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GRE Advanced Vocab I Flashcards

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Prognostication

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A statement made about the future

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Precipitate

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Hasty or rash; to cause to happen

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Excoriate

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To criticize very harshly

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Cow

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To intimidate; hector

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Limpid

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Having clarity in terms of expression

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Factitious

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Artificial; not natural

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Histrionic

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To be overly theatrical

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Base

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The lowest, without any moral principles

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Jejune

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Dull; lacking flavor; immature; childish

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Venial

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Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable

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Mulct

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To defraud or swindle

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Truculent

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Having a fierce, savage nature

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Choleric

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Prone to outbursts of temper

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Pollyannaish

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Extremely optimistic

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Remonstrate

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To make objections while pleading

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Malfeasance

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Misconduct; wrongdoing

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Arch

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To be deliberately teasing

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Plucky

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Marked by courage and determination

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Apotheosis

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Exaltation to divine status; the highest point of development

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Curmudgeon

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A grouchy, surly person

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Fell

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Terribly evil

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Gaffe

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A socially awkward or tactless act

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Defray

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To help pay the cost of, either in part or in full

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Bilious

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Irritable; always angry

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Bowdlerize

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Censor; omitting or modifying indelicate parts

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Nadir

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The lowest point

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Picayune

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Trifling or petty

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Execrate

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To curse; to hiss at

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Imbroglio

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Confusing and potentially embarrassing situation

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Alacrity

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Eagerness and willingness to do something

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Sangfroid

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Calmness; poise

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Untoward

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Unfavorable; inconvenient

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Beg

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To assume something is true (usually followed by “the question”)

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Arrant

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Complete and wholly (usually used for nouns with negative connotation)

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Feckless

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Lazy and irresponsible

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Mettlesome

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Filled with courage and valor

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Blinkered

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Having a limited outlook or understanding

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Quisling

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A traitor

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Sybarite

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A person who indulges in luxury

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Equivocate

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To speak vaguely, with intention to deceive; prevaricate

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Protean

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Readily taking on different roles; versatile

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Supercilious

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Haughty and disdainful; looking down on others

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Expansive

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Communicative; prone to talking in a sociable manner

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Maudlin

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Overly emotional and sad

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Exegesis

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Critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text

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Phantasmagorical

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Illusive; unreal

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Catholic

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Of broad scope; universal

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Impecunious

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Lacking money; poor

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Peremptory

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Bossy; domineering

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Churlish

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Lacking manners or refinement

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Diatribe

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Strong verbal attack against something or someone

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Factious

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Produced by, or characterized by, internal dissention

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Perfunctory

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Done routinely and with little interest

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Approbatory

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Expressing praise or approval

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Parvenu

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A person who suddenly became wealthy, but not socially accepted as part of the higher class

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Sententious

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To be moralizing, usually in a pompous tone

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Indigent

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Poor, having very little; a poor or needy person

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Turpitude

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Depravity; a depraved act

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Contentious

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Likely to argue

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Apostate

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A person who has abandoned a religious faith

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Benighted

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Fallen into a state of ignorance

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Attenuate

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To weaken in terms of intensity; to taper off; wane

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Hector

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To bully or intimidate; cow

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Quixotic

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Wildly idealistic; impractical

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Portentous

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Ominously prophetic

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Martinet

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A strict disciplinarian

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Tendentious

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Likely to lean toward a controversial view

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Vicissitude

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Change in one’s circumstances, usually for the worse

69
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Penurious

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Lacking money; miserly; poor

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Lascivious

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Lecherous; sexually perverted

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Sartorial

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Related to fashion or clothing

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Schadenfreude

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Joy from watching the suffering of others

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Pyrrhic

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Describing a victory that comes at a great cost such that the victory is not worthwhile

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Derelict

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Not doing one’s duties; abandoned

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Mellifluous

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Smooth and sweet-sounding

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Malapropism

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The confusion of a word with another word that sounds similar

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Ponderous

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Weighed-down; moving slowly

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Expurgate

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To remove objectionable material

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Sedulous

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Done diligently and carefully

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Vituperate

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To criticize harshly; to berate

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Palimpsest

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Something that has changed numerous times but on which traces of former iterations can be seen

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Invective

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Abusive or denunciatory language

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Expunge

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To eliminate completely

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Saturnine

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Morose; gloomy

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Propitiate

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To placate or appease

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Mordant

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Biting or harsh in thought, manner, or style

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Jaundiced

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To be biased against something due to envy or prejudice

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Chary

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Cautious; suspiciously reluctant to do something

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Cupidity

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Greed for money

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Anodyne

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Something that soothes and relieves pain; inoffensive, innocuous

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Caustic

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Sarcastic in a scathing way

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Anathema

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A detested person; source of somebody’s hate

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Overweening

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Arrogant; presumptuous

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Disabuse

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To persuade somebody that his or her belief is not valid

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Arriviste

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A person who has recently reached a position of power; a social climber

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Juggernaut

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A force that cannot be stopped

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Byzantine

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Intricate and complex

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Anemic

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Lacking energy and vigor

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Fractious

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Irritable and likely to cause friction

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Conciliate

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To make peace with

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