Gre Hit Parade Words From The Princeton Review Word Smart For The Gre 2Nd Edition

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ABATE

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to lessen in intensity or degree

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ABERRANT

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deviating from the norm

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ABJURE

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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ABROGATE

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to abolish or annul by authority; put down

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ABSCISSION

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act of cutting off or removing

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ABSCOND

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to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

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ABSTAIN

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to refrain from an activity

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ACCOLADE

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an expression of praise; an award

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ACCRETION

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growth, increase by successive addition, building up

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ACERBIC

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having a sour or bitter taste or character

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ACUMEN

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quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight

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ADMONISH

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to reprove; to express warning or disapproval

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ADROIT

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adept, dexterous

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ADULATION

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excessive praise; intense adoration

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ADULTERATE

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to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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ADUMBRATE

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to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily

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ADVOCATE

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to argue for or support a cause

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AESTHETIC

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dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful

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AGGRANDIZE

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to increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater

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ALACRITY

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eager and enthusiastic willingness

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ALCHEMY

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a magical or wonderful transformation

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ALLOY

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to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

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AMALGAMATE

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to combine several elements into a whole

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AMBIGUITY

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uncertainty in meaning

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AMBIVALENCE

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the quality of having opposing ideas or feelings

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AMELIORATE

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to make better or more tolerable

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AMENABLE

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agreeable; responsive to suggestion

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ANACHRONISM

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something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context

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ANATHEMA

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

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ANODYNE

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soothing

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ANOMALY

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deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality

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ANTAGONIZE

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to irritate or cause hostility

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ANTIPATHY

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aversion, dislike

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ANTITHETICAL

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diametrically opposed, as in antithesis

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APATHY

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lack of interest or feeling

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APOCRYPHAL

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of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious

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APOGEE

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farthest of highest point; culmination; zenith

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APOSTATE

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause

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APOTHEOSIS

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deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example

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APPOSITE

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appropriate, pertinent, relevent, apropos

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APPRISE

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give notice to, inform

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APPROBATION

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an expression of approval or praise

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APPROPRIATE

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to take for one's own use, confiscate

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ARABESQUE

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complex, ornate design

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ARCANE

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mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable on to initiates

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ARCHAIC

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outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time

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ARDUOUS

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strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort

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ARRANT

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impudent; in every way, being completely such, bare-faced, utter

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ARREST

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to suspend; to engage

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ARTICULATE

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to enunciate or pronounce clearly; to express oneself clearly

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ARTLESS

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completely without guile; natural, without artificality

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ASCETIC

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one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion

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ASPERITY

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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ASPERSION

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an act of defamation or maligning

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ASSIDUOUS

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diligent, hard-working

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ASSUAGE

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to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify

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ASTRINGENT

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having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe

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ATTENUATE

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to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen

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AUDACIOUS

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daring and fearless; recklessly bold

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AUGURY

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omen, portent, the reading of omens

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AUGUST

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majestic, venerable

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AUSPICE

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protection or support, patronage

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AUSPICIOUS

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favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous

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AUSTERE

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without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

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AVARICE

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greed, especially for wealth

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AVER

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to state as a fact; to confirm or support

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AXIOM

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a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying