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GRE Vocabulary
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General Vocab
Graduate
10/31/2012
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Callow
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Immature
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Cloying
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Overly Sweet
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Reproach
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Blame
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Scruples
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Adherance to ethical principles
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Avarice
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Greed
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Abnegation
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Denial
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Diffident
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Shy or timid
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Cleaved
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Cut away and to adhere to; when followed by preposition "to" it means to adhere to
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Japery
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"good-natured" mockery
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Castigate
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To criticize or punish
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Enigmatic
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An enigmatic person says or does mysterious things
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Laconic
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Short and abrubt
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Myopic
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Short-sighted
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Idiosyncracies
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Quirks
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Peccadilloes
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Minor faults
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Prolixity
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Excess
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Tenet
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A component of philosophy
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Nugatory
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Trifling
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Ersatz
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Artificial
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Preponderance
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Excess
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Seance
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Meeting, session
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Disavowel
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Denial of any connection with
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Prescient
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Forseeing
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Piquant
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Spicy, seemingly stimulating to the mind
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Indolence
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Inactivity
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Jejunely
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Childishly
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Reticence
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Reserved; not offering more than asked
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