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Barron's Essential Words for the GRE - Sheet2 Flashcards

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Bucolic

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characteristics of the countryside; rustic; pastoral

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Burgeon

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to fourish

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Burnish

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to polish

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Buttress

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to reinforce; support

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Cacophonous

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unpleasant or harsh-sounding

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Cadge

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to beg; sponge

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Callous

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think-skinned; insensitive

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Calumny

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false and malicious accusation; slander

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Canard

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false, deliberately misleading story

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Canon

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an established principle; a basis or standard for judgment; a group of literary works

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Cant

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insincere talk; language of a particular group

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Cantankerous

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irritable; ill-humored

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Capricious

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fickle

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Captious

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fault finding; intended to entrap, as in argument

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Cardinal

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of foremost importance

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Carnal

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of the flesh or body; related to physical appetites

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Carping

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to find fault; complain

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Cartography

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science of making maps

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Caste

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any of the hereditary social classes of Hindu society; social stratification

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Castigation

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punishment; chastisement; criticism

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Cataclysm

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a violent upheaval that causes great destruction and change

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Catalyst

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something causing change

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Categorical

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absolute; without exception

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Caucus

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smaller group within an organization

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Causal

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involving a cause

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Caustic

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sarcastically biting; burning

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Celestial

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concerning the sky or heavens; sublime

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Centrifugal

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moving away from a center

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Centripetal

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moving or directed toward a center

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Champion

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to defend or support

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Chasten

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to correct by punishment or reproof; to restrain or subdue

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Chicanery

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trickery; fraud

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Chivalry

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the qualities idealized by knighthood such as bravery and gallantry toward women

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Churlish

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rude; boorish

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Circuitous

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roundabout

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Clairvoyant

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one who can predict the future; psychic

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Clamor

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noisy outcry

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Clique

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small, exclusive group

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Cloister

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to confine; seclude

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Coagulate

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thicken; congeal

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Coalesce

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to cause to become one

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Coda

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concluding part of a literary or musical composition; something that summarizes or concludes

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Codify

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to systemize

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Cognizant

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informed; conscious; aware

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Collage

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artistic composition of materials pasted over a surface; an assemblage of diverse elements

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Commensurate

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proportional

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Compendium

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brief, comprehensive summary

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Complacent

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self-satisfied

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Complaisant

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overly pollite; willing to please; obliging

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Complement

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something that completes or make up a whole

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Compliant

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yielding

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Compunction

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uneasiness caused by guilt

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Concave

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curving inward

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Conciliatory

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overcoming distrust or hostility

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Concoct

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to invent

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Concomitant

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existing concurrently

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Condone

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to overlook voluntarily; forgive

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Confound

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to baffle; perplex; mix up

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Congenial

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similar in taste and habits; friendly; suited to

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Conjugal

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pertaining to marriage agreement

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Connoisseur

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a person possessing expert knowledge or training; a person of informed and discriminating taste

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Conscript

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person compulsorily enrolled for military services

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Consecrate

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to declare sacred

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Contend

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to assert

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Contentious

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quarrelsome; causing quarrels

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Contiguous

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touching; neighboring; connecting without a break

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Continence

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self-control; abstention from sexual activity

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Contrite

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very sorrowful for a wrong

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Contumacious

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disobedient; rebellious

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Conundrum

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riddle; puzzle with no solution

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Convention

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practice widely observed in a group; custom; accepted technique or device

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Converge

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to approach; come together; tend to meet

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Convex

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curved outward

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Convivial

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sociable

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Convoluted

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twisted; complicated

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Copious

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abundant; plentiful

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Coquette

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woman who flirts

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Cornucopia

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horn overflowing with fruit and grain; state of abundance

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Cosmology

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study of the universe as a totality; theory of the origin and structure of the universe

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Covert

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hidden; secret

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Covetous

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desiring something owned by another

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Cozen

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to mislead by trick or fraud; deceive

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Crave

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cowardly

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Credence

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acceptance of something as true

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Credo

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statement of belief or principle; creed

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Daunt

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to discourage; intimidate; dishearten

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Dearth

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scarcity

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Debauchery

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corruption

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Decorum

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proper behavior

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Defame

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to malign; harm someone’s reputation

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Default

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to fail to act

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Deference

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respect; regard for another’s wish

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Defunct

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no longer existing

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Delineate

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to represent or depict

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Demographic

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related to population balance

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Demotic

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pertaining to people

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Demur

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to express doubt

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Denigrate

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to slur someone’s reputation

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Denizen

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an inhabitant; a regular visitor

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Denouement

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outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play or work of literature

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