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false give voting rights hinder; obstruct to start a fire harmful; poisonous; lethal calm; peaceful payment for work done lucky charm Group Abrasive Bilk Covert Engender Hangar Knotty Nuance Plagiarism Renown Tangent rough; coarse; harsh cheat; defraud hidden; undercover cause storage area (like garage) for a plane complex; difficult to solve something subtle; a fine shade of meaning taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas fame going off the main subject Group Abasement Billowing Cower Enhance Harangue Labyrinth Nullify Plaintiff Replete Tangible humiliation; degradation swelling; fluttering; waving recoil in fear or servility; shrink away from improve; make better or clearer noisy, attacking speech a maze to counter; make unimportant petitioner (in court of law) full can be touched Group Abrogate Blasphemy Credible Enigma Harbingers Labyrinthine Nuzzle Plaudit Reprehensible cancel; deny; repeal speech which offends religious sentiments believable puzzle; mystery indicators; bringers of warnings complicated; highly convoluted cuddle; snuggle statement giving strong praise shameful; very bad GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Tardy slow; late; overdue; delayed Group Absolution Blatant Creditable Ensconce Hasten Laceration Obdurate Plausible Reprieve Tawdry forgiveness; pardon; release obvious praiseworthy establish firmly in a position hurry; accelerate; rush a cut stubborn can be believed; reasonable a respite; postponement of a sentence of little value; gaudy Group Abstain Blighted Credulous Enshroud Haughtiness Lachrymose Obfuscate Plethora Repudiate Tedium desist; go without; withdraw damaged; destroyed; ruined gullible; ready to believe anything cover arrogance; pride tearful; sad deliberately make something difficult to understand an excess shun; eschew boredom Group Abstemious Blithe Crepuscular Enunciation Headstrong Lackluster Objective Pliable Rescind Temper self denying; refraining from indulging free-spirited; carefree active at dawn and dusk clear pronunciation; accent; articulation stubborn; willful dull; monotonous; bland unbiased; not subjective flexible; not stubborn retract; repeal to moderate; soften Group Abstruse Blunderbuss Cringe Envenom Hedonism Laconic Oblique Plumage Resignation difficult to understand; obscure ancient weapon (type of gun); a clumsy person recoil; flinch; shy away to cause bitterness and bad feeling self indulgence; pleasure-seeking using few words; brief; to the point indirect; slanting feathers of a bird acceptance of fate GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Tenacious stubborn; resolute; holding firm to a purpose Group Accolade Bolster Cryptic Ephemeral Hedonist Lamentation Obliterate Plummet Resolution Tentative tribute; honor; praise support; prop up puzzling; enigmatic short-lived a pleasure seeker expression of regret or sorrow destroy; demolish; eradicate fall suddenly and steeply determination not certain Group 10 Acquiesce Bombast Curtail Epicure Heed Lampoon Oblivious Podium Resonant Tenuous to agree to; give in to arrogant, pompous language cut short someone who appreciates good food and drink listen to ridicule; spoof totally unaware raised platform echoing flimsy; not solid GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Work list Group Acrid Boorish Cynical Epistle Heresy Lance Obscure Poignant Respite Terse sharp; pungent (used of smells and tastes) ill-mannered believing that people act only out of selfish motives a letter (form of communication) against orthodox opinion spear; spike; javelin difficult to understand; partially hidden deeply moving; strongly affecting the emotions a break; intermission concise; to the point Group Acrophobia Bourgeois Debility Epistolary Hiatus Languid Obscured Poised Resplendent Therapeutic fear of heights middle class weakness; incapacity concerned with letters; through correspondence interruption; pause tired; slow hidden; covered; buried calm; collected; self-possessed shining; glowing medicinal; curative Group Acuity Braggart Debunking Epitomized Hidebound Languish Obsequious Polemical Restorative Thwart sharpness (mental or visual) someone who boasts exposing false claims or myths typified; characterized; personified rigid in opinions decay; fade away; get weaker servile; submissive causing debate or argument a tonic prevent; frustrate Group Adamant Brawny Decathlon Equivocate Hieroglyphics Larceny Obsession Ponderous Retention forceful; inflexible muscular an athletic competition with ten events speak ambiguously; avoid telling the truth picture writing; writing which is difficult to read or enigmatic theft; robbery; stealing a dominating concern weighty; slow and heavy preservation; withholding GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Timorous