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GRE Vocab: Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1

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wag (n.)
wit, joker: Groucho Marx was a well-known wag.
waffle (v.)
to equivocate; to change one's position: His detractors say that the President waffles too much; he can never make up his mind.
tender (v.)
to proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation.
table (v.)
to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration: They tabled the motion and will consider it again later.
strut (n.)
the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
steep (v.)
to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep: She was steeped in esoteric knowledge.
stand (n.)
a group of trees
singular (adj.)
exceptional, unusual, odd: He was singularly well-suited for the job.
scurvy (adj.)
contemptible, despicable: He was a scurvy old reprobate.
sap (n.)
a fool or nitwit: Don't be a sap!
sap (v.)
to enervate or weaken the vitality of: That race sapped my strength.
qualify (v.)
to limit: Let me qualify that statement
quail (v.)
to lose courage, turn frightened
rent (v./n.)
torn, past of rend: He rent his garments; an opening or tear caused by such: a large rent in the fabric.
rail (v.)
to complain about bitterly: Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons.
prize (v.)
to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: The information was prized from him.
pluck (n.)
courage, spunk, fortitude: Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war.
plastic (adj.)
moldable, pliable, not rigid
pine (v.)
to lose vigor (as though grief); to earn
pied (adj.)
multicolored, usually in blotches: The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat.
pedestrian (adj.)
commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
occult (adj.)
hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
obtain (adj.)
to be established, accepted, or customary: Those standards no longer obtain.
nice (adj.)
exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction between the two cases.
mince (v.)
pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully: Don't mince words. Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe
milk (v.)
to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of: I milked the position for all it was worth.
meet (adj.)
fitting, proper: It is altogether meet that Jacking Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame.
lumber (v.)
to move heavily and clumsily: Lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers.
list (v.)
a tilt or lean to one side: The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind
intimate (v.)
to imply, suggest, or insinuate: Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?
guy (n./v.)
a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guide.
grouse (v.)
to complain or grumble
ford (v.)
to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
flip (adj.)
sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark
flag (v.)
to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: Think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits
fell
v. to cause to fall by striking: The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees.
exact (v.)
to demand, call for, require, take: Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price.
essay (v.)
to test or try; attempt, experiment: The newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps
die
n. a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
damp
v. to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
consequential
adj. pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)
color (v.)
to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first): Yellow journalism colored the truth.
chauvinist
n. a blindly devoted patriot
cardinal
adj. major, as in cardinal sin
brook
v. to tolerate, endure, countenance
broach
v. bring up, announce, begin to talk about
bent
n. leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency: He had a naturally artistic bent
august
adj. majestic, venerable
arrest, arresting
v./adj. to suspend; to engage; holding one's attentions: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait
appropriate (v.)
to take for one's own use, confiscate
alloy
v. to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure
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