GRE_words2

Question 1

Quick to act wihtout thinking

Answer 1

Impetuous

Question 2

Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful

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Implacable

Question 3

Not fully formed; disorganized

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Inchoate

Question 4

Showing innoved or childlike simplicity

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Ingenuous

Question 5

Hostile, unfriendly

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Inimical

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Harmless

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Innocuous

Question 7

Lacking interest or flavor

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Insipid

Question 8

Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled

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Intransigent

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To overwhelm; to cover with water

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Inundate

Question 10

Easily made angry

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Irascible

Question 11

Using few words

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Laconic

Question 12

To give unsparingly (v); extremely generous or extravagant (adj.)

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Lavish

Question 13

Talkative

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Loquacious

Question 14

Clear and easily understood

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Lucid

Question 15

Bright, brilliant, glowing

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Luminous

Question 16

To evade responsibility

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Malinger

Question 17

Capable of being shaped

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Malleable

Question 18

A person who dislikes others

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Misanthrope

Question 19

To calm or make less severe

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Mollify

Question 20

Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion

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Obdurate

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Overly submissive and eager to please

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Obsequious

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To prevent; to make unnecessary

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Obviate

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To stop up; to prevent the passage of

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Occlude

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Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome

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Onerous

Question 25

Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light

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Opaque

Question 26

Public disgrace

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Opprobrium

Question 27

Excessive showiness

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Ostentation

Question 28

Model of excellence or perfection

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Paragon

Question 29

Someone who shows off learning

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Pedant

Question 30

Willing to betray one's trust

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Perfidious

Question 31

Done in a routine way; indifferent

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Perfunctory

Question 32

To penetrate

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Permeate

Question 33

To soothe or pacify

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Placate

Question 34

Able to be molded, altered, or bent

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Plastic

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Excess

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Plethora

Question 36

Practical as opposed to idealistic

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Pragmatic

Question 37

To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation

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Precipitate

Question 38

To lie or deviate from the truth

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Prevaricate

Question 39

Lavish, wasteful

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Prodigal

Question 40

To increase in number quickly

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Proliferate

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To conciliate; to appease

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Propitiate

Question 42

Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs

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Propriety

Question 43

Wisdom, caution, or restraint

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Prudence

Question 44

Shart and irritating to the sense

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Pungent

Question 45

Motionless

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Quiescent

Question 46

To make thinner or sparser

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Rarefy

Question 47

To reject the validity of

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Repudiate

Question 48

Silent, reserved

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Reticent

Question 49

Effective writing or speaking

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Rhetoric

Question 50

To satisfy fully or overindulge

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Satiate

Question 51

Causing sleep or lethargy

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Soporific

Question 52

Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

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Specious

Question 53

Unemotional; lacking sensitivity

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Stolid

Question 54

Lofty or grand

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Sublime

Question 55

Done without using word

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Tacit

Question 56

Silent, not talkative

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Taciturn

Question 57

Long, harsh speech or verbal attack

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Tirade

Question 58

Extreme mental and physical sluggishness

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Torpor

Question 59

Temporary, lasting a brief time

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Transitory

Question 60

To sway physically; to be indecisive

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Vacillate

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To respect deeply

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Venerate

Question 62

Filled with truth and accuracy

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Veracity

Question 63

Wordy

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Verbose

Question 64

To annoy

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Vex

Question 65

Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable

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Whimsical

Question 66

Passion, excitement

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Zeal