GRE Vocabulary

Enthusiastic praise or applause

Something that causes needless fear or anxiety

Pompous, inflated language that sounds impressive but means little

Arrogant and dismissive of those considered inferior

Lacking courage; cowardly

To expel a lawyer from the legal profession officially

Of or containing iron

A state of temporary suspension or inactivity

To produce offspring; to reproduce

A soft, gentle breeze

Impossible to avoid or escape; inevitable

Savage, cruel, or beast-like in behaviour

Lacking knowledge or awareness; ignorant

To break or split apart, especially by force; to separate

To read a text carefully to find and correct errors

Inciting rebellion against authority

Relating to typography or the printing of text

A Renaissance vocal piece for several unaccompanied voices

A person with a strong appreciation for beauty and art

Free of charge; without payment

Inclined to mutiny; rebellious against authority

Extremely stupid or foolish

The quality of being precise and accurate

An oil well with a strong natural flow; a person who gushes with excessive enthusiasm

A halo or ring of light around a holy figure or celestial body

To discipline or punish to bring about improvement; to humble

Living in trees; relating to trees

Unfair bias toward one side; a special fondness for something

To deviate from course by rotating on a vertical axis (v.); such a deviation (n.)

The most perfect example or purest essence of something

An inexperienced or naive newcomer

Difficult to understand; obscure and complex

Polite, honourable, and gallant, especially towards women

To gradually pay off a debt over time

To protest loudly and angrily against something

To scold or criticize severely

Lacking moral restraint; recklessly devoted to pleasure

Of great variety; made up of many different kinds

Too ready to believe things without sufficient evidence; gullible

An animal's elongated snout or tube-like mouthpart; a large nose

Disreputable or undesirable people; the rabble

To merge or combine different things into one

A person who has renounced their religion or beliefs; guilty of apostasy

To spoil or impair; to corrupt morally; to invalidate legally

Out of place; not compatible or harmonious

An unimportant person; the state of nonexistence

Great public shame or disgrace

Causing tissue to contract; sharp or severe; a substance with this effect