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GRE Exam - Verbal 2 Flashcards

1
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Alleviate

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Provide physical relief, as from pain

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Confound

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Be confusing or perplexing to

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Dupe

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Fool or hoax

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Hyperbole

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Extravagant exaggeration

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5
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Malingerer

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Someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity

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Amalgamate

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To bring or combine together or with something else

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Connoisseur

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An expert able to appreciate a field

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Ebullient

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Joyously unrestrained

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Iconoclastic

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Characterized by attack on established beliefs

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped or bent

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Ambiguous

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Having more than one possible meaning

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12
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Contention

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The act of competing as for profit or a prize

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Eclectic

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Selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

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14
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Idolatry

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The worship of idols or images that are not God

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Maverick

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Someone who exhibits independence in thought and action

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Ambivalence

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Mixed feelings or emotions

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Contentious

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Showing an inclination to disagree

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Efficacy

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Capacity or power to produce a desired effect

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Immutable

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Not subject or susceptible to change or variation

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Mendacious

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Given to lying

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21
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Ameliorate

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To make better

22
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Contrite

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Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

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Effrontery

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Audacious behavior that you have no right to

24
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Impair

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Make worse or less effective

25
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Metamorphosis

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Striking change in appearance or character or circumstances

26
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Anachronism

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Something located at a time when it could not have existed

27
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Conundrum

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A difficult problem

28
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Elegy

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A mournful poem; a lament for the dead

29
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Impassive

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Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

30
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Meticulous

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Marked by precise accordance with details

31
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Analogous

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Similar or equivalent in some respects

32
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Converge

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Be adjacent or come together

33
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Elicit

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Call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

34
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Impede

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Be a hindrance or obstacle to

35
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Misanthrope

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Someone who dislikes people in general

36
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Anarchy

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A state of lawlessness and disorder

37
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Convoluted

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Rolled longitudinally upon itself

38
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Embellish

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Make more attractive, as by adding ornament or color

39
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Impermeable

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Preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through

40
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Mitigate

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Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

41
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Anomalous

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Deviating from the general or common order or type

42
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Craven

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Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful

43
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Empirical

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Derived from experiment and observation rather than theory

44
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Imperturbable

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Marked by extreme calm and composure

45
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Mollify

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Cause to be more favorably inclined

46
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Antipathy

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A feeling of intense dislike

47
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Daunt

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Cause to lose courage

48
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Emulate

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Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

49
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Impervious

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Not admitting of passage or capable of being affected

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Morose

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Showing a brooding ill humor

GRE Exam - Verbal (7 decks)

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