cowardly; fearful Group Adroit Brevity Decorum Err Hinder Largess Obsolete Pontificate Reticent Tirade skilful / skillful being brief dignified, correct behavior [decorous (a)] make a mistake obstruct generosity no longer valid speak pompously or dogmatically restrained; holding something back; uncommunicative stream of verbal abuse Group Adulation Bristle Decoy Erratic Histrionic Laud Obstreperous Portend Retraction Titter strong admiration; worship to show irritation lure; trap; trick wandering; irregular theatrical; exaggerated praise noisy and boisterous foretell withdrawal; cancellation of a statement giggle quietly Group Adversity Broach Deference Esoteric Hoary Lavish Obtuse Portent Revere Tome hardship start to discuss; approach respect obscure and difficult to understand old on a grand scale; wasteful mentally dull a warning sign; omen worship large book Group Advocate Brusque Defoliate Espouse Hone Lax Obviate Poseur Riddled support blunt; abrupt cause leaves to fall off promote; take up; support sharpen; increase; whet careless; not strict avoid; make unnecessary someone who puts on an act full of (usually full of holes) GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Work list 11 Group Abate Abjure Blandishment Boor Cardinal Deliberate Equivocation Feckless Imperturbability Meretricious reduce in intensity renounce; swear to refrain from something words used to coax or flatter [blandish (v)] ill-mannered person [boorish (a)] high ranking church official; major, important slow (a); to think over (v); on purpose (a) speaking ambiguously [equivocate (v), equivocal (a)] feeble; helpless; lacking in initiative quality of being calm and not easily disturbed [imperturbable (a)] falsely attractive; tawdry Group Augury Boycott Glib Incise Moralistic Ostracism Penchant Rarefy Repine Stipulate prediction, looking for omens [augur (v)] refuse to have dealings with slick; superficial esp in speech cut into [incision (n); incisive (a)] concerned with morals [moralize (v)] shunning; social isolation [ostracize (v)] inclination; leaning; tendency; predilection make less dense [rarefaction (n)] fret; be discontented specify [stipulation (n)] Group Diaphanous Feint Inured Mettlesome Puissance Recondite Stygian Touting Virtuosity Volubility transparent; thin and delicate pretended attack; a move intended to deceive hardened; habituated spirited [mettle (n)] power obscure very dark advertising; supporting [tout (v)] skill, expertise [virtuoso (n); virtuosi (n.pl)] excessive talkativeness [voluble (a)] Group Caret Contiguous Damp Ellipsis Extirpation Foppish Gaffe Hortatory Opprobrious punctuation mark signifying omission adjacent; touching; abutting [contiguity (n)] (used of vibration) reduce in extent omission of essential words wiping out; complete destruction [extirpate (v)] behaving or dressing like a dandy; excessively concerned with fashion blunder; social mistake encouraging; exhorting expressing great scorn [opprobrium (n)] GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Recumbent reclining; lying down Group Ambidextrous Culpability Discernment Encomium Inveigle Minatory Ossified Plumb Quintessential Runic able to use both left and right hands equally well guilt [culpable = blameworthy] judgment; perceptiveness praise coax; cajole; wheedle; entice threatening turned to bone; become rigid [ossification (n)] measure depth of (v); exact (a slang) most typical; the perfect example of [quintessence (n)] mysterious; magical Group Accretion Anachronistic Chronic Churlishness Demagogue Effrontery Idyll Interregnum Nugatory Sinecure accumulation of matter; growth produced by adding from the outside occurring in the wrong time period [anachronism (n)] long lasting (often used for diseases in which case the opposite is acute) rudeness; ill-mannered behavior mob leader (who appeals to base instincts) [demagogy/demagoguery (n)] daring; audacity (has a negative connotation) story or incident in peaceful or ideal setting [idyllic (a)] interval between reigns or governments of minor significance; futile job which pays salary but requiring little effort Group Anodized Aphoristic Canonical Commensurate Dexterity Extant Impugned Probity Raconteur Solicitous electroplated; coated with thin layer of metal expressed tersely [aphorism (n) = short statement; maxim] orthodox [canon (n) = set of accepted works] equal in significance skill, esp with hands [dexterous (a)] still in existence (opposite of extinct) challenged; called into question uprightness; honesty person who relates a story kindly; expressing care and concern Group Amalgamate Baleful Coerce Inchoate Iniquitous Libertine Millinery Natty Occluded join; consolidate [amalgamation (n)] evil force [coercion (n); coercing (a)] undeveloped; nascent evil; unjust [iniquity (n)] dissolute person; prodigal hats and hat-making neat; dapper; smart