Gre Prep- Word List 1

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Abase

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v. lower;degrade; humiliate. Anna expected to have to curtsy to the Kind of Siam; when to told to cast herself down on the ground before him, however, she refused to abser herself. abasement. N.

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Abash

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v. embarrass. He was not at all abashed by her open admiration.

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Abate

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subside or moderate. Rather than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate.

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Abdicate

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v. renounce; give up. Wehn Edward VIII abdicated the British throne, he surpised the entire world.

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Aberrant

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ADJ. abnormal or deviant. Given the aberrant nature of the data, we came to doubt the validity of the entire experiment.

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Aberration

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N. abnormalality; mental irregularity or disorder. It remins the consensus among investors on Wall Street that current high oil prices are a temporary aberration and that we shall soon see a return to cheap oil.

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Abet

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assist, usually in doing something wrong

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Abeyance

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n. suspended action. The deal was held in abeyance until she returned.

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Abhor

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to detest

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Abject

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Wretched; lacking pride. On the streets of NY, the homeless live in abject poverty

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Abjure

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To renounce upon oath; diavow. Pressure from the authorities caused the young academice to abjure her former opinions.

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Ablution

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N. Washing. His daily ablutions were accompanied by loud noises that he hunorously labeled "Opera in the Bath".

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Abnegation

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N. renunciation; self-sacrifice. The doomed lovers act of abnegation was necessary for the preservation of the kingdom.

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Abolish

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cancel; to put an end to

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Abominate

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v. loathe; hate

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Aboriginal

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adj. being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native

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Abortive

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adj. unsuccessful; fruitless. Attacked by armed troops, the Chinese students had to abandon their abortive attempt to democratize Beijing peacefully.

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Abrogate

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v. abolish. The kind intended to abrogate the decree issued by his predecessor.

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Abscission

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n. removal by cutting off, as in surgery; seperation. Gas gangreen spreads so swiftly and is so potentially deadly that doctors advise abscission of the gangreous tissue.

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Abscond

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v. depart secretly and hide.

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Abstemious

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adj. sparing in eating and drinking; temperate Concerned whehter her son's abstemious vegetarian diet sufficed, the concerned mother pushed her son to eat more.

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Abstruse

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adj. obscure; profuound; difficult to understand. Baffled by the abstruse philosophical texts assigned in class, Dave asked Lexy to explain Kant.

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Abut

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v. border upon; adjoin. Where our estates abut, we must build a fence.

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Acclaim

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v. applaud; announce with great approval. The sportscasters acclaimed every American victory in the Olympics and decried every American defeat, acclamation.

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Acclivity

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N. sharp upslope of a hill. The car could not go up the acclivity in high gear.

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Accolade

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n. award of merit.

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Accord

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n. agreement. She was in complete accord with the verdict.

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Accost

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v. approache and speak first to a person. When the two yound men accosted me, I was frightened because I thought they were going to attack me.

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Accoutre

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v. equip. The fishermen were accoutred with the best gear.

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Accretion

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N. growth; increase. Over the years Bob put on weight; because of this accretion of flesh, he went from size M to size XL.

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Accrue

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v. come about by addition. You must pay the interest that has accrued on your debt as well as the principal sum.

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Acme

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N. peak; pinnacle; highest point. Welles's success in Citizen Kane marked the acem of his career

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Acrid

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adj. sharp; bitterly pungent. The acrid odor of the burnt gun powder

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Acrimonious

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adj. bitter in word sor manner. The candidate attacked his opponent in hgihgly acrimonious terms.

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Acrophobia

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fear of heights

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Acturarial

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adj. calculating; pertaining to insurace statistics. Accordign to recent acturarial tables, life expectancy is greater today than it was a century ago.

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Actuate

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v. motivate. I fails to understand what actuated you to reply to this letter so nastily.

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Acuity

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n. sharpness. In thim ehis youthful acuity of vision failed hime, and he needed glasses.

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Acumen

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n. mental keeness. Her business acumen helped her to succeed where others had failed.

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Addle

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muddle; drive crazy; become rotten. This idiotic plan is confusing enough to addle anyone.

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Adjunct

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something (generally nonessential or inferior) added on or attached. Although I don't absolutely need a second computree, I plan to buy a laptop to serve as an adjunct to my desktop.

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Adjuration

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n. solemn urging. Her adjuration to tell the truth did not change the witnessess' testimony.

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Adjutant

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n. staff officer assisting the commnader; assistant. Though Wellington delegated many tasks to his chief adjutant, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Somerset was in no doubt as to who made all major decisions.

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Adroit

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adj. skillful. Her adroit handling of the delicate situation pleaser her employers.