GRE Word Group1

GRE Word Group No# 1

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alienate estrange ; cause someone previously friendly to become unfriendly or indifferent by unpopular of distasteful actions ; transfer ownership to another; make hostile: separate

estrange to alienate

lacerate mangle; tear

rend split; tear apart

sunder separate; part

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gossamer sheer; like cobwebs

imponderable weightless

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confine (imprison) n. a boundary or bounded region; border; limit / [Old Poet.] confinement/[Obs.] a place of confinement v. to keep within limits; restrict [to confine a talk to ten minutes]/to keep shut up, as in prison, in bed because of illness, indoors, etc. SYN. limit

constraint compulsion; repression of feelings

custody (imprisonment) a guarding or keeping safe; care; protection; guardianship

detain to keep in custody; confine / to keep from going on; hold back /[Obs.] to withhold

detention detaining or being detained; specif., a) a keeping in custody; confinement b) an enforced delay/a form of punishment in which a student is required to stay after school

duress forcible restraint, especially unlawfully

fetter shackle

incarcerate to imprison; jail / to shut up; confine

manacle fetter or chain for the hands or feet / fetter with manacles ; restrain / handcuff

obligatory binding; required

quarantine isolation of person or ship to prevent spread of infection

restraint controlling force

seclusion a secluding or being secluded, retirement, isolation; isolation; solitude

sequester retire from public life; segregate; seclude

shackle chain; fetter

stringent strict, severe, that must be obeyed ; tight, difficult to operate because of scarcity of money; binding; rigid

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arrogance the state or manner of having too great pride in oneself / haughtiness;

arrogant unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc

bloated swollen or puffed as with water or air

brazen insolent

bumptious self-assertive

cavalier gallant n. an armed horseman; knight / a gallant or courteous gentleman, esp. one serving as a lady's escort/ [C-] a partisan of Charles I of England in his struggles with Parliament (1641-1649); Royalist: opposed to Roundhead adj. [C-] a) of the Cavaliers b) associated with the court of Charles I of England [Cavalier poets]/a) free and easy; gay b) casual or indifferent toward matters of some importance c) haughty; arrogant; supercilious

conceit whimsical idea; extravagant metaphor

contumely scornful insolence; insult

disdain contempt ; scorn / look on with contempt ; think it dishonorable to do something ; be too proud; treat with scorn or contempt

domineer rule over tyrannically

elated in high spirits ; proud / overjoyed;

haughtiness pride; arrogance

hubris arrogance; excessive self-conceit

imperious commanding ; haughty ; arrogant ; urgent / domineering

imperiousness lordliness; domineering manner; arrogance

impertinent insolent

impudent adj. 1 orig., immodest; shameless 2 shamelessly bold or disrespectful; saucy; insolent SYN. impertinent

insolent haughty and contemptuous

lofty very high

mincing affectedly dainty

overweening presumptuous; arrogant

peremptory not to be disobeyed or questioned ; dogmatic ; insisting upon obedience ; imperious; demanding and leaving no choice

pert impertinent; forward

pontificate to officiate as a pontiff, to speak or act in a pompous or dogmatic way

presumption arrogance; effrontery

presumptuous arrogant; taking liberties

pretentious claiming great merit or importance / ostentatious; ambitious

smug (spruce) adj. orig., neat, spruce, trim, etc. / narrowly contented with one's own accomplishments, beliefs, morality, etc.; self-satisfied to an annoying degree; complacent

stilted bombastic; inflated

supercilious contemptuous; haughty

thrasonical bragging, boastful