GRE A, B, C Flashcards
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Aver
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To assert
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Arduous
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Difficult
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Astonishment
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Total surprise
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Abscond
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To leave secretly
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Admonish
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To scold
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Austere
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Severe
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Adulterate
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To contaminate or make impure
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Abjure
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To reject or renounce
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Amenable
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Easily convinced or persuaded
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Ameliorate
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To improve or mitigate a situation
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Advocate
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To recommend or support
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Alleviate
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To relieve a problem
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Averice
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Greed
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Abstain
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To voluntarily refrain from doing something
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Ascetic
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Self denying
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Audacious
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Bold
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Aberrant
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Diverging from the normal type
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Abate
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To diminish in intensity
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Aggrandize
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Enlarge or increase
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Antipathy
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Hatred, strong feeling
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Arbitrary
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Seemingly chosen without reason or purpose
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Archaic
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Old fashioned
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Aesthetic
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Concerned with the nature of beauty and art
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Antithetical
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Contrary to the very nature of
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Affectation
Fake or artificial behavior, meant to conceal the truth
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Arcane
Secret or known to a select group
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Appease
To satisfy
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Alacrity
Promptness or eagerness
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Anomaly
An exception or unusual case
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Articulate
Well spoken
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Anoint
To choose for a particular office or position
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Artless
Natural
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Assuage
To satisfy a need or appetite
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Acumen
Keen judgement and perception
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Apathy
State of total disinterest
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Anachronism
Something old fashioned
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Ambivalent
Having mixed or contradictory feelings
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Amalgamate
To combine
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Analogous
Comparable
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Ambiguous
Unclear
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Aplomb
Self-assurance
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Banal
Boring
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Belie
Give a false impression
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Benign
Harmless
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Biased
Prejudiced
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Bombastic
Overblown
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Bolster
Support
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Brazen
Shameless
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Bucolic
Rustic
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Burgeon
Flourish, bloom
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Boor
ill-mannered person
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Cacophony
Loud and chaotic
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Calumny
Lie or slander
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Candid
Honest
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Canon
Scripture or accepted rules
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Capacity
Capability to perform a particular action
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Capricious
Unpredictable
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Castigate
To scold strongly
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Catalyst
Something that speeds up a process
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Caustic
Corrosive
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Censure
Intense disapproval
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Chauvinist
Someone who believes prejudicially that their own group is superior
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Chicanery
Deception
64
Chronological
Ordered by time
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Coalesce
To come together
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Cogent
Clearly laid out
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Commensurate
In accordance with
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Compelling
Captivating, persuasive
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Comprehensive
Complete
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Condone
To approve or allow
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Confound
To confuse
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Connoisseur
Expert in a particular subject matter
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Consequential
As a result of
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Construe
To interpret
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Consumption
Utilization
76
Contend
Assert or claim
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Contentious
Controversial
78
Contrite
Remorseful
79
Convoluted
Roundabout
80
Copious
Pentiful
81
Cosmopolitan
Relating to a city
82
Covet
Desire something that does not belong to you
83
Craft
Cunning
84
Craven
Shameful, cowardly
85
Credence
Belief or trust
86
Credulous
Gullible
87
Contrite
Remorseful
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Circumspect
Unwilling to take risks
