GRE Flashcards
(310 cards)
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Abate
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to reduce or lessen
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Aberration
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a deviation or departure from the norm
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Abeyance
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temporary inactivity or suspension
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Abjure
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to forswear or abstain from; to give up
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Abrade
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to wear down or rub away the surface of somthing
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Abridge
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to reduce the length of or diminish in scope
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Abrogate
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to end or do away with something
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Abscond
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to withdraw and hide, typically to avoid arrest
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Absurd
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extremely ridiculous or completely lacking reason
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Abysmal
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very profound or deep; very bad
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Accretion
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a gradual increase in the amount or size of something
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Acquisitive
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characterized by a strong desire to gain or retain information or objects
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Acrid
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harsh or bitter taste or smell
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Acute
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quick and precise, intense, sharp, keen
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Adhere
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to stick fast; to remain in support of
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Adroit
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showing skill and experience
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Aesthetic
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appealing to the senses because it is beautiful
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Affinity
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natural attraction; inherent similarity
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Alienate
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to isolate oneself from others or another person from oneself
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Ambiguous
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unclear or capable of having more than one meaning
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Ambivalent
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characterized by uncertainty; unable to decide between opposites
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Amenable
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responsive to suggestion; willing
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Amiable
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friendly and pleasant
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Anachronism
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something existing or happening out of its time in historical order
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Annotate
to provide with extra notes or comments
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Anomaly
something that is different from the norm
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Apathy
a lack of any emotion or concern
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Ardor
intense feelings; passion
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Articulate
to clearly explain, the quality of being able to speak clearly
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Ascribe
to attribute to a specific source; to assign a characteristic
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Asperity
roughness or severity
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Assay
an analysis or examination; to examine
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Assert
to demonstrate power; to defend a statement as true
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Assiduous
characteristic of careful and persistent effort
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Assimilate
to make similar to incorporate into
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Assuage
to lessen or ease
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Aver
to declare as true; to maintain
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Aversion
strong dislike
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Banish
to force to leave
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Benevolence
an inclination to be kind or charitable
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Bequest
the act of passion on; something that is passed on
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Bereft
deprived or despndent
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Blithe
carefree or joyous; casual
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Bolster
a narrow cushion; to support or strengthen
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Brazen
bold or shameless
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Burgeoning
thriving or growing rapidly
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Cadge
to beg
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Capricious
impulsive; prone to sudden change
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Castigate
to punish or criticize severely
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Censure
a formal criticism or intense disproval
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Chronicle
a detailed narrative
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Circumspect
mindful of potential consequences
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Coalesce
to unite or come together
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Coerce
to force or threaten someone into acting a certain way
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Cogent
convincing and reasonable
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Coherence
the quality of being logical and clear
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Coincidental
occurring by chance
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Commensurate
corresponding in size, degree, or duration
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Complaisant
showing a willingness to please
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Conducive
contributive, favorable
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Consternation
alarm or fear
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Convivaial
festive and sociable
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Cordial
friendly
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Corroborate
to confirm, to substantiate with evidence
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Countenance
facial features or epcression
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Credulous
easily deceived; believing too readily
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Culmination
completion or climax
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Culpable
deserving of blame; guilty
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Debilitate
to weaken or impair
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Decry
to denounce or criticize
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Defamation
a malicious or abusive attack on one's character
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Delve
to deeply search through
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Demise
to end of existance
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Denigrate
to speak ill of
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Depict
to represent or describe
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Deplore
to condemn; disapprove of or regret
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Derision
use of ridicule to show contempt (disrespect)
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Desultory
inconsistent and irregular
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Diatribe
an abusive, insulting verbal attack
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Didactic
intended for the purposes of moral teaching or instructing, even when such instruction is not necessary or welcome
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Dilate
to make larger
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Diligent
continuously putting in great effort
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Disabuse
to free someone of believing something that is untrue
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Discern
to differentiate or distinguis; to perceive
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Disconcerting
unsettling
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Dislodge
to remove
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Disparity
the state of being different or unequal
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Dissemble
to disguise or conceal
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Dissident
one who disagrees; disagreeable
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Dissipate
to drive away
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Dissonance
lack of harmony
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Divest
to get rid of
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Docile
easy to train or teach
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Dubious
unsure, skeptical
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Eccentic
one who deviates from the norm
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Eclectic
combing elements from many different sources or styles
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Effrontery
rude and presumptuous behavior
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Egregious
noticeably bad or offenscive
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Eloquent
very clear and precise
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Elucidate
to clarify
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Emanicpation
the act of freeing
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Emollient
softening or soothing
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Emulate
to follow an admirable example; imitate
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Endorse
to support or sign
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Engender
to give rise to; originate
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Enigmatic
puzzling
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Entity
a discrete unit or being
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Enumerate
to state things in a list
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Ephemeral
temporary
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Equivoval
uncertain or ambiguous
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Erudite
leaned; having great knowledge
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Esoteric
understood by few; mysterious
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Espouse
to choose to follow or support something
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Estimable
admirable; deserving of esteem
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Euphemism
an inoffensive expression substituted for one that is deemed offensive.
