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1
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Derivative

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Unoriginal

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Trite

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(of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness

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Brazen

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Bold or shameless

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Caustic

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Bitter
Negative

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Contempt

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The feel that a person or thing is worthless or beneath consideration

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Derisive

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Expressing contempt or ridicule

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Anachronistic

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Of the wrong era

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Castigated

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Reprimanded
Criticized

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Avaracious

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Greedy

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Alacrity

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Eagerness
Brisk and cheerful readiness

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Contrite

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Remorse

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12
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Restive

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Restless

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13
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Acrimony

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Bitterness or ill will

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14
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Impertinent

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Being disrespectful
Improperly forward or bold

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Prevaricate

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To speak in an evasive way

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16
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Evasive

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Tending to avoid commitment or self revelation

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17
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Upbraid

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To reproach, to scold

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18
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Subsume

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To include or absorb into

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19
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Bucolic

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Relating to the countryside
Rustic

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Adroit

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Skillful

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21
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Underbelly

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An area vulnerable to attack
A hidden unpleasant or criminal part of society

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Roil

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Make a liquid turbid or muddy by disturbing the sediment
Make annoyed or irritated

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Prolixity

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Wordiness
Unduly prolonged or drawn out

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Inscrutability

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The fact of being impossible to understand or interpret

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Prescient

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Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place

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Extant

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Still in existence

27
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Fallacious

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Full of holes
Based on mistaken belief
Erroneous

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Retroactive

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If a law or decision is retroactive it has effect from a date before it was approved

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Foreboding

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A sense that something bad will happen

30
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Foment

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Stir up or instigate

31
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Hold forth

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Talk lengthily, assertively, tediously about

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Agog

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Very curious or eager to hear or see something

33
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Canonized

34
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Venerate

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To respect deeply

35
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Maintain

36
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Venality

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The condition of being susceptible to bribes and corruption

37
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Enervate

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To sap energy from

38
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Profligate

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Spending resources recklessly or wastefully

39
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Egregious

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Standing out in a negative way
Shockingly bad

40
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Commensurate

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To be in proportion or corresponding in degree or amount

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Intimate

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To suggest something subtly

42
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Precocity/ precocious

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Exceptionally early or premature development (as of mental powers or sexual characteristics)
Early development especially in mental aptitude (precocious chess player)

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Aberration

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A deviation from what is normal or expected

44
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Recondite

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Obscure
Little known
Difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend

45
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Placid

46
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Garrulous

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Full of trivial conversation
Never shuts up
Talkative
Long-winded

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Scrupulous

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Detailed
Moral

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Precipitated

49
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Obsolete

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Outmoded
Out of date

50
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Opaque

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Perplexing

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Approbation

52
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Incendiary

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Provocative

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Inimical

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Detrimental
Hostile

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Polemical

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Profundity

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Prudent

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Prophetic

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Far-seeing

58
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Ephemeral

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Temporary/ transitory

59
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Punctilious

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Meticulous

60
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Pedant

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Perfectionist
Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

61
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Paradigmatic

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Standard
(Noun form - paradigm)

62
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Vacillates

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Waves
Goes back and forth

63
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Corroborated

A

Verified
Confirmed

GRE Vocabulary 1 (14 decks)

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