pony for him. " "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1113 "volu
volve" "turn
roll" "Greek/Latin root" "revolution" "Greek/Latin " "Manhattan" 1114 "cravat" "a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck (not a tie)" " noun" "Deutsch wortstamm: Kravatte, aber nicht das Gleiche" "The dandy folded a silken handkerchief into a cravat before wrapping it around his neck" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1115 "lethargic" "lacking energy" "adj. " "From same Greek word. ic=nature of, like
" "It’s not uncommon to feel lethargic for weeks or even months after major surger" "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1116 "paradox" "a statement that contradicts itself but might be true" "noun" "Greek: para- ""contrary to"" + doxa ""opinion=>a statement contrary to common belief or expectation" "The fact that the retired teacher claimed to hate all pets but adopted seven cats is an intriguing paradox. " "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1117 "pedant" "a person who makes an excessive display of learning" "noun" "Gleicher Wortstamm als ""Pedagogue""= ""person who trumpets minor points of learning, one who overrates learning or lays undue stress on exact knowledge of details or trifles as compared with large matters or general principles""" "Professor Blackwell, a well-known pedant, required his pre-med students to speak in Latin throughout the entire semester. " "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1118 "acro
akro" "at the top
at the end
outermost; excellent" "Greek/Latin root" "a sub of the Greek
PIE root ""ac"": be sharp
rise (out) to a point
pierce. " "acrobat(one that goes high/to the limit)
acromegaly=growth disease( highest size (mega))
acronym(sharp name=use of first letters)
acrophobia(fear of heights)
acropolis(city at the top)
" "Root words" "SMB" 1119 "credulity" "readiness of belief; disposition to believe on slight evidence" " noun" "Latin: credo=belief
Syn:gullabilt" "Tom’s astounding credulity led him to believe that the world really is flat. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1120 "crumple" "fall apart; fold or collapse; crush together or press into wrinkles" " verb" "The writer tore out the piece of paper from his scrapbook, crumpled it up into ball and threw it into the bin. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1121 "enervate" "cause (someone or something) to feel drained of energy; weaken" "verb" "Enervate is one of the 5 most common mistakes made in the GRE!" "The boxer used a swift left uppercut to the jaw to enervate his opponent. " "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1122 "cuddly" "with a way of nestling together; by hugging, embracing so as to keep warm" "adj. " "On the cold winter's day, he and his wife took a cuddly blanket and warmed up in front of the fire" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1123 "fervid" "intensely enthusiastic or passionate" "adj. " "The child showed a fervid fascination for superheroes, pouring over comic books for hours. " "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1124 "garrulous" "full of trivial conversation" "adj. " "from Latin garrulus ""talkative, chattering" "The garrulous hair stylist talked to each customer for hours at a time. " "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1125 "cull" "selection; organised killing of selected animals; person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality" " noun" "French cuiler ""collect, gather, pluck, select"". " "The growing number of elephants in the Kruger park necessitates their culling, either to be shot or for transfer elsewhere. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1126 "cumber" "rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; be burdensome or oppressive to; hinder or embarrass in attaining an object" " verb" "Old French encombrer, from combre ""obstruction, barrier""
Syn:constrain, encumber, restrain" "The dead cumbered the living, and the oars were continually dropping from the hands of the slain, crippling and confusing all the movements. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1127 "cumbersome" "heavy; difficult to handle because of weight or bulk" " adj. " "Old French encombrer, from combre ""obstruction, barrier""
Syn:constrain, encumber, restrain" "Because the cumbersome package weighed over three hundred pounds, it took two men to move it" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1128 "cupidity" "greed; excessive desire, especially for wealth" " noun" "
Syn:avarice, avariciousness, covetousness.
Note: Cupid is a god of desire, affection and erotic love - but not of monetary desire. " "John’s cupidity led him to try and rob the bank. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1129 "para" "1. Greek origin = alongside, coming from, beyond
altered; contrary; irregular, abnormal " "Greek " "Greek origin = alongside or altered
Latin origin = defense, protection from" "1. parallel (alongside each other) paramedic (someone alongside a medic)
paraphrase (restatement=coming phase) parastatal (organisation that runs alongside state )
paresis (altered ie. partial paralysis) paralegal(one trained in subsidiary legal matters ""alongside legal"")
parameter (used alongside to measure system) paraplegic (to be struck on the one side - eg lower side
left side) paranormal (beyond normal)
parasite (alongside food)" "Greek/Latin " "SMB" 1130 "para " "2. Latin origin = defense, protection against" "Latin" "Greek origin = alongside or altered
Latin origin = defense, protection from" "2. parachute (protect from falling)
parasol (protect from sun)" "Greek/Latin " "SMB" 1131 "vacillate" "1. to waver between different opinions or actions, be undecided about something;
2. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern" "verb" "Latin vacillatus ""sway to and fro; hesitate""
Syn: hover, oscillate, vibrate, fluctuate, waver" "1. Undergraduate students often vacillate among various majors before deciding which degree to pursue.
2. the line on the monitor vacillated" "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1132 "cussed" "1. cursed
2. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing" " adj. " "A vulgar pronunciation of curse
Syn: obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant" "That cussed cat once again woke us up last night" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1133 "volatile" "likely to change rapidly and unpredictably" "adj. " "It is possible for a country’s political climate to remain volatile for decade" "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1134 "waver" "to go back and forth between choices or opinions" "verb" "Some citizens vote solely along party lines and never waver in their political decisions. " "Common GRE" "Kaplan" 1135 "cynosure" "object that serves as a focal point of attention and admiration; something that strongly attracts attention; center of attraction" " noun" "Latin Cynosura, literally ""dog's tail""old name of star constellation containing the North Star, that did not move and thus used to navigate in ancient times" "All eyes were on the figure skater, she was the cynosure of the stadium, as she triple-axed through the air. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1136 "contiguous" "sharing an edge or boundary; touching; neighboring" " adj. " "Latin: contiguus= bordering.
same root word as ""contact""
adjacent, conterminous, neighboring" "Germany and the contiguous countries of Switzerland and Austria have German as a common language" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1137 "agr" "field" "Greek/Latin root" "agriculture
" "Latin words" "nko" 1138 "alt" "High" "Greek/Latin root" "alto (high pitched singer)
" "Latin words" "nko" 1139 "alter" "other" "Greek/Latin root" "alter-ego
alternative
alternate
" "Latin words" "nko" 1140 "daub" "smear as with paint; apply with quick or crude strokes to surface; make crude paintings" " verb" "1a. He daubed the ceiling with plaster
1b. My mom screamed at me when I began to daub my bread with too much cream cheese. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1141 "anim" "life spirit" "Greek/Latin root" "animation" "Latin words" "nko" 1142 "ann
annu
enni" "year" "Greek/Latin root" "annual
" "Latin words" "nko" 1143 "dauntless" "bold; incapable of being discouraged; fearless" " adj. " "French: daunter: to be afraid + less=>cannot be made afraid
Syn: audacious, brave, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing, bold" "A dauntless general decided to press the attack even though the odds were not in his favor, and his boldness earned his faction a major victory. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1144 "aper" "open" "Greek/Latin root" "aperture" "Latin words" "nko" 1145 "apt" "fit" "Greek/Latin root" "aptitude
apt
" "Latin words" "nko" 1146 "deciduous" "falling off as of leaves; falling off or shed at specific season or stage of growth" " adj. " "Latin:de ""down"" + cadere ""to fall""=> fall down
Deutsch; laubabwerfend" "During the fall, the deciduous shrubs in my yard will release their leaves. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1147 "debase" "reduce in quality or value; lower in esteem; degrade" " verb" "Latin: de- ""down"" + base (adj. ) ""low""=> to lower in rank, position or quality
Syn: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate, extend" "1a. The mint debased the coins with cheaper nickel metal
1b. Many are claiming that Mr. Trump is debasing the office of the president. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1148 "aster
astr" "star" "Greek/Latin root" "astral
astronomy" "Latin words" "nko" 1149 "declaim" "1. Speak loudly and vehemently in a passionate manner
2. Make formal speech
3. Recite words aloud for practice. " " verb" "Old French: de-, + clamare ""to cry, shout""=>to practice oratory, make a formal speech or oration
Syn1: inveigh
Syn2: " "1. he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society
2. The defendant declaimed his innocence in a passionate speech in court.
3. He declaimed his vocab list out loud, practising both the pronounciation and trying to recall the meaning of the words. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1150 "debunk" "expose as false, exaggerated, worthless; ridicule" " verb" "de=reverse + Bunk=nonsense. In 1820 the US congress repr for Buncombe, Carolina, gave a long and rambling speech, which he refused to shorten, claiming that it was important for Buncombe, but his speech was contentless…thus bunk (for Buncombe) came to be known as nonsense. " "1. The result of biologist's experiments quickly debunked the theory that 5G antennas were accelerating the spread of Corona. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1151 "declivity" "downward slope, as of a hill" " noun" "Latin: de ""down"" + clivus ""a slope""=downward slope
Syn: declension, declination, decline, descent, downslope, fall
Ant: acclivity" "Prominent road signs pre-warn trucks to engage a lower gear so as not to overload their brakes on the forthcoming declivity. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1152 "dappled" "spotted; having mottled or spotted skin or coat" " adj. " "Syn: spotted, mottled, patterned" "1a. The Disney film poster showed Bambi's dappled rear with it looking into the camera gracefully
1b. The photography made artistic use of the dappled effect of sunlight filtering through the forest trees. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1153 "ambul" "walk
move" "Greek/Latin root" "ambulance" "Latin words" "nko" 1154 "decrepitude" "state of collapse caused by illness, old age or neglect (eg. Buildings)" " noun" "de ""down"" + crepitus, ""to crack, break""=>state of being broken down by infirmities
Syn: dilapidation, deterioration" "In these modern times, we need to realise that the hollow self-regard of performative life is no preparation for the drama of creeping decrepitude when one ages. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1155 "arbor" "tree" "Greek/Latin root" "arboreal(pertaining to trees)
arboretum(where trees are culitivated)
arborcide(killing of trees)" "Latin words" "nko" 1156 "decry" "express strong disapproval of; disparage" " verb" "Old French descrier ""cry out, announce""
Syn: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate" "The liberal news media is constantly trying to decry the efforts of the country’s conservative president. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1157 "apo
apho" "away
off
separate" "Greek/Latin root" "apogee (furthest away)" "Latin words" "nko" 1158 "bas" "low" "Greek/Latin root" "bass
base
basement
bas-relief
" "Latin words" "nko" 1159 "defection" "withdrawing support or help; act of abandoning something to which one is bound by allegiance or duty; failure in duty" " noun" "During the Cold War, it was a regular event for elite athletes of East European countries to defect to the West. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1160 "defunct" "dead; no longer in use or existence" " adj. " "Latin: de- ""off, completely"" + fungi ""perform or discharge duty""=>no longer performs duty" "The now defunct Saturn V rocket was suspended from the roof the NASA museum in Cape Caneveral. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1161 "dejected" "being in low spirits; depressed" " adj. " "The players were dejected after losing the big game. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1162 "deleterious" "having harmful effect; injurious; having quality of destroying life; noxious; poisonous" " adj. " "Latin deleterius=""noxious, poisonous""
Syn: harmful, injurious" "Because I know alcohol is deleterious to my health, I rarely drink more than one glass of wine. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1163 "brev" "brief
short" "Greek/Latin root" "brevity
" "Latin words" "nko" 1164 "bar" "pressure
weight" "Greek/Latin root" "barometer" "Latin words" "nko" 1165 "burs" "pouch
purse" "Greek/Latin root" "bursary(stipend)
bursar(treasurer of a college)" "Latin words" "nko" 1166 "cad
cas" "fall" "Greek/Latin root" "cascade
" "Latin words" "nko" 1167 "cand" "white
shining" "Greek/Latin root" "candescent(shining)
candella" "Latin words" "nko" 1168 "cap
capt
cept" "take
hold" "Greek/Latin root" "In old legal documents determining seizure of assets
the header was entitled ""document of caption""- which eventually led to the word caption being used to mean as a short summary text " "captivity
captive
capture
captious(seizes any opportunity to talk a lot about little faults)
captivation (taken hold by beauty or excellence)
" "Latin words" "nko" 1169 "capit" "head
main" "Greek/Latin root" "capitulate
" "Latin words" "nko" 1170 "carn" "flesh" "Greek/Latin root" "carnivor
" "Latin words" "nko" 1171 "denizen" "1. inhabitant or resident; regular visitor
2. a plant or animal naturalized in a region" " noun" "Latin: de- ""from"" + intus ""within""=someone from within
Same root origin as ""citizen"" (which applied to city-states), but ""from here""
dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant" "1. Because Janet visits her local casino every day, she is considered a denizen of the gaming hall
2. The denizens of the deep ocean are often strange creatures indeed. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1172 "denouement" "outcome; final resolution or clarification of dramatic or narrative plot" " noun" "des- ""un-, out"" + nouer/nodus ""to tie, knot"" =>untieing of knot/plot/story" "Dad had already fallen asleep in front of the TV by the time the denouement was taking place: the big action scene was over and the characters were tieing up loose ends and explaining why the plot eventually turned out the way it did. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1173 "cent" "hundred" "Greek/Latin root" "centimeter
centurion
cent
" "Latin words" "nko" 1174 "chrom" "color" "Greek/Latin root" "chromograph
" "Latin words" "nko" 1175 "chron" "time" "Greek/Latin root" "chronology
" "Latin words" "nko" 1176 "deportment" "manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage" " noun" "French déportement, from déporter ""to behave""
Syn: behaviour, conduct, demeanour" "People say you shouldn't judge by appearances, but the truth is that your deportment does matter. How you dress, speak, look and carry yourself are all important" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1177 "clin" "lean
bend" "Greek/Latin root" "word-forming element meaning ""slope
slant
incline" "incline
decline
recline
clinometer
" "Latin words" "nko" 1178 "derogate" "1. make othes to seem inferior
2. int. verb. To take away a part so as to impair " " verb" "Latin: de ""away"" + rogare ""ask, question; propose""=>""to take away, detract from, diminish""
Syn1: belittle, denigrate, minimize
Syn2: detract" "1. He tended to derogate everyone around him, so he had no chance of winning the election for class president
2. A few instances of inaccuracy or mediocrity can never derogate from the superlative merit of Homer and Vergil" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1179 "descant" "1. a melody or counterpoint sung above the plainsong of the tenor
2. discuss fully; talk at great length about something of one's interest" " verb" "Latin dis- ""asunder, apart"" + cantus ""song, a singing; bird-song""=>sing/talk things apart (to the greatest detail)" "1. Many church hymns include a descant, sung at a higher pitch than the melody
2. A debate almost always requires you to descant with an opponent for a long time, since explaining a point of view can rarely be done quickly. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1180 "card" "heart" "Greek/Latin root" "cardio
cardiac arrest
cardiogram
" "Latin words" "nko" 1181 "despoil" "deprive of something valuable by force; rob; take as spoils" " verb" "Despoil is to spoil, only worse
Syn: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip" "The landscape has been despoiled by industrial development." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1182 "dexterity" "readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts" " noun" "French: dextirité ""manual skill, skill in using the hands; physical adroitness in general"".
Syn: sleight" "1. Pruning, thinning, picking and packaging delicate ripe fruit requires manual dexterity from the orchard fields to the packing line.
2. They responded with remarkable vocal dexterity in a raucous rendition of Irreplaceable. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1183 "dexterous" "skillful in the use of the hands; having mental skill" " adj. " "adj. of dexterity
" "The new production employee showed to be dexterous of hand and inventive of mind" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1184 "curr
curs" "run" "Greek/Latin root" "current
courier
" "Latin words" "nko" 1185 "cata" "down
against
completely
intensive
according to" "Greek/Latin root" "catabatic wind(downslope)
catapult(throw against intensely)
catastrophe(intense against what is expected)
catoptric(pertaining to mirrors)
cataclysm(flood=intensive washing)
cataclasm(great breaking down)
cathode(lower negative pole)
catheter(lets down liquid out of body)
catacomb(underground burial place)
" "Latin words" "nko" 1186 "caust
caut" "to burn" "Greek/Latin root" "caustic soda
" "Latin words" "nko" 1187 "cerebr" "brain" "Greek/Latin root" "cerebral
" "Latin words" "nko" 1188 "cert" "sure" "Greek/Latin root" "certitude
certain
" "Latin words" "nko" 1189 "chrys" "gold
yellow" "Greek/Latin root" "chrysthanium" "Latin words" "nko" 1190 "cruc" "cross" "Greek/Latin root" "crucify
" "Latin words" "nko" 1191 "dietetics" "study of nutrition as it relates to health" " noun" "Prof. Sanders, emeritus professor of nutrition and dietetics at King's College London, said: "" I'm concerned many people think B12 deficiency is a myth. """ "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1192 "uranian" "homosexual" "adj. " "from the reference to Aphrodite in Plato's ""Symposium; "" Urania ""Heavenly""" """One may recognize the pure uranian enthusiasts in the very character of their attachments"" Plato" "AMB" "RATMW" 1193 "dec" "ten" "Greek/Latin root" "decade
decennial
" "Latin words" "nko" 1194 "direful" "dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful" " adj. " "
Syn: awful, dire, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible" "The 1929 stock market crash was the first direful indication of the dark days to come " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1195 "derm" "skin" "Greek/Latin root" "dermatologist" "Latin words" "nko" 1196 "discomfit" "to make perplex or uneasy, to make someone feel embarassed" " verb" "
Syn: bring to a sweat, discompose, disconcert, rattle, untune, upset" "When my mother spoke about my boyfriend’s criminal past, she hoped it would discomfit me so I would break up with him. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1197 "discomposure" " 1. anxious embarrassment
2. a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure" " noun" "Syn: discomfiture, disconcertion, disconcertment" "2. As the interregator blasted question after question at me, his colleague remained entirely at his ease and was watching my discomposure with a quiet, mocking smile. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1198 "dign" "worthy" "Greek/Latin root" "dignity
" "Latin words" "nko" 1199 "discreet" "respectful of privacy or secrecy; quiet; diplomatic" " adj. " "Discreet means on the down low, under the radar, careful, but discrete means individual or detached" "The discreet Swiss banker hushed in his grey suit and spoke in quiet words" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1200 "dorm" "sleep" "Greek/Latin root" "dormitory
dormant
" "Latin words" "nko" 1201 "domesticate" "cultivate; make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans " " verb" "Humans likely domesticated horses about 5500 years ago on the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1202 "don" "give" "Greek/Latin root" "donor
" "Latin words" "nko" 1203 "dur" "harden
to last
lasting" "Greek/Latin root" "durable
" "Latin words" "nko" 1204 "dour" "hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect" " adj. " "Dour and endure most likely come from the Latin word durus which means ""hard""" "Because the coach was disappointed in his team’s behavior, he wore a dour expression when he gave his post-game speech. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1205 "equ" "equal" "Greek/Latin root" "equinox (same length of day and night), equidistant, equipoise(balanced)" "Latin words" "nko" 1206 "fac
fact
fect" "make
do" "Greek/Latin root" "factory, " "Latin words" "nko" 1207 "fer" "wild" "Greek/Latin root" "not to be confused with ""ferro"", which come from ""Fe""=iron. These iron-pertaining words normally have a double ""r""" "feral(wild), ferine(wild animals), ferocious, ferocity" "Latin words" "nko" 1208 "fid" "faith
truth" "Greek/Latin root" "fidelity
" "Latin words" "nko" 1209 "fin" "end" "Greek/Latin root" "finish
" "Latin words" "nko" 1210 "flect
flex" "bend" "Greek/Latin root" "deflect
reflect
reflection
" "Latin words" "nko" 1211 "downcast" "low in spirits; depressed; directed downward" " adj. " "Syn: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited" "The Dutch football team generally leave the field downcast after playing against Germany" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1212 "draconian" "extremely harsh; very severe, oppressive or strict" " adj. " "Named after Dracon, the archon of Athens who laid down a code of laws that mandated death as punishment for minor crimes. " "Giving someone a life sentence for stealing a loaf of bread is a draconian punishment" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1213 "frag
fract" "break" "Greek/Latin root" "fragment
fractify
fraction
fractal" "Latin words" "nko" 1214 "fug" "flee
" "Greek/Latin root" "fugitive
" "Latin words" "nko" 1215 "drawl" "speaking with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit; lengthened, slow monotonous utterance" " noun" "He spoke with a Southern drawl, and had a cowboy hat and boots to match" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1216 "e" "out
away" "Greek/Latin root" "emigration" "Latin words" "nko" 1217 "em
en" "into
cover with
cause" "Greek/Latin root" "employ" "Latin words" "nko" 1218 "en
in" "inside" "Greek/Latin root" "enhance, " "Latin words" "nko" 1219 "ergo" "work" "Greek/Latin root" "argon(a=not+ergon=work=>inert)
ergophobia(fear of work)
ergonomic=economic study of work
" "Latin words" "nko" 1220 "for" "completely (used to intensify the meaning of a word), against" "Greek/Latin root" "Deutsch: fuer-, ver- " "forswear, " "Latin words" "nko" 1221 "fore" "in front of
previous
earlier" "Greek/Latin root" "Deutsch: vor-, vorder-" "foremost, forehead, forefront, foreman, forefather, forefinger (next to thumb), forefend(prevent from happening), foreshadow(indicate by signs), foresight(see early), forearm, forebrain(front of brain), forebode(make a prediction), forebear(someone from whom you are descended), forecast, foreclosure(proceedings to retrieve collateral for a non-paid loan), foreclose(prevent from happening), foredoom(doomed beforehand), foredge(inside of book when shelved, opposite to spine), forego(do without), foreground, foregone(well in the past), foregather(put in one spot), forehand, foreknow, foremast(front mast), forename, forenoon, foreordain(determine in advance)" "Latin words" "nko" 1222 "dredger" "one who fishes or cleans waterways with a dredge, which is an instrument used to gather things by dragging" " noun" "1. They were very efficient at hoisting up oysters out of the bay with the dredger
2. The canals in the Netherlands need to be constantly deepened with a dredger
3. During the 40th year reunion he dredged up old memories from his school days. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1223 "gest" "carry
bring" "Greek/Latin root" "gestation period" "Latin words" "nko" 1224 "grad
gress" "step
go" "Greek/Latin root" "gradual
gradient
" "Latin words" "nko" 1225 "dub" "1. to honor with a title (eg. A knighthood) or description
2. to hit (a ball or shot) poorly
3. to provide (a motion-picture film) with a new soundtrack and especially dialogue in a different language" " verb" "1. He was dubbed Knight Alexander de Longrée
2. He took a massive backswing but his shot was nothing more than a dubbed attempt to hit the ball far and it landed in the rough.
3. The Hollywood box office hit was dubbed into 15 different languagses" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1226 "ductile" "1. easily influenced
2. flexible; pliable" " adj. " "Syn1: malleable
Syn2: malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile" "1. He tended to agree with what everyone else did or said, so he gained a reputation of being too ductile, or easily manipulated
2. Copper and tin wire are both ductile and able to be stretched" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1227 "hydr" "water" "Greek/Latin root" "anhydous
hydraulic
" "Latin words" "nko" 1228 "integer
integra
integrum" "entire" "Greek/Latin root" "integer
integral
intergrate
" "Latin words" "nko" 1229 "ject" "throw" "Greek/Latin root" "eject
reject
inject
" "Latin words" "nko" 1230 "junct" "meet
join" "Greek/Latin root" "junction
" "Latin words" "nko" 1231 "duplicity" "double-dealing; deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; acting in bad faith. " " noun" " Latin: du/duo=two + plicity=state ""twofold, having two parts. " "Even though the robbers were supposed to be working as a team, each one used duplicity to try and steal from the others. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1232 "leg
lig
lect" "choose
gather" "Greek/Latin root" "ligament" "Latin words" "nko" 1233 "potentate" "monarch; ruler who is unconstrained by law" " noun" "Latin: potent= strong + ate=strong person
Syn: dictator" "Trump is more instinctive dictator than democrat, in the style of his favourite potentate, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince bin Salman. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1234 "irredentist" "Wishing to annex same speaking neighbouring regions into own country. " "adj. " "Named after Italian Irredentist political party formed 1878 which demanded the annexation of neighboring regions where a part of the population was Italian-speaking. " "Russia undoubtebly has irredentist ambitions, taking over the Krim and eyeing other regions in the Ukraine and beyond. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1235 "promulgate" "1. proclaim doctrine or law
2. make known by official publication" "verb" "Latin: pro ""forth"" + vulgare ""make public, publish. ""
Syn1: declare
Syn2: proclaim, announce, promote" "1. more than 200 colleges and universities have promulgated behavioral codes that punish various forms of harassment
2. It seems as though the candidate is airing commercials every hour to promulgate his political platform. " "AMB" "Web" 1236 "prudence" "1: The ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason
2: sagacity or shrewdness in the management of affairs
3: skill and good judgment in the use of resources
4: caution or circumspection as to danger or risk" "noun" "Latin prudentia = ""foresight, sagacity.""
Syn: cautious, carefulness
Not to be confused with prude, from French=excessively modest/proud" "He advised to use some old-fashioned prudence when agreeing to meet face-to-face with an online acquaintance. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1237 "luc
lum" "light" "Greek/Latin root" "luminary
lucifer
" "Latin words" "nko" 1238 "perdition" "unending damnation; the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment" "noun" "Latin: Perdre=get lost
Syn: Hell, inferno" "He did not wish to end up in the the fires of perdition" "AMB" "TCE" 1239 "gon" "angle" "Greek/Latin root" "polygon
hexagon
" "Latin words" "nko" 1240 "gran" "grain" "Greek/Latin root" "granular" "Latin words" "nko" 1241 "helic" "spiral
circular" "Greek/Latin root" "ic=nature of, like
" "helix, " "Latin words" "nko" 1242 "heli" "sun" "Greek/Latin root" "helium
heli-centric
" "Latin words" "nko" 1243 "hemo-
hemato-
emia-" "blood" "Greek/Latin root" " anaemia:an=lack of blood azotemia:azot=nitrogen in the blodd
glycemia:glyco=sugar in the blood hematite:tite=stone, ie. bloodlike stone
hemoglobin:globule=red cells in blood hemophilia:philia=loves (to shed) blood, ie. bluter
hemorrhage:rhage=breaking/tear, ie. losing a lot of blood hemorrhoids:rhoos=stream, ie. stream of blood from veins (in rectal area)
hypoglycemia:hypo=under+glyc=sugar, d. h. low sugar level leukemia:leukos=white cell accumulation in blood, ie. cancer
thalassemia:thalasse=sea, ie. an inherited blood disease common to those nations around hte mediterreanean sea toxemia:toxon=toxic blood, ie. blood poisoning
uremia:disease of urine/urea in blood due to kidney malfunctioning>" "Latin words" "nko" 1244 "histo" " bodily tissue/cells" "Greek/Latin root" "the word histo actually means standing up (st=stand), from which histogram comes" "histamine, histology, histdine all have to do with the cell and biology" "Latin words" "nko" 1245 "jud" "law" "Greek/Latin root" "judicial
" "Latin words" "nko" 1246 "juven" "young" "Greek/Latin root" "juvenile
" "Latin words" "nko" 1247 "lip" "fat" "Greek/Latin root" "liposuction
lipid
" "Latin words" "nko" 1248 "iso" "equal" "Greek/Latin root" "isobar
isometric
" "Latin words" "nko" 1249 "lact" "milk" "Greek/Latin root" "lactose
lactate
lactivorous(milk eating)
lactescence(milky appearance)
lacteal(pertaining to milk)
lactation(breast-feeding)" "Latin words" "nko" 1250 "lud
lus" "play" "Greek/Latin root" "allude, allusion, collude, collusion, delude, delusion, elude, elusive, illusion, illusory, interlude, ludicrous, prelude. " "Latin words" "nko" 1251 "later" "side" "Greek/Latin root" "lateral
latitude
" "Latin words" "nko" 1252 "magn" "great" "Greek/Latin root" "magnificent
" "Latin words" "nko" 1253 "edict" "a formal command or order issued by an authority and having the force of law" "noun" "Latin: ex ""out, out of"" + dicere ""to say""=>to proclaim" "Most states have an edict that forbids texting while driving. " "AMB" "TCE" 1254 "mar" "Sea" "Greek/Latin root" "maritime
marine
" "Latin words" "nko" 1255 "hireling" "someone doing a job solely for the money" "noun" "Hirelings often do jobs that are distasteful, ones that could involve lying, cheating, or worse
Syn: mercenary, pensionary" "The Russian hirelings fill in blogs and social media sites all day with subversive Russian propaganda" "AMB" "TCE" 1256 "mega" "large, sometimes also a million" "Greek/Latin root" "megaphone, mealithi (large stone), megabyte (1 mio byte)" "Latin words" "nko" 1257 "ment" "mind" "Greek/Latin root" "mental
" "Latin words" "nko" 1258 "sub-, su-, sou, sous" "word-forming element meaning ""under, beneath; behind; from under; resulting from further division""" "Greek/Latin root" "su- used before c, f, g, p, sometimes r & m" "substantial" "Latin words" "nko" 1259 "apostatize" "abandon one's faith, principles, or church" "noun" "apostate is the person who is apostatizing" "He became more and more of a hedonist, eventually apostatizing and leaving the church" "AMB" "TCE" 1260 "edge out" "to slowly become more successful, popular, etc. , than (someone or something) " " verb" "The company is gradually edging out the competition. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1261 "migr" "wander" "Greek/Latin root" "migrate
emmigrate
migrant
" "Latin words" "nko" 1262 "mir" "look" "Greek/Latin root" "Don't confuse with Russian 'mir'=peace" "mirage
mirror
" "Latin words" "nko" 1263 "excise " "a tax. " "noun" "comes from a similarly sounding old Dutch word for tax, not linked to the ""excise""as a verb. " "when you take more than a litre of alcohol into the country, you will need to pay 20% excise duty" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1264 "felicity" "1. a state of happiness state ranging from contentment to intense joy
2. pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)" "noun" " Latin: felicitatem / felix ""happy, fortunate, fruitful, fertile""
Syn: happiness, blissfulness, felicitousness" "1. When my mother watched me graduate, she had such a look of felicity on her face.
2a. The curve of her mouth gives her a Mona Lisa smile, but that's just a felicity of her anatomy.
2b. The poet was well known for his felicities with words" "AMB" "TCE" 1265 "mot
move" "move" "Greek/Latin root" "motor, motion, locomotive, promotion, demotion,
movement" "Latin words" "nko" 1266 "edifice" "building, especially one of imposing appearance or size; a structure that has a roof and walls" " noun" " Old French edifice ""building""
To merit being called an edifice, a building must be important. " "The company’s world headquarters will soon be relocated to an imposting edifice down the street. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1267 "mut" "change" "Greek/Latin root" "mutation (a change), mutability (ability to change), mutable(changeable), mutant(a changed being), mutate (to change), mutagen(an agent that generates change)" "Latin words" "nko" 1268 "myo" "muscle" "Greek/Latin root" "myasthenia (weakness of the muscles), myalgia (muscular pain), myology (the science of muscles), " "Latin words" "nko" 1269 "mand" "order, summon" "Greek/Latin root" "mandatory, command, countermand(retract an order), mandamus (court order/summons), mandatary(somone who has received a mandate), demand (completely order), reprimand(summon(=mand) to press/hold=pri, back=re), " "Latin words" "nko" 1270 "efface" "1. rub or wipe out; make indistinct as if by rubbing
2. to make (oneself) modestly or shyly inconspicuous" " verb" "French: effacer: remove the face of. " "1. the coins had their most important markings effaced through their use in time.
