GRE Beyond Vocab Set 1 (Princeton Review) Flashcards

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Alloy

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To commingle, to debase by mixing with something inferior

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Appropriate

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To take for one’s own use; to confiscate

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Arrest

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To suspend, to engage or hold one’s attention

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August

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Majestic and venerable

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Bent

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Leaning, inclination, tendency

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Broach

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To bring up, to announce, to begin to talk about

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Brook

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To tolerate or endure

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Cardinal

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Major, as in cardinal sin

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Chauvinist

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A blindly devoted patriot

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Color

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To change as if by dyeing (distorting)

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Consequential

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Pompous, self-important

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Damp

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To diminish intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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Die

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A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

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Essay

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To test or try, to attempt

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Exact

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To demand, to call for or take action

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Fell (v.)

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To cause to fall by striking

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Fell (adj.)

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Inhumanely cruel

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Flag

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To sag or droop, to decline

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Flip

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Sarcastic, impertinent, a flip remark

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Ford

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To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Grous

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To complain or grumble

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Guy

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A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide, to steady or reinforce

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Intimate

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To imply, suggest, or insinuate

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List

A

To tilt or lean to one side

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Lumber

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To move heavily and clumsily

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Meet

A

Fitting, proper

27
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Milk

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To exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of

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Mince

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To pronounce or speak affectedly, to speak too carefully

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Nice

A

Exacting, extremely precise

30
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Occult

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Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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Pedestrian

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Commonplace, trite, unremarkable

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Pled

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Multicolored, usually in blotches

33
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Pine

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To lose vigor, to yearn

34
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Plastic

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Moldable, pliable, not rigid

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Pluck

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Courage, spunk, fortitude

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Prize

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To pry, to press or force with a lever, something taken by force

37
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Rail

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To complain about bitterly

38
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Rent

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Torn, or an opening of a tear (past tense of rend)

39
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Quail

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To lose courage and become frightened

40
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Qualify

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To limit

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Sap (v.)

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To enervate or weaken the vitality of

42
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Sap (n.)

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A fool or nitwit

43
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Scurvy

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Despicable

44
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Singular

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Exceptional, unusual, odd

45
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Stand

A

A group of trees

46
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Steep

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To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

47
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Strut

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The supporting structural cross-part of a wing

48
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Table

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To remove from consideration (parliament)

49
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Tender

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To proffer or offer

50
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Waffle

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To equivocate or change one’s position

51
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Wag

A

Wit, joker