Gre Vocab Group 2

Front 1

disabuse

Back 1

to undeceive; to set right

Hint 1

what a lawyer does to a jury to prove his client's innocence

Front 2

bucolic

Back 2

pastoral, rustic; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

Hint 2

a farmer is this, as with everyone else that lives in the fields

Front 3

hyperbole

Back 3

an exaggerated statement

Hint 3

tamara frequently uses this for effect when she tells stories

Front 4

axiomatic

Back 4

possessing self-evident truth; taken as a given

Hint 4

this is the same thing as obvious

Front 5

effrontery

Back 5

extreme boldness; presumptuousness

Hint 5

as if someone had the gall to say this in front of your face!

Front 6

fulminate

Back 6

to loudly attack or denounce

Hint 6

When the boss finds out he will fulminate the decision you made, it was completely stupid

Front 7

hyperbole

Back 7

an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech

Hint 7

You can never trust her stories because she frequently uses ___, blowing things out of proportion

Front 8

lucid; adj

Back 8

clear; easily understood

Hint 8

Some people have ___ dreams, seeing everything crystal clear.

Front 9

lucid; adj

Back 9

sane, rational

Hint 9

she seems ___, don't give her medication, she's already coherent

Front 10

oscillation; noun

Back 10

the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm

Hint 10

The pendulum's ____ completes a cycle,from one side to the other, in 1 minute.

Front 11

paean; noun

Back 11

a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

Hint 11

A ___ is like a eulogy, only it is sung during happy times, not in funerals.

Front 12

penurious; adj

Back 12

penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous

Hint 12

She is so ___, she saves her pennies by recycling plastic forks and never buys me lunch!

Front 13

perfidy; noun

Back 13

intentional breach of faith; treachery

Hint 13

His partner's ___ cost him his life, he took the money and left him to the cops.

Front 14

pernicious; adj

Back 14

extremely harmful; potentially causing death

Hint 14

He was working to abolish the ___ virus, as it was extremely harmful and deadly.

Front 15

precipitate; adj

Back 15

acting with excessive haste or impulse

Hint 15

Don't be so ___! You can't just rob the bank in haste, you have to have a plan, man.

Front 16

perspicacious; adj

Back 16

acutely perceptive; having keen discernment; acutely insightful and wise

Hint 16

Merlin is a ___ man thinking so wisely and insightfully it makes him perspire.

Front 17

pious; adj

Back 17

extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion

Hint 17

A very ___ man, he went to church every week and was reverent towards women.

Front 18

precipitate; verb

Back 18

to cause or happen before anticipated or required

Hint 18

The surprise kidnapping ___ the war that was not supposed to happen for another years.

Front 19

precursor; noun

Back 19

one that precedes and indicates or announces another

Hint 19

An preceding draft of the plan is a ___ to a series of agreements that will follow establish peace in the region.

Front 20

predilection; noun

Back 20

a disposition in favor of something; preference

Hint 20

With his penchant for sweet and ___ for chocolate over fruit, you can bet he'll choose the fudge and not the lemon merangue.

Front 21

prolific; adj

Back 21

producing large volumes or amounts; productive

Hint 21

Otis Redding was a ___ song writer, producing a large amount in just a few years.

Front 22

qualms; noun

Back 22

misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy;Qualm is a disturbing feeling of uneasiness and self-doubt

Hint 22

I have ___ about going into that spooky house; aren't you hesitant, too?

Front 23

quiescence;noun

Back 23

stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest; dormancy

Hint 23

In it's ___, the virus does no harm because it is in an inactive, quiet, or dormant state.

Front 24

recant; verb

Back 24

to retract; esp. a previously held belief

Hint 24

I will not ___ my atheism! There can't be a god just because there's candy.

Front 25

redoubtable; adj

Back 25

arousing fear, awe-inspiring; worthy of honor

Hint 25

The cliffs were indeed ___; the awe-inspiring height was worthy of honor left the pirates fearful, doubting the climb

Front 26

reticent; adj

Back 26

quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings

Hint 26

If you want my two cents, I'd say the girl was ___, always quiet and reserved.

Front 27

satire; noun

Back 27

a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision

Hint 27

Shakespeare's ___ of the king left future readers to hold royalty and its vices in derision, criticizing it with humor for centuries.

Front 28

sordid; adj

Back 28

characterized by filth, grim, or squalor; foul; squalid

Hint 28

The seedy shantytown was sorda ___, overflowing with filth and grime.

Front 29

squalid; adj

Back 29

sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect or poverty; morally repulsive

Hint 29

years of neglect left the neighborhood ___, sordid and wretched.

