Beyond The Hit Parade Group 2 - Cracking The Gre 2009

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abjure

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verb - to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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adumbrate

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verb - to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anathema

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noun - a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne

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adjective/noun - soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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apogee

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noun - farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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apostate

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noun - one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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apotheosis

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noun - deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection

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asperity

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noun - severity, rigor; roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability

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asseverate

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verb - to aver, allege, assert

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assiduous

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adjective - diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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augury

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noun - omen, portent

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bellicose

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adjective - belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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calumniate

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verb - to slander, make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

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captious

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adjective - disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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cavil

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verb - to find fault without good reason

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celerity

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noun - speed, alacrity; think accelerate

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chimera

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noun - an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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contumacious

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adjective - insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

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debacle

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noun - rout, fiasco, complete failure: My fist attempt at a souffle was a total debacle.

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denouement

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noun - an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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descry

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verb - to discriminate or discern

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desuetude

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noun - disuse: After years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use.

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desultory

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adjective - random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose: Her desultory performance impressed no one.

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diaphanous

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adjective - transparent, gauzy

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diffident

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adjective - reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence: Surprisingly, the CEO of the corporation had been a diffident youth.

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dirge

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noun - a song of grief or lamentation: We listened to the slow, funeral dirge.

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encomium

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noun - glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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eschew

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verb - to shun or avoid: She chose to eschew the movie theater, preferring to watch DVDs at home.

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excoriate

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verb - to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate

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verb - denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil

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exegesis

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noun - critical examination, explication

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expiate

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verb - to atone or make amends for: Pia Zadora has expiated her movie career by good works and charity.

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extirpate

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verb - to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind

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fatuous

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adjective - silly, inanely foolish: I would ignor such a fatuous comment.

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fractious

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adjective - quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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gainsay

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verb - to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

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heterodox

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adjective - unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio

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noun - difficult or embarrassing situation

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indefatigable

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adjective - not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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ineluctable

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adjective - certain, inevitable

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inimitable

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adjective - one of a kind, peerless

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insouciant

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adjective - unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate

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adjective - deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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jejune

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adjective - vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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lubricious

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adjective - lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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mendicant

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noun - a beggar, supplicant

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meretricious

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adjective - cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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minatory

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adjective - menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)

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nadir

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noun - low point, perigee

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nonplussed

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adjective - baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous

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adjective - noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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ossified

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adjective - tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

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palliate

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verb - to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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panegyric

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noun - formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise.

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parsimonious

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adjective - cheap, miserly: A parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficulty.

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pellucid

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adjective - transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration

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noun - the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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plangent

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adjective - pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix

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adjective - long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity: Mikhail Gorbachev is a famous for his prolixity.

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propitiate

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verb - to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable

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puerile

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adjective - childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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puissance

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noun - power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong: The senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention.

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pusillanimous

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adjective - cowardly, craven

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remonstrate

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verb - to protest, object

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sagacious

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adjective - having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage

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salacious

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adjective - lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary

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adjective - remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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sanguine

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adjective - cheerful confident, optimistic

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saturnine

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adjective - gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sententious

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adjective - aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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stentorian

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adjective - extremely loud and powerful

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stygian

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adjective - gloomy, dark

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sycophant

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noun - toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

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tendentious

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adjective - biased; showing marked tendencies

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timorous

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adjective - timid, fearful, diffident

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tyro

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noun - novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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vitiate

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verb - to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective

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voluble

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adjective - fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language