Barron's GRE Vocab 4th 40 Flash Cards

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Title: Barron's GRE Vocab 4th 40
Description: Barron's GRE Vocab 4th 40
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Created: 2009-10-10
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    • incarnate
    • having bodily form
      Christans believe that Jesus Christ was God incarnate.
    • inert
    • unable to move; sluggish
      The teacher was frustrated by his inability to get an answer to his question from his inert class
    • intangible
    • not material
      When considering what occupation to pursue it it prudent to consider intangible rewards as well as financial ones.
    • inured
    • hardened; accustomed; used to
      After 20 years in the army, the captain had not become inured to the sight of mem dying in the battlefield
    • jaundiced
    • having a yellowish discoloration of the skin; affected by envy, resentment, or hostility
      Norman's experience as an infantryman during the was has given him a jaundiced view of human nature.
    • lascivious
    • lustful
      The court ruled that the movie could be censored because its sole aim was to promote lascivious thoughts.
    • lilliputian
    • extremely small
      Microbiologiests study lillipution organisms
    • lucre
    • money or profits
      Many religions regard the pursuit of lucre for what it can do to help other as laudable.
    • maverick
    • dissenter
      Bernie Sanders of Vermont has a reputation as a maverick; he is one of only two memebers of the congress who inpendent
    • meticulous
    • very careful; fastidious
      Science is an empirical field based on the belief that the laws of nature can best by discovered by meticulous observation and experimentation.
    • miscreant
    • villain; criminal
      The public execution of miscreant was common in Great Britain.
    • mundane
    • wordly as opposed to spiritual; concerned with the ordinary
      somebody thought the bible is the retelling of a powerful myth current in the middle east that sought to explain the mundane in spiritual language.
    • obdurate
    • stubborn
      Coach Knight is obdurate about one thing: the offensive line is the heart of his football game
    • onerous
    • burdernsome
      The duty the judge considers most onerous is sentencing convicted criminals.
    • panegyric
    • elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise
      Many penagerics were written to Abraham Lincoln in the years after his death, and he has become the most revered figures int he American history.
    • peregrination
    • wandering from place to place
      Swami Vivekananda's peregrinations took him all over india.
    • phlegmatic
    • calm in termperament; sluggish
      Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthrsiasm onlyby being made into fanatics
    • platitude
    • stale, overused expression
      Though Sarah's marrigae didn't seem to be going well, she took comfort in the platitude that the first six months of a marriage were always the most difficult.
    • prattle
    • meaningless, foolish talk
      The sociologist theorizes that what may seem like prattle often has an important social function.
    • presage
    • to foretell; indicate in advance
      The english poet William Blake believed his work presaged a new age in which people would achieve political. social, phychological, and spiritual freedom.
    • prohibative
    • so high as to prevent the purchase or use of; preventing; forbidding
      Most people in poor contries are unable to purchase a computer because of its prohibative price.
    • purport
    • to profess; suppose; claim
      Religion plays a large role, since nearly everyone purports to believe in God and many people are memebers of churches.
    • raconteur
    • witty skillful storyteller
      Former prisident Bill Clinton is known as an accomplished reconteur who can entertain guests with amusing anecdotes about politics all evening.
    • recondite
    • abstruse; profound
      Many classical and biblical references known to educated nineteenth-century readers are now considered recondite by most readers.
    • repine
    • fret; complain
      The president told the congrossional representative he should stop repining over the lost opportunity and join the majority in exploring new ones.
    • riposte
    • A retaliatory action of retort
      The commmander decided that the enemy attack must be countered with a auick riposte.
    • sardonic
    • cynical; scornfully mocking
      Satire that is too sardonic often loses its effectiveness.
    • seludous
    • diligient
      The Nobel Prize-winning scientist attributed his success to what he termed "Curiosity, a modicum of intelligence, and sedulous applition."
    • simile
    • Comparasion of one thing with another using like or as
      Is his autobiographical book, Bob Dylan uses two similes in succession to try to convey the experience of writing a new song.
    • somatic
    • relating to or affecting the body; coporeal
      A psychosomatic disorder is a malady caused by a mental disturbance that adversely affects somatic function.
    • stentorian
    • extremely loud
      The stentorian speaker perfers not to use a microphone so that the audience can appreciate what he calls the full effect of my powerful orotory.
    • stultify
    • to swagger; display to impress others
      The professor of education believes that overreliance on rote learning stultifies students' creativity.
    • suffrage
    • The right to vote
      The pivotal feminist goal of suffrage was not obtained in the US until 1920, and in Britain not until 1928.
    • tacit
    • Silently understood; implied
      During the Cold War, there was a tacit assumption on the part of both Soviet Union and the US that neither side would launch an unprovoked nuclear attack against the other side.
    • timbre
    • The characteristic quality of sound by a particular instrument or voice; tone color
      The audience was delighted by the rich timbre of the singer's soprano.
    • transient
    • temporary; short lived; fleeting
    • turbid
    • muddy; opaque; in a state of greate confusion
      the poem captures the restless and turbid state of the soldier's mind the night before the decisive battle was set to begin
    • vacuous
    • empty; void; lacking intelligence; purposeless
      In Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, the youngest of the five Bennet daughters, Lydia, is portrayed as a vacuous young woman with few interests other than having fun.
    • vertigo
    • dizziness
      The physician diagnosed the patient's vertigo as being caused by an acute anxiety attack.
    • vogue
    • prevailing fashion or practice
      The protectionist polices are not in vogue today.