Advanced GRE Word List 14 Flashcards
1
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Adumbrate
A
Outline; indicate
2
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Cognitive
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Concerned with thinking or perceiving.
3
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Deign
A
Condescend
4
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Fervid
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Passionate.
5
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Gall
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- Bitterness (bad feeling) 2. Confidence. 3. Abnormal growth on a plant.
6
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Levee
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- Raised bank on a river. 2. Morning reception held by a monarch.
7
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Preternatural
A
Unnatural; abnormal.
8
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Quell
A
Suppress.
9
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Score
A
Written form of music.
10
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Abut
A
To adjoin.
11
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Consternation
A
Worry and concern.
12
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Lien
A
Right to sell property held as security; legal hold on a job.
13
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Sinewy
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Vigorous; having well developed muscles.
14
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Steep
A
To soak in water.
15
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Tamp
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To plug; press loose matter down tightly.
16
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Wry
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- Twisted or bent to one side. 2. Dryly humorous.
17
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Arduous
A
Hard.
18
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Decimated
A
To kill or destroy a large part of (originally one tenth)
19
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Fledge
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- To grow feathers. 2. Leave nest.
20
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Gouge
A
To cut or dig out.
21
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Picayune
A
Insignificant; of little value; petty.
22
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Riveting
A
Fascinating.
23
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Soliloquy
A
Solo speech.
24
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Supplicant
A
Person who requests or begs for something.
25
Transcendental
Supernatural; going beyond normal experience.
26
Veritable
True; genuine.
27
Divest
Remove; take off.
28
Eddy
Circular current.
29
Epaulet
Shoulder decoration.
30
Fallacy
A mistaken belief. Especially one based on unsound argument.
31
Leaven
To make light; modify; cause bread to rise using yeast.
32
Antipathy
Hatred.
33
Expatiate
Speak or write at great length.
34
Flag
1. To lose energy. 2. To signal.
35
Flail
1. Tool used to thresh grain. 2. To thresh (separate grain from chaff). 3. To wave arms about wildly.
36
Loll
To laze around; hang out (when used with tongue).
37
Malign
Slander.
38
Abeyance
State of inactivity; disuse.
39
Minutiae
Small details.
40
Rue
To regret.
41
Somatic
Concerned with the body.
42
Stinting
Holding back; limiting the supply of.
43
Allure
1. Attraction. 2. To attract.
44
Desultory
Aimless; inconsistent in effort.
45
Elegy
Poem concerned with death; praise of a dead person.
46
Fallow
Uncultivated.
47
Improbity
Lack of honesty or integrity.
48
Qualm
A hesitation or fear.
49
Assay
1. Try. 2. Assess the purity of.
50
Discrete
Individually separate and distinct.
51
Chauvinist
Someone who is excessively patriotic.
52
Fulminate
1. Attack loudly in words; denounce thunderously. 2. Explode noisily.
53
Hawser
Thick rope or cable.
54
Jibe
Agree with; complement; match up with.
55
Cloture
Closure; terminating a debate by voting.
56
Dally
Waste time; flirt.
57
Dissemble
Avoid the truth.
58
Dote
To be excessively fond of.
59
Errant
1. Wandering 2. Wrong. 3. Straying from accepted standards.
60
Fervent
Passionate.
61
Synapse
A junction between two nerve cells.
62
Carrion
Dead flesh; carcasses.
63
Pretension
Assumed attitude of superiority; arrogance.
64
Syncope
The omission of sounds or letters from within a word.
65
Abrasion
1. Damage to skin caused by scraping. 2. Process of scraping or rubbing.