2. He newcomer effaced himself from the discussion in the room" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1271 "nav" "ship" "Greek/Latin root" "navigate, navigation, navigator, naval, navy" "Latin words" "nko" 1272 "neg" "deny" "Greek/Latin root" "negate
negative
" "Latin words" "nko" 1273 "ellipsis" "1. the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete
2. punctuation (often 3 full-stops) that is used to show where words have been left out" " noun" "1. “Begin when ready” for “Begin when you are ready” is an example of ellipsis
2. The plural of ellipsis is…ellipses, so please Alexander, don't ask Daddy to edit out the …ellipsis" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1274 "nov" "new" "Greek/Latin root" "novelty" "Latin words" "nko" 1275 "ocul" "eye" "Greek/Latin root" "ocular(pertaining to eye), oculist(eye doctor), oculus(an eye)" "Latin words" "nko" 1276 "oper" "work" "Greek/Latin root" "operate
" "Latin words" "nko" 1277 "eluding" "1. avoiding capture, especially by cunning
2. to escape the perception, understanding, or grasp of
3. defies explanation" " adj. " "Latin: ex ""out, away"" + ludere ""to play""=>to get away by playing tricks/games" "1. The mice seemed to be masters at eluding the traps2. The subtlety of the foreigner's statements were simply eluding to them
3. Sometimes there are phenomena in quantum physics that elude explanation. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1278 "emaciated" "thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease" " adj. " "Syn: decay, droop, fade, fail, flag, go, lag, languish, sag, sink, waste (away), weaken, wilt, wither" "The TV scenes of children's bloated bellies and emaciated bodies was enough to initiate an outpouring of support against the famine. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1279 "emaciation" "extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)" " noun" "
Syn: boniness, bonyness, gauntness, maceration" "This collective emaciation of the Venezualian people is referred to dryly there as “the Maduro diet, ”" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1280 "pel
pulse" "drive" "Greek/Latin root" "impel(drive into), expel(drive out) dispel(drive aside), repel(drive back), propel(drive forward), compel(drive to go with)
impulse, catapult, " "Latin words" "nko" 1281 "pend
pens" "hang" "Greek/Latin root" "pending
pendant
" "Latin words" "nko" 1282 "unwonted" "unusual" "adj. " "Deutsche Wortstamm: Ungewohnt, ungewöhnlich" "The paralyzed soldier is going to receive the highest military award for displaying unwonted courage" "AMB" "TCE" 1283 "petr" "stone
rock" "Greek/Latin root" " Peter ""you are the rock that I will build my Church""
said Jesus" "petrified
" "Latin words" "nko" 1284 "emancipate" "free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate" " verb" "Latin: e- ""out"" + manus ""hand"" + -cip- ""to take.""=> ""to be taken out of someone's hands""
Syn: manumit, liberate" "Abraham Lincoln is credited with emancipating the North Amercian slaves" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1285 "emblazon" "1. adorn richly with prominent markings;
2. make illustrious; celebrate" " verb" "Syn: to colour
" "1. Colleges and universities nearly all sell sweatshirts emblazoned with their logos.
2. The friends of the war hero ensured that his deeds were emblazoned by a poet" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1286 "phon" "sound" "Greek/Latin root" "gramaphone, telephone, " "Latin words" "nko" 1287 "plic" "fold
bend
weave" "Greek/Latin root" "pliable, ply (as in layer, eg. Toilet paper), accomplice (someone woven into doing something), implicate(to fold into), duplicate (fold twice, ie. Copy), comply (interweaved with)" "Latin words" "nko" 1288 "embroider" "1. decorate with needlework;
2. add details to" " verb" "1. His uniform vest reads ""sheriff"" in big letters, with his sheriff star shining right above his embroidered name. 2. The fisherman embroidered a story about the 38 inch striped bass he almost caught this morning. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1289 "encompass" "1. surround; form a circle or ring around;
2. include, enclose; envelop" " verb" "Latin: en- ""make, put in"" + compass=""Zirkel"" auf Deutsch (nicht Kompass)
Syn: contain" "1a. A lecture on Edward Hopper encompassed all aspects of his life and art
1b. The plan ecompassed a number of aims" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1290 "pot" "drink" "Greek/Latin root" "potable water
" "Latin words" "nko" 1291 "poten" "powerful" "Greek/Latin root" "potentate
potent" "Latin words" "nko" 1292 "prehend
prehens" "take
grasp" "Greek/Latin root" "comprehend
aprehend
" "Latin words" "nko" 1293 "prot" "first" "Greek/Latin root" "prototype" "Latin words" "nko" 1294 "endowment" "An endowment is a gift:
1. money given to an institution like a college.
2. a natural gift, say of a physical attribute or a talent. " " noun" "Syn1: gift, donation
Syn2: gift, natural endowment, talent, in-born capability" "1. The endowments received by the elite American universities often reaches incredible levels of up to 50 billion dollars.
The porn actor said his claim to fame was that he was well endowed" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1295 "ortho" "straight" "Greek/Latin root" "orthoate
orthodontist
" "Latin words" "nko" 1296 "narr" "tell" "Greek/Latin root" "narrative, narration, narrate, narrator, narrable(capable of being told), " "Latin words" "nko" 1297 "od" "pass
way" "Greek/Latin root" "odyssey" "Latin words" "nko" 1298 "enfranchise" "admit to rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote" " verb" "Latin: en- ""make, put in"" + franc ""free"" =>make free
Ant:disenfranchise" "1. Slaves were enfranchised in the mid-19th century
2. The 19th amendment enfranchised millions of women across the USA. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1299 "pept
peps" "digestion" "Greek/Latin root" "peptic acid" "Latin words" "nko" 1300 "phyt" "plant
grow" "Greek/Latin root" "aerophyte (plant that grows from air), epiphyte (plant that grows on other plants, " "Latin words" "nko" 1301 "engross" "Syn1: consume all of your attention or time; occupy exclusively; absorb
Syn2: write or print the final draft of; make large or larger" " verb" "Syn: absorb, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep, immerse, plunge" "1a. The web series makes a thriller that will engross you to the last episode.
1b. He was totally engrossed with his collection of action dolls
2. The final handwritten document was engrossed and handed in. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1302 "plaud
plod
plaus
plos" "approve
clap" "Greek/Latin root" "applaud
laudable
" "Latin words" "nko" 1303 "illicit" "not allowed by law or custom" "adj. " "Latin: in- ""not, opposite of"" + licitus ""lawful"" =illegal" "It's illegal to kill endangered elephants, but many poachers still engage in the Illicit ivory trade" "AMB" "Web" 1304 "cession" "yielding to another; ceding or surrendering" " noun" "Latin: ""a giving up""
related to secession, ie. government breaking away from another, or ""giving up"" the connection between them" "Having been conquered by Germany in 6 days, the Netherlands had no choice but to agree to the cession of their land to the Nazis" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1305 "licit" "authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law" "adj. " "Latin: licitus ""lawful""" "Sometimes, what legally separates licit and illicit pesticides is little more than a slip of paper. " "AMB" "Web" 1306 "pyr" "fire" "Greek/Latin root" "pyromaniac
Pyre
" "Latin words" "nko" 1307 "precocious" "1. characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude)
2. appearing or developing early" "adj. " "Latin: pre ""before"" + coquere ""to ripen""=> to ripen/mature early" "1. The precocious student entered Queens College at the age of 16.
2. Precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias" "AMB" "Mishima" 1308 "incipient" "only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; emerging" "adj. " "Latin incipere ""to begin. ""
Same word root as ""inception""" "The townsfolk were assured that any incipient major threat in the town would be nipped in the bud" "AMB" "Mishima" 1309 "reg
rig
rect" "rule
govern" "Greek/Latin root" "regent, regulate, correct, " "Latin words" "nko" 1310 "rid
ris" "laugh" "Greek/Latin root" "ridicule
" "Latin words" "nko" 1311 "rupt" "break" "Greek/Latin root" "rupture
erupt
disrupt
interrupt
corrupt
" "Latin words" "nko" 1312 "sacr
sanct" "holy" "Greek/Latin root" "sacrement
sanctuary" "Latin words" "nko" 1313 "enjoin" "direct or impose with urgent appeal; order with emphasis" " verb" "Enjoin used to mean ""bring together"", but today the only thing enjoin brings together is a command and the person on the receiving end of that order" "The government enjoined the revellers to stop going out to pubs as of immediate effect, as this would only cause COVID to spread faster. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1314 "enrapture" "please intensely; fill with great delight or joy" " verb" "
Syn: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport" "I was enraptured by Adele's gorgeous voice and stunning way of interpreting a song" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1315 "ensconce" "settle oneself securely or comfortably; place or conceal in secure place" " verb" "Latin: en- ""make, put in"" + sconce ""small fortification, shelter""=>to put in a place of protection" "1a. She has gone home with the flu and ensconced herself on the couch with the remote control, tissues, her phone, and a big glass of orange juice
1b. The gold price is now very stable and comfortably ensconced in the 1300 to 1350 range. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1316 "sec
sect" "cut" "Greek/Latin root" "disect, intersect, intersection, " "Latin words" "nko" 1317 "sed
sid
sess" "sit
seat" "Greek/Latin root" "sedentary, " "Latin words" "nko" 1318 "ad hominen" "A way of arguing or criticizing that ignores the larger issues at hand and just attacks someone's character" "adj. " "Latin: ""aimed at the man. """ "Unfortunately, people are skipping to the assumed end of the debate right away and concentrating their efforts on trading ad hominem attacks. " "Vocab" "SMB" 1319 "enthrall" "capture; attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence; hold in bondage or subjection" " verb" "Latin: en- ""make, put in"" + thrall ""drallen"" in Deutsch=> encapture
Syn: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport" "For years these master magicians have been enthralling audiences with their astounding illusions" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1320 "chary" "cautious; sparing or restrained about giving" " adj. " "the adjective from care" "As he lost two teeth in last year’s rugby season, he was chary of signing up again this year. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1321 "sist" "place
stand" "Greek/Latin root" "Deutsch: Sistieren: zum Stillstand bringen" "insist (stand upon a point), assist (to help take a stand), desist (stop taking a stand), resist (take a stand against), persist(thoroughly take a stand), consist(together with being )" "Latin words" "nko" 1322 "solv
solu" "loosen" "Greek/Latin root" "dissolve, solve, solution, resolve, dissolution, etc. " "Latin words" "nko" 1323 "entomologist" "a scientist who studies insects" " noun" "reek entomon=""insect" "“Everybody loves fireflies, ” said Sara Lewis, an entomologist who specializes in lightning bugs at Tufts University" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1324 "soph" "wisdom" "Greek/Latin root" "sophomore
" "Latin words" "nko" 1325 "spec
spect
spic" "look
appear" "Greek/Latin root" "spectator, spectacles, spectacular, " "Latin words" "nko" 1326 "spir" "breathe" "Greek/Latin root" "aspiration
expiration
" "Latin words" "nko" 1327 "sta-" "stand" "Greek/Latin root" "Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.; apostate; astatic; circumstance; constable; constant; constitute; contrast; distance; ecstasy; epistasis; establish; estate; extant; hypostasis; instant; institute; interstice; isostatic; obstacle; obstinate; persist; prostate; prostitute; resist; restive; restore; solstice; stable, stage; stalwart; stamen; stand; standard; stanza; static; station; statistics; stator; statue; stature; status; statute; staunch; stay; stoic; stool; store; stound; stow; subsist; substance " "Latin words" "nko" 1328 "string
strict" "bind" "Greek/Latin root" "stringent, string, " "Latin words" "nko" 1329 "stru
struct" "build" "Greek/Latin root" "structure
" "Latin words" "nko" 1330 "chasten" "rid of excess; refine or purify; correct by punishment or reproof" " verb" "Chasten is related to the word chastise, meaning ""to punish severely. ""
Latin root castus" "As a parent, I don’t feel spanking is a good way to chasten your kids. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1331 "entreaty" "appeal, petition, plea" " noun" "French: to enter into discussions how to be treated.
actually, Ain't too proud to beg"" is what the word entreaty is all about.
Syn: adjuration, conjuration, cry, desire, pleading, prayer, solicitation, suit, suppliance, supplication" "1a. Recent entreaties from Washington — including, apparently, the promise of funding — changed the company’s mind.
1b. An entreaty to stop the fighting. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1332 "ram" "branch" "Greek/Latin root" "ramification" "Latin words" "nko" 1333 "enumerate" "list each one; mention one by one" " verb" "Latin enumerates: “to reckon up or count over""" "He enumerated every option that they had in front of them. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1334 "san" "health" "Greek/Latin root" "sanitation
sanitary
sanitorium
sanitize
sane" "Latin words" "nko" 1335 "enunciate" "speak distinctly; state or set forth clearly or systematically; pronounce; articulate" " verb" "Latin: ex ""out"" + nuntiare ""to announce""=>declare, express
Good enunciation is similar to pronunciation, but describes more specifically how clearly someone expresses themselves
Syn: articulate, vocalise" "1a. The speech coach reminded the students to enunciate their words so people could comprehend what they were saying.
1b. The teacher was careful to enunciate each step of the process so her young students would not be confused" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1336 "chagrin" "anxiety caused by humiliation or injured pride; disappointment" " noun" "French: ""melancholy, anxiety, vexation. """ "Much to my chagrin, I failed my math test. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1337 "environs" "parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs" " noun" "environs=surroundings in French. Same word root as ""environment""" "Upon arrival at the park hotel, he decided to take a walk in the environs" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1338 "son" "sound" "Greek/Latin root" "sonor, dissonance, sonata, sonant" "Latin words" "nko" 1339 "epicure" "a person with refined taste, especially in food and wine" " noun" """follower of Epicurus"", Athenian philosopher who taught that pleasure is the highest good
Syn: bon vivant, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmet" "My uncle is an epicure who will travel across the country to find a tasty dish" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1340 "teg
tect" "cover" "Greek/Latin root" "tectonic plates
" "Latin words" "nko" 1341 "epigram" "witty thought or saying, usually short; short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation" " noun" "Latin epigramma ""an inscription""
An epigram is a little poem or clever statement, and an epigraph is a sub-category of epigram, viz: a witty statement that's inscribed somewhere, such as on a building or at the beginning of a chapter or book. " "One of Oscar Wilde's many memorable epigrams is ""I can resist everything but temptation. """ "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1342 "epistle" "a writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a specially long, formal letter" " noun" "Twenty-one books in the New Testament are epistles, 13 of which were written by Paul to various congretations. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1343 "ten
tain" "hold
reach" "Greek/Latin root" "(ab=apart, away from)abstain, abstention, abstinence, abstinent,
(at=toward, to)attend, attention, attenuate, attenuation,
(con=with, together) contain, contend, content, contents, continence, continent, continue,
(de=down, opposite of, completely) detain, detente, detention,
(dis=not, away)distend, distention
(ex=out) extend, extenuate, extenuation,
(hypo=too little, under) hypotenuse, hypotonia(in=in or not), intend, intone, ,
tantra, temple, temporal, tenable, tenacious, tenacity, tenant, tend, tendency, tender, tendon, tendril, tenement, tenesmus, tenet, tennis, tenon, tenor, tense, tensile, tension, tensor, tent, tenter, tenterhooks, tenuous, tenure, tetanus, thin, tone, tonic,
countenance, entertain, isotonic, locum-tenens, maintain, monotony, neoteny, obtain, ostensible, peritoneus, pertain, pertinacious, portend, pretend, retain, retinue, subtend, sustain, lieutenant" "Latin words" "nko" 1344 "term" "end" "Greek/Latin root" "terminal
terminus
" "Latin words" "nko" 1345 "ter
terr" "land
earth" "Greek/Latin root" "terresital
terraine
termite
" "Latin words" "nko" 1346 "therm" "heat" "Greek/Latin root" "thermometer
thermal
therme
isotherm
" "Latin words" "nko" 1347 "tort
tors" "twist" "Greek/Latin root" "torsion
" "Latin words" "nko" 1348 "equine" "relating to, or characteristic of a horse" " adj. " "Latin equinus ""of a horse, of horses; of horsehair"" from equus ""horse""
bovine - cows, porcine -pigs, feline- cats, canine -dogs" "Many young girls go through an equine phase, where they are obsessed with all things horse—books, dolls, images, and, last but not least, actual horseback riding. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1349 "espouse" "1. take in marriage; to marry
2. give one's loyalty or support to; to adopt" " verb" "same word root as ""spouse"". Originally espouse did mean ""to marry"" but meaning evolved to include other long-term commitments as well, such as support for a principle or a cause" "2. I have a friend who espouses environmentalism and as a result walks whenever possible instead of taking the car" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1350 "espy" "catch sight of; glimpse; discover at a distance" " verb" "Deutsche Wortstamm:spähen
primarily a literary word that you'll mostly find in books.
Syn: descry, spot, spy" "among the several horses she espied the white mustang" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1351 "umbra" "shade" "Greek/Latin root" "penumbra
" "Latin words" "nko" 1352 "urb" "city" "Greek/Latin root" "urban
" "Latin words" "nko" 1353 "tax" "arrangement" "Greek/Latin root" "taxomologist
" "Latin words" "nko" 1354 "ethereal" "1. of or relating to the regions beyond the earth, ranging from celestial, heavenly to unworldly, spiritual
2. lacking material substance: immaterial, intangible or marked by unusual delicacy or refinement " " adj. " "Greek ether = “air” or “the upper regions of space.
" "1a. The soprano had an ethereal voice that sounded as if she belonged in a choir of angels.
1b. The moon came into view over the wintry landscape, its light accented by an ethereal halo.
2. The tapestry was woven so finely that it made the perfect backdrop for her collection of ethereal art miniatures. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1355 "chide" "scold mildly so as to correct or improve; express disapproval" " verb" "I don’t want the boss to chide me for being late again, so I’m setting the alarm for a half hour earlier. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1356 "val
vail" "be strong" "Greek/Latin root" "avail
" "Latin words" "nko" 1357 "evanescent" "fleeting; vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor" " adj. " "Latin ex ""out of"" + vanescere ""to vanish. ""=>vanish away
Syn: brief, deciduous, ephemeral, flash, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory" "The evanescent lightning disappeared just as quickly as it appeared. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1358 "depraved vs. deprived" "1. depraved is behavior that is morally corrupt or otherwise deemed wicked.
2. deprived is ""being denied something that is necessary. """ "noun" "He evil ways showed he was umorally depraved and the dark rings below his eyes showed he was sleep deprived" "Easily confused words" "SMB" 1359 "verb" "word" "Greek/Latin root" "verbose, verbal, verbacity, verbacious, proverb, adverb, verbatium(word for word), verbiage (abundance of words)" "Latin words" "nko" 1360 "exalt" "raise in rank or dignity; praise" " verb" "ex ""out, out of, from within"" + altus ""high""=>exalt =raise to the highest
Syn: praise, glorify, honour, raise above rank" "In church, we exalt our God in prayer.
For a fee, most celebrities will exalt a product by pretending to like it. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1361 "exaltation" "1. act of exalting or raising high; state of being exalted;
2. an excessively intensified sense of well-being, power, or importance
3. the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence" " noun" "ex ""out, out of, from within"" + altus ""high""=>exalt =raise to the highest" "1. After the prayers of exaltations, the mass continued
2. Vasquez, the portly man whose cries of exaltation at a double rainbow turned him into a viral star, passed away at 57.
3. The exaltation of Mercury had a significant effect on his horoscope. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1362 "vinc
vict" "conquer" "Greek/Latin root" "victor
victorious
vincible
" "Latin words" "nko" 1363 "exceptionable" "open or liable to objection or debate; liable to cause disapproval" " adj. " "from exception (in the take exception to sense) + -able.
Syn: objectionable" "Although exceptionable, the man’s racist and inappropriate views are supported by many backwoods constituents. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1364 "exchequer" "one of the superior courts of law; department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue" " noun" "Syn: treasury" "The chancellor of the Exchequer is called the Finance Minister in most other countries, although the US calls it the Finance Secretary. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1365 "excoriate" "scold with biting harshness; strip skin off; abrade" " verb" "Latin: to flay, strip off the skin of a hide
This verb goes beyond mere criticism; it implies anger, a harsh and insulting tone, and even a scathing attack" "1. How dare my mother excoriate me for getting pregnant outside of marriage when she did the same thing?
2. When I fell off my father's recumbant bike, I excorciated the skin on the inside of my lower arm. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1366 "vol" "wish
will" "Greek/Latin root" "volunatary
" "Latin words" "nko" 1367 "vor
vour" "eat" "Greek/Latin root" "voracious, " "Latin words" "nko" 1368 "xen
xeno" "foreign" "Greek/Latin root" "xenophobe
" "Latin words" "nko" 1369 "xer" "dry" "Greek/Latin root" "xerox
" "Latin words" "nko" 1370 "execrable" "very bad; extremely inferior; intolerable; very hateful" " adj. " "Latin: ""to utter a curse; to hate or abhor. ""
Syn: deplorable, miserable, woeful, wretched
" "Most of the people who survived the execrable conditions of Nazi concentration camps report that they still experience nightmares of those horrible days. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1371 "allusion
illusion
delusion" "allusion=An allusion is a reference, direct or implied, to something or someone
illusion=An illusion, on the other hand, is something that deceives the mind or senses by creating a false impression of reality.
A delusion is a false belief or opinion" "noun" "Try associating the beginning I in illusion with an eye, relating the term to optical illusions.
Keep in mind the prefix de-, denoting privation or negation, provides a hint to the more serious contexts in which this term is sometimes used. " "The author’s new book contains an allusion to mythological gods
A mirage is a type an optical illusion.
it was heartbreaking to witness my ailing grandmother’s delusion that her deceased husband was alive" "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1372 "demur
demure" "demur=To express disagreement or refuse to do something
demure=Quiet and well behaved (especially of women and children)" "noun, verb" "1. demur from French/Latin: de=completely + mor (as in moratium)=> to linger, to tarry
2. demure is an old French surname, with "" de mû"", which means ""ripe/mature""" "The secretary demurred to bring coffee for her boss, even though she was of quiet demure" "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1373 "discreet
discrete" "discreet=Careful not to cause embarrassment or attract too much attention, especially by keeping something secret
discrete=Having a clear independent shape or form; separate" "adj. " "Swiss banks are discreet -but do not insist that married couples each have their own discrete bank account" "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1374 "disparage
disparate" "disparage=To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value them
disparate=Different in every way" "adj. , verb" "The formal manager and punk employee wore disparate clothing, but the manager never disparaged him in any way" "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1375 "fortify
mortify" "fortify=To strengthen something, especially in order to protect it
mortify=highly embarassed" "verb" "He was mortified to found out his expensive supplements were fake and would not fortify him!" "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1376 "immure
inure" "immure=Kept as a prisoner or closed away and out of sight
inure=If you suffer or experience something unpleasant, you become familiar with it and able to accept and bear it" "adj. " "She locked all the doors and immured herself in the study - and after 6 months of studiousness had become inure to that hard life. " "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1377 "inane
innate" "inane=Extremely silly or with no real meaning or importance
innate=A quality or ability that you were born with, not one you have learned" "adj. " "in=in + nat=born=>born with" "He had an innate ability to make inane comments" "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1378 "incumbent
recumbent" "incumbent=The person who has or had a particular official position " "adj. " "Latin: in=in, on, upon + recumbent=Lying down => resting or lying on something" "The future incumbent went to his job interview in a recumbent bicyle" "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1379 "loath
loathe" "loath=To be unwilling to do something
loathe=To hate someone or something" "verb, noun" "both have same Germanic root: ""leiden"", with its 2 meanings, too.
1. Leiden etwas zu tun
jmdm nicht leiden können. " "The secretary was loath to do the filing and loathed her boss for insisting she did it " "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1380 "circum" "word-forming element meaning (all)around, round about on all sides" "Latin Prefix" "circumnavigate: sail around the globe
circumpolar: surround one of the poles
circumscribe: to make a circle around= to encompass
circumspect: looking around from all sides=suspect
circumvent: to go around
circumvolve: to turn or to cause to roll around" "Circa, circuit, circus, circumference, circumspection, circumstance
circadian: about a day
circumambient: surroundings
circumambulate: to walk around
circumbendibus: a round about way - round the bend
circumcise: cut around
circumflex: sign bent around
circumfluent:a fluid flowing around
circumjacent:bordering on every side
circumlocution: a round about way of speaking, ie. elusive" "Latin words" "nko" 1381 "venal
venial" "venal=A person is willing to behave in a way that is not honest or moral in exchange for money
venial=Describes a wrong action that is not serious and therefore easy to forgive" "adj. " "venal same root as ""vendre"" in French;
venail: Latin venialis ""pardonable""" "The venial acts of the cheeky children in no way are comparable to those terrible acts committed by venal persons to satify their avarice. " "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1382 "contra
contro
counter" "against" "Latin Prefix" "counter productive
counter force
" "Latin words" "nko" 1383 "de" "down
opposite of
away from
about
completely" "Latin Prefix" "decline
descent
" "Latin words" "nko" 1384 "demi" "half" "Prefix" "word-forming element meaning half
half-sized
partial
used in technical terms
French" "demigod" "Latin words" "nko" 1385 "testify
testy" "testify=To speak seriously about something, especially in a court of law; to give or provide proof
testy=Easily annoyed and not patient" "verb, adj. " "The impatient and testy witness was forced to wait his turn when testifying in court. " "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1386 "wraith
wrath" "wraith=A spirit of a dead person which is sometimes represented as a pale, transparent image of that person
wrath=Extreme anger" "noun" "A 19th century photographer superimposed a wispy image on a print and claimed that he had managed to photograph a wraith, but this soon generated a lot of wrath from serious customers, who recognised the fraud. " "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1387 "equi" "equal" "Latin Prefix" "equinox, " "Latin words" "nko" 1388 "e
ex
extra" "out of
from" "Latin Prefix" "exuberant, exacerbation, exact, exaggerate, exalt, examine, example, exanimate, exarch, exasperate, excavate, exceed, excel, excellence, excellent, excelsior, except, excerpt, excess, exchange, excise, excision, excite, exclaim, exclude, exclusion, excommunicate, excommunication, excoriate, excrement, excrescence, excrescent, excrete, excruciate, exculpate, excursion, excuse, execrate, execration, execute, exegesis, exempt, exemption, exercise, exert" "Latin words" "nko" 1389 "extra part 2 of 2. " "out of
beyond" "Latin Prefix" "beyond the=bt, ie. extraordinary (bt ordinary), extraterrestrial(bt earth), extrasensory(bt senses), extrovert(bt turn), extra-curricular(curriculum), extrajudicial: (bt legal system), extramarital(bt marriage), extramural=(bt classroom walls), extraneous(bt strange)=not belonging to, extrapolate, extraspection(bt observation), extraterritoriality(bt territory), extravasation(bt vessel/cell)" "Latin words" "nko" 1390 "hyper" "too much" "Latin Prefix" "hyper ventilate
hyperbole
" "Latin words" "nko" 1391 "hypo" "too little
under" "Latin Prefix" "hypo-allergenic, hypocaust(burning below=underfloor heating), hypochondria(under belief), hypocrisy, hypodermic, hypogamy(marriage to a lower caste), hypogastrium(below the stomach), hypogean(lives below the earth(ge)), hypoglycemia(too little blood sugar), hypomania(better insight due to being under the influence of a ""high""), hyponymy(word that is subordinatedly interchangeable with a word (but not vice versa), hypostasis, hypotaxis, hypotenuse, hypothalamus, hypothecate, hypothermia, hypothesis, hypotonia, hypotonic, hypoxia(b" "Latin words" "nko" 1392 "facile" "done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; ready or fluent" " adj. " "French facile =easy" "FC Basel had a facile victory over FCZ, whose entire team was struck by COVID" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1393 "vindicate
vindictive" "vindicate=To prove that what someone said or did was right or true, after other people thought it was wrong
vindictive=Having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they have harmed you; unwilling to forgive" "verb, adj. " "After the forensic investigator, to everyone's surprise, vindicated the accused's statements with facts, the victim's family became very vendicative and threatened him. " "Easily confused words" "Khan" 1394 "exhortation" "act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good; language intended to incite and encourage" " noun" "ex- ""thoroughly"" + hortari ""encourage, urge""=>incitement by means of argument, appeal, or admonition
Syn: incitement, pep talk, " "When a vaccine for COVID 19 appears, you can be sure that there will be many exhortations from governments througout the world to have their people vaccinated" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1395 "exodus" "departure of a large number of people" " noun" "Greek ex ""out"" + hodos ""a way, path, road; a ride, journey, march""=> a going out" "If the fire alarm goes off in your building, be sure to join the exodus of people who are heading outside to the parking lot.
The brain-drain exodus from South Africa does not seem to bother the ANC government at all. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1396 "neo" "new" "Latin Prefix" "neoliberal
" "Latin words" "nko" 1397 "non" "not" "Latin Prefix" "non existant
" "Latin words" "nko" 1398 "exponent" "1. one who is a big promoter of something, ie. Champions, practices, or exemplifies a cause
2. math. Symbol indicating n-fold muliplication " " noun" "Latin: ""to put forth""
Syn: advocate, advocator, apostle, backer, booster, champion, expounder, espouser, friend, gospeler, herald, hierophant, high priest, paladin, promoter, proponent, protagonist, supporter, true believer, tub-thumper, white knight" "The school-teacher was an exponent of the four-day school and work week as she found she had too little holiday. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1399 "expound" "explain or describe in detail" " verb" "French: espondre = ""to elaborate"" or ""put forth"" (same root as ""respond"")" "Oma's handwritten pie recipe called for ""some sugar"" ""plenty of butter"" and ""sliced apples"" so I asked her to expound by adding measurements of how much of each to use. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1400 "expropriate" "take possession of; transfer another's property to oneself" " verb" "Latin: ex ""away from"" + propriare ""take as one's own""=>to take away from someone else and make one's own.
typically used to describe taking property from someone by a state or city. " "When the farmer refused to sell part of his land needed for road expansion, it was simply expropriated" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1401 "expunge" "cancel; remove; erase or strike out" " verb" "Latin: ex ""out"" + pungere ""to prick, pierce""=>prick out
Syn: abolish, annihilate, black out, blot out, cancel, clean (up), efface, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, root (out), rub out, snuff (out), stamp (out), sweep (away), wipe out" "1a. I would like to expunge my ex-husband from my memory.
1b. Government censors expunged text in documents before making them public. 1c. Criminal records would still count against an asylum-seeker even if their convictions were expunged" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1402 "expurgate" "clean; remove offensive parts of book" " verb" "to purge out" "Every time a 4 letter word was mentioned on TV, a loud simulataneous Beep would expurgate it" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1403 "exquisite" "excellent; intricate and beautiful in design or execution" " adj. " " Latin exquisitus ""to search out""" "1a. She wore an exquisite dress, which left all the guests staring in surprise
1b. She was known to have exquisite taste
He suffered exquisite pain after breaking his ribs. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1404 "extenuate" "weaken; lessen or attempt to lessen seriousness of, especially by providing partial excuses" " verb" "Latin: ""to thin"" or ""make thin""(same root as ""extend"")" "The fact that the woman was repeatedly beaten and debased by her husband were accepted as extenuating circumstances for her murdering him. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1405 "extirpate" "root out; eradicate, literally or figuratively; destroy wholly" " verb" """to weed out by the roots. ""
Syn: wiped out, erradicate, root out, uproot. " "1a. Hopefully the fumigation will extirpate the bedbugs brought with me in my suitcase on my travels.
1b. The dodo was extirpated due to hunting and the introduction of predators in their habitat. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1406 "extrinsic" "external; not essential; extraneous" " adj. " "
Syn: accidental, adventitious, alien, extraneous, external, foreign, supervenient
Ant: intrinsic" "1a. You have to consider the extrinsic factors in the success of the business.
1b. The feature is extrinsic to the building" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1407 "re" "back
again" "Latin Prefix" "return" "Latin words" "nko" 1408 "retro" "backward" "Latin Prefix" "retroactively, " "Latin words" "nko" 1409 "se" "apart
away" "Latin Prefix" "separate" "Latin words" "nko" 1410 "ipso facto" "by that very fact or act, as an inevitable result" "Latin" "Latin: Ipso facto literally means ""by that very fact""" "A liberal arts education does not ipso facto lead to a life of low-wage jobs and financial irresponsibility" "vocab" "SMB" 1411 "exalt/exult" "To exalt, means to glorify or elevate something, but to exult is to rejoice. " "verb" "ex ""out, out of, from within"" + altus ""high""=>exalt =raise to the highest
ex""out, out of, from within"" + sauter:jump=> jump for joy" "While she exalted God in the highest, she was exulted when she got the last two tickets to see Robbie Williams. " "Easily confused words" "SMB" 1412 "super" "above
beyond" "Latin Prefix" "supercede
superman
supersohn
" "Latin words" "nko" 1413 "exceptionable / exceptional" "exceptionable: something to find fault with
exceptional: something remarkable or particularly unusual" "adj. " "It was an exceptional event as the harsh food critic found nothing exceptionable with the meal " "Easily confused words" "SMB" 1414 "exude" "discharge; release liquid in drops or small quantities" " verb" "Latin: ex öut""+ sudāre ""to sweat. ""=> to sweat out
Syn: exudate, ooze, ooze out, transude" "1a. Confidence exuded out of his every single of John F. Kennedy's pores, while Jackie Kennedy exuded class.
