GRE/CAT VOCABULARY LIST 11

GRE/CAT VOCABULARY LIST 11

integrate = make whole; combine; make into one unit
dispatch = speediness; prompt execution; message sent
with all due speed; V: send to a specified destination; finish promptly; kill
knead = mix; work dough; mix and work into a uniform
mass (with the hands); Ex. knead dough
spry = (esp. of older people) vigorously active; nimble
addiction = compulsive habitual need
bizarre = fantastic; violently contrasting; noticeably odd;
strikingly unconventional
humane = marked by kindness or consideration; kind
and compassionate; humanitarian
sycophant = servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man; ADJ.
sycophantic
swear-word = word considered offensive; Ex. .bloody.
sedate = composed (with no excitement); grave; V: administer
a sedative to; CF. sedative
abet = assist usually in doing something wrong; encourage
monograph = scholarly article
preternatural = beyond what is normal in nature; supernatural;
Ex. preternatural strength/forces
jurisdiction = right and power to apply the law; authority
despoil = plunder; sack; Ex. despoil the village
voluminous = having great volume (as of a garment or
container); bulky; large
dapper = neat and trim (in appearance); (of small men)
neat in appearance and quick in movements; neat; spry
sleigh = large vehicle drawn by a horse over snow or ice
sullen = silently showing ill humor or resentment; dark;
gloomy
anathema = solemn curse; someone or something regarded
as a curse; V. anathematize
destitute = extremely poor; lacking means of subsistence;
utterly lacking; devoid; Ex. destitute of any experience
dismantle = take apart; disassemble
imperative = absolutely necessary; that must be done;
critically important; expressing command; Ex. It is imperative
that; N: something that must be done
disclaim = disown; renounce claim to; deny; CF. disclaimer
indoctrinate = cause to accept a doctrine without questioning
it; Ex. indoctrinated with mindless anticommunism
indigence = poverty
interstice = narrow space between things
abode = dwelling place; home
avuncular = of or like an uncle
matin´ee(matinee) = dramatic or musical performance
given in the afternoon
welt = raised mark from a beating or whipping
strangle = kill by choking or suffocating; suppress
flotsam = drifting wreckage
eclipse = darken; extinguish; outshine; surpass; cause an
eclipse
putative = supposed; reputed; generally regarded as
such; Ex. putative father of the child
gerrymander = change voting district lines in order to
favor a political party; N. CF. Elbridge Gerry +
(sala)mander
implicate = incriminate; involve incriminatingly; show to
be involved (in a crime); Ex. implicate someone in the
crime
oblivion = obscurity; condition of being completely forgotten;
forgetfulness
incompatible = inharmonious; N. incompatibility
assent = agree; accept; N. assessment
momentous = very important; N. moment; CF. momentary
seminal = related to seed or semen; germinal; creative;
providing a basis for further development; influencing
future developments; Ex. seminal research in a new
field
histrionic = theatrical; excessively dramatic or emotional;
affected; of actors or acting; N. histrionics: histrionic behavior
stockade = wooden enclosure or pen; fixed line of posts
used as defensive barrier
stem = stop or check (the flow of); Ex. stem the bleeding
from the slashed artery; N: main axis of a plant; stalk
vagary = capricious happening; caprice; whim; CF. wander
inculcate = teach (ideas or principles); instill
countermand = cancel; revoke (an order)
insularity = narrow-mindedness; isolation; ADJ. insular:
of an island; isolated; narrow-minded; CF. peninsula
discriminating = able to see differences; discerning; prejudiced;
N. discrimination
vouchsafe = grant condescendingly; guarantee; Ex.
vouchsafe your fair return on your investment
rubble = fragments (esp. from a destroyed building)
abeyance = suspended action
sate = satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy
asymmetric = not identical on both sides of a dividing
central line
rote = repetition; memorization through repetition without
understanding; Ex. learn poetry by rote
immolate = offer or kill as a sacrifice (by fire)
malignant = tending to cause death; highly injurious; aggressively
malevolent; Ex. malignant tumor
dysentery = inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal
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