GRE WORDS 1A

GRE WORDS 1A

Group 1

1.       Abhor: Find repugnant; hate

a.       She abhors cats

b.      Abominate execrate loathe

c.       Type of: detest hate

2.       Bigot: A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own; Sheldon Cooper

a.       Type of: Drumbeater partisan zealot

3.       Counterfeit: Not genuine; imitating something superior; counterfeit money

a.       A copy that is represented as the original

b.      Make a copy of with the intent to deceive; They counterfeited dollar bills

c.       Fake forge forgery imitative

d.      Type of: imitation

4.       Enfranchise: Grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude; Slaves were enfranchised

a.       Grant voting rights

b.      Affranchise allot allow grant liberate set-free

5.       Hamper: Prevent the progress or free movement of; Hampered by bad weather

a.       Put at a disadvantage; Braces she had to wear hampered her talking.

b.      A basket with a cover.

c.       Bond cramp halter handicap hinder shackle strangle trammel

6.       Kindle: Catch fire, cause to start burning; The dried grass kindled

a.       Call forth (emotions, feelings); Kindle pity

b.      Arouse conflagrate elicit enkindle evoke fire inflame provoke raise

7.       Noxious: Injurious to physical or mental health

a.       Noxious chemical waste

b.      Similar to: Baneful Corrupting deadly degrading harmful pernicious pestilent toxic unwholesome vesicant

8.       Placid: (of a body of water) Free from disturbance by heavy waves; Ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay          

a.       Not easily irritated; Not everyone shared his placid temperament

b.      Equable even-tempered good-tempered quiet smooth still tranquil unruffled

9.       Remuneration: Money that is paid regularly for doing work; Remuneration were paid by cash

a.       The act of paying for goods, services or to recompense for losses

b.      Earnings pay salary wage

c.       Type of: defrayal defrayment payment

10.   Talisman: A trinket or piece of jewellery usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease

a.       Amulet charm good-luck charm

Group 2

1.       Abrasive: Causing abrasion= area where skin is torn off; erosion by friction; wearing down of rock particles

a.       Sharply disagreeable; rigorous; an abrasive character

b.      Abradant abrasive-material harsh scratchy

2.       Bilk: Cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

a.       Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans or desires) of ; Bilk your opponent

b.      Evade payment to; He bilked his creditors

c.       Escape (physically or mentally)

d.      Baffle cross elude evade foil frustrate queer scotch spoil thwart

3.       Covert: Secret or hidden; not openly practised or engaged in or shown; Covert actions by the CIA

a.       (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband; A woman covert

b.      (N) Covering/conceal

c.       Ant: Overt

4.       Engender: Call forth; Give rise to, cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally

a.       Does cloning necessarily engender such confusion?

b.      Beget sire breed bring-forth

5.       Hangar: a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained

a.       Airdock repair-shed

6.       Knotty: Making great mental demands, hard to comprehend, solve or believe; Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

a.       I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast

b.      Baffling Byzantine convoluted elusive gnarled gnarly involved knobbed knotted problematic problematical snarled snarly tangled tortuous tough

7.       Nuance: A subtle difference in meaning, opinion or attitude; without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humour

a.       Nicety refinement shade subtlety

8.       Plagiarism: A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

a.       The act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own

b.      Piracy copyright-infringement

9.       Renown: The state of being well-known and much spoken about; the quality of being famous

a.       Celebrity fame

10.   Tangent: A straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point

a.       A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it; If you speak from notes, remember that it’s easy to get distracted or go off on a tangent

Group 3

1.       Abasement: A low or downcast (emotional) state; each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement.

a.       Depriving one of self-esteem

b.      Abjection degradation humiliation

2.       Billowing: (Adj) Characterized by great swelling waves or surges; the restless billowing sea

a.       (V) Rise up as if in waves; Smoke billowed up into the sky

b.      Rise and move with great difficulty; the soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed

c.       Become inflated; the sails billowed

d.      Ballooning billowy heaving inflating surging wallowing

e.      Type of: blowing-up expanding going inflating locomoting soaring surging travelling zooming.

