PRINCETON REVIEW GRE VOCAB |COMPLETE STUDY
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abscond Answer: to depart clandestinely
alacrity Answer: eager willingness
approbation Answer: an expression of approval or praise
austere Answer: w/o adornment
canonical Answer: following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
capricious Answer: inclined to change one's mind impulsively
censure Answer: to criticize severely
chicanery Answer: trickery or subterfuge
connoisseur Answer: expert (matters of taste)
discordant Answer: conflicting
effrontery Answer: extreme boldness
ennui Answer: dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
equivocate Answer: to use ambiguous language w/ deceptive intent
exculpate Answer: to exonerate, to clear of blame
exigent Answer: urgent
extemporaneous Answer: improvised
filibuster Answer: long speech making to delay legislative action
fulminate Answer: to loudly attack or denounce
ingenuous Answer: artless, frank and candid
inured Answer: accustomed to accepting something undesirable
irascible Answer: easily angered
magnanimity Answer: the quality of being generally noble in mind and heart
noxious Answer: harmful, injurious
obtuse Answer: lacking sharpness of intellect
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, obviate Answer: to anticipate and make unnecessary
onerous Answer: troublesome, burdensome
paean Answer: a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
perfidy Answer: intentional breach of faith
perfunctory Answer: cursory, done w/o care or interest
perspicacious Answer: acutely perceptive
prevaricate Answer: to deliberately avoid the truth, to mislead
refute Answer: to disprove
solicitous Answer: concerned and attentive, eager
stymic Answer: to block, to thwart
tortuous Answer: winding, excessively complicated
truculent Answer: eager to fight, fierce and cruel
abate Answer: to lessen in intensity or degree
ascetic Answer: one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. w/ religion
avarice Answer: greed, esp. for wealth
chary Answer: wary, cautious
cogent Answer: appealing forcibly to the mind or reason
contrite Answer: regretful; seeking forgiveness
dearth Answer: smallness of quality or number
emollient Answer: soothing, esp. to skin
incipient Answer: beginning to come into being or to become apparent
inert Answer: unmoving, lethargic
odious Answer: evoking intense aversion or dislike
penurious Answer: penny pinching, not generous
pernicious Answer: extremely harmful, potentially causing death
pious Answer: extremely reverent or devout (religion)
prodigious Answer: abundant in size, force, or extent, extraordinary
quaff Answer: to drink deeply
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GUIDE WITH 100% ACCURATE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS |
ACE EVERY TEST | GUARANTEED EXCELLENCE.
abscond Answer: to depart clandestinely
alacrity Answer: eager willingness
approbation Answer: an expression of approval or praise
austere Answer: w/o adornment
canonical Answer: following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
capricious Answer: inclined to change one's mind impulsively
censure Answer: to criticize severely
chicanery Answer: trickery or subterfuge
connoisseur Answer: expert (matters of taste)
discordant Answer: conflicting
effrontery Answer: extreme boldness
ennui Answer: dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
equivocate Answer: to use ambiguous language w/ deceptive intent
exculpate Answer: to exonerate, to clear of blame
exigent Answer: urgent
extemporaneous Answer: improvised
filibuster Answer: long speech making to delay legislative action
fulminate Answer: to loudly attack or denounce
ingenuous Answer: artless, frank and candid
inured Answer: accustomed to accepting something undesirable
irascible Answer: easily angered
magnanimity Answer: the quality of being generally noble in mind and heart
noxious Answer: harmful, injurious
obtuse Answer: lacking sharpness of intellect
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, obviate Answer: to anticipate and make unnecessary
onerous Answer: troublesome, burdensome
paean Answer: a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
perfidy Answer: intentional breach of faith
perfunctory Answer: cursory, done w/o care or interest
perspicacious Answer: acutely perceptive
prevaricate Answer: to deliberately avoid the truth, to mislead
refute Answer: to disprove
solicitous Answer: concerned and attentive, eager
stymic Answer: to block, to thwart
tortuous Answer: winding, excessively complicated
truculent Answer: eager to fight, fierce and cruel
abate Answer: to lessen in intensity or degree
ascetic Answer: one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. w/ religion
avarice Answer: greed, esp. for wealth
chary Answer: wary, cautious
cogent Answer: appealing forcibly to the mind or reason
contrite Answer: regretful; seeking forgiveness
dearth Answer: smallness of quality or number
emollient Answer: soothing, esp. to skin
incipient Answer: beginning to come into being or to become apparent
inert Answer: unmoving, lethargic
odious Answer: evoking intense aversion or dislike
penurious Answer: penny pinching, not generous
pernicious Answer: extremely harmful, potentially causing death
pious Answer: extremely reverent or devout (religion)
prodigious Answer: abundant in size, force, or extent, extraordinary
quaff Answer: to drink deeply
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