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Kaplan Common GRE Words Flashcards

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Abscond

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To leave secretly

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Adulterate

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To make impure

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Aggrandize

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To increase in power or reputation

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Ameliorate

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To make better, Improve

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Antipathy

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Extreme Dislike

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Ardor

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Intense and passionate feeling

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Assuage

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To make something less severe

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Austere

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Severe or stern in appearance

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Banal

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Predictable, Boring

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Cacophony

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Harsh, jarring noise

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Capricious

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Changing one’s mind quickly and often

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Castigate

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To punish or criticize harshly

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Caustic

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Biting in wit

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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile

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Cogent

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Convincing and well-reasoned

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Credulous

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Too trusting, gullible

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Deride

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To treat with contempt, To mock

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Desiccate

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To dry out thoroughly

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Diffident

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Lacking self confidence

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Dilatory

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Intended to delay

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Dilettante

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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in something

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Dirge

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A funeral hymn or mournful speech

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Disabuse

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Set right, To free from error

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Dissemble

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To present a false appearance, To disguise one’s real intentions

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Elegy

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Sorrowful poem or speech

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Enervate

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To reduce in strength

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Enumerate

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To count, list, or itemize

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Equivocal

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Open to more than one interpretation, Misleading

29
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Erudite

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Learned, Scholarly, Bookish

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Estimable

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Admirable

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Euphemism

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An inoffensive word used in place of a more offensive one

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Exculpate

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To clear from blame

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Exigent

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Urgent, Requiring immediate action

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Florid

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Excessively decorated or embellished

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Foment

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To arouse or incite

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Garrulous

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Tending to talk alot

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Iconoclast

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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, or institutions

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Imperturbable

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Not capable of being disturbed

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Implacable

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unable to be calmed down

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Ingenuous

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Showing innocence or childlike simplicity

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Inimical

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Hostile, Unfriendly

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Irascible

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Easily made angry

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Misanthrope

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A person who dislikes others

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Obdurate

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Hardened in feeling, Resistant to persuasion

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Paragon

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Model of excellence or perfection

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Pedant

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Someone who shows off learning

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Perfidious

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Willing to betray one’s trust

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Prevaricate

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To lie or deviate from the truth

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Prodigal

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Lavish, Wasteful

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Propitiate

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To appease

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Quiescent

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Motionless, Quiet

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive, Seemingly plausible but fallacious

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Stolid

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Unemotional, Lacking sensitivity

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Tacit

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Done without words

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Taciturn

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Silent, Not talkative

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Torpor

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Extreme mental or physical sluggishness

60
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Vacillate

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To sway physically, To be indecisive

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Venerate

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To respect deeply

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Veracity

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Truthfulness, Accuracy

63
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Verbose

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wordy

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