Gre Barron List 13 (Words I Don't Know)

Front 1

DECIDUOUS

Back 1

falling of, as a leaves

Eg: When you think of Autumn, the obvious image that pop up in your mind is that of deciduous trees

Front 2

DECIMATE

Back 2

to kill

Eg: The increasing pollution in hanoi is decimating it citizens gradually

Front 3

DECOLETTE

Back 3

cổ khoét sâu

Eg: Breast freedom and the rights of women to reveal their beauty with decolette wears

Front 4

DECOY

Back 4

lure or bait

Eg: You think I will be allured by your little decoy, well, you'rre wrong!

Front 5

DECREPITUDE

Back 5

state of collapse cause by illness or old age

Eg: Although grandma has many diseases before she died, she was of no way decrepitude. Thus, her death still left us all in shock

Front 6

DECRY

Back 6

express strong disapproval, disparage

Eg: Disenfrenchise poor people of their basic rights in an unacceptable act. I decry such actions and will do everything to eliminate it

Front 7

DEDUCIBLE

Back 7

có thể suy diễn

Eg: From the information we have, it is deducible to conjecture that he has been pregnant

Front 8

DEFACE

Back 8

mar, disfigure

Eg:The frown on her expression defaced her beautiful face

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DEFECTION

Back 9

sự đào ngũ

Eg: His defection from the army was a act of honor, not that of scorn like people say

Front 10

DEFER

Back 10

1. delay till later
2. give in respectful'

Eg: This decision will need to be deferred to Ryan as he is the only one with the acuity and discretion to make it.

Front 11

DEFERENCE

Back 11

sự chiều theo ý

Eg: In deference to your request, I will not let him in under any circumstances

Front 12

DEFILE

Back 12

pollute, profane

Eg: His action defile the whole reverrent we have for our ancestors

Front 13

DEFINITIVE

Back 13

most complete, reliable

Front 14

DEFLECT

Back 14

làm lệch hướng, turn aside

Eg: The rain deflected our path yet saved us from a severe accident

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DEFOLIATE

Back 15

destroy leaves

Eg: I don't mean to defoliate the trees with these device, but I just love autumn so much that I wanted to have my own deciduous tree

Front 16

DEFRAY

Back 16

provide for the payment of,

Eg: My part-time job with B assisted me in defray for my grad school expenses

Front 17

DEFROCK

Back 17

bắt bỏ áo thầy tu (to the priest/minister of a church)

Eg: Such act defile the sanctuarity of this consecrated place and therefore, he should be indicted to defrock

Front 18

DEFT

Back 18

neat, skillful

Eg: what the chef did for us in the restaurant was deft and quite a show!

Front 19

DEFUNCT

Back 19

chết ,mất, không còn tồn tại

Eg: I never think of grandma as the defunct. To me, she was just freeing herself from all the pain and go to a place where she can watch over us all

Front 20

DEGENERATE

Back 20

thoái hóa, become worsse, deteriorate

Front 21

DEIFY

Back 21

Turn into a god, idolize

Eg: Don't deify him, it's just too much

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DEIGN

Back 22

hạ cố, đoái chiếu

Eg: He didn't even deign to look at his citizens, that despot king

Front 23

DELETERIOUS

Back 23

harmful

Front 24

DELIBERATE

Back 24

consider, ponder

Eg: although all the offers were amazingly attractive, I need to delieberate carefully as I can only choose one

Front 25

DELIRIUM

Back 25

tình trạng mê sảng

Eg: In his delirium, he was chased by a werewolf =))

Front 26

DELUDE

Back 26

decieve

Eg: should I stop deluding myself into believing that I would acutally get into a school like Harvard :))

Front 27

DELUGE

Back 27

flood, rush

eg: There was a deluge of mail to her house after her special appearance on T.V

Front 28

DELVE

Back 28

dig, investigate

Eg: Studying for the GRE is a tedious progess where you just delve into all the weirest words and the craziest books

Front 29

DEMAGOGUE

Back 29

mị dân

Front 30

DEMEAN

Back 30

degrade, humiliate,

Eg: I will not demean myself and go to that school, not even in the worst case scenerio

Front 31

DEMEANOR

Back 31

Behavious, bearing

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DEMENTED

Back 32

Insane, wacky

Front 33

DEMISE

Back 33

death

Front 34

DEMONIAC

Back 34

bị ma ám, quỷ ám , fiendish

Front 35

DEMOTIC

Back 35

thông dụng, bình dân, dân chúng

Front 36

DEMURE

Back 36

coy, serious, nghiêm trang-từ tốn-kín đáo

Front 37

DENIGRATE

Back 37

blacken, phỉ báng, gièm pha

Front 38

DENIZEN

Back 38

cư dân

Front 39

DENOUEMENT

Back 39

outcome, final development ò the plot of the play

Eg: Dream girl was a very nice play, it has a unexpected denouement that can be a very good life lesson for young adults in their early 20s

Front 40

DEPOSE/DEPOSITION

Back 40

depose: dethrone, remove from office
deposition:testimony under oath

Front 41

DEPRAVITY

Back 41

extreme corruption, wickedness

Front 42

DEPRECATE

Back 42

express disapproval of

Eg: No matter what kind of society we live in, my parents always deprecate sex before marriage

Front 43

DEPREDATION

Back 43

plundering, sự cướp bóc, sự phá phách (desolate)

Eg; The depradation of the coup left that village desoluted

Front 44

DERANGE

Back 44

make insane, disarrange

Eg: I guess my behavious were too much and deragned him

Front 45

DERELICT

Back 45

abondoned, vô chủ

Front 46

DERIVATIVE

Back 46

unoriginal, derive from some place else

Front 47

DERMATOLOGIST

Back 47

one studies skin

Front 48

DEPLORE

Back 48

lấy làm tiếc, regret

Eg: I deplore that you decide to break up with him!