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Exacerbate
to intensify bitterness or violence
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Excoriate
to denounce
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Exculpate
to remove blame
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Exhort
to urge or try to persuade
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Exigent
demanding immediate attention; urgent
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Expliacte
to explain or make comprehensible
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Expunge
to get rid of or erase
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Extant
currently existing
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Extenuating
partially justifiable
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Extol
to praise or glorify
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Extricate
to free or disentangle
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Exultant
gleeful because of success
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Fallacy
an error in reasoning
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Fathom
to come to understand the meaing of something
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Fatuous
foolish or delusice
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Feckless
lacking in purpose; careless
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Feign
to fabricate or decieve
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Feint
deceptive, diversionary action
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Fidelity
faithfulness or allegiance
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Florid
flushed with color
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Foil
to keep from being successful
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Foment
to incite or agitate
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Forage
to search for food or provisions
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Fortuitous
happening by accident or chance
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Fracas
a noisy fight; a brawl
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Gainsay
to deny or contradict
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Garrison
a military post
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Garrulous
talkatice
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Genre
type, category
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Glib
seemingly slick and clever
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Gratuitous
for no reason or at no cost
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Gregarious
sociable; enjoying the company of others
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Grievous
causing grief or pain
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Guile
cunning; shrewdness
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Hackneyes
unoriginal, overused
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Harrow
to torment or cause suffering and agony
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Idiosyncrasy
a peculiar characteristic
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Immutable
not subject to change
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Impending
threatening to occur
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Imperturable
hard to excite or upset, very calm
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Impetus
a stimulus encouraging a particular activity
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Implosion
a violent, inward cllapse
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Inadvertent
unintentional, often related to carelessness
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Inchoate
poorly formed or formless
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Incongruous
inconsistent, lacking in harmony
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Incorrigible
impossible to change or reform
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Ingenuity
cleverness or imagination
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Inimical
harmful or unfriendly
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Innate
a natural charcteristic
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Inscrutable
difficult to understand
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Insinuate
to imply
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Insipid
dull
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Insular
isolated, narrow-minded
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Integral
necessary or essential
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Intercede
to mediate
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Interpolate
introduce between
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Intractable
stubborn; difficult to manage
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Inundate
to quickly overwhelm or exceed capacity
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Inure
to cause to accept something that is undesirable
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Irascible
easily angered
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Jovial
full of joy; happiness
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Judicious
sensible, having good judgment
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Juxtapose
to place things next to each other in order to compare or contrast
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Keen
sharp
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Kudos
praise for achievements
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Lambasate
to scold or criticize sharply
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Languish
to exist in a dreadful or gloomy situation; to become weak
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Latter
the second of two things mentioned; nearer to the end
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Laudable
deserving praise; favorable
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Lavish
elaborate and luxurious
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Listless
characterized by a lack of energy
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Loathsome
offensive, disgusting
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Loquacious
very talkative or rambling
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Lucid
easily understood; clear
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Ludicrous
laughable or foolish
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Magnanimous
courageous, generous
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Mar
to inflict damage or blemishes on
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Mercurial
prone to sudden unpredictable change; volitile
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Meticulous
devoting a high amount of attention to detail
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Mettle
courage
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Miscreant
villain; evildoer
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Mitigate
causing something to be less intense, forceful, or harmful
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Mollify
to calm down or alleviate; to soften
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Munificence
the act of liberally giving
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Nascent
just beginning to exist
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Noxious
unwholesome or harmful
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Obdurate
firm, stubborn
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Obscurity
the condition of being unknown
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Onsolete
no longer in use
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Obtuse
blunt; slow-witted
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Obviate
to render unnecessary
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Odious
arousing or deserving strong hatred
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Onerous
very troublesome or oppressively difficult
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Ostracize
to eliminate from a group
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Paragon
an example of excellence
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Parse
to break down into components
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Pedantic
characterized by a narrow concern for detail
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Penchant
a tendency or fondness
