GRE Words 2

to suspend, engage

without guile, natural, without artificiality

one who practices rigid self-denial

severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony

an act of defaming or maligning

diligent, hard-working

having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh, severe

rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen

omen, portent, the reading of omens

majestic, venerable

protection or support, patronage

favorable, successful, prosperous

without adornment, bare; severely simple, ascetic

greed, especially for wealth

to state as a fact; to inform or support

universally recognized principle; accepted or common saying

sinister, pernicious, ominous

to bless, make happy

to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner

to give a false impression, to misrepresent

belligerent, warlike

leaning, inclination, proclivity

to coax with flattery, toady or fawn

carefree, merry