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GRE-Level Vocabulary 2

Seventy more advanced words for graduate-level reading.

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  • insipidWord
    Dull; lacking flavor or interest
  • intractableWord
    Hard to manage or control
  • inveterateWord
    Long-established; habitual
  • irascibleWord
    Easily angered
  • jocularWord
    Fond of joking
  • juxtaposeWord
    To place side by side for contrast
  • kudosWord
    Praise for an achievement
  • lachrymoseWord
    Tearful
  • languidWord
    Slow and relaxed; lacking energy
  • largesseWord
    Generosity in giving money or gifts
  • latentWord
    Present but hidden
  • levityWord
    Lightness of manner; humor at a serious time
  • licentiousWord
    Ignoring accepted rules of conduct
  • limpidWord
    Clear and transparent
  • lionizeWord
    To treat as a celebrity
  • lugubriousWord
    Looking or sounding sad and dismal
  • luminousWord
    Giving off light
  • machinationWord
    A secret scheme
  • malevolentWord
    Wishing harm on others
  • malingerWord
    To pretend illness to avoid work
  • mellifluousWord
    Sweet-sounding
  • mercurialWord
    Subject to sudden changes of mood
  • misanthropeWord
    A person who dislikes humankind
  • mollifyWord
    To soothe
  • multifariousWord
    Having many varied parts
  • myopicWord
    Short-sighted, literally or in thinking
  • nadirWord
    The lowest point
  • nascentWord
    Just coming into existence
  • noxiousWord
    Harmful or poisonous
  • obdurateWord
    Stubbornly refusing to change
  • obfuscateWord
    To make unclear on purpose
  • obsequiousWord
    Overly eager to please
  • obstreperousWord
    Noisy and difficult to control
  • odiousWord
    Extremely unpleasant
  • onerousWord
    Burdensome
  • opprobriumWord
    Public disgrace
  • ossifyWord
    To become rigid or set in one's ways
  • paeanWord
    A song or expression of praise
  • palliateWord
    To ease without curing
  • panaceaWord
    A cure-all
  • paragonWord
    A model of excellence
  • parsimoniousWord
    Extremely unwilling to spend
  • pathologicalWord
    Compulsive; relating to disease
  • paucityWord
    A small amount
  • pedanticWord
    Overly concerned with minor rules or details
  • penchantWord
    A strong liking
  • penuryWord
    Extreme poverty
  • perfidyWord
    Betrayal of trust
  • perfunctoryWord
    Done with little effort or interest
  • perniciousWord
    Quietly and gradually harmful
  • perspicaciousWord
    Having keen insight
  • pertinaciousWord
    Holding stubbornly to a purpose
  • petulantWord
    Childishly bad-tempered
  • philistineWord
    A person with no interest in culture
  • pithWord
    The essential part
  • pithyWord
    Short and full of meaning
  • platitudeWord
    A tired, overused remark
  • plethoraWord
    An excessive amount
  • precipitousWord
    Dangerously steep or sudden
  • probityWord
    Strong moral principles
  • prolixWord
    Wordy
  • propitiousWord
    Favorable
  • quixoticWord
    Idealistic in an impractical way
  • quotidianWord
    Ordinary and daily
  • reconditeWord
    Little known; obscure
  • redolentWord
    Strongly suggestive of a scent or memory
  • rescindWord
    To cancel officially
  • sanguineWord
    Optimistic
  • sardonicWord
    Mocking in a grimly humorous way
  • sedulousWord
    Showing dedication and diligence
  • soporificWord
    Causing sleep
  • sycophantWord
    A person who flatters the powerful to gain favor

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