GRE Flashcards (Practice Tests)
Provident - Answer prudent, frugal, saving
Unscrupulous - Answer unprincipled, without scruples or principles
Profligate - Answer recklessly wasteful, wildly extravagant
Somber - Answer grave or even gloomy in character, dismal, depressing, melancholy
Allay - Answer lessen the intensity of or calm, alleviate, make quiet
Rueful - Answer mournful, regretful
Impenitent - Answer not penitent or remorseful
Sublime - Answer inspiring awe, to elevate or exalt, indignify
Austere - Answer stern and cold in appearance, strict, ASCETIC
Gadfly - Answer person who stimulates or annoys by persistent criticism
Insipid - Answer lacking interest or significance, dull, flat, BANAL
Expiation - Answer the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a
deity)
Repose - Answer Verb: lean in a comfortable resting position, Noun: lay to rest
Demur - Answer take exception to, to object
Schism - Answer division of a group into opposing factions, discord, separation
Boon - Answer a desirable state or a blessing, benefit, something very helpful
Imbroglio - Answer intricate, complicated situation
Acrimonious - Answer marked by strong resentment or cynicism, bitter, biting in feeling
Panache - Answer dash or flamboyance in style
Nepotism - Answer favoritism based on kinship
Recidivism - Answer tendency to relapse into a behavior
Cronyism - Answer favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them
to positions without regard for their qualifications)
Provident - Answer prudent, frugal, saving
Unscrupulous - Answer unprincipled, without scruples or principles
Profligate - Answer recklessly wasteful, wildly extravagant
Somber - Answer grave or even gloomy in character, dismal, depressing, melancholy
Allay - Answer lessen the intensity of or calm, alleviate, make quiet
Rueful - Answer mournful, regretful
Impenitent - Answer not penitent or remorseful
Sublime - Answer inspiring awe, to elevate or exalt, indignify
Austere - Answer stern and cold in appearance, strict, ASCETIC
Gadfly - Answer person who stimulates or annoys by persistent criticism
Insipid - Answer lacking interest or significance, dull, flat, BANAL
Expiation - Answer the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a
deity)
Repose - Answer Verb: lean in a comfortable resting position, Noun: lay to rest
Demur - Answer take exception to, to object
Schism - Answer division of a group into opposing factions, discord, separation
Boon - Answer a desirable state or a blessing, benefit, something very helpful
Imbroglio - Answer intricate, complicated situation
Acrimonious - Answer marked by strong resentment or cynicism, bitter, biting in feeling
Panache - Answer dash or flamboyance in style
Nepotism - Answer favoritism based on kinship
Recidivism - Answer tendency to relapse into a behavior
Cronyism - Answer favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them
to positions without regard for their qualifications)
