GRE Vocabulary: Character

Great-hearted after a public correction, Dr. Nunez thanked the resident who had caught his error, held no grudge, and put her name on the revision.

Credulous about a stranger's tale on the train, Jonah packed a jar and stood by the plaza fountain at midnight, expecting gold.

Anselm's abstinent routine lasted twenty years: one wool blanket, no place at the evening feast, and nobody invited to admire the plainness.

Obstinate about a valve he had drawn himself, Mr. Okonkwo kept the original sketch on the wall and refused every revision for a year after the leak was shown.

Before any lease was signed, Amina's prudent routine was the same: three insurance policies compared, a repair fund set aside, and a flashlight walk through the basement.

Uncle Reza was garrulous at every family supper, adding side paths to the same ferry story long after the plates had been cleared.

Ingenuous about documents she had never handled, Lila asked the full committee whether a signature could simply be erased.

Taciturn on a weeklong survey, Ibarra answered with nods, wrote notes in private, and left the campfire before any story started.

The guide stayed loquacious from the gate to the garden, naming the mason of each brick and talking straight through lunch.

Mr. Pell was parsimonious about sums as small as a stamp, reusing tea bags and turning old envelopes inside out for scratch paper.

Sofia was prodigal with the inheritance, buying a boat she never sailed, hosting nightly banquets, and leaving lights on in empty rooms until the balance thinned.

Dr. Sen was altruistic with her Saturdays at the free clinic, and she turned down the plaque the board hoped to hang for her.

Leon's egocentric critique used the full hour on his own canvas and never once asked what the others had painted.

Nadia's retiring manner showed before the review panel: she watched the floor, spoke only just above the projector's hum, and sat down before the questions began.

Intrepid where the guide had flagged ice, Nia crossed the ridge first whenever the path froze and set a rope for the people behind her.

Timorous at the first roll of thunder, Eli left the porch, checked the locks twice, and would not walk the dog until the sky was clear.

Pusillanimous when the group needed a volunteer, Owen invented a sore ankle and stayed with the packs while someone else fetched the ranger.

Audacious ideas arrived from Camille without an invitation, including a new museum wing she asked the trustees to fund that same afternoon.

Circumspect about harm to a private person, the editor reread the notes, phoned the lawyer, and waited a day before naming a source.

Impetuous in the way his mentor had long predicted, Kenji quit over a hallway he suddenly hated, packed one box, and boarded a noon train.

Long-suffering through months of recovery, Marta turned away extra visitors and met every question about pain with the same brief fine.

Equable as the newsroom began to pace, Leila nodded at the earlier deadline, fixed the chart, and poured her usual tea.

Roseate about every tight calendar since college, Andre told his advisor the unfinished thesis would be done by June, and he believed it.

Choleric over errors smaller than a fingertip, Mr. D'Souza raised his voice and snapped a pencil when one galley comma was wrong.

Placid amid the noise, Grandma Ito stirred the soup with her usual small smile while the children fought over the last muffin and a pot boiled over.

Carping before breakfast ended, Mr. Okada found a fresh fault in the weather, the toast, or the newspaper ink, and he did so every morning.

Regulars called the hardware clerk cantankerous because he argued screw sizes and snapped at questions that had been asked politely.

Affable where handshakes were usually stiff, Dr. Feldman learned names, asked about delayed trains, and had nervous applicants laughing before the interview.

Gregarious habits made the weekend drag for Rosa, who organized the lunch table, remembered birthdays, and brightened when colleagues returned on Monday.

The novelist remained reclusive, answering mail once a year, refusing every festival, and walking the lane only after dusk.

Professor Lang grew misanthropic long before retirement, quitting faculty dinners because people, he said, disappointed him on principle.

Ms. Okada was philanthropic in quiet ways, keeping the library open late and stocking the shelter with winter coats while refusing any plaque.

The crossing guard stayed benevolent at the school corner, keeping an extra umbrella and walking the smallest children to the curb each day.

The old rival stayed malevolent on paper for decades, hoping in letter after letter that the workshop would fail.

Vindictive long after others had forgotten the remark, Carla saved the note and watched for a chance to answer the slight.

Ms. Ellison remained implacable toward the clerk who had changed the schedule, unmoved by apologies, flowers, and a public correction.

Truckling in meetings he did not run, Evan laughed at every joke, brought coffee unasked, and agreed before a sentence could finish.

Pavel turned sycophantic the moment the director entered, praising the necktie and echoing every opinion in hope of favor, while his real doubts waited in the stairwell.

Haughty on arrival, Ms. Marwood would not share the worktable and addressed people as though the room were beneath her.

Scornful with one lifted eyebrow, the guest critic dismissed the student quartet as merely earnest before the second movement began.

Colin was vainglorious about an old medal, retelling the race to each newcomer and setting the ribbon where candlelight would catch it.

Self-effacing at the prize announcement, Dr. Rahman put the students' names first, stepped out of the photo, and called her part ordinary.

Nora's disingenuous pose of having no opinion on the merger collapsed when the minutes showed notes that had already picked the winners.

People trusted veracious Mr. Abe with the boundary because he corrected even his own stories and refused to round a measurement just to be pleasant.

Mendacious details trailed Mr. Crowe across forms: three birth years, plus a degree that no registrar could locate.

Jules proved perfidious after swearing to keep the client list private, selling it to a rival and then eating lunch as if the promise still held.

Tomas was guileless about the sale, pointing to the crack in the vase before naming a price and looking surprised that the truth might reduce it.

Laila was scrupulous with the club cash, recording two missing dollars and replacing them from her own purse when nobody else was in the room.

Unscrupulous under a deadline, Mr. Dalca copied a rival's bid from a shared printer and answered the accusation with a shrug.

A folded envelope was enough for the venal inspector, who changed a noon failure into an evening pass and never asked what had been fixed.

Avaricious after the debts were paid, Mr. Seng counted the till three times and treated other people's raises as money taken from him.

Mrs. Berg was munificent after the flood, replacing neighbors' tools and clearing their grocery tabs while refusing any ceremony.

Dr. Ortiz remained abstemious at the banquet and at home, taking one slice of bread and declining wine whether or not anyone watched.

Renata was hedonistic by open preference, building her weeks from long baths, rich suppers, and concerts, and calling pleasure a duty.

The studio head was puritanical enough to ban wall decorations, serve plain oats at meetings, and speak in clipped sentences.

Fastidious standards sent Chef Nguyen's plate back because the herbs stood a shade too high, and she wiped the rim herself after the diner had already praised it.

Professor Grant remained slovenly for years, with ink on his cuffs, notes in paper bags, and unmatched socks marking the path across his office.

Cousin Farid was indolent when the farm was busiest, napping through harvest and treating each errand as a favor he preferred not to do.

Hana's sedulous project lasted six winters, a single faded parish-register page copied into a clean notebook before breakfast.

The archivist was assiduous with the collection, taking two humidity readings a day and coming in on holidays whenever the gauge fell.

The night clerk was lackadaisical on duty, leaving forms unsigned, humming through the alarm drill, and saying that tomorrow was soon enough.

Mr. Cho was punctilious at the reception, using the right title for every guest, returning each bow at the proper depth, and correcting his own seat at once.

Aunt Mae's censorious reading of the picnic newsletter left a pencil mark on every awkward phrase.

Master Ell stayed captious at the bench, laying a finger on seams sanded with care and still announcing a flaw.

Inflexible about soil, Ms. Vidal stated her theory as law, dismissed the field data, and ended the seminar at the first disagreement.

When rain spoiled the elegant model, hardheaded Engineer Vasquez kept the plain pump that still moved water and set the diagrams aside.

Mistrustful of a free-lunch offer, Ms. Quill began by asking what the donor wanted in return.

Blinkered at her own table, Mrs. Fen left no room for a novel set outside her county or for a spice she had not eaten as a child.

Persnickety in the middle of a toast, Professor Ade stopped the speaker to correct a Latin plural and taught the rule while the glasses waited.

Grandmother Ade was sagacious about the cousins' quarrel, seeing a fight over respect rather than fence posts and ending it in an afternoon.

Malik was recalcitrant about the studio smock, leaving it on the hook through two reminders and returning in his own coat.