Front 30

squander; verb

Back 30

to waste by spending or using irresponsibly

Hint 30

Don't ___ your savings. instead, you want to use it responsibly.

Front 31

stoic; adj

Back 31

indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

Hint 31

The stowaway Spartans were ___, not showing any pain and totally indifferent to any emotion.

Front 32

stymie; verb

Back 32

to block; thwart

Hint 32

The math problem will ___ the whole class, thwarting anyone from becoming to proud and tossing them to the pig sty.

Front 33

stymie; noun

Back 33

a position or condition in which you find yourself;

Hint 33

I'm in a ___, or infront of an obstacle I can't maneuver around.

Front 34

supplant; verb

Back 34

to take the place of; supersede; replace, usurp

Hint 34

The guerrilla army planned to usurp and ___ the government during supper with a plant.

Front 35

synthesis; noun

Back 35

the combination of parts to make a whole

Hint 35

a car is the whole ___ of many parts of metal in certain combinations.

Front 36

torpid; adj

Back 36

lethargic; sluggish; dormant; apathetic; biological suspended animation or hibernation

Hint 36

Like a hibernating bear, the fat guy was so ___, he didn't realize the curtain was torn until light showed on the t.v.

Front 37

torque; noun

Back 37

a force that causes rotation

Hint 37

is the ___ of the big bang what caused the planets and everything else to rotate?

Front 38

ubiquitous; adj

Back 38

existing everwhere at the same time; constantly encoutnered; widespread

Hint 38

the protein ubiquitin is named so because it is___, found all over the the animal kingdom.

Front 39

veracity; noun

Back 39

truthfulness; honesty

Hint 39

He is always honest and truthful, so his ___ cannot be doubted very much in a city.

Front 40

vilify; verb

Back 40

to defame; to characterize harshly, spread negative information about

Hint 40

The negative comments were used to ___ and defame the villain as if he were a fly, so that no one would love him.

Front 41

virulent; adj

Back 41

extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic, hateful

Hint 41

We were all afraid of her ___ behaviour, she was bitterly hostile and harmful like the ___ portion of a virus.

Front 42

abscond; verb

Back 42

to depart clandestinely; to steal away and hide

Hint 42

a. The thief absconded from the crime seen so as not to alert the attention of the detectives

Front 43

ameliorate; verb

Back 43

to make tolerable; to make better

Hint 43

the cough syrup didn’t not cure the illness, but __ it enough so that I could sleep

Front 44

arduous; adj

Back 44

strenuous; taxing; requiring a lot of effort

Hint 44

Studying for the GRE is an arduous task, depriving oneself from fun and exercising the brain to exhaustion

Front 45

ascetic; noun

Back 45

one who practices rigid self-denial; esp in an act of religious devotion

Hint 45

a. The new Buddhist declared himself ___ depriving himself of all desire

Front 46

axiom; noun

Back 46

universally recognized principle

Hint 46

a. axioms in math follow theorems to give support

Front 47

canonical; adj

Back 47

in agreement or following accepted and conventional standards

Hint 47

Most practices in medicine are canonical, they rarely fall under the “alternative” umbrella

Front 48

contentious; adj

Back 48

argumentative; quarelsome; causing controversy or disagreement

Hint 48

Don’t be so ___ you don’t have to start an argument each time someone disagrees with your content

Front 49

convoluted; adj

Back 49

intricately complicated; complex

Hint 49

His relationship to me is ___- it involves three marriages over two generations between 2nd cousins twice removed

Front 50

culpable; adj

Back 50

deserving of blame; blameworthy

Hint 50

a. I didn’t do anything wrong! She’s the __ one, look, her hand is still in the cookie jar!

Front 51

eclectic; adj

Back 51

composed of elements from various sources

Hint 51

KCRW’s “morning becomes __ is so because they play music from various genres

Front 52

ephemeral; adj

Back 52

brief; fleeting

Hint 52

These moments are ephemeral, commit them to memory because they don’t last forever

Front 53

erudite; adj

Back 53

scholarly, very learned

Hint 53

The gentlemen was given an honorary degree from the university, as his ___ self-education exceeded many of the school’s own rudimentary graduates.

Front 54

eulogy; noun

Back 54

speech of praise for the dead

Hint 54

During the funeral, the guru gave the ___ speaking of his students accomplishments with laud and honor

Front 55

extemporaneous; adj

Back 55

improvised, done w/ out preparation

Hint 55

The acting troup peformed ___-ly without a script or plan.

Front 56

facetious; adj

Back 56

playful, humorous

Hint 56

a. The professor’s ___ remarks caused some chuckling around the room