Monday, February 4, 2008

GRE Words that is Not in Barrons -II

Wordlist apart from Barren?s wordlist
1.idyll…a musical composition that evokes rural life.
2.imbrue…drench,stain especially with blood
3.imprimatur…permission to print a book
4.incarnadine…stain crimson or blood…colour
5.ingenue…an artless girl;an actress who plays such parts
6.integument…outer covering or skin
7.interlocutory…intermediate;not final
8.interstices…chinks;crevices
9.irrefragable…indisputable
10.jejune…lacking interest;barren;meager
11.jeremiad…lament;complain
12.kiosk…summerhouse;open pavilion
13.lackey…footman;yes…man;toady
14.lagniappe…trifling present given to a customer
15.lambent…flickering;softly radiant
16.lapidary…worker in precious stones
17.lave…wash
18.lesion…injury,unhealthy change in structure
19.libation…drink
20.lieu…instead of
21.lissom…agile,lithe
22.lupine…like a wolf
23.marauder…raider,intruder
24.maunder…talk incoherently;utter drivel
25.melange…medley
26.mesa…high flat…topped hill
27.mews…group of stables buil around a courtyard
28.moiety…half;part
29.moot…debataable
30.morganatic…marriage between a royal and a common
31.mugwump…defector from a party
32.murrain…plague;cattle disease
33.natal…pertaining to birth
34.nave…main body of a church
35.neap…lowest
36.necrology…list of teh dead
37.non sequitor…conclusion that doesn’t follow from facts
stated
38.nonage…immaturity
39.nosegay…fragrant bouquet
40.objurgation…severe rebuke;scolding
41.oblation…the eucharist;pious donation
42.obliquity…departure from right principle;perversity
43.offal…waste;garbage
44.offertory…collection of money at relegious ceremony
45.orison…prayer
46.ovine…like a sheep
47.palaver…misleading speech;chatter
48.palliation…act of making less severe or violent
49.panoply…complete suit of armour
50.paregoric…medicine tha eases pain
51.parlous…dangerous;perilous
52.parturiotion…delivery;child…birth
53.parvenu…upstart,newly rich person
54.patrimony…inheritance from father
55.peculate…steal;embezzle
56.pelf…stolen property
57.pennate…having wings or feathers
58.perforce…of necessity
59.persiflage…flippant conversation;banter
60.picaresque…pertaining to rogues in literature
61.plebiscite…expression of will of people by direct election
62.plenipotentiary…fully empowered
63.poltroon…coward
64.postprandial…after dinner
65.purloin…steal
66.qui vive…wide awake;expectant
67.quibble…escape of main point of an argument
68.prorogue…dismiss parliament
69.recherche…choice;sought after
70.recreant…coward;betrayer of faith
71.recrudescence…reopening of a wound or sore
72.recusant…person who refuses to comply
73.refection…slight refreshment
74.renascence…revival of learning and culture
75.reticulated…covered with a network;having a mesh like appearence
76.rheumy…pertaining to discharge from nose and eyes
77.rime…white frosts
78.risible…inclined to laugh;ludicrous
79.risque…verging on the improper;off…colour
80.roan…brown mixed with gray or white
81.rood…crucifix
82.sacerdotal…priestly
83.saltatory…relating to leaping
84.salutatory…opening oration at commencement in american colleges
85.salver…tray
86.sangfroid…coolness in a trying situation
87.sapid…savory;tasty;relishable
88.sapient…wise;shrewd
89.sarcophagus…highly decorated stone coffin
90.savoir faire…poise;sophistication
91.scarify…make slight incisions in;scratch
92.sciolism…quackery;superficial information
93.screed…long tiresome harangue
94.scullion…menial kitchen worker
95.senescence…state of growing old
96.sequacious…eager to follow;ductile
97.serried…standing shoulder to shoulder;crowded
98.shibboleth…slogan;watchword
99.shoal…shallow place
100.slattern…untidy person
101.soupcon…suggestion;hint;taste
102.splenetic…peevish
103.spoliation…pillaging;plunder
104.spume…froth;foam
105.stertorous…having a snoring sound
106.sub rosa…in strict confidence
107.sudorific…pertaining to perspiration
108.sumptuary…limiting or regulating expenditures
109.supernal…heavenly;celestial
110.suppurate…create pulse
111.surcease…cessation

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