Set: GRE Extra Vocabulary: G-P

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Term Definition
Gainsay to deny; to speak or act against
Gambit a scheme to gain an advantage; a ploy
Genial cheerful and pleasant; friendly; helpful
Gratis free of charge
Gratuitous given freely; unjustified; unprovoked; uncalled for
Guile cunning; duplicity; artfulness
Harbinger a forerunner; a signal of
Hermetic Impervious to external influence; airtight
Idyllic charming in a rustic way; naturally peaceful
Ignominy deep disgrace
Impromptu w/o preparation; on the spur of the moment
Impugn to attack as false or questionable
Incandescent brilliant; giving off heat or light
Incipient beginning; emerging
Incorrigible incapable of being reformed
Indolent lazy
Indulgent lenient; yielding to desire
Ineluctable inescapable; unavoidable
Inept clumsy; incompetent
Inexorable relentless; inevitable; unavoidable
inherent part of the essential nature of something; intrinsic
inundate to flood; to overwhelm
Inveterate habitual; deeply rooted
Judicious exercising sound judgment
Lament to mourn
Largess liberality in giving gifts; money or gifts bestowed; generosity of attitude
Lascivious lustful; obscene; lewd
Latent present but a not visible or apparent; potential
Levee an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river
Levity lightness; frivolity; unseriousness
Magnate a rich, powerful, or very successful business person
Licentious lascivious; lewd; promiscuous; amoral
Manifest visible; evident
Maudlin tearfully sentimental; silly or weepy
Maxim a fundamental principle; an old saying
Mendicant a begar
Motility spontaneous movement
Noisome offensive or disgusting; stinking; noxious
Nominal in name only; insignificant
Novel new; original
Oblique indirect; at an angle
Palliate to make less severe or intense; to make an offense seem less serious
Panacea something that cures everything
Paradigm a model or example
Paradox a true statement or phenomenon that seems to contradict itself
Parsimonious stingy; miserly
Partisan having a bias in support of a party, group or cause
Patina surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation
Paucity scarcity
Pedestrian unoriginal; banal
Perturb to disturb greatly
Piquant pleasantly pungent or tart
Placid pleasantly calm; peaceful
Plaintive expressing sadness or sorrow
Plumb to measure the depth of something
Portent an omen; a sign of something coming in the future
Precipitous steep
Presage to portend; to foreshadow; to forecast or predict
Privation lack of comforts or necessities; poverty
Provincial limited in outlook to one's own small corner of the world; narrow
Prurient having lustful thoughts or desires; causing lust
Putative commonly accepted; supposed; reputed

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Terms 62
Creator apt223
Created August 14, 2008
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Subjects gre, vocabulary, test
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G-P word: 200 good words for the GRE by Princeton

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apt223 : Changed Incorrible → incapable of being reformed to Incorrigible → incapable of being reformed
apt223 : Changed Ignonminy → deep disgrace to Ignominy → deep disgrace
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  1. Ignominy → deep disgrace - 4 misses
  2. Impugn → to attack as false or questionable - 3 misses
  3. Privation → lack of comforts or necessities; poverty - 3 misses
  4. Genial → cheerful and pleasant; friendly; helpful - 3 misses
  5. Putative → commonly accepted; supposed; reputed - 2 misses
  6. Plaintive → expressing sadness or sorrow - 2 misses
  7. Paradigm → a model or example - 1 miss