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| GRE Video Word of the Day |
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 | Word/YouTube Link
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| 1 | Quotidian | noun | occurring every day | commonplace, everyday, familiar | The quotidian memories of small gestures heightened the intensity of the allegations |
| 2 | Effluvium | noun | an invisible emanation;a by-product especially in the form of waste | crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash | Telogen effluvium is technically hair shedding |
| 3 | Erroneous | adj | containing or characterized by error; mistaken | false, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact | Statements presented as fact in a patent application |
| 4 | Capricious | adj | governed or characterized by caprice; impulsive, unpredictable | unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile | During the opera’s most famous aria, the tempo |
| 5 | Pedestrian | noun/adj | going or performed on foot; dull or ordinary | stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious | Geologists have long known that the Earth's mantle is hetero;
The playwright's approach is (i) create drama on the stage |
| 6 | Exacerbate | verb | to make more violent, bitter, or severe | aggravate, complicate, worsen | It was her view that the country's problems had been
Computers cannot accurately predict
Biologists generally agree that birds
It was her view that the country's problems had been
Ragwort was accidentally introduced
Some researchers worry that if there is a causal |
| 7 | Prosaic | adj | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry; everyday, ordinary | average, common, commonplace | Philosophy, unlike most other subjects,
Overlarge, uneven, and ultimately disappointing |
| 8 | Recondite | adj | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary knowledge to comprehend. | abstruse, arcane, esoteric, hermetic | In his initial works, the playwright |
| 9 | Panacea | noun | a remedy for all ills or difficulties | catholicon, cure-all, elixir, nostrum | Although economic growth has conventionally
In The Simple Soybean, the author is much less |
| 10 | Diffident | adj | hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence | effacing, sheepish, shy, withdrawn | Once White stepped down from a political platform
Colleagues describe Padgett as both forthright
When the normally (i) ______ film director was interviewed
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| 11 | Ephemeral | adj | asting a very short time | evanescent, fugacious, momentary, temporary, transient | Tocqueville, apparently, was wrong. Jacksonian America was
If big sums are to be spent on cleaning up envir
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| 12 | Empirical | adj | originating in or based on observation or experience | existential, experiential, experimental | Animal signals, such as the complex songs of birds
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| 13 | Bridle | verb | to restrain, check, or control with or as if with a bridle | check, constrain, contain, control | The prongs of faith and duty: two sides of a bridle
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| 14 | Nascent | adj | coming or having recently come into existence. | aborning, budding, inceptive, inchoate | By about age eight, children's phonetic capacities are fully |
| 15 | Veracity | noun | conformity with truth or fact ; accuracy. | honesty, integrity, probity, truthfulness | Spiritualism, the doctrine that it is possible to communicate |
| 16 | Disdain | noun | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior; scorn. | contempt, contemptuousness, despisement | Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian (i) later
I want to criticize the social system, and to show it
In early-twentieth-century England |
| 17 | Alacrity | noun | promptness in response ; cheerful readiness. | amenability, gameness, goodwill | When the normally (i) blank film director was interviewed |
| 18 | Imperious | adj | marked by arrogant assurance; unpleasantly proud and expecting to be obeyed | authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy | No other contemporary poet’s work has such a well-earned |
| 19 | Austere | adj | very simple, with only the things that are absolutely necessary, especially because of severe limits on money | authoritarian, flinty, hard, harsh | The (i) _____ nature of classical tragedy in Athens |
| 20 | Polemical | adj | (of a piece of writing or a speech) strongly attacking or defending a particular opinion, person, idea, or set of beliefs | argumentative, contentious, controversial | Political advertising may well be the most
This filmmaker is not outspoken on political matters |
| 21 | Enigma | noun | something hard to understand or explain | conundrum, mystery, puzzle, riddle | Of the thousands of specimens of meteorites found on Earth a
It has been argued that politics as (I)
Hydrogeology is a science dealing with the properties
There is nothing quite like this movie |
| 22 | Sanction | noun/verb | the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something/to give official acceptance of as satisfactory | allowance, authorization; approve, authorize. | The recent change to all-volunteer armed forces in the United States |
| 23 | Exigent | adj | needing immediate attention | acute, burning, clamant, compelling | The (i) _____ nature of classical tragedy in Athens |
| 24 | Alleviate | verb | to make more bearable or less severe | allay, assuage, ease, help, mitigate | When marine organisms called phytoplankton photosynthesize |
| 25 | Precocious | adj | (especially of children) showing mental development or achievement much earlier than usual | early, inopportune, premature | When she first came to France from Bulgaria |
| 26 | Guile | noun | clever but sometimes dishonest behaviour that you use to deceive someone | sneakiness, subtleness, subtlety, wiliness | Because we assume the (i) ________ of natural |
| 27 | Largess | noun | something given to someone without expectation of a return | bestowal, comp, donation, donative | Franklin Pierce was an expansionist American
