Vocabulary Builder: Expanding Your English Lexicon, Exams of Nursing

Download Vocabulary Builder: Expanding Your English Lexicon and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! 500+ Practice GRE Vocabulary Words updated exam abase - answer ✅✅(v.) to humiliate, cause to feel shame; (v.) to hurt the pride of abash - answer ✅✅(v.) to embarrass; to cause to be embarrassed abate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make less active or intense; (v.) to become less in intensity abdicate - answer ✅✅(v.) to give up power aberration - answer ✅✅(n.) an aberrant state or condition; (n.) a disorder in a person's mental state; an optical phenomenon which results from the failure of a mirror or lens to produce a good image abet - answer ✅✅(v.) to assist or encourage, , often in the case of wrongdoing; (v.) to support, uphold, or maintain; (v.) to contribute to the commission of an offense abeyance - answer ✅✅(n.) a temporary suspension or cessation; (n.) a temporary suppression abhor - answer ✅✅(v.) to find repugnant, or to shrink back with dislike or horror abjure - answer ✅✅(v.) to reject something; (v.) to retract an oath; (v.) to recant aboriginal - answer ✅✅(n.) an original inhabitant of any land; (n.) an animal or plant native to the region abortive - answer ✅✅(adj.) failing to accomplish an original intent or goal; (adj.) imperfectly formed or developed; (n.) something that is born prematurely; (adj.) made from the skin of a still-born animal abscond - answer ✅✅(v.) to run away, often taking someone or something along; (v.) to hide, withdraw or be concealed acquiescent - answer ✅✅(adj.) willing to carry out someone else's orders or wishes without any protest or dissent; (adj.) submissive actuate - answer ✅✅(v.) to trigger a reaction or to move and incite to action; (v.) to carry out or perform adapt - answer ✅✅(v.) to modify or change to suit a new purpose or conditions; (v.) to conform one's own self to new conditions or a new environment addiction - answer ✅✅(n.) a situation in which someone is dependent on something that is physiologically and/or psychologically habit forming, particularly in relation to alcohol or drugs adhere - answer ✅✅(v.) to be in accordance with or compatible with; to carry out a plan without deviation; (v.) to come into close contact with; to be a devoted supporter or follower, in a religious sense adipose - answer ✅✅(adj.) composed of animal fat admonish - answer ✅✅(v.) to counsel in relation to one's negative behavior; (v.) to warn against strongly; (v.) to take to task adulterate - answer ✅✅(adj.) mixed with impurities; (v.) to corrupt or debase by adding a foreign substance adumbration - answer ✅✅(n.) a rough summary of the main aspects of an argument or theory; providing vague indications of something in advance adversity - answer ✅✅(n.) a state of affliction or misfortune; extreme challenge or hardship; (n.) a stroke of excessively bad fortune advert - answer ✅✅(v.) to give heed to; (v.) to make a subversive or overt reference to advocate: (n.) a person who stands for and/or pleads for a cause, idea or person; (n.) a lawyer who pleads a case in a court of law; (v.) to push for or recommend something; (v.) to argue in favor of aerie - answer ✅✅(n.) a lofty nest of a bird of prey, such as an eagle or hawk; (n.) a habitation of high altitude aesthetic - answer ✅✅(adj.) relating to beauty or good taste; (n.) a specialty in philosophy that relates to what is beautiful and how humans respond to art and beauty in the world affable - answer ✅✅(adj.) exemplifying warmth and friendliness; (adj.) gracious and mild affected - answer ✅✅(adj.) acted on or influenced; (adj.) experiencing an emotional impact affiliation - answer ✅✅(n.) association in or with a professional or societal group; (n.) connection in terms of descent (from birth) affinity - answer ✅✅(n.) the force which attracts atoms and binds them together in the formation of a molecule; (n.) a close connection marked by shared interests or similarities; an intrinsic resemblance between persons and/or things; a natural attraction to or feeling of kinship for; (adj.) kinship by marriage or adoption affray - answer ✅✅(n.) a noisy fight or quarrel; the act of disturbing someone; fear or fright agape - answer ✅✅(adj.) with the mouth wide open due to wonder or awe; (n.) a religious meal shared as a sign of fellowship, love, and respect ambiguous - answer ✅✅(adj.) unclear; (adj.) uncertain in nature; open to more than one interpretation ameliorate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make something or someone better amenable - answer ✅✅(adj.) willing to comply; (adj.) responsible to a higher authority amnesia - answer ✅✅(n.) a partial or total loss of memory amnesty - answer ✅✅(n.) a period during which criminals are exempt from punishment; (n.) a warrant that grants release from a previously meted out punishment; (v.) the