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Advanced GRE Word List 14 Flashcards

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1
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Adumbrate

A

Outline; indicate

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Cognitive

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Concerned with thinking or perceiving.

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Deign

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Condescend

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Fervid

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Passionate.

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Gall

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  1. Bitterness (bad feeling) 2. Confidence. 3. Abnormal growth on a plant.
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Levee

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  1. Raised bank on a river. 2. Morning reception held by a monarch.
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Preternatural

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Unnatural; abnormal.

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Quell

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Suppress.

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Score

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Written form of music.

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Abut

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To adjoin.

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Consternation

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Worry and concern.

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Lien

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Right to sell property held as security; legal hold on a job.

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Sinewy

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Vigorous; having well developed muscles.

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Steep

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To soak in water.

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Tamp

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To plug; press loose matter down tightly.

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Wry

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  1. Twisted or bent to one side. 2. Dryly humorous.
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Arduous

A

Hard.

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Decimated

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To kill or destroy a large part of (originally one tenth)

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Fledge

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  1. To grow feathers. 2. Leave nest.
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Gouge

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To cut or dig out.

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Picayune

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Insignificant; of little value; petty.

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Riveting

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Fascinating.

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Soliloquy

A

Solo speech.

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Supplicant

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Person who requests or begs for something.

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Transcendental

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Supernatural; going beyond normal experience.

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Veritable

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True; genuine.

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Divest

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Remove; take off.

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Eddy

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Circular current.

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Epaulet

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Shoulder decoration.

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Fallacy

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A mistaken belief. Especially one based on unsound argument.

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Leaven

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To make light; modify; cause bread to rise using yeast.

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Antipathy

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Hatred.

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Expatiate

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Speak or write at great length.

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Flag

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  1. To lose energy. 2. To signal.
35
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Flail

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  1. Tool used to thresh grain. 2. To thresh (separate grain from chaff). 3. To wave arms about wildly.
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Loll

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To laze around; hang out (when used with tongue).

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Malign

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Slander.

38
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Abeyance

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State of inactivity; disuse.

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Minutiae

A

Small details.

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Rue

A

To regret.

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Somatic

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Concerned with the body.

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Stinting

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Holding back; limiting the supply of.

43
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Allure

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  1. Attraction. 2. To attract.
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Desultory

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Aimless; inconsistent in effort.

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Elegy

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Poem concerned with death; praise of a dead person.

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Fallow

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Uncultivated.

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Improbity

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Lack of honesty or integrity.

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Qualm

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A hesitation or fear.

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Assay

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  1. Try. 2. Assess the purity of.
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Discrete

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Individually separate and distinct.

51
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Chauvinist

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Someone who is excessively patriotic.

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Fulminate

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  1. Attack loudly in words; denounce thunderously. 2. Explode noisily.
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Hawser

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Thick rope or cable.

54
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Jibe

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Agree with; complement; match up with.

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Cloture

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Closure; terminating a debate by voting.

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Dally

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Waste time; flirt.

57
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Dissemble

A

Avoid the truth.

58
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Dote

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To be excessively fond of.

59
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Errant

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  1. Wandering 2. Wrong. 3. Straying from accepted standards.
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Fervent

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Passionate.

61
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Synapse

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A junction between two nerve cells.

62
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Carrion

A

Dead flesh; carcasses.

63
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Pretension

A

Assumed attitude of superiority; arrogance.

64
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Syncope

A

The omission of sounds or letters from within a word.

65
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Abrasion

A
  1. Damage to skin caused by scraping. 2. Process of scraping or rubbing.

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