300 High-Frenquency GRE Words Flashcards

Question

Attenuate

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Attenuate (v) To weaken Modern digital radio equipment allows even signals that have been greatly attenuated to be transmitted by one station and received by another station.

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Audacious (adj) Bold/ daring The German army commander Erwin Rommel was known as the "Desert Fox" as a result of his audacious surprise attacks on Allied forces in World War 2.

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Austere (adj) Stern; unadorned Deism is an austere belief that reflects the predominant philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment: a universe symmetrical and governed by rationality

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Aver (v) To affirm; declare to be true Yogis aver that everyone has a guru, whether it be a person, God or the experiences of the world, that helps him or her practice the yoga that is in accordance with his or her nature and assists on the path toward enlightenment.

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Zealot (n) One who is fanatically devoted to a cause The crusades of the 11th to the 13th century were conceived of by Christian zealots as a way to drive the Islamic interlopers from the holy land

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Whimsical (adj) Fanciful; unpredictable Many children appreciate Dr. Seuss whimsical stories.

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Volatile (adj) Tending to vary frequently; fickle

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Vituperative (adj) Using or containing harsh, abusive censure The young music critics vituperative comments aroused the wrath of nearly every serious composer.

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Vitiate (v) To impair the quality of; corrupt morally; make inoperative Unfortunately, one error in the study's methodology vitiates the entire body of work.

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Viscous (adj) Thick, syrupy, and sticky

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Virtuoso (n) Someone with mastery skills; expert musician

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Viable (adj) Practicable; capable of developing These are all viable options.

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Verbose (adj) Wordy The skillful editor cut 20 percent of the words from the verbose manuscript.

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Veracious (adj) Truthful; accurate The witness testimony appeared to be veracious at first, but under cross-examination, several inconsistencies appeared.

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Venerate (v) To adore; honor respect Mother T is venerated for her compassion.

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Vapid (adj) Tasteless; dull To relax in the evening the judge likes to watch vapid situation comedies on tv

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Vacillate (v) To waver; oscillate The senators position kept vacillating between remaining neutral and lending his support to the proposal

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Miser (n) Someone that doesn't like to spend money; frugal

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Unseemly Not appropriate

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Perfunctory Not a lot of thought into it. Just going through the motions.

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Unseemly Not appropriate

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Perfunctory Not a lot of thought into it. Just going through the motions.

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Pointed Exact. Critical

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Polemical A passionate and argumentative attack on something

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Necropolis A graveyard. City of the dead

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Ephemeral Short lived. Not lasting long. Usually describes trends.

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(N) A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes or tricks In the late sixteenth century, English borrowed this word, now spelled mountebank, to refer to those roaming charlatans who would stop onto a box or bench to attract the attention of potential buyers of such dubious offerings as "snake oil" medicine.

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Jink (N) To make a quick evasive turn. Rambunctious play/ frolic Mcgeady was again at the heart of the move, his jink and shot forcing the goalkeeper to parry.

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Parry (N) To deflect or ward off/ evade or avoid While the political parties thrust and parry on the issue in question, a PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court.

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Repatriation (n) The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship. Process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of ones own country. By the time he left, I actually had a soft spot for the poor old guy, and I went out of my way to wish him luck before they shipped him off for what they called repatriation.

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Cosset (v) To pamper Meanwhile, we Europeans congratulated ourselves on forging a deal at Kyoto that would halt the ocean's rise and cosset the ice deprived polar bears so memorably depicted in al gores "an inconvenient truth"

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Stifle (v) To feel held back or smothered or to cut off Moosa told journalists he believed the new policy, once implemented, would "stifle" the crime syndicates behind the poaching.

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Syndicate (n) An association of people or firms authorized to undertake a duty or transact specific business. He said al-Qaida and what he calls a syndicate of affiliated groups are less capable of large scale, coordinated attacks than they once were and in many cases their leadership has been killed or captured.

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Urbane (adj) Polite, refined, and often elegant in manner. Asia became known as the urbane and kindly public face of saddams regime in the lead up to the first gulf war in 1991 and the allied invasion of 2003.

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Sensibility (n) The ability to feel or perceive. We apply the term sensibility to the receptively of the mind for impressions, in so far as it is in some way affected; and on the other hand, we call the faculty of spontaneously producing representations, or the spontaneity of cognition, understanding.

