Friday, November 4, 2011

Confusing GRE Words



Misapprehension - mistaken belief.. (Apprehension on GRE means feel of worry or fear, other meaning for apprehension understands which is considered when considering the meaning of misapprehension).

Enervate - weaken; cause someone to feel drained of energy.

Confound - confuse

Exorcise - drive an evil spirit from a person or place.

Fatuous - silly and pointless.. (adj form of noun fatuity which means foolishness)

Reproach - accuse of; express disapproval of or disappointment with.

Plaintive - sounding sad and mournful.

Cleave - stick fast to; become strongly involved with; divide or split.. (Cleaver on the other hand is a noun which means a tool with broad blade, used for chopping meat).

Invigoration - give strength.

Complacent - uncritically satified with yourself. e.g - We must not be complacent about our achievements; there is still a lot to be done

Decried - publicly declare to be wrong.

Probity - honesty and decency.

Complaisant - ready to please; obliging; willing to please others or to accept their behavior without protest.

Commensurate - corresponding or in proportion.

Deference - humble respect.. (Defer means to put something off to a later time; OR humbly give in to....the latter verb form is kept in mind for the meaning of it as noun).

Restive - on edge (for example you would think of “rest/resting” but instead its not, that is deceptive vocabulary)

Obviate - to make unnecessary

Noisome - foul smelling

Prolix - rambling & wordy

Protean - variable

Tortuous - full of plot twists

Protean - variable

Ponderous - bogged down, tedious

Tortuous - full of plot twists

Ponderous - bogged down, tedious

Restive - on edge (for example you would think of “rest/resting” but instead its not, that is deceptive vocabulary)

Equivocate - to use ambiguous language with deceptive intent

Noisome - foul smelling

Prolix - rambling & wordy

Obviate - to make unnecessary

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