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Most Common Gre Words Flashcards

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Prosaic (adj)

A prosaic game of golio pooch

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Dull, ordinary, unimaginative

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Alacrity (n)

I Work with alacrity in the genetic lab.

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Eager to do sth

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Veracity (n), veracious (adj.)
The veracity that voracity kills you.
Veracity is the heart of morality

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Truthfulness, honesty, accuracy

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Maintain (v)

He maintained that the country was going downhill.

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Assert, affirm, declare

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Paucity

A paucity of jobs hiring

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Lack of sth

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Contrite (adj)

A contrite sinner

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Remorseful

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Laconic (adj)

A laconic reply

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Concise, brief, pithy, terse, succinct

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Pugnacious (adj)

Pugnacious male birds build nests

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Combative, belligerent, argumentative, bellicose, contentious

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Disparate (adj)

Fields ad disparate as religion and biology

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Separate, divergent, incommensurable

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Egregious (adj)

Egregious misbehavior

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Outrageous, notorious, atrocious, flagrant

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Innocuous (adj)

An innocuous home remedy

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Harmless, innocent, innoxious, banal

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Candid (adj)

Provide candid feedback

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Ingenuous, naive, honest, frank

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Erratic (adj)
Stock market is erratic
An erratic person

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  1. Unpredictable, whimsical

2. Strange, eccentric, aberrant, abnormal

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Bleak (adj)
Bleak landscape
Bleak future

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  1. bare, desolate (a treeless desolate landscape) , barren ( infertile)
  2. Depressing
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Profuse (adj)

Profuse tropical vegetation

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Abundant, ample, opulant

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Extant (adj)

Only three extant copies of the doc

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In existence

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Contentious (adj)

Football’s fan are always contentious

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Disputatious, belligerent

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Auspicious (adj)

New anti cancer drug, the science is looking auspicious.

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Favorable, propitious

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Enervate (v)

Emotionally dark atmosphere enervate the reader.

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Debilitate, enfeeble, sap,
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innervate, invigorate, energize

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Equivocate (v)

For once don’t equivocate.

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Eschew, evade, falsify, prevaricate, use ambiguous language to avoid honesty,

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Ambivalent (adj)

They were ambivalent about moving to suburbs.

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Conflicting, debatable, mixed,

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Sedulous (adj)

She received promotion not for her seducing looks but for her sedulous work.

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Assiduous, diligent, industrious

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Stem (v)

Stem the tide/ the blood flow

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Halt, stanch, staunch

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Blinkered (adj)

Gambler easily blinkered by past successes or failures.

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Narrow-minded, subjective,

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Check (v)
A high wall to check the tide.
Weeds grow unchecked in the front yard.

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Arrest the motion, to restrain, control, cause reduction, diminish

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Checkered (adj)

Checkered past/ life

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Varied, patterned, motley, variegated, suspect in quality,

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Raft (n )

A raft of rafts.

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A lot, a great quantity

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Involved (adj)

The physics lecture became so involved…

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Complicated, knotty, intricate, tangled

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Retiring (adj)

Though he is a retiring person, he is diplomatic about his retirement.

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Shy, bashful, coy, reticent

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Expansive (adj)

Wine made the guest expansive

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Sociable, extroverted, outgoing

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Moment (n)

Virtue is of more moment than security.

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Significance, having important effects, consequence

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Base (adj)

Hastily composed of base materials.

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Debased, counterfeit, worthless

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Imbibe (v)
He imbibed green tea.
Imbibe ethical principle.

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Drink, absorb, to take in mind as knowledge or idea

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Inundate (v)

The newsroom was inundated by false reports…

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Overwhelmed by too many people or things, deluge, flood,

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Scintillating (adj)

Scintillating mind of stars and scientists.

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Sparkle, brilliant, effervescent,

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Benighted (adj)
This benighted country.
Benighted ages of superstition

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Lacking enlightenment, backward, uncultivated,

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Galvanize (v)

Galvanized into action

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Inspire, animate, invigorate,

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Hedge (v/n)

When u say maybe u r just hedging

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Equivocating, ambiguous statements, confine, hinder,

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Flush (adj)

GRE is flush with difficult words.

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Turn red, abundance, sudden rise of emotion,

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Fell (adj)

A fell person who cuts down trees

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1.Cut down, 2.fierce, cruel, 3.destructive, deadly 4. The skin or hide of an animal

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Arch
Arch of the foot
An arch smile
Archbishop

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Curve, mischievous, cunning, chief, main

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Beg (v)
A statement that begs the very point we re disputing.
Beg the question.

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Avoid answering, take for granted without justification.

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Tender (v)

To tender one’s resignation

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To present formally, to offer,

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Intimate (adj. v)

Teacher intimated to his parents that he wasn’t suited to skip a grade.

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Hint, imply, suggest sth subtly

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Wanting (adj.)
U’v been found wanting
A century wanting three years

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Not meeting requirements, Lacking,

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