1b. The skunk exuded a foul smell" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1415 "exult" "rejoice; feel extreme happiness" " verb" "My mother exulted when she got the last 2 tickets to the Robbie Williams concert. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1416 "exultant" "inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly" " adj. " "Latin ""to leap up"" ex-, silire""up or out"" => ""to leap up""" "The kids who win the Little League championship game will be exultant. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1417 "uni" "one" "Latin Prefix" "universal
" "Latin words" "nko" 1418 "vice" "instead of" "Latin Prefix" "vice-governor
vice-roy
vice-captain
" "Latin words" "nko" 1419 "portending" "to give an omen or anticipatory sign of" "verb" "Latin: por- ""forward"" + ""tendere"" ""to stretch""=>""stretching forward to predict.""or foretell. """ "1a. The distant thunder portended a storm.
1b. If you're superstitious, a black cat portends trouble" "AMB" "Examword" 1420 "acious
cious" "having the quality of" "Latin Suffix" "spacious
" "Latin words" "nko" 1421 "acolyte" "1. A person who helps with religious services
2. a fan or follower of the famous" "noun" " Greek akolouthos: ""follower""
Sny1: altar boy
Syn2: fan" "1. When I was a boy, I was an acolyte in the Church.
2. Likewise, her relationship with Warhol was not that of acolyte but of peer. " "AMB" "Mishima" 1422 "epitaph / epithet" "1. An epitaph is written on a tombstone.
2. An epithet is a nickname or a description of someone" "noun" "1. epi ""at, over"" +  taphos ""tomb, burial, funeral""=>above a grave
2. epi ""over/in addition"" + tithenai ""to put, to place"" => (name) given in addition to""" "The Halloween gravestone was inscribed with the epitaph ""Here lies Fearsome Frank, who bet that he could rob a bank"", using an epithet for Frank" "Easily confused words" "SMB" 1423 "facsimile" "exact copy or reproduction, as of a document; fax" " noun" "Latin:facere = ""to make"" + simile= ""like""=>to make a copy
Grammatically speaking, photocopiers also make facsimiles, but oddly enough those are referred to as copies — not faxes. " "A facsimile of the world's first computer was exhibited at the museum" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1424 "ate
ent
ant
ante" "one who" "Latin Suffix" "sycophant
" "Latin words" "nko" 1425 "feint / faint" "1. feint is to pretend to do something, to fake a move (eg. In boxing)
2. faint is to lose one's consciousness temporarily" "verb" "Ali feinted with a jab, making Frazier miss his own jab - but Ali then countered with a punch so hard that Frazier was knocked-out and fainted" "Easily confused words" "SMB" 1426 "fibrillation" "muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination" " noun" "a quavering in the fibrils of the muscles of the heart, causing irregular beating
fibril same word root as ""fibre""" "Nevertheless, the sobering reality is that for many persons with atrial fibrillation, total abstinence from alcohol may be a difficult goal to achieve" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1427 "figurine" "small ornamental statuette; small molded or sculptured figure" " noun" "Latin figura: ""shape, body, or figure.""
Syn: statuette" "His collection of figurines includes toy soldiers from every war that America has fought" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1428 "filament" "1. fine thread or fiber
2. stalk of a statem plant
3. threadlike structure within light bulb" " noun" "Latin filum=""thread.""
Syn1: fibril, strand
Syn2: stalk" "1.The plastic filaments are made by injecting molten plastic into a perforated spinning wheel
2. The stalk of a plant's stamen is also called a filament
3. Thomas Edison tried 6,000 different materials in the search for a filament for his electric light." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1429 "filch" "to steal secretly or casually , especially in a small, sly way; take from another on a petty scale" " verb" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""filzen""" "When I came back from the break, I noticed that someone had filched my cookies" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1430 "filial" "having or assuming relationship of child or offspring to parent" " adj." " Latin: filius= ""so"" OR filia=""daughter""" "In many cultures, adult children often care for their elders as part of their filial responsibility. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1431 "finicky" "insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants; difficult to please; fussy" " adj." "Could be linked to old German word ""Feinchen""
Syn:Fastidious, fussy, picky, persnickety" "1a. The Dutch professor was a finicky eater
1b. Our front door has a finicky lock that requires that you jiggle the key to open it. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1432 "hood" "state of" "Latin Suffix" "childhood, neighbourhood, brotherhood, " "Latin words" "nko" 1433 "firmament" "1. the vault or arch of the sky
2. the field or sphere of an interest or activity" " noun" "The first stargazers imagined the sky as a firm sphere,the curve of the sky thought to be a solid surface." "1. Stars twinkled in the firmament.
2. She's a rising star in the city's artistic firmament." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1434 "fissure" "1. long narrow opening
2. a separation or disagreement in thought or viewpoint
3. a natural cleft between body parts or in the substance of an organ" " noun" " Latin: fissura= cleft or crack." "1. In Iceland, fissures in the earth's crust abound and result in unusual valleys and themal pools.
2.There were other signs of fissures within the governor’s own party, particularly over reopening schools for face-to-face instruction" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1435 "frond" "fern leaf, especially compound leaf; palm or banana leaf. Can also apply to seaweed" " noun" "Each frond of the banana tree might stretch to two feet, with 30 or so opposing, compound leaves." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1436 "ious" "characterized by" "Latin Suffix" "gracious, obvious, noxious, adacious, tempestious" "Latin words" "nko" 1437 "fluster" "1: to put into a state of agitated confusion
2. to make tipsy" " verb" "Syn: abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, mortify, nonplus, rattle" "1a. The speaker was obviously flustered by the interruption.
1b. ""And don't fluster poor Charlie. We must all try to keep very calm.""
2. A man who can keep himself sober after dinner wins the card games plays against those who fluster themselves with drink." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1438 "foray" "1. sudden raid or military advance
2. venture or initial attempt, especially outside one's usual area" " noun" "Same word root as ""forage""
Syn1: descent, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, raid" "1. Before their foray into enemy territory, a scouting party was sent to observe the guard stations.
2. My foray into rugby ended with my spending a week in the hospital." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1439 "forbearance" "1. patience; restraint of passions;
2. legal act of forbearing or waiting" " noun" "Syn: long-suffering, patience, sufferance, tolerance" "1. The teacher asked the pupils for their fobearance by saying ""Bear with me for a moment"" while he wrote on the board.
2. One of my husband’s loan servicers automatically put him into forbearance with zero percent interest." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1440 "formidable" "1. arousing fear, dread, or alarm
2. tending to inspire awe or wonder" " adj." "Latin formidare""to fear.""" "1. Be worried of your formidable opponent, Amelia, because she is one smart cookie.
2. Reaching the top of the mountain without an oxygen tank was a formidable accomplishment" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1441 "mony" "state of" "Latin Suffix" "state of matrimony (being married)" "Latin words" "nko" 1442 "forswear" "Renounce or deny something, especially under oath, but sometimes just earnestly" " verb" "for=away, opposite(wie ""ver"" in Deutsch) + swear (an oath)=> to retract an oath
Syn: abjure, recant, resile, retract" "Hector chose to forswear his gang allegiance and join the army. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1443 "fractious" "1. inclined to make trouble; quarrelsome, irritable
2. disobedient" " adj." "Syn1: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy
Syn2: recalcitrant, refractory
" "1. International students build cultural bridges between nations in an increasingly fractious and divided world.
2. The young horse was a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1444 "ous
ose" "full of" "Latin Suffix" "lachrymose(full of tears)
" "Latin words" "nko" 1445 "ship" "state of
skill" "Latin Suffix" "workmanship, craftmanship, friendship" "Latin words" "nko" 1446 "some" "characteristic of" "Latin Suffix" "wholesome" "Latin words" "nko" 1447 "tude" "state of" "Latin Suffix" "certitude, magnitude, fortitude, gratitude" "Latin words" "nko" 1448 "ward" "in the direction of" "Latin Suffix" "forward
backward
" "Latin words" "nko" 1449 "fitful" "intermittently stopping and starting; irregular; variable; unstable" " adj." "full of fits. " "As the car ran out of petrol, it stuttered forward with fitful bursts of energy" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1450 "Effect exceptions" "However, effect can be a verb as an exception. In these cases it is nearly always used together with a noun like ""change"" or ""solution.""To effect change/ to effect for a solution. " "noun, verb" "The protesters wanted to effect change in the corrupt government and fight for a solution=bring about change BUT,
The protesters wanted to affect change=modify the intended change" "Easily confused words" "MSU" 1451 "Affect exception" "however, affect can be used as a noun, as an exception - Affect as a noun means feeling, emotion, or specific emotional response. " "noun, verb" "The patient had a flat affect throughout the therapy session. (he patient was in kind of a blah mood) " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 1452 "missive" "a written note; note or instruction sent by superior authority" "noun" "Syn: command, note" "As soon as the general received the missive from his commander-in-chief, he launched an airstrike against the enemy. " "Common GRE" "Prepscholar" 1453 "complaisant
complacent" " complaisant =""pleasing, obliging, gracious""
complacent = pleased with oneself, one's conditions, self-satisfied, often overly so" "adj. " "complacent is often used to imply that one is TOO self-satisfied with oneself or with what one achieved - in the sense of ""resting on one's laurels""" "Although Chuck wanted an 'A' in the class, he was complacent with a 'B'
Because John is too complaisant in his willingness to please others, people often take advantage of him" "Homophone" "merriam-webster" 1454 "akantha" "thorn" "Greek/Latin root" "a sub of the Greek
PIE root ""ac"": be sharp
rise (out) to a point
pierce. " "acacia(african thorn bush)
acanthus (mediterreanian thorn tree)" "Root words" "SMB" 1455 "qualify" "1. be selectable for a position/job
2. Place a condition on a statement, limit the scope of a statement" "verb" "Qualify is one of the 5 most common mistakes made in the GRE!
The GRE primarily has examples of the 2nd definition, ie. To place a condition on a statement. " "2a. I love living in San Francisco; however, the summers are very cold
The latter, bold part qualifies or limits, my love for San Francisco.
You can also qualify a negative statement:
2b. I really dislike living in SF, because I can’t even wear a T-shirt in summer, however the restaurants are great " "Common GRE" "MSU" 1456 "abstemious" "marked by temperance in indulgence. Abstinent, abstentious" "adj. " "Latin: abs-= ""away.""+ temetum""intoxicating drink"" => someone who keeps alcohol (or other temptations) at arm's length. " "Because I was abstemious with alcohol when I was younger, I am still quite healthy in my later years. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1457 "aggregate" "a sum total of many heterogeneous things taken together" "adj. , verb" "Latin: ad ""to"" + gregare ""to collect into a flock, gather""" "Schools often use test scores to aggregate students into classes based on intelligence. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1458 "approbation" "official acceptance or agreement" "noun" "Probation hat den gleichen Sinn wie ""Probezeit"". Approbation bedeutet, dass man diese bestanden hat. " "Filled with approbation, the audience gave a standing ovation. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1459 "assiduous" "marked by care and persistent effort" "adj. " "Latin: ad ""to"" + sedere ""to sit=>constantly working at it " "His assiduous attempts to improve his GRE vocab got him a top verbal score" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1460 "beneficent" "doing or producing good" "adj. " "bene=good" "My beneficent neighbor gives out meals to the poor every Sunday. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1461 "boorish" "ill-mannered and coarse in behavior or appearance" "adj. " "old English for herdsman (Bauer. . )" "The hometown fans acted in such a boorish way toward the visiting team that they had to forfeit the game. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1462 "burnish" "polish and make shiny" "verb" "you could burnish a car, a suit of armor, or a copper kettle. Reputations are among the most common non-physical things to be burnished. " "Richard is forever attempting to burnish his reputation so that he can advance his position within our company. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1463 "castigation" "harsh verbal reprimand" "noun" "The teacher’s verbal castigation of the student was harsh but needed since he refused to do any work. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1464 "conciliatory" "making or willing to make concessions" "adj. " "Latin: conciliatus ""to bring together, win over"" same root as ""council""+ –ory ""relating to or doing. Context often involves compromise" "Even though Henry hated fruit cake, he still accepted the conciliatory gift from his neighbor. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1465 "contention" "the act of competing as for profit or a prize" "noun" """a violent effort to obtain something""" "Does anyone know the bone of contention that started the fight between Jim and Bob?" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1466 "conundrum" "a difficult problem" "noun" "unclear origin" "The conundrum is that I am stranded in the middle of nowhere without my cell phone. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1467 "daunt" "cause to lose courage" "adj. " "Daunt rhymes with haunt, another word which means to frighten(but daunt is less creepy)" "David faced the daunting task of fighting Goliath" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1468 "deterrent" "something immaterial that interferes with action or progress" "noun" "Latin: de ""away"" + terrere ""frighten, fill with fear""" "North Korea is proud of its nuclear deterrent arsenal" " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1469 "dichotomy" "a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses" "noun" "Greek dikhotomia ""a cutting in half, " "The statement: ""All cars are either small and efficient or large and polluting"" is a false dichotomy because there are some cars that don't fit into either category. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1470 "digression" "a message that departs from the main subject" "noun" "Latin: dis- ""apart, aside"" (see dis-) + gradi ""to step, go""=>act of deviating from the main subject matter in speaking or writing" "The professor's digression from the lesson's theme was another subtle attempt to indoctrinate the class with his radicalism" " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1471 "disjointed" "taken apart at the points of connection" "adj. " "His disjointed argument didn't make much sense" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1472 "dismiss" "stop associating with, to let go, brush aside, declare void, end an encounter" "verb" "She dismissed his advances" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1473 "dissolution" "separation into component parts" "noun" "same root as dissolve" "She started divorce proceedings to achieve the dissolution of their marriage" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1474 "distend" "cause to expand as if by internal pressure" "verb" "Latin dis-=“apart, ” + tendere= “to stretch=>" "The pregrant woman's belly began to distend as the baby grew.  " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1475 "dormant" "inactive but capable of becoming active" "adj. " "dormir=to sleep" "The dormant volcano errupted after many years of inactivity. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1476 "effrontery" "audacious behavior that you have no right to" "noun" "The couple strolled into the crowded restaurant, demanded the best table and threatened the staff but were soon rejected by the maitre d' for their effrontery. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1477 "embellish" "make more attractive, as by adding ornament or color" "verb" "em=to make, bel=beauty" "Mom embellished the cake with a cherry on the top" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1478 "equanimity" "steadiness of mind under stress" "noun" "Latin: equi= ""even, level"" + animus ""mind, spirit""=>evenness in temper" "The aplollo 13 astronaut dealt with the explosion on board with equanimity and first took stock of the situation. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1479 "euphemism" "an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one" "noun" "Greek euphemismos, meaning ""good speech""" """holiday in Dachau"" was a euphenism of the nazis to hide the terror they were planning in the concentration camps" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1480 "exigency" "1. something that is demanded in a giving situation.
2. a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action" "noun" "French: exiger=demand, Latin: exigentia ""urgency""
Syn: urgent demand" "1. Bill’s allergy medication is an exigency he always carries around in case of an attack.
2. These suggestions address the exigencies of the moment. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1481 "fatuous" "devoid of intelligence" "adj. " "Syn: asinine, inane, mindless, vacuous, foolish" "Buying a car without negotiating down the price is a fatuous move. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1482 "fawning" "attempting to win favor by flattery" "noun" "Old English: verwandt mit ""feiern""" "The beauty contestants are always fawning over the male judges. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1483 "felicitous" "exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style, appropriate" "adj. " "From felix (genitive felicis) ""happy, fortunate, fruitful, fertile""" "Jenna could think of nothing more felicitous than spending the entire weekend with her family. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1484 "fervor" "feelings of great warmth and intensity" "noun" "He had great fervor for FC Basel" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1485 "frugality" "prudence in avoiding waste" "noun" "His frugality was so great that he would capture all still insufficiently warm water to water the plants in the apartment" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1486 "futile" "producing no result or effect" "adj. " " Latin futilis= ""leaky."" the image of a leaky vessel is a good illustration of the adjective. Pouring water into a leaky bucket is futile. " "Hopefully all the time you're spending studying vocabulary won't turn out to be futile" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1487 "iconoclastic" "characterized by attack on established beliefs" "adj. " "Greek eikōn, or ""image"" coupled with -klastēs""one who breaks""=> one who breaks icons" "In the 1960's, iconclastic altneratives to the standard democrate and republican parties were set up in California. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1488 "idolatry" "the worship of objects or images as gods" "noun" "Both abhorred idolatry and intercession, and both relied on their books, the Bible and the Quran, for direct contact with God" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1489 "impassive" "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility" "adj. " "Impassive is tricky, as it sounds it should be the opposite of passive. It's not, though. The fact is you can be passive and impassive at the same time. When a passive person gets passed over for a promotion at work, their face might remain impassive upon hearing the news. " "He has become inured to the difficulty of the English language" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1490 "impede" "be a hindrance or obstacle to" "verb" "Latin impedire which literally means ""to hold the feet"" formed from the prefix in-, (""in"") plus pes (""foot""). " "Los Alamos’ housing shortage impedes business growth because there are too few people living in town to attract new retailers, the proposal said. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1491 "impermeable" "preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through" "adj. " "im-, = “not, ” + permeable, = “allowing to pass through, ” impermeable Syn of impervious or impenetrable. However, impermeable is especially associated with liquids, often used in a scientific, technical context. " "The impermeable rain coat kept water from ruining the woman’s cashmere sweater. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1492 "impervious" "not admitting of passage or capable of being affected" "adj. " "in- ""not, opposite of"" + pervius ""letting things through, that can be passed through""(per=through, via=path)=>not letting things pass through. " "The emotional person was impervious to argument
The impervious rain coat kept water from ruining the woman’s cashmere sweater" " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1493 "inadvertently" "without knowledge or intention" "adv. " "adv of inadvertent" "We indavertently ripped the tent (spelling donkey's bridge)" " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1494 "incongruity" "the quality of disagreeing or being unsuitable and inappropriate" "adj. " "Latin: in=""not"" +con/m ""with, together"" + gruere""fall, rush"" =>that which does not fall/fit together
Syn: incongruousness" "The incongruity between an American power cord and a Swedish power outlet means you can’t charge your devices. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1495 "inconsequential" "lacking worth or importance" "adj. " "It was decided that Pluto was too inconsequential to be a planet. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1496 "incorporate" "make into a whole or make part of a whole" "verb" "Latin: in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + verb of corpus ""body"" => put into a body/whole" "According to culinary guidelines, a chef should never incorporate cheese into a fish dish. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1497 "indeterminate" "not fixed or known in advance" "adj. " "Latin: in- ""not"" + determinare ""to enclose, bound, set limits to"" => not to be defined, limited
Syn: undetermined, uncertain, inconclusive, indeterminable, undeterminable" "“the influence of environment is indeterminate
The deceased hobo was of indeterminate age" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1498 "indigence" "a state of extreme poverty or destitution" "noun" "
Syn: need, pauperisation, pauperism, pauperization, penury, beggary, mendicancy, mendicity, impoverishment, poorness, poverty" "She even forbade me to write about anything in my college essay that hinted at our immigrant indigence. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1499 "insinuate" "1. suggest in an indirect or covert way; give to understand
2. introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner" "verb" " Latin: in: in + sinuare ""to wind, bend, curve""=> ""wind one's way into. ""
Syn: 1. adumbrate, intimate, hint, suggest
2. bring in, introduce" "1. I insinuated that I did not like his wife.
2. He insinuated himself into the conversation of the people at the nearby table" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1500 "insularity" "the state of being isolated or detached" "noun" "Latin: insula, for ""island. ""
Deutsch= Insel
Syn: detachment, insularism, insulation" "Their insularity led to the belief that they were the best in all things. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1501 "intransigence" "stubborn refusal to compromise or change" "noun" "in-: ""not"" + trans=movement =>is not moving
Syn: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness" "I can’t understand Rachel’s intransigence, considering that we have undeniable proof that her idea is incorrect.  " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1502 "inundate" "fill or cover completely, usually with water, but increasingly with information, work etc. " "verb" " Latin: inundare ""to overflow, run over, to flood""
Syn: deluge, submerge, fill, fill up" "The Black writer was inundated with calls from movie industry executives looking for Black editors to hire" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1503 "inured" "made tough by habitual exposure" "adj. " "contracted from phrase: (put) in ure = put in use, now meaning ""toughen or harden by experience
Syn: enured, hardened, tough, toughened" "People in northern regions are inured to the cold weather, and some will even jump into freezing water on occasion.
a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind- inured" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1504 "invective" "abusive language used to express blame or censure" "adj. " "from in- ""against"" + vehere ""to carry"" => =to carry words against = ""abusive speech
Syn: vitriol, vituperation" "When my ex-husband tried to start a fight with me by using an invective, I simply walked away from him. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1505 "itinerary" "an established line of travel or access" "noun" "Latin itinerarium ""account of a journey, description of a route of travel, road-book""" "The teacher had to submit an itinerary for her field trip to Disneyworld listing every stop they would make at each hour of the day" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1506 "lassitude" "a feeling of lack of interest or energy" "noun" "Latin: lassus ""faint, tired, weary""" "Whereas Latitude is the distance from the equator, lassitude is the weariness you'd experience after attempting to run a marathon around the equator" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1507 "levee" "an embankment built to prevent a river from overflowing" "noun" " New Orleans French levée ""a raising, a lifting; an embankment, " "Levees protect land that is normally dry but that may be flooded occasionally, while Dikes protect land that would naturally be underwater most of the time. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1508 "levity" "a manner lacking seriousness" "noun" "Levity = ""lightness, " "Joking that his dead grandmother ""never looked better"" injected some levity into her funeral, but his relatives found his joke inappropriate to the occasion. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1509 "fleck" "spot; make spot or mark onto; mark with small spots" " verb" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Fleck"" - aber nicht schmutzig in Englisch" "There are flecks of vivid pink, purple and orange on the painting, but most of the surface is blue." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1510 "malingerer" "someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity" "noun" "French: Malinger: to pretend to be sick
Syn: shammer, skulker, shirker, slacker" "Pike, the dog, was a clever malingerer and thief, pretending to be hurt to gain sympathy and food" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1511 "mendacious" "given to lying" "adj. " "French/Latin: given to tell ""a lie, untruth, falsehood, fiction
Syn:intentionally untrue, untruthful" "It’s an unguarded anthology her ongoing battles against depression, mendacious lovers and toxic memories. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1512 "negate" "1. make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
2. deny the truth of
3. prove negative 4. be in contradiction with" "verb" "backforming of negation:""deny, make negative or null""
Syn: neutralize, nullify, contradict, belie" "1. Sometimes getting a guard dog can negate the need for a security system.
3. The WHO’s statement would seem to negate the validity of any such document. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1513 "officious" "intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner, being annoyingly eager to do more than is required. " "adj. " "Has nothing to do with official or office. People who are officious are busybodies. They want to make their opinions known and followed, despite not having any kind of real power. " "The officious lunch lady made everyone's food choices her business, and made nasty comments when students chose cookies over carrots" " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1514 "opprobrium" "a state of extreme dishonor" "adj. " "Syn: obloquy, infamy" "The celebrity chef earned opprobrium when she made a racial slur in front of the media. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1515 "pate" "liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned" "noun" "French: from same word root as ""paste"", with the ""s""dissapearing again. " "He had no ethical problem eat goose liver pate" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1516 "pathological" "1. of or relating to the practice of pathology
2. caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition" "adj. " "Greek: pathologikos=pertaining to disease" "1. the lab. Technician worked in a pathological laboratory
2. The thief was a pathological liar. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1517 "penury" "a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Syn: indigence, need, pauperisation, pauperism, pauperization" "noun" " Latin: penuria= scarcity" "My uncle wasted his fortune and died in penury. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1518 "famish" "starve, kill, or destroy with hunger; exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger" " verb" "Same word root as: famine
Syn:starve, hunger, be hungry" "Many famished in the Zimbabwean countryside during the drought" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1519 "permeable" "allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through" "adj. " "Latin: per ""through"" + meare ""to pass""=>pass through
" "The permeable cloth allowed nearly all the water to flow through. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1520 "piety" "righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout" "noun" "from French, related to English word: pity" "aerophyte" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1521 "plasticity" "the property of being physically malleable" "adj. " "The plasticity of the wax and clay made the 2 media attractive for the artist to use. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1522 "flippant" "lacking proper respect or seriousness" " adj." "Syn: facetious, flip, pert, smart, smart-aleck, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smart-assed, smarty-pants, wise, wiseass" "Even though Larry knew his mother wanted a serious answer, he still gave her a flippant response." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1523 "preamble" "a preliminary introduction, as to a statute or constitution" "noun" "Latin praeambulus which means ""walking before.""(a speech, or a document)" "The Constitution declares in its preamblethat one of its primary purposes was to establish Justice. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1524 "problematic" "1. posing a problem, tough, hard to solve
2. uncertain
3. open to question or debate " "adj. " "Syn:baffling, elusive, knotty, problematical, tough, difficult, hard" "1. Finding enough volunteers to work at the shelter can be problematic since it’s not a paying job.
2. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1525 "profound" "1. situated at or extending to great depth
2. showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth" "adj. " "Profundus literally means ""deep"" in Latin
syn 1:deep
Syn2:intense, deep, thoughtful, insightful" "1. The strange creature came from the profound depths of the sea.
Rock songs about drugs that try to sound profound are usually dumb" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1526 "prohibitive" "tending to discourage, especially of prices" "adj. " "The Rolex watch was prohibitively " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1527 "propensity" "a natural inclination" "adj. " "Old English: obsolete adjective propense ""inclined, prone""
Syn: leaning, proclivity" "My sister has a propensity to rub her hands togeither when she gets excited about something" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1528 "forensic" "relating to the use of science or technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law" " adj." "The crime scene investigators collected several forensic samples at the site of the murder." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1529 "proscribe" "command against" "verb" "Proscribe sounds similar to prescribe, but careful!!: these words are essentially opposite in meaning. proscribe = forbid, prescribe= doctor's ordrers/ recommends a medicine " "Most states have laws that proscribe texting while driving. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1530 "qualified" "1. meeting the proper standards and requirements for a task
2. limiting conditions that modify a statement or make it no longer valid" "adj. " "1. As the student saw himself qualified for the job, he sent in his resumé
2. Newton's laws are still generally valid and applicable, qualified only by extreme conditions, eg. at speeds close to light " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1531 "quiescent" "being quiet or still or inactive" "adj. " "Latin origin quiescens means rest, quiet" "1. While the bees are quiescent early in the morning and in the evening, they are overactive in the middle of the day
2. the quiescent tumour gave the patient no problems. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1532 "rarefied" "1. of high moral or intellectual value
of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
2 having low density" "adj. " "Syn1: levated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarified, sublime" "1. The rarefied book was written in an ancient language that could only be read by a few linguists and historians
2. The old lady became lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1533 "recluse" "one who lives in solitude" "noun" "Greek erēmos, = “solitary. ”
Syn: hermit, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte" "St. John the Baptist, a preacher and hermit and forerunner of Jesus (whom he baptized)w, as beheaded by Herod" " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1534 "refractory" "stubbornly resistant to authority or control" "adj. " "Latin meaning ""breaking up, obstinate"", also ""not responsive to something. " "Most teenagers go through a refractory phase where they don’t want to listen to authority figures. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1535 "relegate" "assign to a lower position" "verb" "Latin: re- ""back"" + legare ""send with a commission"" =>send to a ""place in a position of inferiority" "GC was relegated to the 2nd division after it came last in the Super League" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1536 "reprobate" "a person without moral scruples" "noun" "The serial killer was a reprobate who did not care about anyone" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1537 "resolution" "a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner" "noun" "The board passed a resolution" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1538 "forlorn" "1. forgotten, sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion.
2. being in poor condition
3. nearly hopeless" " adj." "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""verlieren/verlassen""
Syn1: abandoned, disconsolate, depressed,despondent, despairing
Syn2: abandoned ,
Syn3: desperate, pessimistic," "1. He felt miserable and simultaneously desolate because he believed he was alone and forlorn
2. Detroit is ridden with forlorn tumbledown buildings
3. At the last second of the game he made a forlorn attempt to win the game by trying to score from his own goalmouth" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1539 "sage" "a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics" "noun" "Old French sage ""wise, knowledgeable, learned; shrewd, skillful""" "Although a bit of an eccentric, he was deeply religious and known for his simple wisdom and sage advice" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1540 "saturate" "infuse or fill completely" "verb" "The heavy rainstorm saturated the ground, leaving puddles on the lawn because no more water can be absorbed. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1541 "savor" "a particular taste or smell, especially an appealing one" "noun" "Old French savor ""flavor, taste; sauce, seasoning; delight, pleasure"" itself from Latin: sapor" "Since it’s my last cookie, I will eat it slowly and savor the taste. " " Hi Freq. GRE Medium" "Barron" 1542 "secrete" "1. generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
2. place out of sight; keep secret" "verb" "1. The lemon secreted its juice as it was squeezed
2. The money was secreted from his children" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1543 "franchise" "1. privilege or right officially granted a person or a group by a government( eg. rights of citizenship or to vote)
2. an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular area" " noun" "1. Citizens in the US have their franchise guaranteed via amendments to the constituion
2. McDonalds, KFC and BurgerKing have a franchise business model, where one can buy a license in order to sell their products" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1544 "skeptic" "someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs" "noun" """member of an ancient Greek school that doubted the possibility of real knowledge""
Syn: sceptic, dDoubting Thomas" "I am always a skeptic when it comes to buying too good to be true products " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1545 "fretful" "disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation" " adj." "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Fressen"" (es frisst mich auf)
" "The student was fretful he would not get accepted into the college of his choice." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1546 "frivolity" "not serious or sensible; acting like a clown; something of little value or significance" " noun" "Syn: buffoonery, clowning, harlequinade, japery, prank, horsing around" "Because Cheryl needed a break from the stress of her job and family, she was happy to head off to the frivolity of the costume party." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1547 "stint" "1. n. a short period of time
2. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities" "noun, verb" "word root related to stutter, stunt (as in growth)" "1. He served a short stint as a waiter.
2. They were not stinting in their praise of their son. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1548 "striate" "marked with stripes, stria or striations" "adj. " "sounds like stripes, which has the same word root" "1a. The bodybuilder's lean striated muscles had a striped appearance.
1b. The striated rock surface showed evidence glacier movements thousand of years earlier. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1549 "subside" "wear off or die down" "verb" "The sound of the jet engines subsided as the plane flew further away. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1550 "supersede" "take the place or move into the position of" "verb" "Pres. Oboma preceded Pres. Trump, who superseded President Oboma" " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1551 "excise" "cut away; cut out; remove by or as if by cutting" " verb" "ex ""out"" (see ex-) + cis=cut=> cut out" "It will take several hours for the surgeon to excise the massive tumour" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1552 "tangential" "of superficial relevance if any" "adj. " "Syn: digressive, irrelevant" "I hardly ever learn anything in my history class because my teacher always rambles off on a tangential topic that has nothing to do with history. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1553 "tirade" "a speech of violent denunciation" "noun" "French tirade ""a volley, a shot; a pull; a long speech or passage; a drawing out"" (16c. ), from tirer ""draw out, endure, suffer, " "When the player got kicked out of the game, he started a tirade which lasted until security escorted him off the court. " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1554 "truculence" "stubborn and defiant aggressiveness, a natural disposition to be hostile" "adj. " "Syn:aggressiveness, belligerence, pugnacity" "The aggressive man’s truculence caused him to be arrested and jailed for disorderly conduct" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1555 "unwarranted" "incapable of being justified or explained" "adj. " "Even though it is an unwarranted fear, I am always afraid of fish touching me while I swim in the water" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1556 "veracious" "habitually speaking the truth" "adj. " "Latin: from verus ""true""
Careful: voracious <> veracious!! A voracious appetite makes you want to eat a whole cake.  Veracious (with an ""e"") means truthful, as in a veracious first president who cannot tell a lie" "“Honest” Abraham Lincoln was known as a veracious president who stood for truth" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1557 "vituperative" "marked by harshly abusive criticism" "adj. " "Vituperative criticism is harsh, scathing, even abusive. If a review or assessment is vituperative, it doesn't say ""try harder next time.""Instead it gives the sense of ""go away and never come back. """ "The ungodly, God-like man was as a figure who was vituperative and hysterically unforgiving, particularly toward his eleven children" " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1558 "wary" "marked by keen caution and watchful prudence" "adj. " "same word root as ""war""in English and ""Gewahr"" in Deutsch" "One of the most important lessons that parents must teach young children is to always be wary of strangers. " " Hi Freq. GRE Easy" "Barron" 1559 "zealot" "a fervent and even militant proponent of something" "noun" "The original zealots were a group of first-century Jews who were absolutely determined to overthrow Roman rule in Palestine" "During the middle of the night, a pro-life zealot bombed the abortion clinic and killed two nurses who were working late.  " " Hi Freq. GRE Hard" "Barron" 1560 "frolicsome" "full of high-spirited fun; gay; given to merry" " adj." "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""frohlocken""" "Teachers smiled at the frolicsome students leaving school for summer vacation" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1561 "fulsome" "1. offensively flattering or insincere;
2. offensive; disgusting
3. abundant" " adj." "Careful: skunked term, ie. Meaning changed and changing between Def. 1, 2 & 3. Context important!" "1.The salesman did not realize his fulsome compliments were so excessive they actually turned off prospective customers.
