GRE Vocab 2 Flashcards
(50 cards)
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Ornery
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exhibiting bad temper
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Licentious
A
immoral
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Coterie
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tightly bound group of people
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Rococo
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highly or excessively ornamented
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Extempore
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done or said with little or no preparation
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Tableau
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striking scene
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Categorical
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absolute; without exception
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Recondite
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hard to understand; not easily understood
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Antipathy
A
strong dislike
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Apathy
A
no interested in
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Reticent
A
uncommunicative
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Parlous
A
perilous
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Doughty
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fearless; valiant
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Austere
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unadorned
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Surfeit
A
abundance of something
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Truculence
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disposed to violence
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Complaisance
A
disposition to please or comply
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Hermetic
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airtight
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Paucity
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scarcity
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Sardonic
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grimly mocking or cynical
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Axiom
A
generally accepted principle
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Loquacious
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talkative
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Hedonism
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pursuit of pleasure
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Ephemeral
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lasting for a short time
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Propriety
state or quality of being correct or proper
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Cacophony
harsh, unpleasant mixture of sounds
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Ingenuous
innocent; unsuspecting
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Misanthrope
person who dislikes humankind
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Deride
to express contempt for; ridicule
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Noisome
offensive odor
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Puissance
power
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Opprobrium
harsh criticism or censure
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Florid
excessively decorated or embellished
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Fervid
intensely emotional
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Estimable
admirable
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Esoteric
hard to understand; understood by few
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Chauvinist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group he/she belongs in
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Condone
overlook; pardon
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Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
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Abscond
to leave secretly
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Decorum
having good taste; appropriateness of behavior
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Cogent
well reasoned; convincing
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Castigate
to punish; criticize harshly
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Banal
trite; cliche; boring
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Ardor
intense passionate feeling
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Aggrandize
increase power/influence
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Ameliorate
to make better; to improve
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Eclectic
mixture of things
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Engender
to produce; to cause
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Equivocal/Equivocate
has multiple meanings; make ambiguous
