Cracking The Gre 2008: Beyond The Hit Parade Group 1

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Alloy

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v – to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure

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Appropriate

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v – to take for one’s own use, confiscate

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Arrest, arresting

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v/adj – to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait

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August

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adj – majestic, venerable

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Bent

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n – leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency: He had a naturally artistic bent.

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Broach

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v – bring up, announce, begin to talk about

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Brook

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v – to tolerate, endure, countenance

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Cardinal

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adj – major, as in cardinal sin

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Chauvinist

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n – a blindly devoted patriot

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Color

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v – to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first): Yellow journalism colored the truth.

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Consequential

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adj – pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)

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Damp

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v – to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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Die

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n – a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

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Essay

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v – to test or try; attempt, experiment: The newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps.

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Exact

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v – to demand, call for, require, take: Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price.

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Fell

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v – to cause to fall by striking; The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees.

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Fell

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adj – inhumanly cruel; Fell beasts surrounded explorers.

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Flag

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v – to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline; Think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits

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Flip

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adj – sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

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Ford

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v – to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Grouse

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v – to complain or grumble

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Guy

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n/v – a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guide.

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Intimate

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v – to im0ply, suggest, or insinuate: Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?

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List

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v – to tilt or lean to one side: The ship’s broken mast listed helplessly in the wind.

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Lumber

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v – to move heavily and clumsily: Lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers.

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Meet

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adj – fitting, proper: It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame.

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Milk

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v – to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of: I milked the position for all it was worth.

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Mince

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v – pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully: Don’t mince words. Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe

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Nice

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adj – exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction between the two cases.

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Obtain

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adj – to be established, accepted, or customary: Those standards no longer obtain.

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Occult

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adj – hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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Pedestrian

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adj – commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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Pied

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adj – multicolored, usually in blotches: The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat.

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Pine

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v – to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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Plastic

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adj – moldable, pliable, not rigid

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Pluck

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n – courage, spunk, fortitude: Churchill’s speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war.

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Prize

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v – to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: The information was prized from him.

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Rail

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v – to complain about bitterly: Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons.

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Rent

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v/n – torn, past of rend: He rent his garments; an opening or tear caused by such: a large rent in the fabric

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Quail

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v – to lose courage, turn frightened

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Qualify

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v – to limit: Let me qualify that statement.

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Sap

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v – to enervate or weaken the vitality of: That race sapped my strength.

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Sap

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n – a fool or nitwit: Don’t be a sap!

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Scurvy

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adj – contemptible, despicable: He was a scurvy old reprobate.

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Singular

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adj – exceptional, unusual, odd: He was singularly well-suited for the job.

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Stand

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n – a group of trees

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Steep

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v – to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep: She was steeped in esoteric knowledge.

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Strut

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n – the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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Table

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v – to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration: They tabled the motion and will consider it again later.

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Tender

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v – to proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation.

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Waffle

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v – to equivocate; to change one’s position: His detractors say that the President waffles too much: he can never make up his mind.

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Wag

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n – wit, joker: Groucho Marx was a well-known wag.