GRE Vocabulary # GRE/M197

adj. voracious
(a) devouring or craving food in great quantities; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; wolfish
(b) relating to rural matters
(c) stirring; stimulating; exciting
(d) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
 
v. repudiate
(a) invent possible reasons for an action which are not the true reasons
(b) reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust
(c) spot, stain, or pollute; defile; maculate
(d) gnaw into; grate
 
adj. nocturnal
(a) not restrained or controlled; uncurbed; ungoverned
(b) unpleasantly cold and damp; raw
(c) arousing to action or rebellion; inflammatory; instigative; rabble-rousing; seditious
(d) of the night
 
adj. ancillary
(a) elastic; lively; springy
(b) furnishing added support; adjuvant; appurtenant; auxiliary
(c) having calluses; thickened
(d) cleverly amusing in tone; tongue-in-cheek
 
v. dissemble
(a) behave unnaturally or affectedly; act
(b) put clothing on one's body; get into; assume
(c) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state
(d) smile affectedly or derisively

adv. asunder
(a) apart; in shreds
(b) mistakenly; unintentionally
(c) adwith reference to; regarding
(d) adin a state of rage
 
v. egest
(a) turn sharply; curve; trend; veer; slue; slew; cut
(b) polish and make shiny; furbish
(c) eliminate from the body; eliminate; pass
(d) pour out
 
n. alleviant
(a) persistent determination; persistence; persistency; tenaciousness; pertinacity
(b) last station; end
(c) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower
(d) remedy that alleviates pain without curing; alleviator
 
adj. ramate
(a) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; shrunken; withered
(b) lacking even the rudiments of courage
(c) having branches; ramose; ramous
(d) having a natural fragrance; perfumed; scented; sweet; sweet-scented; sweet-smelling
 
adv. awry
(a) at a great height
(b) adwith reference to; regarding
(c) addistorted; crooked
(d) cautiously; carefully