GRE Flashcards
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Jibe
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To be in agreement
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Assuage
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To make less severe
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Bawdy
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Obscene
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Quail
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To Cower/Lose Heart
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Fissure
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Breakage made from splitting/cracking
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Denouement
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Outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play/literature
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Indeterminate
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Uncertain/Indefinite
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Austere
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Stern, Simple
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Prehensile
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Capable of Grasping
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Pique
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Fleeting feeling, hurt pride
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Carping
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To Find Fault, to complain
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Syllogism
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Deductive reasoning where a conclusion is derived
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Hermetic
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Tightly sealed; magical
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Allay
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To Ease, Lessen, Soothe
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Itinerant
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To wander from place to place
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Oppobrium
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Public Disgrace; Contempt
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Vendetta
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Prolonged feud marked by bitter hostility
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Perigee
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A point in orbit where the satellite is closest to earth
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Imperturbable
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Not easily disturbed
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Forestall
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To prevent/delay
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Irresolute
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Unsure how to act; weak
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Mettle
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Courage; Endurance
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Subsume
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To include, incorporate
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Denizen
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An inhabitant, regular visitor
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Aspersion
False rumor, slander
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Soliloquy
Literary or dramatic speech by one character, not addressed to others
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Execrable
Extremely bad, abhorrent
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Pungent
Having strong smell; Having sharp and caustic quality
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Stricture
Negative Criticism
30
Latent
Dormant, not easily apparent
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Sextant
Navigation device
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Desultory
Random, disconnected
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Tenuous
Weak, insubstantial
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Premonition
Forewarning
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Insuperable
Insurmountable, inconquerable
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Carnal
Relating to physical or sexual needs
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Machinations
Plots or Schemes
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Obseqious
Overly submissive
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Supplicant
One who asks respectfully and earnestly
40
Salacious
Pornographic, lustful
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Disabuse
Free from misconception
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Impinge
To invade; to influence
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Continence
To abstain from sex; self-restraint
44
Prattle
Meaningless, foolish talk
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Peremptory
Imperative; leaving no choice; insisting on immediate attention
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Covetous
Desiring something owned by someone else
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Maelstrom
Turmoil
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Sentient
Aware, concious
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Quiescent
Inactive, still
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Neophyte
Novice, beginner
51
Salutory
Producing good effects, beneficial
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Assiduous
Diligent, Hard working
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Histrionic
Theatrically emotional, melodramatic
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Internecine
Deadly to both sides
55
Fiat
A decree; arbitrary order
56
Explicate
To explain, clarify
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Stultify
To impair or reduce in usefullness
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Sardonic
Cynical, sarcastically mocking
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Lucre
Profits or money
60
Bedizen
To dress up or decorate in vulgar or showy manner
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Ardor
Great emotion or passion
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Literati
Well educated people who are interested in literature
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Saturnine
Slow and Gloomy
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Canard
False; deliberately misleading story
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Apposite
Strikingly appropriate and relevant
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Punctilious
Careful in observing rules
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Libertine
One without moral restraint
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Effrontery
Shameless boldness; presumptuous
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Appellation
Name
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Perturb
To disturb greatly
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Extant
In existence
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Impecunious
Poor
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Cozen
To trick or disturb
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Mendacious
Dishonest
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Abeyance
A state of temporary disuse or suspension
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Pusillanimous
Showing lack of courage; cowardly
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Nostrum
Medicine of doubtful effectiveness
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Abjure
To reject
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Compendium
Brief comprehensive summary
80
Valedictory
Pertaining to a farewell
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Ascetic
One who practices sell denial
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Aggrandize
To make larger or greater
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Sedition
Speech or behavior prompting a rebellion
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Diaphanous
Light, delicate, translucent
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Stentorian
Extremely loud
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Bifurcate
To divide in two parts
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Argot
Specialize vocabulary used by a group, jargon
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Dirge
Funeral hymn
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Ebullient
Exhilarated, overly enthusiastic
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Gossamer
Something very light, thin, insubstantial
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Ineluctable
Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable
