GRE GREGMAT Vocabulary List Group 6
- admonish — 1. scold someone seriously;2. give someone urgent advice
2. aesthetic — pertaining to beauty or the appreciation thereof
3. affectation — a pretense or show meant to impress others
4. alleviate — lessen the intensity or severity of something negative
5. analogous — comparable or similar to
6. bolster — lend support or boost
7. chauvinistic — excessively patriotic or biased in favor of a group or cause
8. connoisseur — a discerning expert in matters of taste
9. dissemble — hide or misrepresent one’s true feelings or beliefs
10. dogged — demonstrating tenacity and an unwillingness to give up
11. dupe — trick or fool someone
12. empirical — based on observation or experience rather than conjecture
13. engender — produce or stimulate the development of something
14. entitled — assuming oneself to be deserving of special rights or privileges
15. pertinacious — stubbornly holding onto a belief or course of action
16. presumptuous — overstepping boundaries, often in an overconfident way
17. probity — the characteristic of having strong ethical standards
18. proliferate — rapidly increase or multiply in number
19. specious — seemingly reasonable but actually wrong
20. spurious — not genuine; bogus
21. subjective — pertaining to personal feelings rather than objective reality
22. subvert — undermine or weaken, typically an authority of some sort
23. timorous — displaying nervousness; lacking confidence
24. tortuous — 1. marked by numerous twists or turns; 2. overly complicated and long
25. tractable — 1. easily managed or controlled; 2. (of a situation) easy to solve or handle
26. transient — not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory
27. ubiquitous — being everywhere at once
28. underscore — emphasize or show the importance of something
29. venal — open to bribery or corruption
30. venerate — regard with deep respect or reverence
