RANDOM GRE WORDS LIST

Anything that gives mental, moral, or political stability orsteadiness: the ballast of a steady income.

Disconcertion; confusion; embarrassment.frustration of hopes or plans.

Anxious or concerned ; solicitous about a person's health.careful or particular: a solicitous housekeeper.

To criticize or correct, esp. gently: to reprove a pupil formaking a mistake.to disapprove of strongly; censure: to reprove a baddecision.

To make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold induratesthe soil.to make enduring; confirm; establish: to indurate customthrough practice.

Known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure;esoteric:She knew a lot about sanskrit grammar and other arcanematters.

To challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.);cast doubt upon.attack, asperse, malign, criticize, censure.

1.to waste time; loiter; delay.2.to act playfully, esp. in an amorous or flirtatious way.3.to play mockingly; trifle: to dally with danger.

–1.to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal thetruth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.2.to put on the appearance of; feign: to dissemble innocence.

Frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness;characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by hisflippant remarks about patriotism.

Dry; withered.

Easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.

1.gaiety or jollity, esp. when accompanied by laughter: theexcitement and mirth of the holiday season.2.amusement or laughter: He was unable to conceal his mirth.

1.without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.2.juvenile; immature; childish: jejune behavior.3.lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed: jejuneattempts to design a house.4.deficient or lacking in nutritive value: a jejune diet.

1.ostentatious in one's learning.2.overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching.