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Abate

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Verb: To lessen in intensity or degree.

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Accolade

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Noun: An expression of praise

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Adulation

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Noun: Excessive praise; intense adoration.

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Aesthetic

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Adjective: Dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art and the beautiful.

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Ameliorate

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Verb: to make better or more reliable.

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Ascetic

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Noun: one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion.

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Avarice

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Noun: greed, especially for wealth.

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Burgeon

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Verb: To grow rapidly or flourish.

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Bucolic

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Adjective: rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants.

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Cacophany

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Noun: harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance.

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Canon

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Noun: an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature.

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Castigation

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Noun: severe criticism or punishment.

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Catalyst

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Noun: a substance that accelerated the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change.

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Caustic

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Adjective: burning or stinging; causing corrosion.

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Chart

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Adjective: wary, cautious, sparing.

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Cogent

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Adjective: appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing.

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Complaisance

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Noun: the willingness to comply with the wishes of others.

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Contentious

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Adjective: argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy or disagreement.

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Contrite

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Adjective: regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness.

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Culpable

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Adjective: deserving blame

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Dearth

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Noun: smallness of quantity or number, scarcity, a lack.

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Demur

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Verb: to question or oppose

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Didactic

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Adjective: intended to teach or instruct

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Discretion

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Noun: cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

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Disinterested

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Adjective: free of bias or self interest, impartial.

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Phantasmagoria

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Noun: a sequence of real or imagined images like those in a dream.

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Dogmatic

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Adjective: expressing a rigid opinion based on unproven or improbable principles.

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Ebullience

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Noun: the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings.

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Eclectic

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Adjective: composed of elements drawn from various sources.

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Elegy

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Noun: a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead.

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Emollient

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Adjective: soothing, especially to the skin, making less harsh.
Synonym: mollifying
Noun: an agent that softens or smoothed the skin.

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Empirical

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Adjective: based on observation or experience.

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Enigmatic

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Adjective: mysterious, obscure; difficult to understand.
Noun: “enigma”

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Emphemeral

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Adjective: brief, fleeting

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Esoteric

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Adjective: intended for or understood by a small, specific group.

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Eulogy

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Noun: a speech honoring the dead

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Exonerate

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Verb: to remove blamed

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Facetious

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Adjective: playful, humorous, jesting.

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Fallacy

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Noun: an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief.

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Fallacy

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Noun: an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief.

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Furtive

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Adjective: marked by stealth, convert, surreptitious.

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Gregarious

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Adjective: sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people.

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Harangue

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Verb: to deliver a forceful and angry speech.
Noun: ranting speech or writing.

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Heretical

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Adjective: violating accepted dogma or convention.

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Hyperbole

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Noun: an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech.

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Impecunious

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Adjective: lacking funds; without money.

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Incipient

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Adjective: beginning to come into being or to become apparent.

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Inert

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Adjective: unmoving; lethargic, sluggish.

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Innocuous

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Adjective: harmless; causing no damage.

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Intransigent

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Adjective: refusing to compromise

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Inveigle

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Verb: to obtain by deception or flattery.

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Morose

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Adjective: sad, sullen, melancholy.

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Odious

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Adjective: invoking intense dislike

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Opaque

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Adjective: impenetrable by light; not reflecting light; not see-through.

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Oscillation

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Noun: the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm.

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Penurious

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Adjective: penny pinching, excessively thrifty, ungenerous.

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Pernicious

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Adjective: extremely harmful in a way that is not easily seen or noticed.

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Peruse

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Verb: to examine with great care

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Pious

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Adjective: extremely reverent or devout. Showing strong religious devotion.

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Precursor

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Noun: one that precedes and indicates or announces another.

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Preen

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Verb: to dress up, to primp, to groom oneself with elaborate care.

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Prodigious

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Adjective: abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary.

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Prolific

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Adjective: producing large volumes or amounts; productive.

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Putrefy

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Verb: to rot, to decay and give off a foul odor.

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Quaff

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Verb: to drink deeply

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Quiescence

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Noun: stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest

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Redoubtable

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Adjective: awe-inspiring, worthy of honor.

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Sanction

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Noun: authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance.
Verb: to give permission or authority.

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Satire

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Noun: a literary work that ridiculed or criticized a human vice through humor or derision.

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Squalid

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Adjective: sordid, wretched, and dirty as from neglect.

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Stoic

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Adjective: indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast.

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Supplant

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Verb: to take the place of, to supersede.

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Torpid

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Adjective: lethargic, sluggish, dormant.

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Ubiquitous

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Adjective: existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread.

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Urbane

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Adjective: sophisticated; refined; elegant

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Vilify

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Verb: to defame; to characterize harshly.

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Vicious

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Adjective: thick; sticky

Chloe's GRE vocabulary (3 decks)

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