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

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Fake or artificial behavior, meant to conceal the truth

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Arcane

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Secret or known to a select group

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Appease

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To satisfy

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Alacrity

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Promptness or eagerness

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Anomaly

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An exception or unusual case

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Articulate

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Well spoken

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Anoint

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To choose for a particular office or position

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Artless

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Natural

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Assuage

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To satisfy a need or appetite

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Acumen

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Keen judgement and perception

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Apathy

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State of total disinterest

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Anachronism

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Something old fashioned

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed or contradictory feelings

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Amalgamate

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To combine

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Analogous

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Comparable

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Ambiguous

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Unclear

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Aplomb

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Self-assurance

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Banal

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Boring

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Belie

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Give a false impression

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Benign

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Harmless

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Biased

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Prejudiced

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Bombastic

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Overblown

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Bolster

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Support

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Brazen

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Shameless

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Bucolic

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Rustic

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Burgeon

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Flourish, bloom

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Boor

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ill-mannered person

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Cacophony

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Loud and chaotic

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Calumny

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Lie or slander

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Candid

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Honest

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Canon

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Scripture or accepted rules

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Capacity

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Capability to perform a particular action

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Capricious

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Unpredictable

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Castigate

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To scold strongly

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Catalyst

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Something that speeds up a process

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Caustic

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Corrosive

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Censure

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Intense disapproval

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Chauvinist

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Someone who believes prejudicially that their own group is superior

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Chicanery

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Deception

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Chronological

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Ordered by time

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Coalesce

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To come together

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Cogent

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Clearly laid out

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Commensurate

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In accordance with

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Compelling

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Captivating, persuasive

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Comprehensive

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Complete

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Condone

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To approve or allow

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Confound

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To confuse

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Connoisseur

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Expert in a particular subject matter

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Consequential

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As a result of

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Construe

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To interpret

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Consumption

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Utilization

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Contend

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Assert or claim

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Contentious

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Controversial

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Contrite

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Remorseful

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Convoluted

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Roundabout

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Copious

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Pentiful

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Cosmopolitan

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Relating to a city

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Covet

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Desire something that does not belong to you

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Craft

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Cunning

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Craven

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Shameful, cowardly

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Credence

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Belief or trust

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Credulous

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Gullible

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Contrite

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Remorseful

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Circumspect

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Unwilling to take risks