2. I had enough of his fulsome lies and nauseous flattery
3a. He described the situation in fulsome detail
3b. The passengers were fulsome in praise of the plane's crew" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1562 "furlough" "1a. leave of absence
1b. vacation granted a soldier or civil servant
2. A temporary unpaid reduction in working hours for employees, often in times of crisis" "noun, verb" "Related to Dutch word for leave ""Verlof"", also related to Deutsch ""urlaub""" "1a. The prisoner was furloughed for the weekend to visit her children
2. During the Corona crisis, many companies furloughed employees to reduce costs, hoping to be able to re-engage them on the upturn." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1563 "gadfly" "1. any of various flies, that bite or annoy livestock and other animals (eg. Horsefly)
2. irritating person " "noun " "Old English ; gad = “spike”
Deutsch Viehbremse" "1. The cow swatted at the air with her tail, trying to shoo away an annoying gadfly
2. My annoying neighbor is nothing but a gadfly who likes to run to the apartment manager with constant complaints." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1564 "gallantry" "1. bravery
2. chivalry" " noun" "
Syn1: heroism, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour
Syn2: chivalry, politesse" "1. West Point is a universal symbol of American gallantry, loyalty, devotion, discipline and skill
2. ""Gallantry is definitely dead"", Sarah said to her friend as a man pushed past her to be first in line for the movie tickets." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1565 "ingenuous vs. genial" "1: ingenuous: Naive and trusting, Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
2. genial: friendly and cheerful OR (like in German) characteristic of a genius=ingenial" "adj. " "1. The ingenuous boy gave all his savings to his elder brother, who promtly used the funds to buy himself a new computer game.
2. While the host was not a genius, she was genial, welcoming all to her party with a friendly tone that made all feel at home immediately. " "Easily confused words" "SMB" 1566 "gambol" "dance and skip about in sport; leap playfully" " verb" "Syn: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport" "The boy and his puppy would run out in the garden, sprint around, jumping up and down, yelling ""woo-hoo and the dog a-barking, showing no restraint in their slap-happy gambol." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1567 "gantry" "1. a mount for a traveling crane consisting of a large frame to move along a set of tracks;
2. supporting framework for a barrel" " noun" "Deutsch: Brückenkran, Signalbrücke" "1a. On the new paying highway, the tolls would be assessed electronically via gantries over the road.
1b. The gantry crane lifted the container from the truck onto the ship
1c. The lunar rocket was transported to the launch site with the support of a mobile gantry. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1568 "geniality" "warmth of disposition and manners; kindliness; sympathy" " noun" "The geniality of the host made everyone feel welcome at the party" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1569 "gibe" "mock; laugh at with contempt and derision" " verb" "Sometimes spelt ""jibe""
Syn1: barrack, flout, jeer, scoff" """Loser! Bonehead!"" the kids shouted, tossing those words and other gibes at the people who offered themselves up to the annual humiliation of the harvest-fest dunk-tank." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1570 "girder" "beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as main horizontal support in building" " noun" "Mechanical engineers learn statics, where the forces on beams and girders are calculated and correspondingly dimensioned. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1571 "glean" "1. gather grain left behind by reapers
2. collect something (eg. Information) bit by bit" " verb" "Deutsch: nachlesen" "1. The poor sharecroppers gleaned the field after its harvest.
2a. The police used old-fashioned detective work to glean his whereabouts
2b. He has a collection of antique tools gleaned from flea markets and garage sales. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1572 "glossary" "brief explanation of words, often placed at back of book" " noun" "Deutsch: Glossar" " The biology textbook had a glossary in the back, so you can quickly look up all the technical words and terms specific to biology." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1573 "glower" "look at with a fixed gaze; angry stare" " verb" "Deutsch: böse Gucken" "The elderly couple glowered at the Bocken children climbing all over the stones at stonehenge" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1574 "glut" "1. fill beyond capacity, especially with food
2 . swallow greedlly" " verb" "Same word root as gluttony" "1. Oil companies increased production in order to better cover their fixed costs, but in the process they produced a glut of gasoline, further driving prices — and profits — down.
" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1575 "gnarled" "1. twisted
2. knotty
3. made rough by age or hard work" " adj." "old English:= “knot in wood""
Deutsch: verknorcht
Syn: gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty" "1. But on smaller, more local scales, the universe appears lumpy and gnarled.
2. The workers walked through gnarled, dead mangrove roots in their protective gear and masks
3. The farmer welcomed me with a leather-skinned grin and extended his gnarled and knotted hand for a customory handshake." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1576 "gourmand" "person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink" " noun" "French origin of same meaning
Syn: glutton, trencherman" "The difference between a gourmand and a gourmet is that the gourmet knows when to stop eating, but the gluttonous gourmand does not." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1577 "gratify" "give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy" " verb" "The chocolate bar will hopefully gratify my desire for something sweet." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1578 "groggy" "unsteady and dazed; shaky; slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness" " adj." "Grog: named after Adm. Vernon who wore a Grosgrain overcoat and ordered rum to be diluted. Now, grog=any stong alcohol
yn:dazed, foggy, logy, stuporous" "1a. He had hardly woken up and he answered the phone, still groggy with sleep.
1b. The punch-drunk boxer was groggy and wobbly on his feet when his coach threw in the white towel." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1579 "guffaw" "loud, rude burst of laughter; A full belly loud horse-laugh" " noun" "After the comedian told a funny joke, he was pleased to receive a large guffaw from the audience" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1580 "gut" "1. bowels, digestive tract.
2. courage (plural only)
3. the basic emotional, or instinctual part of a person
4. narrow passage; often a channel of water
5. strong cord used in surgery & made of sheep intestine" " noun" "2. She had the guts to run for public office
3a. She knew in her gut that he was lying.
3b. He didn't have a good gut feeling
4. The boat sailed down the gut that joined the 2 lakes.
5.The surgeon sewed the wound with gut" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1581 "haggard" "wasted away; showing wearing effects of overwork or suffering" " adj." "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""hager""
Syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted" "The woman looked haggard after sitting up for a week with her dying husband." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1582 "halting" "hesitant; faltering;prone to interruptions; imperfect or defective" " adj." "Old English word lemphalt, which means ""limping."". Does not come from Halt=stop" "1a. He spoke in a halting manner
1b. The initial government response was halting and unevenly effective." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1583 "harbinger" "One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner" " noun" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Herberg""
Syn: nouns= forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor: verbs= announce, annunciate, foretell, herald" "1a. During war times, an unexpected visit by someone in army uniform is often harbinger of bad news
1b. The dark clouds on the horizon were a harbinger of the approaching storm" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1584 "harrowing" "1. to break or flatten the land with a harrow(piece of equipment)
2. first hand experience that provokes feelings of fear or horror, distress greatly" "adj. " "2. As the divers approached seal island, they were soon attacked by sharks and faced 7 minutes of terror in their most harrowing part of the journey." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1585 "haunt" "1. visit often
2. appear to in the form of ghost or other supernatural being
3. come to trouble, to have a disquietening effect on." " verb" "1. He spends a lot of time haunting bookstores
2. Spirits are supposed to haunt the places where their bodies most resorted
3. Problems we ignore now will come back to haunt us later" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1586 "hermitage" "place where one can live in seclusion; home of one isolated from society for religious reasons" " noun" "French: the place where a hermit lives." "The hermitage was situated in the deepest part of the forest, far from prying eyes and human contact." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1587 "hew" "cut with an ax; fell with a sharp instrument; form or shape with a sharp instrument; cut" " verb" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""hauen""" "While the little boy wanted to hew trees with his big brother, he was too small to wield an axe." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1588 "histrionic" "1. deliberately affected: overly dramatic or emotional
2. of or relating to actors, acting, or the theater" " adj." "French origin" "1. The widow’s histrionic screaming made the detectives suspicious.
2. The ambitious actor sought to achieve histrionic perfection for his first major role. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1589 "hoary" "1. gray or white with or as if with age; covered with grayish hair
2. ancient" " adj." "Deutscher Wortstamm ""Herr""
Syn1: gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, white-haired
2. " "1. Santa is usually depicted with a hoary beard and hoary hair
2. is a hoary cliché, but no less true, that the function of the artistic community is to provoke" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1590 "hoodwink" "deceive; take in by deceptive means; delude" " verb" "After the hurricane, many dishonest individuals tried to hoodwink generous people into donating to fake charities." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1591 "hosanna" "A hosanna is a statement or exclamation of praise. Usually, hosannas praise God." " noun" "Hebrew phrase meaning ""Pray, save us.""" "Good Friday’s sadness was replaced only three days later by Sunday’s “hallelujah’s” and “hosannas.”" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1592 "idiosyncrasy" "behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual" " noun" "While my sister has many peculiar habits, her most common idiosyncrasy is rubbing his hands together when she gets excited about something" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1593 "ignominy" "deep disgrace; shame or dishonor" " noun" "Latin: in-""no, not"" plus nomen""name.=> lost good name or reputation." "The PM of Malaysia will now be suffering the ignominy of being sent to prison" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1594 "imbibe" "1. drink in;
2. absorb or take in as if by drinking" " verb" "Latin: in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + bibere ""to drink"" =>to drink, to absorb
Syn1: drink, gulp, guzzle, knock back, quaff, sip, slurp
Syn2 absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up" "1a. She imbibed vast quantities of coffee
2. From regular attendance at his family’s local black church he imbibed the preacher’s art of engaging an audience." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1595 "impalpable" "difficult to perceive senses or mind" " adj." "Latin: in- ""not, opposite of"" + palpare ""touch ""=> too unsubstantial to be perceived by touch
" "In the dark alley, the impalpaple shadows moving in the background made him feel ill at ease." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1596 "impel" "1. drive or force onward; impart motion to
2. urge to action through moral pressure" " verb" "Latin: in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + pellere ""to push""=>set in motion, drive forward
Impeller mixes a tank, but a propeller moves a boat forward.
Syn1: force
Syn2: propel" "1. On being hit by the truck, the car was impelled forward2.
2. He felt impelled to correct the misconception" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1597 "impenitent" "1. impervious to moral persuasion
2. not penitent or remorseful" " adj." "Latin: im-= ""not"" + pent=regret= ""to not regret or repent.""
Ant: repentant" "1. But if you refuse to change, if you are stubbornly impenitent, then you are not letting yourself be forgiven.
2. Even after being sentenced to life in prison, the impenitent man was not sorry for his crimes. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1598 "impetus" "1. incentive, stimulus, force that causes something to happen
2. force, energy or properities associated with a moving body due to velocity and mass" " noun" "1a. The high crime rate was the impetus for the hiring of one hundred new police officers in our city.
1b. impetus
for change" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1599 "impinge" "to encroach, transpass" " verb" "You'll find people don't like it when you impinge on their personal space - for example by standing too close when talking to others or bringing luggage on a crowded rush-hour subway carriage. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1600 "importunate" "urging; demanding; expressing earnest entreaty" " adj." "Syn:beseeching, imploring, pleading" "1a. Johnson satisfied an importunate US last week by banning the Chinese telecoms firm Huawei from doing business in Britain.
1b. ""Hör auf zu stürmen"", my mother used to say, when I was importunate about a request" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1601 "telluric" "of or relating to or inhabiting the land (as opposed to the sea or air), earthly, materialistic, fallen" "adj. " "Latin: Tellus, Roman goddess of the earth
Syn: tellurian, terrene, terrestrial" "Telluric currents in the earth's crust were first measured in 1862, and despite having many causes, are generally diurnal and are constantly flowing in direction of the sun. " "AMB" "RATMW" 1602 "crepuscular" "of, relating to, or resembling twilight" "adj." "French/Latin crepuscule: twighlight" "The combination of the red coat, the isolation of the girl and the crepuscular woods brings to mind Little Red Riding Hood" "AMB" "RATMW" 1603 "importune" "beg persistently; ask for urgently or repeatedly; annoy" " verb" "Syn:beseech, implore, plead" """Hör auf zu stürmen"", my mother used to say, when I importuned for something I wanted" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1604 "imprecation" "1. curse, or act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
2. A slanderous accusation" " noun" "Latin:in- ""against"" + precari ""to pray, ask, beg""=>to curse" "1a. A book titled “How Librarians Swear” lists such imprecations as “You stupid doorknob,” “What the fun” and “Oh shootdarn it.”
1b. The accused suffered the imprecations of the mob
2. He often tweets imprecations at immigrants: “We are indeed a nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of laws. Respect our laws and we welcome you.""" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1605 "improvident" "1. thriftless; not providing for future;
2. incautious" " adj." "Latin: im- = ""opposite, not"" + providere =""foresee, provide""=>not providing for future
Syn2:myopic, short, shortsighted, unforesightful" "1. Her improvident habits left her with no retirement savings.
2. In one heat, a driver made an improvident move and three cars collided, one flipping on its side." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1606 "impute" "1. attribute or credit to
2. lay responsibility or blame for, often unjustly" " verb" "Syn: ascribe, assign, attribute" "1a. People impute great cleverness to cats
1b. The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1607 "incandescent" "1. strikingly bright; shining with intense heat, emitting light as result of being heated
2. characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance" " adj." "Latin: in- ""within"" + candere ""to glow, to shine""=>to glow from within
candere has same root as candle
Syn1: glowSyn2: glorious" "1a. It is difficult to buy an incandescent lightbulb these days.
1b. The incandescent flies would light up the night
2. He gave an incandescent performance at the show last night" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1608 "incense" "cause to be extremely angry; set on fire; cause to burn; inflame; make hot or eager" " verb" "Same Latin word root as ""incendiary"", ie. Put on fire, here figuratively
incense, noun, is burned in church" "He was so incensed that he told people he was considering resigning over the matter" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1609 "incontinent" "lacking self-restraint; lacking sexual restraint; unchaste" " adj." "Latin: in- ""not"" + contain ""to hold"" + -ent""state of""=>to not be able to hold together, ie. Not restrain oneself" "1. As the population ages, there is a growing market for diapers for incontinent seniors
" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1610 "indenture" "1. contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
2. indentation, dent" " verb" "Contracts were written in full identical versions on a sheet of parchment, which was then cut apart in a zigzag, or ""notched"" line. Each party took one, and the genuineness of a document of indenture could be proved by laying it beside its counterpart." "A indentured laborer is an employee within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work without pay for the owner of the indenture for a period of time, now considered a form a slavery. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1611 "inexorable" "not capable of being swayed; unyielding; implacable" " adj." "Syn: grim, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, stubborn, unyielding, unstoppable" "The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, was inexorable: ""This lady is not for turning"", she said on becoming PM
The USA's inexorable demographic change — a majority of Americans will be people of color by 2045— is a threat to the Republicans
an inexorable monotony" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1612 "infirmity" "weakness; bodily ailment or weakness, especially one brought on by old age" " noun" "Syn: frailness, weakness, debility, feebleness, frailty, valetudinarianism
used on its own=physical frailty" "1a. Because of her infirmity, she often ended up being seen by doctors at the infirmary
1b. His mental infirmity was caused by an early onset of Alzheimer's disease." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1613 "infuse" "1) introduce into the body through a vein
2. undergo the process of infusion
3. to cause to be permeated with something (such as a principle or quality) that alters usually for the better " " verb" "Latin: infusus= ""to pour into""" "1. Doctors often infuse medicine into the veins of patients to ensure absoprtion
2. The mint tea is still infusing
3. After the pep talk, the sales manager infused<.b> the team with confidence" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1614 "ingenue" "an innocent, unsophisticated, naive young woman - often a role in a play or film" " noun" "French word for ingenuous (nr. 435), here as a noun and female because ends with an ""e""" "Ophelia, Snow White, and Sandy from the movie ""Grease"" are all ingénues, ie. a young female character in literature or film who is wholesome and innocent." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1615 "ingratiate" "to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate efforts; make agreeable or acceptable" " verb" "Latin: in- + gratia= ""grace"" or ""favor""=>get in favour " "The new businessmen did all to ingratiate themselves with the community leaders" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1616 "iniquitous" "wicked or sinful; immoral; unrighteous" " adj." "Syn: evil, immoral, nefarious, rotten, sinful, unethical, unlawful, unrighteous, unsavory, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked" "The movie business is corrupt, depraved and iniquitous — and still morally superior to some political parties." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1617 "iniquity" "absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness" " noun" "Illegal narcotics is not only a destroyer of personal health but also an iniquity that undermines our society" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1618 "inordinate" "exceeding reasonable limits; excessive; not regulated; disorderly" " adj." "Syn: excessive, undue, unreasonable" "I was never a fan of Charles Dickens' novels, as I found the 1200 pages to be of inordinate length" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1619 "inroad" "entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment" " noun" "originally used only to talk about military movement, describing armies making hostile raids." "1a. The army is finally making inroads into enemy territory
1b. China is making inroads in the world, in large part because the United States is offering no attractive alternative." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1620 "insulate" "make an island of; place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; isolate; separate" " verb" "Latin insula=“to make into an island.”
Deutsches Stammwort: Inseln
Syn: isolate, weatherstrip" "1a. They used a special type of expanded glassfiber mat to insulate the attic.
1b. Inner City dwellers often go to great lengths to insulate their children from dangerous experiences." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1621 "interlocutor" "1. one who speaks in dialogue or takes part in conversation
2. a third party in a conversation, like a middleman who speaks on behalf of an organization." " noun" "Latin:"" inter ""between"" + loqui ""to speak""=> ""speak between
Syn1: conversation partner
Syn2: middleman" "1. At formal events one is often forced to exchange pleasantries with whatever interlocutor one happens to have struck conversation up with
2. Switzerland – which acts as interlocutor between Tehran and Washington – passed messages between the two arch foes and set the terms of a response." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1622 "internecine" "mutually destructive; equally devastating to both sides" " adj." "Latin inter- (“among”) + necare (“to kill”)=>very deadly, murderous, destructive
" "The first world war was a terrible internecine war that utterly ruined both allies and axis." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1623 "interpose" "place between; thrust; intrude; be between, either for aid or for troubling" " verb" "French: inter- ""between"" + poser ""to place""=>to place in between" "It's annoying when advertisers interpose commercials between segments of your favorite TV show" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1624 "interregnum" "1a. the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes
1b. a period during which the normal functions of government or control are suspended" " noun" "Latin: inter ""between"" + regnum ""reign, kingship""=> interval between 2 reigns" "The Apostolic Constitution dictated that Cardinal Albanese would serve as temporary caretaker of the Roman Catholic Church during the interregnum, which ended with the election of a new pope." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1625 "invertebrate" "1. animal, such as an insect, that lacks backbone or spinal column
2. a courage-less or weak person" " noun" "Latin in- ""not"" + vertebratus ""spine""=>Spineless
Deutsch: Rückgratlos" "1. worms are an example of invertebrate animals
2. an invertebrate Congress that blithely went along with the President's ill-conceived plan " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1626 "invidious" "an act, thought, opinion or critique that is full of ill will or prejudice" " adj." "Same word root as ""envious""""envy""
Syn: obnoxious, discriminatory" "The boss was not well liked because he made invidious distinctions between employees. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1627 "insidious / invidious" "1. insidious describes something nasty that lies in wait to get you
2. invidious is something offensive or defamatory." "adj. " "Cancer can be insidious, lurking in your body without your knowing it - but nasty, invidious comments are noticed right away" "Easily confused words" "SMB" 1628 "invigilate" "watch diligently; keep watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating" " verb" "Same word root as ""vigilante""
Deutsch: aufpassen, vor allem bei Prüfungen (Brit.)" "One of the job functions of the professor's assistant was to invigilate during the final exam" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1629 "inviolable" "secure from corruption, attack, or violation; unassailable" " adj." "Latin in- ""not"" + violare ""to violate""=>not violable
" "1a. ""We call upon you to recognize the inviolable human dignity of the child, before and after birth,” the group wrote in its letter
1b. Before WW2, the French thought that the Margot line made the border to Germany inviolable" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1630 "invocation" "1. prayer for help;
2. calling upon as reference or support
3 .an act of legal or moral implementation" " noun" "Syn1: conjuration
Syn3: enforcement" "1a. In the hospital chapel, the religious man hoped to save his dying wife by making an invocation. to the Almighty
2. He justified his position by invocation of the past
3. Will the invocation of the Defense Production Act mean that there will be more masks soon?" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1631 "iridescent" "exhibiting or giving out colors like those of rainbow; gleaming or shimmering with rainbow colors" " adj." "Latin: iris=""rainbow"" + escent=""in the process of becoming""=>multicoloured like a rainbow." "1a. an iridescent oil slick
1b. A dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1632 "irksome" "causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation; tedious" " adj." "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""ärgern"", also irksome= ""ärgerlich""
Syn: tedious, boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tiresome, wearisome" "Arguments are put forward, surely irksome to some in France, about the Italian influence on French cooking." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1633 "irreproachable" "perfect or blameless in every respect; faultless; impeccable" " adj." "French: in- ""not, opposite of"" + reproach =>not reproachable
see Nr. 647 ""reproach""
Syn: blameless, inculpable, unimpeachable, clean-handed, guiltless, innocent" "His conduct as a police officer was irreproachable. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1634 "jaundiced" "1. showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste;
2. affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin; yellow or yellowish" " adj." "1a. She has a very jaundiced view of politics and politicians.
1b. In my view, it takes a jaundiced eye to read anything negative into the strong job growth.
2. His jaundiced skin was a sign that he had liver problems" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1635 "jeer" "a scoff, a taunt, a mocking and insulting remark or sound" " noun" "Syn: boo, Bronx cheer, catcall, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, snort" "The jeers of the crowd left no doubt that they were unhappy." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1636 "jocose" "given to joking; merry; humorous" " adj." "Syn: jesting, jocular, joking, merry, humourous
Same word root as ""joke""
" "The comedian's jocose introductions kept the awards ceremony from becoming a stodgy affair " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1637 "jocund" "merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive" " adj." "Latin: jucundus ""agreeable and delightful""
Syn: jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful" "The happy and jocund faces of children could be seen in the playground" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1638 "jocose vs. jocund" "In jocose cheerfulness or light-heartedness is by making jokes; in jocund is more a state of being over a period of time" "adj. " "Easily confused words" "SMB" 1639 "junta" "a group of military officers ruling a country after seizing power; small legislative body in a government, especially in Central or South America" " noun" "After Argentina was defeated by Britain in the Falklands War of 1982, the country’s military junta began to lose its grip on power." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1640 "jurisprudence" "philosophy or science of law; division or department of law" " noun" "Latin: iuris ""of right, of law"" + prudentia ""knowledge, a foreseeing""=>philosophy of law." "The denial did little to change the perception that chief justice Roberts' drift away from conservative jurisprudence is accelerating." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1641 "juxtaposition" "act of positioning close together; side-by-side position" " noun" " Latin iuxta ""beside, very near, close to, near at hand"" + French position =>positioned beside, next to
Syn: apposition, collocation" "Juxtaposition of two contrasting items is often done deliberately in writing, music, or art — in order to highlight their differences." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1642 "kingpin" "1. the most important person in a group or undertaking
2. bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle" " noun" "From bowling, where kingpin, also called a ""center pin"" or a ""five pin"" is the critical pin at the very center
Syn: bigwig, top banana" "Instread of going after the small dealers, a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade was set up. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1643 "knave" "untrustworthy person; deceitful and unreliable scoundrel; man of humble birth; male servant" " noun" "Syn:"" scoundrel"" or a ""good-for-nothing.""
Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Knabe""
archaic, mostly in theatre." "The puzzles are populated by knights—who always tell the truth, and by knaves—who always lie." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1644 "lackadaisical" "lacking purpose or zest; halfhearted; lacking spirit or liveliness" " adj." "From 17th cent. Curse: lackaday
Syn: dreamy, languid, languorous, lethargic, unenergetic, idle, indolent, languid, limp, listless" "1a. His teachers did not approve of his lackadaisical approach to homework.
1b. Feeling particularly lackadaisical in the summer heat, they lazily tossed a ball back and forth" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1645 "laggard" "slow; sluggish; wasting time" " adj." "Syn: dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, languid, leisurely,, slow, sluggish, snail-paced, unhurried" "1a. The company has been a laggard in developing new products.
1b. I hate being stuck behind laggard motorists on the freeway." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1646 "lampoon" "ridicule; subject to abusive ridicule expressed in work of art - usually aimed at an individual" " verb" "Syn: satirise, satirize" "1a. He said such ridiculous things that he was often the target of lampoons in the press.
1b. The second Monty Python feature, however, which uproariously lampoons Arthurian legend" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1647 "languid" "lacking energy or vitality; weak; sluggish; lacking spirit or liveliness" " adj." "Latin: verb, languere ""to be weak or faint""
Syn: dreamy, lackadaisical, languorous, lethargic, unenergetic" "1a. It was a hot, languid summer day.
1b. They proceeded at a languid pace." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1648 "languish" "lose animation; be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor" " verb" "Latin languere = ""to be weak or faint"", same root as languid" "Older people, especially, were languishing during the prolonged heat wave " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1649 "languor" "feeling of lack of interest or energy; depression" " noun" "languish and languor are closely related, languor implies a heaviness or slowness where there should be lightness or speed." "1a. I grew used to observing the ebb and flow of my thoughts with a languor that today would probably be praised as meditative.
1b. They felt an indefinable languor." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1650 "lave" "wash or flow against; wash one's face and hands" " verb" " Deutsch Laben= auffrischen, erquicken mit wasser" "The cold water from the stream gently laved her burned fingers " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1651 "lecherous" "vigorously passionate; excessive desire, especially in sexual activity" " adj." "French: lecher=someone who licks
concupiscent, horny, hypersexual, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lubricious, lustful, oversexed, randy, salacious, wanton" "A lecherous lawyer hitting on his son's girlfriend
The old man had a lecherous gleam in his eye
To me, this is utterly disrespectful, lecherous and kind of creepy behaviour." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1652 "lechery" "unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity; impurity in thought and deed" " noun" "noun of lecherous
lecher=someone who licks
Syn: lasciviousness" "Harvey Weinstein and the appalling lechery that finally led to his downfall were not spoken about at the event" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1653 "legerdemain" "show of skill or deceitful cleverness, considered magical by naive observers" " noun" "French: French léger de main ""quick of hand
""Syn: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick
written as one word, with no spaces" "1a. The magician displays legerdemain with cards and coins alike
1b. The feat was a remarkable piece of diplomatic legerdemain" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1654 "levy" "impose tax or fine to collect monies" " verb" "Old French levée ""a raising"" (of a tax).
Levy is also the most common Jewish surname, and the job of tax collector reserved for Jews. " "Trump levied an import tax on Chinese imports " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1655 "libretto" "the words (but not the music) of an opera or musical play" " noun" "Italian libretto, diminutive of libro ""book""
Syn: book, plays, cript, script" "Mozart composed the music to his operas, but the librettos were written by someone else. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1656 "licentious" "amoral; unrestrained; lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint" " adj." "Latin licentia ""freedom, liberty""" "A moralist decried what she regarded as the licentious and corrupt culture of the entertainment industry" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1657 "liken" "to represent as similar" " verb" "from ""like"", what else.
Syn: compare" "My mother would always liken her experience at the dentist to torture, thereby revealing her dentophobia" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1658 "lilliputian" "extremely small; very small person; trivial or petty" " adj." "In ""Gullliver's travels"" by Johanthon Swift, the inhabitants of Lilliput were only 6 inches high.
Syn: fiddling, footling, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial
Ant. Brobdingnagian" "Our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1659 "lionize" "look on or treat a person as celebrity; visit famous places in order to revere them" " verb" "lion in the sense of ""person of note who is much sought-after""
" "1a. Republicans continue to lionize Ronald Reagan as their ultimate hero
1b. Don't make me into a hero. I don't want to be lionized" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1660 "locomotion" "self-propelled movement; power or ability to move" " noun" "Latin loco ""from a place"" + motionem ""motion, a moving""=>action or power of motion
Syn:motive power, motivity" "The diminutive gecko is capable of some extraordinary feats of locomotion, zipping along vertical walls with ease and even running short distances across water" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1661 "febrile" "feverish; intense emotion or activity" " adj. " "Same word root as ""fever"", thus related to fever, ferverish. " "The atmosphere in the city was febrile as the king's coronation date approached. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1662 "acquiesce" "assent; agree without protesting" " verb" " Latin: acquiescere, meaning “to rest. ” If you “rest” or become passive in the face of something to which you object, you are giving tacit agreement. " "While I did not want to go to the show with Laura, her begging eventually caused me to acquiesce" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1663 "connote" "to imply something in addition to what is apparent" "verb" "Latin: com ""with, together"" + notare ""to mark, note, make a note""=>to signify in addition to the main meaning" "At work, we connote the employee of the month award with being the best worker on the team. " "AMB" "GRE Test Exam 1" 1664 "inveigle" "persuade someone through flattery" "verb" " Middle French word aveugler, meaning “delude, make blind, ”" "She inveigled him to drive her all the way across the country by telling him he was not only the best looking man in town, but also the best driver of all time. " "AMB" "GRE Test Exam 1" 1665 "injudicious" "lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise" "adj. " "Latin in-""not""+ iudicium ""judgment""=> lacking judgement.
Antonym: judicious" "He regretted his injudicious decision to spend his last 5 dollars on an expensive cup of coffee" "AMB" "GRE Test Exam 1" 1666 "judicious" "exhibiting good judgment or sound thinking; prudent" " adj. " "Latin iiudicium ""judgment""=> lacking judgement.
Antonym:injudicious" "The man had become wealthy by making judicious use of his money" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1667 "pernicious" "harmful and subtle, often taking years" "adj. " "Latin: per ""completely"" + necis ""violent death, murder""perniciosus""destructive""=>total destruction" "The leftist claimed that even during a pandemic, racism is as pernicious as ever. " "AMB" "GRE Test Exam 1" 1668 "feint" "trick; any distracting or deceptive maneuver" " noun" "military and political tactics often use feints, most common in sport, eg. boxing, where opponents are continually trying to fake each other out. " "Ali feinted with a jab, and Frazier threw one of his own, missing. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1669 "baseness" "unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values" "adj. " "from base (adj. ) + -ness. " "The pauper looked at the touristist skeptically, thinking that they gloried in his squalor as proof of his baseness. " "AMB" "GRE Test Exam 1" 1670 "connote/denote" "Connote is like giving a hint, but to denote is to refer to something outright. " "verb" "For her, the word ""family"" connotes love and comfort while it denotes a group containing a father, mother and siblings" "AMB" "GRE Test Exam 1" 1671 "fervent/fervid" "Fervent is a synonym of fervid. " "adj. " "Fervent is used much more frequently than fervid. Some, but not all, say that fervid means 'very fervent""" "He was a fervent supporter of FC Basel" "AMB" "GRE Test Exam 1" 1672 "poise" "1. n. If you have poise, you are cool under stress. People with poise can handle pressure without showing it
2. brace yourself (ie. Get ready) or be prepared for something difficult. " "noun, verb" "French: poids=weight, quality of being heavy. The sense of ""steadiness, composure"" from notion of being equally weighted on either side, which then led to the passive sense of ""being in equilibrium""""being in suspense"" and then ""getting ready for""" "1. He answered the presecutor's tough questions with great poise
2a. The bird was poised in mid-air, ready to fall on its prey.
2b. That number seems poised to rise dramatically this year.
