Gre List 4

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Acerbic

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Having a sour taste or character

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Aggrandize

Back 2

To increase in power

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Amenable

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Agreeable responsive to suggestion

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Anachronism

Back 4

Something or someone out of historical or chronological place

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Astringent

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Having a tightening effect on living tissue, severe,

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Contiguous

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Sharing borders

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Credulous

Back 7

Tending to believe to readily

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Decorum

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Politeness

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Derision

Back 9

Scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment(feeling someone is worthless)

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Dessicate

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To dry out

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Dilettante

Back 11

One with an amateurish or superficial interest in arts or a branch of knowledge

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Disparage

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To slight or belittle

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Divulge

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To disclose something secret

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Fawn

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Flatter or praise

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Flout

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To show contempt for as in a rule or convention

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Garrulous

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Pointlessly talkative

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Glib

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Marked by ease or informality, nonchalant

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Immutable

Back 18

Unable to be changed

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Impetuous

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Hastily or rashly energetic, impulsive

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Inimical

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Damaging harmful injurious

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Intrepid

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Steadfast and courageous

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Maverick

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An indp. Indv. Who does not go along with a group

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Mercurial

Back 24

Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood

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Mollify

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To calm or soothe

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Neophyte

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A recent convert, beginner

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Obfuscate

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To deliberately obscure

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Ostentatious

Back 28

Characterized by o given to showiness

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Pervade

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To permeate through

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Phlematic

Back 30

Calm sluggish, unemotional

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Pragmatic

Back 31

Practical rather than idealistic

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Presumptuous

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Overstepping due bounds

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Probity

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Adherence to integrity

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Proclivity

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A natural predisposition or inclination

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Profligate

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Excessively wasteful

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Prosaic

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Dull, lacking imagination

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Quixotic

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Foolishly impractical

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Quotidian

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Occuring or reccurring daily

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Rarefy

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To become thin, less dense, refine

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Recondite

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Hidden

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Refulgent

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Radiant shiny brilliant

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Renege

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To fail to honor a commitment, to go back on promise

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Sedulous

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Diligent persistent

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Soporific

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Causing drowsiness

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Spendthrift

Back 45

One who spends money wastefully

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Tacit

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Implied

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Terse

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Brief and concise in wording

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Tout

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To publicly praise

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Trenchant

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Sharply perceptive keen

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Unfeigned

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Genuine not false

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Untenable

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Indefensible, not viable

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Variegated

Back 52

Multicolored, characterized by a variety of patches of diff. Colors

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Vexation

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Annoyance irritation

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Vituperate

Back 54

To use harshly ccondemnatory language