All ETS TC GREG WORDS Flashcards

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Equivocate

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Ambiguous language to conceal truth

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Corroborated

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To confirm or support a theory

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Inhibit

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To retrain or prevent

Cold inhibits plant growth

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Trivial

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Little value or importance

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Repudiate

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Reject or deny the truth

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Diffident

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Shy because lack of confidence

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Invigorated

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Give energy

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Venerate

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Regard with respect

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Confounded

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Emphasis to express anger

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Exacerbate

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Make something feel worse

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Innocuous

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Not harmful or offensive

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Assuage

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Make less intense

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Eccentric

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Stranger or unconventional

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Antipathy

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Strong dislike

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Dogmatic

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Follows set of rules, opinionated

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Eclictic

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Derive ideas from different sources

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Enigmatic

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Difficult to understand

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Relegate

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Downgrade, demotion

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Garrulous

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Very talkitive

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Imperturbable

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Calm not excited or upset

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Profound

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Intense feeling or
having great knowledge

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Meticulous

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Showing attention to detail

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Articulated

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Expressed, put into words

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Ephemeral

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Lasting for a short time

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Discern

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Distinguish with difficulty

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Monotonous

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Repetition, dull, lacking of variety

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Intrinsic

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Essential

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Prodigal

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Spending money recklessly

30
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Bolster

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Long pillow for support

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Extravagant

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Lack of restrain in spending cash

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Emulate

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Imitate

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Intransigent

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Unwilling to agree about a topic

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Condone

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Accept wrong behavior

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Presumptuous

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Failing to understand appropriate behavior limit

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Gullible

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Easy to persuade

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Apprehensive

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Understandable, or anxiety

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Agitated

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Anxiety or nervous excitement

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Embellish

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Make something more attractive

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Hamper

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Hinder the movement of progress

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Prolix

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Using or containing too many words

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Efficacy

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Ability to produce desired result

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Augmented

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Having been made greater in size

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Dissemble or dissemblance

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Pretend or conceal one’s true feelings

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Taciturn or tacit

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Talks little or understood or Implied without being stated

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Adversity

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Difficult or unpleasant

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Implicit

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Suggest but not directly expressed

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Aversion

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Strong dislike

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Mundane

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Lacking of Interest or excitement

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Spurious

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False or fake, not what it purports

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Impetus

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Force or energy with which the body moves

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Blithe

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Casual and happy
Happy light hearted personality

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Complacent

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Careless, and proud of oneself,

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Imminent

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About to happen - immidiately

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Prevaricate

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Avoid telling truth and hide what you think -( speak in an evasive manner)

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant

57
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Obviate

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Remove a need or difficulty
Prevent

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Forestall

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Prevent by talking advance action

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Eloquence

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Fluent and persuasive while speaking or writing

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Arduous

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Involving difficult and tiring effort