2c. After being asked to sit down, we was poised to hear bad news. " "Vocab" "Prepscholar" 1673 "aplomb" "Aplomb is the ultimate test for cool: grace under pressure. " "adj. " "French: ""perpendicularity""a lead(Pb) weight = ""poised upright, balanced. """ "Because the negotiator handled the hostage situation with aplomb, the kidnapper released everyone without harm. " "Vocab" "Prepscholar" 1674 "tenacity" "the quality of being determined to do or achieve something" "adj. " "
Syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness" "Nadal’s tenacity and desire to win at all costs were exhibited during the final set of the tennis match" "Vocab" "Prepscholar" 1675 "windfall" "A windfall is a crazy bit of unexpected good fortune. , an unanticipated benefit, usually monetary in nature" "noun" "from wind (n. 1. + fall (n. 1. . Originally literal, in reference to wood or fruit blown down by the wind, and thus free to
Syn: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven" "With her lottery windfall, Gail eliminated all her financial debt. " "Vocab" "Prepscholar" 1676 "lope" "gallop slowly; run or ride with steady, easy gait; travel an easy pace with long strides" " verb" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""laufen""""lopen"" im Ski langlauf oder das Englische Wort ""to elope""=run away" "With no cars in sight, joggers lope past him without breaking stride" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1677 "luminary" "celebrity; person who is an inspiration to others; person who has achieved eminence in specific field" " noun" "Old French luminarie: ""lamp, light-giver, source of light""
Same word root as ""lumen""""illuminate""" "People look up to Stephen Hawking as a luminary in the field of physics: he is a well-known scientist and author respected for his knowledge and insight." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1678 "lustre" "1. brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter
2. a decorative object (such as a chandelier) hung with glass pendants" " noun" "1. Middle French lustre ""gloss, radiance""
2. Gleicher Stammwort wie ""Lüster""
Syn1: sheen, luminosity
Syn2: chandelier
-re or-er ending is UK or US versions" "1a. The luster of polished metal
1b. The luster of the stars sparkled in the night
1c. Scandals have diminished his luster
2. The luster filled the grand living room with a brilliant light. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1679 "mackintosh" "waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth" " noun" "named after Charles Macintosh (1766-1843), inventor of a waterproofing process
Syn:Raincoat(British)
note extra ""k"" compared to inventor's name" "Before taking the dog out for a walk in the pouring rain, he put on his mackintosh." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1680 "malediction" "curse; evil speaking; utterance of curse or execration" " noun" "Latin: male= ""badly"" + ""diction"" ""to speak""""to say""""words""=>to curse, to utter bad words
Syn:imprecation" "Trump is at his desk, tweeting curses and maledictions at his enemies." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1681 "mammon" "material wealth regarded as having an evil influence" " noun" "Aramic word of same meaning.
often used in a religious sense" "1a. Trump was a thrice-married New Yorker more familiar with mammon than with God.
1b. The gangsters are chiefly motivated by just one god— mammon, the green of dollars bills." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1682 "manacle" "handcuff; shackle for hand or wrist; instrument of iron for fettering the hand" " noun" "Syn: handcuff, bind, bond, chain, cuff(s), fetter, irons, ligature, shackle" "1a. Manacles prevented the bear from roaming beyond a very small area
1b. It is sometimes difficult for whites to undestand the mind-forged manacles that Blacks bear" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1683 "marsupial" "any mammal of which the female typically has a pouch in which it rears its young, such as kangaroo or koala" " noun" "Latin marsupialis ""having a pouch""" "There are many types of marsupials, all found in Australia, not only the kangaroo but als the wallabies, opossums, koalas, and wombats." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1684 "martinet" "strict disciplinarian; one who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules" " noun" "Col Martinet was a drillmaster of Louis XIV, who trained his troops to advance into battle in precise linear formations & to fire in volleys only upon command, thus making the most effective use of inaccurate muskets
Syn: strict disciplinarian" "The prison's warden was a cruel martinet." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1685 "mawkish" "insincerely emotional; showing a sickly excess of sentiment" " adj." "Deutsch: kitschig rührselig
Syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy" "He gave a mawkish plea for donations to the charity " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1686 "megalomania" "mental disorder with delusions of grandeur" " noun" "Greek megas (""great"") + mania (""madness"")=>madness about being great" "Megalomaniacs in history: Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Josef Stalin, and maybe even the tycoon Donald Trump." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1687 "mellifluous" "flowing or dropping like honey; sweetly or smoothly flowing, especially in sound" " adj." "Latin: mel ""honey""+ flous""flowing""=> ""flowing with (or as if with) honey""" "His mellifluous voice is the perfect tonic to calm a racing mind." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1688 "mendicant" "beggar; religious friar forbidden to own personal property who begs for living" " noun" "French: mendant=beggar
Deutsch: Bettelmönch, Bettler" "1. My father also gave me quarters to give to homeless, mendicant men along the route, even though our family was very poor
2. Friars should not be confused with monks. Members of the mendicant orders are friars such as Franciscans and Dominicans. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1689 "meretricious" "1. of or pertaining to prostitutes
2a. tawdrily and falsely attractive
2b. superficially significant, but not really significant" " adj." "Latin: meretrix = ""prostitute"" or ""woman who earns money""=>""of or pertaining to prostitutes""
Syn2a: brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry
Syn2b: gilded, specious" "1. I don't know how she survived, but she did seem to have many meretricious relationships
2a. The paradise they found was a piece of meretricious trash
2b. The scholarly names provided fig-leaves of respectability for these meretricious but stylish books" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1690 "mien" "aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing" " noun" "Gleicher Deutscher Wortstamm wie ""Miene""
Syn: bearing, comportment, presence" "1a. He has the mien of an aristocrat
1b. The stern mien of the librarian suggested that she was not one to put up with any nonsense " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1691 "militant" "a fighting or aggressive person or party" " noun" "same word root as ""military"", with -ant ending which denotes a person
Syn: activist" "Pakistan says it needs the fence to block the Afghanmilitants from crossing into their country." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1692 "mimicry" "imitation; act, practice, or art of mimicking" " noun" "Same word root as ""mime""=> to imitate" "1a. He entertained his family with mimicry of persons they knew and comic skits
1b. Bisphenol A is a controversial plastic additive as it is believed to have estrogen mimicry properties" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1693 "minutia" "petty details; small particular or detail; a minute or trivial matter of fact" " noun" "Latin minutia ""smallness""
same word root as ""minute""(in sense of tiny, not 60s of time)
plural more common than sing." "He was bewildered by the contract's minutiae.1b. He had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1694 "miscellany" "collection of various items, parts, or ingredients, especially one composed of diverse literary works" " noun" "Same word root as ""miscellaneous""" "1a. A miscellany of old toys
1b. The box from the attic contained a miscellany of old records, family photo albums, and long-forgotten love letters " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1695 "modulate" "tone down in intensity; regulate; change from one key to another" " verb" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1696 "moiety" "one of two equal parts; a half" " noun" "French: Moitié=half
Käsefondue: moitié, moitié=50/50 2-Käsemischung" "1a. The inheritance was split into two equal moieties
1b. The pueblo's population is divided into two halves or moieties; the Squash, and the Turquoise
1c. an ether molecule with a benzene moiety" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1697 "mordant" " 1. harshly ironic or sinister
2. bitingly painful
3. serving to fix colors in dyeing" " adj." "French: mordant=""biting""
Syn1: incisive
Syn2: pungent, burning" "1a. When the mordant president entered the boardroom, all of his vice-presidents readied for his sarcastic attacks
1b. Divide Me by Zero’ is a mordant tribute to lost loves.
2. He grimaced at the mordant pain.
3. Chrome alum was added as a mordant in the dyeing process. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1698 "moribund" "1. dying; in dying state; approaching death; about to die
2. being in a state of inactivity or obsolescence " " adj." "Latin: morti ""to die""
Same word root as ""mortuary""""mortal""
Syn1: dying
Syn2: dormant" "1a. In the moribund patient deepening stupor and coma are the usual preludes to death
1b. An actor who is trying to revive his moribund career
2a. A moribund volcano
2b. a moribund virus
" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1699 "mortify" "cause to experience shame or humiliation; embarrass" " verb" "Latin: morti ""to die""
Deutsch: Sich zu Tote schämen
Syn: abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, nonplus, rattle" "If Jared was trying to mortify his parents by yelling during the opera, he succeeded." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1700 "mottled" "spotted with different shades or colors" " adj." "Backformation of ""motley"", something multi-coloured or varied." "A combination of red and blue pigments in the shell of a live lobster creates a mottled camouflage of indeterminate hue that blends in with the ocean floor" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1701 "muffle" "1. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
2. conceal or hide" "verb" "Syn1: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down
Syn2: repress, smother, stifle" "1a. The COVID face masks muffle our voices, so it’s often hard to hear and to be heard.
1b. I could hear their muffled voices from the next room.
2. She had learnt that it was better not to react I such situations, and thus muffled her anger" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1702 "multifarious" "varied; greatly diversified; made up of many differing parts" " adj." "Latiin: multi- ""many"" + -fariam ""places/forms"")=>of many forms/parts
similar construction to words ""omnifarious"" & ""bifarious""
Syn: many-sided, multifaceted" "1a. The multifarious interests and activities in which Benjamin Franklin immersed himself
1b. The multifarious noise of a great city" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1703 "murky" "1. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
2. dark or gloomy
3. unclear, foggy" " adj." "Norsk: dark, gloom
murkiness, murk, murkily all similarly related
Syn1: cloudy, mirky, muddy, turbid
Syn2: dark or gloomy" "1. The murky bottom of the lake
2a. In the back, I saw Murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps
3. He offered a murky explanation." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1704 "necromancy" "1. belief in magical spells to produce unnatural effects;
2. practice of supposedly communicating with spirits of dead ones to predict future" " noun" "Greek: nekros ""dead body""/ ""death"" + manteia ""divination, oracle""=>""divination by communication with the dead""
Syn: black magic" "1.In the conjuring of the souls of the dead, necromancy seemed to offer human beings a means of exerting some control over an uncertain world
2. The town accused her of witchcraft and necromancy. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1705 "conjure" "1. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
1b. Think up, imagine
1c. to bring to mind
2. ask for or request earnestly
3. engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together" "verb" "1a. The magician conjured live doves from silk scarves.
1b. The students conjured up a clever plan to raise the money.
1c. words that conjure pleasant images, that conjure up memories of my childhood
2. I conjure you to weigh my case well
3. The opposition conjured up a plan to corner their opponent" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1706 "neologism" "new or newly invented word or phrase" " noun" "Greek: neo- ""new"" + logos ""word"" + -ism=>new word or language" "Please familiarize yourself with the term, which seems likely to be one of the neologisms of the year." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1707 "neonate" "newborn infant, especially one less than four weeks old" " noun" "neo- ""new"" + natus ""born""=>newly bord" "The research concentration on minimizing the transfer of pathogenic organisms from the woman to the neonate." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1708 "nest egg" "1. a sum of money put by as a reserve, generally for retirement
2. a real or artificial egg left in a nest to induce the hen to go on laying there" " noun" "Syn: savings, retirement fund, " "Experts expect that many investors and households will choose to sock away money to rebuild savings and retirement nest eggs." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1709 "nestling" "young bird, older than a hatchling but younger a fledgling as has not yet developed feathers; young child" " noun" "The first of the eggs hatched on earlier this week and as of this morning, all four nestling could be seen with their mouths agape, looking to be fed" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1710 "nestle" "1. to snuggle or cuddle something
2. to build a nest" "verb" "Old English: nesteln ""to build a nest" "1. As he began to nestle closer to his mother’s chest, the baby drifted off to sleep.
2. The robin nestled a nest all day long" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1711 "nettle" "cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; vex" " verb" "Nettle bush=Nessel auf Deutsch (t -> ss Eng->D Transformation)
Syn: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, rile, vex" "If you nettle a bee, you should be prepared to run" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1712 "nondescript" "lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting" " adj." "Latin: non- ""not"" + descriptus ""to write down, copy; sketch, represent"" => ""not easily described or classified""
Deutsch: unscheinbar
Syn: characterless, faceless, featureless, indistinctive, neutral, noncommittal" "The vehicles and the nondescript uniforms worn by the agents did not link them to a specific agency or government.
I work in one of the nondescript office buildings downtown." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1713 "nonplus" "perplex or bewilder someone; confound or flummox" " verb" "Latin: non plus: ""no more, no further""=>state in which one is unable to proceed or decide" "I was nonplussed by his openly expressed admiration of me." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1714 "acarpous" "effete; no longer fertile; worn out" "adj." "Greek akarpos: a=not + karpos=fruitful =>not fruitful" "So clear was the Icelandic air that every slope, every hollow, every acarpous hilltop lay pitilessly revealed to her eyes" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1715 "argot" "jargon; slang" "noun" "French: slang
Syn: jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular" "1a. Because I am not a medical doctor, I could not understand the argot spoken by my physician and his colleagues.
1b. He has been bombarded by thousands of scathing messages—known as being ""flamed"" in the argot of cyberspace." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1716 "arrant" "used as a superlative, to add emphasis to other words, most often negative: meaning: in the highest degree" "adj." "Syn: very, extreme, most, complete, consummate, total, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter" "1a. He dismissed as arrant nonsense any suggestion that he was dishonest.
I couldn’t believe she was taken in by such arrant deception." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1717 "aspersion" "slander, a false charge to hurt someone's name" "noun" "Latin: ad ""to"" + spargere ""sprinkle, strew""=>to sprinkle slander, derogatory criticism" "In order to improve his chances of winning the election, he went about casting aspersions on her integrity" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1718 "astringent" "1. substance that shrinks
2. sour or bitter in taste" "noun, adj." "1. The astringent lotion checked the bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels
2a. Is it astringent and sour or fruity and caramelised?
2b. Her tone is astringent, stripping the memories of any ennobling tragedy or nostalgic fuzz." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1719 "atavistic" "1. suggesting the reappearance of traits or characteristics of an ancestor or primitive object
2. recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity " "adj. " "Latin atavus ""ancestor, forefather""
Syn: throwback
Laut Duden gleicher Def. in Deutsch, wobei dieses Wort heute eher als ""laienhaft"" verstanden wird. " "1a. Our leaders are kneeling before the mob, the atavistic ritual of self-abasement of defeat.
1b. Elvis Presley was an atavistic alcoholic like his mother.
2. The atavistic architectural style reminded him of a long gone era" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1720 "balk" "1. verb. refuse to comply
2. sports: failure of a competitor to complete a motion
3. noun. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
4. one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof" "verb, noun" "1. The horse balked at the jump and threw the rider
2. The baseball pitcher feigned that he was starting to throw a pitch and was thus charged with a balk" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1721 "bedizen" "to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner" "used only in written form
Syn: adorn, bedeck, blazon, decorate, do up, doll up, drape, dress, embellish, emblaze, emboss, fancy up, festoon, garnish, glitz (up), grace, ornament" "1a. The minister from Venezuela—the most insignificant government represented, was most bedizened with gold lace, stars, and trumpery of every sort.
1b. He has a habit of stuffing his short hands, bedizened with rings, into his trousers pockets." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1722 "belabor" "1. to go on and on about something or to emphasize an idea or suggestion too much in a way that becomes boring or annoying" "verb" "1. He understood what he was saying and told him that there was no need to belabor the point.
1b. He was belabored by his fellow students for not adhering to the latest polically correct post modernist dogma." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1723 "bereft" "1. deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something —usually used with of
2. lacking something needed, wanted, or expected —used with of
3. suffering the death of a loved one" "adj." "bereft differs just from plain mournful or grief-stricken is in its sense of deprivation or lack" "1. The Bruins were bereft of talent when Kelly replaced Jim, whose recruiting left room for improvement
2. His voice remained monotone; his speech soft and bereft of inflection points.
3. She would succumb at age 56, leaving her husband wounded and bereft in his grief." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1724 "bilge" " 1. the lowest internal point of a ship's hull,
1b. also used for the stinking water filth that collects there
2. stale or worthless remarks or ideas
3. verb . Take in water or leak" "noun, adj. verb" "1a. I hopped aboard and crawled into the bilge to look, and found the boat is dry inside.
1b. The Coast Guard says it found evidence a fishing boat discharged oil and bilge waste overboard.
2. That magazine prints a lot of bilge about celebrities." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1725 "blatant" "1. without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
2. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry" "adj. " "1. Blatant racial and gender discrimination was just about over in the 90's
2. The blatant cacaphonous radios on the beach annoyed the other sunbathers." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1726 "brobdingnagian" "gigantic" "adj. " "In Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"", an imaginary country where everything was on a gigantic scale was ""Brobdingnag""
Ant. Lilliputian.
Syn: colossal, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, huge, humongous, immense, leviathan, massive, monstrous, monumental,titanic, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking, whopping" "A Brobdingnagian billboard stood at the entrance to the theme park " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1727 "brook" "to tolerate; endure" "verb" "Brook as a noun is a small stream." "1a. Marx's view of the historical class struggle permitted no dissent, just as today's rioters brook no dissent from their dogmatic view of systemic racism.
1b. I will brook no arguments that somehow this would be a security nightmare for Apple" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1728 "brummagem" "Cheap and showy" "adj. " "Brummagem is a vulgar pronunciation of Birmingham.
Syn: tawdry, cheap, " "A bilious combination of brummagem melodrama and synthetic seascapes " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1729 "cant" "insincere talk/jargon" "noun" "The older woman did not understand the modern cant spoken by her grandchildren" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1730 "canvass" "1a. to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or
1b. to determine opinions or sentiments
2. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning" "verb" "1a. A team of volunteers is canvassing the city for the Republican Party, going to every house.
1b. In a normal year, many of these households’ information would be collected during census enumerators’ follow-up canvass
2. By the time the three states complete their canvass of votes nearly a month after the election, the nation faces an astonishing result." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1731 "cavalcade" "1. a procession, orginally of horses, now of any sort (eg. Motorcycles, cars, people, ships, etc.)
2. a sequence, a series - often dramatic" "noun" "Same Latin root as ""cavalry""" "1. It was followed in quick succession by almost 20 vehicles that departed in a long cavalcade.
2. Despite a cavalcade of natural disasters, the country was able to recover" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1732 "Chicane" "1. deception, trickery
2. a removable obstacle on a racecourse, eg. a series of tight turns in opposite directions in an otherwise straight stretch of a road-racing course" "verb, noun" " Middle French chicaner = ""to quibble"" or ""to prevent justice""" "1. Most get-rich-quick schemes involve more than a smidgen of chicane
2. The Le Mans circuit has chicanes on the frontstretch to slow the cars , forcing the drivers to altenatively swing their steering wheels left and right." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1733 "churl" "bad-tempered person" "noun" "Same German root as ""Kerl"".
Had various meanings in middle English,: ""man of the common people"" ""a country man"" ""husbandman"" ""free peasant.
Like ""boor"" & ""villain"", it is a word for ""common man"" that became insulting with time." "1a. But gracious Prince, do not listen to these common people, to these churls.
1b. The grump man is a miserable churl who is rude and surly at all times." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1734 "constrain" "hold back, restrict" "verb" "Japan’s economy is heavily reliant on exports, so weak demand in major overseas markets is constraining its growth" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1735 "contumacious" "insubordinate, rebellious" "adj." "Latin: com-=with + tumere ""to swell up""(some origin as ""tumour"")=>to swell up, be rebellious" "1a. She was warned that her contumacious conduct would not be tolerated.
1b. The judge threatened to charge the contumacious witness with contempt of court" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1736 "coruscate" "sparkle" "verb" "From Latin: sparkle, emit flash of light" "1a. He had a classic car from the 1950s, replete with yards of coruscating chrome
1b. The little mirrors on a disco ball coruscate as the ball twirls, making the dance floor sparkle.1c. His playing coruscated throughout the concert hall
1d. The allegations threaten to curtail a coruscating career." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1737 "countenance" "1. the appearance conveyed by a person's face, thus also their composure - often understood to be calm
2. to favor or approve of" "adj, verb" "Old French contenance ""demeanor, bearing, conduct""" "1a. The photograph showed his somber countenance
1b. He managed to keep his countenance through the ordeal.
2. He was surprised at her countenance of their unsafe amusements" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1738 "countervail" "to counter something with equal force so as to succesffully offset or mitigate its effect" "verb" "counter=rebut + vail=value=>rebut or resist with equal force/value" "In order to countervail the storm’s effect of flooding the area, the authorities built levees to hold the waters back. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1739 "crass" "stupid, vulgar, insensitive, without refinement or sensitivity; gross." "adj." "ähnlich (aber nicht identisch) wie ""Krass"" auf Deutsch" "While you don't have to wear black to a funeral, but showing up in clown pants is simply crass." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1740 "cursory" "quick; hurried" "adj. " "From French via Latin: pp of currore= running
Syn: hasty" "1a. He gave the applicant a cursory glance and already turned her down in his mind
1b. Only a cursory inspection of the building was done - resulting in a large under-estimate of the repairs needing to be done." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1741 "deferential" "showing respect" "adj." "French déférence, itself from déférer ""to yield, comply""" "People were always deferential to the military veteran and showed him respect every time he was in uniform." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1742 "deposition" "1. the act of putting something somewhere
2. (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office
3. the act of deposing someone
removing a powerful person from a position or office" "noun" "Definitions 1 and 2 stem from the word ""deposit"", ie. Put something down
Definition 3 comes from the word ""depose"". " "1. The deposition of the sediment over centuries eventually led to filling of the lake
2. In a deposition in a separate lawsuit last year, LaPierre acknowledged he did not report any of the NRA-paid expenses as personal income
3. As soon as the people received word of the dictator’s deposition, they ran in the streets and started to celebrate. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1743 "desuetude" "cessation of use, disuse" "noun" "Latin desuetudo ""disuse"", ""no longer custom""" "1a. This practice has gradually dropped into desuetude, but now..
1b. In this time period the armour fell into desuetude due to a changing technique of war. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1744 "detraction" "1. a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism
2. a taking away " "noun" "Old French/Latin detraccion ""detraction, disparagement, denigration""
Syn1: disparagement, belittling, denigration, derogation, deminishment
do not confuse with 'distraction'" "1a. Let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken
1b .Sanders’ supporters answered each of the detractions.
2. it is no detraction from its dignity or prestige" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1745 "detumescence" "diminishing or lessening of swelling" "noun" "This leads to a rapid detumescence of the inflamed tissue and a disruption of the pain" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1746 "diaphanous" "transparent; gauzy" "adj." "Greek: dia ""through"" + phainesthai ""bring to light, cause to appear, show""=>see-through
Syn: cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent" "1a. She went to the Ascot wearing a fancy hat with a diaphanous veil
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1747 "diffidence" "shyness, lacking self-confidence" "noun" "Latin: dis- ""away"" + fidere ""to trust""=>""to mistrust, lack confidence"" but of oneself, ie. Lacking self-confidence" "1a. They asked him to be the team leader, but he expressed diffidence, saying that he didn't think he had enough time to do the job justice, nor did he think he had enough experience.
1b. You shouldn’t be so diffidence about your achievements when you’ve done very well.
1c. But there is also something more meaningful to her seeming diffidence." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1748 "disconcert" "to unsettle someone, to make them feel confused" "verb" "dis- ""do the opposite of"" + concerter =align harmonize, bring in agreement=>bring into disarray
Syn: confound, confuse, discomfit, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, mortify, nonplus, rattle" "1a. News of his criminal past has disconcerted even his admirers.
1b. We were disconcerted by the unexpected changes to the program " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1749 "distrait" "distracted with worry and anxiety" "adj." "distrait is the French word for distracted
Syn:distraught, mentally remote" "1a. I found my cousin distrait, absent, moody, sad, preoccupied, unlike herself.
1b. He grew more and more distrait as hours passed without confirmation that there were survivors of the plane crash " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1750 "divestiture" "taking off, getting rid of giving up, the sale by a company of part of the company (eg. A division) to another company" "noun" "divest + -iture (as in investiture)" "1a. Divestitures can be legally enforced to break up monopolies.
1b. Excluding the impact from currency and business divestitures, the company recorded a marginal growth in revenue." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1751 "duress" "threats to compel somebody" "noun" "French: “hardness""""hashness""
Duress is typically used with the word under" "1a. The North Korean suspect signed a confession because he was under duress.
1b. She left Belarus under duress that night for neighboring Lithuania." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1752 "eclat" "1. Great brilliance, literally or
1b. as of performance or achievement
2. cermonial elegance and splendor" "noun" "French: eclater ""burst out; shine brilliantly""
often used with proposition ""with"" (or ""without"")" "1a. Each panel of Turner’s dress was embroidered with 50,400 crystal eclats and 50,400 white beads.
1b. He delivered his concertos with considerable eclat in different towns of Scotland and England
2. The prince and princess entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1753 "ecumenical" "refers to bringing people of diverse Christian religions together;sometimes also broadened to bring Christians, Jews, and Muslims together" "noun" "Greek root oikos,= ""house"" became oikoumenikós= ""the entire world.""" "1a. Ecumenical prayer services are held at the prison as a way to unite inmates of various Christian faiths.
1b.An ecumenical community meeting included leaders of all of the local churches and was used to bring neighborhood unity. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1754 "edacious" "voracious; devouring" "adj." "Latin: edere ""to eat""
Syn: esurient, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, swinish, voracious" "1a. The edacious eater wreaked havoc on the buffet, eating seven plates full and that was just dessert!
1b. Within an hour, edacious vultures left nothing but a heap of bones behind." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1755 "effete" "decandent, self-indulgent, worn out; weak" "adj." "Effete is a disapproving term
Syn: decadent, decayed, degenerate, overripe, washed-up" "1a. In the US, the stereotype of the rugged Westerner is just as false as the one of the decadent, self-indulgent and useless effete East Coast liberal.
1b. He is an effete quasi-intellectual with no practical skills of any kind." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1756 "ensign" "1. lowest commissioned ranked officer in US Navy/Coast Guard
2. flag/badge often on a ship to show nationality" "noun" "1. One of the women who left the White House joined the Navy is now an ensign
2. Originally flown by feudal warlords, the rising sun symbol was adopted by the Japanese imperial army in 1870 and became the navy ensign in 1889." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1757 "eupeptic" "1. good digestion
2. of good humour, cheeful, optimistic" "adj." "Greek: eu- ""well, good"" + peptos ""cooked, digested""=> ""having good digestion""
Ant: dyspeptic" "2. Our eupeptic colleague was unfazed by our gloomy expressions and dire predictions " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1758 "expedient" "likely to be useful for a purpose or to achieve a solution, not necessarily being completely moral, but rather practical " "adj." "Old French expedient ""useful, beneficial""
Politically expedient means something you do to advance yourself politically." "1a. Given the circumstances he found himself in, it was expedient to express loyalty
1b. When one has political opinions that are not main stream, it is often expedient to not reveal them
1c. The husband found it expedient to let his wife have her way so that he could have his peace." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1759 "expiation" "1. compensation for a wrong
2. the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)" "adj." "Latin: ex- ""completely""+ piare ""propitiate, appease"" (same root as pious ""faithful, loyal, devout"") =>make amends for, atone for
" "1. That no further expiation of the nation’s past of slavery would be necessary.
2. The Mass celebrates the sacrifice of Christ for the expiation of the original sin of Adam and Eve" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1760 "fecund" "1a. Fertile
1b. intellectually productive" "adj." "Latin: fecundus= ""fruitful""" "1a. The Hereford are a fecund breed of cattle
1b. He knew that erasing and correcting were as creatively fecund as the vaunted “first rush of inspiration.”
1b. His contacts to the government were a fecund source of information" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1761 "ferret" "to find and bring to light by searching —usually used with ""out""" "verb" "Origin is the use of half-tame ferrets of the weasel family to hunt and kill rats or flush rabbits from burrows. (ferret=Frettchen oder Iltis auf Deutsch)" "1. Every day, she fends off scam artists who call with bogus job offers as they try to ferret out her private information.
1b. Rosen also announced the creation of a new unit to ferret out serious police misconduct " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1762 "fetter" "restrict someones's movement, either literally or metaphorically" "verb" "a Fetter is a shackle or chain that is attached to someone’s ankles
now, usually means something has been done to restrain someone’s behavior: " "1a. The prison wardens would fetter the chain gangs who built many of the railroads in the US.
1b. Her position would place new fetters on U.S. economic policy.
1c. We finally managed to fetter our sons’ computer use with bribery." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1763 "flak" "1. criticism
2. anti-aircraft guns
3. slick salesman" "verb" "Flak=Deutsche Fliegerabwehrkanone
as verb, normally used with the word ""taking""" "1a. It was notable considering the flak Hillary Clinton took for being a career woman when her husband first stepped into the political arena.
1b. He took a lot of flak from the other kids for his unusual appearance.
3. The spokesperson was a slick flak catcher, who could turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1764 "fledged" "1. of a bird = able to fly
2 trained, experienced, established, mature" "adj." "fledged=""furnished with feathers"", related to old German ""flügge""
In extended sense, often used in combination with the word ""fully"" or ""full""" "1. Semel said the birds are considered officially fledged between hatching and day 23.
2a. Netflix is trying to increase its film output and become a full fledged studio in 2020.
2b. After signing up for membership, he is now a fully fledged fan of the Jags" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1765 "foppish" "behaves like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes" "adj." "From 17 century German ""foppen"", where one apparently made jokes about people who paid too much attention to their clothes. " "Noble men, sullied by femininity, were foppish, wore perfume and sumptuous, bright and frivolous clothes." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1766 "forbear" "1. refrain from doing something, especially with an effort; to control oneself when provoked
2. ancestor" "verb, noun" " Old English forberan= ""control one's feelings, or tolerate" "1a. He was mad at his best friend, so he forbore from answering his text messages for a while
1b. While Helen is on a diet, she will forbear her craving for sweets.
2. My sister claims to have no interest in her ancestory, but I believe she forbears to learn about her forbears" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1767 "forge" "1. create (something of metal) by hammering
2. n. furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
3. make a copy of with the intent to deceive
4. move ahead steadily
5. make something, usually for a specific function" "verb, noun" "From French forger, via Latin where originates from same word root as ""fabrica""" "1. Today, travelling blacksmiths forge sets of horseshoes for horseowners.
2. The heat from the forge made the blacksmith's workplace overbearingly hot
3.My father's signature and mine are so similar that the teacher thought I had forged his.
4. He forged ahead, overcoming all barriers as he progressed.
5. Israel and the UAE announced earlier this month that they would normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1768 "froward" "habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition" "adj." "Old English, where was opposite of ""toward""" "1a. The froward child refused to listen to her parents and was disobedient most of the time.1b. Tired of dealing with the froward employee, the boss decided to fire him and rid himself of the headache." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1769 "fulmination" "bitter protest, thunderous verbal attack, act of thundering forth denunciations" "noun" "Latin: fulminare = ""act of exploding or detonating"" is now rare in English.
mostly used in plural form" "1a. Republicans, eager to defend the president, amplified the president’s fulminations. against the press.
1b. The fulminations of the angry mob rushing the gates of the castle could be heard inside. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1770 "furtive" "1. done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed
2. sly
3. obtained underhandedly" "adj." "Middle French furtif, Latin furtivus ""stolen"" hence also ""hidden, secret""
Syn: surreptitious, sneaky, sly, " "1a. The inmate made several furtive attempts to escape from prison.
1b. As he walked by, he cast a furtive glance down her cleavage
1c. The cheating student cast a furtive glance at his neighbor's test paper
2. The man had a furtive look about him
3. The sudden advancement was an indication of furtive gains" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1771 "fustian" "1. heavy cloth woven from cotton
2. bombastic, overblown, pretentious speech or writing" "adj." "French/Latin origin, itself named after Fustat, the Egyptian town where this thick cotton cloth originated" "1. Heavily twilled fustian was used to weave thick blankets for the pioneers to take on their journey.
2a. The chess club captain would start each first practise of the season with a fustian reflection on the history of the game, the intellect of a Bobby Fisher, and his own importance as leader of the team
2b. Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1772 "hirsute" "hairy; shaggy" "adj." "Latin hirsutus ""rough, shaggy, bristly," "1a. My grandfather is the most hirsute man I know; he has long hair everywhere! With a jungle of fur on his entire back, arms, shoulders, chest, arms, legs, he never gets wet, not even under the shower.
1b. The botanist examined the bristles of the hirsute leaf under a microscope." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1773 "hone" "1. stone used for sharpening tools
2. to sharpen a knife
3. refine or make more perfect or effective" "verb, noun" "to perfect a skill is most common use of hone today." "1&2. He honed all his cutting tools on a whetstone, also called a hone. 3a. The tennis player practices several hours a day to hone her skills.
3b. The biggest difference between Bayern and PSG was on the one hand a team with a honed style, and on the other hand a team still searching for theirs." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1774 "replete" "Filled to brim or to point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied" " adj." "cousin of replenish" "1a. The library was replete with bound first editions, and Lucy, a bookworm, was happier there than any place else.
1b. The bowl was replete with fruit piled up high above the rim
1c. Along with the video evidence, the foundation published text versions of its reports replete with documentation." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1775 "impervious" " 1. impenetrable (by rain, people or light or missiles etc.).
2. not capable of being affected or disturbed " "adj." "Latin: in- ""not, opposite of"" + pervius ""letting things through, that can be passed through""=>does not let things through
Syn:inpenetrability" "1a. He bought the wax-covered coat as it was impervious to rain
1b. The fluoride based coating made the carpet impervious to rough treatment
2. He was impervious to criticism and continued on his path unabated." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1776 "implicate" "1. bring into intimate and incriminating connection
2. to be connected or to be involved in something." "verb" "Latin: in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + plicare ""to fold""=> implicare= ""to involve, entwine, entangle, embrace""" "1a. He was implicated in a scheme to defraud the government
1b. There was no evidence implicated Bryan other than the fact that he’d been with Anna before she disappeared.
