GRE Words Flashcards

(55 cards)

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Anachronism

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Something out of place in time

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Amalgamate

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To combine

To mix together

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Ardor

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Intense and passionate feeling

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Banal

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Predictable

Cliched

Boring

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Bombastic

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Pompous in speech and manner

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Capricious

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Changing one’s mind quickly and often

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Castigate

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To punish or criticize harshly

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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile

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Cogent

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Convincing

Well reasoned

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Convoluted

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Intricate

Complicated

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Desultory

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Jumping from one thing to another

Disconnected

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Diatribe

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An abusive, condemnatory speech

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Diffident

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Lacking self-confidence

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Dilatory

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Intended to delay

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Dilettante

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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

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Dissemble

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To present a false appearance

To disguise one’s real intentions or character

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Enervate

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To reduce in strength

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Engender

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Produce

Cause

Bring about

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Enumerate

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Count

List

Itemize

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Equivocate

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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

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Erudite

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Learned

Scholarly

Bookish

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Exculpate

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Clear from blame

Prove innocent

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Foment

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Arouse

Incite

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Guile

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Deceit

Trickery

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Iconoclast
One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions
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Impetuous
Quick to act without thinking
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Inchoate
Not fully formed Disorganized
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Inimical
Hostile Unfriendly
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Insipid
Lacking interest or flavor Blah
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Intransigent
Uncompromising Refusing to be reconciled
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Inundate
Overwhelm Cover with water
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Irascible
Made angry easily
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Malinger
To skip out on responsibility by pretending to be ill
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Misanthrope
A person who dislikes others
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Obsequious
Overly submissive Eager to please (Uriah Heep)
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Obviate
Prevent Make unnecessary
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Onerous
Troublesome Oppressive Burdensome
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Opprobrium
Public disgrace
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Ostentation
Excessive showiness
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Pedant
Someone who shows off learning
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Perfidious
Willing to betray one's trust
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Perfunctory
Done in a routine way Indifferent
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Prodigal
Lavish Wasteful
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Proliferate
Increase in number quickly
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Propitiate
Conciliate Appease
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Quiescent
Motionless
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Repudiate
Reject the validity of
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Reticent
Silent Reserveed
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Soporific
Causing sleep or lethargy
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Specious
Deceptively attractive Seemingly plausible but fallacious
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Stolid
Unemotional Lacking sensitivity
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Sublime
Lofty Grand
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Tacit
Done without using words
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Taciturn
Silent Not talkative