GRE Advanced Word Test

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inundate

n. deification; glorification

v. overflow; flood

adj. mild; fragrant

n. person concerned with the interrelationship between living organisms and their environment

behoove

v. show clearly

n. armed band

v. plunder

v. be suited to; be incumbent upon

bigotry

adj. sheer; transparent

n. stubborn intolerance

n. food

v. enlarge

baffle

v. related linguistically; allied by blood

v. appease

v. frustrate; perplex

n. learned Hindu; any learned person

dawdle

adj. loud and harsh

v. loiter; waste time

adj. pertaining to a bishop or pope; pompous or pretentious

n. mixture of writings on various subjects

interminable

adj. endless

v. soothe

v. arrange (laws, rules) as a code; classify

adj. expedient; prudent

spatula

n. broad-bladed instrument used for spreading or mixing

n. idle person; male bee

n. significance

v. deprive of a civil right

actuarial

adj. dark; vague

n. misgivings

adj. calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics

n. spur; motive

aggregate

adj. rosy; optimistic

n. excess; overabundance

adj. hollow

n. sum; total

faze

n. conceit; vanity

n. savor; enjoy

v. disconcert; dismay

adj. relating to cooking

satyr

n. half-human, half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus, portrayed as wanton and cunning

n. informal discussion

v. work laboriously; make slow painful progress

adj. naive; young and unsophisticated

analgesic

adj. causing insensitivity to pain

adj. ghastly

n. hermit

n. someone who wastes money

random

v. move faster

v. increase

adj. two-chambered, as a legislative body

adj. without definite purpose, plan, or aim; haphazard

atrophy

n. study of insects

n. wasting away

adj. hairy

v. commence; go on board a boat

dispel

v. make hostile; separate

adj. shining

v. scatter; drive away

adj. played in an abrupt manner; marked by abrupt, sharp sound

braggart

v. join together, unite

n. distance around something; circumference

adj. praising

n. boaster

recuperate

v. recover

v. ostracize; banish

v. to wind or turn in its course

adj. pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state

discombobulated

n. devoutness; reverence for God

adj. pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state

adj. confused; discomposed

ad. apart; reserved

militant

adj. regretful; sorrowful

adj. bloody

adj. combative; bellicose

adj. having many talents; capable of working in many fields

odious

adj. hateful

n. subordinate possessions

n. wild tumult

adj. depressed; gloomy

intermittent

adj. moved by sexual love; loving

v. pardon (an offense)

n. precision; minute distinction

adj. periodic; on and off

annihilate

n. use of force

adj. profitable

v. destroy

adj. causing plague; baneful

foist

n. imitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing

v. insert improperly; palm off

v. set free

v. lessen in value

redundant

adj. superfluous; excessively wordy

v. bear fruit

v. suppress; extinguish

adj. deep-rooted; habitual

temporal

v. bring upon oneself

adj. not lasting forever; limited by time

adj. keen; shrewd

v. surrender

runic

adj. mysterious; set down in an ancient alphabet

n. effort; expenditure of much physical work

adj. requiring sitting

v. consider; ponder

exacerbate

v. worsen; embitter

v. pare; cut off bits

n. wrong name; incorrect designation

n. motion; gesture

toga

n. fortress

adj. after death (as of child born after father's death or book published after author's death)

n. pedestal; raised platform

n. Roman outer robe

philatelist

adj. dirty; neglected

adj. swift; momentarily brilliant

n. stamp-collector

v. pretend; conceal by feigning

hinterlands

n. bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together

n. back country

adj. wild; sensational

adj. idealistic but impractical

stilted

n. a small allowance or wage

adj. bombastic; stiffly pompous

adj. poisonous

adj. all-powerful

reconcile

n. supplicatory prayer

adj. without feeling

v. avoid committing oneself; gain time

v. correct inconsistencies; become friendly after a quarrel

mollify

n. mechanism that imitates actions of humans

n. prototype; primitive pattern

v. soothe

adj. unoriginal; obtained from another source

defeatist

adj. resigned to defeat; accepting defeat as a natural outcome

v. degrade; humiliate

n. substance causing vomiting

adj. twisted; with a humorous twist

cohorts

v. give in; surrender

n. balance; balancing force

n. armed band

v. approve; ratify

sectarian

adj. inconspicuous; not blatant

n. questionable medicine

adj. narrow-minded; limited in scope

adj. truthful

disfigure

n. long, eventful journey

n. missile

v. mar the appearance of; spoil

n. moving force; incentive

fulminate

adj. superficial; not thorough

n. person of prominence or influence

v. state without proof

v. thunder; explode

harbinger

v. issue forth

v. harass, annoy, torment; raid

n. forerunner

v. shorten; reduce

parley

v. put under a spell; carry away with emotion

v. endure the effects of weather or other forces

adj. indecent; obscene

n. conference

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