GRE General Vocabulary Set 4 Flashcards
Studying this set, along with the others I created, got me a 162 on the verbal section and I didn't even have time to learn all of the words. On top of that, there were words that I didn't learn, from these sets, that were on the GRE. Had I learned them, my score would have been higher. I hope these sets help you get a solid score too. This set contains vocabulary words from Magoosh that are not included in my other sets. It also contains words from the second ETS Power Prep II practice test as (224 cards)
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Maintain
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to affirm; assert; declare; to support in speech or argument, as a statement or proposition.
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Dilatory
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tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy; intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision.
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Disparate
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distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar.
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Innocuous
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not harmful or injurious; harmless; not likely to irritate or offend; inoffensive; not interesting, stimulating, or significant; pallid; insipid.
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Bleak
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bare, desolate, and often windswept; cold and piercing; raw; without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary.
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Extant
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in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost.
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Auspicious
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promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable; favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate.
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Ambivalent
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having “mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two courses of action.
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Sedulous
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diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous; persistently or carefully maintained.
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Stem
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to stop, check, or restrain; to dam up; stop the flow of.
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Blinkered
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narrow-minded and subjective; unwilling to understand another viewpoint.
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Check
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to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly; hold in restraint or control; limit; to cause a reduction; diminish.
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Checkered
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marked by dubious episodes; suspect in character or quality.
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Raft
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a great quantity; a lot.
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Retiring
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withdrawing from contact with others; reserved; shy.
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Expansive
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friendly, open, or talkative; sociable.
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Imbibe
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to drink, especially a lot of alcohol; to absorb; to intake, as knowledge or information; to assimilate.
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Assimilate
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to take in and incorporate as one’s own; absorb; to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like; adapt or adjust.
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Benighted
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intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened; overtaken by darkness or night.
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Flush
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a sudden rise of emotion or excitement; glowing freshness or vigor.
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Moment
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important; significant.
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Fell
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fierce; cruel; dreadful; savage; destructive; deadly; to knock, strike, shoot, or cut down; cause to fall.
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Arch
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playfully roguish or mischievous; cunning; crafty; sly.
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Rogue
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a dishonest person; a vagabond; a playfully mischievous person.
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Beg
to take for granted without basis or justification, such as a fact; to fail or refuse to come to grips with; avoid; evade.
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Tender
to give, present, or offer; something offered.
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Intimate
to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.
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Wanting
lacking or absent; less; minus.
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Becoming
suitable; appropriate; proper; that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance; any process of change.
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Start
to spring, move, or dart suddenly from a position or place.
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Fleece
to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle.
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Telling
having force or effect; effective; striking; indicative of much otherwise unnoticed; revealing.
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Wax
to increase in extent, quantity, intensity, power, etc.; to grow or become.
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Qualify
to modify or limit in some way; make less strong or positive; to make less violent, severe, or unpleasant; moderate; mitigate.
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Demur
to make objection; take exception; object.
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Demure
characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
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Beatific
bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like.
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Peremptory
leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; bossy; imperative; positive or assertive in speech, manner, etc.
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Indignant
feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base.
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Imponderable
not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
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Ponderous
of great weight; heavy; massive.; awkward or unwieldy; lumbering or graceless (esp. in movement); dull.
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kowtow
to act in an obsequious manner; show servile deference; to touch the forehead to the ground while kneeling, as an act of worship, reverence, apology, etc.
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Powwow
a talk, conference, or meeting.
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Schadenfreude
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
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Amuck
mad with murderous frenzy.
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Pundit
a learned person, expert, or authority; a person who makes comments or judgments; critic or commentator.
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Inculpated
to charge with fault; blame; accuse; incriminate.
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Melee
a confused hand-to-hand fight or struggle among several people; confusion; turmoil; jumble.
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Lagniappe
a gratuity or tip; an unexpected benefit.
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Picayune
of little value or account; small; trifling.
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Mongrel
any cross between different things.
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Beget
to cause or create; produce as an effect; to father.
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Bequeath
to dispose of by a last will; to hand down; pass on.
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Jingo
a person who professes his or her patriotism loudly and excessively; a chauvinist.
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Mesmerize
to hypnotize; to compel by fascination; to spellbind.
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Spellbound
bound by or as if by a spell; enchanted, entranced, or fascinated.
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Hector
a blustering, domineering person; a bully.
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Pollyanna
an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
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Quip
a clever, sarcastic, or witty remark or comment.
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Pyrrhic
A win that cost so much as to not even be worth it; an ancient Greek warlike dance.
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Kafkaesque
the absurdity we have to deal with living in a
| world of faceless bureaucracies; marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
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Panglossian
characterized by or given to extreme, unwarranted optimism.
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Jaundice
a state of feeling in which views are prejudiced or judgment is distorted, as by envy or resentment; yellowing of skin and whiteness of eyes from certain illnesses.
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Choleric
extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible.
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Curmudgeon
a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person.
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Cantankerous
disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish.
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Misanthrope
a hater of humankind.
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Virago
a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
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Cardinal
of prime importance; chief; principal.
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Syncretic
the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties.
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Parochial
of or pertaining to a parish or parishes; very limited or narrow in scope or outlook; provincial.
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Sanctimonious
making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc. (Holier-than-thou ;)
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Embroil
to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.
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Thrift
economical management; economy; frugality; a wisdom and caution in the spending of money.
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Sybarite
a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
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Loath
unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse.
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Insolvent
having insufficient assets or funds to meet debts and liabilities; bankrupt.
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Affluent
having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich; abundant; flowing freely.
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Defray
to pay all or part of the costs, expenses, etc.
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Stipend
a periodic payment; fixed or regular pay; salary.
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Pittance
a small allowance or sum, as of money for living expenses; a scanty income or remuneration..
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Dupe
a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull; a person who unquestioningly or unwittingly serves a cause or another person; to deceive, esp by trickery.
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Mulct
to deprive of something, as by fraud, extortion, etc.; swindle; to punish by fine.
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Acme
The highest point; summit; peak.
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Apex
the tip, point, or vertex; summit; climax; peak; acme.
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Apogee
the highest or most distant point; climax.
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Apotheosis
the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god; the ideal example; epitome; quintessence.
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Nadir
the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair.
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Untoward
unfavorable or unfortunate; improper.
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Inauspicious
not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
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Auspicious
promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable; favored by fortune; prosperous.
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Chide
to express disapproval of; scold; reproach; rebuke.
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Underwrite
to bind oneself to contribute a sum of money toward something; to show agreement with or to support; to write under or at the foot of.
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Overweening
presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud; exaggerated, excessive, or arrogant.
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Bellicose
inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious; warlike; aggressive.
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Jingoist
a person who thinks their country should always be at war.
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Hawkish
advocating war or a belligerently threatening diplomatic policy; favoring the use or display of force rather than diplomacy to achieve foreign policy goals.
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Badger
to pester or harass.
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Hound
a mean, despicable person; to pursue or chase relentlessly.
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Dog
a despicable man or youth; to pursue relentlessly.
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Ferret
to search out, discover, or bring to light; an assiduous searcher; to find by persistent investigation.
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Cow
to frighten with threats, violence, etc.; intimidate; overawe.
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Loafer
lazy person; idler.
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Graft
the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.; a portion of living tissue surgically transplanted from one part of an individual to another, or from one individual to another, for its adhesion and growth.
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Palimpsest
a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text; anything that has been changed numerous times but
on which traces of former iterations can still be seen.
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Iteration
the act of repeating; a repetition.
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Serendipity
finding something pleasant or fortunate by accident; good fortune; luck.
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Invective
vehement accusation or denunciation, esp of a bitterly abusive or sarcastic kind; abusive language.
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Inveigh
to speak with violent or invective language; rail.
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Rail
to utter bitter complaint or vehement denunciation.
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Inveigle
to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements.
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Screed
a long, especially prolonged, speech or piece of writing (often a diatribe).
