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GRE Vocabulary
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12/09/2009

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Ascetic
Definition
Practicing self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline. Austere in appearance, manner, or attitude.
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Lurid
Definition
Gruesome, Melodramatic, Sensational. Or grayish colors.
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Sepulchre
Definition
Place of burial, tomb.
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insipid
Definition
Lacking taste or savor; tasteless.
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Lugubrious
Definition
Mournful; dismal
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Drollery
Definition
Comic picture or drawing. Act of jesting, whimsical humor.
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Propitiate
Definition
To gain or regain the favor or goodwill of: Appease.
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Insolent
Definition
Insultingly contemptuous in speech/conduct. Overbearing; impudent
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confab
Definition
Chat, discussion, conference
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peroration
Definition
Concluding part of discourse, oration. Highly rhetorical speech.
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Mephistopheles
Definition
Chief devil in Faust legend.
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Obstinately
Definition
Not easily subdued, remedied/removed. Pertinacious, mulish.
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farcical
Definition
Resembling farce; laughably inept
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Wraith
Definition
Ghost; specter
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Fecund
Definition
Prolific, intellectually productive or inventive. "Fecund imagination"
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Tenebrous
Definition
shut off from the light (dark, murky). Hard to understand: obscure. Causing gloom.
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Aberrant
Definition
Deviating from normal.
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Abscond
Definition
To leave secretly and hide, avoid law.
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Aggrandize
Definition
To make greater
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Amalgamate
Definition
Unite or mix
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Ambrosial
Definition
Pleasing to the senses, divine, delicious. n: ambrosia.
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Anachronism
Definition
Person/artifact out of chronological order
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Anomalous
Definition
Peculiar
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Antediluvian
Definition
Ancient; outdated
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antipathy
Definition
Hostility toward, objection, aversion to.
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Assuage
Definition
To make less severe; appease/satisfy
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Attenuate
Definition
Weaken
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Audacious
Definition
Extremely bold; fearless.
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Aver
Definition
To declare
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Banal
Definition
Commonplace, trite.
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Blandishment
Definition
Speech/action intended to coax someone into doing something.
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Bombast
Definition
Pompous speech
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Burgeon
Definition
Grow or flourish
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Buttress
Definition
Support
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Cadge
Definition
Get something by taking advantage of someone.
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Castigate
Definition
Chastise, criticize severely.
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Caustic
Definition
Highly critical
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conflagration
Definition
a great fire
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corporeal
Definition
Of or having to do with material, as opposed to spiritual. Tangible.
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Corroborate
Definition
Strengthen or support
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Craven
Definition
Cowardly
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Dearth
Definition
Lack, scarcity
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Deference
Definition
Submission or courteous yielding
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Depredation
Definition
Preying on
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Descry
Definition
To make clear, to say
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Desiccate
Definition
Dry out thoroughly
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Diatribe
Definition
Bitter, abusive
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diffident
Definition
lacking self confidence, modest.
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disabuse
Definition
free a person from falsehood/error
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dissemble
Definition
conceal real motive; feign
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efficacy
Definition
Efficiency
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effluent
Definition
Quality of flowing out
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emollient
Definition
softening, something that softens
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encomium
Definition
Formal eulogy/speech of praise
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endemic
Definition
native to certain region
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enervate
Definition
weaken/destroy strength or vitality of
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engender
Definition
to give rise to, propagate, cause
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Ephemeral
Definition
Fleeting
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Equivocal
Definition
Ambiguous, unclear, more than one interpretation
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Esoteric
Definition
Understood by only a few
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Exculpate
Definition
To prove blameless
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Florid
Definition
Flushed, very ornate and flowery
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Garrulous
Definition
Verbose, talkative, rambling
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gossamer
Definition
cobweb on foliage
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guile
Definition
skillful deceit
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hapless
Definition
Unfortunate
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Headlong
Definition
Headfirst, impulsive, hasty
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iconoclast
Definition
One who attacks traditional ideas or institutions/sacred issues
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inpecunious
Definition
penniless, poor
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imperious
Definition
Commanding
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Improvidence
Definition
an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events.
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inchoate
Definition
Initial/early stage; incomplete, disorganized
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indelible
Definition
permanent, strong
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ingenuous
Definition
unsophisticated, artless, straightforward, candid.
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Insensible
Definition
Numb, Unconscious
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Insular
Definition
Of or pertaining to an island, excessively exclusive
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Intrasigent
Definition
Stubborn, immovable, unwilling to change.
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irascible
Definition
Prone to outbursts of temper, easily angered.
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laconic
Definition
using few words, terse
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laudable
Definition
Praiseworthy, commendable
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Leviathan
Definition
Great whale, or something very large.
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Loquacious
Definition
Talkative
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Lucid
Definition
Clear, translucent
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Malevolent
Definition
Malicious
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Noisome
Definition
Harmful, offensive, destructive
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Obdurate
Definition
Hardened against influence or feeling, intractable
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Obviate
Definition
To prevent by anticipatory measures, to make unnecessary
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Occlude
Definition
Close or shut off, obstruct
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panegyric
Definition
A writing or speech in praise of a person or thing
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peccadillo
Definition
a small sin or fault
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pedantic
Definition
narrow concern for rules or formal book learning; excessive display of one's own learning.
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perfidious
Definition
deliberately treacherous, dishonest (perfidy)
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Petulant
Definition
Easily/frequently annoyed
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Phlegmatic
Definition
Not easily excited; cool; sluggish
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prevaricate
Definition
To stray away from or evade the truth
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Prodigal
Definition
Roughly wasteful
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Pulchritudinous
Definition
Beautiful (pulchritude)
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Pusillanimous
Definition
Cowardly, timid, irresolute, petty.
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Quiescence
Definition
Inactivity, stillness, dormacy
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Rarefy
Definition
To make or become thin; to purify or refine
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Reproof
Definition
The act of censuring, scolding, rebunking
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Rescind
Definition
Annul, repeal
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Sagacious
Definition
Having a sharp or powerful intellect (sagacity)
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Sanguine
Definition
Cheerful, confident
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Sate
Definition
Satisfy fully or to excess
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Saturnine
Definition
Gloomy, remorse temperament.
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Savant
Definition
Very knowledgeable person
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Sedulous
Definition
Diligent, persevering, persistent.
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Specious
Definition
Seemingly true but really false
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Taciturn
Definition
Habitually untalkative or silent
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Tirade
Definition
Diatribe: angry speech.
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Tortuous
Definition
Twisted, excessively complicated
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Tractable
Definition
Easily managed or controlled
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Turpitude
Definition
Depravity, baseness.
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Tyro
Definition
Beginner, person lacking experience in a specific endeavor.
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Viscous
Definition
Slow moving, highly resistant to flow.
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