official act of liberating someone, in a legal sense; to grant a pardon amortize - answer ✅✅(v.) to gradually liquidate; to clear off or extinguish, particularly in relation to a debt amuck - answer ✅✅(adj.) in a murderous tumult; wildly or without self-control amulet - answer ✅✅(n.) a piece of jewelry thought to protect an individual against evil anachronism - answer ✅✅(n.) something located during a time when it could not have actually existed or occurred; (n.) an artifact that belongs to a different time period; (n.) a person displaced in time analgesia - answer ✅✅(n.) the absence of the sense of pain, but with consciousness still in tact analogy - answer ✅✅(n.) an insinuation that if things agree in one respect, they agree in others; (n.) a comparison drawn to show similarities anarchy - answer ✅✅(n.) a state of disorder and lawlessness, resulting from a lack of or failure in government anesthetic - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by a lack of sensibility; (n.) a drug that temporarily causes loss of bodily sensations animus - answer ✅✅(n.) a feeling of ill-will that arouses hostility or animosity relieve annul - answer ✅✅(v.) to declare void or invalid, particularly in the case of a marriage, law or contract; (v.) to eliminate the existence of antagonism - answer ✅✅(n.) hostility that results in conflict, resistance or opposition; (n.) the condition of being an opposing force or factor in a situation or system antipathy - answer ✅✅(n.) a strong feeling of hostility or dislike apex - answer ✅✅(n.) the highest point of something, particularly in the case of a triangle, cone or pyramid aplomb - answer ✅✅(n.) poise (n.) self-confidence apocalyptic - answer ✅✅(adj.) relating to the apocalypse; involving or implying doom and ultimate devastation; (adj.) of a prophetic nature दैवी साहित्य apostate - answer ✅✅(n.) a person who has abandoned his or her political party, religion, or cause aspiration - answer ✅✅(n.) a desire or will to succeed; a cherished desire; (n.) an expulsion of breath during the active process of speech; the act of inhaling or drawing in air assail - answer ✅✅(v.) to violently attack; to criticize; (v.) to cause trouble to assimilate - answer ✅✅(v.) to learn, understand and incorporate information; (v.) to adjust or become adjusted to a different environment; to absorb (food) assuage - answer ✅✅(v.) to make something less intense or severe; (v.) to satisfy or appease, to pacify or calm astringent - answer ✅✅(adj.) causing the contraction of body tissue; severe or harsh; (n.) an drug or lotion that draws pores together and/or causes their contraction astute - answer ✅✅(adj.) rapid to apprehend or understand atrocity - answer ✅✅(n.) a behavior, event or incident that is characterized by cruelty and wickedness; (n.) an act of extreme cruelty कू्ररता attrition - answer ✅✅(n.) a constant wearing down caused by friction; (n.) a gradual decrease in strength, due to consistent stressful conditions; a gradual reduction in membership or personnel; (n.) repentance for a sin, motivated by the fear of God and punishment augment - answer ✅✅(v.) to make something larger in size or quantity augury - answer ✅✅(n.) the art of foretelling the future by means of various sings; (n.) an omen from which the future if foretold auspicious: (adj.) related to positive and favorable circumstances; (adj.) marked by success and prosperity austere - answer ✅✅(adj.) stern, in terms of character or disposition; (adj.) strict or severe in discipline; lacking adornment or decoration autonomous: (adj.) not controlled by other individuals or organizations; (adj.) independent in mind and judgment avatar - answer ✅✅(n.) the animal or human incarnation of a Hindu deity, particularly Vishnu; (n.) an embodiment of a quality or concept; a temporary manifestation of an ongoing entity aver - answer ✅✅(v.) to officially assert as a fact; (v.) to justify, qualify or prove avouch - answer ✅✅(v.) to attest to or declare the validity of; (v.) to confirm; to accept responsibility for an action; to confess avow - answer ✅✅(v.) to openly acknowledge; (v.) to positive and undoubtedly profess axiom - answer ✅✅(n.) a universally recognized truth; (n.) a seemingly self-evident principle baffle - answer ✅✅(v.) to frustrate someone, by perplexing or confusing them; (v.) to impede the force or movement of baleful - answer ✅✅(adj.) harmful, threatening or deadly baneful - answer ✅✅(adj.) causing distress, death or ruin barrage - answer ✅✅(n.) a prolonged attack of words or blows; a curtain of (military) artillery fire to prevent enemy forces from moving or to make way for one's own forces; (n.) a man-made barrier in a stream or river boorish - answer ✅✅(adj.) rude; awkward, ill-mannered bootless - answer ✅✅(adj.) useless, without benefit brackish - answer ✅✅(adj.) somewhat salty, as might be the waters near a sea; having an displeasing taste; nauseous