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Harangue
a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe; a long, passionate, and vehement speech.
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Amalgam
a mixture or combination.
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Catalyst
something that causes activity between two or more persons or forces without itself being affected; something that speeds up or suddenly starts (precipitates) an event.
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Slapdash
hasty and careless; offhand.
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Heyday
the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.; prime.
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Aboveboard
in open sight; honest; without tricks, concealment, or disguise.
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Telltale
that reveals or betrays what is not intended to be known.
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Avuncular
resembling an uncle; friendly; helpful.
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Visage
the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance; aspect; appearance.
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Countenance
appearance, especially the look or expression of the face; visage; calm facial expression; composure; approval or favor; encouragement; moral support.
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Ingratiate
to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, especially by deliberate effort.
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Cadaverous
of or like a corpse; haggard and thin.
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Cadaver
a dead body; a corpse.
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Gaunt
extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated; bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things.
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Emaciation
abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease.
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Macabre
gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible; grim.
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Whirligig
something that whirls or revolves; a giddy or flighty person.
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Flighty
irresponsible; slightly delirious; light-headed; mildly crazy; capricious; frivolous.
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Febrile
pertaining to or marked by fever; feverish.
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Disabuse
to free (a person) from deception or error.
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Mettle
courage and fortitude; disposition or temperament.
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Amiable
having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable; friendly; sociable; agreeable; willing to accept the wishes, decisions, or suggestions of others.
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Affable
pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite.
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Amicable
characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable (between people, tribes, nations, etc.).
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Amenable
ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable; liable to be called to account; answerable; legally responsible.
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Tractable
easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding.
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Impetus
a moving force; impulse; stimulus; the momentum of a moving body, especially with reference to the cause of motion.
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Imperiled
to put in peril or danger; endanger.
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Aberration
the act of deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; mental irregularity or disorder.
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Tinge
any slight addition.
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Amorphous
lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless; indeterminate.
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Commensurate
corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree; proportionate; adequate; having a common measure.
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Churlish
rude; niggardly; mean; miserly.
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Deigning
to think fit or in accordance with one's dignity.
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Cogent
compelling belief or assent; forcefully convincing.
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Assent
to agree or concur; subscribe to; to give in; yield; concede.
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Fractious
readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome; refractory.
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Factious
given to, producing, or characterized by faction.
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Factitious
not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived; phony.
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Dissension
strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
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Vindictive
disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful.
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Vindicate
to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like; to uphold or justify by argument or evidence.
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Vicissitude
a change or variation occurring in the course of something; change; mutation; mutability.
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Venial
able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin; excusable; trifling; minor; easily excused or forgiven.
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Voracious
craving or consuming large quantities of food; very eager, avid, or unremitting in some activity.
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Avid
showing great enthusiasm for or interest in; very keen; extremely desirous.
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Excoriate
to denounce or berate severely; flay verbally; to strip off or remove the skin from.
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Berate
to scold; rebuke.
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Flay
to strip off the skin or outer covering of; to criticize or scold with scathing severity; to deprive or strip of money or property.
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Scathing
bitterly severe, as a remark; harmful, injurious, or searing.
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Extenuating
serving to make a fault, offense, etc., appear less serious.
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Exegesis
critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of a text, especially of the Bible.
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Miscreant
depraved, villainous, or base.
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Insufferable
not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable.
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Bleat
to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry; foolish, complaining talk; babble; to whine; whimper; prate.
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Prate
to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble.
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Staid
of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious; fixed; settled; permanent.
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Aghast
struck with overwhelming shock or amazement; filled with sudden fright or horror.
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Summarily
in a prompt or direct manner; immediately; straightaway; precipitately.
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Inflammable
capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable; easily aroused or excited, as to passion or anger; irascible.
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Incendiary
used or adapted for setting property on fire; tending to arouse strife, sedition, etc.; inflammatory; tending to inflame the senses.
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Strife
vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism; a quarrel, struggle, or clash; competition or rivalry.
