GRE Vocabulary-Essential #3 Flashcards

salutary

adj. expecting an improvement; favorable to health

salubrious

adj. healthful

sage

adj. wise

salacious

adj. lascivious, lustful

rococo

adj. excessively ornate; highly decorated; style of architecture in
eighteenth century Europe

riposte

n. retaliatory action or retort

reverent

adj. expressing deep respect; worshipful

reticent

adj. not speaking freely; reserved; reluctant

resolution

n. determination; resolve

rescind

v. to cancel

repudiate

v. to reject as having no authority

reprobate

n. morally unprincipled person

reproach

v. to find fault with; blame

repine

v. fret; complain

reparation

n. amends; compensation

renege

v. to go back on one's word

remonstrate

v. to object or protest

relegate

v. to consign to an inferior position

regale

v. to entertain

refulgent

adj. brightly shining; resplendent

refactory

adj. stubborn; unmanageable; resisting ordinary methods of treatment

redoubtable

adj. formidable; arousing fear; worthy of respect

recondite

adj. abstruse; profound

rebus

n. puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words

recalcitrant

adj. resisting to authority or control

rarefied

adj. refined

raiment

n. clothing

raconteur

n. witty, skillful storyteller

quorom

n. number of members necessary to conduct a meeting

quiescent

adj. inactive; still

qualm

n. sudden feeling of faintness or nausea; uneasy feeling about the
rightness of actions

qualified

adj. limited; restricted

quail

v. to cower or lose heat

quagmire

n. difficult situation

purport

v. to profess; suppose; claim

pusillanimous

adj. cowardly

punctilious

adj. careful in observing rules or behaviour

puissant

adj. powerful

provident

adj. providing for future needs; frugal

proscribe

v. to condemn; forbid; outlaw

propriety

v. to win over; appease

prohibitive

adj. so high as to prevent the purchase or use of; preventing; forbidding

prodigal

adj. wasteful; extravagant; lavish

probity

n. honesty; high-mindedness

primordial

adj. original; existing from the beginning

prevaricate

v. to quibble, evade the truth

preternatural

adj. beyond the normal course of nature; supernatural

presage

v. to foretell; indicate in advance

preempt

v. to supersede; appropriate for oneself

precipitate

adj. rash; hasty; sudden

precept

n. principle; law

preamble

n. preliminary statement

prate

v. to talk idly; chatter