Gre Tough List 4

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Abraision

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1. Process of scraping or rubbing

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Adumbrate

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Outline; indicate

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Cognitive

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Concerned with thinking or perceiving

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Deign

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Condescend (do something that one considers to be beneath one’s dignity)

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Fervid

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Passionate

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Gall

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1. Bitterness (bad feeling)

2. Confidence

3. Abnormal growth on plant

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Levee

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Raised bank if a river

(Morning reception held by a monarch)

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Preternatural

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Unnatural; abnormal

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Quell

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Suppress

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Score (n)

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Written form of music

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Abut

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To adjoin

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Consternation

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Worry and concern (feeling of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected)

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Gavel

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Judges hammer

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Lien

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Right to sell property held as a security; legal hold on job

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Parenthesis

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Remarks deviating from the main point

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Sinewy

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Vigorous; having well-developed muscles

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Steep(v)

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To soak in water

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Tamp

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To plug; press loose matter down tightly (packing explosives)

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Venturing

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1. Hazarding; risking; putting forward

2. Going somewhere

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Wry

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1. Twisted or bent to one side

2. Dryly humourous

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Arduous

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Hard

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Decimated

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Kill or destroy a large part od

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Fledge

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1. Grow feathers

2. Leave nest

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Gouge

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Cut or dig out

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Picayune

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Insignificant; of little value

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Riveting

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Fascinating

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Soliloquy

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Solo speech

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Supplicant

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Person who request or begs for something

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Transcendental

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Super natural; going beyond normal experience

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Veritable

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True; genuine

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Condescension

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Talking down to someone

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Divest

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Remove; take off

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Eddy

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Circular current

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Epaulet

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Shoulder decoration

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Fallacy

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Wrong idea

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Fringe

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1. Decorative border with tassels

2. To form an edge

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Leaven

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To make light; modify; cause bread to rise using yeast

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Patronize

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1. Talk down to; condescend

2. To be a customer of

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Prominent

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1. Eminent

2. Obvious

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Statute

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Law

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Antipathy

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Hatred

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Aver

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Affirm

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Expatiate

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Speak or write at great length

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Flag (v)

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To lose energy

To signal

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Flail

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To wave arms about wildly

To thresh

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Indicted

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Accused (of a crime)

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Loll

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Laze around; hang out (when used of tongue)

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Malign (v)

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Slander

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Secure (v)

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To fix firmly

To obtain

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Talon

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Long pointed nail or claw

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Abeyance

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State of inactivity; disuse; a state of suspension

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Allure

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1. Attraction

2. To attract

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Caulk

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Treat with substance such as tar to make water-tight

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Conscript

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1. To enlist compulsorily

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Desultory

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Aimless; inconsistent in effort (lacking a plan, purpose or enthusiasm)

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Elegy

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Poem concerned with death; praise of a dead person

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Fallow

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Uncultivated

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Forbearing

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Tolerant

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Hegemony

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Political domination; complete authority

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Improbity

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Lack of honesty or integrity

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Qualm

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Hesitation or fear

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Disarm

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Take away weapons

Win over to one side

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Assay

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1. Try

2. Assess purity

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Chauvinist

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Someone excessively patriotic

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Discrete

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Separate, discontinuous

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Enlist

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Sign up for the army

Obtain

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Fabricated

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Made up; false

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Fulminate

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1. Attack loudly in words; denounce

2. Explode noisily

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Hawser

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Thick rope or cable

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Jibe

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Agree with; complement; match up with (change course by seibging a sail across a wind)

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Peer

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1. An equal

2. Stare

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Stickler

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One who is strict about rules or details

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Elaborate

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1. Complex and detailed

2. To expand on (v)

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Cloture

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Closure; terminating a debate by voting

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Congruent

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Matching

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Dally

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Waste time; flirt

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Dissemble

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Avoid the truth (conceal one’s true motives, feelings or beliefs)

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Dote

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Be excessively fond of

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Errant

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1. Wandering 2. Wrong 3. Straying from accepted standards

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Fervent

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Passionate

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Stomach (v)

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Tolerate

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Synapse

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Junction between two nerve cells

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Undercutting

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Offering a lower price; undermining

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Foment

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1. Stir up

2. Bathe with hot liquids (medical)

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Arson

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Deliberate, criminal starting of fires

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Carrion

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Dead flesh; carcasses

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Intelligible

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Can be understood

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Ironclad

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Cannot be altered; firm

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Lint

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Fluff; soft material used to cover wounds

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Pretension

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Assumed attitude of superiority; arrogance

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Pundit

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Expert

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Pyre

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Ceremonial fire

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Sate

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Satisfy

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Syncopation

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Type of musical rhythm with missed beats

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Jockeying

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Maneuvering

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Pretension

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Assumed attitude of superiority; arrogance (showiness, affectation)

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Rue

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Regretful

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Somatic

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Concerned with the body

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Stinting

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Holding back; limiting the supply of

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Temperate

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Moderate