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Perceive
to become aware of something
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Percolate
to slowly pass through
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Peripatetic
moving or traveling from place to place
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Periphery
outermost boundary of an area
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Perpetuate
to prolong the existence or idea of
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Pertinent
relevant or appropriate
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Peruse
to examine or review something
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Pervasive
capable of spreading or flowing througout
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Pith
significance, importance
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Placate
to calm
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Placid
calm or quiet
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Poignant
profoundly moving, incisive
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Postulate
to put forth or assert
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Pragmatic
practical
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Pracrious
in a dangerous state
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Precendent
an example or event that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
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Precept
a guiding rule or principle
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Precipitate
to cause something to happen very suddenly or prematurely
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Preclude
to prevent or make impossible
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Presage
an omen or other warning sign
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Prescience
foresight; the power to see the future
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Prevaricate
to lie
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Probity
integrity and uprightness
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Prodigal
wasteful; extravagent
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Profuse
plentiful or abundant
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Progeny
offspring or product
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Promulgate
to proclaim
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Propagate
to cause to multiply or spread
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Discombobulate
to confuse
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Protract
to lengthen or prolong
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Prowess
great skill or ability in something
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Prudish
exaggeratedly proper
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Quaff
to drink heartily
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Querulous
characterized by constant complaining or whining
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Quixotic
unpredictable and impractical
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Quotidian
ordinary
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Rancor
bitter resentment
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Recalcitrant
stubbornly resistant; defiant
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Recluse
someone who is withdrawn from society
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Recompense
payment in return for something
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Recondite
difficult to understand
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Refute
to prove to be false; to deny the truth of
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Relegate
to refer or assign to a particular place or category
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Renounce
break; reject
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Reparation
compensation given to make amends
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Reproach
to express disapproval
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Repudiate
to reject or refuse as valid
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Resolute
definite, determined
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Resonant
strong and deep; lasting
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Resplendent
dazzling or brillant in appearance
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Resurrect
to bring back to life
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Rhetoric
effective use of language
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Sage
one revered for experience and wisdom
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Sanctimonious
feigning piety or righteousness
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Sanction
authoritative permission
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Satirize
to insult using witty language
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Sedulous
persevering, industrious
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Solace
comfort, safety
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Solicitous
concerned; thoughtful
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Specious
appearing to be true or genuine but actually deceptive
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Squelch
to crush or silence
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Stanch
to stop or check the flow of
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Stint
a length of time spent in a particular way
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Stoic
indifferent or unaffected
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Subsume
to contain or include
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Subvert
to undermine, ruin, overthrow
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Surfeit
an overabundance or excess
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Tacit
using no words
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Temperance
moderation and self-restaint
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Tenusous
very thin or consisting of little substance
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Torport
state of physical or mental sluggishness
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Tout
to promote or solicit
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Tractable
easy to control or work with
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Transgress
to exceed or violate
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Transpose
to reverse the order of; interchange
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Unalloyed
pure; complete
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Unstinting
very generous; bestowed liberally
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Urbanity
refinement and elegance
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Vacillate
to swing or waver
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Variegated
having a variety of colors or marks
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Vehement
forceful; displaying extreme emotion
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Venal
corruptible, open to bribery
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Venerable
highly esteemed or respected
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Varacity
truthfulness
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Verbose
wordy
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Verisimilitude
the quality of appearing to be true or real
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Veritable
genuine or aithentic
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Vilify
to make negative statements about
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Vindicate
to clear someone or something from blame
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Vituperate
to criticize in an abusive way
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Voracious
excessively greedy; revenous
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Wane
to gradually decrease
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Whet
to sharpen or stimulate
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Wily
very sly, deceptive
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Xenophobic
distrust of strangers or foreign people
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Zealous
very passionate or enthusiastic
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Zenith
the peak point