breach - answer ✅✅(n.) a failure to follow through on or complete the agreement and terms of a contract or law; (n.) an opening created by a breakthrough (in a wall); (n.) a break in amicable relations bristle - answer ✅✅(n.) any short, stiff or prickly hair of an animal or plant; (intrans. verb) to become stiff and erect; (n.) to show anger, irritation or outrage; (n.) to be thickly covered with brusque - answer ✅✅(adj.) abrupt and rough use of language or manner of speech bumptious - answer ✅✅(adj.) arrogant, excessively conceited, forward burlesque - answer ✅✅(n.) any comic or satirical imitation (for example) in the form of writing, theater or a parody, intending to mock; (adj.) bawdy burnish - answer ✅✅(v.) to polish or to make shiny cabal - answer ✅✅(n.) a group of plotters or intriguers with conspiratorial intentions; (n.) a secret scheme or plot cache - answer ✅✅(n.) a hiding place, especially in the ground for ammunition, food or treasures; (n.) anything so hidden; (v.) to put in a cache caliber - answer ✅✅(n.) degree of capacity or competence calumniate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make false and malicious statements about candor - answer ✅✅(n.) the state or quality of being open, honest, straightforward, open and sincere in communication; (n.) freedom from bias canter - answer ✅✅(n.) an easy-going gallop; (v.) to move or ride at a canter capitulate - answer ✅✅(v.) to surrender often after negotiation of terms captious - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by a disposition to find out and point trivial faults; (adj.) intended to entrap or confuse carnage - answer ✅✅(n.) the slaughter of numerous people; (n.) those slain in battle carping - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by trivial fault- finding caste - answer ✅✅(n.) any of the social or subclasses of traditional Hindu society, such as the Brahman or Sudra castes; a social class distinct from others and characterized by hereditary rank, profession or wealth; (n.) a social position conferred on someone based on a system of castes cataclysm - answer ✅✅(n.) any violent upheaval, particularly of a political or social nature; (n.) an extensive flood catalyst - answer ✅✅(n.) (in chemistry), a substance that causes a chemical reaction without itself being affected; (n.) circuitous - answer ✅✅(adj.) indirect or roundabout circumlocution - answer ✅✅(n.) an indirect or roundabout way of speaking citadel - answer ✅✅(n.) a fortress in a commanding position in or near a city; a fortified place claustrophobia - answer ✅✅(n.) a excessive fear of being in closed or confined spaces clemency - answer ✅✅(n.) a willingness to lessen the severity of a given punishment; (n.) an official act of mercy or forgiveness cliché - answer ✅✅(n.) an overused expression or idea; (n.) a person whose behavior is predictable coalesce - answer ✅✅(v.) to fuse, grow or mix together cogent - answer ✅✅(adj.) believable, convincing or persuasive by clear and forcible presentation; (adj.) to the point cognomen - answer ✅✅(n.) a family or surname cohere - answer ✅✅(v.) to hold together in a mass that resists separation; (v.) to cause to form a united, aesthetically uniform whole collaborate - answer ✅✅(v.) to work together or cooperate; (v.) join forces colloquial - answer ✅✅(adj.) characteristic of ordinary conversation, rather than formal speech or writing comatose - answer ✅✅(adj.) of, related to or in a coma; (adj.) characterized by lethargy commensurate - answer ✅✅(adj.) of the same extent or duration; corresponding in size or degree, proportionate; (adj.) measurable by a common standard compatible - answer ✅✅(adj.) capable of existing harmoniously; (adj.) capable of integration with other elements in a system without any additional required modifications compendium - answer ✅✅(n.) a complete, short summary; (n.) a list or collection of various items complement - answer ✅✅(n.) something that completes or makes something else whole; (n.) a quantity that completes anything; (n.) either of two parts, needed to complete the whole compliant - answer ✅✅(adj.) disposed or willing to comply compliment - answer ✅✅(n.) an expression of praise (v.) to give someone praise or accolades conciliate - answer ✅✅(v.) to overcome the mistrust of; (v.) to regain or attempt to regain friendship; (v.) to attempt to reconcile concomitant - answer ✅✅(adj.) existing or occurring with something else congeal - answer ✅✅(v.) to solidify or jell by freezing; coagulate conjecture - answer ✅✅(n.) the expression of or formulation of a theory without sufficient evidence or proof; (v.) to guess or formulate a theory without sufficient evidence or proof cull - answer ✅✅(v.) to pick out from others, select; (v.) to remove rejected members or parts from culmination - answer ✅✅(n.) the highest point or degree of completion curmudgeon - answer ✅✅(n.) an ill-tempered person