GRE 1 Flashcards
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Hubris
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Excessive pride or confidence
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Enmity
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A feeling or condition of hostility
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Hackneyed
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Made commonplace or trite. Stale. Banal.
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Craven
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Cowardly. Contempidly. Timid. Pusillanimous.
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Disseminate
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Scatter or spread widely. Disperse. Broadcast
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Asinine
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Foolish. Unintelligent.
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Baleful
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Full of menacing influences
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Espouse
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To make ones own, adopt. Embrace.
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Endemic
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Natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place
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Infallible
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Absolutely trustworthy
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Genial
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Warmly and pleasantly cheerful. Cordial.
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Harlot
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Prostitute.
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Innocuous
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Not harmful
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Contentious
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Tending to argument or strife
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Expostulate
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To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done
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Enjoin
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To prescribe with authority or emphasis. The doctor enjoined a strict diet.
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Affected
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Influenced in a harmful way
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Aberrant
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Departing from the right, normal or usual course. Exceptional. Abnormal
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Abortive
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Failing to succeed, unsuccessful. A abortive scheme.
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Analgesic
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A remedy that relieves pain
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Decamp
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Depart from a camp
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Cognate
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Related by birth
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Blight
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Any cause of impairment ruin or frustration. To cause to wither or decay
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Abeyance
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Temporary inactivity or suspension
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Insouciance
Lack of care or concern. Indifference.
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Manifest
Readily perceived by the eye (adj.)
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Incertitude
Uncertainty or doubtful ness
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Rakish
Jaunty, dashing, smart
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Conviviality
Friendly, agreeable
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Temerity
Reckless, boldness
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Ineluctable
Incapable of being evaded (inescapable)
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Incommensurate
Inadequate, disproportionate
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Ennui
Weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest
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Sanguine
Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful
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Japery
Good natured mockery
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Languished
To become weak or feable
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Plunder
To rob of goods or valuables
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Castigate
To punish, reprimand severely
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Relinquish
To renounce or surrender
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Acquiesce
Comply silently without protest
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Promulgated
Publish proclaim formally in support
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Callow
Immature or inexperienced
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Ominous
Threatening, portending evil or harm
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Ebullient
Overflowing with fervor enthusiasm or excitement
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Propitiate
To conciliate. To appease.
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Perfunctory
Done in a routine way
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Obstinate
Stubborn. Unyielding.
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Foment
To arouse or incite
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Expurgate
To censor. To amend by removing words.
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Redolent
Having a pleasant odor, fragrant
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Panegyric
A lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing. Eulogy.
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Guile
Deceit or tickery
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Exigent
Urgent. Requiring immediate action.
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Exculpate. Exonerate.
To clear from blame
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Alacrity
Cheerful readiness, promptness or willingness.
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Sagacious
Having or showing acute mental discernment. Sage = wise
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Salubrious
Favorable to or promoting health
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Misanthrope
Person who dislikes others
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Laconic
Using few words
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Obviate
To prevent. To make unnecessary.
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Prevaricate
To lie or deviate from the truth
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Precipitate
To throw violently or bring about abruptly.
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Proliferate
To increase in number quickly
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Opprobrium
Public disgrace
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Soporific
Causing sleep or lethargy
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Specious
Deceptively attractive. Seemingly plausible but fallacious
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Ingenuous
Innocence or childlike simplicity
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Onerous
Burdensome oppressive or troublesome
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Scintilla
trace amount
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Molt
To shred hair or skin
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Tacit
Done with using words. Taciturn = quiet
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Lassitude
Weariness of body or mind from strain
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Coalesce
To grow together or into one body
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Recondite
Dealing with very profound difficult or abstruse subject matter
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Truculent
Fierce. Cruel. Savagely.
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Torpor
Extreme mental and physical sluggishness.
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Pedant
Someone who shows off learning
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Quiescent
Motionless.
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Propriety
Correct behavior
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Laud
To give praise
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Venerate
To respect deeply. "Respect the Venn diagram"
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Impetuous
Quick to act without thinking
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Garrulous
Tending to talk a lot. Loquacious.
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Apocryphal
Of questionable authority or authenticity.
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Plucky
Courageous. Spunky.
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Pallid
Lacking color or liveliness
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Prattle
Meaningless foolish talk
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Abase
To reduce or lower. Humble. Degrade.
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Inchoate
Not fully formed. Disorganized.
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Imprecation
A curse. "Shouting imprecations"
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Yoke
To join together
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Approbation
Approval and praise. Extol, exalt, hail, acclaim.
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Curmudgeon
Cranky person. Usually old
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Plebeian
Crude or coarse. Characteristic of commoners. " Obama is trying to be plebeian by wearing jeans"
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Contumacious
Rebellious
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Coterie
An intimate group of persons with a similar purpose "British red coats"
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Wily
Clever. Deceptive. Wily coyote
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Abjure
To renounce, repudiate or retract. "The jury abjured their verdict when they relaized they were wrong"
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Collusion
A secret agreement. Conspiracy.
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Demur
To make objection. "He demurred when they said they didn't want to go to the concert"
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Eminent
High in station, rank or repute. Prominent. Distinguished.
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Inimical
Hostile. Unfriendly.
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Requite
To make repayment or return for. Unrequited love.
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Obdurate
Hardened in feeling. Resistant to persuasion. Obese people are often obdurate to new diets.
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Intransigent
Uncompromising. Refusing to be reconciled. The president was intransigent about creating transgender bathrooms.
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Perfidious
Willing to betray ones trust
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Insolence
Contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech
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Calumny
A false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something
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Effrontery
Shameless or impudent boldness. Barefaced audacity.
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Abnegate
To refuse or deny oneself. Reject. Renounce.
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Deportment
Conduct. Behavior.
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Exalt
To raise in rank. To praise.
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Equivocate
To use ambiguous or unclear expressions usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead. The politician equivocated in an attempt to get equal votes.
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Indolent
Having or showing a dispositions to avoid exertion. Slothful.
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Abhor
To regard with aversion. Detest utterly. Loath.
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Abrogate
To abolish by formal or official means
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Flout
To treat with disdain, scourn or contempt. To flout the rules.