Although it initially seemed that the ideological |
| 28 | Proscribe | verb | to order not to do or use or to be done or used | ban, bar, enjoin, forbid | The (i) _________ of “surds"—irrational roots
Crucial to fostering a realistic understanding |
| 29 | Ferment | noun | a disturbed or uneasy state | uneasiness, unquietness, unrest | A United Nations working group issued a report describing
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| 30 | Ubiquitous | adj | often observed or encountered; present in all places and at all times | quotidian, routine, usual; omnipresent, universal, wall-to-wall | The macromolecule RNA is common
Room acoustics design criteria are determined
The report's most significant weakness |
| 31 | Worldly | adj | having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience | cosmopolitan, smart, sophisticated | Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly
Despite the pride that the play's characters take in their |
| 32 | Blithe | adj | having or showing a good mood or disposition | blithesome, bright, buoyant | The children’s (i) _________ natures
If animal parents were judged by human |
| 33 | Tacit | adj | understood although not put into words | implicit, implied, unexpressed | The trainees were given copies of
While in many ways their personalities
No other contemporary poet’s work
At their best, (i) blank book reviews
While in many ways their personalities |
| 34 | Digress | verb | to speak or write about something that is different from the main subject being discussed | deviate, stray, wander | The unexplained digressions into the finer points |
| 35 | Peruse | verb | to go over and mentally take in the content of | browse, dip (into), leaf (through), scan | Of course anyone who has ever perused an unmodernized |
| 36 | Boon | noun | something that is very helpful and improves the quality of life | advantage, aid, asset, benefit, help | As the finances of the energy-trading firm began unraveling
The spy's repeated bungling was, above all else, |
| 37 | Abscond | verb | to go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere | to go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere | Two prisoners absconded last night |
| 38 | Saturnine | adj | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn; cold and steady in mood : slow to act or change | black, bleak, cheerless, chill | A key element of The Smiths’ recognizable sound
Employees who demonstrate too much alacrity in the workplace
Slicks of oil on a rain-soaked street are ____________ and beautiful, |
| 39 | Affable | adj | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others | breezy, devil-may-care, easygoing | Those who knew Alvarez were immune to his portrayal in the press
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| 40 | Static | adj | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion;showing little change | immobile, nonmoving, standing, stationary | The condition of scholarship devoted to the history
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| 41 | Mercenary | noun | one that serves merely for wages especially : a soldier hired into foreign service | acquisitive, avaricious, avid | The (i)________ of online marketplaces has facilitated the
During the German occupation of France, the draconian
The (i) _______ nature of the monarch’s reign,
She was not the only (i) _________ of the long-proposed |
| 42 | Immutable | adj | not capable of changing or being changed | fixed, hard-and-fast, inalterable | Despite the actor’s profession that (i)___________was
E.L. Doctorow argues that the role of artists in the 21st century |
| 43 | Celerity | noun | rapidity of motion or action | alacrity, dispatch, briskness | Even those accustomed to the austere beauty
Universalism was most prominently set forward by the linguists |
| 44 | Apprise | verb | to give notice to; tell | acquaint, advise, brief | Senators were also not apprised of a plot to target four U.S. embassies in the region. |
| 45 | Loquacious | adj | full of excessive talk : WORDY; given to fluent or excessive talk : GARRULOUS | blabby, chatty, conversational, gabby | Our actions follow our thoughts. Every thought, however
Why Bob always seemed to seek out the
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| 46 | Fallacious | adj | not correct | illegitimate, illogical, inconsequent | Elena liked Joe a great deal, but she soon tired of his
That the psychopharmacological journal had already published |
| 47 | Neologism | noun | a new word, usage, or expression | coinage, modernism, language, lingo | The player’s exploits both on the field and in the finest night |
| 48 | Risible | adj | capable of laughing; arousing or provoking laughter | comedic, comic, comical, droll, farcical | Seeing (i)_________as perhaps the most significant
It was apparent to everyone present that upon
The substitute French teacher accidentally walked |
| 49 | Collusion | noun | secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose | complicity, connivance, conspiracy | Because outlaws were denied (i) _______ under medieval law
At Midwest University, there is no collusion between |
| 50 | Incipient | adj | beginning to come into being or to become apparent | aborning, budding, inceptive, inchoate | The incipient (i)________ regarding taxes could affect
In a way, the environmental movement can still be said |
| 51 | Clement | adj | inclined to be merciful; LENIENT | balmy, equable, genial, gentle | Debate rages on between proponents and detractors of corporal punishmentand |
| 52 | Salutary | adj | producing a beneficial effect : REMEDIAL,CURATIVE | advantageous, benefic, beneficent | The novel, once widely banned for what was thought of as
Some argue that profiting from terrible suffering by publishing photographic books |
| 53 | Diatribe | noun | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing | harangue, jeremiad, philippic, rant, tirade | In modern literary history, both budding and well-establishe |
| 54 | Halcyon | adj | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity | peaceful, placid, quiet, serene | The halcyon days of the new administration belied the president’s
The artist, who specialized in _______ scenes, eagerly |
