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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
jul 15 2009 ∞
sep 3 2011 +