curtail - answer ✅✅(v.) to cut short; (v.) reduce, diminish cynic - answer ✅✅(n.) a person with a pessimistic outlook and who believes that most people are solely motivated by selfishness dank - answer ✅✅(adj.) unpleasantly moist or humid; (adj.) damp, chilly dastard - answer ✅✅(n.) a mean-spirited, conniving coward dearth - answer ✅✅(n.) a lack, scarcity or inadequate supply debacle - answer ✅✅(n.) a breakup or dispersion; (n.) downfall; (n.) a complete collapse or failure; (n.) a violent rush of waters or ice debonair - answer ✅✅(adj.) having a sophisticated charm; (adj.) courteous and gracious; carefree decimate - answer ✅✅(v.) to destroy a great number or proportion of; (v.) to select and kill every tenth person of a group decrepit - answer ✅✅(adj.) weakened or destabilized by old age; (adj.) worn out by extensive use defile - answer ✅✅(v.) to make foul, dirty or unclean; (v.) to violate the chastity of; (v.) to make impure or defile deign - answer ✅✅(intr. v.) to deem something inappropriate to one's dignity (tr. verb) condescend; (v.) give or grant demean - answer ✅✅(v.) to degrade, particularly in terms of social status or dignity demotic - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or relating to the common people of a given area or region denizen - answer ✅✅(n.) an inhabitant or resident; (n.) someone who frequents a given place denotation - answer ✅✅(n.) the act of denoting, that which gives an indication of or points to something, like a. symbol or sign; (n.) the most specific meaning of a given word deplete - answer ✅✅(v.) to reduce or eliminate in supply deprecatory - answer ✅✅(adj.) expressing criticism or disapproval of; (adj.) uncomplimentary depreciate - answer ✅✅(v.) to reduce the value or price of deride - answer ✅✅(v.) to laugh at in a contemptuous or scornful manner descry - answer ✅✅(v.) to see something by looking carefully at it, to discover or perceive desecrate - answer ✅✅(v.) to violate the sacredness of a given object or place desultory - answer ✅✅(adj.) not having any set plan; (adj.) moving or jumping about from one subject to the next doughty - answer ✅✅(adj.) marked by courage and braveness dross - answer ✅✅(n.) waste; (adj.) worthless or trivial matter drudgery - answer ✅✅(n.) menial and distasteful work duplicity - answer ✅✅(n.) deceitfulness in speech or conduct, speaking or acting in two different ways durance - answer ✅✅(n.) incarceration or imprisonment ebullient - answer ✅✅(adj.) overflowing with enthusiasm or excited; (adj.) bubbling up like a boiling liquid ecstasy - answer ✅✅(n.) intense joy or delight; (n.) a trace or state of emotion so intense that one is carried beyond self- control edify - answer ✅✅(v.) to instruct or benefit, (v.) particularly in relation to intellectual or spiritual matters; to uplift effeminate - answer ✅✅(adj.) having feminine qualities or characteristics; (adj.) characterized by excessive refinement or weakness effigy - answer ✅✅(n.) a crude person or figure which represents a hated person or group; (n.) a likeness or image, particularly of a person efflorescent - answer ✅✅(adj.) bursting into flower; (adj.) flowering effusion - answer ✅✅(n.) a unrestrained expression of emotion; (n.) flow under pressure, such as the escape of bodily fluid from vessels into the tissues or a cavity egress - answer ✅✅(n.) the act of coming or going out; (n.) the right to leave or go out; (n.) a path or opening for the purposes of going out (v.) to go out elucidate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make lucid or clear, to throw light upon; (v.) to explain or provide clarification elusive: (adj.) tending to elude capture, comprehension or perception; (adj.) difficult to define or describe emancipate - answer ✅✅(v.) to free from oppression or restraint; (v.) (as a legal term) to release a child from the control of parents or a. guardian embellish - answer ✅✅(v.) to make beautiful by ornamentation; (v.) to decorate; (v.) to add false and fictitious detail to emend - answer ✅✅(v.) to edit or change a text; (v.) to correct, or free from faults or errors eminent - answer ✅✅(adj.) of high rank in station or quality; (adj.) outstanding in character or performance; (adj.) towering or standing above others emollient - answer ✅✅(adj.) softening and soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh or abrasive enamored - answer ✅✅(adj.) inspired by love; captivated; (adj.) