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GRE Advanced Vocab II Flashcards

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Sagacious

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Having good judgement and acute insight

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Insouciance

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Lack of concern

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Encumber

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To hold back; to hinder

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Inimitable

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Defying imitations; matchless

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Solecism

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A socially awkward and tactless act; gaffe

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Apposite

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Remarkably appropriate

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Machinate

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To engage in plotting; to enter into conspiracy

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Antic

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Ludicrously odd

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Hagiographic

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Excessively flattering toward someone’s life or work

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Unstinting

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Very generous

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Intimation

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An indirect suggestion; result of intimating

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Unpropitious

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Describing a circumstance with little chance of success

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Doleful

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Filled with sadness

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Flippant

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Showing inappropriate levity

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Lampoon

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Ridicule with satire

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Puissant

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Powerful

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Gambit

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A maneuver or risk in a game designed to secure an advantage

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Obstreperous

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Noisily and stubbornly defiant

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Flummox

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To bewilder

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Truculence

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Defiant aggressiveness

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Effervescent

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Marked by high spirits or excitement

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Duplicity

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Deceitfulness; pretending to want one thig but interested in something else

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Raconteur

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A person skilled in telling anecdotes

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Probity

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Integrity; strong moral principles

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Decry

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To express strong disapproval of

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Moribund

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Being on the verge of death; losing all momentum

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Magisterial

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Offensively self-assured; exercising unwarranted power

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Pith

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The most essential part of something

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Spartan

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Uncompromising in discipline; extreme self-denial

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Chimera

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Something desired but impossible to be achieved

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Unprepossessing

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Creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression

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Imperious

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Showing arrogant superiority and disdain toward the unworthy

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Recapitulation

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A summary

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34
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Ribald

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Humorously vulgar

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Sinecure

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An office that involves minimal duties

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Brook

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To put up with something or somebody unpleasant

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Ossify

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To make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

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Apothegm

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A short, pithy instructive saying; aphorism

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Unflappable

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Not easily perturbed or excited; stolid

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Litany

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Long and tedious account of something

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Artifice

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Cunning tricks used to deceive others

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Hoary

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Ancient

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Dovetail

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To fit together tightly

44
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Charlatan

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A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks and jokes

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Impetuous

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Characterized by undue haste and lack of deliberation

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Prolixity

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Boring verbosity; garrulousness

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Disingenuous

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Giving a false appearance of frankness; not straightforward

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Untenable

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Incapable of being defended or justified

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Bemoan

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To express discontent or strong regret

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Meteoric

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Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or transience

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Chagrin

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Strong feelings of embarrassment; to cause shame

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Presentiment

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Feeling of evil to come

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Rapprochement

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The reestablishment of cordial relations

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Embryonic

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In an early stage of development

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Corollary

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A practical consequence that follows naturally

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Umbrage

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Feeling of anger caused by being offended

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Tempestuous

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As if driven by conflicting emotions; highly energetic; wildly fluctuating

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Inviolate

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Must be kept sacred

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Perspicacious

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Acutely insightful and wise

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Peripatetic

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Traveling by foot

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Dispensation

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An exemption from a rule or obligation

62
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Firebrand

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Someone who deliberately causes trouble

63
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Maunder

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To wander aimlessly; to speak rapidly and incessantly

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Quail

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To show fear or pain or apprehension

65
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Subterfuge

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Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

66
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Enjoin

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To give instructions with authority

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Puerile

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Characteristic of a child; displaying immaturity

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Lacerate

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To deeply hurt the feelings of; to distress

69
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Grandiloquent

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Puffed up with vanity

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Inure

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To make accustomed to something unpleasant

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Ersatz

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Not genuine; phony

72
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Vitriolic

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Harsh or corrosive in tone

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Cosset

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To treat with excessive indulgence

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Pecuniary

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Relating to money

75
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Incontrovertible

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Necessarily or demonstrably true; impossible to deny

76
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Hobble

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To impede; to hold back the progress of something

77
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Objurgate

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To express strong disapproval of

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Temerity

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Fearless daring

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Asperity

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Harshness of manner

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Punctilious

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Marked by precise accordance with details

81
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Debonair

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Having a sophisticated charm

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Redoubtable

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Inspiring fear or awe

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Crestfallen

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Brought low in spirit

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Rarefied

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Subtle or refined

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Impute

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To attribute responsibility or fault to something

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Recrimination

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Mutual accusations

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Ineffable

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Too sacred to be uttered; defying expression

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Reprisal

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Retaliatory action against an enemy

89
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Lugubrious

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Excessively mournful

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Baleful

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Threatening evil or tragic developments

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Importune

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To beg persistently and urgently

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Provident

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Carefully self-interested; preparing carefully for the future

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Celerity

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Speed; rapidity

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Surreptitious

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Stealthy; taking pains to not be detected

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Unforthcoming

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Uncooperative; not willing to give up information

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Immure

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To enclose, usually within walls

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Invidious

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Likely to cause resentment

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Untrammeled

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Not confined or limited

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Effrontery

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Audacious behavior; impertinence

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