Cracking the GRE 5 Flashcards

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List

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Verb: to tilt or lean to one side

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Meet

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Adj: fitting, proper

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Nice

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Adj: fastidious, extremely precise

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Pied

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Adj: multicolored

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Rail

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Verb: to complain about bitterly

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Quail

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Verb: to lose courage

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Qualify

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Verb: to limit

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Tender

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Verb: to proffer or offer

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Wag

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Noun: a wit, a joker

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Abjure

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Verb: to renounce or reject, to recant

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Adumbrate

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Verb: to foreshadow or intimate

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Anathema

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Noun: a solemn or ecclesiastical curse, a loathed thing or person

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Anodyne

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Noun/Adj.: soothing, something that soothes

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Apostate

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Noun: one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions.

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Apotheosis

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Noun: deification, glorification of someone or something

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