GRE Vocab - 5th box

GRE Vocab (149 Cards)
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1	Abase	Degrade or humble; to lower in rank, status, or esteem
2	Abate	reduce, diminish
3	Abdicate	Formally give up the throne (or some other power or responsibility)
4	Aberrant	abnormal, deviant
5	Abeyance	Temporary suspension, inactivity
6	Abhor	Detest, regard with disgust
7	Abjure	Give up, renounce; repudiate, recant, or shun (especially formally or under oath)
8	Abrasive	Rough, suitable for grinding or polishing (such as sandpaper); causing irritation or annoyance
9	Abreast	Side-by-side. The more common "abreast of" means keeping up with, staying aware of, or remaining equal in progress with.
10	Abridge	Reduce or lesson; shorten by omitting parts throughout while retaining the main idea
11	Abscission	Cutting off; sudden termination; the separation of leaves, petals, or other parts from a plant or animal
12	Abscond	Depart suddenly and secretively
13	Abstain	Hold back, refrain (especially from something bad or unhealthy) ; decline to vote
14	Abyss	A deep and vast space or cavity; anything profound or infinite
15	Accede	Agree, give consent; assume power (usually as "accede to")
16	Accretion	Gradual increase; an added part or addition
17	Acerbic	Sour; harsh or severe
18	Acidulous	Slightly acid or sour; sharp or caustic
19	Acme	Summit, peak, highest point
20	Activism	The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations
21	Acumen	Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment
22	Adhere	Stick (to), such as with glue, or to a plan or belief
23	Admonish	Mildly scorn; caution, advise, or remind to do something
24	Adulterate	Make impure by adding inappropriate or inferior ingredients
25	Adumbrate	Give a rough outline of; foreshadow; reveal only partially; obscure
26	Adverse	Opposing, harmful
27	Advocate	Speak or argue in favor of (verb); a person who pleads for a cause or on behalf of another person (noun)
28	Aerie	Dwelling or fortress built on a high place; the nest of a bird of prey, such as an eagle or hawk, built on a mountain or cliff
29	Aesthetic	Concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste, pertaining to the science of what is beautiful (adj); a sense of beauty and taste of a particular time and place (noun)
30	Affable	Warm, friendly, pleasant, approachable
31	Affectation	Fake behavior (such as in speech or dress) adopted to give a certain impression
32	Aggrandize	Make greater; exaggerate
33	Aggregate	Gather together, amount to (verb); constituting a whole made up of constituent parts (adj)
34	Alacrity	Cheerful or speedy willingness
35	Alacrity	liveliness and eagerness
36	Albeit	Although, even though
37	Alienate	Cause to become unfriendly, hostile, or distant
38	Alleviate	Lessen, make easier to endure
39	Aloof	Distant physically or emotionally; reserved; indifferent
40	Amalgamate	Blend, merge, or unite
41	Ambiguous	Not clear, hard to understand, open to having several meanings or interpretations
42	Ambivalent	Uncertain; unable to decide, or wanting to do two contradictory things at once
43	Ambivalent	characterized by a mixture of opposite feelings or attitudes
44	Ameliorate	Improve; make better or more bearable
45	Amortize	Gradually pay off a debt, or gradually write off an asset
46	Anachronism	Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period
47	Analgesia	Pain relief; inability to feel pain
48	Analogous	Comparable, corresponding in some particular way (making good analogy)
49	Anarchy	Absence of law or government; chaos, disorder
50	Annul	Make void or null, cancel, abolish (usually of laws or other established rules)
51	Anodyne	Medicine that relieves pain (noun); soothing, relieving pain (adj)
52	Anoint	Rub or sprinkle oil on, make sacred, such as by a ceremony that includes applying oil to someone
53	Anomaly	Deviation from what is common; inconsistency
54	Antagonize	Make hostile or unfriendly
55	Antedate	Be older than, precede in time; assign to an earlier date
56	Antipathy	Deep dislike, aversion, or repugnance, sometimes without reason
57	Antithetical	Directly opposed, opposite; involving antithesis (the rhetorical act of placing two phrases opposite one another for contrast, as in love me or hate me)
