Cracking the GRE 7 Flashcards by Kenton Butcher | Brainscape

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Encomium

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Noun: glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric

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Excoriate

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Verb: to censure, to upbraid

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Execrate

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Verb: to denounce, to declare evil

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Extirpate

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Verb: to kill completely, as to the root

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Fatuous

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Adj: silly, foolish

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Gainsay

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Verb: to deny, to oppose

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Heterodox

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Adj: unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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Imbroglio

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Noun: embarrassing situation

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Ineluctable

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Adj: certain, inevitable

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Insouciant

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Adj: unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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Inveterate

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Adj: deep rooted, ingrained

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Lubricious

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Adj: lewd, wanton, slippery

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Mendicant

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Noun: a beggar

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Meretricious

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Adj: cheap, gaudy, attracting by false show

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Minatory

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Adj: menacing, threatening-Like the Minotaur

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