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Fun With Vocabulary
In an effort to shore up my somewhat lacking vocabulary skills for the GRE, I’ve been compiling a list of all the new and unfamiliar words that I come across when reading. Here’s what I have so far:
Querulous
Imprimateur
Bemused
Chattel
Tendentious
Natty
Inveigh
Punctilious
Yeoman
Zaftig
Oenophile
Semaphore
Rebarbiter
Termagant
Vainglorious
Fillip
Raffish
Aplomb
Piquant
Cadging
Astringent
Deplored
Sempiternal
Penury
Tenuous
Impertinance
Teutonic
Churlish
Recusal
Coterie
Asperity
Strident
Phlegmatic
Rigmarole
Florid
Potentate
Puissant