Gre Hit Parade

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Abscond

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To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the norm

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality.

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Arduous

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Strenuous, taxing; Requiring significant effort

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Assuage

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To ease or lessen; To appease or pacify

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Audacious

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Daring and fearless; recklessly

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Austere

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Without adornment; bare, severely simple ascetic

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Axiomatic

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Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards.

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Capricious

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Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable.

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Censure

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To criticize severely; to officially rebuke

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Chicanery

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Trickery or subterfuge

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Connoisseur

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An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert

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Convoluted

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Complex or complicated

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Disabuse

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to undeceive; to set right

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Discordant

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Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

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Disparate

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

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extreme boldness; presumptuousness

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Eloquent

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Well-spoken, expressive, articulate

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Enervate

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To weaken; to reduce in vitality

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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Erudite

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Very learned; scholarly

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Exculpate

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Exonerate; to clear of blame

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Exigent

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urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action, or attention

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Extemporaneous

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improvised, done without preperation

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Filibuster

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intentional obstruction, esp. prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action.

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Fulminate

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To loudly attack or denounce

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Ingenuous

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Artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication

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Inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Irascible

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Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts

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Laud

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To praise highly;

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Lucid

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clear; easily understood

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Magnanimity

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The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving.

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Martial

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associated with war and the armed forces

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Mundane

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Of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary

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Nascent

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coming into being; in early developmental stages

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nebulous

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Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form

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Neologism

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A new word, expression, or usage; the creation or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses.

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Noxious

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Harmful; injurious

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Obtuse

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Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression.

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Obviate

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to anticipate and make unnecessary

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Onerous

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troubling; burdensome.

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Paean

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A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

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Perennial

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Recurrent though the year or many years; Happening repeatedly

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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith; treachery.

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Perfunctory

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Cursory; done without care or interest.

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Perspicacious

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Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment

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Prattle

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To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner

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Precipitate (adj

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Acting with excessive haste or impulse

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Precipitate (Verb)

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To cause or happen before anticipated or required.

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Predilection

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A disposition in favor of something; preference.

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Prescience

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Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occuring

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Prevaricate

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To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead.

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Qualms

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Misgivings; Reservations; Causes for hesitancy

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Recant

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to retract, esp. a previously held belief.

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Refute

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To disprove; to successfully argue against

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Relegate

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To forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position

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Reticent

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Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thought and feelings

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Soliticious

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Concerned and attentive; eager

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Sordid

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Characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul

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Sporadic

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Occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances.

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Squandor

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To waste by spending or using irresponsibly

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Static

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Not moving, active, or in motion; at rest.

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Stupefy

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To stun, baffle or amaze.

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Stymie

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To block; thwart

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Synthesis

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The combination of parts to make a whole

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Torque

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The force that causes rotation

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Tortuous

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Winding, twisting; 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 and antagonistic

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Voracious

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Having an insatiable appetite for an activity, or pursuit; Ravenous

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Waver

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To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion.