| chary |
cautious wary |
| cloture |
closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting |
| coeval |
of the same period coexisting |
| countervail |
counterbalance |
| desuetude |
cessation of use disuse |
| edacious |
voracious devouring |
| encomium |
warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric |
| epicurean |
devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment) |
| expatiate |
to roam wander freely |
| expiation |
ending expiring |
| exscind |
to cut out cut away |
| facetious |
humorous funny jocular |
| finical |
too fussy about food clothing etc. |
| foment |
put smth warm (to lessen the pain) (i always thought of this as fomenting rebellion) |
| froward |
intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn |
| fulmination |
bitter protest |
| gaucherie |
socially awkward tactless behavior |
| hermetic |
sealed by fusion (don’t think of mages) |
| imbroglio |
complicated and embarrassing situation |
| inchoate |
not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary |
| limn |
paint portray |
| lucubrate |
write in scholarly fashion |
| luculent |
easily understood lucid clear |
| macerate |
make or become soft by soaking in water |
| maladroit |
tactless clumsy |
| minatory |
menacing threatening |
| nostrum |
a quack remedy an untested cure |
| nugatory |
trifling/worthless |
| obloquy |
abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation |
| odium |
contempt dislike aversion |
| opprobrious |
showing scorn or reproach |
| paean |
song of praise or triumph |
| palliate |
lessen the severity of |
| panegyric |
formal praise eulogy |
| peccadillo |
small sin small weakness in one’s character |
| peregrination |
traveling about wandering |
| picaresque |
involving clever rogues or adventurers |
| piquant |
agreeably pungent stimulating |
| probity |
uprightness incorruptibility principle |
| prolix |
tiring because too long |
| propinquity |
nearness in time or place affinity of nature |
| provident |
frugal looking to the future |
| puissance |
strength |
| pusillanimous |
cowardly craven |
| quotidian |
banal everyday |
| raconteur |
person who tells anecdotes |
| recidivism |
relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
| recondite |
little known abstruse |
| recreancy |
cowardice a cowardly giving up |
| refractory |
stubborn unmanageable untractable |
| repine |
at be discontented with |
| restive |
refusing to move reluctant to be controlled |
| salubrious |
healthful |
| salutary |
remedial wholesome causing improvement |
| saturnine |
gloomy dark sullen morose |
| sedulous |
persevering |
| sententious |
short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs |
| sere |
make hard and without feeling |
| somatic |
of the body |
| turpitude |
wickedness shamefulness |
| tyro |
tiro beginner |
| virago |
a loud domineering woman a scold or nag |
| vitiate |
lower the quality weaken the strength |
2 comments
jessa bitanga
2008-04-23T07:54:04Zhey! i'm planning on taking the GRE for graduate studies. i was wondering if you know of any good review centers here in the philippines besides kaplan?
thanks! :)
Sacha Chua
2008-04-27T03:52:07ZCan't say I do. I just browsed the Web for tips. I can't remember if I ended up buying a book about it, even...