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Princeton Review GRE Vocab > Set 2 > Flashcards

Set 2 Flashcards

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1
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Adulation

A

Excessive praise; intense adoration

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Ascetic

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One who practices rigid self-denial especially as an act of religious devotion

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Avarice (avaricious)

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Greed especially for wealth

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Axiom

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A universally recognized principle

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly or flourish

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Bucolic

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Rustic or pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

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Canon

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An established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature

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Caustic

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Burning or stinging; causing corrosion

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Chary

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Wary, causing, sparing

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Cogent

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Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing

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Complaisance

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The willingness to comply with the wishes of others

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Contentious

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Argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy or disagreement

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Contrite

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Regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Dearth

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Smallness of quantity or number, scarcity or a lack

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Discretion

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Causing reserve in speech, ability to make responsible decisions

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Disinterested

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Free or Bias, self-interest, impartial

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Ebullience

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The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

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Emollient

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Soothing especially to the skin/ making something less harsh/ mollifying

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Empirical

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Based on observation or experiment

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Furtive

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Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

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Heretical

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Violating accepted dogma or conventions

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Incipient

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Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

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Inveigle

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To obtain by deception or flattery

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Penurious

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Penny pinching, excessively thrifty, ugenerous

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Pernicious

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Extremely harmful, potentially causing death

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Pious

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Extremely reverent or devout. Showing strong religious devotion

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Preen

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To dress up, to primp, to groom oneself with elaborate care

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Quaff

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To drink deeply

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Redoubtable

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Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor

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Sanction

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Authoritative permission or approval, a penalty intended to enforce compliance, to give permission or authority to

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Squalid

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Sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect

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Supplant

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To take the place of, supersede

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Torpid (torpor)

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Lethargic

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Urbane

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Sophisticated

36
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Vilify

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To defame, to characterize harshly

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