Gre Common Vocab

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acumen

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keenness;insight; depth of perception

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alacrity

Back 2

eager and enthusiastic willingness

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abeyance

Back 3

suspension; temporary inactivity

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abjure

Back 4

to renounce upon oath; to avoid

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axiom

Back 5

universal principle, a given possessing self evident truth

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bucolic

Back 6

characteristic of rural areas

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capricious

Back 7

changing ones mind impulsively, erratic, unpredictable

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chary

Back 8

wary, cautious

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dissemble

Back 9

to disguise; mislead

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endemic

Back 10

characteristic of a particular region or people

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enervate

Back 11

weaken, reduce in vitality

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ennui

Back 12

dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom

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equivocate

Back 13

to use ambiguous language intending to deceive

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exigent

Back 14

urgent; pressing

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flout

Back 15

to demonstrate contempt for

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fulminate

Back 16

loudly attack or denounce

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germane

Back 17

relevant to the subject at hand

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halcyon

Back 18

calm and peaceful

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impecunious

Back 19

lacking funds

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implacable

Back 20

not capable of being appeased or changed

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impunity

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immunity from punishment or penalty

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inchoate

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not fully formed

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incipient

Back 23

beginning to come into being or become apparent

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ingenuous

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artless, frank, lacking in sophistication

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inimical

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damaging, harmful

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exscind

Back 26

to cut out/cut away

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expiation

Back 27

ending, expiring

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irascible

Back 28

easily angered

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inveigle

Back 29

to attain by deception, flatter

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timorous

Back 30

fearful, timid

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extenuate

Back 31

to lessen the seriousness of

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expedient

Back 32

a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one

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ambrosial

Back 33

extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia)

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anomalous

Back 34

peculiar; unique, contrary to the norm (n: anomaly)

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antipathy

Back 35

hostility toward, objection, or aversion to

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attenuate

Back 36

weaken (adj: attenuated)

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aver

Back 37

to declare

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cadge

Back 38

to get something by taking advantage of someone

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chicanery

Back 39

deception by trickery

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corroborate

Back 40

to strengthen or support

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craven

Back 41

cowardly, a coward

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depredation

Back 42

the act of preying upon or plundering

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descry

Back 43

to make clear, to say

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disabuse

Back 44

to free a person from falsehood or error

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efficacy

Back 45

effectiveness, capability of producing a desired effect

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effluent

Back 46

the quality of flowing out; something that flows out

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emollient

Back 47

softening; something that softens

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encomium

Back 48

a formal elegy or speak of praise

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endemic

Back 49

prevalent in or native to a certain region, locality, or people

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equivocal

Back 50

ambivalent, unclear, subject to more than one interpretation

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esoteric

Back 51

intended for or only understood by a few

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fervid, fervent

Back 52

highly emotional, hot

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florid

Back 53

flushed with a rosy color, as in complexion; very ornate and flowery

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guile

Back 54

skillful deceit

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hapless

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unfortunate

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imperious

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commanding

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improvidence

Back 57

an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events

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ineffible

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undescribable, inexpressible in words, unspeakable

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ingenious

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clever

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insensible

Back 60

numb, unconscious

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intransigent

Back 61

stubborn, unmovable, unwilling to change

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laconic

Back 62

using few words, terse

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leviathan

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something very large

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lugubrious

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excessively weighty, mournful, gloomy

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nefarious

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wicked, evil

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noisome

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harmful, offensive, destructive

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obdurate

Back 67

hardened against influence or feeling, intractable

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obviate

Back 68

to prevent by anticipatory measures; to make unnecessary

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panegyric

Back 69

a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing

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pedantic

Back 70

making an excessive display of one's own learning

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perfidious

Back 71

deliberately treacherous, dishonest

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phlegmatic

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not easily excited, cool, sluggish

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ponderous

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heavy, massive, awkward, dull

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prevaricate

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to stray away from or evade the truth

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prodigal

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rashly wasteful

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pulchritudinous

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beautiful

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propitiate

Back 77

to conciliate, to appease

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pusillanimous

Back 78

cowardly, timid, or irresolute; petty

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quiescence

Back 79

inactivity, stillness, dormancy

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rarefy

Back 80

to make or become thin, to purify or refine

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reproof

Back 81

the act of censoring, scolding, or rebuking

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sanguine

Back 82

cheerful, confident

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saturnine

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having a gloomy or morose temperment

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sedulous

Back 84

diligent, persevering, persistent

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specious

Back 85

seemingly true but really false; deceptively convincing or attractive

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tacit

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unspoken

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taciturn

Back 87

habitually untalkative or silent

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temperate

Back 88

exercising moderation and self-denial; calm or mild

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tortuous

Back 89

excessively complicated

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tractable

Back 90

ability to be easily managed or controlled

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turpitude

Back 91

depravity, baseness

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tyro

Back 92

beginner, person lacking experience

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venerate

Back 93

show great respect or reverence

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vex

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to annoy, bother, perplex, puzzle

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viscous

Back 95

slow moving; highly resistant to flow

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contumacious

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insubordinate, rebellious

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mettlesome

Back 97

courageous, high-spirited (different from "meddlesome")

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remonstrate

Back 98

to protest, to object

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truculence

Back 99

aggressiveness, ferocity

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paucity

Back 100

scarcity, a lacking of

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lassitude

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weakness, tiredness

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sycophant

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flatterer, parasite, suck up

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assiduous

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diligent, hard-working

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reprobate

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person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency

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hirsute

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hairy, shaggy

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volubility

Back 106

fluency, verbosity, easy use of spoken language

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insouciant

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unconcerned, carefree

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diaphanous

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transparent, gauzy

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raffish

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disreputable, tawdry

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vituperate

Back 110

berate, rail against, attack verbally

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sophistry

Back 111

fallacious reasoning, faulty logic

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assay

Back 112

an analysis, examination; to put to a test

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hallow

Back 113

to make holy, consecrate

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expostulate

Back 114

argue earnestly to disuade, correct, or protest

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punctilious

Back 115

precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette

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rapacious

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voracious, greedy, plundering

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coeval

Back 117

of the same period; coexisting

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sanctimony

Back 118

self-righteous, hypocritical, with false piety

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desultory

Back 119

aimless, haphazard, digressing at random

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supercilious

Back 120

disdainful; characterized by haughty scorn

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fatuous

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complacently stupid

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salubrious

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healthful

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spurious

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false, counterfeit

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recidivism

Back 124

relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior

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profligate

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wasteful, prodigal, licentious, extravagant

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recondite

Back 126

profound, abstruse, obscure

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probity

Back 127

uprightness, incorruptability

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calumny

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slander, aspersion

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penury

Back 129

extreme poverty

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fulsome

Back 130

unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

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asperity

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roughness, harshness, hard to endure