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Princeton Key Terms 1 Flashcards

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Abscond

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Verb: to depart clandestinely

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Aberrant

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Adjective: Deviating from the norm.

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Alacrity

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Noun: eager and enthusiastic willingness.

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Anomaly

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Noun: deviation from the normal order, form or rule.
Synonym: abnormality.

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Approbation

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Noun: An expression of approval or praise.

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Arduous

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Adjective: Strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort.

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Assuage

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Verb: ease or lessen; appease or pacify.

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Audacious

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Adjective: daring and fearless; recklessly bold.

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Austere

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Adjective: without adornment. Bare; severely simple.
Synonym: ascetic.

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Axiomatic

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Adjective: taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth.

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Canonical

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Adjective: following in agreement with accepted, traditional standards.

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Capricious

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Adjective: Inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable.

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Censure

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Verb: to criticize severely; to officially rebuke.

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Chicanery

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Noun: trickery or subterfuge

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Connoisseur

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Noun: an informed and astute judge in matters of taste. An expert in on a given topic.

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Convoluted

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Adjective: complex or complicated.

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Disabuse

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Verb: to undeceive; to set right.

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Discordant

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Adjective: conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound.

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Disparate

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Adjective: fundamentally distinct or dissimilar.

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Effrontery

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Noun: extreme boldness, rudeness

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Eloquent

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Adjective: well spoken, expressive, articulate.

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Enervate

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Verb: to weaken or reduce in vitality

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Ennui

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Noun: dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom and apathy

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Equivocate

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Use ambiguous language with deceptive intent. Verb

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Erudite

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Adjective: very learned, scholarly.

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Exculpate

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Verb: to exonerate, or clear from blame.

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Exigent

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Adjective: urgent, pressing, requiring immediate attention.

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Extemporaneous

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Adjective: improvised, done without preparation.

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Filibuster

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Noun: Intentional obstruction

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Fulminate

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Verb: attack loudly or denounce

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Ingenuous

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Adjective: artless, frank and candid, lacking sophistication.

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Inured

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Adjective: accustomed to accepting something undesirable.

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Irascible

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Adjective: easily angered, probe to temper mental outbursts

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Laud

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Verb: to praise highly

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Lucid

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Adjective: clear, easily understood.

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Magnanimity

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Noun: the quality of being generous, noble of heart, and forgiving.

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Martial

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Verb: To rally. Also, Adjective associated with war and armed forces.

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Mundane

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Adjective: of the world, concerned with the ordinary.

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Naiscent

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Adjective: coming into being; in early developmental stages.

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Nebulous

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Adjective: vague, cloudy, lacking a clearly defined form.

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Neologism

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Noun: new word, phrase or term.

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Noxious

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Adjective: harmful, injurious.

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Obtuse

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Adjective: lacking intellectual sharpness. Not clear in thought or expression.

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Obviate

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Verb: to anticipate and make unnecessary.

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Onorous

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Adjective: troublesome, burdensome.

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Paean.

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Noun: hymn of thanksgiving

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Parody

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Noun: a humorous imitation

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Perennial

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Adjective: recurrent throughout the year or years, repeated.

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Perfidy

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Noun: intentional breach of faith, treachery

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Perfunctory

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Adjective: cursory, done without interest or care

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Perspicacious

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Adjective: acutely perceptive

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Prattle

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Verb: to babble meaninglessly

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Precipitate

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Adjective: acting with excessive haste or impulse.
Verb: to cause to happen before anticipated or required.

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Predilection

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Noun: a disposition in favor of something.

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Prescience

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Noun: foreknowledge of events

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Prevaricate

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Verb: to deliberately avoid the truth with intent to deceive

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Qualms

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Noun: misgivings, reservations

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Recant

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Verb: retract, especially beliefs

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Refute

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Verb: disprove or successfully argue against

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Relegate

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Verb: forcibly assign or remove to a lower position.

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Reticent

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Adjective: quiet, reserved, reluctant.

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Solicitous

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Adjective: concerned, attentive; eager.

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Sordid

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Adjective: all things foul

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Sporratic

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Adjective: occurring only occasionally

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Squander

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Noun: to waste by using or spending irresponsibly

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Static

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Adjective: not moving or responding; at rest

67
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Stupify

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Stun dazzle amaze

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Stymie

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Block, thwart

69
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Synthesis

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A combination of parts to make a whole.

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Torque

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A force that causes rotation

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Tortuous

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Twisting, winding, excessively complicated.

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Truculent

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Fierce and cruel, eager to fight.

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Veracity

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Truthfulness, honesty

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic.

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Voracious

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Ravenous

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Waver

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To sway, literally or figuratively.

Chloe's GRE vocabulary (3 decks)

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