GRE Vocabulary List [https://www.msu.edu/~defores1/gre/vocab/gre_vocab.htm]
Dictionary.com [http://dictionary.reference.com/]
- Innocuous
- attenuate - to reduce, weaken
- convoke - to call together
- vacillate - swing
- limber - flexible
- convoke - to call together
- reprove
- sartorial - relating to tailoring
- throng - multitude, crowd
- ponderous
- impenitent
- clandestine
- indignation
- propitious
- loquacious
- ubiquities - ubiquity
- inimical
- nefarious
- engender
- recluse
- unbeknownst
- aforementioned
- debilitating
- parsimonious
- placate
- obstreperous (unruly) heard on Conan
- pedantic
- encapsulate (good will hunting)
- Peccadillo (good will hunting)
- largess (mad men)
- deride (costanza)
- fastidious (nigella and chilli seeds)
- vociferous (nigella : vociferous tang)
- Deliquescent and smelly - gorgonzola
- amalgamated
- convivial (Nigella - 'a mean that is convivial' - abt fondue)
- Exuberantly
- Astringency
- Imbue
- Imparts its wonderful flavor
- The bowl that bolsters (Ragu)
- Rapaciousness ( tear lettuce rapaciously apart)
- hermetic - tight seal (barefoot contessa, eggs have a hermetic seal)
- esoteric - (how's that for an esoteric fact - ina garten)
- dissident
- incapacitate
- unnerving
- cavalier (Juno)
- Impertinant
- Ameliotate not exacerbate
- Foment
- Gluttonous - voracious
- Disinterested - unbiased
- Prophetic = predictive
- Imbibe = drink
- Adumbration
- Categorically = unconditionally
- precarious (This sauce is in a precarious place)
- Vernacular
- afformentioned
- Emphatically
- succinct - terse - curt - concise - laconic - pithy
- Lascivious - salacious - licentious - libertine - hedonist
- Acumen (Ex. Business acumen)
- ephemeral - fleeting - transient - transitory - fugacious
- dilettante - tyro - amateur
- sense of entitlement /ownership/ posession
- sycophant
- culminate vs compilation
- obstreperous (Conan feeling obstreperous)
- euphonious (canorous) opposite to cacophonous
- bonhomie (Renaissance Festival)
- curmudgeon (Old man from 'Up')
- magnanimous vs megalomaniac
- peripatetic (Obama's peripatetic lifestyle as a child)
- Neolithic Man (biji)
- Collaborate
- Personify | Embody or Embodiment | Quintessential
- The used car salesman used chicanery to bilk the potential buyers, but they circumspected