GRE Vocabulary as Synonyms - Part 7 - Master GRE Vocab Fast
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GRE Vocabulary as Synonyms - Part 7 - Master GRE Vocab Fast
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67. Passionate and enthusiastic: ardent (ardent supporter) = avid = fervent = fervid = fervor = zealous (not zealot) = vehement (passionate) = fierce = fiery, ardor = passionate zeal/love
68. Deceitfulness: duplicity = hypocrisy (double standards) = deceit = deception = double-dealing = underhandedness = dishonesty = disingenuous = falsity = fraud = hoax (counterfeit, fake, fraud) = fraudulence = chicanery = trickery = craft = guile = artifice = subterfuge = skullduggery = treachery = mendacity (adjective is mendacious = lying, dishonest) (not mendicancy = beggary) = perfidy (adjective is perfidious) (deceitful and untrustworthy and disloyal) (it was an example of his perfidy) = improbity (state of being dishonest and immoral, probity is honesty = uprightness) = sophistry (using clever but false arguments to deceive) = vulpine (cunning, fox like) = artful (clever in a cunning way) = wily (cunning, artful), hoodwink (verb) = to bilk = to swindle = to deceive, to cheat , charlatan = a phony expert, to beguile = to mislead or delude, to cheat
69. Complex, complicated and difficult to follow (especially an argument, story or sentence): convoluted = involved = intricate = elaborate = impenetrable (impenetrable also means impervious = unaffected by) = serpentine (like a serpent: complex, cunning and treacherous) = labyrinthine (also means maze-like) = tortuous (also means maze-like (full of twists and turn), winding, curving, indirect) = Byzantine = fiddly = plotty = Daedalian = knotty = tangled = sinuous (zigzagging/winding/twisting/indirect) = circuitous (roundabout/indirect)
70. Congeal = coagulate = clot = thicken = solidify = harden (blood congealed into blobs) = petrify (change to stony substance, also means scare someone so much that they’re unable to move) = ossify (turn into bone) (ossify also means to become inflexible and rigid and stop developing i.e. to stagnate or fossilize)
71. Move/act slowly: dally = dawdle = delay = loiter = linger = lag = trail = straggle = amble = plod = trudge = meander (also means a turn in river or road) = drift = dilly-dally = dilatory (slow and unhurried, delaying and time-wasting)
72. Aggressively greedy:
Rapacious = grasping = avaricious (noun is avarice, greed for WEALTH) = acquisitive = covetous = mercenary = materialistic = insatiable = predatory = voracious = ravenous = usurious = extortionate = cupidity
73. Violent person, especially involved in crime: ruffian = thug = scoundrel = villain = rogue = lout = hooligan = vandal = delinquent (also delinquent = derelict = unreliable and untrustworthy and irresponsible) = rowdy = bully = brute (more violent, monster-like = barbarian) = goon
74. Having excessive interest in sexual matters:
Salacious (smutty, representing sexuality) = prurient = licentious = voyeuristic = lascivious = lecherous = lustful = lewd = libidinous = lubricious = depraved = debauch (as a verb, it means “to corrupt”, Hitler debauched the moral climate of Germany) = dissolute (looseness in morals) (also means to separate into component parts)
Philanderer = womanizer = libertine = hedonist (can be male or female person devoted to pleasure) = sybarite (male/female person excessively engaged in sensual pleasures)
75. Deserving condemnation: reprehensible = deplorable = disgraceful = discreditable = disreputable = despicable = contemptible = scurvy = culpable = blameworthy = dishonorable = ignoble (basically not noble) = errant (someone who has done an error) (errant also means wandering/travelling constantly)
76. Extravagant in language so as to impress: grandiloquent = magniloquent = pompous= bombastic = pretentious = ostentatious = high-flown = high-sounding = rhetorical = orotund = fustian = florid (overelaborate, also means red and flushed complexion) = flowery = overwrought (overdeveloped, overelaborate and too complex) (also means extremely tense, agitated and nervous) = labored = strained = overblown = overdone = wordy = periphrastic (speech or writing that is indirect and circumlocutory)