58	Apathy	Not caring; absence of feeling; lack of interest or concern
59	Apocryphal	of questionable authenticity; false
60	Apostate	Person who deserts a party, cause, religion, etc.
61	Apostle	Pioneer of a reform movement (originally, an early follower of Jesus)
62	Appease	Pacify, satisfy, relieve; concede to belligerent demands, sometimes at the expense of principles
63	Apposite	Highly appropriate, suitable, or relevant
64	Appreciable	Enough to be perceived, considerable
65	Apprise	Inform, give notice to
66	Approbation	Praise or approval, especially formal approval
67	Appropriate	Set aside or authorize (such as money) for a particular purpose; take for one
68	Arbiter	Judge, umpire, person empowered to decide matters at hand
69	Arbitrary	Based entirely on one
70	Arcane	Known or understood by only a few; obscure, secret
71	Arch	(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
72	Archaic	Characteristic of an earlier period, ancient, primitive
73	Ardent	Very passionate, devoted, or enthusiastic
74	Arduous	Very difficult, strenuous; severe, hard to endure
75	Arrogate	Claim or take presumptuously or without the right to do so
76	Artful	slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky
77	Articulate	Using language in a clear fluent way (adj); speak distinctly or give clarity to an idea (verb)
78	Artifact	Any object made by humans, especially those from an earlier time, such as those excavated by archaeologists
79	Artless	Free of deceit or craftiness, natural, genuine; lacking skill or knowledge, crude, uncultured
80	Ascertain	Find out with certainty
81	Ascetic	Abstinent or austere in lifestyle (adj); a person who leads an austere and simple life without material pleasures, esp. someone who does this for religious reasons
82	Ascribe	Assign or credit to a certain cause or source
83	Aseptic	Free from germs
84	Asperity	Rigor, severity; harshness or sharpness of tone; roughness of surface
85	Aspersions	Damaging remarks, defamation, slander
86	Assail	Attack violently, assault
87	Assiduous	Persevering, diligent, constant
88	Assuage	Make milder, relieve, soothe, pacify, or calm
89	Attenuate	Weaken or thin out
90	Attuned	In harmony; in sympathetic relationship
91	Audacious	Very bold or brave, often in a rude or reckless way; extremely original
92	Augment	Make larger
93	Augury	Telling the future, such as through supernatural means
94	August	Venerable, majestic; inspiring admiration
95	Auspicious	favorable; promising; pointing to a good result
96	Austere	Severe in manner or appearance; very self-disciplined, ascetic; without luxury or ease; sober or serious
97	Autonomous	Self-governing, independent
98	Avarice	Insatiable greed; a miserly desire to hoard wealth
99	Aver	Declare or affirm with confidence
100	Avid	Enthusiastic, dedicated, passionate; excessively desirous
101	Axiom	Self-evident truth requiring no proof; universally or generally accepted principle
102	Base	not adhering to ethical or moral principles
103	Becoming	attractive; suitable; pleasing to the eye
104	Beg	to evade a question, to invite an obvious question, to ask a question in itself makes unwarranted assumptions
105	Benighted	lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
106	Bleak	offering little or no hope
107	Blinkered	To have a limited outlook or understanding, Narrow-minded
108	Candid	openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness
109	Check	the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
110	Checkered	Marked by periods of varied fortune or discreditable incidents
111	Contentious	quarrelsome, inclined to argue
112	Contrite	feeling regret or remorse for a fault or offence
113	Disparate	fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
114	Egregious	conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible, stand out in a bad way
115	Enervate	weaken mentally or morally
116	Equivocate	be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
117	Erratic	likely to perform unpredictably
118	Expansive	friendly and open and willing to talk
119	Extant	still in existence
120	fact; factual
121	Fell	(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
122	Fleece	to deceive
123	Flush	redden; blush; flow suddenly and abundantly; wash out by a rapid brief flow of water; N: reddish tinge; blush; brief rush; rush of strong feeling; Ex. flush of pride; ADJ: having surfaces in the same plane; even; blushing
124	Galvanize	to stimulate to action
125	Hedge	minimize loss or risk
126	Imbibe	to drink; to take in, absorb
127	Innocuous	harmless, producing no injury
128	Intimate	to imply, suggest, or insinuate
129	Inundate	fill quickly beyond capacity
130	involved	Complicated, and difficult to comprehend
131	Laconic	concise, using few words
132	Maintain	state or assert
133	Moment	having important effects or influence, significant
134	Paucity	an inadequate quantity, scarcity
135	Profuse	very abundant; given or flowing freely
136	Prosaic	dull and unimaginative; matterof-
137	Pugnacious	ready and able to resort to force or violence, aggressive
138	Qualify	To modify, limit, or restrict, as by giving exceptions
139	Raft	(often followed by
140	Retiring	shy and reserved; modest
141	Scintillating	brilliantly clever
142	Sedulous	diligent; persistent; hard-working
143	Start	move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
144	Stem	limit or stop the flow or growth of somthing
145	Telling	powerfully persuasive, significant and stands out
146	Tender	offer or present for acceptance
147	Veracity	truthfulness
148	Wanting	Lacking or absent; Deficient in some way
149	Wax	increase in phase