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Obviate
To remove (a need or difficulty); to avoid or prevent
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Regale
To entertain
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Proscribe
To condemn, outlaw, forbit
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Apogee
The highest point in the development of something; the climax or culimation
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Thespian
An actor or actress
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Essay
An attempt; to attempt
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Rue
Regret
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Sidereal
Relating to the stars
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Pellucid
Transparent; easily understood
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Glib
Fluent and voluble, but shallow and insecure; slick
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Extirpate
To destroy
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Prodigal
Wasteful, extravagant
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Pervasive
Spread throughout every part (negative); extensive
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Dissonance
Discord, lack of harmony
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Antediluvian
Prehistoric; before the Biblical flood
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Multivarious
Diverse
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Broach
To mention for the first time
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Blase
Bored because of frequent indulgence; Unconcerned
110
Microcosm
Small system having analogies to a larger system
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Attenuate
To weaken
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Suppliant
To plea, beseech
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Coquette
Woman who flirts
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Doctinaire
Dogmatic, rigid
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Inveigh
To vehemently disapprove
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Reprise
Repetition, usually in music
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Frieze
Ornamental band on a wall
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Travail
painful laborious work; to work
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Imbroglio
A complicated situation, entanglement
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Rail
To scorn with bitter or abusive language
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Commensurate
In proportion
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Dissemble
To pretend; disguise one's move
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Astringent
Harsh, severe
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Distend
To expand, swell out
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Labile
Likely to change
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Impassive
Showing no emotion
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Specious
Seeming to be logical and sound, but really not
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Pallid
Lacking color or liveness
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Redoubtable
Formidable, arousing fear
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Equanamity
Composure, calmness
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Phoenix
Anything that is restored after suffering great destruction
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Recondite
Abstruse; little known
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Axiomatic
Taken for granted; self-evident truth
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Overweening
Presumptuous, arrogant
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Asperity
Severity; harshness; irritability
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Fulminate
To attack loudly, denounce
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Penchant
A strong inclination to do something
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Talisman
Charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune
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Disjointed
Lacking order or coherence; dislocated
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Dross
Waste; worthless manner
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Bacchanalian
Pertaining to riotous or drunk behavior
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Zealot
One who is fanatically devoted to a cause
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Limn
To draw, describe
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Quagmire
Marsh, difficult decision
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Irascribe
Easily angered
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Insouciant
Indifferent; lacking concern or care
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Militate
To work against
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Striated
Marked with thin narrow grooves
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Presage
To foretell, indicate in advance
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Desuetude
State of Disuse
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Fauna
Animals of a time or region
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Tryst
A private romantic rendezvous
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Vogue
Prevailing fashion or practice
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Vitiate
To impair the quality of; to corrupt morally
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Plumb
To examine deeply; to determine the depth
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Aberrent
Deviating from the normal
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Sartorial
Relating to tailoring, clothes, tailors
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Necromancy
Black magic
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Reprobate
Morally unprincipled person
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Complaisant
Overly polite; willing to comply with the wishes of others
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Explository
Explanatory
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Megalomania
Delusions of power or importantance
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Burgeon
To grow or flourish
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Junta
A military or political group that rules a country after taking it over; faction, cabal
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Inert
Unable to move; sluggish
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Epistemology
A branch of philosophy that concerns the nature of knowledge
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Sylvan
Related to woods or the forest
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Veracious
Truthful, accurate
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Travesty
A false or distorted representation of something; parody; to parody
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Intractable
Not easily managed; difficult or stubborn
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Forbearance
Patient self-control; Restraint and Tolerance
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Partisan
One sided; committed to a party or a cause
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Peregrination
A journey, especially a long or meandering one
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Belie
To contradict, misrepresent; give a false representation
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Distill
To extract the essential elements; to purify
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Effete
Affected, ineffectual; no longer capable of effective action
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Mettlesome
Full of courage and fortitude
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Truculance
Aggressivenes, ferocity
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Endemic
Belonging to a group of people or area
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Confound
To baffle; to perplex; to mix up
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Artless
Without guile or deception
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Foment
To arouse, incite
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Sensous
Relating to the senses
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Perennial
Present throughout the ages; persistent
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Fallow
Uncultivated (plowed and harvested but not sown)
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Minatory
Threatening, menacing
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Fulsome
So excessive as to be disgusting
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Timbre
The character quality of sound different in tone (?)
