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MGRE SE Flashcards

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Contrite

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Synonym: Penitential

Meaning: being remorseful

Sentence: Criminal defendants try and appear contrite before judges to get moral sympathy

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Pious

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Meaning: Devoutly religious

Sentence: My mom is quite pious but thankfully isn’t sanctimonious

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Phlegmatic

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Synonym: Unflappable

Meaning: calm, cool in the face of crisis

Sentence: After years of experience in the emergency room The doctor was phlegmatic in his methodology

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Apocryphal

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Meaning: Untrue

Sentence: If I were to say I’ll do well on this GRE it would be apocryphal

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Saccharine

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Meaning: Excessively sweet or sentimental

Sentence: I find myself to be too saccharine with girls I’m interested in

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Protean

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Synonym: Versatile

Meaning: Adaptable to a variety of different styles

Sentence: The Pianist was so protean he could mimic any artist of his time

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Abated

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Meaning: Diminished or fell

Sentence: it was surprising that investments in the company abated considering the company had attained high levels of profitability in the last few months

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Euphony

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Synonym: Tonality

Meaning: Pleasant sound

Sentence: Coldplay’s music is regarded as euphony to die hard fans like me

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Dissonance/ Stridency

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Meaning: Harshness

Sentence: Archana addressing our class with a tone of dissonance is never a good sign

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Dally/ Tarry

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Meaning: waste time

Sentence: sometimes I feel I dally/tarry a lot when I go to college which is why I prefer to stay at home and study

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Appellations/ Sobriquets

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Meaning: Nicknames

Sentence: I received a number of nasty appellations/sobriquets in high school but haven’t so far in college

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Vexing

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Meaning: annoying

Sentence: Sentence equivalence is the most vexing part of the GRE

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Genial

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Meaning: friendly

Sentence: the Shri ram people are the most genial people I have met

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Hyperbole

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Meaning: exaggeration

Sentence: I get my knack for hyperbole from my mother

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Innuendos

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Meaning: negative hints

Sentence: I keep giving SM innuendos that I hate her but she doesn’t get them

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Conundrums

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Meaning: difficult questions

Sentence: the simple questions my mom texts me at 3 am become conundrums when I’m drunk

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Buttress

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Meaning: to support

Sentence: we were shocked to find genuine people buttressing Trump in the US

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Albatross

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Meaning: On going problem

Sentence: France’s albatross of terrorism will definitely impact their tourism in the long run

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Candor

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Meaning: Honest

Sentence: V told me that he’s always candle with K which is an admirable quality

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Insolent

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Meaning: rude and arrogant

Sentence: Pranay will always be insolent no matter how much he fakes otherwise

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Assimilation

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Synonym: acculturation

Meaning: Adapting to a place

Sentence: SM finds it impossible to assimilate herself to any place except the US

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Stoic

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Meaning: unemotional

Sentence: Z told me people like me in her life are to be blamed for her stoic nature

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Stolid

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Meaning: unemotional

Sentence: Z told me that people like me in her life are to be blamed for her stolid nature

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Callow

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Meaning: Immature

Sentence: The gang of seniors in my college were amongst the most callow people I’ve ever known

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Shrewd

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Meaning: complete

Sentence: Thanks to my article I have a semi shrewd understanding of the 2008 financial crash

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Vituperations

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Meaning: abusive language

Sentence: V’s drunken vituperation so are something to be admired

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Quips

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Meaning: one liners

Sentence: Moulik was known for his quips in the first few semesters of college

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Impasse

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Meaning: stalemate

Sentence: the two debaters kept on Arguing until the judges stopped them as they had reached an impasse

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Ebullient/ exuberant

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Meaning: cheerful

Sentence: my first impression of the shri ram people was that they were all ebullient/exuberant in nature

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Contemptible

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Meaning: despicable

Synonyms: my pot brownie trip was absolutely contemptible

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Fetid

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Meaning: foul smelling

Sentence: you can tell a rat has died by the fetid stench throughout the house

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Wizened

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Meaning: old and weathered

Sentence: R Thomas’s mom was very nice and sensible for a wizened woman

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Hale

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Meaning: strong and healthy

Sentence: P is the most hale person I know

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Satirical

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Meaning: making fun of a pre-existing situation

Sentence: Parthiv’s humour is largely satirical in nature

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Amiable/ Convivial

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Meaning: warm and good humoured

Sentence: Vidur is one of the most amiable people I know

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Farcical

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Meaning: laughable

Sentence: dad has many farcical experiences on our trips

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Inchoate

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Meaning: partially in existence

Sentence: Devyani is inchoate I’m the lives of her former classmates

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Incipient

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Meaning: partially in existence

Sentence: Devyani is incipient in the lives of her former classmates

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Benign

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Meaning: not harmful

Sentence: people who think alcohol is benign are stupid

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Explicate

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Meaning: explain

Sentence: it is difficult to explicate to SM that her
life isn’t that bad

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Denigrate

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Synonym: disparage

Meaning: criticise

Sentence: my dad gets quite annoyed by us denigrating him constantly

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Genteel

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Meaning: polite

Sentence: customer service in the US is very genteel

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Disposed

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Meaning: inclined

Sentence: I’m quite disposed to drunk dialling someone when I reach a point of drunkeness

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Triage

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Meaning: prioritise

Sentence: whenever I am besotted by a female I triage her in my life

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Inadvertently

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Meaning: accidentally

Sentence: the time I inadvertently left my bag pack on the train in Milan was a horrible experience

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Priggish/ punctilious

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Meaning: someone who demands conformity in a morally superior manner

Sentence: Ahmed was a priggish/punctilious individual making him a tyrant for interns

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Impious

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Synonym: lax

Meaning: irreverent or not respectful of God

Sentence: being impious is not good even if you’re an aethist

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Puckish

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Meaning: mischievous

Sentence: Nikhil is quite a puckish child

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Prurient

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Meaning: having lustful thoughts

Sentence: Snehal is a very prurient person, but then again we all are

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Puritanical

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Meaning: very strict in religious matters

Sentence: the RSS is puritanical to the point that they are all radicals and hooligans

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