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Inchoate

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Incipient. Imperfectly formed / not fully formed, developing

- Guyana is still an inchoate democracy

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Incipient

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In an initial stage; developing

- RAs are incipient researchers

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Amalgamate

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To mix, merge, combine into a whole

- BlackRock and BGI amalgamated together

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Effrontery

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Insolent/impertinent behavior, boldness, presumption

- The student had the effrontery to challenge the professor’s grading

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Insolent

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Impertinent; showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect
- The professor called the class clown an insolent POS
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Rarefy

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  1. To make less thin / less dense
  2. To purify, refine, make more spiritual
    - To rarefy a stuffy room is to add fresh air
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Disabuse

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Persuade someone than an idea or belief is mistaken

- Pauline disabused me of my thinking the GRE would be easy

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Aver

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To assert or affirm positively. To formally assert or prove.

- I averred I was innocent of Shan’s claims

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Assuage

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To make less intense or severe; to ease

- The pain of studying for the GRE was assuaged by venting to my friends

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Laconic

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Concise, terse, sparing in the use of words

- the MD’s emails were laconic

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Enervate

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To weaken or sap the strength/vigor/vitality

- The sun enervated my energy

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Placate

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Mollify, appease, soothe the anger of

- My friends placated my anger after I vented about the unjust situation

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Intrepid

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Fearless

- The intrepid adventurer

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Abase

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Degrade or humble; to lower in rank/status

- Andrea was abased to a shared office

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Burgeon

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To sprout/bloom. To grow/develop quickly

- Demand asset pricing is a burgeoning field

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Occult

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  1. Secret, mystical, supernatural
  2. mysterious, difficult to understand
    - Anthony’s notes were so difficult it was as if they were occult
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Gainsay

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  1. To deny or prove false
  2. To oppose or speak out against
    - I gainsayed Shan’s claims I was lying
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Pith

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  1. The core, essence of something.
    - p=E(mx) is the pith of asset pricing
  2. Concise expression
    - Think pithy
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Hackneyed

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Unoriginal, commonplace, trite, banal

- A hackneyed old sayings

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Plasticity

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Capacity to be molded

- Brain plasticity

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Ebullience

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Liveliness / exuberance, full of energy

- The ebullience of Tom’s puppy penny

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Artless

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  1. Uncultured, lacking in knowledge, poorly made
    - First year students are artless compared to professors
  2. Natural, sincere
    - An artless apology
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Artifice

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A cunning trick. Deception. Cleverness, skill, ingenuity

- It seems like GRE questions are full of artifices

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Din

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A loud clamorous noise

- Sabrina’s loud yelling is like a din

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Precarious

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Based on uncertainty premises. Lacking stability.

- The assumption things will be normal in January is precarious

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Tortuous

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  1. Winding, a lot of twists
    - The water slide was tortuous
  2. Crooked, tricky, devious
  3. Highly involved, complex
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Tenuous

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  1. Not dense; thin
  2. Lacking substance or strength; flimsy
    - The argument was tenuous at best
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Propitate

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The gain or regain the favor of. To appease or conciliate

- I’ve been trying to propitiate Xavier since I joined NYU

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Zenith

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The highest point

High school was the zenith of my swimming career

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Desiccate

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To dry out completely

- Contacts desiccated my eyes

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Malediction

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My housing situation has been a malediction since moving to NY

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Veneration

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Regarding / treating with a lot of respect / awe

- I see Will Su with a lot of veneration

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