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness encroach - answer ✅✅(v.) to advance beyond proper, established or usual limits; (v.) to trespass upon the domain, property or rights of another individual or organization eugenic - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or related to bringing about improvements in offspring; (adj.) having quality, inherited characteristics evanescent - answer ✅✅(adj.) vanishing, fading; (adj.) fleeting; (adj.) tending to become imperceptible evasive - answer ✅✅(adj.) tending or seeking to avoid; (adj.) elusive ewer - answer ✅✅(n.) a pitcher with a wide spout exacerbate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make worse or increase the severity of; (v.) to irritate or exasperate a person excision - answer ✅✅(n.) the surgical act of removal excoriate - answer ✅✅(v.) to severely berate or denounce (verbally); (v.) to physically strip off or remove the skin from exegesis - answer ✅✅(n.) a critical analysis or explanation of a text exemplary - answer ✅✅(adj.) commendable exiguous - answer ✅✅(adj.) scanty or meager exodus: (n.) a departure that usually involves a large number of people expedite - answer ✅✅(v.) to hasten or speed up the progress of; (v.) to quickly accomplish; (v.) to issue or dispatch a document or letter expiate - answer ✅✅(v.) to atone or make amends for, particularly in relation to a given individual's crimes expunge - answer ✅✅(v.) to erase or obliterate; (v.) to destroy extol - answer ✅✅(v.) to lift up; (v.) to praise highly extricate - answer ✅✅(v.) to disentangle; (v.) to disengage from a difficult situation extrinsic - answer ✅✅(adj.) not essential or inherent qualities; (adj.) outward or external exude - answer ✅✅(v.) to discharge or emit; (v.) to exhibit fabricate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make up or create; (v.) to concoct in an effort to deceive someone facile - answer ✅✅(adj.) easily accomplished or attained; (adj.) expressing yourself readily or clearly fain - answer ✅✅(adv.) gladly, willingly; (adj.) content, willing; (v.) to wish or desire fastidious: (adj.) displaying careful attention to detail; (adj.) difficult to please; (adj.) excessively meticulous faux pas - answer ✅✅(n.) a mistake, blunder or indiscretion fawn - answer ✅✅(v.) to flatter or grovel, (v.) to seek notice or favor fecundity - answer ✅✅(n.) fruitfulness or fertility, the capacity of plentiful production feign - answer ✅✅(v.) to invent or represent fictitiously; (v.) to imitate deceptively fete - answer ✅✅(n.) a day of celebration or holiday; (n.) a festival fraught - answer ✅✅(adj.) filled with specific elements; (adj.) marked by or causing emotional distress fritter - answer ✅✅(v.) to squander away; (v.) to tear, break or cut into shreds frolicsome - answer ✅✅(adj.) full of fun; (adj.) in good spirits, playful fructify - answer ✅✅(v.) to make fruitful or productive; (v.) to bear fruit frugality - answer ✅✅(n.) economical in spending, frugal, requiring few resources fulgent - answer ✅✅(adj.) brightly shining; (adj.) dazzling furor - answer ✅✅(n.) an outburst of excitement or controversy; (n.) a prevailing fad or popular craze; (n.) rage, madness furtive - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by stealth; (adj.) expressive of concealed motives, purposes or intentions gaff - answer ✅✅(n.) harsh treatment or criticism gambol - answer ✅✅(n.) a playful skip or frolicking about garbled - answer ✅✅(v.) to confuse or distort to the point of that the result is misleading or incomprehensible garrulous - answer ✅✅(adj.) chatty and talkative gazette - answer ✅✅(adj.) a newspaper or official journal geniality - answer ✅✅(n.) having a friendly and pleasant disposition or manner genre - answer ✅✅(n.) a type or classification genuflect - answer ✅✅(v.) to tend one knee or touch one knee to the ground, in a sign or form of worship; (v.) to express a servile attitude germane - answer ✅✅(adj.) connected and relevant gestate - answer ✅✅(v.) to carry life from the point of conception to birth; (v.) to conceive and/or develop in the mind gesticulation - answer ✅✅(n.) a vigorous motion or gesture glib - answer ✅✅(adj.) lacking intellectual depth or capacity; (adj.) possessing only superficial plausibility; (adj.) persuasive in speech gloaming - answer ✅✅(n.) the time of day that immediately follows the sunset glut - answer ✅✅(v.) to fill (usually with food) beyond capacity; (v.) to flood (a market) with a plethora of goods to cause supply to exceed demand glutinous - answer ✅✅(adj.) having sticky and adhesive properties goad - answer ✅✅(n.) a long stick with a pointed end, used for prodding animals; (n.) a stimulus or means of urging gorge - answer ✅✅(n.) a deep ravine (usually with a river passing through it); to overeat gourmand - answer ✅✅(n.) a lover of food ignominious - answer ✅✅(adj.) humiliating and/or embarrassing in nature; (adj.) reprehensible and disgraceful illimitable - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by an unlimited, unending nature imbibe - answer ✅✅(v.) to drink, swallow or absorb imminent - answer ✅✅(adj.) in the nature future, about to happen or occur immutable - answer ✅✅(adj.) not subject to change impeach - answer ✅✅(v.) to accuse or bring to court, particularly a public official; (v.) to question or call into account impenitent - answer ✅✅(adj.) without regret and unashamed impervious - answer ✅✅(adj.) not permitting of passage, impenetrable; (adj.) incapable of injury; (adj.) unmoved by persuasion impious - answer ✅✅(adj.) lacking reverence or respect; (adj.) irreverent implacable - answer ✅✅(adj.) unable to be pleased or mollified; (adj.) hard-hearted; (adj.) obdurate imply - answer ✅✅(v.) to suggest or refer to something without explicitly stating it as such; (v.) to include as a necessary circumstance importune - answer ✅✅(v.) to demand by means of solicitation; (v.) to make unwanted advances or suggestions toward someone; (v.) to annoy impotent - answer ✅✅(adj.) lacking power or ability; (adj.) incapable; (adj.) lacking in physical strength impromptu - answer ✅✅(n.) a circumstance — particularly a speech — given without advanced preparation; (adj.) improvised impropriety - answer ✅✅(adj.) the quality of being improper or unsuitable; (adj.) an unseemly expression; (adj.) an incorrect use of a word or phrase; (adj.) rudeness; (adj.) misconduct impunity - answer ✅✅(n.) release from punishment or harm; (n.) mercy imputation - answer ✅✅(n.) a charge or accusation; (n.) an insinuation inane - answer ✅✅(adj.) lacking sense or sincere significance absurd; (adj.) immature incessant - answer ✅✅(adj.) continuing without interruption(s); (adj.) ; constant, ceaseless incontinent - answer ✅✅(adj.) uncontrolled and/or unrestrained, particularly in bodily function incontrovertible - answer ✅✅(adj.) not open for dispute or question; (adj.) irrefutable incredulous - answer ✅✅(adj.) skeptical and disbelieving; (adj.) dubious inculcate - answer ✅✅(v.) to instill by means of earnest and persistent repetition jettison - answer ✅✅(v.) to cast objects overboard in an effort to improve the stability of a moving object; (v.) to throw off something burdensome jocose - answer ✅✅(adj.) given to joking and humor judicious - answer ✅✅(adj.) using practical and proper judgment; demonstrating wisdom and/or good judgment juncture - answer ✅✅(n.) a critical point in time; (n.) a critical or urgent state of affairs, crisis junta - answer ✅✅(n.) a military-led government ken - answer ✅✅(n.) knowledge and understanding kith - answer ✅✅(n.) acquaintances or friends within the same vicinity kleptomaniac - answer ✅✅(n.) someone consumed by the impulsive need to steal, without economic motivation lacerate - answer ✅✅(v.) to slash or tear laconic - answer ✅✅(adj.) terse, brief, to the point, using few words laggard - answer ✅✅(n.) a straggler or one who lingers languor - answer ✅✅(n.) lack of energy; sluggishness; (n.) emotional sensitivity lassitude - answer ✅✅(n.) weariness, lack of energy, exhaustion latent - answer ✅✅(adj.) present but dormant and concealed laudatory - answer ✅✅(adj.) admiring; (adj.) expressing of praise lewd - answer ✅✅(adj.) inclined to lechery and/or vulgar behavior, obscene liquidate - answer ✅✅(v.) to break up; (v.) to pay a debt; (v.) to close a business; (v.) to exterminate or murder lissome - answer ✅✅(adj.) physiologically flexible; (adj.) agile livid - answer ✅✅(adj.) discolored; (adj.) very angry; (adj.) overcome with overwhelming emotion lope - answer ✅✅(v.) to sprint or scamper lucent - answer ✅✅(adj.) clear; semi-transparent; (adj.) transparent lucid - answer ✅✅(adj.) clear and cogent; (adj.) articulate and well-spoken; (adj.) rational, cool-headed lugubrious - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by sadness; (adj.) mournful, dismal luminous: (adj.) radiating or reflecting light, shining; (adj.) brilliant luster - answer ✅✅(adj.) the state or quality of reflecting light, shine; (adj.) radiance of beauty machinate - answer ✅✅(v.) to contrive or plot; (v.) to conspire malediction - answer ✅✅(n.) a curse; (n.) the uttering of a curse myriad - answer ✅✅(n.) an indefinite or unlimited number of person or things; (n.) ten thousand nadir - answer ✅✅(n.) a low point or "rock bottom, in terms of adversity or despair nauseate - answer ✅✅(v.) to sicken or disgust nebulous - answer ✅✅(adj.) vague and indefinable necrology - answer ✅✅(n.) a list of people who have died during a specified time period; (n.) an obituary nemesis - answer ✅✅(n.) a task a person is unable to conquer; (n.) an archenemy, opponent or rival; (n.) vengeance neophyte - answer ✅✅(n.) a novice or trainee; (n.) a person newly inducted into or converted into a faith or belief of a religious and/or spiritual nature nicety - answer ✅✅(n.) a delicate or fine point; (n.) a detail noisome - answer ✅✅(adj.) offensive or disgusting; (adj.) harmful novice - answer ✅✅(n.) a beginner or apprentice noxious - answer ✅✅(adj.) harmful or poisonous in nature; (adj.) characterized by unpleasantness or offensiveness numismatist - answer ✅✅(adj.) a person who collects money, coin or metals nurture - answer ✅✅(v.) to feed and protect; (v.) to bring up, educate; (v.) to develop obsequious - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by a servile nature; (adj.)flattering, submissive. obsession - answer ✅✅(n.) a fixation or passion (Mnemonics: : Ob-session.. In session our mind is completely filled with thoughts and doubts of one particular subject on which session is going on. स्थि!