GRE Vocabulary: Vocabulary Answers: Adjective

adj. temperate
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; juvenile
worthy of religious veneration
not extreme
showing pensive sadness

adj. rakish
covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; draped; wrapped
marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
having a common boundary or edge
evidencing little spirit or courage

adj. taut
found in the ordinary course of events; routine; unremarkable; workaday
produced or growing in extreme abundance; luxuriant; profuse; riotous
subjected to great tension
frenzied as if possessed by a demon; demoniac; demoniacal

adj. contentious
pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions
involving or likely to cause controversy
unrestrained by convention or propriety; bodacious; brassy; brazen; insolent
matching point for point

adj. synoptic
presenting or taking the same point of view
not fully developed or mature; immature
used of decisions and contracts
not practical or realizable; Laputan; windy

adj. meteoric
fast and brilliant
alone; unique; unparalleled
basic; elementary; fundamental
characterized by anger

adj. negligible
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; muscular; powerful
characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; slatternly; sluttish
existing in the mind; personal
not worth considering; trifling

adj. impeccable
invulnerable to fear or intimidation; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing
lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
not capable of sin
of great mass; giant; jumbo

adj. gilt
(of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment; self-reliant
far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
natural; unaffected; uncultured
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; gold; golden

adj. aery
characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; airy; ethereal
of a path e.g.; winding
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; involved; knotty; tangled; tortuous
having cusps or points; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated