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GRE Vocab: Hit Parade Group 3

zealous

adj. fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause (a zealot is a zealous person)

transient

adj. fleeting; passing quickly; brief

tirade

n. a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation

tenuous

adj. having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak

tenacity

n. the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination (adj. form: tenacious)

surfeit

n./v. an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess

superfluous

adj. exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

succinct

adj. brief; concise

subpoena

n. a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

spurious

adj. lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit

specious

adj. seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false

solvent

adj. able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve anther substance

salubrious

adj. promoting health or well-being

rhetoric

n. the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion

reverent

adj. marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect (n. form: reverence)

rescind

v. to invalidate; to repeal; to retract

repudiate

v. to refuse to have anything to do with; disown

recalcitrant

adj. obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage

rancorous

adj. characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment (n. form: rancor)

querulous

adj. prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish

queries

n. questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations

proliferate

v. to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly

profuse

adj. given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant

prodigal

adj. recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish

polemical

adj. controversial; argumentative

plummet

v. to plunge or drop straight down

platitude

n. a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful

placate

v. to appease; to calm by making concessions

pithy

adj. precise and brief

pith

n. the essential or central part

pirate

v. to illegally use or reproduce

pine

v. to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor

pervasive

adj. having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout

penury

n. poverty; destitution

pedantic

adj. overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge

pedagogy

n. the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing

opprobrium

n. disgrace; contempt; scorn

occlude

v. to obstruct or block

obsequious

adj. exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

obdurate

adj. unyielding; hardhearted; intractable

mitigate

v. to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate

misanthrope

n. one who hates all other humans (adj. form: misanthropic)

meticulous

adj. characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail

mendacity

n. the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty (adj. form: mendacious)

malleable

adj. capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable

malevolent

adj. having or showing often vicious ill will spite, or hatred (n. form: malevolence)

luminous

adj. characterized by brightness and the emission of light

loquacious

adj. extremely talkative (n. form: loquacity)

insipid

adj. without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland

infelicitous

adj. unfortunate; inappropriate

inchoate

adj. in an initial stage; not fully formed

impunity

n. immunity from punishment or penalty

implacable

adj. not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

imperturbable

adj. marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness

impassive

adj. revealing no emotion

idolatrous

adj. given to intense or excessive devotion to something (n. form: idolatry)

iconoclast

n. one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

hegemony

n. the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others

hedonism

n. devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses (a hedonist is someone who pursues pleasure)

halcyon

adj. calm and peaceful

hackneyed

adj. rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

grandiloquence

n. pompous speech or expression (adj. form: grandiloquent)

germane

adj. relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter

fortuitous

adj. happening by accident or chance

fervent

adj. greatly emotional or zealous (n. form: fervor)

exacerbate

v. to make worse or more severe

evanescent

adj. tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

endemic

adj. characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people

eccentric

adj. departing from norms or conventions

dissemble

v. to disguise or conceal; to mislead

diatribe

n. a harsh denunciation

bombastic

adj. pompous; grandiloquent (n. form: bombast)

bolster

v. to provide support or reinforcement

aver

v. to state as a fact; to declare or assert

archaic

adj. outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time

amalgamate

v. to combine several elements into a whole (n. form: amalgamation)

adulterate

v. to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

acumen

n. keen, accurate judgment or insight

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