Gre Q Flashcards
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Qualified
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- Officially recognized as being trained to perform a particular job
- Not complete or absolute ; limited
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Quibble
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- A slight objection or criticism about a trivial matter
Nitpick
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Quotidian
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Occurring daily ; commonplace
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Ranks
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Rang (hiérarchie)
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Reap
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- To gather or harvest, often related to crops
- To receive as a consequence for ones actions
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Recluse
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- A person who lives in solitude and avoids social interaction
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Refute
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Réfutee
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Relegate
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- To assign to a lower position or rank
- To send someone to an inferior or less important place or condition
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Remedial
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- Intended to correct or improve skills in a specific field
- Providing a remedy
- Basic or introductory, often for students or employees needing extra help
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Render
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- To make something in a particular stateor condition
- To provide or give a service, help or performance
- To depict artistically
The artist rendered the sunset beautifully
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Replete
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- Filled or well supplied with something
- Very full, especially after eating
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Reproach
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- To express disapointment or disaproval with someone’s actions
- A statement if disaproval or blame
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Repudiate
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- To reject or disown something; refuse to accept or support
- To deny the truth or validity of
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Repudiate
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- To reject or disown sometjing ; refuse to accept or support
- To deny the truth or validity of
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Requite
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- To return a favor, service, or affectation
- To retaliate for a wrong doing or injury
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Rescind
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- To revoke, cancel, or repeal something, especially a law, order, or agreement (verb)
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Resolution
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- A firm decision to do or not to do something
- The action of solving a problem or dispute
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Resolve
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- To decide firmly on a course of action
- To find a solution to a problem
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Restive
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Unable to stay still or stay silent, especially due to impatience or dissatisfaction (adj)
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Reticent
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Reluctant to speak or share thoughts; reserved
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Retrospective
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- Looking back on or dealing with past events or situations
- An exhibition or performance that shows the development of the work of a particumar artidt over time (noun)
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Reverent
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- Showing deep respect, admiration, or awe, especially for something sacred (adj)
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Rhetoric
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1 the art if persuasove speaking or writing, especialmy using figures of speech (noun)
2. Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but often lacking sincerity (noun)
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Rife
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- Widespread, especially something undesirable or harmful (adj)
- Abundant or common
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Rustic
1. Relating to the countryside; rural (adj)
2. Simple, old fashioned, or unsophisticated (adj)
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Sacrosant
1. Regarded as too important pr valuable to be interfered with or violated
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Sagacious
1. Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; wise
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Salubrious
1. Health giving; beneficial to one's health (adj)
2. Pleasant or enjoyable, typically relating to a location
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Sanction
1. Official permission or approval for an action
2. A penalty for disobeying a law or rule
3. To approve or allow something
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Sanguine
1. Optimistoc or positive, especially in a difficult situation
2. Relating to the color of blood, or a ruddy complexion
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Satiate
To satify a desire to the fullest, often to the point of excess
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Saturate
1. To completely soak or fill sometjing with a liquid or substance
2. To supply to excess
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Scant
Barely sufficient or adequate in amount or quantity
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Scathing
Harsh
Scathing remarks
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Secular
1. Not connected with religious or spiritual matters
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Sedulous
1. Showing dedication and diligence in work or pursuit
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Sentient
Able to perceive or feel things; conscious
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Skirt
1. To go around or avoid an obstacle or issue
2. The edge or border of something
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Slack
1. Not tight , taut, or firm; loose
2. Lacking in activity or diligence; careless or lazy
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Slew
1. A large number or quantity of something
2. To turn or slide violently or uncontrollably in a particular directio
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Slight
1. Small in degree; not substantial
2. To insult someone by treating or speaking of them without proper respect or attention
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Solicitous
1. Showing concern or care to someone's health, happiness, or well being
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Soporific
1. Tending to induce drowsineds or sleep
2. A drug or agent that causes sleep
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Spartan
1. Marked by simplicity, or lack of luxiry
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Spearhead
1. To lead or initiate an action or movement
2. The leading or driving force in a particular movement or action
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Specious
1. Superficially plausible, but actually wrong; misleading in appearance
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Sportive
1. Playful, lighthearted or frolicsome
2. Relating to or interested in sports
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Standing
1. A persons reputationor status in a community
2. Remaining in force or use; permanent
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Stark
Severe or bare in appearance; sharply clear
2. Complete, absolute, often in a harsh way
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Stoic
Enduring pain or hardship without showing feelings or complaining
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Stolid
Calm, dependable,and showing little emotion or animation
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Stymie
To prevent or hinder the progress of something
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Subside
To become less intense, violent, or severe
2. To sink or settle down to a lower level
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Substantiate
1. To provide evidence to support or prove the truth of something
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Supersede
To take the place of something thah is considered old, outdated, or inferior
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Supplicate
Supplier
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Surfeit
1. An excessive amount of something
2. To cause someone to desire no more of something due to an excess
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Surmise
1. To pose something as true without the evidence to confirm it
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Sycophant
A person who acts obsequiously toward someone in order to gain advantage (noun)
Leche cul
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Synchronous
Occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period of phase