obscured; blocked GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Sidereal of or related to stars Group Avaricious Extirpate Halcyon List (v) Maudlin Refulgent Subliminal Testiness Vituperate Whittle greedy for money wipe out totally peaceful and happy; calm (esp of summer weather) to lean to one side; to write in order sad; sentimental; inclined to weep glowing; radiant below the threshold of consciousness irritability; irascibility [testy (a)] attack bitterly carve with knife; reduce step by step Group 10 Colander Cumbersome Diaphanous Dispatch Epistemology Froward Supine Throwback Untoward Verisimilar bowl with holes used to drain vegetables etc bulky; difficult to carry [encumber = to burden] transparent; thin and delicate send (v); speed; celerity (n) theory of knowledge stubborn; wayward; disobedient lying flat on one’s back exhibiting primitive, or ancestral, traits unexpected true to life; giving the appearance of reality GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Work list 12 Group Abysmal Approbation Bent (n) Cadge Debacle Extemporize Incumbents Lambaste Noisome Pastiche very deep; very bad approval [opp disapprobation] inclination; aptitude get by begging disaster speak without preparation or rehearsal [extemporaneous (a)] occupiers of a job or position attack verbally disgusting work (usually artistic) which imitates, or is composed of parts taken from varied sources Group Arboreal Centrifuge Cloistered Disabuse Engendering Intemperate Lugubrious Nonplussed Pedagogy Satiate living in trees; concerned with trees device to separate substances by spinning them at high speed isolated make someone aware of an error in thinking causing; bringing into being [engender (v)] excessive; immoderate [intemperance (n)] sad; gloomy confused science of education; teaching satisfy; fill completely [satiable (a); satiation (n)] Group Artless Comeliness Doff Don Erudition Plaintive Suborn Tendentious Tortuous Verbiage without effort; without trickery; simple beauty; prettiness [comely (a)] take off (esp of a hat) put on (esp of clothes) learning; scholarly knowledge [erudite (a)] sad; mournful bribe dogmatic; biased indirect; winding excessive or meaningless wordiness Group Atonement Complaisance Daguerreotype Fawn Gregariousness Nascent Paean Reproof making amends for sin or crime [atone (v)] flexibility; willingness to please [complaisant (a)] forerunner of the photograph behave in a sycophantic way; grovel [fawning (a)] sociability; liking for crowds [gregarious (a)] emerging; newly formed praise; tribute (esp in song) scolding; criticism [reprove (v)] GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Scurvy Tutelary disease due to lack of vitamin C; contemptible; rascally serving as a guardian [tutelage (n)] Group Abscission Contentious Debilitating Foible Importune Pertain Slew Toady Torrid Veracious cutting; process causing leaves to fall off causing argument [contention (n); contend (v)] weakening [debilitate (v)] quirk; minor weakness beg; solicit [importunate (a)] be relevant to [pertinent (a)] glut; excess sycophant; flatterer hot and steamy true [veracity (n)] Group Asperity Blowhard Disingenuous Evanescent Intangible Labile Malapropism Posture (v) Proximate Pugnacious using harsh or critical tone boastful person crafty short-lived [evanescence (n)] cannot be touched; abstract [intangibility (n)] changing rapidly; unstable use of similar sounding but incorrect word to put on an act immediate; nearest aggressive, ready to fight [pugnacity (n)] Group Foreshadowed Gaucherie Heterodox Inscrutability Limerick Mannered Pluck (n) Sedulous Syllogism Vicissitude indicated a future event [foreshadow (v)] awkwardness [gauche (a)] unorthodox quality of being difficult to comprehend [inscrutable (a)] short amusing poem stylized; pretentious courage persevering; eager and thorough type of logical reasoning unexpected change in fortune or circumstances Group Acolyte Admonitory Caprices Cornucopia Deferential Intractability Luminary Minion disciple; follower or attendant scolding [admonition (n)] whimsies; fancies symbol (horn filled with fruit etc.) denoting natural abundance showing respect [deference (n); defer (v)] stubbornness; resistance [intractable (a)] eminent person underling; servant GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Undergird Vitiate support; strengthen weaken; sap energy Group Coterie Denigrate Empirical Gainsay Hyperbole Modest Prolixity Rebus Sere Vulpine clique; small group with common interests decry; criticize; belittle found by experiment or practice contradict exaggeration [hyperbolic (a)] bashful; unpretentious; not excessive wordiness [prolix (a)] puzzle in which pictures give clues withered; old like a fox [compare with bovine (cow-like); porcine (pig-like), etc.] Group 10 Corroborate Exacerbated Exact (v) Faddish