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GRE Words 4
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Grammar
Undergraduate 4
10/07/2009
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irascible
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irritable
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laconic
 Definition
brief and to the point
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lassitude
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languor, weariness
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loquacious
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talkative, wordy
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malingerer
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one who feigns illness to escape duty
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mendacious
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lying
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obdurate
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stubborn
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obsequious
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slavishly attentive, servile, sychophantic
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obviate
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to anticipate and prevent or to make unnecessary
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officious
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volunteering one's services when they are neither asked nor needed
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opprobrium
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infamy, villification
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paucity
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fewness, dearth
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penury
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severe poverty; stinginess
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perfidious
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treacherous
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perfunctory
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characterized by routine or superficiality; mechanical; lacking in interest or enthusiasm
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