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Shear/ shorn (v) To remove/ cut Max writes: while cutting lemon grass- yes, lemon grass, the blade of my knife snapped off in a clean shear from the handle.

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Accouterments To outfit and equip as for military duty/ to furnish with military dress

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Stolid (adj) Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

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Blithe (adj) Carefree and lighthearted. No concern.

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Ethnocentrism (n) Belief in the superiority of ones own ethnic group.

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Epigrammatic A saying that is short and to the point

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Ebb Decreases and diminishes

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Required | A necessity

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Implacable Stay your course/ unyielding

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Uncompromising

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Gentlemanly

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Protracted Lengthy

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Lachrymose Sad, tearful

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Evergreens Anything that has enduring value

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Evergreens Anything that has enduring value

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Potentate A ruler with absolute power

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Potentate A ruler with absolute power

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Scathing Critiquing in a harsh manner

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Perfunctory Lacks inspiration and is just going through the motions

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Draconian Very strict with rules

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Scathing Critiquing in a harsh manner

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Perfunctory Lacks inspiration and is just going through the motions

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Draconian Very strict with rules

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Vitriol (n) Bitterly abusive feeling or expression. Both suits are pending, with a hearing set for October 14th in state superior court in Napa in one of the cases, but the vitriol is already flying.

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Rapier (n) An extremely sharp sword Rapier (adj) Extremely sharp Keen wits

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Shrill (adj) High-pitched and piercing tone or sound: the shrill wall of a siren Sharp or keen to the senses; harshly vivid: shrill colors. He sites what he calls the shrill voices of liberal-left journalists, or laptop bombardiers' that became the champions of forceful western intervention.

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Revelry (n) Boisterous merrymaking or partying The revelry is short lived in Beowulf, however the monster Grendel shows up and kills people in graphic fashion.

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Carouse (intransitive verb) To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking. Partying Why not? If you want to sort of carouse around, why not be like George Clooney and stay single.

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Untoward (adj) Not favorable; unpropitious Troublesome and adverse While the aviators had hoped for no untoward meteorological events, the weather became increasingly inclement, with wind tossing their plane as they crossed the Pacific

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Inclement (adj) Stormy; inclement weather Showing no clemency; unmerciful Rough weather While the aviators had hoped for no untoward meteorological events, the weather became increasingly inclement, with wind tossing their plane as they crossed the Pacific.

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Clemency (n) A disposition to show mercy, especially toward an offender or enemy Merciful, kind or lenient act Mildness especially in weather He has allegedly asked for clemency from the state, according to the same news report.

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Propitious (adj) Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious, advantageous The fates were again propitious for a brief period; but again a trivial incident interfered.

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Agog (adj) Full of keen anticipation or excitement; eager With numerous exciting public works projects in the offing, residents are understandably agog; yet because such prodigious undertakings are inevitably plagued with numerous setbacks, much of the fervor is likely to be tempered with a heavy dose of reality

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Genial (adj) Having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner Gracious But with his old history professor Henry Adams and other friends, Lodge was known as a genial host, and, when political betes noires did not rear their fractious heads, he could work considerable charm as a guest.

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Obfuscate (transitive v) To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: "A great effort was made to obscure or obfuscate the truth" To make dark/ deliberately make confusing

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Clandestine (adj) Kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

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Conducive (adj) Tending to cause or bring about; contributive: working conditions not conducive to productivity Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result. Helpful. Online journal articles are suitable for searching and extraction, but how conducive is a computer for a reading a novel.

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Inimical (adj) Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse: habits inimical to good health. Unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical voice His face showed the effect of a sleepless night, and wore an expression inimical to all mankind.

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Harried (adj) Rushed; panicked; overly busy or preoccupied Harassed Harried by a swarm of tabloid reporters, their camera flashes creating an incessant whir, the celebrity made a quick escape into a limousine with tinted windows.

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Incessant (adj) Continuing without interruption. With stop or pause. Ceaselessly Besieged by a swarm of tabloid reporters, their camera flashes creating an incessant whir, the celebrity made a quick escape into a limousine with tinted windows.

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Genial (adj) Having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner Gracious But with his old history professor Henry Adams and other friends, Lodge was known as a genial host, and, when political betes noires did not rear their fractious heads, he could work considerable charm as a guest.

