362 GRE words with English definitions and example sentences

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• Putative generally considered reputed demoted liu shaoqi made
• Instigate bring initiate action event mao's ability cultural
• Animus hostility ill feeling difference class background produce
• Alacrity cheerful willingness;eagerness accepted invitation
• Averse strongly disliking opposed taking chances
• Extortion practice obtaining money force threats bureaucracy lived
• Milieu surroundings setting environment stayed safe happy social
• Ken one's range knowledge understanding politics
• Inure accustom unpleasant children inured violence
• Self-seeking concern oneself weaknesses combined official demoralization government
• Obviate avoid prevent undesirable personal suffering obviated life
• Ravage severe extensive damage sides ravaged populace fighting
• Strength sap gradually weaken destroy person's power policy
• Scion descendant notable family long lineage nabokov aristocratic
• Infighter person involved conflict associates doubt lin gifted
• Auspices british india support protection opium produced sold
• Contraband goods imported exported illegally high price drug
• Flagstaff term flagpole star-spangled banner began play american
• Wont adj literary person habit accustomed poor man
• Inculcate instil idea attitude habbit persistent instructions true
• Amalgam mixture blend taiping christianity unique east-west ideas
• Inept showing skill clumsy taiping leaders economics politics
• Appraisal act assessing recent comprehensive upbeat
• Lethargic affected lethargy sluggish apathetic modernization china game
• Convert proselytize attempt religion belief opinion missionaries demanded
• Fiasco complete failure ludicrous humiliating viewed hundred days
• Besmirch damage someone's reputation heshen besmirched emperor's
• Recourse source difficult situation main tax trade low
• Emulate imitate japan's unexpected crushing defeat china made
• Extirpate eradicate destroy completely china's imperial autocracy extirpated
• Decry publicly denounce confucian morality decried selfishness antisocial
• Approbation formal approval praise nanjing government's claim foreign
• Expunge obliterate remove completely unwanted unpleasantly ccp kind
• Crux decisive important point issue china's problem,but nationalist
• Conscript enlist compulsorily typically armed services peasantry conscripted
• Incipient adj beginning happen develop war's end peasant
• Espouse adopt support belief life espoused democracy united-front
• Fiat formal authorization proposition decree people labeled enemies
• Willy-nilly adv likes time united states important factor
• Largesse generosity bestowing money gifts american sympathy lease
• Castigate criticize reprimand severely;punish order correct students faculties
• Bifurcation division branches parts society rulers ruled managers
• Pyrrhic won adj victory great cost worthwhile victor
• Prerogative privilege exclusive individual class command labor power
• Eschew deliberately avoid abstain deng eschewed highest offices
• Dichotomy division contrast things represented opposed qiao china's
• Riddance unwanted person thing action rid troublesome good
• Draught current cool air room confined space doors
• Audacity willingness bold risks urged young student display
• Debacle fiasco sudden ignomious failure stalin quickly blamed
• Egregious outstandingly bad shocking high rank young man
• Leeway freedom degree action room choice amount move
• Treacherous ground water conditions presenting hidden unpredictable dangers
• Decimate destroy considerable part reduce point complete extermination
• Mien person's appearance manner indication character mood father
• Behest literary person's orders command key slogan meant
• Propound put forward idea theory consideration stalin propounded
• Rouse stop sleeping major shah roused party dawn
• Preclude make impossible prevent happening cloud cover precluded
• Placate make angry hostile considered minimum engage taiwanese
• Deluge severe flood heavy fall rain great quantity
• Reject overrule disallow exercising one's superior authority decision
• Dungeon feeling offense deep resentment eisenhower administration initially
• Berate scold criticize angrily americans
• Outweigh heavier greatet significant cons heavily outweighed pros
• Elevation action fact raising raised higher important level
• Cardiac relating heart july generalissimosuffered arrest
• Unfazed disconcerted perturbed dissidents not
• Categorical unambiguously explicit direct american declaration assertion taiwan
• Inadvertently accidentally intention fred chien revealed american official
• Distraught worried upset ambassador advance notice hours asked
• Impertinence rudeness lack respect ching-kuo
• Delphic deliberately obscure ambiguous added remark learn swim
• Insomnia habitual sleeplessness inability sleep faina suffering shortness
• Harness control make natural resources produce energy wind
• Diffusion spreading widely cities served centers greek
• Avow assert confess openly poverty disgrace true avoid
• Abstinence practice restraining oneself indulging typically alcohol sex
• Fml place source previously mentioned traveled overland east
