200 GRE Words Flashcards
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Abscond
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To leave secretly
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Abstain
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Choose not to do anything
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Abyss
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An extremely deep hole
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Adulterate
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To make impure
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Advocate
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Speak in favor of
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Aesthetic
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Concerning the appreciation of beauty
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Aggrandize
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Grow in power, influence, and reputation
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Alleviate
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To make more bearable
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Amalgamate
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Combine
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Ambiguous
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Unclear; able to be interpreted multiple ways
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Ameliorate
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To improve
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Anachronism
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Something out of place in time
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Analogous
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Similar or alike in some way
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Anomaly
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Deviation from what is normal
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Antagonize
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To annoy or provoke to anger
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Antipathy
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Extreme dislike
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Apathy
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Lack of interest
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Arbitrate
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To judge a dispute between two others
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Archaic
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Ancient or old-fashioned
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Ardor
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Intense and passionate feeling
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Articulate
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Able to speak clearly and expressively
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Assuage
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To make something unpleasant less severe
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Abate
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To reduce in amount or severity
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Attenuate
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To reduce in force or degree
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Audacious
Fearless and daring
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Austere
Severe or stern in appearance
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Banal
Predictable or boring
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Bolster
To support
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Bombastic
Pompous in speech and manner
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Cacophony
Harsh noise
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Candid
Impartial and honest in speech
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Capricious
Changing one's mind quickly and often
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Castigate
To punish or criticize harshly
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Catalyst
Something that brings about. A change in something else
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Caustic
Biting in wit
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Chauvinist
Someone favored in a group to which they belong
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Chicanery
Deception by means of craft
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Cogent
Convincing and well reasoned
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Condone
To overlook, pardon, or disregard
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Convoluted
Intricate and complicated
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Corroborate
To provide supporting evidence
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Credulous
Too trusting; gullible
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Crescendo
Steadily increase in volume or force
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Decorum
Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
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Deference
Respect or courtesy
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Deride
To mock
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Enigma
Puzzle or mystery
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Equivocate
Use expressions of double meaning to mislead
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Erudite
Learned, scholarly, or bookish
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Fervid
Intensely emotional
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Lucid
Clear and easily understood
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Opaque
Impossible to see through
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Placate
To soothe or pacify
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Precipitate
To throw violently or to do abruptly
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Prodigal
Lavish or wasteful
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Zeal
Passion or excitement
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Desiccate
To dry out throughly
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Desultory
Jumping from one thing to another or disconnected
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Diatribe
An abusive, condemnatory speech
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Diffident
Lacking self confidence
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Dilate
To make larger or expand
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Dilatory
Intended to delay
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Dilettante
Someone with an amateur or superficial interest in a subject
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Dirge
Funeral hymn or mournful speech
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Disabuse
To set right or to free from error
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Discern
Perceive or recognize
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Disparate
Fundamentally different
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Dissemble
To disguise one's real intentions
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Dissonance
Harsh and disagreeable combination, often sounds
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Dogma
Firmly held opinion, often religious
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Dogmatic
Dictatorial in one's opinion
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Dupe
Deceive or a person who is easily fooled
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Eclectic
Made up from a variety of sources
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Efficacy
Effectiveness.
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Elegy
Sorrowful poem or speech
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Eloquent
Persuasive and moving especially in speech
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Emulate
To copy or to try and equal
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Enervate
To reduce in strength
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Engender
To produce, cause, or bring about
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Enumerate
To count, list, or itemize
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Ephemeral
Lasting a short time
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Erratic
Wandering and unpredictable
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Esoteric
Known or understood by only a few
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Estimable
Admirable
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Euphemism
Use of an inoffensive word in place of a more distasteful one
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Exacerbate
To make worse
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Exculpate
To clear from blame or prove innocent
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Exigent
Urgent or requiring immediate action
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Exonerate
To clear from blame
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Explicit
Clearly stated or shown
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Fanatical
Filled with extreme, unquestionable devotion
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Fawn
To act in a servile manner to gain one's favor
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Florid
Excessively decorated or embellished
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Foment
To arouse or incite
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Frugality
Tendency to be thrifty or cheap
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Garrulous
Tending to talk a lot
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Gregarious
Outgoing or social
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Guile
Deceit or trickery
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Gullible
Easily deceived
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Iconoclast
One who opposes established beliefs and customs
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Imperturbable
Not capable of being disturbed
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Impervious
Impossible to penetrate or incapable of being affected
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Impetuous
Quick to act without thinking
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Implacable
Unable to be calmed down
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Inchoate
Not fully formed or disorganized
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Ingenuous
Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
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Inimical
Hostile or unfriendly
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Insipid
Lacking interest or flavor
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Intransigent
Uncompromising or stubborn
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Inundate
To overwhelm or cover with water
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Irascible
Easily made angry
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Laconic
Using few words
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Lament
To express sorrow or grief
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Laud
To give praise or glorify
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Lavish
To give unsparingly
| Extremely generous or extravagant
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Lethargic
Acting in an indifferent or sluggish manner
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Loquacious
Talkative
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Luminous
Bright, brilliant, or glowing
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Malinger
To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
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Malleable
Capable of being shaped
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Meticulous
Extremely careful about details
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Misanthrope
A person who dislikes others
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Mitigate
To soften or lesson
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Mollify
To calm or make less severe
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Monotony
Lack of variation
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Naive
Lacking sophistication or experience
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Obdurate
Hardened in feelings or resistant to persuasion
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Obsequious
Overly submissive and eager to please
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Obdurate
Stubborn or unyielding
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Obviate
To prevent or make unnecessary
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Occlude
To stop up or prevent the passage of
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Onerous
Troublesome and oppressive or burdensome
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Opprobrium
Public disgrace
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Ostentation
Excessive showiness
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Paradox
A contradiction or dilemma
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Paragon
Model of excellence or perfection
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Pedant
Someone who shows off learning
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Perfidious
Willing to betray one's trust
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Mellifluous
Sweet or musical to the ear; euphonic
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Perfunctory
Done in a routine way or indifferent
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Permeate
To penetrate
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Philanthropy
Charity or a desire to promote goodness
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Placate
To soothe or pacify
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Plastic
Able to be molded, altered, or bent
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Plethora
Excess
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Pragmatic
Practical as opposed to idealistic
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Precipitate
To throw violently or bring about abruptly
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Prevaricate
To lie or deviate from the truth
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Pristine
Fresh and clean
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Proliferate
To increase in number quickly
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Propitiate
To conciliate or to appease
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Propriety
Correct behavior or obedience to rules and customs
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Prudence
Wisdom, caution, or restraint
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Pungent
Sharp and irritating to the senses
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Quiescent
Motionless
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Rarefy
To make thinner or sparse
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Repudiate
To reject the validity of
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Reticent
Silent or reserved
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Rhetoric
Effective writing or speaking
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Satiate
To satisfy fully or overindulge
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Soporific
Causing sleep or lethargy
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Specious
Deceptively attractive or seemingly plausible but fallacious
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Stigma
Mark of shame or discredit
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Stolid
Unemotional or lacking sensitivity
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Sublime
Lofty or grand
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Tacit
Done without using words
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Taciturn
Silent or not talkative
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Tirade
Long, harsh speech or a verbal attack
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Torpor
Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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Transitory
Temporary or lasting a brief time
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Vacillate
To sway physically or be indecisive
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Venerate
To respect deeply
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Veracity
Filled with truth and accuracy
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Verbose
Wordy
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Vex
Annoy
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Volatile
Easily aroused or changeable; lovely or explosive
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Waver
To fluctuate between choices
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Whimsical
Acting in a capricious manner or unpredictable
