Difficult GRE Words - Group 9
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| Difficult GRE Words - Group 9 | View Group Words |
profane 
1
 | n. pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment |
| v. violate; put to improper, unworthy, or degrading use; abuse |
| v. to cause irritation or resentment, to embitter |
| n. one who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by their corresponding assumption of risk |
prohibitive
2
| a. tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding |
| a. capable of being remedied or cured; set straight or right |
| n. introduction, usually to a poem or play |
| v. command against; banish; outlaw |
proletarian
3
| n. an agent that slows down or delays the actions of something |
| v. violate; put to improper, unworthy, or degrading use; abuse |
| n. member of working class; blue collar person |
| v. drive forward; cause to move forward or onward; push |
propitiate
4
| a. cowardly; lacking strength and firmness of mind |
| v. make peace with; appease and render favorable |
| v. steal, often in violation of trust; put away; remove |
| n. reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises |
proscribe
5
| v. command against; banish; outlaw |
| a. compensating; rewarding; profitable or paying |
| a. suggesting puzzlement; mocking; curious |
| n. rafts man; originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber |
protean
6
| a. suggesting puzzlement; mocking; curious |
| a. versatile; able to take on many shapes; readily taking on varied shapes |
| n. reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises |
| a. displaying foresight; providing carefully for future; preparing for emergencies |
purport
7
| a. versatile; able to take on many shapes; readily taking on varied shapes |
| n. matter; point; particular; consideration; condition; respect |
| n. design or tendency; meaning; import; disguise; covering |
| a. compensating; rewarding; profitable or paying |
queue
8
| v. steal, often in violation of trust; put away; remove |
| v. to form a line or wait in line |
| a. tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding |
| v. spread out; effuse; issue or emerge in rays or waves |
radiate
9
| v. spread out; effuse; issue or emerge in rays or waves |
| a. filled to brim or to point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied |
| n. rafts man; originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber |
| n. following members; attendants accompanying high-ranking person |
raillery
10
| n. pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment |
| v. spread out; effuse; issue or emerge in rays or waves |
| n. following members; attendants accompanying high-ranking person |
| a. cowardly; lacking strength and firmness of mind |