Hapless Misconstrue Perennial Rent Shard Xenophobe give supporting evidence [corroboration (n)] made worse [exacerbate (v); exacerbation (n)] to demand; extort whimsical; following a fashion unlucky put a wrong interpretation on something long-lasting torn (past participle of the verb to rend) fragment of pottery person afraid of foreigners GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Work list 13 Group Alleviated Apostrophe Centurion Emollient Fusillade Inerrancy Mince Palpate Platitude Quibble made less severe [alleviation (n); alleviate (v)] punctuation mark; appeal to someone not present (a figure of speech) roman soldier (commander of a company of 100 soldiers) softening (a); something which softens (n) long burst of gunfire infallibility; inability to make mistakes [inerrant (a)] chop into small pieces; walk with tiny steps, speak in an affected manner medical term meaning to examine with the hands unoriginal, obvious saying (v) to argue about minor matters; to play on words when finding fault; (n) a minor verbal point in an argument Group Apprehension Conniving Derision Epigram Lassitude Pedantic Phenomenology Precipitate Renege Apprehension slight fear; sense of something unfavorable cunning; scheming [connive (v)] mockery [deride (v)] short, witty saying lack of energy; weariness over-insistent on matters of book-learning [pedant (n)] branch of science concerned with things as they are perceived; not directly derived from theory hurried (a); insoluble product of a reaction in chemistry (n), to instigate or speed up an action (v) go back on promise or retract statement slight fear; sense of something unfavorable Group Armada Dawdler Dross Expiate Hack Prone Propensity Scabbard Skiff Umbrage fleet of ships slow person who falls behind others [dawdle (v)] something worthless; impurities left after refining atone; make amends for chop roughly; person who writes to earn money, hired horse vulnerable to; horizontal tendency; inclination cover for a sword small boat shadow; offence; sense of injury Group Dilettantism Enervate Malevolent Neophyte Panegyric Presage dabbling esp in the arts [dilettante (n) = person who dabbles] weaken having evil intentions [malevolence(n)] new convert; tyro speech praising someone; laudatory words forewarn of; indicate GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Serration Slight Tare Unprepossessing jagged edge minor (a); perceived insult (v) and (n) weed; allowance made for container when weighing unattractive Group Aberration Cant Disinter Faỗade Impeding Lacuna Monolithic Pied Roster Seemly deviation from the normal insincere talk dig up [opposite inter = bury] front elevation of building, false appearance or demeanor hindering [impede (v); impediment (n)] gap; missing part [plural = lacunae] united in purpose; forming a single unit multicolored list of names appropriate (of behavior); decorous Group Analogue Coda Commingle Equivocal Fallible Hallow Indigence Papyrus Pique Sap something similar; output proportional to input (engineering) piece of music at the end of a musical work; finale; final part of document mix ambiguous; open to interpretation [equivocate (v), equivocation (n)] capable of making mistakes [fallibility (n)] respect; worship poverty material used for writing on before paper was invented annoyance (n); to stimulate interest; to annoy (v) liquid inside plants (n); to drain; to undermine (v); a fool (n) Group Arbitrator Descry Facetious Indecorous Proliferate Scotch (v) Strut Toy (v) Usury Wag (n) mediator; person appointed to judge a dispute [arbitrate (v)] to see (esp at a distance); catch sight of not intended to be taken seriously unseemly; inappropriate (of behavior) grow and spread [proliferation (n)] to prevent; stop; disable supporting rod (n); to walk in an arrogant manner; show off (v) to play with lending money at high interest rates a witty person Group Atavism Filibuster Gambit Mitigation Obligate Predilection reappearance of ancestral traits; regression [atavistic (a)] delaying tactics opening move; transaction making less severe [mitigate (v)] compulsory leaning; interest; talent GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Propitiate Stanch Travesty Waft appease; try to gain favor [propitiation (n)] to stop parody; ridiculous error drift smoothly (v); whiff; smell (n) Group Forage Lumber Muse Prescience Prune Ready Resolve Squalid Sullied Veneration search for food walk in an ungainly way; timber (wood) think; meditate (v); a source of inspiration (n) [in mythology, a goddess who gives inspiration] foreknowledge to trim; a dried plum (used of wit) quick firmness (n) dirty and demeaning made dirty or impure [opposite unsullied; sully (v)] worship; respect [venerable (a), venerate (v)] Group 10 Demur Duplicity Exigency Expostulate Gossamer Inefficacious Pine Prudish Quixotic