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GRE Advanced Vocab III Flashcards

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Halcyon

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Idyllically calm and peaceful; happy and prosperous tranquility

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Fecund

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Intellectually productive

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Complaisant

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Showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

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Solicitude

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Feeling of excessive concern

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Bristle

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To react in a offended or angry manner

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Coterminous

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Being of equal extent or scope or duration

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Internecine

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Within a group or organization

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Graft

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Corruption, usually through bribery

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Countermand

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A contrary command to a previous command

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Concomitant

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Describing an event that happens at the same time or in connection with another

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Panegyric

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A formal expression of praise

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Appropriate

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To take something by force; to allocate / give

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Inchoate

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Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

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Surfeit

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An excessive amount of something

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Impugn

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To attack as false or wrong

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Demonstrative

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Marked by open expression of emotion

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Proscribe

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To command against

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Raillery

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Light teasing

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Eponym

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The name derived from a person; the person for whom something is named

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Facile

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Lacking depth; arrived at without due care or effort

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Evanescent

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Tending to vanish like vapor

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Stultify

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To cause one to lose energy and enthusiasm; enervate

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Squelch

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To suppress or crush completely

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Discursive

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Tending to depart from the main point in speech or writing

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Desiccated

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Uninteresting; lacking vitality

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Splenetic

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Very irritable; peevish

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Vitriol

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Abusive or venomous language

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Ineluctable

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Impossible to avoid or evade

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Oblique

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Not straightforward; indirect

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Deign

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To do something one considers below one’s dignity

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Enormity

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An act of extreme wickedness

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Pontificate

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Talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner

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Bereft

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Unhappy (regarding love); sorrowful through loss

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Flag

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To droop, sink, or settle; to become less intense

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Dolorous

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Showing sorrow

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Exiguity

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The quality of being meager; condition of lack

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Promulgate

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To state or announce

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Proselytize

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To convert someone to another religion / set of beliefs

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Dissemble

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To conceal one’s true motives, usually through deceit

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Nettlesome

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Causing irritation or annoyance

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Noisome

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Having an extremely bad smell

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Turgid

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Pompous and tedious

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Dissolution

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An existence full of debauchery and indulgence in sensual pleasure

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Canard

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A deliberately misleading fabrication

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Solicitous

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Showing attentiveness

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Sardonic

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Mocking; cynical

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Epigram

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A witty saying

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Ebullient

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Joyously unrestrained

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Trenchant

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Characterized by force and vigor; possessing keenness in thought, expression, or intellect

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Pillory

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To ridicule or expose to public scorn

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Bromide

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A trite or obvious remark; platitude

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Bridle

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To restrain; to react with anger

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Gumption

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Resourcefulness; determination

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Abjure

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To formally reject or give up

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Cataclysm

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An event resulting in great loss and misfortune

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Aplomb

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Great coolness and composure under strain

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Exorbitant

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Exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

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Palaver

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To speak incessantly and rapidly

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Atavism

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A reappearance; throwback

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Loath to

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Unwilling to do something contrary to one’s custom

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Conflagration

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A very intense and uncontrolled fire

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Languish

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To become feeble

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Ethereal

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Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality

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Panacea

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A hypothetical remedy for all ills and diseases

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Hauteur

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Overbearing pride

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Hoodwink

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To deceive or trick someone; dupe

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Inanity

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Total lack of meaning or ideas

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Infelicitous

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Inappropriate

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Abrogate

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To revoke or relinquish formally

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Bastardization

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An act that debases or corrupts

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Elegiac

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Expressing sorrow

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Malingerer

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Someone abandoning their duty by pretending to be sick or incapacitated

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Obtuse

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Lacking insight or discernment; lack intellectual acuity; slow to learn

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Self-effacing

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Reluctant to draw attention to oneself

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Conflate

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To mix together different elements or concepts

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Callow

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Young and unexperienced; fledgling

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Doughty

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Brave; bold; courageous

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Phlegmatic

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Showing little emotion; disinterested

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Estimable

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Deserving of esteem and respect

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Appurtenant

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Supplying added support

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Desideratum

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Something desired as a necessity

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Browbeat

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To be bossy towards; to discourage or frighten

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Percipient

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Highly perceptive

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Pellucid

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Transparently clear; easily understandable

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Besotted

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Strongly affectionate towards

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Dissipate

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To disperse; to squander money frivolously

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Philistine

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Ignorance toward artistic and cultural values

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Officious

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Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

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Arrogate

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To seize and control without authority

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Mendicant

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A pauper who lives by begging

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Diminutive

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Very small; indicating smallness

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Broadside

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A strong verbal attack

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Recrudesce

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To break out or happen again

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Vaunted

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Highly or widely praised

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Obtain

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Being valid, applicable, or true

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Assiduously

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With great care and perseverance

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Tyro

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Someone new to a field or activity; dilettante

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Lachrymose

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Showing sorrow

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Verisimilitude

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The appearance of truth

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Capitulate

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To surrender

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