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Word list for GRE

Date: 26/12/2021

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Article type: Book Review

Title: In ‘Old Poets,’ Donald Hall dished on Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot and more

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WORDS LIST
Word	Meaning	Sentence
Reminiscence	A mental impression retained and recalled from the past; recall, recollection	It’s easier to reminisce on the good memories rather than the bad.
wry	Humorously sarcastic or mocking: dry	I exchange a wry  smile with Hideo as she launches into an explanation about blood.
Oppressive	Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; tyrannical; domineering ,tending to domineer	As the sun sets and the oppressive heat breaks, he hears crickets and frogs begin their music and join the migrant chorus.
Eternal	Interminable, unending, unceasing, perpetual	The wait seemed eternal.
Fatuous	Showing a lack of intelligence or thought ; stupid and silly, Inane, asinine, mindless	Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow.
Stellar	outstanding, wonderful, better than everything else,	Citra, try as she might to be a stellar apprentice, was not immune to indiscretion herself.
Elusive	Subtle, difficlut to describe, Baffling	It was something elusive, something faint and fragrant that I could not name.
Elegiac	Expressing sorrow often for something past;	The poems are elegiac, brooding and death-obsessed, haunted by intimations of mortality, by ghosts facing backward with regret and forward with trepidation.
Unrepentant	Not penitent or remorseful; impenitent	A reformed — but unrepentant — hell-raiser, O’Toole long suffered from ill health.
Droll	Comical in an odd or whimsical manner	A droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humour
Worldliness	The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment:mundaneness , mundanity , sophistication	Ms. Ferguson is quick to acknowledge her Bergman-esque knack for conveying wordliness and infinite weariness in a glance, a quality that captivated the filmmakers.
Denounce	Speak out against; denunciate , mark , stigmatise , stigmatize	His rivals would denounce him as a bad example for the South.
Ferocity	The property of being wild or turbulent; fury,vehemence	Darnell shouted in one long, drawn-out wail of such ferocity that Mark stepped back again.
Glimpsed	A brief or incomplete view,a quick look	A glimpse of his chin and cheek is all I get as he’s passing, but it’s enough to recognize.
Penetratingly	With ability to see into deeply	Throughout the book, Amis penetratingly relates the horrors of late middle age, less genteelly known as the beginning of the end.
Chronicle	Record in chronological order; make a historical record	Nevertheless these chronciles  cannot be dismissed out of hand for these reasons.
Vilifier	One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel; backbiter , calumniator , defamer , libeller , maligner , slanderer , traducer	Let us watch with jealous care the honor of our country, and scorn the aspersions of its villifiers.
Vain	Characteristic of false pride, conceited , egotistic; Unproductive of success	I even tied on my mask in a vain attempt to keep my nose warm.
Craving	An intense desire for some particular thing;hunger , lust , starve , thirst	My entire body started craving  oxygen, just one breath, but I couldn’t get it.
Antic	Ludicrously odd;fantastic , fantastical , grotesque	Hamlet’s assumed antic disposition
Graduge	Harbour ill feelings, stew	She wondered how long a demon could hold a grudge .
Wrangle	To quarrel noisily , angrily or disruptively; haggle	The bar keeper threw them out , but they continued to wrangle  on down the street.
Voluptuous	displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses	The skyline was intricate and voluptuous  and enchanted and absurd.
Recount	Narrate or give a detailed account of; narrate , recite , tell: count	He imagined himself recounting  his adventures to her, back at Wall, in front of a blazing parlor fire; but somehow all of his tales seemed a little flat.
Befit	Accord or comport with; suit	This kind of behaviour does not befit  a young woman!
Resolved	Determined	She was firmly resolved to be a doctor
Melancholy	A feeling of thoughtful sadness,	He tried to smile, but his eyes were downcast and melancoly .
Painstakingly	In a fastidious and painstaking manner;fastidiously	It was passed on aurally, monk by monk, nun by nun, painstakingly , patiendy, for century after century.
Wretched	Of very poor quality or condition; miserable, deplorable , execrable , miserable , woeful	“Save me!” cried the wretched  witch in the front row.
Gratitude	A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation	He was overwhelmed with gratitude  for their help
Indispensable	Absolutely necessary ; vitally necessary, Unavoidable	Yet the sword was their one, indispensable weapon against the Horcruxes.

 

 

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