Cracking the GRE 8 Flashcards by Kenton Butcher | Brainscape

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Nonplussed

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Adj: baffled, bewildered

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Palliate

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Verb: to make something seem less serious-Like make it palatable

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Parsimonious

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Adj: cheap

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Plangent

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Adj: thundering, resounding

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Prolix

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Adj: long-winded

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Pusillanimous

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Adj: cowardly, craven

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Remonstrate

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Verb: to protest, to object

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Sententious

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Adj: tending to moralize excessively

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Stentorian

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Adj: extremely loud and powerful

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Stygian

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Adj: gloomy, dark

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Sycophant

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Noun: self-seeking flatterer, parasite

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Tendentious

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Adj: biased, showing marked tendencies

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Tyro

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Noun: novice, greenhorn, newbie

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Vitiate

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Verb: to corrupt, to debase, to spoil

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Voluble

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Adj: fluent, marked by ready flow of speech

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