GRE Flashcards by Jali Packer

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Nugatory

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Having no importance

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Prosaic

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Commonplace

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Exigencies

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Urgent need

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Assuaged

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Alleviated

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Disabuse

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Free from deception or error

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Disillusion

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Free a belief that is false

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Exonerate

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Clear from accusation

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Placate

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Calm or reduce anger by making concessions

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Idiosyncratic

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Peculiar and individual

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Catholic

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Comprehensive

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived

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Gustatory

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Relating to taste

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Deleterious

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Harmful or injurious

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Specious

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Plausible but wrong

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Decorous

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Polite and restrained

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Nescience

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A lack of knowledge

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Sagacity

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Wisdom

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Perspicacity

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Insight and Wisdom

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Licentious

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Promiscuous and unprincipled

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Indubitable

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Undoubtable

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Checkered

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Unstable and erratic

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Mendacious

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Lying and untruthful

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Denigrating

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Regarding something as little worth

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Glib

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Insincere

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Pejorative

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Having a negative meaning

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Heinous

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Detestable

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Salubrious

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Healthy

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Dearth

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Scarcity

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Cupidity

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Greed

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Auspicious

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Favorable to success

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Unpropitious

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Not indicating a good chance of success

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Errant

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Erring from the proper course

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Dispatch

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Promptness and efficiency

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Fortuitousness

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Luck

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Precipitate

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Rapid

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Stem

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Curtail

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Ineluctable

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Unavoidable

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Macabre

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Disturbing and horrifying through association with death

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Discomfited

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Discomfort/unease/embarrassed

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Insipid

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Dull or lacking excitement

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Surreptitious

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To keep secret because others would disapprove

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Ineffable

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Too extreme to be expressed with words

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Egregious

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Offensive

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Malfeasance

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Act of wrongdoing committed by a public official

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Probity

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Strong moral principles

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Imperious

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Imperial without justification

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Propitiation

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Appeasing

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Abnegation

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Self-denial

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Graft

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Form of political corruption where someone uses their authority for their own gain

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Expiate

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To atone for sin or guilt

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Repudiate

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Abandon and refuse to associate