Difficult GRE Words
List of Words from Video:
1. pontify = express opinion in pompous and dogmatic way
2. to pummel = 1. Strike repeatedly with fists 2. Criticize severely
3. to purge = 1. Get rid of unwanted feeling, memory, condition 2. Physically remove something completely
4. effulgent = radiant, Refulgent = gleaming = shining brightly (refulgent sun) 5. Dialectic = reasoning, argumentation, dialogue, debate
6. Indictment = charge or accusation
7. to frustrate also means to “block” or to “thwart” (she wanted to act but they frustrated her plans)
8. to brook = to tolerate = countenance (countenance also means face)
9. rapturous = characterized by great pleasure or enthusiasm
10. Stanch = check the flow (generally of blood)
11. To sequester = to isolate, separate, seclude, segregate, keep apart
12. Bequeath = leave to someone by means of a will
13. To raze = to scuttle (NOT whittle = peel or trim) = to completely destroy or flatten, = to ruin, wreck, thwart (thwart = hinder/obstruct)
14. To Renege = to go back on a promise
15. Macerate = soften by soaking in liquid
16. to gambol = to leap playfully, to skip about
17. glib (adjective) = speaking easily and without sincerity and with shallowness (you are a glib talker. You should become a politician.)
18. precipitous = 1. Dangerously steep, high and sharp (track skirted a precipitous drop) 2. Action done suddenly without caution or consideration 19. vamoose = depart hurriedly (we’d better vamoose before we’re caught) 20. depravity = extreme wickedness
21. Scrumptious = delicious (of food), gorgeous or attractive (NOT SUMPTUOUS = LAVISH AND RICH)
22. Calumny (noun) = slander = libel = defamation = character assassination = making of a false statement meant to injure a person’s reputation
23. Redress = 1. Remedy 2. Compensation
24. Welter = confusion, chaos, mess, jumble, to welter = to wallow = to roll around
25. To wallow also means to bask (to wallow in the luxury of the hotel)
26. to wean = 1. to cause someone to give up a cherished activity (doctor tried to wean her off the sleeping pills) 2. Be strongly influenced by something from early age (I was weaned on a regular diet of Hollywood fantasy)
27. to commandeer = to take possession of someone’s private property for public use
28. Incendiary = 1. Designed to cause fire (incendiary bombs) 2. Tending to stir up conflict, provocative
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