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GRE - Manhattan Essential Word List - L4 Flashcards

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Aesthetic

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Concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste, pertaining to the science of what is beautiful (adj); a sense of beauty and taste of a particular time and place (noun)

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Anarchy

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Absence of law or government; chaos, disorder

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Artifact

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Any object made by humans, especially those form an earlier time, such as those excavated bu archeologists

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Avid

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Enthusiastic, dedicated, passionate; excessively desirous

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Burgeon

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Grow or flourish rapidly; put forth buds or shoots (of a plant)

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Caustic

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Capable of corroding metal or burning the skin; very critical or sarcastic

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Complementary

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Completing; fitting together well; filling mutual needs

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Constrict

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Squeeze, compress; restrict the freedom of

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Corroborate

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Support, add evidence to

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Credulous

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Gullible; prone to believing or trusting too easily or without enough evidence

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Deem

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judge; consider

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Derivative

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Derived from something else; not original

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Discredit

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Injure the reputation of, destroy credibility of or confidence in

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Disposition

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A person’s general or natural mood; tendency

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Dogma

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A system of principles laid down by an authority; established belief

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Elated

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Very happy, in high spirits

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Enigma

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Puzzle, mystery, riddle; mysterious or contradictory person

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Estimable

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Worthy of esteem, admirable; able to be estimated

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Facilitate

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Make easier, help the progress of

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Fleeting

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Passing quickly, transitory

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Gauche

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Tactless, lacking social grace, awkward, crude

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Hardy

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Bold, brave, capable of withstanding hardship, fatigue, cold, etc.

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Illiberality

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Narrow-mindedness, bigotry; strictness or lack of generosity

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Incendiary

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Setting on fire, pertaining to arson; arousing strife, rebellion, etc.; “inflaming” the senses

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Ingenuous

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Genuine, sincere, not holding back; naive

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Judicious

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Using good judgement; wise, sensible

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Lassitude

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Tiredness, weariness; lazy indifference

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Loquacious

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Talkative, wordy

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Mitigate

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Make less sever; lessen or moderate (damage, gried, pain, etc.)

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Net

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Remaining after expenses or other factors have been deducted; ultimate (adj.); too bring in as profit, or to catch as in a net (v)

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Occult

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The supernatural (n); pertaining to magic, astrology, etc.; mysterious, secret or hidden (adj.); to hide, to shut off from view (v)

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Overshadow

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Cast a shadow over, darken; dominate, make to seem less important

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Peccadillo

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Small sin or fault

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Pith

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Core, essence; significance or weight

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Pragmatic

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Practical; dealing with actual facts

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Pristine

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In an original, pure state; uncorrupted

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Pronounced

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Distinct, strong, clearly indicated

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Quotidian

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Daily; everyday, ordinary

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Repudiate

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Reject, cast off, deny tat something has authority

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Rhetoric

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The art or study of persuasion through speaking or writing; language that is elaborate or pretentious but actually empty, meaning little

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Satiate or Sate

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To fully satisfy; to go beyond satisfying to the point of excess (possibly inducing disgust, tiredness, etc.)

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Skirt

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Border, lie along the edge of, go around; evade

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Specious

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Seemingly true but actually false; deceptively attractive

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Stoic or stoical

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Indifferent to pleasure or pain, enduring without complaint; person indifferent to pleasure or pain (n)

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Surmise

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Guess, infer, think or make an opinion with incomplete information

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Timorous

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Fearful, timid

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Underscore

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Emphasize (or, literally, to underline text)

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Vintage

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Related to items of high quality from a previous era, old fashioned antique (adj.); the wine of a particular year (n)

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Zenith

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High point, culmination

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