Difficult GRE Words - Group 5
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| Difficult GRE Words - Group 5 | View Group Words |
felicitous 
1
 | a. full of high-spirited fun; gay; given to merry |
| a. feverish; intense emotion or activity |
| a. apt; suitably expressed; well chosen |
| a. inclined to make trouble; disobedient; irritable |
fibrillation
2
| a. feverish; intense emotion or activity |
| n. muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination |
| a. full of high-spirited fun; gay; given to merry |
| a. consisting of or resembling grains; having grainy texture |
flagrant
3
| a. inclined to make trouble; disobedient; irritable |
| n. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner |
| a. obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous; flaming into notice |
| v. make holy; set apart for holy or religious use; consecrate; treat or keep as sacred |
fluctuate
4
| a. hesitant; faltering; imperfect or defective |
| v. visit often; appear to in the form of ghost or other supernatural being; come to the mind of continually |
| a. consisting of or resembling grains; having grainy texture |
| v. rise and fall in or as if in waves; shift; vary irregularly |
forensic
5
| a. disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation |
| v. foretell; tell in advance; indicate likelihood of; portend |
| a. relating to the use of science or technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law |
| a. repeated too often; over familiar through overuse |
framework
6
| v. foretell; tell in advance; indicate likelihood of; portend |
| n. business or practice of catching fish; fishing; a place for catching fish; the right to take fish at a certain place |
| n. structure for supporting or enclosing something else, a fundamental structure for written work |
| a. full of high-spirited fun; gay; given to merry |
gallantry
7
| v. form into grains or small masses; make rough on surface |
| n. one who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion |
| a. worthy of religious veneration,sacrosanct |
| n. bravery |
gambol
8
| a. departing from accepted beliefs or standards; oppositional |
| v. dance and skip about in sport; leap playfully |
| n. facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust |
| v. give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy |
gratify
9
| n. region; remote and undeveloped area |
| a. apt; suitably expressed; well chosen |
| v. give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy |
| a. feverish; intense emotion or activity |
hackneyed
10
| n. structure for supporting or enclosing something else, a fundamental structure for written work |
| n. beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as main horizontal support in building |
| n. weakness or failing of character |
| a. repeated too often; over familiar through overuse |