Stipple object; hesitate to accept cunning; deception; double dealing urgent matter; pressing need offer strong objections; remonstrate delicate; filmy; like gauze ineffective type of evergreen tree; grieve narrow-minded; excessively concerned with morals [prudery (n), prude (n)] impractically idealistic cover with dots of paint etc GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Work list 14 Group Abrasion Adumbrate Cognitive Deign Fervid Gall Levee Preternatural Quell Score (n) damage to skin caused by scraping; process of scraping or rubbing [abrade (v)] outline; indicate concerned with thinking or perceiving [cognition (n)] condescend passionate bitterness (bad feeling); confidence; abnormal growth on a plant raised bank of a river; morning reception held by a monarch unnatural; abnormal suppress written form of music Group Abut Consternation Gavel Lien Parenthesis Sinewy Steep (v) Tamp Venturing Wry to adjoin worry and concern judge’s hammer right to sell property held as a security; legal hold on job etc remarks deviating from the main point [parentheses are round brackets in punctuation] vigorous; having well-developed muscles [a sinew is a tendon] to soak in water to plug; press loose matter down tightly (e.g pack explosives into a hole) hazarding; risking; putting forward; going somewhere [venturesome means courageous or willing to take risks] twisted or bent to one side; dryly humorous Group Arduous Decimated Fledge Gouge Picayune Riveting Soliloquy Supplicant Transcendental Veritable hard kill or destroy a large part of (originally one tenth) grow feathers; leave nest [fledgling (n) = an inexperienced person or a baby bird] cut or dig out insignificant; of little value fascinating [to rivet literally means to fix metal plates using metal pins] solo speech person who requests or begs for something [supplicate (v)] supernatural; going beyond normal experience [transcendent (a)] true; genuine [verity (n)] Group Condescension Divest Eddy Epaulet Fallacy Fringe talking down to someone [condescending (a)] remove; take off circular current shoulder decoration wrong idea [fallacious (a)] decorative border with tassels (n); to form an edge (v) GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Leaven Patronize Prominent Statute to make light; modify; cause bread to rise using yeast etc to talk down to; condescend; to be a customer of eminent; protruding; obvious law [statutory (a)] Group Antipathy Aver Expatiate Flag (v) Flail Indicted Loll Malign Secure (v) Talon hatred affirm speak or write at great length to lose energy; to signal tool used to thresh grain; to thresh (separate grain from chaff); to wave arms about wildly accused (of crime) laze around; hang out (when used of the tongue) slander to fix firmly; to obtain long pointed nail or claw Group Abeyance Disarm Elaborate Foment Jockeying Minutiae Rue Somatic Stinting Temperate state of inactivity; disuse take away weapons; win over to one’s side [disarming (a)] complex and detailed (a); to expand on (v) stir up; bathe with hot liquids (medical) maneuvering; struggling to get ahead of others [jockey (v)] small details regret [rueful (a)] concerned with the body holding back; limiting the supply (of supplies/money etc.) [stint (v)] moderate Group Allure Caulk Conscript Desultory Elegy Fallow Forbearing Hegemony Improbity Qualm attraction (n); to attract (v) treat with substance such as tar to make water-tight person enlisted compulsorily into the armed forces; 2.(v) to enlist compulsorily aimless; inconsistent in effort poem concerned with death; praise of a dead person uncultivated tolerant [forbear (v); forbearance (n)] political domination; complete authority lack of honesty or integrity hesitation or fear Group Assay Chauvinist Discrete try; assess purity someone excessively patriotic [chauvinism (n)] separate; discontinuous (not to be confused with discreet - prudent; diplomatic] GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Enlist Fabricated Fulminate Hawser Jibe Peer Stickler sign up for the army; obtain made up; false; manufactured [fabricate (v); fabrication(n)] attack loudly in words; denounce thunderously; explode noisily thick rope or cable agree with; complement; match up with (in British usagejibe means mock) an equal; to stare at; nobleman one who is strict about rules or details Group Cloture Congruent Dally Dissemble Dote Errant Fervent Stomach (v) Synapse Undercutting closure; terminating a debate by voting matching [congruency (n)] waste time; flirt avoid the truth be excessively fond of [doting (a)] wandering; wrong; straying from accepted standards passionate to tolerate junction between two nerve cells offering a lower price; undermining Group 10 Arson Carrion Intelligible Ironclad Lint Pretension Pundit Pyre Sate Syncopation deliberate, criminal starting of fires dead