GRE Advanced Word Test

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cohorts

v. give in; surrender

v. approve; ratify

n. balance; balancing force

n. armed band

aggregate

adj. rosy; optimistic

adj. hollow

n. excess; overabundance

n. sum; total

odious

n. wild tumult

adj. depressed; gloomy

adj. hateful

n. subordinate possessions

interminable

adj. endless

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

adj. expedient; prudent

v. soothe

random

v. move faster

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

adj. two-chambered, as a legislative body

v. increase

sectarian

adj. truthful

adj. narrow-minded; limited in scope

n. questionable medicine

adj. inconspicuous; not blatant

braggart

n. distance around something; circumference

v. join together, unite

n. boaster

adj. praising

parley

v. put under a spell; carry away with emotion

adj. indecent; obscene

n. conference

v. endure the effects of weather or other forces

dispel

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

v. make hostile; separate

v. scatter; drive away

adj. shining

annihilate

n. use of force

v. destroy

adj. causing plague; baneful

adj. profitable

behoove

n. armed band

v. plunder

v. be suited to; be incumbent upon

v. show clearly

fulminate

v. state without proof

n. person of prominence or influence

v. thunder; explode

adj. superficial; not thorough

satyr

adj. naive; young and unsophisticated

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

v. work laboriously; make slow painful progress

n. informal discussion

runic

n. effort; expenditure of much physical work

adj. requiring sitting

adj. mysterious; set down in an ancient alphabet

v. consider; ponder

philatelist

v. pretend; conceal by feigning

adj. swift; momentarily brilliant

adj. dirty; neglected

n. stamp-collector

harbinger

v. issue forth

v. harass, annoy, torment; raid

n. forerunner

v. shorten; reduce

mollify

adj. unoriginal; obtained from another source

n. mechanism that imitates actions of humans

v. soothe

n. prototype; primitive pattern

baffle

v. appease

v. frustrate; perplex

v. related linguistically; allied by blood

n. learned Hindu; any learned person

toga

n. fortress

n. Roman outer robe

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

n. pedestal; raised platform

analgesic

n. someone who wastes money

n. hermit

adj. causing insensitivity to pain

adj. ghastly

defeatist

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

n. substance causing vomiting

adj. twisted; with a humorous twist

v. degrade; humiliate

reconcile

v. correct inconsistencies; become friendly after a quarrel

n. supplicatory prayer

v. avoid committing oneself; gain time

adj. without feeling

inundate

v. overflow; flood

adj. mild; fragrant

n. deification; glorification

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

actuarial

n. spur; motive

adj. calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics

n. misgivings

adj. dark; vague

atrophy

n. wasting away

n. study of insects

v. commence; go on board a boat

adj. hairy

dawdle

n. mixture of writings on various subjects

adj. loud and harsh

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

v. loiter; waste time

stilted

n. a small allowance or wage

adj. poisonous

adj. bombastic; stiffly pompous

adj. all-powerful

bigotry

v. enlarge

adj. sheer; transparent

n. stubborn intolerance

n. food

exacerbate

n. wrong name; incorrect designation

v. worsen; embitter

n. motion; gesture

v. pare; cut off bits

disfigure

n. long, eventful journey

n. moving force; incentive

v. mar the appearance of; spoil

n. missile

recuperate

v. recover

adj. pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state

v. ostracize; banish

v. to wind or turn in its course

redundant

v. suppress; extinguish

v. bear fruit

adj. superfluous; excessively wordy

adj. deep-rooted; habitual

foist

v. set free

v. lessen in value

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

v. insert improperly; palm off

faze

n. savor; enjoy

n. conceit; vanity

adj. relating to cooking

v. disconcert; dismay

spatula

n. idle person; male bee

n. significance

v. deprive of a civil right

n. broad-bladed instrument used for spreading or mixing

temporal

v. surrender

adj. not lasting forever; limited by time

adj. keen; shrewd

v. bring upon oneself

discombobulated

adj. confused; discomposed

adj. pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state

ad. apart; reserved

n. devoutness; reverence for God

intermittent

v. pardon (an offense)

adj. moved by sexual love; loving

adj. periodic; on and off

n. precision; minute distinction

hinterlands

adj. idealistic but impractical

n. back country

adj. wild; sensational

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

militant

adj. bloody

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

adj. combative; bellicose

adj. regretful; sorrowful

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