GRE Princeton Flashcards
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Clandestinely
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Done secretly or kept secret, abscond
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Alacrity
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Eager and enthusiastic willingness
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Voracious
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Insatiable appetite for activity, ravenous
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Truculent
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Fierce and cruel, eager to fight
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Tortuous
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Winding, excessively complicated, convolute
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Preclude
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To prevent the presence or existence of
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Stymie
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To block, to thwart
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Stupefy
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To stun, baffle, amaze
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Sordid
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Filth, grime, squalor, foul
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Solicit
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Try to obtain something from someone
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Relegate
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To forcibly assign to lower place or position
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Recant
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To retract to previous belief
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Qualms
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Misgiving, reservations, causes for hesitancy
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Prattle
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To babble meaninglessly
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Perspicacious
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Shrewd, astute
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Tenaciously
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Firmly holding onto something
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Pertinacious
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Resolute