2. Over the following two weeks, the virus that circulated among conference attendees was implicated in at least 35 new illnesses." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1777 "impugn" "To assail someone by words or arguments, often for lacking integrity" "verb" "French via Latin: in- ""into, in, on, upon"" + pugnare ""to fight""=>attack by argument"" " "1a. How dare you impugn the integrity of our local councilman simply because of a Twitter rumor!
1b. “I would appreciate in the future ... to refrain from impugning the character of our hardworking staff,” said Day
1c. But President Donald Trump and others repeatedly impugn the integrity of the mail-in voting system." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1778 "inveigh" " 1a. complain bitterly
1b. speak against in an impassioned manner" "verb" "Latin in- + vehere ""to carry.""" "1a. Robert F. Kennedy, age 42, was shot and killed two months later after inveighing against the Vietnam War and taking up King’s torch.
1b. Tens of thousands of women also marched through Paris, inveighing against the patriarchy." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1779 "involute" "1a. especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward.
1b. (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
2. complex" "adj." "Latin involutus ""rolled up, intricate, obscure""
stranngely enough convolute, which also means ""complex""" "1a. the chambered nautilus is readily identified by its involute seashell
2. the novel's deliberately involute plot is intended as a brainteaser for readers" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1780 "lam" "1. a hasty escape; flight. " "noun" "same origin as ""lambast"", but here in the sense either ""to beat"" or ""to beat it"" (ie. Run away)" "1a. After he stole his cousin's car he went on the lam
1b. More than a 1,000 soldiers are listed as active deserters, with some on the lam for decades
1c. Let's lam out of this hellhole while there's still time " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1781 "limn" "1. To make a portrait of, to paint, to trace the outline of
2. to describe" "verb" "Old French luminer ""light up, illuminate""" "1a. The artist limned a portrait.
1b. he was limned by a streetlight
2. The novel limns the frontier life of the settlers" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1782 "lithe" "1. easily bent or flexed
2. moving and bending with ease" "1. The lithe steel was easily bent into shape
2a. A lithe dancer
2b. Aged 32 he is still wonderfully lithe in his movements.
2c. While Corinne has the lithe agile body that would be perfect for gymnastics, she is too tall to manage some of the events." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1783 "lucubrate" "add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing" "verb" "Latin lucubratus=""work at night, work by lamplight""" "He spent a lot of his time lucubrating in various scholarly journals" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1784 "mettle" "1. the courage to carry on, one's staying quality
2. quality of temperament or disposition" "noun" "orignally, a variant spelling of ""metal"". In the figurative sense, it become the ""stuff of which a person is made, ie. One's physical or moral constitution""
often used with ""test"" or ""prove""" "1a. He proved his mettle in battle
1b. Even though all members of the navy have high levels of fortitude and courage, candidates for Navy Seal training must exhibit far more mettle than average.
1c. I’m eager to prove my mettle as an interim team leader.
2. These were all gentlemen of brave mettle" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1785 "mettlesome" "courageous; high-spirited" "adj." "The adjective mettlesome is a great way to describe someone who's full of pride or courage — although it's also an old-fashioned, somewhat literary way to do it" "1a. The mettlesome young couple was brave enough to stand up for their love even if it meant leaving their families.
1b. Child"" he said""it's like setting an old horse against a mettlesome young one." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1786 "middling" "fairly good but not very good, slightly above average" "adj." "from middle (adj.) + present-participle suffix -ing
Syn: mediocre, average, OK, not bad" "1a. The performance was middling at best
1b. It was opportunity for me to inflict my middling Dutch skills on locals.
1c. Tired of the city but not particularly interested in small-town life, he moved to a suburb of middling size " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1787 "minatory" "menacing; threatening" "adj." "Latin menatorius ""menace""
Minataur isn't related to minatory" "1a. Brexiters in the UK, imitating Tory tactics in London’s mayoral election, conjured up minatory visions of foreigners
1b. Although the message seemed minatory the student swore that it was a joke and not a threat." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1788 "mise en scene" "1a. the stage setting or scenery of a play
1b. The environment or physical setting of an action" "noun" "French: mise en scène, literally ""setting on the scene on stage""" "1a. The mise en scene for a ""Hansel and Gretel"" play might include dim lighting, a forest backdrop, and a cottage covered with candy.
1b. This ordinary house that became the mise-en-scène of an extraordinary drama" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1789 "nary" "not any; no;none, not a single" "adj." "alteration of ne'er a, short for never a" "1a. I must have it back as I have nary other copy
1b. survived the accident with nary a scratch
1c. With nary a mask in sight, the protesters expressed their anger at the Covid measures" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1790 "nemesis " "1. An annoying opponent, who generally beats you" "noun" "Nemesis""Greek goddess of vengeance, personification of divine wrath""" "1a. Borussia Dortmund fans were not happy when their old nemesis, Bayern Munich won the cup, again.
1b. Iran, Saudi Arabia’s nemesis, was taking advantage of the region’s turmoil to expand its influence." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1791 "nugatory" "trifling, worthless, of no value" "adj." "Latin nugatorius ""worthless, trifling, futile""" "1a. Whether this rug is red or green is nugatory to someone who is colorblind
1b. Certainly it would be foolish to discount this risk as nugatory but also to overstate it" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1792 "obloquy" "1. state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
2. abusively; detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation" "noun" "Latin: ob ""against"" (see ob-) + loqui ""to speak""=>evil speaking, slander, calumny, derogatory remarks" "1a. The spy had no choice by to live out his days in the obloquy of one who had betrayed his country
1b. As a result, she became an unwilling media victim who was subjected to obloquy and harassment.
2a. They held to their convictions in the face of obloquy
2b. After 15 years of grinding war with no obvious end in sight, U.S. military operations certainly deserve such obloquy" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1793 "orison" "prayer" "noun" "a poetic, archaic word for prayer
Same word root as ""oration""" "In her hand she held a book of the time of Solomon and she was saying an orison to God." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1794 "palaver" "unnecessary talk that wastes time" "noun" "from Portuguese ""Palavra"", used by Portuguese traders in Africa with the specific meaning ""discussions with natives."" (which were often long and full of empty confidence building exchanges)" "1a. Although we were supposed to have a lecture, the teacher spent the entire period with palaver about his vacation.
1b. Cut the palaver and get down to business. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1795 "ewe" "a female sheep" "noun" """Ewe"" is the most valuable 3-letter word to know when you play scrabble, worth much more than ""baa""" "AMB" "internet" 1796 "peripatetic" "1a. Wandering;
1b. Someone who moves (house) a lot
2. of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy" "adj." "Greek: peri ""around, about"" + patein ""to walk, tread""=>to walk, wander around.
Sometimes linked to Aristotle, who used to teach while walking around" "1a. Peripatetic country preachers would go from town to town, giving the same sermon to different audiences each Sunday
1b. Dahl is a peripatetic writer based, at the moment, in Brooklyn.
1c. Her work — 16 novels, as well as plays and short stories — is often as peripatetic, as global, as her own life." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1797 "petrified" "1. so extremely afraid so that one cannot move or think anymore
2. converted into stone through a slow process of mineralization" "adj." "Peter=rock, petrified=turn to stone (Deutsch=versteinert)Mat 16:18 ""And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not overcome it."" " "1a. Ashley is petrified of flying which is why she plans on travelling by bus to Houston for her nephew’s wedding
1b. She was petrified of speaking in public
2. In the dinosaur section of the museum, you can walk among the petrified remains of the once-glorious creatures." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1798 "picaresque" "involving clever rogues or adventurers involved in exciting, dangerous endeavours - usually in fictional stories" "adj." "Don't confuse picaresque""rascally"" with its near sound-alike, picturesque, or ""lovely to look at.""" "1a. The situation sets him off on a picaresque journey, the purpose of which becomes clear in the film's end.
1b. “Bullard’s absorbing story … reads like a picaresque novel,” Thomas E. Ricks writes in his latest roundup of military books." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1799 "pied" "having sections or patches of fur or clothing colored differently, usually brightly " "adj." "Syn: motley, multicoloured, particoloured, piebald, spotted, blotchy
pied piper = Rattenfänger auf Deutsch
not to be confused with ""pied""= foot in French (eg. Pied noir=white colonialist settler in Africa)" "1a. A black and white pied horse came by
1b. “He was described as a big brother, a pied piper, a leader and inspiration to youth.”" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1800 "pileous" "covered with hairs especially fine soft ones" "adj." "Latin pilosus ""hairy, shaggy, covered with hair""
also spelled ""Pilous"" and ""pilose""" "The pilose caterpillar bent its way up the tree branch" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1801 "pinchbeck" "1a. An alloy of zinc and copper used as imitation gold
1b. A cheap imitation or counterfeit" "noun, adj." "C. Pinchbeck, 18c. London watch- and toy-maker, developed this alloy of 3 or 4 parts copper and 1 of zinc to imitate gold " "1a. He didn't believe that a stray Government clerk with a pinchbeck chain and a weak moustache could be a worthy rival.
1b(i). I was not impressed with his pinchbeck heroism
1b(ii). I hope you observed how that pinchbeck countess was prepared to tread in her footsteps" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1802 "plumb" "1. Exactly vertical
2a. Measure the depth of something
2b Get to the bottom or root of something
3. Completely, in the middle, or generally used as an intensifier" "adj. verb, adv." "plumb=plomb in French=lead (Chem symbol: Pb)
Plumb used as a weight at the end of a line to measure things vertically(Senklot auf D), or measure depth of something (eg. Lake)" "1. the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb
2b. He spent a lot of time plumbing the book's complexities
3. The child fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1803 "portent" "1. a sign of something about to happen, an omen
2. marvel, prodigy" "noun" "Latin portentum ""a sign, token, omen; monster, monstrosity""" "1a. A red sky in the morning can be a portent of a coming storm
1b. We took the four flat tires as a portent we should avoid a road trip.
1c. The youthful crowd clashed with police, who deployed tear gas and pepper spray in a portent of the months of protest that lay ahead.
2. A scout was sent to have a look at this teenage pitcher who was supposed to be the latest portent of the baseball world " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1804 "profligacy" "1. recklessly extravagant
2. shameless immorality" "adj." "Latin prōflīgātus, meaning ""corrupt or dissolute." "1. Both the Fed and the I.M.F. more typically act as brakes on fiscal profligacy
2. Caligula, the Roman emperor best known for his profligacy, sadism, rumored incestuous relationships and unhealthy obsession with a horse, wasn’t exactly handsome." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1805 "prolix" "tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length on unncecessary details." "adj." "Latin: prolixus pro =""forth"" + base of liquere =""to flow""=>""extended"" literally ""poured out
Syn: wordy, verbose, prolix, diffuse" "1a. A prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know
1b. I find the book by Dickens prolix reading due to its unreasonable and tedious dwelling on details" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1806 "pucker" "1. what happens when something smooth or flat gets folded up into little wrinkles" "verb" "Syn: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle" "1a. She puckered her lips
1b. An old scar ran down the right side of his face, giving his cheek an odd, puckered look, like he’d swallowed a lemon." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1807 "pugnacious" "fond of in the habit of fighting" "adj." "Syn: belligerent, bellicose, quarrelsome, contentious" "1a. The pugnacious little boy constantly talks back to his mother.
1b. Like the pugnacious Mr. Trump, Wallace enjoyed a fight." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1808 "puissance" "strength, power" "noun" "French same word, same meaning" "1a. The president pledged to put the full puissance of the nation into the war effort
1b. The doctrine’s puissance lies in the separation of powers." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1809 "purvey" "to supply (something, such as provisions) usually as a matter of business" "verb" "Same word origin as ""provide"", which generally replaces ""purvey ""today. " "1a. A shop purveying handmade merchandise
1b. Both Otterbox and Lifeproof purvey a plethora of accessories, too" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1810 "quail" "1. small game bird, bigger than a pigeon but smaller than a chicken(Wachtel auf D)
2. lose courage, turn back in fear or pain" "noun, verb" "The bird name comes from the sound it makes
quail as a verb is related to ""quälen"" in German, but has slightly different meaning now being the consequence of ""quälen""" "1. Pen-raised quail are readily available, but they don’t survive well in the wild.
2a. His courage never quailed2b. Webster’s bosses quailed at his orders for $2,500 lasers and other equipment." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1811 "rabble" "noisy group of difficult to control people, crowd the lower classes of populace" "noun" "Syn: proletariat, plebs, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, scum, trash, unwashed" "1a. The police arrived to calm the rabble that crowded the sidewalks after a huge win for the local football team.
1b. And when the Red Army left Afghanistan in February 1989, defeated by a rabble of jihadist guerrillas, that mission was accomplished
1c. Sanders' strategy is is to rally the , rabble and eschew the elite." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1812 "raffish" "1. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
2. marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness" "adj. " "from raff ""people"" usually of a lower sort (similar to riff-raff)" "1. Prime Minister Johnson is famous for his shambling manner, a raffish untidiness that extends from his clothes to his personal life.
1b. The Times Square area was never the exclusive preserve of theatergoers, but Broadway culture elevated the neighborhood’s rough and raffish character" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1813 "rebus" "puzzle in which pictures stand for words" "adj. " "A picture of an eye, a heart, and an ewe might be used to say ""I love you."" Isn't that a sweet rebus?" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1814 "recreant" "coward, cowardly" "noun" "Latin: re- to ""reverse"" something, + credere""entrust.""=>coward
apostate, deserter, renegrade, craven" "1a. Some provinces had proved recreant and gave up without the slightest resistance.
1b. The victors had only contempt for the recreant enemy soldiers who surrendered without firing a shot
1c. There are always recreant campaign workers who walk out as soon as their candidate began dropping in the polls" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1815 "refulgent" "shining; brilliant" "adj." "French/Latin: re- ""back"" + fulgere ""to shine""=>shine brilliantly, flash back" "The refulgent full moon on a clear autumn night" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1816 "repertoire" "1. A stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform
2. the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation" "noun" "French répertoire, literally ""index, list""" "1. The elderly singer’s concert repertoire consisted mainly of old blues and jazz tunes.
2a. The quarterback was forced to use the entire part of his repertoire to win the game
2b. Before we hired the magician, we asked him to show us a few tricks in his repertoire. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1817 "repine" "1. at be discontented with, to complain
2. to yearn for" "verb" "re=once more + pine (linked to German ""Pein"")= go through pain again= to complain
Syn: complain" "1. Yet why repine where so much is left?
1b. There is no use repining over a love that's been long lost
2. The soldiers repine for their families when they are stationed overseas." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1818 "resort" "1. have recourse to
2. act of turning to for assistance
3. move, travel, or proceed toward some place
4. a hotel located in a resort area
" "verb, noun" "French: re- ""again"" + sortir ""go out""=>" "1. The government resorted to rationing meat
2. An appeal to his uncle was his last resort to get him out of his difficult spot
3.
4. Following the Bucks’ decision, the NBA held a meeting at the Walt Disney World resort in Orlando to determine next steps for the season." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1819 "scurvy" "1. a disesase caused by a lack of Vit. C
2. mean; contemptible" "adj." "scurvy is Skurbut in Deutsch, but as the disease is now rare, scurvy can be also be used to mean a low, mean" "2. That was a scurvy trick you played on me!" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1820 "sere" "1. dry and withered
2. make hard and without feeling" "adj. " "1. The desert was edged with sere vegetation
1b. This is the dry side of the island with sere grasslands and free-range goats." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1821 "shunt" "1. a small tube that goes inside the body to drain fluid
2a. Send from one track to another
2b. push something over to someone else, evade discussion" "noun,verb" "Syn1: stint
Syn2: shove, push" "1. an arteriovenus shunt was inserted into his vein
2a. The waggons were shunted to set up new train configurations in preparation for the morning rush.
2b. President Trump abdicated leadership and shunted pandemic response to the states." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1822 "sordid" "1a. Foul and run-down and repulsive
1b. morally degraded
1c. unethical or dishonest
1d. Meanly avaricious and mercenary" "noun" "Latin sordidus ""dirty, filthy, foul, vile, mean, base""" "1a. The sordid shantytowns of Chennai are difficult to bear for outsiders.
1b. The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils
1c. He ran a sordid political campaign
1d. The sordid avarice of his actions made me feel repulsion all around." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1823 "splenetic" "bad-tempered;irritable" "adj." "Late Latin ""pertaining to the spleen"" " "1a. The newspaper publisher's splenetic editorials often struck fear into local politicians
1b. Matt was splenetic after his wife left him for another man." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1824 "stentorian" "extremely loud and powerful" "adj." "from Stentor, legendary Greek herald in the Trojan War, whose voice was as loud as 50 men." "1a. During boot camp, we were often awakened by the stentorian voice of our drill sergeant.
1b. The stentorian music was so loud it made my head hurt." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1825 "stipple" "1a. paint, engrave or otherwise empart with dots or specks
1b. Produce a mottled effect
2. with touches of something" "verb" "paint with dots"" from Dutch stippelen" "1a. They hatch in the spring as wingless, glossy black nymphs with white spots, and pass through several stippled phases before maturing in midsummer.
1b. Martha Ulrich shivered in the harsh February cold, her bare legs stippled with goosebumps
2a. Kenturah Davis’ 2015 self-portrait was made using an ink stippling technique
2b. It’s stippled with clever mischief along those lines." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1826 "stygian" "dark; gloomy" "adj." "like Styx, the Greek river of the Underworld" "1a. The stygian blackness of the cave
1b. The entrance to the forest held a stygian quality which sent shivers down my spine." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1827 "supercilious" "disdainful characterized by haughty scorn, behaving in a way that suggests you think that you are superior to others" "adj. " "Syn: proud, arrogant, haughty, lordly," "1a. The supercilious queen was known as “snobby” because of the way she treated her citizens.
1b. He reacted to their breach of etiquette with a supercilious smile" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1828 "suppliant" "to pray, to ask humbly, beseeching" "adj. " "1a. A suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness
1b. Nowadays, any man who expects a mild, suppliant attitude from a woman is not likely to find what he is looking for." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1829 "tamp" "tap or drive down by repeated light blows" "adj. " "1a. Before putting the coffee holder into the expresso machine, he tamped the coffee down.
1b. Word of the plan sparked concern Chicago could see the kind of controversial force used to tamp down protests in cities including Portland, Oregon, in recent weeks." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1830 "teetotal" "pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink" "adj. " "word formed from total with a reduplication of the initial T- for emphasis, ie. ""T-total""" "Lots of beer is consumed on Return Day, but one of the most convivial participants I saw was the teetotal Biden" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1831 "testy " "feeling easily irritated" "adj. " "1a. Earlier in the hearing, the judge sounded testy when attorneys asked for clarification on technical details of the injunction.
1b. On the phone, Tingley-Hock comes across as a testy fellow, the kind of guy who could get prickly about a missing Oxford comma." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1832 "tout" "1. advertise in strongly positive terms
1b. To show off.
2. In England, a tout is a person who gives advice about gambling. 3. someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit" "verb, noun" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Tüten""" "1a. This product was touted as a revolutionary invention
1b. Sarah wears tight blouses to tout her full bosom.
“He touts his relationship with the president a lot.
2. The tout asked me 10 Pounds for a racing tip, upon whose payment he informed me that the favourite was seen limping that morning.
3. Ticket touters face increasing credibility issues, as tickets sold inofficially may be forged or have already been scanned for entry." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1833 "travesty" "a cheap mockery, usually of something or someone serious" "noun, verb" "French travesti ""dressed in disguise"", which became ""dressed so as to be made ridiculous, parodied, burlesque""" "1a. The travesty show about international politicians had a tall, skinny man dressed to be chancellor Merkel.
1b. ""The trial was a travesty of justice, that court case that makes a mockery of the system"", said the person who was found guilty.
1c. Yet despite the best of intentions, the virtual consultations set up for me at my hospital have been a travesty because of glitches in technology." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1834 "trencherman" "person who eats a lot" "noun" "He sits with his back to the wall, eats like a trencherman and gets acquainted with the waitress." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1835 "trite" "not new" "adj." "Latin tritus ""worn, oft-trodden"" of language ""much-used, familiar, commonplace""" "1a. This may sound like a trite answer, but storytelling is just part of being a human being.
1b. Will you stop using those trite clichés?
1c. Although the movie concept was unique, the character dialogue was trite and ruined the picture." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1836 "unencumbered" "easy-going, emotionally care-free, free to move ahead or do as one desires" "verb" "un= ""not""+ in= in + combrus ""barricade, obstacle"" => not blocked up, hindered, thwarted" "1a. After the broken-down car was moved out of the road, the street was unencumbered and other motorists could drive past.
1b. Camp-life makes me feel fancy-free and unencumbered.1c. With that inheritance, she has been living an unencumbered life" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1837 "untoward" "1a. inappropriate
1b. not in one's favour
2. difficult to guide, manage, or work with" "adj." "Syn1: improper, indecorous
Syn2: not toward = not going towards one's goal, not going in one's favour" "1a. Janice ignored the holiness of her environment and behaved in an untoward manner in church.
1b.The key to good governance is to recognize untoward influences on decision-making and do whatever it takes to counteract them,” he says.
2. The father tried to reason with the untoward child." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1838 "vagary" "an erratic, unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)" "noun" "generally used in plural form, ie vagaries" "1a. The increasing vagaries of the weather are claimed to be a sign of global warming
1b. Budgetary self-reliance, they felt, protected the theater from the vagaries of government funding.
1c. His wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market
1d. The vagaries of the old lady's behaviour never ceased to suprise him." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1839 "veritable" "1. true, not counterfeit or copied" "adj." "French:veritable, ie.verity + -able= ""true, real, truthful""
often used as an intensifier" "1a. The lights on the trees turned the campus into a veritable wonderland
1b. He's a veritable swine
1c. A veritable cornucopia of food" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1840 "virago" "a loud domineering woman, a scold or nag" "noun" "Latin virago ""female warrior, heroine, amazon""" "1a. Fairy tales that typically portray stepmothers as viragoes
1b. But to caricature Thatcher as either a hectoring virago is to indulge in lazy sexism." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1841 "vituperate" "curse abuse in words" "verb" "same word root as ""vice""
Syn: berate, abuse, assail, attack" "1a. To vituperate someone is almost as bad as assaulting them physically.
1b. In this last phase of the US election, one can count on negative political ads that vituperate against opponents. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1842 "voluble" "of an individual who speaks easily and often, talkative, never at a loss for words" "Syn: talkative, loquacious, garrulous" "1a. My uncle Bill from Texas is voluble, once he starts talking he just can't stop
1b. She is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations
1c. At the start of the term back in October, the court introduced a new policy intended to trim the justices' own voluble, instincts." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1843 "wend" "to go, to proceed" "verb" "same root word as in German: sich wenden" "1a. I wended my way through the crowds
1b. This is just a sampler of the bills wending their way through the House, looking for an open door into the Senate." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1844 "premonition" "an intense feeling something is about to occur, generally a negative event" "noun" "Syn: foreboding, presage, presentiment, prognostication" "1a. In her dream she had a premonition that her cat would get run over by the fire-brigade in the driveway, just after they had saved it from being stuck up the large garden tree.
1b. She had a premonition that he would call. " "AMB" "internet" 1845 "belligerent" "1. inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness
2. waging war" "adj." "from bellum ""war""" "1a. Trump responded by dialing up belligerent rhetoric, threatening North Korea with “fire and fury” and nicknaming North Korean leader the “little rocket man.”
1b. My brother was always belligerent and ready to fight.
2. With 50 Mio dead, WW1 was thought to be the war that would end all wars amongst belligerent nations. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1846 "benison" "blessing" "noun" " Old French beneison, beneiçon ""blessing, benediction""
Syn: blessing, benediction
same word root as ""benefit""" "During the harbor festival the parish priest, the Benedictin monk, Benny Benson offered a benison for the local fishermen" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1847 "broach" "1. v. bring up a topic for discussion
2. n. a decorative pin worn by women
3.v. to break the surface from below" "verb, noun" "verb, Old French brochier, ""to spur, to penetrate""
noun, broche : ""pointed instrument"" " "1a. I needed to find the right moment to broach the topic of his smelly feet with him
1b. He called a team meeting to openly broach the subject
of claims by the Indian employees that there were ghosts in hotel Welgelgen
2. My mother had a lovely broach with a large letter ""P"" (for Paulette) which she were on her lapel
3. The whale broached the surface and the crowd on the boat cheered" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1848 "cabal" "1a. a scheme or plot
1b. a group of plotters
2. to scheme or plot (especially a political plot)" "noun, verb" "Hebrew, cabbala, Jewish tradition of interpreting texts. Cabbala is often regarded as a secret and mystical practice and, as such, the word took on the additional meaning of “secret behavior.”
Syn: plot, intrigue, machination, conspiracy" "1a. Ramsay denied being part of the Coronavirus cabal and said he was disgusted by such theories
1b. Qanon is convinced that Donald Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of child-sex predators that includes prominent Democrats, Hollywood elites and “deep state” allies." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1849 "congeal" "make or become stiff and solid" "verb" "French congeler= ""to freeze"", ie. Solidify what one is freezing" "1a. She wanted to wash the frying pan before the bacon fat had a chance to congeal.
1b. The way his patients’ blood congealed reminded him of highly contagious diseases" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1850 "contemn" "to scorn or despise" "verb" "Syn: despise, disdain, scorn" "Using an alias, the online bully likes to contemn and vilify those he doesn’t like with internet insults." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1851 "curmudgeon" "a grumpy, ill-tempered old man" "noun" "Syn: complainer, crosspatch, fusser, griper, grouch, grouser, grumbler, grump, sourpuss, whiner" "1a. The establishment and the elites don't want the curmudgeon socialist Bernie Sanders to run away with the nomination." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1852 "defalcate" "to embezzle or misappropriate funds for oneself" "verb" "Syn: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate" "After noticing numerous unpermitted withdrawals from the company’s account, the board fired the accountant who had defalcated the company’s money." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1853 "deprecate" "1. express strong disapproval of; deplore, protest against;
2a. Belittle
2b. Self-deprecate= downplay one's own achievements" "verb" "Syn: bad-mouth, belittle, decry, denigrate, derogate, dis (also diss) [slang], dismiss, disparage, play down, poor-mouth, talk down, trash, vilipend" "1. ""Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground,” said Douglass.
2. I can only speak 5 languages, she said, self deprecatingly" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1854 "desiccant" "substance used to absorb moisture" "noun" "Latin: de- ""thoroughly"" (see de-) + siccare ""to dry""=> to dry thoroughly" "Many consumer goods sent from Asia to Europe have small tea-bag-sized white bags of dessicant included in the packaging so as to prevent direct and indirect moisture damage. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1855 "discountenance" "1a. Look with disfavour on
1b. discourage by showing one's disapproval " "verb" "
Syn: deprecate, disapprove (of), disesteem, disfavor, dislike, frown upon, mislike, reprove, tut-tut (over or about)" "1a. In Darwin's times, there were social philosophers who discountenanced all programs for helping the needy, claiming that society should encourage the survival of the fittest
1b. At that his jaw dropped a little, and he stared at me utterly discountenanced that I should be so plain with him." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1856 "dolt" "stupid person" "noun" "Syn: airhead, birdbrain, cretin, dimwit, dodo, dork , dumbhead, dummkopf, dunce, goof, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, jackass, moron, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numbskull, oaf, simpleton, thickhead, turkey" "1a. What a dolt I've been!
1b. The illiterate dolt was from a well-educated family but refused to learn to read or write himself." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1857 "dulcet" "1a. Sweet to the senses, generally pleasing or agreeable
1b. melodious; harmonious" "adj. " "Latin dulcis=""sweet to the senses"" especially of taste, also ""melodious, harmonious.
Think of ""dolce Vita"" =sweet/good life" "1a(i). A dulcet smile
1a(ii). The most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches
1b. Last night I fell asleep listening to the dulcet sounds of soft jazz." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1858 "effluvia" "a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) (negative connotation)" "noun" "Latin, plural of effluvium ""a flowing out, an outlet""" "1a. Since the effluvium seeping out of the tire factory's chimney was invisible, park officials took months to realize fumes were killing hundreds of birds.
1b. It has now been observed that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1859 "encumbrance" "1a. Burden
1b. things that get on the way of
2. a claim (such as a mortgage) against property" "noun" "Latin incombrare= ""barricade or obstacle.""" "1a. Without the encumbrance of a heavy backpack, I could sprint along the trail.
1b. His thick knitted mittens were an encumbrance to dial his cell phone, so he took them off.
2. He wanted to make sure that the corporation's properties were free from all encumbrances before paying the full price for the company." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1860 "entreat" "1a. to plead with, especially in order to persuade
1b. To ask urgently" "verb" "Syn: beg, entreat, beseech, implore, supplicate, adjure, importune" "1a. He entreated his boss for another chance
1b. I entreat you to help me.
1c. She began her letter by entreating me to forgive the belatedness of her reply" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1861 "epicurean" "devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment), especially concerning food or comfort" "adj. " "Follower of the philosophical system of Epicurus, greek philosopher who taught that what is pleasurable is morally good
Syn: luxurious, voluptuous, hedonistic, bon vivant(noun)" "1a. The Los Angeles Food and Wine Festival is a five-day epicurean showcase that takes place in August.
1b. It took the decimation of the lobster population and the discovery of a new type of customer to elevate the animal to epicurean treat." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1862 "excoriation" "1. severe criticism
2. an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off" "Latin: ex, off, + corium, meaning skin=> removing skin
Syn1: denouncement, denunciation
Syn2: abrasion, scrape, scratch" "1. The senator’s plans for guaranteeing health coverage, and his excorciations of the wealth of the richest Americans are now embedded in the Democratic Party’s platform.
2. I fell off my father's recumbent bike and ended up with a large excorciation on my lower left arm. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1863 "expostulate" "argue strongly against someone doing something" "verb" "Latin: ex ""from"" (see ex-) + postulare ""to demand""=>to demand urgently from" "1a. Although she tried not to expostulate about her daughter’s vegan diet, she still kept an eye on what food was stocked in the pantry
1b. He expostulated loudly with his brother to prevent him from jumping into a pile of leaves from the roof top." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1864 "exscind" "to cut out, to cut away" "verb" "Latin exscindere, from ex- + scindere to cut, tear" "He wishes to exscind the experience from his memory" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1865 "extempore" "impromptu, done without preparation or thought" "Latin: ex ""out of"" + tempore ""time""=>out of time (to prepare)
often used for speeches held without a teleprompter" "1a. When transcribed, Mr Trump’s extempore speeches are unusually jumbled.
1b. Dr. King’s ""I have a dream"" extempore speech was not memorized, but from the heart
1c. Having forgotten to prepare a lecture for today’s class, the teacher taught an extempore lesson she came up with on the spot. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1866 "extricable" "that can be freed" "
Syn: clear, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, free, liberate, release, untangle" "A few facts only of any interest are extricable." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1867 "fagged" "too tired" "adj. " "Syn: dog-tired, exhausted, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn out, worn-out" "1a. I've noticed for the last few days you looked fagged and worried.
1b. After my 10th exam in 15 days, I was totally fagged, and needed a break. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1868 "finical" "too fussy about food clothing etc." "adj. " "Syn: finicky, choosy, dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, fastidious, fussy, nice, picky" "She said to herself that this was no time or place for finical delicacy." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1869 "ford" "1a. cross a river where it's shallow
1b. shallow place in a river (to cross)" "noun, verb" "Deutsch : Furt- (wie viele Namen von Städten in Deutschland an Flüssen enden) " "1a. Prevailing myth in the US about Baveria: Everyone wears dirndls and lederhosen, and they climb every mountain and ford every stream.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1870 "hubris" "an excess of confidence, arrogant; pride" "adj. " "Greek: hybris: ""excessive pride, violating the bounds set for humans""" "1a. He acknowledged that he made mistakes, chalking them up to youthful hubris.
1b. Meritocratic hubris and the resentment it provokes are at the heart of the populist backlash against elites." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1871 "imbroglio" "complicated and embarrassing situation, generally interpersonal" "noun" "similar too to ""embroil""" "1a. The scholars on the field trip found themselves in an imbroglio when two teachers began to fight over a woman, and the third had incessant diarrhea.
1b. He declined to identify the associate, saying he didn’t want to drag the individual into the current imbroglio." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1872 "ineluctable" "impossible to avoid, certain; inevitable" "adj. " "1a. So many women try to fight the ineluctable aging process by having cosmetic surgery.