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Interregnum
Interval between reigns; gaps in continuity
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Abscission
The act of cutting; the natural detachment of parts of plant
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Esoteric
Hard to understand; known to only a few
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Burnish
To polish
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Salubrious
Healthful
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Precept
Principle, Law
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Anomalous
Irregular; deviating from the norm
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Incursion
A sudden invasion
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Preempt
Take action to prevent an anticipated event from happening; to acquire or appropriate something in advance
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Vexation
Irritation or annoyance
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Refulgent
Brightly shining
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Recalcitrant
Resisting authority or control
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Eiology
Causes or set of causes; origin
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Vacuous
Empty, void, lacking intelligence
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Gainsay
To deny; dispute, oppose
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Amulet
Ornament worn as a charm
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Churlish
Rude, boorish
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Concomitant
Existing concurrently
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Nexus
A means of connection; a center
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Recant
Retract a statement of opinion
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Paean
A fervent expression of joy; song of joy or triumph
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Fetid
Having bad smell
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Abstemious
Non-self indulgent, especially in food or drink
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Credence
Acceptance of something as true
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Unfeigned
Not false; true
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Venal
Motivated by bribery; corrupt
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Platitude
Stale; overused expression; cliche
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Tome
Book, usually large and academic
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Contrite
Very sorrowful for a wrong; seeking forgiveness
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Nugatory
Trifling, invalid
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Transgression
Act of trespassing or breaking a law
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Turgid
Swollen or congested; pompous/bombastic
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Encomium
A formal expression of praise
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Chicanery
Trickery; fraud
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Heterodox
Not widely accepted
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Levity
Light manner or attitude
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Stolid
Having or showing little emotion
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Factotum
A person who does all sorts of jobs; handyman
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Capricious
Easily being changed (usually mood or emotion); fickle
228
Exorcise
To free from all evils; to expel evil spirits
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Toady
Flatterer, yes-man
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Geniality
Cheerfulness, kindness, sociability
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Motley
Many colored, made up of many parts
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Blandishment
Flattery
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Piquant
Pleasently pungent, attractive
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Expiate
To attone for
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Cloister
To confine, seclude
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Mendicant
Beggar
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Meretricious
Gaudy, Specious; falsely attractive
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Lilliputian
Extremely small
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Incarnate
Having bodily form
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Founder
To sink, fail, collapse
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Metaphysics
The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of reality
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Delineate
To represent, to depict
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Strident
Loud, harsh, unpleasant noises
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Penury
Extreme povery
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Implode
To collapse inward violently
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Remonstrate
To object or protest
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Imprecation
Curse; damnation
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Inveigle
To win over by coaxing or flattery
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Coalesce
To come together to form one mass
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Provident
Making timely and indicative decisions for the future; farsighted
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Tractable
Obedient
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Lassitude
Lethargy, sluggishness
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Panegyric
Elaborate praise, formal hymn of praise
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Tutelary
Serving as a guardian or a protector
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Perfidious
Faithless, disloyal
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Purport
To profess, claim
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Hallowed
Holy, sacred
258
Diffidence
Shyness, lack of confidence
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Vapid
Tastless, dull
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Evocative
Bringing strong images, memories, or emotions to mind; reminiscent, redolent, suggestive
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Fatuous
Foolishly self-satisfied
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Brazen
Bold, shameless
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Occult
Relating to the practices connected to supernatural phenomena
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Impervious
Incapable of being affected, inpenetrable
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Morose
Ill-humored, sullen, bad tempered
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Foswear
Renounce, repudiate
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Grouse
To complain
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Deference
Respect, especially to one's wish
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Doggeral
A comic verse with irregular rhythm; poor verse
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Prate
To talk idly or chatter
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Emollient
Smoothing, mollifying
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Repine
Fret, complain
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Racounteur
Witty, skillful storyteller
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Efficacy
Effectiveness, efficiency
275
Insensible
Unconscious, unresponsive; unaware of
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Spendthrift
Someone who spends money recklessly
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Stint
To be sparing
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Emaciated
Thin and weak, especially because of disease or lack of food
279
Chasten
Having a restraining or a moderating effect (due to an event or misfortune); to humble
280
Vindictive
Vengeful, unforgiving
281
Raiment
Clothing
282
Jaundiced
Yellowish discoloration of the skin; bitter, envy, resentment
283
Amenable
Agreeable, cooperative
284
Clairvoyant
One who can predict the future, psychic
285
Expatiate
To write or speak at length
286
Congenial
Pleasant because of qualities or characteristics similar to one's own
287
Harange
Long pompous speech; tirade
288
Contumacious
Disobedient, rebellious
289
Craven
Cowardly
290
Fracas
A loud quarrel, brawl
291
Qualm
An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear
292
Discordant
Not in tune
293
Codify
To arrange in systematic code; organize
294
Elysian
Delightful, blissful
295
Fetter
To restrict unfairly; slave chains
296
Admonish
To caution or reprimand
297
Visage
Appearance, aspect
298
Plaintive
Sounding sad and mournful; melancholy
299
Officious
Authoritatively domineering; too eager to help in an intrusive way
300
Canon
General law, rule, or principle by which something is judged; literature seen as true
