GRE Vocab 2 Flashcards by Helen Lin | Brainscape

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Ornery

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exhibiting bad temper

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Licentious

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immoral

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Coterie

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tightly bound group of people

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Rococo

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highly or excessively ornamented

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Extempore

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done or said with little or no preparation

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Tableau

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striking scene

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Categorical

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absolute; without exception

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Recondite

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hard to understand; not easily understood

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Antipathy

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strong dislike

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Apathy

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no interested in

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Reticent

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uncommunicative

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Parlous

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perilous

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Doughty

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fearless; valiant

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Austere

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unadorned

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Surfeit

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abundance of something

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Truculence

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disposed to violence

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Complaisance

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disposition to please or comply

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Hermetic

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airtight

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Paucity

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scarcity

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Sardonic

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grimly mocking or cynical

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Axiom

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generally accepted principle

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Loquacious

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talkative

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Hedonism

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pursuit of pleasure

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Ephemeral

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lasting for a short time

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Propriety

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state or quality of being correct or proper

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Cacophony

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harsh, unpleasant mixture of sounds

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Ingenuous

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innocent; unsuspecting

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Misanthrope

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person who dislikes humankind

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Deride

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to express contempt for; ridicule

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Noisome

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offensive odor

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Puissance

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power

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Opprobrium

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harsh criticism or censure

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Florid

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excessively decorated or embellished

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Fervid

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intensely emotional

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Estimable

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admirable

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Esoteric

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hard to understand; understood by few

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Chauvinist

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someone prejudiced in favor of a group he/she belongs in

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Condone

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overlook; pardon

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Chicanery

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deception by means of craft or guile

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Abscond

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to leave secretly

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Decorum

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having good taste; appropriateness of behavior

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Cogent

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well reasoned; convincing

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Castigate

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to punish; criticize harshly

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Banal

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trite; cliche; boring

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Ardor

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intense passionate feeling

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Aggrandize

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increase power/influence

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Ameliorate

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to make better; to improve

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Eclectic

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mixture of things

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Engender

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to produce; to cause

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Equivocal/Equivocate

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has multiple meanings; make ambiguous