GRE Study Guide Chapter 3

Tortuous: Twist and Turns
Dichotomy: Split, branching into two parts
Burgeon: Develop rapidly, flourish
Diatribe: Bitter tirade, accusing criticism
Empirical: Based on experience, verifiable by experiment or observation
Apocryphal: Spurious, not authentic, invented rather than true, mythical
Apostate: One who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs, turncoat, deserter
Antipathy: Habitual aversion, intense dislike, natural repugnance
Illusory: Deceptive, false, misleading, unreal.
Idyllic: Charmingly carefree and simple, unspoiled, serene, pastoral
Maverick: Rebel, nonconformist, eccentric, oddball
Malleable: Capable of being shaped by pounding; soft and pliable, impressionable
Impervious: Impenetrable, incapable of being damaged or distressed
Aspersion: Slanderous remark, abusive attack, disparaging comment
Asperity: Sharpness of temper, harshness of manner, severity
Paucity: Scarcity, dearth, scantiness, insufficiency of number
Imperiousness: Overbearing manner, domineering, arrogance, lordliness
Cacophonous: Disturbing to the ear, rough sounding
Equivocal: Unclear, convoluted and vague
Aberrant: Deviating from the norm.


Tortuous means twist and turns
Dichotomy means split into two different terms
Burgeon spelled b-u-r-g-e-o-n
Is a verb for develop rapidly and
To flourish like Robin Williams in Jack
Or me on this track, when I verbally attack
Aka a diatribe, a noun meaning bitter tirade
Or accusing criticism, an antonym of praise
With a distrust in hunches and intuitive flashes
I place my reliance on empirical facts which
Commonly refers to verifiable data used by a great debater
Not apocryphal data, mythical, invented and not accepted on papers
Pause while I breathe in vapors

An apostate abandons his political seat or religious beliefs
A turncoat like Benedict Arnold and British deceit
My antipathy for curry, makes me hurry
Across Lexington in the morning very early
That aversion is building along with my illusory dreams
Which means, deceptive, false, misleading and seems
Out of reach so I try to keep my thoughts idyllic
Carefree, simple, serene and filled with pastoral bliss
While a Maverick means rebel or nonconformist
John Mccain claimed he was one, but his loss was enormous

Your girl is malleable, capable of being shaped by pounding
Soft, pliable, impressionable, and easily suede, which now brings
Us to the antonym known as impervious
Impenetrable, invulnerable, incapable of getting nervous on surface
In the face of any aspersion, a noun meaning slanderous remark
An abusive comment, disparaging and harsh pre-fixed by Asper
Which is why asperity means harshness of manner,
Yeah with a rough temper
Like a dramatic actor yelling and screaming at his director…
Pause while I choose to press enter

Now on to Paucity, which is an other
Word for scarcity, scantiness, and insufficiency of number
Like snow in the summer which gets used to not appearing
And next we have imperiousness, arrogance, lordliness, domineering
While cacophonous means disturbing to your hearing
I’m gonna break this down so it stays like an earring
“Phonous” means music and “caca” means shit
So cacophonous is what it sounds like when you spit
Equivocal means unclear, convoluted and vague
Aberrant means deviating from the norm, like when you misbehave
And that’s 20 words for chapter 3…. I did it again, so clap for me…..