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GRE Level Words Flashcards

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the common rule

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Homeostasis

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A relatively stable state of equilibrium

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Homogeneous

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ADJECTIVE

  1. Of the same kind; alike.
  2. Consisting of parts all of the same kind.
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Homonym

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One of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning

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Homosexual

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of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire toward a member of one’s own sex

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Diagram

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A figure made by drawing lines; an illustration

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Epigram

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A short poem; a pointed statement

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Grammar

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A system of language and its rules

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Graph

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A diagram used to convey mathematical information

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Graphite

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Mineral used for writing, as the “lead” in pencils

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Photograph

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A picture originally made by exposing chemically treated film to light

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Euphony

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The quality of sounding good

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Megaphone

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A device for magnifying the sound of one’s own voice

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Phonetics

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The study of sounds used in speech

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Polyphony

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The use of simultaneous melodic lines to produce harmonies in musical compositions

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Telephone

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A device for transmitting sound at a distance.

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Sojourn

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Noun: A temporary stay
Verb: Stay somewhere temporarily

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Retire

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Verb: Leave one’s job and cease to work, typically upon reaching the normal age for leaving employment.

Noun: Withdraw to or from a particular place.

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Persevere

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Verb:

Continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success.

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Congruent

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Adjective:
In agreement or harmony.

[Geometry] (of figures):
Identical in form; coinciding exactly when superimposed.

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Superimposed

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Adjective:

Placed or laid over something else, typically so that both things are still evident.

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Confiscate

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Verb:
Take or seize (someone’s property) with authority
Take (a possession, especially land) as a penalty and give it to the public treasury.

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Economize

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Verb:

Spend less; reduce one’s expenses

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Consummate

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Verb:
Make complete by having sexual intercourse.
Adjective:
Showing a high degree of skill and flair; complete or perfect.

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Whim

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Noun:
A sudden desire or change of mind, especially one that is unusual or unexplained.

Archaic:
A windlass for raising ore or water from a mine.

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Dogma

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A principle or a set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.

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Hypothesis

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Noun:
A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

Philosophy:
A proposition made as a basis for reasoning without any assumption of its truth.

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Fancy

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Adjective:
Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Archaic:
(Of a drawing, painting, or sculpture) created from the imagination rather than from life.

Verb:
To feel a desire or liking for.

British:
Regard (a horse, team, or player) as a likely winner.

Noun:

  1. A feeling of liking or attraction, typically one that is superficial or transient.
  2. The faculty of imagination.
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Tenet

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Noun:

A principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy.

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Polity

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Noun:

  1. A form or process of civil government or constitution
  2. An organized society; a state as a political entity.
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Spurious

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Adjective:

  1. Not being what it purports to be; false or fake.
  2. (Of a line of reasoning) apparently but not actually valid.

Archaic:
(Of offspring) illegitimate.

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Terse

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Adjective:

Sparing in the use of words; abrupt.

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Fallacious

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Adjective:

Based on the mistaken belief.

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Succinct

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Adjective:
(Especially of something written or spoken):
Briefly and clearly expressed.

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Bellicose

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Adjective:

Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.

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Blithe

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Adjective:
Showing casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper.

Literary:
Happy or joyous.

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Extol

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Verb:

Praise enthusiastically.

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Deprecate

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Verb:

Express disapproval of.

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Renounce

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Verb:

  1. Formally declare one’s abandonment of (a claim, a right, a possession)
  2. Reject and stop using and consuming

Law:
Refuse or resign a right or position, especially one as an heir or a trustee.

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Spurn

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Verb:

Reject with disdain or contempt

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Discountenance

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Verb:

  1. Refuse to approve of (something)
  2. Disturb the composure of
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Eulogize

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Verb:

Praise highly in speech or writing

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Inimical

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Adjective:

  1. Tending to obstruct or harm.
  2. Unfriendly; hostile.
44
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Ingratiate

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Verb:

Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them.

45
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Heidegger

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German Philosopher + a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition of Philosophy. Best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, + existentialism.

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Luminary

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Noun
1. A person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere.

ARCHAIC
A natural light-giving body, especially the sun or moon.

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Ontology

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Noun

  1. The branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
  2. A set of concepts and categories in a subject area of domain that shows their properties and the relations between them.
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Seminal

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Adjective:

  1. Strongly influencing later developments.
  2. Relating to or denoting semen.
49
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Contention

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Noun

  1. Heated disagreement.
  2. An assertion, especially one maintained in an argument.
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Instigate

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VERB

  1. Bring out or initiate (an action or event)
  2. Incite someone to do something. Especially something bad.
51
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Afford

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VERB

  1. Have enough money to pay for
  2. Provide or supply (an opportunity or facility)
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Arrogate

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VERB

Take or claim (something) without justification.

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Petulant

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ADJECTIVE

(Of a person or their manner) Childishly, sulky, or bad-tempered.

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Tempestuous

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ADJECTIVE

  1. Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion.
  2. Very stormy.
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Placid

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ADJECTIVE

  1. (Of a person/animal) Not easily upset or excited.
  2. (Especially of a person or a stretch of water) Calm + peaceful, with little movement or activity.
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Instigate

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VERB

  1. Bring out or initiate (an action or event)
  2. Incite someone to do something. Especially something bad.
57
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Afford

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VERB

  1. Have enough money to pay for
  2. Provide or supply (an opportunity or facility)
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Arrogate

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VERB

Take or claim (something) without justification.

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Petulant

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ADJECTIVE

(Of a person or their manner) Childishly, sulky, or bad-tempered.

