ChatKaplan 900 GRE Wordlist 301-400
Abeyance - a temporary suspension of activity
Abrogate - to repeal, to set aside, to nullify
Abscond - to leave quickly and secretively
Abstinence - voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink
Abstruse - hard to understand or grasp
Accolade - award or honor, high praise
Accouterments - personal clothing, accessories, or equipment
Acquit - to find not guilty, to conduct oneself
Adjure - to command or urge solemnly and earnestly
Adumbrate - to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come
Aegis - protection, patronage
Aggrieve - to distress, to mistreat
Akimbo - having one’s hands in a bent position on the hips,
Alacrity - cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness
Alchemy - a process of transformation that is seemingly magical
Ambulatory - able to walk or move about
Ameliorate - to make better, to ease or improve
Anathema - something or someone loathed or intensely dislike
Ancillary - subsidiary, subordinate
Anomie - instability caused by an erosion of value or lack of purpose
Antipodal - situated on opposite side of the earth or being exactly opposite
Apocryphal - false, spurious, of doubtful origin
Apoplexy - a stroke resulting from loss of blood of the brain,
Apostasy - a judge, one who decides
Ascetic - hermitlike, self-denial, austere
Assiduous - hardworking, busy, diligent
Assignation - a secret meeting, a tryst, or something assigned
Bacchanal - a drunken reveler or orgy
Bandy - to toss and forth, to exchange, to use in a glib way
Bathos - a transition from the illustrious to the commonplace, overdone pathos,
Behemoth - something that is enormous, or monstrous in size and power
Belie - to run counter to, to show something as false
Besmirch - to stain or soil ( commonly as to reputation )
Bilious - ill-tempered, cranky, angry
Bivouac - a temporary encampment
Bon Vivant - someone who enjoys luxurious living
Bowdlerize - to censor prudishly
Brook - to tolerate, to put up with something
Bumptious - pushy, conceited, noisily self-assertive
Byzantine - extremely intricate or complicated in structure
Cabal - a secret group of conspirators, a clique
Cachet - a mark of distinction, a quality that “says” prestige
Calumny - slander, deliberate false statements
Capricious - whimsical, fanciful, impulsive
Castigate - to punish, chastise, criticize severely
Cataclysm - a violent upheaval, an earthquake, a flood
Cavil - to quibble, to raise trivial objections
Chary - careful, cautious, wary
Chicanery - deception or trickery
Chimerical - wildly fanciful, absurd
Circumlocution - wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression
Clout - influence, a forceful blow
Cogitate - to ponder over, to mediate, to think
Comport - to behave
Compunction - remorse, feeling uneasy after having done something
Concomitant - accompanying, attending, going along with
Conflagration - a large, disastrous fire
Contentious - argumentative over a point, quarrelsome
Cortege - a procession, a group of attendants
Coterie - an intimate group of people with a common interest
Covet - to wish for with envy
Debacle - a disaster or violent breakdown
Decimate - to kill or destroy a large part of
Deleterious - harmful
Depredate - to prey upon, to plunder with violence if necessary
Descry - to discern, to see something, to teach sight of
Desiccate - to dry out
Dichotomy - division into two often contradictory parts
Dilettante - a dabbler, someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
Discomfit - to confuse, deceive
Disquiet - to make uneasy
Dissipate - to break up, to squander, to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
Diurnal - occurring during the day, happens everyday
Doff - to take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
Doggerel - comic, sometimes crude, informal verse
Dossier - a file of documents, letters and records
Draconian - severe, exceedingly harsh
Dulcet - having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound
Effete - exhausted, lost vitality, over refined
Élan - vigor, distinctive, elegant style
Elliptical - oval, obscure in expression
Encomium - a eulogy or expression of high praise
Endemic - native, belonging to a specific region
Enervate - to weaken, to sap the strength
Ennui - boredom, listlessness, lack of interest
Ensconce - to settle in snugly, to hide in a secure place
Ersatz - an inferior substitute
Erudite - scholarly, deeply learned, well read
Espy - to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of
Ethnocentric - the belief in the superiority of one’s race or ethnic group
Evanescent - vanishing, happening for the briefest moment
Exemplar - an excellent model, a typical example
Exigent - urgent, demands prompt action
Extirpate - to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate
Facetious - humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
Fauna - animals
Feckless - lacking responsibility, ineffective
Fecund - fertile, productive, fruitful
Feral - wild, like a wild animal, savage
Fetter - to impede, restrain, hamper
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