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GRE Verbal Deck 6 Flashcards

1
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Opprobrium

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Harsh criticism

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2
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Ostentatious

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Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress

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Paragon

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A model of excellece or perfection

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Paucity

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Small quantities

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5
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Perfidious

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Decietful and untrustworthy

His performance was pefidious as he doesn’t put in any work

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6
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Pervasive

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Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people

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Platitude

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A remark or statement that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful

Boring Remark

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8
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Precarious

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Collapsable or Unstable

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Prevaricate

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Evasively Speak or Act

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Prodigal

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Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant

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11
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Propensity

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Behavioural Tendency

Propensity is different in city folks

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Propitiate

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To win or regain the favor of a god, spirit, or a person by doing something that pleases them

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13
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Propriety

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Conformity to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals

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14
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Proscribe

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To forbid, especially by law

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15
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Quiescent

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In a state or period of inactivity or dormancy

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16
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Rarefied

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Esoteric

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17
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Recalcitrant

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Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline

Uncooperative attitude

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18
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Recant

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To say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief

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19
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Refractory

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Stubborn or unmanageable

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20
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Relegate

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To consign or dismiss to an inferior rank or position

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21
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Reproach

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To express disapproval or disappointment

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22
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Reprobate

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An unprincipled person

23
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Repudiate

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To refuse to accept or be associated with

24
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Rescind

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To revoke, cancel, or repeal

25
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Reticent

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Deep respect for someone or something

Revere

26
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Sage

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A proundly wise person

27
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Salubrious

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Health-giving; healthy

28
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Salutary

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Producing good effects; beneficial

29
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Satiate

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To satisfy (a desire or appetite) to the full

30
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Sensual

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Relating to or involving gratification of the senses, especially sexual pleasure

31
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Sensuous

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Relating to or affecting the senses rather than the intellect

32
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Sentient

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Able to percieve or feel thingsl conscious

33
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Solicitous

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Showing concern or care for someone’s well-being

34
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Soporific

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Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

35
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Specious

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Superficially plausible, but acutally wrong; misleadingly attractive

36
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Stipulate

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To demand or specify a condition as a part of an agreement

37
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Stolid

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Calm, dependable, and showing little emotion

38
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Subsume

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To include evidence to support or prove the truth of something

39
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Supposition

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An uncertain belief or assumption

40
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Taciturn

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Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

41
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Tenous

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Very weak or slight; insubstantial

42
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Torpor

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A state ofphysical or mental inactivity; lethargy

43
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Tortuous

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Full of twists and turs; excessively complicated

44
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Tractable

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Easy to control or influence; manageable

45
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Trangression

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An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offense

46
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Truculence

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Aggressively defiant or hostile behaviour

47
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Untenable

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Not able to be maintained or defended against criticism or attack

48
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Vascillate

A

Be indecisive

49
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Vapid

A

Dull

50
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Venerate

A

Revere

two “e”s

51
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Verbose

A

Wordy

52
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Vitiate

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To spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of something

53
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Vituperative

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Bitter and abusive in language or criticism

54
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Whimsicial

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Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way

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