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SS GRE 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| vagrant | Definition: a beggar, a wanderer, a person who has no place to live, no job, and asks people for money Usage: Related words: medicant More Info: |
| mendicant | Definition: a beggar, someone who lives by asking for money or food, often part of an order Usage: Related words: vagrant More Info: don't confuse with medicant (medicine) |
| myrmidon | Definition: a subordinate that obeys unquestioningly or unscrupulously; a hired ruffian; Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| proselyte | Definition: A new convert; a person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| malefactor | Definition: Someone who is guilty of a crime/offense; a person whose behavior is wrong or evil Usage: Related words: criminal, immoralist, flagitious (adjective) More Info: similar: malevaction (noun) an evil deed |
| crotchet | Definition: an unfounded belief or notion; a highly individual or eccentric preference Usage: Related words: quiddity More Info: |
| awl | Definition: small, pointed tool used for making surfaces or piercing small holes Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| apogree | Definition: the highest or farthest point of something Usage: Related words: climax, culmination, acme, apex, zenith More Info: |
| nadir | Definition: the worst or lowest point of something Usage: Related words: bottom, zero More Info: |
| opus | Definition: an important work done by an artist, especially a musical composition Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| commodiousness | Definition: noun, something that is comfortably or conveniently spacious Usage: Related words: capacious, spacious More Info: commodious (adj), commodiously (adv) |
| propinquity | Definition: kinship; proximity Usage: Related words: contiguity, immediacy More Info: |
| circumambulate | Definition: verb, to circle on foot Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| euphony | Definition: pleasing or sweet sound; succession of words having a pleasing sound Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| effulgent | Definition: adjective, radiant spendor Usage: Related words: refulgent, candor More Info: |
| epaulet | Definition: a decorative piece on the shoulder of a uniform Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| proscribe | Definition: verb, to make something illegal, to condemn or forbid Usage: Related words: enjoin, interdict More Info: |
| palliate | Definition: make the effects of something less painful, harmful, or harsh; moderate the intensity of Usage: Related words: extenuate, deodorize More Info: |
| conoscente | Definition: a person who has expert knowledge in a subject Usage: Related words: connoisseur, dilettante More Info: |
| illuminati | Definition: any of various groups claiming special religious enlightenment, the elite Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| fungible | Definition: replaceable Usage: Related words: interchangeable, flexible, commmutable More Info: |
| heteromorphic | Definition: deviating from usual form, exhibiting diversity of form Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| sycophantic | Definition: fawning, self-serving flattery Usage: Related words: obsequious More Info: |
| animadversion | Definition: critical remark Usage: Related words: censure (verb) More Info: |
| condign | Definition: deserved, appropriate Usage: Related words: competent More Info: |
| fagitious | Definition: criminal, villainous; marked by scandal Usage: Related words: malefaction More Info: |
| simulacrum | Definition: image, representation ; an insubstantial form or semblance Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| costive | Definition: constipated; slow in action or expression; not generous Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| bathos | Definition: sudden appearance of commonplace in otherwise elevated style; anticlimax (unintentional), exceptional commonplaceness; overdone sappiness Related words: triteness, saccharinity, mawkishness More Info: bathetic (adj), bathetically (adv) |
| tenable | Definition: defensible Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| risible | Definition: silly; provoking laughter Usage: Related words: antic, farcical, riotous More Info: |
| georgic | Definition: dealing with agriculture Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| natty | Definition: neat and clean; trim and fashionable Usage: Related words: dapper More Info: |
| sophistry | Definition: use of reasoning or arguments that sound correct but are actually false Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| grandstand | Definition: to behave in a way intended to impress and get public approval Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| sagacious | Definition: keen in perception ; discerning Usage: Related words: sapient More Info: |
| convalesce | Definition: to become healthy and strong slowly over time after illness, weakness, or injury Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| lionize | Definition: to treat with great interest or importantce Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| impugn | Definition: to criticise by suggesting that someone is false; dispute the truth or validity of; oppose or attack as false Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| incorrigible | Definition: unable to be changed Usage: Related words: inveterate, irremediable More Info: |
| peccadillo | Definition: small, unimportant, not serious mistake or fault Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| insularity | Definition: having a narrow viewpoint; ignorant or uninterested in new ideas, cultures, or people; Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| emend | Definition: to correct errors in Usage: Related words: rectify More Info: |
| allay | Definition: diminish, put to rest; relieve or alleviate, Usage: Related words: assuage, mollify, palliate More Info: |
| edify | Definition: instruct in moral and religious conduct Usage: Related words: uplift, illume More Info: |
| impuissant | Definition: weak or powerless; unable to take effective action Usage: Related words: hamstrung, impotent More Info: |
| toothsome | Definition: tasty; good looking or attractive Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| proleptic | Definition: anticipation, representation before something occurs Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| buttress | Definition: to support, strengthen, or defend Usage: Related words: bolster, undergird More Info: |
| galvanize | Definition: to cause excitement about an issue; to make active; to shock or excite into taking action Usage: Related words: More Info: Also, to coat with zinc |
| tyro | Definition: a beginner Usage: Related words: novice, abecedarian More Info: |
| anchorite | Definition: a recluse, especially for religious reasons Usage: Related words: eremite, hermit More Info: |
| commutation | Definition: a change of punishment to less severe; a substitution of payment Usage: Related words: More Info: also, to reverse an electrical current |
| adduce | Definition: to provide as evidence or proof to support an argument Usage: Related words: instance, cite More Info: |
| mephitic | Definition: stench; especially from the earth; foul-smelling Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| noisome | Definition: Unpleasant or disgusting; noxious or harmful Usage: Related words: insalubrious, mephitic, noxious More Info: |
| scotch | Definition: To put an end to; a superficial cut; wound Usage: Related words: foil, halt More Info: |
| disconsolate | Definition: very unhappy, sad; dejected and downcast Usage: Related words: elegiac, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, tenebrous More Info: |
| inveterate | Definition: always or often happening; habitual; firmly established by persistence Usage: Related words: entrenched More Info: |
| germane | Definition: relating to a subject; relevant and appropriate Usage: Related words: apropos, material, apposite More Info: |
| frangible | Definition: easily broken Usage: Related words: frail, fragile More Info: |
| conflagration | Definition: a disastrous fire; conflict or war Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| juvenescence | Definition: state of being youthful Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| perquisite | Definition: privilege, gain, or profit on top of a regular salary; gratuity, tip; something held or claimed as a right Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| nugatory | Definition: having little or no consequence; having no force Usage: Related words: More Info: |
| argot | Definition: Language used by a particular type or group of people Usage: Related words: patois, cant, jargon NOT: dialect More Info: |
| vituperation | Definition: bitter condemnation; angry criticism Usage: Related words: fulmination, invective, obloquy, scurrility, billingsgate More Info: |
| absruse | Definition: hard to understand; difficult to comprehend Usage: Related words: recondite, arcane, esoteric, hermetic More Info: |
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