GRE Practice Flashcards

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Enamored

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In love with

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Taken aback

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Surprised

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Beseech

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If you are requesting something and want to sound a little old fashioned. Say I beseech you.

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Flustered

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Lose your cool.
Embarrassed, agitated

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Ineluctable

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Impossible to avoid

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Invidious

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Resentful, discriminatory/ envious

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Plangent

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Loud and resounding

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8
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Negatory

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Of no value / no real value / worthless

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Contentious

Fiercely contested

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An issue that make people argue / or a person who likes to argue or fight.

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Denouement

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Outcome of a complex sequence of event.
A final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work.

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11
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Invidious

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Causing envy.

Ineluctable - inevitable

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12
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Insatiable

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Hard to satisfy - insatiable appetite

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13
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Sweet tooth

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Liking to eat sweet tasting foods

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14
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Predilection

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Strong liking.
Preference toward something.

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15
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Affinity

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Natural liking of someone or something.

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16
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Odium

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Hate couples with disgust

17
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Sanguine

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Confidently optimistic

Or reb blood color.

18
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Choleric

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Characterized by anger

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Testy

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Easily irritable

20
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Temperament

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Usual mood

21
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Physiognomy

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Facial features

22
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Humor - can be used to mean personality

23
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Augury

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A sign of something to come.

Superstitious

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Temper

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Temper expectations- use can use it to indicate that someone should reduce expectations and be realistic about what’s possible.

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flabbergasted
Greatly surprised
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Coffer
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Shame
It’s a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt.
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Shame
Disgrace Abase Disrepute My intention was not to abase the comedian.
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Replenish
Fill sth up again.
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Nudge in the right direction
Prod against something gently.
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Undecided and uncertain situation
In a limbo
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Delight
To cause pleasure; Children are particular good at expressing delight in night things.