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Sedition
speech, writing, or behavior directed against the peace of a state; an offence that tends to undermine the authority of a state; an incitement to public disorder.
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Incite
to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action.
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Unnerve
to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset.
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Roil
to disturb or disquiet; irritate; vex.
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Disinterested
unbiased by personal interest or advantage; not influenced by selfish motives; not interested; indifferent.
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Undermine
to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect; attempt to subvert by stealth..
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Subvert
to overthrow; to cause the downfall, ruin, or destruction of; to undermine the principles of; corrupt.
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Intone
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation; to recite or chant in monotone.; to give tone or variety of tone to; vocalize.
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Ply
to work with or at diligently; employ busily; use; to treat with or apply to (something) repeatedly; to supply with or offer something pressingly to; a thickness or layer.
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Espouse
to adopt or give support to.
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Limpid
clear, transparent, or pellucid; free from obscurity; lucid; completely calm; without distress or worry; peaceful.
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Pellucid
transparent or translucent; extremely clear in style and meaning; limpid.
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Betray
to reveal unconsciously (something one would preferably conceal); to be unfaithful in guarding, maintaining, or fulfilling; to reveal or disclose in violation of confidence.
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Assail
to attack vigorously or violently; assault; to attack with arguments, criticism, ridicule, abuse, etc.; beset; to undertake with the purpose of mastering; to make an impact on.
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Beset
to attack on all sides; assail; harass; to surround; to set or place upon.
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Efficacious
capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.
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Forlorn
desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance; lonely and sad; forsaken; expressive of hopelessness; despairing; bereft; destitute.
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Bereft
deprived; parted (from); a simple past tense and past participle of bereave.
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Bereave
to deprive and make desolate, especially by death; to deprive ruthlessly or by force.
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Pine
to yearn deeply; suffer with longing; to fail gradually in health or vitality from grief, regret, or longing.
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Remiss
negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.; lacking force or energy; languid; sluggish; dilatory.
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Restive
impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy; refractory; stubborn; refusing to go forward; balky.
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Repine
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
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Remonstrate
to argue in protest or objection.
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Defer
to put off (action, consideration, etc.) to a future time; to yield respectfully in judgment or opinion; to submit for decision; refer.
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Languid
lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow; drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue; faint; listless; indifferent.
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Balky
to stop short, esp suddenly or unexpectedly; jib; to turn away abruptly; recoil; to thwart, check, disappoint, or foil; to avoid deliberately or unintentionally; to refuse to proceed.
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Jib
to move restively sidewise or backward instead of forward, as an animal in harness; balk; defer action; procrastinate.
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Fret
to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like; erosion; corrosion; gnawing.
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Foil
a person or thing that gives contrast to another; to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk.
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Cede
to yield or formally surrender to another.
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Precarious
dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure; exposed to or involving danger; dangerous; perilous; risky.
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Posture
the relative disposition of the parts of something; an affected or unnatural attitude; a mental or spiritual attitude.
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Underscore
to mark with a line or lines underneath; underline; to stress; emphasize.
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Boon
something to be thankful for; blessing; benefit; something that is asked; jolly; jovial; convivial;
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Convival
friendly; agreeable; fond of feasting, drinking, and merry company; jovial; festive.
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Jovial
endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship.
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Forestall
to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance.
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Beholden
obligated; indebted.
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Behold
to observe.
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Acumen
keen insight; shrewdness.
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Enfeeble
to make feeble; weaken.
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Misnomer
an error in naming a person or thing.
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Aplomb
imperturbable self-possession, poise, or assurance.
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Fringe
something regarded as peripheral, marginal, secondary, or extreme in relation to something else.
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Denigrate
to treat or represent as lacking in value or importance; belittle; disparage.
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Rightist
of or pertaining to conservative or reactionary political views; conservative, traditionalist, or reactionary.
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Conservative
disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
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Engender
to produce, cause, or give rise to; to beget; to procreate.
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Procreate
to produce; bring into being.