• Tamper interfere order damage make unauthorized alterations existing
• Commensurate proportion size degree landowners political influence wealth
• Preponderance superiority power weight influence strength importantance number
• Rejoinder reply british chiefs staff
• Treble triple soviet forces trebled order attack
• Scabbard sheath sword marshal stalin kissed
• Caprice whim unaccountable change mind behavior russia broken
• Vile extremely unpleasant；bad weather reported advances fitful
• Sacrosanct important changed overlord too
• Compunction uneasiness mind wrongdoing i
• Hamper hinder impede movement progress political quarrels hampered
• Succour assistance support times distress episode profound far-reaching
• Attest give proof certify proportions hand-to-hand character fighting
• Internee interned confined wartime british prisoners civilian japanese
• Forestall prevent hinder thwart action advance i anxious
• Daunt overcome fear intimidate frighten risks daunted brave
• Equestrian relating horseback riding statue erected memory american
• Exhort fml advise warn earnestly incite argument advice
• Complacency self-satisfaction feeling smug uncritical satisfaction oneself one's
• Etch engrave impress deeply fix firmly image evening
• Avuncular adj uncle kind friendly younger experienced person
• Prank practical joke receptionist thought
• Arcana secrets mysteries staff taught banking regulation
• Ingrained deep-rooted;firmly fixed established parts china concepts america
• Circa prep preceding date approximately cattle scapula
• Curator keeper custodian museum collection tells met
• Demise death decease central planning exposed unimaginable extent
• Underpinning solid foundation support basis western markets vast
• Chameleon lizard highly developed ability change color;<br>figurative person
• Awry wrong amiss official productivity figures
• Enact make(a bill proposal)law labor laws enacted protected
• Unequivocal unambiguous leaving doubt populist leaders offer promises
• Dearth scarcity lack burdened meaningful economic policy specifics
• Crony informal derogatory close friend companion replaced government-owned
• Euphoria feeling great happiness well-being inevitable mistakes participants
• Paradigm typical pattern model periodically astray company trouble
• Burgeon grow develop rapidly flourish burgeoning global economy
• Drench v soak wet looked totto-chan drenched perspiration
• Disavow v deny responsibility prisoner disavowed share plot
• Aloof adj cool distant friendly forthcoming
• Disprove v prove false incorrect views disproved complete
• Plop v fall sound object dropping water splash
• Aquiline adj hooked curved eagle's beak teacher handsome
• Spite n desire hurt annoy,or offend things
• Afloat debt difficulty beijing worried keeping companies
• Blatant adj bad behavior openly unashamedly public display
• Cootie n infml body louse fear
• Quick n extremely sensitive flesh underlying fingernail toenail
• Begrudge v.(with objs envy possession enjoyment i landowners
• Tinfoil n foil made aluminium covering wrapping food
• Asinine adj utterly foolish play game playing
• Southerly south dill jerked head direction
• Palatial adj resembling palace spacious grand sitting homes
• Astound v shock greatly surprise astounded mother
• Equivocate v ambiguous evasive language order deceive mislead,conceal
• Inkling slight knowledge suspicion hint intimidation suggestion mao
• Beeline place n straightest direct route flight bee
• Renege v back promise undertaking contract chinese reneged
• Food palatable adj drink pleasant taste i found
• Cataract lens condition partial complete opacity eye clouding
• Kleptocrat n ruler power steal country's resources means
• Long-winded speech writing continuing tedious length lectures unbearably
• Toady servile flatterer sycophant unprincipled things order gain
• Knot group cluster persons things czechoslovak police officers
• Moo v make sound cow mooed sheep maaed
• Dither indecisive waver thai government dithered
• Tipsy adj drunk slightly khrushchev diplomatic receptions talked
• Person timeserver shapes conduct conform opinions times power
• Bidet n shallow oval basin washing esp genital
• Paraphernalia n.equipment police paraphernalia;a skier's
• Sniffle v sniff repeatedly checking mucus running nose
• Office cubicle n small partitioned space desk work
• Colloquy n conversation formal discussion years gray dawn
• Hindsight n.understanding situation event happened developed i thankful
• Garb n clothing style dress esp characteristic occupation
• Indigent adj.fml poor private charity semipublic welfare groups
• Chastity complete n celibacy sexual abstinence woman vowed
• Deflower v deprive woman virginity make longer virgin
• Runt n smallest animal litter unusually timid
• Befuddle v confuse taiwan's politics irritate beijing
• Feint n false appearance show pretense made refusal
• Ascribe v attribute person period);give guilt crime generally
• Person animal albino lacking pigmentation skin pigment tradition
• Lax disapproving strict severe;not stringent royal control sheriffs
• Effete adj disapproving weak;,decadent;worn ineffectual;no longer fertile coming
• Canonize declare dead person saint canonised st edward

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