Kaplan 900 GRE Wordlist 701-800

Ineluctable    -    inescapable, not to be avoided
Inquietude    -    uneasiness, restlessness
Inured        -    to become accustomed to something undesirable
Jejune        -    dull, lacking interest, empty of food
Labile        -    unstable, adaptable, liable to change
Lachrymose    -    tearful, mournful
Lambent        -    radiant, flickering, marked by lightness
Lissome        -    supple
Luminary    -    a person of great intellectual, creative or spiritual stature
Lupine        -    having the characteristics of a wolf
Manqué        -    a failure to realize one’s aspirations
Manumit        -    to release from slavery
Matrix        -    something from which something else originates or takes from
Mélange        -    a mixture of incongruous elements
Mien        -    demeanor, the air bearing of a person
Minion        -    a hanger-on, a follower, an underling
Moue        -    a pout, usually playful, a little grimace
Mugwump        -    a person or politician who can’t make up his mind, an independent
Nefandous    -    unspeakable, unutterable
Nimbus        -    an atmosphere that surrounds a person or thing, a rain cloud,
Obloquy        -    strong language of condemnation
Obstreperous    -    stubbornly defiant, angry and clamorous
offal        -    the waste parts of a product (often as in a butchered animal), refuse, rubbish
Opine        -    to express an opinion
Pace        -    with deference to
Pachyderm    -    a thick-skinned animal
Paralogism    -    illogical reasoning of which the reason is not aware
Paroxysm    -    a fit
Parvenu        -    an upstart who has acquired wealth and class but hasn’
Pastiche    -    a piece that imitates or is made up from pieces of other works,
Percipience    -    keen perception
Perdition    -    eternal damnation
Plenary        -    complete, fully attended, not deficient in any way
Pluvial        -    rainy
Poltroon    -    a coward
Proscenium    -    the part of the stage in front of the curtain, the wall frame for the stage
Proselytize    -    to seek to convert someone to a religion, cause or political position
Pulchritude    -    physical beauty
Qua        -    in the capacity of
Quiddity    -    the real nature of a thing, the essence , a hairsplitting distinction
Quisling    -    a traitor who helps an enemy who occupies his country
Quotidian    -    occurring every day, commonplace
Retinue        -    a group of attendants to an elevated person
Roué        -    a lecherous man, a rake, a person devoted to sensual pleasures
Saporous    -    tasty, flavorsome
Satrap        -    a subordinate ruler
Sciolism    -    superficial knowledge
Senescence    -    beginning of old age
Sequacious    -    slavish, obsequious, following in logical sequence
Serried        -    crowded together

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