Gre Vocab 3

Front 1

abatement

Back 1

lowering in intesnsity, decreasing

Front 2

aperture

Back 2

an opening as in a hold, slit, crevice

Front 3

fissure

Back 3

a narrow opening produced by cleavage

Front 4

hiatus

Back 4

a break or an interrupt in a work/act

Front 5

interregnum

Back 5

a pause in continuity

Front 6

interstice

Back 6

an intervening space, an interval of time

Front 7

lull

Back 7

a quiet down, let up, subsiding

Front 8

orifice

Back 8

an opening or aperture

Front 9

rent

Back 9

separating into parts by force

Front 10

respite

Back 10

a delay or cessation for a time

Front 11

rift

Back 11

an opening made by splitting

a split in a relationship

Front 12

beneficient

Back 12

doing good, kind action

Front 13

clement

Back 13

mild, merciful

Front 14

largess

Back 14

generous bestowal of gifts

Front 15

magnanimous

Back 15

generous in forgiving an insult

Front 16

munificent

Back 16

very liberal in giving

Front 17

unstinting

Back 17

bestowed liberally

Front 18

avaracious

Back 18

greedy

Front 19

covetous

Back 19

wrongly desirous of wealth

Front 20

mercenary

Back 20

working or acting just for money

Front 21

miserly

Back 21

stingy

Front 22

penurious

Back 22

stingy, miserly

Front 23

rapacious

Back 23

given to seizing for plunder

Front 24

venal

Back 24

open to being bribed

Front 25

asperity

Back 25

hardness or sharpness in temper

Front 26

baleful

Back 26

full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious

Front 27

baleful

Back 27

causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful

Front 28

dour

Back 28

sullen, gloomy, severe

Front 29

fell

Back 29

to secumb to temptation/sin

Front 30

malevolent

Back 30

wishing harm/evil on another

Front 31

mordant

Back 31

sharply sarcastic, biting

Front 32

sardonic

Back 32

characterized by bitter scorn/derision

Front 33

scathing

Back 33

to attack w/severe criticism

Front 34

truculent

Back 34

fierce, cruel, savagly brutal

Front 35

vitriolic

Back 35

harsh or corrosive in tone

Front 36

vitipueration

Back 36

verbal abuse or castigation

Front 37

baneful

Back 37

destructive, pernicious, deadly

Front 38

deleterious

Back 38

injurious to health, harmful

Front 39

inimical

Back 39

adverse, harmful, unfavorable

Front 40

injurious

Back 40

harmful/hurful

Front 41

insiduous

Back 41

operating in seemingly harmless ways but with grave effects

Front 42

minatory

Back 42

menacing, threating

Front 43

perfidious

Back 43

deliberatly tretcherous or deceitful

Front 44

pernicious

Back 44

causing insiduous harm

Front 45

cacaphony

Back 45

harsh discordance of sound

Front 46

din

Back 46

a loud, confused noise, clamour

Front 47

dissonant

Back 47

disagreeing or harsh in sound

Front 48

racuous

Back 48

harsh, grating

Front 49

strident

Back 49

having harsh sound, grating

Front 50

anathema

Back 50

a person or thing detested or loathed

Front 51

antipathy

Back 51

a deep dislike

Front 52

enmity

Back 52

a feeing/condition of hostility

Front 53

malice

Back 53

the desire to inflict injury/harm

Front 54

odium

Back 54

intense hatred/dislike towards something, esp. toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.

Ex: He had to bear the odium of neglecting his family.

Front 55

rancor

Back 55

bitter resentment or ill will, hatred

Front 56

beneficial

Back 56

conferring benefit

Front 57

salubrious

Back 57

favorable to or promoting health

Front 58

salutory

Back 58

favorable to or promoting health

Front 59

dither

Back 59

to vascillate/ to act irresolutely

Front 60

teeter

Back 60

to alter between an opinion, to vascillate

Front 61

oscillate

Back 61

to swing/move to and forth

Front 62

vascillate

Back 62

to waver in opinion

Front 63

antithetic

Back 63

directy opposed or contested in character or purpose

Front 64

churlish

Back 64

mean, burlish, rude

Front 65

curmudgeon

Back 65

a bad tempered, difficult person

Front 66

irascible

Back 66

easily provoked to anger

Front 67

malevolent

Back 67

wishing evil or harm towards another

Front 68

misanthropic

Back 68

of, pertaining to, or characterized by a hatred of humankind

Front 69

truculent

Back 69

cruel, savagly brutal

Truculent criticism
. . .officers mistook his father's cursing and argumentative reception of five men with guns for the actions of a truculent fugitive.

