Barron's High Frequency 333 GRE Words : 31-40

1. Attenuate (v) : make thinner, weaken or lessen (in density, force, degree); The long, dry spell ATTENUATED the creek to the merest trickle.
2. Audacious (adj) : daring, bold; Audiences cheered as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia made their AUDACIOUS, death-defying leap to freedom and escaped Darth Vader’s troops.
3. Austere (adj) : forbiddingly stern, severely simple and unornamented; The headmaster’s AUSTERE demeanor tended to scare off the more timid students, who never visited his study willingly.
4. Autonomous (adj) : self-governing; Although the University of California at Berkeley is just one part of the state university system, in many ways Cal berkeley is AUTONOMOUS, for it runs several programs that are not subject to outside control.
5. Aver (v) : assert confidently or declare, as used in law, state formally as a fact; The self-proclaimed psychic AVERRED that, because he had extrasensory perception on which to base his predictions, he needed no seismographs or other gadgets in order to foretell earthquakes.
6. Banal (adj) : hackneyed, commonplace, trite, lacking originality; The hack writer’s worn-out cliches made his comic sketch seem BANAL.
7. Belie (v) : contradict, give a false impression; His coarse, hard-bitten exterior BELIED his innate sensitivity.
8. Beneficent (adj) : kindly, doing good; The over generous philanthropist had to curb his BENEFICENT impulses before he gave away all his money and left himself with nothing.
9. Bolster (v) : support, reinforce. The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to BOLSTER their arguments.
10. Bombastic (adj) : pompous, using inflated language; Puffed up with conceit, the orator spoke in such a BOMBASTIC manner that we longed to deflate him.