GRE Vocab Set 2 (Princeton Review) Flashcards

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Abate

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To lessen in intensity

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Accolade

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An expression of praise

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3
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Adulation

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Excessive praise; intense adoration

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Aesthetic

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Dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful

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5
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Ameliorate

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To make better or more tolerable

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Ascetic

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One who practices rigid self-denial

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Avarice

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Greed, especially for wealth

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly or flourish

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Bucolic

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Rustic and pastoral, characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

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Cacophany

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Harsh, jarring, discordant sound

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Canon

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An established set or principles or code of laws

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12
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Castigation

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Severe criticism or punishment

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13
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Catalyst

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A substance that accelerates the rate of chemical reaction without itself changing

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Caustic

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Burning or stinging

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Chary

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Wary, cautious, sparing

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16
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Cogent

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Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason

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Complaisance

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Willingness to comply with the wishes of others

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18
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Contentious

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Argumentative

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19
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Contrite

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Regretful

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20
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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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21
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Dearth

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Smallness of quantity or number

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22
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Demur

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To question or oppose

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Didactict

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Intended to teach or instruct

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Discretion

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Cautious reserve in speech, ability to make reasonable decisions

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Disinterested
Free of bias or self-interest
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Dogmatic
Expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles
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Ebullience
The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression
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Eclectic
Composed of elements drawn from various sources
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Elegy
Mournful poem
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Emollient
Soothing, especially to the skin
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Empirical
Based on observation or experiment
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Enigmatic
Mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand
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Ephemeral
Brief and fleeting
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Esoteric
Intended for a small, specific group
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Eulogy
A speech honoring the dead
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Exonerate
To remove blame
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Facetious
Playful and humerous
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Fallacy
Invalid or incorrect notion
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Furtive
Marked by stealth
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Gregarious
Sociable, outgoing, enjoying the company of other people
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Harangue
To delivery a forceful or angry speech
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Heretical
Violating accepted dogma
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Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement
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Impecunious
Lacking funds
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Incipient
Beginning to come into being
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Inert
Unmoving, lethargic
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Innocuous
Harmless, causing no damage
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Intransigent
Refusing to compromise
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Inveigle
To obtain by deception or flattery
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Morose
Sad, sullen, melancholy
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Odious
Evoking intense aversion or dislike
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Opaque
Impenetrable by light
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Oscillation
The act or state of swinging back and forth
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Penurious
Excessively thrifty
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Pernicious
Harmful in a way that is not easily seen
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Peruse
To examine with great care
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Pious
Extremely reverent or devout
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Precursor
One that precedes and indicates or announces another
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Preen
To dress up with elaborate care
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Prodigious
Abundant in size, force, or extent
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Prolific
Large volumes, productive
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Putrefy
To rot or decay
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Quaff
To drink deeply
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Quiescence
Stillness
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Redoubtable
Awe-inspring
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Sanction
Authoritative permission or approval
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Satire
Literary work that ridicules human vices through humor
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Squalid
Sordid, wretched and dirty
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Stoic
Indifferent to pleasure or pain
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Supplant
To take the place of
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Torpid
Lethargic, sluggish, and dormant
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Ubiquitous
Existing everywhere, widepsread
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Urbane
Sophisticated and refined
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Vilify
To defame or characterize harshly
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Viscous
Thick and sticky