Test Prep Books Gre Prep 2020/2021
Vocab
Pedagogical - ✔ related to teaching or education
Unbundled - ✔ market or charge for (items or services) separately rather than as part
of a package.
split (a company or conglomerate) into its constituent businesses, especially before
selling them off.
Resignations - ✔ the act of resigning, withdrawing
Undulating - ✔ moving in waves
Ubiquitous - ✔ present or existing everywhere
Untenable - ✔ (adj.) not capable of being held or defended; impossible to maintain
Taxonomy - ✔ The scientific study of how living things are classified
Anachronism - ✔ something out of place in time
Panegyric - ✔ an expression of praise
Wretched - ✔ miserable
Pusillanimous - ✔ contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited
Sedulous - ✔ (adj.) persistent, showing industry and determination
Voracious - ✔ (adj.) having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager
Obdurate - ✔ stubborn
Tractable - ✔ easily managed or controlled
Cogent - ✔ forceful, convincing; relevant, to the point
Verbose - ✔ wordy
Vacuous - ✔ lacking ideas or intelligence
,Phlegmatic - ✔ slow-moving, sluggish; unemotional
Apathy - ✔ a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
Ardor - ✔ intense and passionate feeling
Fervor - ✔ intense and passionate feeling
Ennui - ✔ boredom
Vigor - ✔ strength, energy
Zeal - ✔ enthusiasm
Acerbic - ✔ biting, bitter in tone or taste
Perspicacious - ✔ keen; mentally sharp
Potent - ✔ power
Obsolete - ✔ out-of-date, no longer in use
Acumen - ✔ keen insight; shrewdness
Loquacious - ✔ talkative
Punctilious - ✔ (adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or
propriety
Lackadaisical - ✔ (adj.) lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted
Indefatigable - ✔ tireless
Enterprising - ✔ (adj.) energetic, willing and able to start something new; showing
boldness and imagination
Accord - ✔ (n.) agreement, harmony; (v.) to agree, be in harmony or bring into
harmony; to grant, bestow on
Opaque - ✔ (adj.) not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid
Sheer - ✔ absolute
perpendicular
Precipitous - ✔ very steep
, Garrulous - ✔ talkative
Lauded - ✔ praised
Occluded - ✔ closed or obstructed
Congeal - ✔ (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
Achillobator - ✔ dinosaur
Titanis - ✔ a large predatory flightless prehistoric bird which lived around two million
years ago
Leviathan - ✔ sea monster
Erudite - ✔ (adj.) scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic
Imperious - ✔ (adj.) overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling
Prevaricate - ✔ to lie
Patron - ✔ a person who provides financial support for the arts
Maudlin - ✔ overly sentimental
Effusive - ✔ emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative
Dubious - ✔ doubtful
Depredation - ✔ the act of preying upon or plundering
Convalescence - ✔ (n.) - the gradual return to health after illness
Boon - ✔ a gift or blessing
Placated - ✔ to appease or pacify
Indigenous - ✔ native
Ingenious - ✔ clever
Insular - ✔ isolated
Absconded - ✔ departed suddenly
Vocab
Pedagogical - ✔ related to teaching or education
Unbundled - ✔ market or charge for (items or services) separately rather than as part
of a package.
split (a company or conglomerate) into its constituent businesses, especially before
selling them off.
Resignations - ✔ the act of resigning, withdrawing
Undulating - ✔ moving in waves
Ubiquitous - ✔ present or existing everywhere
Untenable - ✔ (adj.) not capable of being held or defended; impossible to maintain
Taxonomy - ✔ The scientific study of how living things are classified
Anachronism - ✔ something out of place in time
Panegyric - ✔ an expression of praise
Wretched - ✔ miserable
Pusillanimous - ✔ contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited
Sedulous - ✔ (adj.) persistent, showing industry and determination
Voracious - ✔ (adj.) having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager
Obdurate - ✔ stubborn
Tractable - ✔ easily managed or controlled
Cogent - ✔ forceful, convincing; relevant, to the point
Verbose - ✔ wordy
Vacuous - ✔ lacking ideas or intelligence
,Phlegmatic - ✔ slow-moving, sluggish; unemotional
Apathy - ✔ a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
Ardor - ✔ intense and passionate feeling
Fervor - ✔ intense and passionate feeling
Ennui - ✔ boredom
Vigor - ✔ strength, energy
Zeal - ✔ enthusiasm
Acerbic - ✔ biting, bitter in tone or taste
Perspicacious - ✔ keen; mentally sharp
Potent - ✔ power
Obsolete - ✔ out-of-date, no longer in use
Acumen - ✔ keen insight; shrewdness
Loquacious - ✔ talkative
Punctilious - ✔ (adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or
propriety
Lackadaisical - ✔ (adj.) lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted
Indefatigable - ✔ tireless
Enterprising - ✔ (adj.) energetic, willing and able to start something new; showing
boldness and imagination
Accord - ✔ (n.) agreement, harmony; (v.) to agree, be in harmony or bring into
harmony; to grant, bestow on
Opaque - ✔ (adj.) not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid
Sheer - ✔ absolute
perpendicular
Precipitous - ✔ very steep
, Garrulous - ✔ talkative
Lauded - ✔ praised
Occluded - ✔ closed or obstructed
Congeal - ✔ (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
Achillobator - ✔ dinosaur
Titanis - ✔ a large predatory flightless prehistoric bird which lived around two million
years ago
Leviathan - ✔ sea monster
Erudite - ✔ (adj.) scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic
Imperious - ✔ (adj.) overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling
Prevaricate - ✔ to lie
Patron - ✔ a person who provides financial support for the arts
Maudlin - ✔ overly sentimental
Effusive - ✔ emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative
Dubious - ✔ doubtful
Depredation - ✔ the act of preying upon or plundering
Convalescence - ✔ (n.) - the gradual return to health after illness
Boon - ✔ a gift or blessing
Placated - ✔ to appease or pacify
Indigenous - ✔ native
Ingenious - ✔ clever
Insular - ✔ isolated
Absconded - ✔ departed suddenly