Ms. Duarte was intransigent in the wage talks, refusing to move a single cent or to trade a holiday for peace.

Obdurate after losing the vote, Mr. Bell sent the choir's letters back unopened and kept the hall closed.

Dr. Kapoor was amenable when the interns offered a shorter survey route, rebuilding the week and thanking them.

Chalk lines were enough for the docile apprentice, who followed them across the bench and asked before touching a tool.

Each new archive rule met a refractory answer from Ruth, who hid the sign-in sheet and kept the hours she preferred.

Beside the senior surgeon, obeisant Dr. Marin spoke quietly, waited to be invited in, and named her method before his own.

First names, a sentence cut short, and a laugh at the question put to him made the associate insolent in a boardroom that had not invited familiarity.

After eight hours on the mountain, closemouthed Sera offered the single word steep and passed over the map.

Two words named the error, the paper came sliding back, and the brusque clerk called the next person without a greeting or a glance up.

At the gallery opening, urbane Mr. Adeyemi moved from group to group and made a refusal sound like a courtesy.

A phone call during the adagio, a joke in the soft passage, and a coat across the aisle marked Pete as boorish for the whole recital.

Mud on a single rung brought a churlish scolding from Mr. Holt, who shut the gate on the neighbor and offered no thanks for the returned ladder.

Quoting the conduct code, sighing at every lapse, and describing her own obedience as a lonely burden, Claire sounded sanctimonious in meeting after meeting.

Impious at the alumni lecture, Theo compared the founders' portrait to a grocery coupon and gave the bust a comic bow.

Students were invited to test the field's favorite model until it broke, an iconoclastic opening that Dr. Freire repeated at conference after conference.

Bright hats changed with every lecture, specimens lived in cookie tins, and formal shoes met bicycle pedals, eccentric habits that Professor Moss kept year after year.

Gray suit, Tuesday lunch, and a standing objection to surprise parties made Mr. Bennett staid enough that juniors could set a clock by him.

One nod, one handshake, and a return to the cones: stolid Coach Rahman met win after win the same way while the team shouted.

Even when the night shift had worked through a funeral, the callous supervisor asked only whether the quota was met.

Where the handbook allowed a dismissal, clement Ms. Ortega assigned a repair lesson for a first broken tool.

Trenchant about the mishap, Ms. Rourke looked at the collapsed tent in the rain and called the wreck a triumph before the apologies began.

Frivolous at every safety drill, Nico saluted with a clipboard and called the stairwell a cruise ship until a warden told him to stop.

Birthday songs got a nod, shades stayed half drawn, and sunshine counted as a nuisance, a dour manner that Mr. Pappas kept at the bakery for decades.

Glum through years of break-room lunches, Paolo ate alone, answered with shrugs, and treated every celebration as noise from another room.

Vivacious at every retreat her colleagues had learned to expect, Renee clapped from the first speaker and pitched new projects before the coffee was poured.

Overweening across several good seasons, the coach left game film unused and told reporters that nothing needed to change.

Three labs earned his praise in a single semester, and fickle Jordan dropped each mentor when a newer project shone, calling every exit a fresh start.

Unpaid evenings continued after the grant ended, and steadfast Ida kept her promise that the participants would see the study finished.

Two rejections, a full revision of every criticized line, and another submission: tenacious Dr. Okeke was not finished with the result.

Two resignation letters reached the trash, the lease was renewed, and a month passed with Samir still irresolute at the kitchen table.

Before any help was offered, calculating Ms. Kruger filled a notebook with names of people who would owe her, prices for favors, and dates to collect.

A second start for the nervous soloist, a lowered baton, and a correction saved for later showed the conductor forbearing when the rehearsal could have turned sharp.

Picayune about office trifles, Manager Ruiz docked a minute of pay for one late pencil and retold the story at lunch as a scandal.

Fountain pens remained mandatory, email ballots stayed forbidden, and a 1952 rule blocked the proposal, hidebound habits that the club secretary defended under a new roof.

One awkward pause was enough for perspicacious Dr. Adewale, who named a fight about credit rather than data before either partner would admit it.

Case notes stayed in a locked drawer, and no client's story became a lunch anecdote, discreet practice the counselor kept in a town fond of gossip.