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GRE Vocabulary
Useful vocab to study for verbal section of the GRE, which is often needed for graduate school admission
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10/23/2012

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Execrable
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Utterly detestable, very bad, abhorrent
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Bombastic
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High-sounding, inflated, pretentious
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Eclectic
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Not following any one system, made up of various sources
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Sidereal
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Of or pertaining to the stars
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Inure
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To accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain; to toughen or harden
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Comportment
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Demeanor, behavior, personal conduct
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Delineate
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To outline or depict
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Pragmatic
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Of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations
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Ineluctable
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Incapable of being evaded; inescapable
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Invidious
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Calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; unfairly discriminating
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Plangent
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Resounding loudly
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Nugatory
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Of no real value, trifling, worthless; of no force or effect; ineffective; futile; vain; not valid
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Antediluvian
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Very old-fashioned or out of date; (belonging to before the Flood)
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Pusillanimous
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Lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint hearted; timid
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Jejune
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Without interest or significance, dull; juvenile, immature, or childish; lacking knowledge or experience, uninformed
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Stipulate
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To require as an essential condition in making an agreement
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Upswing
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A marked increase or improvement
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Insurgencies
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State or condition of forcible opposition to lawful authority
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Disencumber
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To free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
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Belie
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To show to be false, contradict; to misrepresent
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Demarcate
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To determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of
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Antedate
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To be of older date than, precede in time; to cause to happen sooner
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Apocryphal
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Of doubtful authorship or authenticity
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Superannuate
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To set aside as out of date; remove as too old
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Senescence
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Growing old, aging
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Abscond
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To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
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Aberrant
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Deviating from the norm. Noun = aberration
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Alacrity
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Eager and enthusiastic willingness
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Approbation
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An expression of approval or praise
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Austere
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Without adornment, bare, severely simple, ascetic
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Axiomatic
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Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
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Canonical
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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
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Censure
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To criticize severely; to officially rebuke
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Chicanery
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Trickery or subterfuge
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Disabuse
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To undeceive, to set right
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Discordant
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Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
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Disparate
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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
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Effrontery
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Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
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Enervate
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To weaken; to reduce in vitality
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Ennui
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Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
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Equivocate
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To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
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Erudite
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Very learned/educated; scholarly
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Exculpate
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Exonerate; to clear of blame
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Exigent
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Urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
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Extemporaneous
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Improvised; done without preparation
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Filibuster
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Intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
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Fulminate
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To loudly attack or denounce
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Ingenuous
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Artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
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Irascible
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Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
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Laud
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To praise highly
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Magnanimity
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The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving
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Nascent
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Coming into being; in early developmental stages
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Nebulous
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Vague, cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
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Neologism
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A new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
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Noxious
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Harmful, injurious
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Obtuse
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Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in though or expression
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Obviate
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To anticipate and make unnecessary
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Onerous
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Troubling; burdensome
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Paean
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A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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Perennial
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Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
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Perfidy (n)
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Intentional breach of faith; treachery
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Perfunctory
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Cursory; done without care or interest
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Perspicacious
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Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
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Prattle
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To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
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Precipitate (adj)
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Acting with excessive haste or impulse
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Precipitate (verb)
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To cause or happen before anticipated or required
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Predilection
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A disposition in favor of something; preference
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Prescience
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Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
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Prevaricate
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To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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Qualms
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Misgivings, reservations; causes for hesitancy
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Relegate
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To forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position
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Solicitous
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Concerned and attentive; eager
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Sordid
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Characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul
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Stymie
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To block; to thwart
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Torque
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A force that causes rotation
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Tortuous
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Winding, twisting; excessively complicated
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Truculent
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Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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Veracity
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Truthfulness, honesty
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Virulent
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Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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Voracious
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Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
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