| 55 | Caustic | adj | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : CORROSIVE; marked by incisive sarcasm | acerb, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulous | Davis is an opprobrious and (i) _______ speaker
(i) ___________ is unlikely to gain a reputation for reliability
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| 56 | Disabuse | verb | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy | disenchant, disillusion, undeceive | In order to defend downloading music illegally, it’s necessary to engage in a bit of ethical
The politician’s tendency to___________left even his
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| 57 | Waggish | adj | resembling or characteristic of a wag | arch, devilish, elvish, espiègle | There is perhaps some truth in that waggish old definition
Cary Grant's reputation as a suave and_____________ ladies man
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| 58 | Scathing | adj | bitterly severe | acerb, acerbic, acid, acidic | Ever a demanding reader of the fiction of others,
Because Inspector Morse could not contain his scorn for
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| 59 | Sardonic | adj | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking | pungent, sarcastic, satiric (or satirical) | Before feminist literary criticism emerged in the 1970s, the nineteent
The stock market having plunged drastically, the investor’s
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| 60 | Cow | verb | to bring to a state or an action by intimidation
| INTIMIDATE, COW, BULLDOZE, BULLY, BROWBEAT | The disappearance of Steller's sea cow from the Bering |
| 61 | Eschew | verb | to to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds | avoid, dodge, duck, elude, escape | Although never one to (i) _______life’s pleasures, only recently had Paul
Teachers of composition urge their students to (i)____________ in their
The polar reviews and modest sales did not (i) |
| 62 | Prescient | noun | foreknowledge of events; human anticipation of the course of events | foreknowledge, foresight | Although the chairman’s new policies cut costs at the time
On an aptitude test in 1986, an argument posited that the
The band’s long-standing strategy of laying leisurely explorations atop a steady |
| 63 | Apex | noun | the highest or culminating point | acme, apogee, capstone, climax
| The magazine’s editor was known to be a very busy woman
Some have argued that people who work in the service industry experience |
| 64 | Rancor | noun | bitter deep-seated ill will | animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy
| Although they stood with the congressman in a tenuous |
| 65 | Cosmopolitan | adj | having wide international sophistication; having worldwide rather than limited or provincial scope or bearing | smart, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise
| Cary Grant's reputation as a suave and_____________ ladies
In the 1950s, the country inhabitants were (I) |
| 66 | Acrid | adj | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor | acrimonious, bitter, embittered
| In contrast to instances where size is commensurate with the potency
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| 67 | Curb | noun | CHECK, RESTRAINT | check, circumscription, condition, constraint | Ensuring that children consume less sugar is among the most effective
Unlike juvenile diabetes, which is a genetic condition |
| 68 | Celerity | noun | rapidity of motion or action | fastness, fleetness, haste, hurry | Although I saw that the features of Ligeia were not of classic
Even those accustomed to the austere beauty of mathematics may be daunted by |
| 69 | Wizened | adj | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality | shrunken, withered | The man looked much older than his 70 years, his
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| 70 | Protean | adj | displaying great diversity or variety : VERSATILE | adaptable, all-around (also all-round), universal, versatile | The plan, if it can be called that, has been more of
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| 71 | Chimera | noun | an illusion or fabrication of the mind, especially : an unrealizable dream | conceit, daydream, delusion | Middlemarch author George Eliot reportedly bemoaned the dearth of (i) |
| 72 | Tyro | noun | a beginner in learning : NOVICE | amateur, dabbler, dilettante | Growing up in a wealthy suburb, she felt quite the
As official___________ from Japan to this country, |
| 73 | Limpid | adj | marked by transparency; clear and simple in style | clear, crystal, crystal clear, crystalline | Despite having the many of the most (I)
Teachers of composition urge their students to (I) |
| 74 | Maudlin | adj | drunk enough to be emotionally silly | sticky, sugarcoated, sugary, wet | Despite the actor’s profession that (i)___________was
After many years of war and bloodshed, some became
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| 75 | Munificence | adj | characterized by great liberality or generosity | bighearted, bounteous, bountiful | Michalewski's text indubitably serves as the (i)
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| 76 | Axiom | noun | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference; an established rule or principle or a self-evident truth | hypothesis, proposition, theory, thesis | Ask an art critic whether the inherent value of a piece lies in its uniqueness, technical innovation
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| 77 | Histrionic | adj | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional | dramatic, hammy, melodramatic | The judge cared not one whit for ____________ and would liberally
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| 78 | Venerate | verb | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference | adore, deify, glorify | The widespread tendency to ___________ retired political
The American public venerates medical researchers because |
| 79 | Bombast | noun | pretentious inflated speech or writing | bluster, brag, braggadocio | A skilled though (i)__________speaker, the party chairman was lauded
Consider the _______ of the nature of war, the outcome |
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