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Tempestuous

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ADJECTIVE

  1. Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion.
  2. Very stormy.
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Placid

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ADJECTIVE

  1. (Of a person/animal) Not easily upset or excited.
  2. (Especially of a person or a stretch of water) Calm + peaceful, with little movement or activity.
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Instigate

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VERB

  1. Bring out or initiate (an action or event)
  2. Incite someone to do something. Especially something bad.
63
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Afford

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VERB

  1. Have enough money to pay for
  2. Provide or supply (an opportunity or facility)
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Arrogate

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VERB

Take or claim (something) without justification.

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Petulant

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ADJECTIVE

(Of a person or their manner) Childishly, sulky, or bad-tempered.

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Tempestuous

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ADJECTIVE

  1. Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion.
  2. Very stormy.
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Placid

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ADJECTIVE

  1. (Of a person/animal) Not easily upset or excited.
  2. (Especially of a person or a stretch of water) Calm + peaceful, with little movement or activity.
68
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Mercurial

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ADJECTIVE
1. (Of a person)
Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
2. Of containing the element mercury

NOUN
A drug or other compound containing mercury

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Pliable

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ADJECTIVE

  1. Easily bent; flexible
  2. Easily influenced.
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Intrinsic

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ADJECTIVE

  1. Belonging naturally; essential.
  2. (Of a muscle) Contained wholly within the organ on which it acts.
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Ephemeral

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ADJECTIVE

Lasting for a very short time.

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Frenetic

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ADJECTIVE

Fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.

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Eschew

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VERB

Deliberately avoid using; abstain from

74
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Inter

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VERB

Place (a corpse) in a grace or a tomb, typically with funeral rites.

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Imbue

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VERB

Inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality)

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Straight-ahead road signs

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“Straight-ahead” road signs are used to make one part of the sentence support or elaborate upon another part.

  1. And
  2. Since
  3. Also
  4. Thus
  5. Because
  6. ; (semicolon)
  7. Likewise
  8. Moreover
  9. Similarly
  10. In addition
    Consequently
77
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Detour Road Signs

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“Detour” road signs change the direction of the sentence. They make one part of the sentence contradict or qualify another part.

  1. But
  2. Despite
  3. Yet
  4. However
  5. Unless
  6. Rather
  7. Although
  8. While
  9. On the other hand
  10. Unfortunately
  11. Nonetheless
  12. Conversely
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Exorbitant

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ADJECTIVE
(Of a price or amount charged)
Unreasonably high

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Fathom

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NOUN
A unit of length equal to 6 ft (1.8m). Chiefly used to reference the depth of water.

VERB

  1. Understand ( a difficult problem or an enigmatic person) after much thought.
  2. Measure the depth of water.
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Interpolate

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VERB 
Insert (something of a different nature) into something else.
81
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Flounder

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VERB

  1. Struggle or stagger helplessly or clumsily in water or mud.
  2. Struggle mentally; show or feel great confusion
  3. Be in serious difficulty.
82
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Apogee

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NOUN
1. The highest point in the development of something; a climax or culmination.
2. (Astronomy)
The point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is the furthest from the earth.

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Impasse

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NOUN

A situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of a disagreement; a deadlock.

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Capitulate

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VERB

Cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender.

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Regress

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VERB
1. Return to a former or less developed state.
Return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through synopsis or mental illness.
2. Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression (of a variable) against or on another variable.
3. Move in a retrograde direction.

NOUN

  1. The action of returning to a former or less developed state.
  2. A series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g. defining something in terms of itself.)
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Acrimony

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NOUN

Bitterness or ill feelings.

87
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Cacophony

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NOUN

A harsh discordant mixture of sounds.

88
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Sinecure

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NOUN

A position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.

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Impugn

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VERB

Dispute the truth, validity, or honesty (of a statement or motive); call into question.

90
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Sacrosanct

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ADJECTIVE
(Especially of a principle place or routine)
Regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with.

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Injudicious

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ADJECTIVE

Showing very poor judgment; unwise.

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Adversary

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NOUN
One’s opponent in contest, conflict, or dispute.

ADJECTIVE
Another term for adversarial.

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Occupants

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NOUN

  1. A person who resides or is present in a house, vehicle, seat, etc. at a given time.
  2. The holder of a position or office.
  3. A person holding property, especially land, in actual possession.
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Discretion

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NOUN

  1. The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private info.
  2. The freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation.
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Parsimonious

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ADJECTIVE

Unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal

96
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Truculent

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ADJECTIVE

Eager or quick to fight; aggressively defiant.

97
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Impede

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VERB

Delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder.

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Replicate

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VERB
1. (Replicate itself)
(Of a genetic matter or a living organism)
Reproduce or give rise to a copy of itself.
2. Repeat (a scientific experiment or trial) to obtain a consistent result.

ADJECTIVE

  1. Of the nature of a copy
  2. Of the nature of repetition of a scientific experiment or trial.

NOUN
1. A close or exact copy; a replica
Repetition of an experimental test or procedure.
2. A music tone one or more octaves above or below the given tone.

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Circumvent

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VERB

  1. Find a way around (an obstacle)
  2. Overcome (a problem or difficulty) typically in a clever or surreptitious way.
100
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Paltry

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ADJECTIVE

  1. (Of an amount) small or meager
  2. Petty, trivial
101
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Abhorrent

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ADJECTIVE

Inspiring disgust and loathing. Repugnant

102
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Elusive

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ADJECTIVE

  1. Difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
  2. Difficult to remember or recall.
103
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Desultory

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ADJECTIVE
1. Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
2. (Of a conversation or speech)
Going constantly from one subject to another in a halfhearted way; unfocused.
3. Occurring randomly or occasionally.

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Circumnavigate

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VERB

  1. Sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world)
  2. Go around or avoid (an obstacle)
  3. Avoid dealing with something difficult or unpleasant

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