WORDS SEARCHED PART III (words encountered
while doing GRE words 1A)
1.
Repugnant:
Offensive to the mind
a.
Morally repugnant customs
2.
Prejudiced:
Emanating from a person’s emotions and prejudices;
a.
Being biased or having a belief or attitude
formed beforehand
b.
A prejudiced judge
c.
Discriminatory prepossessed
d.
Type of: disadvantaged disfavoured influenced
worked
3.
Emanate:
Proceed or issue forth, as from a source; Water emanates from this hole
a.
Give out (breath or odour); the chimney emanates
a thick smoke
b.
Exhaling giving-forth
c.
Type of: breathing coming coming-up emitting
passing-off
4.
Fervent:
Characterized by intense emotion; A fervent desire to change society
a.
Extremely hot; the fervent heat.
5.
Proponent:
A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
a.
Advocate advocator exponent
6.
Propound:
Put forward an idea
7.
Servitude:
State of subjection to an owner, master or forced labour imposed as punishment
a.
Bondage slavery thraldom thrall
8.
Thrall:
the state of being under the control of another person
a.
Bondage slavery
9.
Conflagrate:
Cause to start burning; kindle
10.
Bane:
Something causing misery or death
11.
Defrayal:
The act of paying money
12.
Chisel:
(N) edge tool for cutting
a.
(V) Engage in deceitful behaviour; deprive
somebody of something by deceit
13.
Thwart:
Hinder or prevent the effort of
a.
Thwart your opponent
14.
Queer:
(V) Hinder or prevent the effort of
a.
(N) Homosexual
15.
Sire:
make children
a.
(N) Founder of a family; male parent especially
domestic animal
16.
Baffling:
Hard to comprehend solve or believe
17.
Sophistry:
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope
of deceiving someone
18.
Knobbed:
Have sexual intercourse
19.
Snarly:
tied in knots or snarl= utter in anger; make snarling noise; entwine into a
confusing mass;
a.
(N) Something jumbled or confused; A snarl of
government regulations.
20.
Felony:
a serious crime
21.
Infringement:
an act that disregards an agreement or a right;
a.
Infraction=a crime less serious than a felony
22.
Grovel:
Show submission of fear
23.
Cringe:
Draw back, as with fear or pain; she cringed when they showed the slaughtering
of the calf.
24.
Ameliorate/meliorate:
to make better; the editor ameliorated the manuscript with his changes
a.
Get better; the weather ameliorated toward
evening.
25.
Haranguer:
a public speaker who delivers a loud, forceful or angry speech
a.
Orator public-speaker rhetorician speechifier
speechmaker
26.
Rhetorician:
a person who delivers a speech or oration; an articulate rhetorician
27.
Rant/ranting: a loud bombastic declamation
expressed with strong emotion
a.
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
b.
(V) talk in a noisy, excited or declamatory
manner.
c.
Blah bombast claptrap fustian harangue jabber
mouth-off rabbit-on ranting rave spout
28.
Pompous:
puffed up with vanity= Feeling of excessive pride; false pride
a.
Characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately
display; A pompous speech
b.
Ceremonious grandiloquent overblown pontifical
portentous
29.
Pretentious:
Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or
distinction
a.
Intended to attract notice and impress others
30.
Kitsch:
Excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste.
a.
Tawdry or vulgar
31.
Counterbalance:
to adjust for; oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
a.
This will counterbalance the foolish actions of
my colleagues
32.
Quash:
put down by force or intimidation; the government quashes any attempt of an
uprising.
33.
[Public]Prosecutor/prosecuting
attorney/officer: (law) a government official who conducts
criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
a.
The prosecutor had a moral certainty that the
prisoner was guilty.
34.
Attorney:
A professional person authorized to practice law, conduct lawsuits or give
legal advice
35.
Permeate:
Spread or diffuse through, Pass through
a.
An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this
administration.
b.
Diffused filtered imbued interpenetrated
penetrated percolated pervaded riddled sank-in
36.
Riddled:
(often followed by 'with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes.
a.
A sweater riddled with moth holes
37.
Revoke:
(V) Cancel officially; He revoked his ban on smoking;
a.
Fail to follow suit when able and required to do
so.
b.
(N) The mistake of not following suit when able
to do so.
c.
Annul countermand lift overturn renege repeal
rescind reverse vacate
38.
Credulous:
Disposed to believe on little evidence; Showing a lack of judgement or
experience
a.
So credulous, he believes on everything he
reads.
b.
Credible naive naïf over-credulous trustful
trusting unquestioning
39.
Conundrum:
a difficult problem
a.
Brain-teaser enigma riddle problem
40.
Presage:
Be a sign of something to come, esp. something important or bad; these signs
presage bad news.
a.
Augur auspicate bode forecast foreshadow
foretell foretoken omen portend portent predict prefigure prodigy prognostic
41.
Herald:
(formal) a person who announces important news; he had a herald who announced
the news.
a.
Something that precedes and indicates the
approach of something or someone
b.
(V) Foreshadow or presage; praise vociferously;
greet enthusiastically or joyfully
42.
Vociferous:
Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; A vociferous mob
a.
Blatant clamant clamorous strident
43.
Blatant:
Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; Blatant disregard of
law
44.
Snout,
hooter, schnoz: Informal term for the nose
45.
Adultery:
Extramarital sex that wilfully and maliciously interferes with marriage
relations
46.
Blazing:
Shining intensely; without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
a.
A blazing indiscretion=The trait of being
injudicious
47.
Penance:
Remorse for your past conduct
48.
Remit:
Send (money) in payment; Remit Rupees 1000
a.
Hold back to later time; let’s remit the exam
b.
Release from; their taxes were remitted
49.
Remission:
An abatement= (to lessen) in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a
disease); His cancer is in remission
a.
A payment of money sent to a person in another
place; the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a
priest in the sacrament of penance
50.
Salvation:
The state of being saved or preserved from harm; saving someone or something
from harm or from an unpleasant situation
a.
The salvation of his party was the president's
major concern
51.
Obstinate:
Resistant to guidance or discipline; tending to do the opposite of what is
normal or wanted
a.
An obstinate child with a violent temper.
52.
Specious
argument: An argument that appears
good at first view but is really fallacious
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