GRE 1 Flashcards
(73 cards)
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torpor
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extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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florid
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embellished
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repudiate
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reject the validity of
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fervid
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intensely emotional
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desiccate
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to dry out
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ingenuous
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showing innocence
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capricious
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changing mind quickly and often
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foment
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arouse
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inchoate
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not fully formed, disorganized
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pragmatic
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practical as opposed to idealistic
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banal
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predictable, boring
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dogma
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firmly held belief
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laconic
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using few words
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garrulous
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tending to talk a lot
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mollify
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to calm or make less severe
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venerate
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to respect deeply
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exigent
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urgent
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chicanery
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deception by means of craft
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misanthrope
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a person who dislikes others
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soporific
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causing sleep or lethargy
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taciturn
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silent, not talkative
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prevaricate
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to lie
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obviate
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to prevent
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elegy
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sorrowful poem or speech
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opprobrium
public disgrace
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disabuse
free from error
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ardor
passionate feeling
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castigate
punish or criticize harshly
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intransigent
uncompromising
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equivocate
to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
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rarefy
to make sparser
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malinger
to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
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erudite
learned, scholarly
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stolid
unemotional
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exculpate
free from blame
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obdurate
hardened in feeling
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perfunctory
done in a routine way
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diffident
lacking self confidence
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onerous
troublesome and oppressive
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ameliorate
to improve
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amalgamate
combine
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irascible
easily angered
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bombastic
pompous
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impetous
to act without thinking
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quiescent
motionless
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occlude
to prevent the passage of
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inimical
hostile
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esoteric
known or understood by only a few
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abate
reduce in amount
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vex
annoy
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pedant
someone who shows off learning
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impervious
impossible to penetrate
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dirge
funeral hymn or mournful speech
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estimable
admirable
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precipitate
lacking deliberation
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attenuate
to reduce in force
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specious
deceptively attractive
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propitiate
to appease
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credulous
too trusting, gullible
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perfidious
willing to betray one's trust
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propriety
correct behavior
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obsequious
overly submissive
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austere
stern in appearance
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dilettante
interested in at a superficial level
65
veracity
filled with truth and accuracy
66
cogent
convincing
67
aggrandize
increase in power
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dissemble
to present a false appearance
69
iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs
70
deride
to mock
71
tacit
done without using words
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desultory
jumping from one thing to another
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enervate
reduce in strength
