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Princeton Review GRE Vocab > Set 3 > Flashcards

Set 3 Flashcards

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1
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Acumen

A

Keen, accurate judgement or insight

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Aver

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To state as a fact; to declare or assert

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Endemic

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Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people

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Evanescent

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Tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing

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Fervent (fervor)

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Greatly emotional or zealous

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Germane

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Relevant to the subject at hand, appropriate in subject manner

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Halcyon

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Calm and peaceful

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Hedonism

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Devotion to pleasurable pursuits especially to the pleasures of the senses

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Hegemony

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The consistent dominance of ones state of ideology over others

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Idolatrous (idolatry)

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Given to intense or excessive devotion to something

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Impassive

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Revealing no emotion

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Impunity

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Immunity from punishment or penalty

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Inchoate

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In a initial stage/ not fully formed

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Infelicitious

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Unfortunate; inappropriate

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Mendacity (mendacious)

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Untruthful

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace; contempt; scorn

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Pedagogy

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The profession or principles of teaching or instructing

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Penury

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Poverty or destitution

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Pine

A

To yearn for something

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Pirate

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To illegally use or reproduce

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Pith

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The essential or central part

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Pithy

A

Precise and brief

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Prodigal

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Recklessly wasteful extravagant or lavish

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Profuse

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Given and coming forth abundantly; extravagant

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Rancorous (rancor)

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Characterized by bitter, long laying resentment

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Rhetoric

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The art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion

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Solvent

A

Able to meet financial obligations or able to dissolve another substance

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Specious

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Seeming true but actually being fallacious

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Spurious

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False

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Surfeit

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An over abundant supply

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Tenuous

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Having little substance or strength

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