vii GRE Cards Flashcards
1
Q
Bridle
A
restrain. The curfew has bridled people’s will to go out at night
2
Q
Moot
A
irrelevant
3
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Deign
A
to do something past their dignity. Never deigned to answer the servers questions
4
Q
Conspicuous
A
obvious
5
Q
Proselytize
A
convert someone
6
Q
Perspicacious
A
insightful
7
Q
Construe
A
interpret
8
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Arcane
A
understood by few
9
Q
Immure
A
confine
10
Q
Dispensation
A
she is given dispensation as she’s the scion of a billionaire
11
Q
Magnanimous
A
likely to forgive
12
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Fastidious
A
fussy
13
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Factitious
A
artificial
14
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Aboveboard
A
honest. Syncs CEO was not really aboveboard
15
Q
Apotheosis
A
height of development
16
Q
Exhort
A
encourage
17
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Temerity
A
fearless daring
18
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Pollyanna
A
overly positive
19
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Hackneyed
A
cliche
20
Q
Recrudescence
A
relapse
21
Q
Derelict
A
avoiding duties
22
Q
Embroiled
A
in argument
23
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Incumbent
A
necessary
24
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Parvenu
A
upstart
25
Untoward
inconvenient. Prospecting in untoward
26
Grovel
show fear
27
Litany
long account. Do not need a litany of reasons
28
Duress
compulsory force
29
Demure
modest, shy
30
Frivolous
not serious
31
Ineluctable
unavoidable
32
Culpability
state of guilt
33
Paucity
lack of
34
Stultify -
sap enthusiasm. Prospecting is stultifying my interest in investing
35
Redoubtable
formidable. Redoubtable opponent
36
Beatific
blissfully happy. Beatific smile
37
Desideratum
necessity
38
Leery
distrustful
39
Flummox
bewilder. Anything Ding says is flummoxing me
40
Expansive
sociable
41
Fete
celebrated
42
Infelicitous
inappropriate
43
Fleece
deceive
44
Defray
pay cost of
45
Truculent
fierce, savage
46
Smattering -
small amount
47
Simulacrum
bad imitation
48
Pyrrhic
costly victory. A pyrrhic victory
49
Tortuous
winding, twisty.
50
Intimate
hint at. Intimated that I didn’t like it
