GRE Practice: Vocabulary Quiz: Adjective Noun List

adj. believing the worst of human nature and motives; misanthropical
cynical
motley
mismated
incorporeal

adj. lacking seriousness; empty-headed; featherbrained; light-headed; lightheaded; silly
brittle
synoptic
giddy
hypocritical

adj. in an early stage of development
connubial
embryonic
inanimate
enigmatic

adj. observant; conservative
orthodox
famed
hypocritical
pedantic

adj. foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
condign
cussed
ascribable
prophetic

n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage; crawler; lackey; ass-kisser
toady
clangoring
poignancy
ragamuffin

adj. so thin as to transmit light; filmy; see-through; sheer; transparent
diaphanous
delusive
wonted
piquant

adj. capable of relieving pain; anodyne
potable
artless
analgesic
vernal

adj. epidermic; dermal
jesting
cuticular
diffusing
knotty

adj. extremely hungry; sharp-set; starved; esurient
famished
lissom
despondent
amylaceous