flesh; carcasses can be understood cannot be altered; firm fluff; soft material used to cover wounds assumed attitude of superiority; arrogance expert ceremonial fire satisfy type of musical rhythm with missed beats GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Work list 15 Group Abraded Apposite Diatribe Gerontocracy Maculated Quisling Sedulity Seine Tender Waffle worn away; eroded [abrade (v); abrasion (n)] fitting; suitable tirade; violent denunciation; stream of criticism government by the aged spotted traitor thoroughness; perseverance [sedulous (a)] type of fishing net to offer talk nonsense Group Burlesque Exemplar Homiletics Impugn Incubus Lope Macerate Nostrum Saw Sibyl comic play; lampoon model type [exemplary (a)] art of preaching and giving sermons challenge; question someone’s honor etc encumbrance; nightmarish thing run with long strides soften or break up by soaking; weaken remedy tool for cutting; wise saying prophetess Group Brook Emboss Eschew Limpid Liturgy Nexus Odometer Purchase Quotidian Seminal small stream; tolerate decorate with a raised design shun; avoid transparently clear form of worship connection instrument to measure distance covered grip; buy daily; routine essential; formative Group Agog Amortize Curmudgeon Dormancy Efficacy Epithet Figurehead Fracas Jamb amazed; wide-eyed with enthusiasm pay off a debt in installments grumpy person state of inactivity effectiveness phrase used as a label or to express the essential nature of symbol of power; nominal leader fight; disturbance door post GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Milk to squeeze; obtain by application of pressure Group Chorales Dissonance Frieze Gist Latent Partiality Plodding Rekindle Symphony Tarnished simple hymns discord; disagreement decorative border essence; main point hidden; real but undeveloped bias walking slowly and heavily; uninspired relight; revive type of musical composition made dull; spoil (reputation) Group Compromised Drabness Endow Esoterica Falters Prattle Prohibitive Purist Quack Taunt damaged or put in doubt (esp of reputation); reached an agreement by giving up part of a claim dullness give gift; provide with money etc obscure details hesitates mindless talk prohibiting; exorbitantly expensive conservative; one who insists on correct forms of language etc charlatan; fake mock; tease Group Arresting (a) Barrage Chantey Ferrous Manipulative Orate Psychosis Savor Table (v) Underwrite attracting attention; striking extended gunfire to cover an attack; dam across river; deluge or information etc type of song sung by sailors concerned with iron or its compounds scheming speak in a pompous manner severe mental disturbance enjoy put down for future discussion give guarantee, insure Group Dissident Enigmatic Foolhardy Homogeneity Personification Plaque Plausibility person who disagrees [dissidence (n)] puzzling [enigma (n)] reckless [foolhardiness (n)] evenness; uniformity represent something as a person; a concrete example of surface deposit on teeth or in artery etc.; decorative plate or sign believability [plausible (a)] GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM Resilience Trilogy Vagary resistance; ability to spring back [resilience (a)] set of three (literary works etc.); tetralogy = set of four something unaccountable; freak Group Aisle Discountenance Imperative Indigent Nadir Paranoia Prudence Resuscitation Shirk Teetotalism corridor; passageway (esp between rows of seats) disallow must be obeyed poor; needy [indigence (n)] lowest point mental state characterized by delusions or excessive fear caution; wisdom revival from unconsciousness [resuscitate (v)] avoid (esp work) total abstinence from alcohol Group 10 Balm Calibrate Cataclysmic Impropriety Pith Primordial Reconnaissance Sinistral Tempers Undermine soothing ointment or anything soothing [balmy (a)] mark an accurate scale on a device violently disruptive [cataclysm (n)] inappropriate behavior center; soft part of stem; essence present from the beginning of time examination or survey conducted in advance [reconnoiter (v)] left-handed (or counterclockwise) [dextral - right handed] moderates subvert; attempt to overthrow GRE/SAT VOCABULARY IELTSVINH@GMAIL.COM ... empty; abandon a personal peculiarity; something unique to an individual someone who opposes tyranny threatening powerful; compelling; strong think over something; ponder copy Group Allay Byline Demur... Insentient Milieu Pensive Purloin Stagnant to calm think over something; ponder gentle and easily lead fake; false unfeeling environment in a thoughtful mood; thinking deeply steal still; not moving GRE/SAT... Cataclysmic Impropriety Pith Primordial Reconnaissance Sinistral Tempers Undermine soothing ointment or anything soothing [balmy (a)] mark an accurate scale on a device violently disruptive [cataclysm