1b. When the governor refused to halt the execution, the prisoner realized his fate was ineluctable
1c. The marxist came to the ineluctable conclusion that this problem, like every problem in the world, was all the white, male, capitalist's fault. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1873 "jejune" "insubstantial, dull, immature, no content" "adj. " "Latin jejunus= “fasting,” so, figuratively something is empty — devoid of intellectual nourishment." "1a. The jejune diets of the very poor are driven more by ignorance than by lack of money.
1b. Another moralizing tale filled with jejune platitudes
2. She made empty, jejune remarks about life and art. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1874 "bandy" "1. toss many ideas around without focusing on just one. ; discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
2. To bat, (eg. a ball) to and fro
3. adj. bandy-legged=bow-legged" "verb, adj. " "1a. We bandy around around these difficult questions.
1b. In the area I live now, 'get a Filipino' is bandied around so easily when referring to getting a nanny.
1c. The epithet “data are the new oil” gets bandied about thoughtlessly and improperly these days.
3. When he wore shorts, his bandy-legs were visible to all." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1875 "victual" "anything that can be eaten" "noun" "Late Latin victualia ""provisions""
in plural form, i.e. victuals, it means food .
Syn: provisions" "1a. The rebel blockade deprived the town of victuals.
1b. The British navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown
1c. There's a fine line between WASP victuals and white-trash cuisine. " "AMB" "internet" 1876 "aleck" "obnoxiously conceited person who considers himself smarter than others," "noun" "1a. My son Alex is smart, but he is not a smart aleck
1b. I phoned him and asked him what he was doing, and the smart aleck answered that he was talking to me on the phone. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1877 "kibosh" "block, halt, stop" "noun" "normally used in the sentence ""put the kibosh on""" "1a. After realizing that the newly hired butler had a background in stealing, the rich homeowner put the kibosh on his employment immediately.
1b. Inevitably, though, another recession will come putting the kibosh on job and income growth" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1878 "labyrinthine" "1a. twisting or winding in a maze-like manner
1b. to entangle the state of affairs
1c. Linked to the inner ear" "adj." "labyrynth + ine =adjectival word-forming element
intricate, involved" "1a. Given the safety requirements and protocols, the setup for the graduation was labyrinthine.
1b. The labyrinthine politics of Central Europe left us totally befuddled.
1c. If a student wants help, the process may seem labyrinthine." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1879 "macerate" "1. make or become soft by soaking in water
2. to grow thin and weak" "verb" "from Latin" "1a. To provide wine with color, red grapes are crushed and macerated with their skins.
1b. For maximum effect, he macerates his fruit in brandy for several days, then folds it into just enough white pound-cake batter to bind it all together." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1880 "malinger" "to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty" "verb" "French : mal=bad, linger=lie around" "1a. His boss suspected him of malingering because of his frequent absences from work.
1b. Anyone frequently absent from work on Mondays and Fridays will eventually raise suspicions of malingering " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1881 "molt" "lose hair/feathers before new growing" "verb" "from Latin mutare ""to change"", i.e. same word root as ""mutate'" "1a. Birds molt once or twice a year, but my father seems to have been molting for 25 years.
1b. Snakes molt as they grow, shedding the old skin and growing a larger new skin.
1c. A crab molts its shell as it grows large" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1882 "moot" "1a. of no importance
1b. open to discussion or debate; doubtful
2. hypothetical case study of a court case for law students to practise" "adj. " """ge-moot"" was originally a court of law in England, which eventually lost its legal powers, the remnants of which ended up being a debating club for law students to practise law cases. So, whatever they discused and argured in these moot courts was irrelevant.
Syn: arguable, debatable, disputable, doubtable, negotiable, questionable" "1a(i). If your basketball team loses by 40 points, the bad call by the official in the first quarter is moot.
1a(ii). That became moot after Davidson told the court the parties agreed to resolve the case without a trial.
2. The law students committee was responsible for organising the weekly moot" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1883 "mulct" "1. To punish by a fine
2. to deprive (someone) of something, as by fraud, extortion, etc." "verb" "Latin mulctare: ""to punish by a fine or forfeiture""
Syn2: swindle
today, the 2nd meaning is more common" "1. Any contravention of the edict shall entail a mulct of one hundred marks, one half payable to the fisc and one half to the party injured.
2a. The unethical reporter managed to mulct $500,000 from the corrupt police department.
2b. He tried to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1884 "numismatist" "collector and student of money, in particular of coins" " noun" "Paper notes and coins will be valued only by collectors and numismatists." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 1885 "penurious" "1. marked by or suffering from penury
2. stingy" "adj. " "Latin: Latin penuria ""want, need; scarcity""+ious=in want, needy, poverty-stricken""
Syn: stingy, close, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly" "1. In Beijing, where foreign diplomats are penurious and government officials prefer Chinese restaurants, there were three distinguished Western eateries..
2a. “Warren Buffett would approve of our overhead philosophy,” he added, referring to the famously penurious investor.
2b. The penurious nicotine levels proved frustrating and costly for South Korean vapers." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1886 "perspicacity" "The ability to notice and understand things that are not obvious and draw the right conclusions." "noun" "Latin perspicax ""sharp-sighted, having the power of seeing through
Syn: shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious, astute
reminds me od ""perspex"", the clear plastic" "1a. Because Warren Buffet is known for his perspicacity, many people wait to follow his stock-buying trends.
1b. I started a company to resell their product, and we owe our eventual success far more to luck and perseverance than to visionary perspicacity," "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1887 "propitiatory" "intended to reconcile or appease; having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation" "adj." "Syn: appeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peacemaking, placating, placatory" "1a. He sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture
1b. And this redemption consists in the ""propitiatory sacrifice” which Christ offered in shedding His blood—a sacrifice wherein we participate “through faith.”
1c. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1888 "rancorous" "feeling bitterness; spitefulness" "adj. " "Latin: rancere= ""to stink."" This in turn led to rancorem, ""bitterness or rancidness""
Syn: acrid, acrimonious, bitter, embittered, hard, resentful, sore" "1a. While most dogs are friendly and sweet, they can become rancorous if they are treated very poorly.
1b. Daniels, the country-rock legend turned rancorous Fox News commentator, died in July at 83 after suffering a stroke.
1c. China on Friday ordered the United States to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu in an increasingly rancorous diplomatic conflict." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1889 "rubicund" "bearing skin that is pink or red in color; red and healthy" "adj. " "Latin: Latin rubicundus
Same word root as colour ""ruby""
Syn: blooming, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, ruddy, sanguine" "1a. The sunburn made his face rubicund in appearance
1b. The typical, model santa always has rubicund cheeks.
1c. He was described in his Daily Telegraph obituary as a liberal-minded MP with a demeanour described as ""plump, balding and rubicund""." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1890 "seminal" "Like a seed, so original, so groundbreaking and awesome that it will influence everything that comes after it." "adj. " "Old French seminal : ""of seed or semen"" " "1a. Newton’s laws are seminal in the field of physics.
1b. Ms. Allen was renowned for her seminal work in optimizing the creation of computer software programs.
1c. Until the seminal discoveries by the two Nobel laureates, progress into clinical development was modest." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1891 "skiff" "small boat" "noun" "Gleicher Wortstamm als ""Schiff"".
Originally, a small boat of a ship" "1. The fisherman hoped that the small skiff would be able to hold all of the fish he caught.
1b. McCrory started fishing salmon when he was 12, using a skiff to haul nets filled with salmon with his father." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1892 "somatic" "of the body" "adj. " "Latin : Soma=body
psychosomatic, = a physical condition or illness caused by the mind rather than a virus or a sprain" "1a. Somatic symptoms like headaches and fatigue generally resolve themselves quickly.
1b. In the meantime, we should continue to move forward with gene therapy of somatic cells." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1893 "subsume" "1a. To contain or include
1b. consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle" "verb" "Latin sub ""under"" + sumere ""to take, obtain, buy""=>to take under" "1a. This new version of XL subsumes the previous one
1b. Red, green, and yellow are subsumed under the term ""color""
2. Games and team sports are subsumed under the classification of “recreation” " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1894 "sully" "1. to be stained or discredited
2. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone" "verb" " French souiller ""to soil""" "1a. While our pool was clean yesterday, it has since been sullied thanks to all the dirt and leaves blown in by a storm.
1b. A bribery scandal surfaced in 1998 that sullied the Salt Lake City Winter Games." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1895 "tautology" "1. a repetition, a redundancy
2. Logic. A statement that is always true" "noun" "Latin: tautologia: to=""the""+ auto=""same"" + logos =saying""=> ""representation of the same thing in other words""" "1a. The phrase ""a beginner who has just started"" is a tautology. 1b. To say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology.
2. ""It will snow tomorrow, or it will not snow tomorrow"" is a logical tautology because it is inherently true. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1896 "vacillation" "1. being uncertain, hesitating, constantly change your opinion.
2. swinging back and forth physically." "adj. " "Latin pp of vacillare ""sway to and fro, waver, hesitate, be untrustworthy,""
Syn: faltering, fence-sitting, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, pause, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, wavering, wobbling " "1a. The president was soundly criticized for his vacillation before responding to the crisis " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1897 "vacuity" "1a. the absence of matter
1b. a region that is devoid of matter
1c. total lack of meaning or ideas" "noun" "abstract noun derived from the adjective vacuous, which means ""like or of a vacuum""" "1a. First, after years of appalling ineptitude and moral vacuity under Corbyn’s catastrophic leadership, Britain’s opposition will be led by a credible alternative prime minister whose competence, professionalism, and patriotism are unquestioned..
1c. Even for a White House that regularly sets new records in implausible vacuity. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1898 "wan" "1a. looking ill, not bright
1b. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness" "adj." "Perhaps related to ""wane."" (like wax and wane)
Syn: ashen, sickly, blanched, cadaverous, pale, paled, pallid" "1a. A wan smile.
1b(i). Unlike the textile worker, who brought to mind wan images of a young woman or “a sickly child,” steelworkers were often portrayed “as intensely masculine, often bare-chested, with muscles rippling.”
1b(ii). The orchestra was sometimes wan but at other points gorgeously full." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1899 "wile" "1. noun. A trick
2. Verb. To lure by or as if by a magic spell" "noun, verb" "Syn1 (Noun): artifice, dodge, gambit, gimmick, jig, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick
Syn2 (verb): allure, beguile, bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, magnetize
noun often used in the plural form" "1a. She had to use all of her wiles to convince her guests to stay for dinner
1b. It took both wile and cajolery to talk him into it " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1900 "mephitic" "resembling mephtis, a noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalation, especially from the earth" "adj. " "from Latin mephitis" "1a. That mephitic swamp still produces the odd belch.
1b. These moments of reckoning—in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous—are important to heed." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1901 "ail" "to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to." "verb" "Ail is used when referring to non-specific illnesses.
The verb ail is used for things that are metaphorically unwell or unhealthy" "1a. His back has been ailing him.
1b. But as the ailing economy contracted even more, officials desperate to stimulate business lifted some of the lockdown restrictions
1c. The family includes their daughter, and his ailing mother, whom Dan visits weekly." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1902 "alloy" "1. A mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten
2. To debase by mixing with something inferior" "verb, noun" "1. Brass is an alloy of zinc and copper
2. Pinchbeck is nothing but a cheap alloy" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1903 "anguish" "extreme pain, distress, or anxiety - either or a noun or verb" "noun, verb" "Syn (noun): affliction, agony, distress, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe
Syn(verb): afflict, agonize, bedevil, beset, besiege, curse, excruciate, harrow, persecute, plague, rack, torment, torture" "1a. When my husband died, the anguish I felt was nearly unbearable.
1b. They watched in anguish as fire spread through the house. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1904 "benefactor" "a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)" "noun" "Latin: bene= ""well,"" and facere= ""to do"" =>benefactor=""to do well.""" "1a. In an economy run on private enterprise, every school, museum, and struggling artist is in search for a generous benefactor, or someone to provide the financial means to keep everything running smoothly.
1b. His endowments … placed him high among the benefactor of the convent.
1c. An anonymous benefactor gave the school a dozen new computers" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1905 "braggart" "an individual who brags a great deal" "noun" "brag+ perjorative ending ""-ard"". " "1a. My rich uncle is a braggart who constantly boasts about his possessions.
1b. When the braggart in our neighborhood got a sports car, he kept driving around so everyone would see his vehicle." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1906 "centurion" "Roman army officer, head of a centuria"" (a group of one hundred)" "noun" "cent=100" "Matthew 8:5-13: When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help.  “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.”" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1907 "console" "1. v. Give comfort or sympathy to
2. n. Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television" "verb, noun" "1. French consoler ""to comfort, console,""
2. noun : Frenchbut of unknown origin. " "1. The mother did her best to console her little son when his dog was run over by a car. 1b. The priest went to the hospital to console the military widows.
2. Transforming classic video game consoles into on-the-go gadget gaming goodness is practically a time-honored tradition " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1908 "defer" "1. postpone
2. to submit to another's wishes, opinion, or governance usually through deference or respect" "verb" "Syn1: hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table" "1a. The doctor has decided to defer the surgery until my father’s health improves.
1b. One of the Covid pandemic support measures implemented by governments was to allow companies to defer the payment of their taxes2. She deferred to her father's wishes" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1909 "dullard" "A dumb person" "noun" "somewhat old fashioned word" "1a. Neanderthals were, she writes, “not dullard losers on a withered branch of the family tree, but enormously adaptable and even successful ancient relatives”
1b. The dullard carried on conversations that made no sense. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1910 "embezzle" "use in a wrong way for one's own benefit" "verb" "1a. The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family”
1b. Embezzling is a so-called ""white-collar crime"" which often involves some sort of cover-up, like falsifying financial records or stealing small amounts of money over a long period of time. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1911 "fidelity" "1a. the quality or state of being faithful
1b.the degree to which an electronic device (such as a record player, radio, or television) accurately reproduces its effect (such as sound or picture)" "noun" "Syn: adhesion, allegiance, attachment, commitment, constancy, dedication, devotedness, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fastness, fealty, loyalty, piety, steadfastness, troth" "1a. Despite his apparent fidelity, she was never able to get over the feeling that he had another girlfriend on the side.
1b. These speakers reproduce sound with such high fidelity, you’d think you were actually in a concert hall." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1912 "foster" "1. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
2. nurture, help develop, help grow" "noun, verb" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""fördern"" auf Deutsch" "1. John was given up for adoption at a young age and unfortunately was placed in several foster homes durnig his life.
2. It is important to foster proper obedience in a dog early on. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1913 "grievous" "causing grief or pain; serious dire grave" "adj." "Grievous is derived from the noun grief, which means ""sadness.""" "1a. He had suffered a grievous wound that he would never recover from.
1b.Sometimes, a verbal insult can cause a more grievous injury than any physical assault" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1914 "indulgent" "1. willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration
2. done or enjoyed as a special treat or pleasure " "adj. " """lenient, willing to overlook faults,"" often in a bad sense, ""too lenient,"" from Latin indulgentem (nominative indulgens)" "1. Indulgent parents risk spoiling their children
2a. I drizzle a little more bourbon on top and, if I am feeling Indulgent, an extra spoonful of dulce de leche.
New York’s Levain Bakery – renowned for its thick, Indulgent cookies " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1915 "jabber" "talk excitedly; utter rapidly - sometimes incoherently" "verb" "Syn: jibber-jabber, blabber" "1a. After listening to the radio talk show host jabber about nonsense I switched the dial for some calming music.
1b. They jabbered away for hours." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1916 "legacy" "1a. Bequest or inheritance
1b.
2. of, relating to, associated with, or carried over from an earlier time, technology, business
3. Child of an alumunus to a school/university" "verb, noun" "Latin : legare ""to appoint by a last will, send as an ambassador" "1a. She left us a legacy of a million dollars.
1b. Japanese democracy, which turns 75 years old on Wednesday, is MacArthur’s greatest legacy.
2a. The legacy of the ancient Greek philosophers influenced Europe enormously in the Renaissance.
2b. The biggest problem the company faced with the new cmoputer system was the cleaning and transferring of the legacy data from the old program to the new one
3. Legacies, or children of alumni, are three times more likely to be accepted to Harvard than other high school graduates with the same (sometimes better) scores …" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1917 "patron" "1. regular customer
2. person who gives support" "noun" "1a. If you have a patron who orders an alcoholic beverage, please ask to see his identification.
1b. ""We wish to thank all patrons for their custom"", was written on the old sign in the store
2. He was a patron of the arts because he show edhis appreciation to the arts by donating money to the Metropolitan museum of Art." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1918 "perjury" "the act of deliberately lying under oath" "verb" "Latin : per ""away, false"" + iurare ""to swear""=>to swear falsely" "1a. Maxwell is also charged with perjury for allegedly lying under oath during depositions in a civil lawsuit against her.
1b. John was warned by the judge to tell the truth or else be arrested for perjury." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1919 "pilferer" "to steal, especially in small quantities, often repeatedly" "noun" "Syn: steal, pilfer, filch, purloin " "1a. She pilfered highlighters, post-it notes and other stationary from work.
1b. The boy pilfered cookies from the cookie jar every day until the plentiful supply has dwindled to nothing." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1920 "poseur" "a person who attempts to impress by acting unlike himself,or who habitually pretends to be something he is not" "noun" "French: ""one who practices affected attitudes""
Mnomic: Pose+ur=Pose UR stuff to impress others" "1a. The art world is reknowned to be full of poseurs and pretentious twits.
1b. It’s just Trump — the poseur who once needed three tries to accurately spell “hereby.”" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1921 "presentiment" "anticipatory fear; premonition" "noun" "French : pre=before"" + sentire ""perceive, feel""=>to feel beforehand" "1a. Helen would not board the airplane because of her presentiment a fatal crash would occur.
1b. The lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1922 "retrograde" "1. moving backwards or in the direction reverse to normal- either physically or figuratively (eg. Getting worse)
2. relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past : fashionably nostalgic or old-fashioned
3. affecting memories of a period prior to a precipitating event (such as brain injury or disease) " "verb, noun" "Latin : retro- ""backward"" (see retro-) + gradi ""to go, step"" => to go backwards" "1a. In tests on 11 astronauts in space after 50 days, 6 showed stagnant or retrograde blood flow in the left internal jugular vein.
1b. From this point of view, Mars’s orbit of the Sun appears erratic, for example it periodically goes 'retrograde', reversing its course.
1c. The law imposed from mainland China “is a retrograde step for Hong Kong,” says the dean of science at HKU
2. The ad for ""Fischer-Bettwaren Fabrik in Au-Wädenswil"" has gained cult status in Switzerland as it is hilariously dry and retrograde.
3. The stroke caused the teenager to get retrograde amnesia, fogetting everything before the stroke. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1923 "tadpole" "a baby frog, basically the larval form of the animal afte the eggs hatch. " "noun" "Tadpole comes from roots meaning ""toad"" and ""head.""" "During its life cycle, the toad will grow from a tailed tadpole into a land amphibian with lungs and legs." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1924 "tonic" "Anything (especially medicine) that helps one feel better, something giving strength or energy" "noun, adj. verb" "Greek,: Tonikus=tension" "1a. Coca Cola was originally marketed as a tonic — back when it is said to have contained cocaine as well as loads of caffeine
1b. in New England they call sodas tonics
1c. A day hiking in the Austrian Alps was a tonic for him" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1925 "writ" "1. A legal document issued by a court or judicial officer, commanding the recipient to do something- sometimes also called a ""writ of mandamus""
2. If one thing is another thing ""writ large"", it is similar to it but larger or more obvious: " "noun" "Old English writ ""something written, piece of writing""" "1. He ordered Judge Sullivan to respond within 10 days to the petition for a writ of mandamus filed by the former National Security Advisor
2. My colleague and I shared a glance at the immense sadness of it all, the sorrow writ large on his face." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1926 "aloof" "reserved; indifferent, antisocial, at a distance" "adj. " "Loof (now ""luff"") is the windward side of a ship. Smart sailors wanting to avoid a hazard on the leeward side would give the order, ""A loof!"" From this command we get the idea of steering clear of something (or someone)." "1a. The aloof princess stood in a corner
1b. And even though cats have the reputation of being aloof, don't forget daily playtime, Wang says.
1c. At home, Macron is still battling a critical, if not outright hostile, French public generally unconvinced by his at times arrogant, aloof and imperious style." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1927 "apprehensive" "1. fear, anxious feeling about future
2. quick to understand, discerning" "adj. " "Syn: fearful, afraid, " "1a. Many adults who do not think twice about the risks of driving an automobile are apprehensive about flying.
1b. The education minister said that while he understood some parents were apprehensive, it was in children's best interests to get back to school.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1928 "arabesque" "a graceful, Arabian design usually seen in metal, ceramic, or stone that resembles vines and leaves" "adj. " "Italian: Arabo ""Arab"" with reference to Moorish architecture." "1. The arabesque stone monument was crafted with graceful, intricate designs.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1929 "astute" "mentally sharp or clever, often combined with shrewdness" "adj. " "Syn: shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious" "1a. The astute businessman was able to quickly assess the market and make the best buying decision.
1b. Not very astute of you running around with a sharp knife." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1930 "concord" "agreement or harmony" "adj. " "Old French concorde (12c.) ""concord, harmony, agreement, treaty,""" "1a. The concord was the name of the ultrasonic plane built in harmonious co-operation between France and the UK, yet they could not agree on how to spell ""concord(e)""
1b.“I think our findings actually concord with them,” he says.”
1c. But the family was not a place of total concord." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1931 "dawdler" "person who is slow or wastes time" "noun" "Syn: delay, procrastinate, lag, loiter, dawdle, dally" "1a. Hurry up! There's no time to dawdle.
1b. Come home immediately after school, and don't dawdle." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1932 "entangle" "1. to snarl, intertwine with, or get caught in
2. to involve in a perplexing or troublesome situation " "verb" "en + Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Tang"" , seaweed, which could snarl one up. " "1a. Too often, dolphins entangle themselves in large fishing nets meant to catch tuna or swordfish.
2a. A journalist and a political aide become entangled in a larger-than-life scandal.
2b. The young runaway gradually became entangled in a web of lies " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1933 "enthral" "capture; attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence; hold in bondage or subjection" " verb" "Latin: en- ""make, put in"" + thrall ""drallen"" in Deutsch=> encapture
Syn: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport" "For years these master magicians have been enthralling audiences with their astounding illusions" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1934 "exuberance" "cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness" "adj. " "French: exubérance""an overflowing,"" " "1a. Something about the youthful exuberance of children is contagious.
1b. Their exuberance over the new discovery was short-lived when the inventors found out that a prototype was already being patented by their rival company." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1935 "felon" "anyone who's been convicted of a serious crime" "noun" "Old French; felon ""evil-doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, oath-breaker, the Devil""" "1a. Karmo is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
1b. A political crusade launched and funded by the family of murder victim Keith Harrington fueled a California law requiring felons to add their DNA to a databank used to hunt criminals." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1936 "feud" "a long-standing fight, often between two families, clans or groups" "verb" "Deutsch : Fehde" "1a. The two professors have been feuding for years.
1b. Trump last year called Baltimore “a disgusting, rat- and rodent-infested mess” when he was feuding with a congressman from the city.
1c. There is a long standing feud between mine and my cousin’s families, which is why neither of us will attend the other family’s weddings." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1937 "floe" "a sheet of floating ice" "noun" "Deutsch: Eisscholle" "1a. A floe can vary in size from small to giant, but they differ from icebergs in their relative lack of depth.
1b. Trapped in sea-ice for over 10 months, his Endurance ship drifted around the Weddell Sea until ultimately it was crushed by the floes and dropped to the deep." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1938 "impending" " about to happen; expected ;imminent;" "adj. " "1a. When I refused to pay the fake fortuneteller, she warned me of impending doom in my future.
1b. As soon as the boss arrived, the workers became silent and waited for the impending announcement about layoffs. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1939 "imperative" "urgent; essential" "adj. " "Imperative is from Latin imperare, ""to command,"" and its original use was for a verb form expressing a command: ""Do it!"" is an imperative sentence. The word is still used that way, but it's more commonly applied to something so pressing it cannot be put off
Syn: Imperative has more immediate force than pressing but less than urgent." "1a. As nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative.
1b. If you’re serious about getting healthy, it’s imperative that you follow a healthy lifestyle, make the right food choices, and exercise regularly.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1940 "indulge" "1a. to yield to the desire of;gratify; give way to satisfy; allow oneself
1b. to give free rein to, to take unrestrained pleasure in. " "verb" "1a(i). please indulge me while I review the topics we covered yesterday.
1a(ii). It's my birthday. I'm going to indulge myself and eat whatever I want to eat.
1b. The museum is an excellent place to let children indulge their curiosity about dinosaurs." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1941 "miser" "person who loves wealth and spends little" "noun" " Latin miser : miserable person, wretch," "1a. Despite his incredible wealth, the family patriarch was a infamous miser, who kept his fortune in a charitable trust to avoid taxes, but gave little if anything to charity.
1b. My uncle is a miser who complains about having to pay for anything.
1c. Dagobert Duck is a well-known miser" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1942 "nonchalant" "relaxed and calm in a way that shows you do not care or are not worried about anything" "adj. " "Latin : non- ""not"" + calēre ""to be warm.""=> ie. To be cool in the modern sense" "1a. I was nonchalant about the refinery, but then Alexa was mentioning things like asthma. And I’m like, ‘Check.’
1b. Not all the tourists were nonchalant about following health restrictions and indeed wore their masks and regulalry washed their hands.
1c. South Koreans are famously nonchalant about North Korean nuclear weapons, knowing that they are too close to North Korea to be bombed without affecting the North." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1943 "ostracism" "shut out from society refuse to meet talk" " Greek ostrakismos : A legal political method among the ancient Athenians by which men deemed dangerous to the liberties of the people or embarrassing to the state were banished for 10 years by public vote." "1a. A student at a Baptist school faces ostracism and demonization after becoming pregnant.
1b. A letter written by 153 prominent intellectuals and published by Harper’s Magazine denouncing today’s “intolerant climate” and the ”vogue for public shaming and ostracism"" was another welcome sign of a growing backlash." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1944 "palpability" "can be felt or touched" "adj." "Latin palpare ""touch gently, stroke,""" "1a. The night is starless, with a darkness so enveloping that it seems to possess palpability
1b. The weight of her frustration with our current world was palpable, from police violence to authoritarianism to hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1945 "perch" "take up a high position" "noun, verb" "French : rod or pole on which a bird alights and rests" "1a. The birds commonly perch on the strong cable wire before diving down to the ground below.
1b. Privacy is the property’s main draw, as the four-acre spread is perched at the end of a private road with panoramic views of the surrounding canyons and rock formations." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1946 "precepts" "life lessons that are usually passed down to children by authority figures such as parents, teachers, or religious figures." "noun" "Latin praeceptum ""maxim, rule of conduct, order,""" "1a. In Hamlet, the character Polonius dished out a few choice precepts to his son Laertes: ""neither a borrower nor a lender be"" and ""give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.""
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1947 "precursory" "preliminary; anticipating" "adj. " "Latin praecursor ""forerunner,""
While some synonyms of precursory include preliminary and introductory, it's most common to use this adjective with a certain threatening sense of warning" "1a. This is a precursor to what will happen at other universities across the country.
1b. User groups were the precursor to the open source community, based on the values of sharing knowledge and helping one another." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1948 "procrastination" "keeping on putting off" "noun" "Latin: ""a putting off from day to day,""" "1a. Two key ways to overcome procrastination is to disconnect all electronic equipment and just get started doing something, anything
1b. The biggest cause of ruined careers is procrastination - brilliant minds have fallen to it. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1949 "quandary" "a situation in which you are confused about what to do" "noun" "Syn: predicament, dilemma, plight, and pickle" "1a. I'm in a quandary about whether I should try to repair my stereo or buy a new one, even though I don't have the money to do either.
1b. When my husband and I were debating our vacation plans, we were in a quandary between going on a cruise and flying to New York City." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1950 "regicide" "crime of killing a king, queen or today the head of state or a leading politician" "noun" " Latin : regis=""king,"" a+ French cide= ""killer""=> killer of kings" "1a. ""This is regicide by another name, fake impeachment,"" said the FoxNews reporter
1b. After Cromwell’s act of regicide, his agents put Charles’s collection up for sale, the price scale providing a fascinating indicator of contemporary taste." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1951 "stickler" "1. a person who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something. " "noun" "Mnemonic: read it as STICK-LER, someone who sticks to a set of rules, a perferctionist." "1a. In the first half of November, keep your nose to the grindstone and be a stickler about honoring your obligations, since you may be held accountable for any mistakes.
1b. Pedantic Paul was a stickler for the rules, his family and coworkers say.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1952 "tassel" "bunch of threads" "noun" "1a. In the U.S. it's traditional for a student to move the Graduation cap tassel from one side to the other at the end of the graduation ceremony.
1b. I noticed that this was a fancy place because of the tassels along the edges of fancy drapery . " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1953 "variegate" "To make something more irregular, especially its color." "verb" " Late Latin variegatus ""made of various sorts or colors""
Syn: motley, vary" "1a. But this particular plant was also variegated, or exhibiting different colors, which was something he’d never seen before.
1b. Such weight upon Europe would stunt her natural development as a variegated but harmonious whole." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1954 "voluptuous" "1. A woman who is attractive, well-figured and curvy (i.e. not model thin), often with a large bosom
2. Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses" "adj. " "Syn1: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, well-endowed
Syn2: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary" "1a. Marilyn Monroe was known for her voluptuous figure.
2a. Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence
2b. Their voluptuous arrangements balance pillowy blooms like oversized white anemones with smaller, denser varieties such as fuzzy yellow forsythias and cuplike hellebores" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1955 "admonitory" "1a. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
1b. serving to warn" "adj. " "Latin : same root admonish=""to scold or reprimand.""" "1a(i). When I say something inappropriate, my mother gives me an admonitory stare.
1a(ii). If your piano teacher always finds fault with your playing, she is consistently admonitory.
1b. Admonitory articles abound around Halloween, warning parents of the hazards of trick-or-treating" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1956 "ardor" "An intense passion and fervor, often associated with love, a cause or a club" "noun" "same root as word ""ardent""(eg. Ardent supporter)
Syn: fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire" "1a. He spoke with great ardor, giving it his all.
1b. They were imbued with a revolutionary ardor
1c. While Jane enjoyed spending time with John, she did not return the ardor he felt for her." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1957 "ascertain" "to find out something with certainty, generally through some from of self-effort (eg. Experimentation, calculation, investigation, survey, study)" "verb" "Latin : a- ""to"" + certain ""sure, assured"" =>to make sure, to make assured.
Syn: determine, find out, check, learn, see, watch, assure, check, control, ensure" "1a. He logged onto his e-banking account to ascertain how much money he had on his account.
1b. Armed with data from these fossils, scientists used mathematical methods to ascertain the size and proportions of the megalodons." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1958 "auspicious" "a favorable situation or set of conditions." "adj. " "Syn: bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat" "1a. The low unemployment figures were an auspicious beginning for the campaign.
1b. Due to the model changes at year-end, everybody knows the end of the year is an auspicious time to buy a car!
1c. With an auspicious start, the Jamaican runner was first off the block." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1959 "baneful" "causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive" "adj. " "Old English bana ""killer, slayer, murderer, a worker of death""
Syn: pernicious, baneful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental
Mnemonic: Think of B(ad) + painful => i.e. it is destructive and harmful to us. " "1a. The legislation could have a baneful effect on the poor.
1b. We are mired in a baneful pandemic unlike anything endured for a century, parsing our lives into 14-day increments of health and survival — or not.
1c. If not cooked properly, the fish can be baneful to humans." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1960 "beatify" "1. make blessedly happy
2. declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood" "verb" "Latin beātificāre: ""making happy""" "1. In song, he projects a beatified ambivalence that turns mixed feelings into a state of grace
2. The cardinal was beatified in 2010 by Pope Benedict in an open-air Mass in his home city of Birmingham after the first miracle was recognised." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1961 "clinch" "1. settle conclusively, finalise, bring to closure
2. secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts
3. hold in a tight grasp" "verb" "English: from ""clench"" fix securely (a driven nail) by bending and beating it back,""
Syn: " "1a. The Senate must work quickly and together in order to clinch the budget deal to avoid a government shutdown.
1b. His home run clinched the victory.
1c. Dad went by ferry to Newcastel and was able to clinch a deal
2. The girder was clinched into the wall
3. The tired boxer clinched his opponent at any opportunity in order to slow the fight and prevent him from receiving further blows. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1962 "coeval" "of the same period; coexisting" "adj. " "Latin: com ""with, together"" + aevum ""an age""=>""having the same age, having lived for an equal period,""
Syn:contemporary, synchronous, simultaneous, coincident" "1a. He died at 94, his life nearly coeval with the 20th century.
