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GRE Words 2 Flashcards

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Fete

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To celebrate a person

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Raffish

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Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness

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Renege

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Fail to fulfill a promise

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Plodding

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(Of movement) slow and laborious

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Respite

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A pause from doing something (as work)

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Apprehension

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Fearful expectation

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Snide

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mocking or derogatory in an indirect manner

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Morose

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Ill tempered and not inclined to talk (gloomy)

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Jocular

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Characterized by jokes and good humour

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Consummate

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Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill

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Malady

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A disease or sickness

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Stolid

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Having or revealing little emotion or sensitivity

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Endemic

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Originating

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Flounder

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Have difficulties with, behave awkwardly

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Dearth

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A lack or shortage

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Fledgling

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Young and inexperienced

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Guffaw

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Laugh boisterously (the king guffawed)

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Inclement

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(Of weather) unpleasant, stormy
(Of person) showing no mercy to

19
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Spurn

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Reject with contempt

20
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Urbane

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Showing a high degree of refinement and assurance that comes from wide social experience

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Buck

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Resist

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Facetious

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Clearly amusing in tone

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Grovel

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Show submission or fear

24
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Genteel

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Marked by refinement in taste and manners

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Assail

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Attack in speech or writing

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Rankle

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Gnaw into: make resentful or angry

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Derisive

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Abusing vocally, expressing contempt or ridicule

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Fickle

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Liable to sudden unpredictable change, especially in affections or attachment

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Perfidy

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An act of deliberate betrayal

30
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Deferential

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Showing respect

31
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Prescience

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Ability to see the future

32
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Mawkish

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Overly sentimental to the point that is becomes disgusting

33
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Aesthete

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One who professes great sensibility to to the Beauty of art and nature

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Volubility

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The quality of talking or writing easily and continuously

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Refractory

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Stubbornly resistant to authority or control

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Languid

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Not inclined towards physical exertion; slow and relaxed

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Eclectic

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Comprised of a variety of styles

38
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Apocryphal

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Being of questionable authenticity

39
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Pedantic

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someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter

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Myopic

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Lacking foresight or imagination

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Acerbic

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Harsh in tone

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Expound

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Add detail or clarification

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Espouse

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To adapt or support and idea or cause

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Intransigent

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Unwilling to change one’s belief or course of action

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