र हिवचार ) obstreperous - answer ✅✅(adj.) hostile and bad-tempered obtrude: (v.) to thrust forward upon a person; (v.) to project or stick out ,(Mnemonic Obtrude = Obt + Rude. It is 'Rude' to to impose something such as opinions on other people.), ( Mnemonic Your child is 'often street per'; so he is spoiled and thus obstreperous) occult - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or pertaining to magic or astrology and involving secretive supernatural powers; (adj.) mysterious; hidden; (n.) supernatural affairs odorous - answer ✅✅(adj.) having a distinct odor; (adj.) scented offal - answer ✅✅(n.) the parts of a butchered animal considered inedible for human beings; (n.) rubbish, garbage olfactory: (adj.) relating to the sense of smell omniscient - answer ✅✅(adj.) having complete and unlimited knowledge, awareness and understanding omnivorous - answer ✅✅(adj.) eating both animal and plant based foods onus - answer ✅✅(n.) a burdensome responsibility; burden of proof opportunist - answer ✅✅(n.) one who seized prospective opportunities; (n.) pioneer, trailblazer penance - answer ✅✅(n.) a punishment to atone for a sin; an atonement (पछतावा 'penance' can be read as 'pain on us' what we take as a punishment on ourself for our sins.) perfunctory: (adj.) performed out of routine or duty; (adj.) lacking genuine or sincere interest (PARAI(other's) +FACTORY - if you are told to take care of somebody else's factory, you would casually care about it) perjury - answer ✅✅(n.) the intentional giving of false statements while under sworn oath in a court of law (झूठी गवाी) (per(phir)+jury -> jury ke saamne saach batt sy phir jana) perspicacious - answer ✅✅(adj.) having acute mental perception and understanding (तीक्ष्ण - बुद्धि.,भेदक) pertinent - answer ✅✅(adj.) relevant and applicable to a situation or set of circumstances (उलिचत) petrify - answer ✅✅(v.) to frighten or terrify; (v.) to solidify or turn to stone philanthropist - answer ✅✅(n.) one who works to bring about the well-being of human kind through charitable donations and/or actions phobia - answer ✅✅(n.) a specific fear of an object or situation pillage - answer ✅✅(v.) to plunder and rob; (v.) to take in war as booty pious - answer ✅✅(adj.) devout in a religious sense; (adj.) self-righteous piquant - answer ✅✅(adj.) pungent and/or spicy in taste or flavor ( PI+QUANT Quant in GRE is more attracting and delighting than Verbal) placate - answer ✅✅(v.) to appease or pacify someone plebeian - answer ✅✅(adj.) common, "blue-collar," working- class pommel - answer ✅✅(v.) to beat or strike; (n.) a knob on the hilt of a sword (तवार की मूठ की घुंडी) posterity - answer ✅✅(n.) future generations, a person's descendants (posterity = post + inherity ) prattle - answer ✅✅(v.) to idly chatter or babble (चूं - चूं करना) precipitate - answer ✅✅(v.) to bring about, lead up to or hasten; (adj.) impulsive, rash (जल्दबाज़) preponderance - answer ✅✅(n.) a prevalence or predominance (as something having heavy weight, quantity or power) prestige - answer ✅✅(n.) esteemed status or standing; (n.) reputation probe - answer ✅✅(v.) to look into and investigate a situation or individual (तक़ीक़ात) probity - answer ✅✅(n.) integrity and honor; (n.) decency (ईमानदारी) ( basically this word is taken from latin probus..means honesty) prodigal - answer ✅✅(adj.) lavish and wasteful; (adj.) uncontrolled promulgate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make known, particularly one's opinions or theories; (v.) to publicize; (v.) to publicly teach a doctrine or creed (Prom (promote)+ul+gate. So rancid - answer ✅✅(adj.) sour, rotten (ran+cid..ran(rank) +cid(acid)...rank means bad smell..and a acid which smell bad) raucous - answer ✅✅(adj.) harsh and strident; wild, (adj.) boisterous ravage - answer ✅✅(v.) to devastate and destroy;( नाश करना) (v.) to plunder and ransack ( ूट) recapitulate: (v.) to repeat in a concise and succinct manner; (v.) to summarize or reiterate recession - answer ✅✅(n.) a depression or decline reciprocate - answer ✅✅(v.) to return or give back to rectify - answer ✅✅(v.) to correct, remedy and/or make right reek - answer ✅✅(v.) to stink or smell in a foul manner; to show signs of or suggest (n.) a foul stench or smell( ) rhymes with Yak!...bad odour) refulgent - answer ✅✅(adj.) brilliantly shining and/or gleaming (refulgent sounds like detergent.. use detergent to make things shine) relinquish - answer ✅✅(v.) to give up or actively surrender remiss - answer ✅✅(adj.) careless or negligent; (adj.) thoughtless ( re+MISS you miss something because of NEGLIGENCE, CARELESSNESS.) renunciation - answer ✅✅(adj.) the act of turning away from, rejecting or denying (self denial) repository - answer ✅✅(n.) a place in which things are safely kept; (n.) a warehouse; (n.) a tomb reprisal - answer ✅✅(n.) retaliation and/or an act of vengeance reprobate - answer ✅✅(n.) a degenerate; (n.) a depraved person resplendent - answer ✅✅(adj.) brilliantly shining and gleaming retaliate - answer ✅✅(v.) to revenge a wrong; (v.) to counterattack revelry - answer ✅✅(n.) festivities and celebrations; (n.) partying reverberate - answer ✅✅(v.) to echo, resound; (v.) to ring rigor - answer ✅✅(n.) strictness or severity in temperament or action robust - answer ✅✅(adj.) strong, healthy and hearty in physical condition rococo - answer ✅✅(adj.) ornate, decorative ruddy - answer ✅✅(adj.) reddish or rosy rustic - answer ✅✅(adj.) rural, country; pastoral sacrilegious - answer ✅✅(adj.) expressing of irreverence toward what is held sacred sloth - answer ✅✅(n.) laziness and apathy, a disinclination toward work slough - answer ✅✅(n.) the out layer of the skin; (v.) to shed or cast off smattering - answer ✅✅(n.) a superficial knowledge of something somatic - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or related to the body, physical sophomoric - answer ✅✅(adj.) immature or overconfident and conceited spate: (n.) a sudden outpouring or overwhelm specious - answer ✅✅(adj.) false, bogus squalid - answer ✅✅(adj.) unclean to the degree of filth; (adj.) seedy or immoral squander - answer ✅✅(v.) to waste or throw away stalemate - answer ✅✅(n.) a situation in which further action is obstructed and not possible stigma - answer ✅✅(n.) a mark or token of infamy; (n.) disgrace and dishonor stipend - answer ✅✅(n.) a periodic payment or schedule of fixed pay stupor: (n.) a daze or state of unconsciousness stymie - answer ✅✅(v.) to present an obstacle, to stand in the way of subversive - answer ✅✅(adj.) undermining; dissident or rebellious, particularly against an established authority or government succinct - answer ✅✅(adj.) brief, concise and to the point sully - answer ✅✅(v.) to smear and dishonor; (v.) to pollute or contaminate sumptuous - answer ✅✅(adj.) luxurious and costly, (adj.) extravagant supersede - answer ✅✅(v.) to replace in power or authority; to surpass surmise - answer ✅✅(v.) to infer or guess without conclusive evidence surreptitious - answer ✅✅(adj.) sly, sneaky and covert swathe - answer ✅✅(v.) to wrap or enfold; (n.) a strip, ribbon or band swelter - answer ✅✅(v.) to suffer from excessive and overbearing heat symmetry - answer ✅✅(n.) balance and proportion synchronous - answer ✅✅(adj.) occurring at the same time, simultaneous taciturn - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by a reserved and quiet nature, uncommunicative tactile - answer ✅✅(adj.) tangible and concrete tantalize - answer ✅✅(v.) to torment and/or torture ; (v.) to excite or entice trepidation - answer ✅✅(n.) fear, apprehension; disquiet troth - answer ✅✅(n.) faithfulness and fidelity; (n.) truth or verity truncate - answer ✅✅(adj.) terminating abruptly by having an end or cut off point; (v.) to approximate by ignoring all terms aside from an elect one; to shorten or abbreviate turbid - answer ✅✅(adj.) muddy due to sediment or foreign particles; (adj.) heavy, dark or dense; (adj.) in a state of turmoil turpitude - answer ✅✅(n.) vile and baseless depravity; (n.) a base act ubiquitous - answer ✅✅(adj.) existing or being everywhere at the same time; (adj.) omnipresent umbrage - answer ✅✅(n.) a feeling of anger, usually caused by offense; (n.) indignation unanimity - answer ✅✅(adj.) complete agreement and accord uncanny - answer ✅✅(adj.) unsettling in an eerie and mysterious way; (adj.) mysterious, creepy unconscionable - answer ✅✅(adj.) not restrained by good morals or scruples unearth - answer ✅✅(v.) to bring up out of the earth; (v.) to dig up unfeigned - answer ✅✅(adj.) sincere and genuine ungainly - answer ✅✅(adj.) ungraceful and awkward; (adj.) clumsy unison - answer ✅✅(adj.) in perfect accord unseemly - answer ✅✅(adj.) not in accordance with acceptable standards or good taste; (adj.) markedly improper unsullied - answer ✅✅(adj.) unblemished, untarnished, pure and immaculate upbraid - answer ✅✅(v.) to criticize or scold usury - answer ✅✅(n.) the lending or practice of money at exorbitant interest vacuous - answer ✅✅(adj.) lacking contents; (adj.) lacking in intelligence or capacity vagary - answer ✅✅(n.) an unexpected and/or unpredictable action or behavior vapid - answer ✅✅(adj.) (: Rapid eating will )lacking in life or flavor; (adj.) flat, dull vegetate - answer ✅✅(v.) to grow or sprout; (v.) to exist in a state of inactivity vehement - answer ✅✅(adj.) zealous and ardent; (adj.) strongly emotional venerable - answer ✅✅(adj.) deserving and worthy of respect by virtue of position, age, character or position; (adj.) worthy of reverence, within a religious context verbose - answer ✅✅(adj.) wordy and long-winded; (adj.) garrulous