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Obfuscate (transitive v) To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: "A great effort was made to obscure or obfuscate the truth" To make dark/ deliberately make confusing

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Clandestine (adj) Kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

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Conducive (adj) Tending to cause or bring about; contributive: working conditions not conducive to productivity Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result. Helpful. Online journal articles are suitable for searching and extraction, but how conducive is a computer for a reading a novel.

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Inimical (adj) Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse: habits inimical to good health. Unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical voice His face showed the effect of a sleepless night, and wore an expression inimical to all mankind.

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Harried (adj) Rushed; panicked; overly busy or preoccupied Harassed Harried by a swarm of tabloid reporters, their camera flashes creating an incessant whir, the celebrity made a quick escape into a limousine with tinted windows.

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Incessant (adj) Continuing without interruption. With stop or pause. Ceaselessly Besieged by a swarm of tabloid reporters, their camera flashes creating an incessant whir, the celebrity made a quick escape into a limousine with tinted windows.

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Genial (adj) Having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner Gracious But with his old history professor Henry Adams and other friends, Lodge was known as a genial host, and, when political betes noires did not rear their fractious heads, he could work considerable charm as a guest.

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Obfuscate (transitive v) To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: "A great effort was made to obscure or obfuscate the truth" To make dark/ deliberately make confusing

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Clandestine (adj) Kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

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Distillation (noun) The evaporation and subsequent collection of a liquid by condensation as a means of purification: the distillation of water The process of separating a mixture of volatile substances by distillation is known as fractional distillation.

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Esoteric (adj) Intended for or understood by only a particular group; an esoteric cult Confidential or not publicly disclosed Certain esoteric sects and pseudo-scientists place considerable importance upon these rare objects, occasionally manifesting in hysterical and apocalyptic cults.

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Prosaic (adj) Straightforward; lacking in imagination; dull My most cordial thanks therefore for the gift which you call prosaic, and my best regards to your husband.

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Galling (adj) Causing extreme irritation or chagrin; vexing: a galling delay; a galling setback to their plans. Vexing, humiliating There is nothing more galling for first time writers to see their cherished ideas are actually far less novel than they had imagined. Often a publisher, or even a friend, will point out that another writer already captured the same plot twist, or created an almost identical fictional world. This feeling stings even greater when the publication of the neophyte writer's work precedes that of the more popular author; apparently the public often erroneously believes that the lesser known writers work is derivative.

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Novel (adj) Strikingly new, unusual or different. New or original in an interesting way There is nothing more galling for first time writers to see their cherished ideas are actually far less novel than they had imagined. Often a publisher, or even a friend, will point out that another writer already captured the same plot twist, or created an almost identical fictional world. This feeling stings even greater when the publication of the neophyte writer's work precedes that of the more popular author; apparently the public often erroneously believes that the lesser known writers work is derivative.

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Neophyte (n) A recent convert to a belief; a proselyte A beginner or a novice A new ordained priest There is nothing more galling for first time writers to see their cherished ideas are actually far less novel than they had imagined. Often a publisher, or even a friend, will point out that another writer already captured the same plot twist, or created an almost identical fictional world. This feeling stings even greater when the publication of the neophyte writer's work precedes that of the more popular author; apparently the public often erroneously believes that the lesser known writers work is derivative.

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Inveterate (adj) Firmly and long established; deep-rooted Persisting in an ingrained habit; habitual: an inveterate liar An inveterate procrastinator, Stephen found himself unable to recall a time when he did not put off doing a major assignment.

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Dissimulation (n) The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception Hiding ones feelings or purpose Hidden deception I like to think of the essays as a kind of thriller; with Myself, the elusive prey, and Montaigne, the sleuth, locked in battle of equals who were too close for dissimulation and too smart for satisfaction. And it may be that Montaigne did, too, because he often warned his readers that nothing he wrote about Myself was likely to apply for much longer than it took the ink he used, writing it, to dry.

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Ardent (adj) Expressing or characterized by warmth of feeling; passionate: an ardent lover. Strong enthusiasm The real question, however, is whether Mr Pence has the rhetorical dexterity to both fulfill the traditional running-mate role of political attack dog on the stump and the nominee's most ardent defender.

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Penchant (n) A definite liking; a strong inclination Taste, liking, bias Picking Flynn would go against Mr. Trump's professed desire to tab someone familiar with the inner machinations of congress. A shoot-from-the-hip outsider with a penchant for questioning authority might not be the best way to complement Mr. Trump.