Front 70

vindictive

Back 70

inclined to revenge

Front 71

credulous

Back 71

willing to believe/trust too readily, guillable...

Front 72

ingenuous

Back 72

lacking in sophistication/wrongdoing, an inability to mask feelings

Front 73

novitiate

Back 73

a novice in a religious order

Front 74

tyro

Back 74

a beginner in learning anything

Front 75

disingenuous

Back 75

insincere, lacking in frankness

Front 76

dissemble

Back 76

to give a false or misleading appearance to cover the truth, to feign

Front 77

fulsome

Back 77

offensively flattering
Offensive to the taste or sensibilities._2. Insincere or excessively lavish; especially, offensive from excess of praise.
He recorded the event in his journal: "Long evening visit from Mr. Langtree--a fulsome flatterer."

Front 78

ostensible

Back 78

outwardly appearing as such, but not really so

Front 79

unctuous

Back 79

characterize by affected, exaggerated, or insincere exuberence

Front 80

appraise

Back 80

to investigate the worth of something

Front 81

ascertain

Back 81

to find out definately

Front 82

assay

Back 82

to exam or analyze

Front 83

descry

Back 83

to see (something that is unclear) by looking closely

Front 84

peruse

Back 84

to read w/thoroughness

Front 85

quiescent

Back 85

being at rest/inactive

Front 86

slothful

Back 86

sluggishly lazy

Front 87

torpid

Back 87

inactive or sluggish...slow, dull

Front 88

adventitious

Back 88

associated with something by chance. achieved extrinsicaly, not inherent

Front 89

amulet

Back 89

an object used to ward away evil

Front 90

auspicious

Back 90

auguring favorable circumstances

Front 91

fortuitous

Back 91

fortunate event that happens by chance

Front 92

kismet

Back 92

fate, destiny

Front 93

optimum

Back 93

the best or most favorable point/circumstance

Front 94

portentous

Back 94

forboding, forshadowing something momentous

Front 95

propitiate

Back 95

to make favorably inclined, to appease

Front 96

propitious

Back 96

auspicious, presenting favorable conditions

Front 97

providential

Back 97

of or pertaining to divine providence

Front 98

talisman

Back 98

a charm used to ward away evil

Front 99

admonish

Back 99

to counsel against something strongly

Front 100

cavil

Back 100

to find fault unncessarily, to raise irritating objection

Front 101

belabor

Back 101

to explain or worory about repeatedly

Front 102

enjoin

Back 102

to direct or order w/authority

Front 103

exhort

Back 103

to urge

Front 104

harangue

Back 104

a sudden or long diatribe

Front 105

hector

Back 105

to bully, to treat with insolence

Front 106

martinet

Back 106

a strict disciplinarian, esp. a military one

Front 107

remonstrate

Back 107

to say or plead in protest, objection....to complain

Front 108

reproof

Back 108

rebuke

Front 109

fetid

Back 109

having a nasty odor, stinking

Front 110

noisome

Back 110

offensive or disgusting, as an odor. noxious

Front 111

noxious

Back 111

harmful or injurious to health

Front 112

askance

Back 112

wtih suspicion, a sideways glance

Front 113

awry

Back 113

away from the proper direction...with a turn or twist to the side

Front 114

careen

Back 114

to swing or sway while moving

Front 115

carom

Back 115

to strike and rebound.

Front 116

circuitous

Back 116

roundabout

Front 117

circumvent

Back 117

to go around and bypass

Front 118

gyrate

Back 118

to move in a circle around a final point

Front 119

meander

Back 119

to take a winding route

Front 120

oblique

Back 120

sloping, not straight or direct