GRE Favorites Flashcards
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Sententious
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Self-righteous, moralizing others pompously.
Containing many pithy aphorisms.
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Belie
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To give a false impression.
To reveal as untrue.
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Undermine
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To destroy, attack, or weaken something by underhand means/ by eroding the foundation.
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Propitiate
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To appease, placate.
To make favorably inclined.
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Feckless
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Lazy, incompetent, irresponsible
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Tendentious
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Having a certain bias or tendency, especially a controversial bias.
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Limpid
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Clear.
Calm.
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Betray
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To reveal, often a secret one would prefer to conceal.
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Punctilious
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Meticulous
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Desultory
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Aimless, haphazard, wandering
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Pecuniary
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Relating to money
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Inculcate
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To teach through repetition
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Ascetic
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Self denying
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Lugubrious
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Excessively sad/mournful
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Machination
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Scheming, plotting