3.       Cower: Crouch or curl up; they covered outside in the rain.

a.       Show submission of fear.

b.      Crawl creep cringe fawn grovel huddle

c.       Type of: bend bow crouch flex scrooch stoop

4.       Enhance: Add something extra to make more intense or better; this will enhance your enjoyment

a.       Make better or more attractive; this sauce will enhance the flavour of the meat.

b.      Heighten increase raise

c.       Type of: ameliorate amend better compound deepen heighten improve intensify meliorate mend

5.       Harangue: (V) Deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

a.       (N) A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

b.      Rant ranting

c.       Type of: address declamation speak

6.       Labyrinth: Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost. (Labyrinth game)

a.       A complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium

b.      Maze

7.       Nullify: declare invalid; the contract was nullified

a.       Annul void invalidate negate neutralize quash void

8.       Plaintiff: (law) a person who brings an action in a court of law

a.       If an injured plaintiff is treated in hospital as a private patient he is entitled to recover the cost of that treatment.

b.      Prosecutor - complainant - claimant - suitor – accuser

9.       Replete: Filled to satisfaction with food or drink; A replete stomach

a.       (Followed by ‘with’) deeply filled or permeated; it is replete with misery.

10.   Tangible: Perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch; skin with a tangible roughness

a.       Capable of being treated as fact; Tangible evidence

b.      (Of especially business assets) having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value; Tangible property like real estate

c.       Palpable real touchable; Ant: intangible

Group 4

1.       Abrogate: Revoke formally; Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement); the judge would not abrogate the law.

a.       Type of: abolish, get rid of.

2.       Blasphemy: Blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or something sacred)

a.       Blasphemous behaviour; the act of depriving something of its sacred character;

b.      Desecration profanation sacrilege

c.       Type of: discourtesy disrespect irreverence profanity violation

3.       Credible: Capable of being believed; Credible information

a.       Believable Ant: Incredible

4.       Enigma: Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; a difficult problem

a.       Brain-teaser closed-book conundrum mystery riddle secret

b.      Much research is still to be done to resolve the enigma of learning styles.

5.       Harbingers: Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

a.       (V) Foreshadow or presage

b.      Announces annunciates forerunners foretells heralds precursors predecessors

c.       As that country had been a major customer, the tariff soon became the harbinger of doom for much of the south wales industry.

6.       Labyrinthine: Relating to, affecting or originating in the inner ear; labyrinthine deafness

a.       Resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; A labyrinthine network

7.       Nuzzle: move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cosy position; we nuzzled to keep warm

a.       Rub noses;

b.      Dig out with the snout; the pig nuzzled the truffle

c.       Beak honker hooter neb nozzle rostrum schnoz snoot

8.       Plaudit: Enthusiastic approval; he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd

a.       Acclaim éclat

9.       Reprehensible: Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife

a.       Condemnable criminal deplorable vicious

10.   Tardy: After the expected or usual time, delayed; tardy children are sent to the principal

a.       Belated late unpunctual

Group 5

1.       Absolution: The condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance.

a.       Remission remittal redemption salvation

2.       Blatant: Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; blatant disregard of the law

a.       Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; blatant new channels

b.      Blazing clamant clamorous conspicuous strident vociferous

3.       Creditable: Worthy of often limited commendation; the student's effort on the essay--though not outstanding--was creditable

a.       Worthy

4.       Ensconce: Fix firmly; He ensconced himself in the chair

a.       Settle lay place put set

5.       Hasten: Act or move at high speed; we have to hasten

a.       Acceleration expedite hotfoot hurry induce speed-up stimulate zip

6.       Laceration: A torn ragged wound; lacerating=Cut or tear irregularly

                                                              i.      The driver, aged 25, suffered serious facial lacerations.

                                                            ii.      Lesion tear wound

7.       Obdurate: Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.

a.       The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart

b.      Cussed flint flinty granitic obstinate stony unrepentant

8.       Plausible: Apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful; given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments

a.       A plausible excuse

b.      Arguable believable credible glib insincere pat slick

9.       Reprieved: Postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution; Relieve temporarily

a.       Respited

b.      Reprieve from threats of sales call service disruption as the ntp patent case came to a close.

10.   Tawdry: Tastelessly showy, cheap and shoddy

a.       Tawdry moviemaking that feeds on the low taste of the mob

b.      Brassy cheap flash flashy garish gaudy gimcrack loud meretricious shoddy tacky tatty trashy