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GRE Exam - Verbal 3 Flashcards

1
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Apathy

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An absence of emotion or enthusiasm

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Decorum

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Propriety in manners and conduct

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3
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Endemic

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Native to or confined to a certain region

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Implacable

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Incapable of being appeased or pacified

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Mundane

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Found in the ordinary course of events

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Appease

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Make peace with

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Default

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An option that is selected automatically

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Enervate

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Weaken mentally or morally

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Implicit

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Suggested though not directly expressed

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Negate

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Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

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Apprise

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Inform somebody or something

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12
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Deference

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Courteous regard for people’s feelings

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Engender

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Make children

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14
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Implode

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Burst inward

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15
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Neophyte

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Any new participant in some activity

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Approbation

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Official approval

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17
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Delineate

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Represented accurately or precisely

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18
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Enhance

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Increase

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Inadvertently

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Without knowledge or intention

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Obdurate

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Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

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Appropriate

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Suitable for a particular person, place, or situation

22
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Denigrate

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Charge falsely or with malicious intent

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Ephemeral

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Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day

24
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Inchoate

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Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

25
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Obsequious

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Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

26
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Arduous

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Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion

27
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Deride

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Treat or speak of with contempt

28
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Equanimity

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Steadiness of mind under stress

29
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Incongruity

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The quality of disagreeing

30
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Obviate

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Do away with

31
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Artless

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Simple and natural; without cunning or deceit

32
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Derivative

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A compound obtained from another compound

33
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Equivocate

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Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear

34
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Inconsequential

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Lacking worth or importance

35
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Occlude

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Block passage through

36
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Ascetic

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Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

37
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Desiccate

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Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless

38
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Erudite

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Having or showing profound knowledge

39
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Incorporate

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Make into a whole or make part of a whole

40
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Officious

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Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

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Assiduous

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Marked by care and persistent effort

42
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Desultory

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Marked by lack of definite plan or regularity of purpose

43
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Esoteric

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Understandable only by an enlightened inner circle

44
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Indeterminate

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Not fixed or known in advance

45
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Onerous

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Not easily borne; wearing

46
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Assuage

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Provide physical relief, as from pain

47
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Deterrent

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Something immaterial that interferes with action or progress

48
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Eulogy

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A formal expression of praise for someone who has died

49
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Indigence

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A state of extreme poverty or destitution

50
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Opprobrium

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A state of extreme dishonor

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