1b. The two stars thought to be coeval because they have nearly the same mass and brightness " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1963 "conduce" "To lead, to bring about, be conducive to" "verb" "Latin: com ""with, together"" + ducere ""to lead""=>to lead" "1a. Last week, Turkey also announced it would be conducing a firing exercise in the eastern Mediterranean this Monday and Tuesday.
1b. The researchers who conduced the new study say they are the first to study PET’s structure and effect." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1965 "deprave" "to corrupt; make morally bad" "verb" "French: depraver ""to pervert; accuse""
Use the verb deprave as a more dramatic synonym for corrupt" "1a. The author and columnist described the thieves as ""depraved and despicable"" and ""inhuman"".
1b. That reflects a more “depraved” state of mind than firing back wildly, after you’ve been shot at." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1966 "disheveled" "disordered clothing or hair; in disarray; extremely disorderly" "adj. " "French: des- ""apart"" + chevel ""hair,""=>without dressed hair" "1a. His wrinkled suit gave him a disheveled appearance.
1b. Most people look a bit, well, disheveled after weeks of lockdowns.
1c. Trump — looking disheveled, enraged, shrunken and sad — arrived back in Washington later that Saturday evening." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1967 "ebullience" "a state of energetic happiness marked by both joy and enthusiasm" "adj." "Latin: ebullientem, which ebullience comes from, literally means ""boiling over." "1a. At the birthday party, the ebullience of the excited children could be heard through their giggles and laughs.
1b. People were drawn to Dr. Breen for her magnetic personality and ebullience.
1c. Of course, many risks still remain for the market despite all its ebullience." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1968 "equipoise" "equal distribution of weight equilibrium" "adj. " """equipoise"" is a really fancy way to say ""balance"" or ""equilibrium""
equipoise is simply equi, = ""equal,"" + ""poise."" Equal poise: a balance of weight, forces or interests. " "1a. Losing her equipoise seemed to always be a problem as her inner ear infection worsened without treatment.
1b. It requires an emotional equipoise, a blend of relaxation and concentration, stamina leavened by cheerfulness." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1969 "feckless" "1a. generally ineffectual and incompetent
1b. not fit to assume responsibility" "adj. " "Scottish shortened form of effect (n.), + -less.=>without effect" "1a(i). The husband had many feckless attempts to repair the plumbing himself, but failed.
1a(ii) A well-intentioned but feckless response to the rise in school violence
1b. She can't rely on her feckless son." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1970 "festoon" "a decorative chain or strip hanging between two points" "noun" "Italian festone, literally ""a festive ornament,"" apparently from festa ""celebration, feast,""" "1a. The public buildings were festooned for the holiday
1b. The properties around Mr. English’s house were festooned with no trespassing signs.
1c. Outside, the coop is festooned with pink and white artificial flowers, like a wedding cake." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1971 "finagle" "get out of something using devious methods" "verb" "Finagle is a word with a usually negative connotation." "1a. He wasn't prepared for the maths test at school, so he finagled a re-test by feigning to be sick.
1b. Let me look at my schedule and see if I can't finagle a visit to the museum
1c. He finagled his way into the concert." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1972 "heinous" "odious (of crime)" "adj. " "Same word root as ""haine"" in French, which means ""hate""" "1a. Mitchell later directed law enforcement to their bodies after confessing to the heinous killings.
1b. On appeal, the sentence was lengthened in 2012 to life in prison for his “shocking and heinous"" crimes against the Cambodian people." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1973 "highbrow" "(person) with superior tastes or higher intelligence" "noun" """person of superior intellect and taste,"" from high (adj.) + brow (n.).
Ant: lowbrow" "1a. Highbrow events such as the ballet or opera are often subsidized by the state.
1b. Guests at her elegant dinner parties are a mix of the city's highbrow and captains of industry" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1974 "inane" "silly; senseless" "adj. " "Latin inanitas ""emptiness, empty space,""
Syn: stupid, vacuous, ridiculous, pointless." "1a. When my sisters and I get together, we tend to do inane things like dressing up as cartoon characters.
1b. It’s an unsettling simulation of living in a state that denies basic facts and perpetuates the most inane claims." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1975 "ire" "anger" "noun" "Latin: ira ""anger, wrath, rage""
Syn: angriness, choler, furor, fury, indignation, irateness, lividness, mad, outrage, spleen, wrath" "1a. Our dog Honey would poop in our Gempen neighbour's garden, which drove him to want my father to feel the full force of his ire by furiously presenting the canine waste on a piece of cardboard.
1b. He directed his ire at the coworkers who reported the incident. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1976 "libel" "statement that damages reputation" "noun" "Latin: libellus ""a little book, pamphlet; petition, written accusation, complaint,""" "1a. If we didn’t have laws against libel, anyone could fall victim to malicious stories about them in print or on the internet.
1b. The girls wanted revenge against the volleyball coach for punishing them, so they wrote an editorial to libel her in the school newspaper. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1977 "lien" "legal claim until a debt on it is repaid" "noun" "French: lien ""a band or tie""=>right to hold property of another until debt is paid,""
It's pronounced like ""lean,""which might also describe your meager finances if a lien, has been placed on your home." "1a. The bank has a lien on the truck until the buyer fulfills his financial obligations.
1b. Bill will have a lien on his house until he pays his federal taxes." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1978 "luculent" "easily understood; lucid; clear" "adj. " "Latin: luculentus ""full of light, bright, splendid,""" "1a. His luculent oration is always crystal clear, both in structure and content.
1b. The district attorney's brilliant, luculent summation sealed the case for the prosecution " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1979 "obtuse" "1a. blunt/stupid when used for a person
1b. rounded, blunt" "adj. " "Syn: dull, blunt, obtuse" "1a. It would be obtuse to ignore an obvious, new revenue stream.
1b. He is too obtuse to take a hint." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1980 "odious" "repulsive; hateful" "adj. " "Latin: odiosus ""hateful, offensive, unpleasant""
Syn: hateful, contemptible, detestable, and abominable." "1a. Because Mark had an odious personality, he had very few friends.
1b. Public defenders represent their clients, who include the poor and the poorer, the odious and the innocent, none of whom they choose." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1981 "pariah" "an outcast a rejected and despised person" "noun, adj. verb" "Tamil : paraiyar, member of a low caste in southern India, shunned as unclean,"" " "1a. South Africa was treated as a pariah state during the Apartheid era.
1b. When the child molester was released from prison, he was treated like a pariah in his community." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1982 "prim" "1. adj. neat; formal
2.verb. The action of making neat, clean or formal" "adj., verb" "Latin: primus ""finest,"" literally ""first"", similar to ""prime""
Prim describes someone who is so concerned with being proper it becomes almost fake. " "1. Coming across as prim and proper, Agatha was called “Prudie” behind her back
2. She made sure to prim her thin lips after every mouthful" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1983 "protracted" "prolonged, usually in a tedious way" "verb" "
Syn: drag (out), draw out, elongate, extend, lengthen, outstretch, prolong, stretch" "1a. Epidemics can be short-lived or protracted, or, like the Justinianic plague, recurrent.
1b. Given the pace of progress so far, the talks are likely to be protracted, and their result is uncertain.
1c. Last January, China promised big increases in its imports from the United States as part of an agreement aimed at ending a protracted and increasingly bruising economic war" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1984 "pry" "1. To look where one is not welcome; to be nosey
2. Move or force, especially in an effort to get something open" "verb" "Syn1: ask, enquire, inquire,, intrude, nose, poke
Syn2: lever, prise, prize" "1a. The nosey woman considered how she could pry information out of the shy club member.
1b. I couldn't pry the secret out of him.
2a. Dozens of rescuers from the National Disaster Relief Force worked overnight with tools to pry apart the debris, Chaudhari said.
2b. Working with a pry bar, officials got one hand out of the person buried below the collapsed building." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1985 "putrefaction" "becoming rotten" "noun" "Latin: putrid= ""to be rotten"" + facere=""to make, do""=> to become rotten
The ending is -faction rather than -fication on the pattern of many nouns that have Latin facere in their pasts: benefaction, malefaction, and liquefaction " "1a. The putrefaction of flesh produces gases, primarily in the chest and gut, that inflate a corpse like a balloon.
1b. His macabre job had been to excavate the bomb shelters and basements to remove the rotting corpses before the entire city started to stink of human putrefaction." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1986 "rotund" "1a. Spherical in shape
1b. plump or excessively fat
2. rich and deep (of sound)" "adj. " "Latin: rotundus ""rolling, round, circular, spherical, like a wheel,""
Syn1: chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy, portly, round, tubby" "1a. He works the surface with both hands to reveal the rotund outlines of the truffle.
1b. He begins to wear the kind of “expandable webbed leather belt favored by rotund country club golfers, which grew and shrank with the size of one’s trousers.”
2. The actor's distinct baritone and his clear and rotund elocution are especially effective in dramatic readings " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1987 "ruddy" "1a. Reddish
1b. healthy looking white person(glowing red skin)
1c. Bloody or darn as a expletive" "adj. " "same word root as ""red""
""ruddy"" was a British slang euphemism for ""bloody"", which was considered horrendous until the 2nd world war." "1a. Find the rusty, ruddy Red Planet before dawn in the southeast.
1b. Cahill is white-haired and ruddy, and he wore a white linen shirt.
1c. ""The ruddy door is stuck again. I'm going to take an axe to it!""" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1988 "sanctimony" "the quality of being hypocritically devout, self-righteousness hypocritical with false piety" "adj. " "Latin: sanctimonia ""sacredness, holiness, virtuousness,"" from sanctus ""holy""" "1a. “Well, I put my energy into the community and not myself and my possessions,” I told him, without a hint of sanctimony.
1b. “And too often resentment conquers reason, anger blinds us to answers and sanctimony passes for authenticity.”
1c. Both of them constantly allow their left-wing biases to infect their ""reporting"" and even worse, do so with unmatched sanctimony and righteous indignation." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1989 "sash" "1. a wide band of fabric that either secures clothing around your waist or decorates a uniform.
2. The framework in which panes of glass are set in a window or door" "noun" "1. Arabic: shash ""muslin cloth.""
2. French: châssis ""frame"" of a window or door " "1a. The judges gave the newly elected miss world winner a crown and a sash marked ""miss world""
1b. Gros painted the extravagantly uniformed general, swathed in gilded sashes and crowned with a red-plumed hat, closer to 6 feet 8.
2. He shoved the lower sash of the guillotine window upwards to let in fresh air. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1990 "serration" "1a. having a toothed edge
1b. a row of notches
1c. A single notch in a row of notches" "noun" "Latin: serratus ""sawlike, notched like a saw,""" "1a. The wide serrations make this blade ideal for slicing bread.
1b. Long ago, carnivorous dinosaurs grew little serrations on the back of their teeth called denticles, all the better to eat prey
1c. Running along one side of the parking lot are two huge lab buildings, each topped with a long, glinting serration of greenhouses." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1991 "sketchy" " incomplete: it includes the major points but lacks detail, shortly, roughly, quickly," "adj. " "adj. from sketch, linked to German ""Skizze""" "1a. They said the shooting occurred just after midnight, but details remain sketchy.
1b. Though the data remains sketchy, the evidence suggests that most of those quitters were white and wealthy." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1992 "snub" "1a. treat with contempt, to ignore or brush off someone
1b. To check or stop with a cutting remark
2. to extinguish by stubbing
3. extremely short " "verb, noun, adj. " "same word root as snip (""schnipsen"" auf Deutsch)" "1a(i). Traders, who were previously reluctant to snub cheap Chinese imports, have now come up with a list of 3,000 items, including toys, watches and plastic products, that can easily be replaced by local manufacturing.
1a(ii) Embroiled in a bitter feud, half the family snubbed their patriarch's funeral.
2. He snubbed out his cigarette before going back inside
3. He had a short, snub nose." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1993 "telltale" "1a. That gives warning or information
1b. A person who gossips indiscreetely" "adj. " "from tell (v.) + tale
Syn1a (adj.) revealing, telling
Syn1b(noun): blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale

also spelled ""tell-tale""" "1a. The alcoholic would take a last-minute slug of vodka before leaving for work in the morning — never anything else because of the telltale breath they would give him.
1a(ii). A telltale sign of having got otherwise symptomless Corona was losing the ability to smell or taste for weeks
1b. The telltale told the teacher who cheated on the test" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1994 "tepid" "1a. Lukewarm
1b. Half-hearted." "adj. " "Latin: tepidus ""lukewarm,""
Syn1b.: halfhearted, lukewarm, uneager, unenthusiastic" "1a. He didn't like his water too hot, but rather preferred a tepid bath
1b(i). Trump faced criticism for his tepid response to the Skripal poisoning
1b(ii). He gave a tepid performance, which was by all. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1995 "thrift" "very careful about how much money you spend" "adj. " "
Ant: spendthrift" "1a. With little money, the showroom was decorated with thrift store furniture, which was covered in white muslin.
1b. For thrift shoppers, Frohm says, it’s a gold mine: “The quality of stuff right now is amazing.”
1c. Most rich persons are excellent in thrift. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1996 "tocsin" "a signal, especially of alarm" "noun" " Middle French : toquassen ""an alarm bell, the ringing of an alarm bell""
Has NOTHING to do with ""toxin""" "1a. The tocsin rang out, warning us of the approaching tornado
1b. These statistics should prompt all rationalists to sound the proverbial tocsin with unrelenting fury." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1997 "unfeigned" "not pretended, sincere" "adj. " "un + fein = ""disguise or conceal""
Syn: sincere, wholehearted, heartfelt, hearty" "1a. Most reality shows are scripted and are not unfeigned.
1b. Her interest in people was unfeigned so she chose to become a nurse" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1998 "vain" "1 without use or result
2. conceited" "adj. " "Latin vanus: ""empty,""" "1a. His vain attempt to learn 500 words in a day was not met with success
1b. He tried to in vain to convince the teacher that the dog had eaten his homework.
1c. In vain, the police watched as the escaped prisoner jumped onto the moving train.
2a. The teenager spent all day admiring themselves in reflective surfaces — mirrors, pools of water, the backs of spoons — so thought him to be conceited and vain
2b. She was vain about here clothes." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 1999 "wean" "to turn away (from a habit)" "verb" "Old English : to train (an infant or animal) to forego suckling
Same word root as ""ge-wöhnen"" in Deutsch
Syn1: ablactate" "1a. We are trying to wean my toddler from sucking a pacifier, but she hasn’t let go yet.
1b. Whatever we Californians and all Americans do to wean ourselves off fossil fuel, however, it isn’t going to stop wildfires for the foreseeable future.
1c. Oxygen is the key treatment that patients with the Corona virus are taken into hospital for and is used when weaning patients off ventilator support." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" 2000 "abut" "border on" "verb" "French : abouter : to border on, to end
The term is often used in real estate to refer to a lot line.
think of ""butt"" for a crude way to remember that this word has to do with ending on something " "1a. Their property abuts our land.
1b. The fact that so many of these fires abut suburban communities reveals why the damage is so expensive — and that additional logging would not solve the whole problem." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2001 "amortize" "1a. gradually pay off a debt via regular payments
1b. To write off an asset via regular reductions to asset value" "verb" "Latin: admortire, ad ""to"" + mortus ""dead=>""to extinguish""" "1a. Even with low-interest loans and crop insurance payments, many farmers are turning to amortizing past debt
1b. Typically, business equipment is amortized over a multiyear schedule, which is calculated based on how long the equipment might last, a formula known as useful life." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2002 "atonement" "1a. the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
1b. compensation for a wrong" "noun" "at + one + ment= the act of being at one with God or someone by repenting
Syn: expiation, propitiation" "1a. He wanted to find a way to make atonement for his sins.
1b. But can the apology Coleman has offered be considered a full atonement if it has not been accepted?" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2003 "august" "majestic; venerable" "adj. " "Latin: augustus ""venerable, majestic, magnificent, noble,""
Syn: revered, venerable
pronounced differently to the month ""August"". Here, emphasize ""gust"". " "1. Today, on the august floor of the House of Representatives, the world saw a very different reckoning with that word, power and sexism.
1b. At Milan’s august Central Station, more people seemed to be leaving than arriving." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2004 "bequest" "a gift of personal property by will" "verb" "be- + quoth (related to quote) ""saying"" =>state that it be so (when one dies) " "1a. One of the reasons people try to die with more than zero is that they want to leave bequests to family members, especially their children, or to charities.
1b. Stimson left a bequest, held in trust, and our job was to protect it.
1c. How do we treat the bequests of big men accused of doing horrible things?" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2005 "blandness" "1a. lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property
1b. Smooth and soothing in manner or quality
1c. The trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern" "adj. " "Latin: blandus ""smooth-talking, flattering, alluring,""" "1a. Expect both kinds of salsify to be subtle and delicate—too bland for some tastebuds.
1b. In normal elections candidates choose running mates whose signature qualities are blandness and obedience.
1c. The blandness of his confession enraged the judge" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2006 "boggle" "1a. overcome with amazement
1b. hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear" "adj. " "Syn1: bowl over, flabbergast
""boggle the mind"" very common expresssion" "1a. It boggles the mind that anyone who owns real estate in New York City would consider it a good idea to declare that New York is over, that prices are tumbling.
1b. She boggled her first effort to make Christmas cookies " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2007 "brash" "1a. offensively bold
1b. heedless of the consequences
1c. full of fresh raw vitality " "adj. " "Syn1b: inpudent" "1a(i). A brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club
1a(ii). The brash reporter offended the celebrity with his insistent manner and lost out on an amazing interview.
1b. He was a brash adventurer, climbing up any mountain.
1c. A brash frontier town whose main aim was to grow" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2008 "chastened" "1a. corrected by punishment or suffering
1b. to cause to be more humble or restrained" "adj. " "French: chastiier ""to punish"" . Now chiefly in reference to moral discipline, divine rather than corporal punishment.
Syn: punish, chastise, castigate, chasten, discipline, correct
The verb chasten is often used with the verb ""to be"" as in ""be chastened.""
Syn: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate" "1a. The teacher chastened the unruly child with five minutes of sitting in the corner
1b. Mr. Parscale, chastened by last month’s experience, was not hyping any crowd numbers ahead of the weekend rally.
1c. It is Perry’s “I’m so sorry” album, littered with references to a chastened songwriter - “ego check,” “humble pie,” “better version” and “2.0.”" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2009 "coax" " Get someone to do something by being kind; Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering" "verb" "Syn: blandish, blarney, cajole, palaver, soft-soap, sweet-talk, wheedle" "1a. Some homeless can’t be coaxed indoors — due to mental illness, addiction, a distrust of authority, fear of shelters, a lack of indoor space or all of the above.
1b. She was unable to coax an answer out of him
1c. He is optimistic that stem cells can be coaxed into growing into replacement tissue for failing organs" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2010 "conspicuous" "1a. Obvious to the eye or mind
1b. Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious" "adj. " "Latin: com-""with"" + specere ""to look at""=> forcing itself upon the attention, open to be looked at" "1a(i). If you dye your hair purple, you will be very conspicuous among the other teachers.
1a(ii). The bird has a conspicuous red head.
1b. Hunters wear camouflage so they appear less conspicuous around the animals." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2011 "deluge" "1a. great flood, heavy rush of water
1b. a large number of things occurring in the same instance" "adj" "French: deluge, itself from Latin diluvium ""flood, inundation""" "1a. An unusual tropical storm warning was issued as far north as Little Rock, where forecasters expected gusts of 50 mph and a deluge of rain through Friday.
1b(i). The noted physician received a deluge of awards for his work in AIDS research.
1b(ii). He received a deluge of angry phone calls by left-wing activists outraged by his statement that the male gender had a penis" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2012 "demagogue" "A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices" "noun" "Greek dēmagōgos
always with a negative connotation" "1a. Mercieca concludes by calling Trump “a new kind of demagogue. He is a demagogue of the spectacle — part entertainer, part authoritarian.”
1b. Before the U.S. could begin to help Haiti rebuild its ravaged democracy last week, it first had to remove a raving demagogue." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2013 "dereliction" "1a. an intentional abandonment or deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
1b. Intentional or conscious neglect of duties" "noun" "Latin: de- ""entirely"" + re- ""back"" + linquere ""to leave,""=>abandonment, state of being forsaken or abandoned" "1a. When the farmer began to work another job in the city, the dereliction of his horses caused them to grow skinny from not being cared for.
1b. “The lack of law and order surrounding these riots, and response from local leadership, is a dereliction of duty,” Mr. Vought said." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2014 "epiphany" "1a. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi. ""Epiphany"" with capital ""E""
1b. a moment when you suddenly realize or understand something important ( ""epiphany"" not capitalised)" "noun" "Greek: epi ""on, to"" + phainein ""to show""=>ome suddenly into view
Deutsch: Offenbarung" "1a. Around Epiphany, singers from the local church do the rounds, some dressed as the magi, and chalk the doors of those who give to the needy.
1b. My doctor’s warning about my health triggered the epiphany which inspired me to stick to a weight-loss program." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2015 "exploit" "1. (noun). brilliant achievement
2. (verb.) develop, use selfishly" "noun, verb" "1. French exploît, a very common word, used in senses of ""action, deed, profit, achievement""
Noun has positive connotation & pronounced the French way (silent ""t""), unlike verb
2. verb: Old French esploitier, espleiter ""carry out, perform, accomplish,"" which developed into current meaning from use of the word with reference to mines. Verb has negative connotation" "1a. It used to be rare for C.I.A. employees to recount their exploits in print.
1b. I took out the list of Professor Challenger's exploits, and I read it over under the electric lamp.
2a. So even as politicians exploit this unrest to keep or obtain power, I remain confident that Americans instinctively understand how weird these folks are.
2b. Fuel suppliers will exploit the national oil shortage by raising prices to increase their bottom lines. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2016 "gloat" "over look at with selfish delight" "verb" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""glotzen"", aber hier eher im Sinne von ""Schadensfreude""" "1a. He gloated over his enemy's misfortune.
1b. After such a tough campaign, they're gloating over their victory in the election.
1c. When the United States surpassed China as the country with the most confirmed infections, many Chinese commenters gloated, “Congratulations!”" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2017 "incumbent" "1. noun. an person who holds an office or position
2. adj. imposed as a duty " "noun, adj" "Latin: incumbens,= ""lying in"" or ""leaning on,"" but came to mean ""holding a position"", originally in the Church
Syn2: compulsory, forced, imperative, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, required" "1a. The incumbent store manager is not happy about having to train the person who is taking his job.
1b. Democrats seem secure in their political position, with Trump and several Senate GOP incumbents lagging in the polls.
2. It is incumbent on them to pay their own debts" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2018 "incursion" "a raid; a sudden attack; an entry into an area that does not belong to the entrants" "noun" "Old French incursion ""invasion, attack, assault""" "1a. Less than a week later, Israeli forces used heavy shelling to repel what they described as an attempted incursion by Hezbollah fighters.
1b. Lam, the Apple Daily reporter, was stunned by the police incursion into his newsroom." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2019 "insouciant" "unconcerned; carefree" "adj. " "French: insouciant from in- ""not""+ souciant ""caring,"" =>""careless, thoughtless, heedless,""
Syn: apathy, casualness, complacence, disinterestedness, disregard, incuriosity, indifference, nonchalance, torpor, unconcern" "1a. She wandered into the meeting with complete insouciance to the fact that she was late
1b. The low interest rates are also a major contributor to the government’s insouciance about adding trillions of dollars to the national debt.
1c. Because Lily was well prepared for the test, she was insouciant about earning a passing grade." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2020 "interdict" "prohibit forbid" "verb" "Latin: interdicere ""interpose by speech, prohibit, forbid,""
Syn: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto" "1a. The state legislature moved to interdict the use of radar-detection devices by motorists.
1b. It is casino policy to interdict anyone under the age of twenty-one from entering the gaming area." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2021 "jibe" "1. gibe; make fun of
2. to agree, to jive with
3. a ship that shifts suddenly and forcibly from one side to the other —used of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom" "verb" "Careful : To gibe is to sneer or heckle, but to jibe is to agree. To make it more complicated, gibe can also be spelt ""jibe""
Careful : jibe (in the 2nd sense=agree) is synonymous with ""jive"", eg. in the sentence ""that doesn't jive (or jibe) with me""" "1. The boxers were gibing each other before the fight
2a. How that comment jibes with what he’s written in his book is unclear.
2b. “That’s one of the reasons why the video is so disturbing. It didn’t jibe with what my view of the Police Department was.”
3. The sailship had lost all four foremost men by the violent jibing of a boom" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2022 "obtain" "1. to get, to receive
2. to be established, accepted or customary" "verb" "Second definition of obtain is not common - unlike first defintion.
Syn2 : prevail, exist, " "1. He obtained the information from his colleague
2a. Those ideas no longer obtain for our generation.
2b. A greater degree of free expression than usually obtains in film production" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2023 "overweening" "presumptuously; arrogant; overbearing" "adj. " "mit dem Deutschen Wort ""Wähnen"" (irrigerweise Annehmen) + über=> irrigerweise annahmens, das man überlegen ist. " "1a. Ever since Jim won the contest, he has been overweening and acting as though he is the smartest kid on the planet.
1b. The US’s founders were profoundly suspicious of overweening government, from which they suffered under British colonialism." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2024 "parley" "A formal discussion between enemies or opponents" "verb" "French: parler ""to speak""
" "1a. The government refused to parley with the rebels.
1b. In an effort to win the goodwill of the locals, the developers parleyed with them before finalizing plans for the massive mall " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2025 "perpetrate" "perform an act, usually with a negative connotation" "verb" "Latin: per- ""completely"" + patrare ""carry out,""=>to do, execute, perform
Syn: commit" "1a. The men were planning to perpetrate a robbery.
1b. Children who witness trauma are more likely to perpetrate it or be victims of violent crime, including intimate partner violence, later." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2026 "poignant" "1a. keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
1b. arousing affect" "adj. " "French poignant ""sharp, pointed""
Syn: affecting, emotional, impactful, impressive, moving, stirring, touching" "1a. Because the poignant movie reminded me of my beautiful childhood, it made me cry.
1b. Water pollution is a poignant example of how little people care about our environment.
1c. This movie isn't a soft-pedaled, poignant tale of addiction and recovery—it's just about the addiction." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2027 "quirk" "1. a strange attitude or habit
2. twist or curve abruptly
3. a narrow groove beside a beading" "noun, verb" "Syn1: oddity, queerness, quirkiness
Bedeutungen könnten vom gleichen Wortstamm als ""Quer"" sein. " "1a. Wearing only pink socks is Greg’s oddest quirk.
2 .In a tragic quirk of fate, as the Tang fired its 24th and final torpedo before heading home that October night, the torpedo malfunctioned." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2028 "rant" "to complain or speak about something in a loud, lengthy, angry, emotional manner" "verb" "Syn: bluster, fulminate, huff, rave, spout" "1a. You can rant and rave all you want,” she said, “but it's not going to change things.”""
1b. In a tirade, the deranged stranger proceeded to rant about pharmaceutical overcharges.
1c. Even though she made a fool out of herself during her rant, it still had a positive outcome as her husband now helped with laundry.
1d. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2029 "being resigned" "accept as inevitable, accepting of one's fate" "verb" "not to be confused with ""to resign"", which means to quit one's job. " "1a. He was fifty-seven years old and resigned to the fact that the rest of his days would be spent in convenient bachelorhood
1b. They had the resigned manners of long-term detainees." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2030 "rife" "widespread, in great quantity, abundant, common, prevalent" "adj. " "Syn: abounding, abundant, awash, flush, fraught, lousy, replete, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging" "1a. The beach is rife with young people during the summer months.
1b. The beach is rife with young people during the summer months.
1c. According to my teacher, my essay was rife with mistakes and needed to be rewritten. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2031 "rueful" "feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses" "adj. " "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""reuen"" auf Deutsch
Syn: contrite, remorseful, ruthful" "1a. He gave me a rueful smile and apologized.
1b. The rueful faces of friends and family who had gathered to pay their last respects
1c. Because the judge felt the defendant wasn’t rueful, he gave him a harsh sentence." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2032 "rumple" "make rough" "Syn: crinkle, crumple, scrunch, wrinkle" "1a. He rumpled her hair affectionately.
1b. The guest rumpled the antique bedspread by lying down on it
1c. The sleeves of her green satin gown are rolled up at her wrists, and its skirt rumples against the polished floor." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2033 "shrewd" "astute; showing sound judgement" "adj. " "Syn: astute, canny, clear-eyed,, hardheaded, heady, knowing, savvy, sharp, smart
Shrewd doesn't usually have a disapproving or negative tone, but shrew certainly does." "1a. Being a shrewd judge of character, Rebecca realized that David had a hidden agenda, and she sent him on his way.
1b. A shrewd businessman knows when the time is right to close the deal.
1c. The Habsburg Empire was born in wedlock, cobbled together by a string of shrewd marriage alliances." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2034 "sophomoric" "1a. self-assured and opinionated but crude and immature
1b. 2nd year at university" "adj. " "Greek : sophos=wise + moron=stupid =>someone who thinks they know, but don't" "1a. Although Steve is normally a responsible young man, he tends to behave in a sophomoric manner when he is with his fun-loving friends.
1b. The Gophers will lose star center Daniel Oturu, who turned pro after his sophomore season" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2035 "squalid" "extremely dirty and unpleasant" "adj ." "Latin word squalare, meaning to “be covered with a rough, scaly layer.”
Syn: dirty, filthy, foul, nasty," "1a. A squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
1b. For the next month, Samuel’s life was confined to a squalid prison." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2036 "sumptuous" "extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent " "adj. " "Latin sumptuosus ""costly, very expensive; lavish, wasteful,""
Syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely" "1a. Speaking at the sumptuous American ambassador’s residence, O’Brien fielded questions on a wide array of issues.
1b. As I sank into the sumptuous seats of the luxury vehicle, I knew I was going to enjoy the long road trip
1c. The hotel chef prepared a sumptuous picnic lunch for the newly married couple. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2037 "trifling" "1. unimportant, not worth considering
2. The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working" "adj. " "1a. My time is too valuable to spend on trifling matters that have little worth.
1b. Although I do not mind doing a great deal of work, I will not work for a trifling sum.
2. Blacks think that they raised whites' children when whites were too trifling to raise them themselves." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2038 "uncouth" "vulgar and ill-mannered, rough, awkward, lacking refinement or cultivation or taste" "adj. " "a. Across hygiene-conscious Eastern Europe, many people consider it uncouth and unsanitary to eat a burger with their bare hands.
1b. Conservatives like Paul Ryan wrinkle their noses at Trump's uncouth demeanor and petty behavior.
1c. My brother’s uncouth girlfriend does not realize she should close her mouth while chewing her food." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2039 "undulate" "to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate" "verb" "Latin undulatus ""wavy, undulated,""
Syn: swing, sway, oscillate, vibrate, fluctuate, waver" "1a. It is fun to watch the ocean waters undulate beneath our glass-bottom boat.
1b. Residents describe Seminary Hill, a suburb in west Alexandria, as a “green oasis,” tucked away from the city’s bustling streets by undulating hills and mature
1c. If you look closely, you can see the grass undulate in the breeze." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2040 "verve" "spirit, vigor, enthusiasm, a combination of passion and energy that is typically found in artistic expression" "noun" "French origin of same meaning
Syn: vivacity, energy, vitality" "1a. The singer danced across the stage with endless verve and vitality that would have tired out any normal person.
1b. The bits are stale, her onscreen verve is noticeably fading and the show struggles to offer relevant insight on current events.
1c. She played with skill and verve ." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2041 "volubility" "fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language" "adj. " "Syn: articulateness, fluency" "1a. The volubility of the Plein family is incredible, when they are all going for it at the same time
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2042 "waffle" "talk vaguely and without much result" "verb" "The verb waffle seems to have its origins in waff, ""to yelp,"" in imitation of the yelping of dogs. This developed into ""to talk foolishly"" & then eventually ""to vacillate, to change""
Syn: equivocate, fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, weasel" "1a. She waffled when asked what she thought of her sister's new boyfriend
1b. News media waffled between descriptors, one anchor referring to Harris as Black moments before another would clarify that she is Asian American, too." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 2043 "garble" "make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story" "verb" "Syn: distort, falsify, warp" "1a. As the ballots are being fed, sometimes they are too garbled or mangled for the computer to read the votes, so it sends an image to bipartisan teams of adjudicating judges to review.
1b. The microphone placement must be excellent because Google Assistant never misunderstood me or garbled my words once.
1c. Until the toddler is able to speak properly, he will garble most of his words." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level"