Gre Verbal Reasoning

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Polemic

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A strong written or verbal attack on someone or something

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Iconoclast

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A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions

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Diffidence

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Modesty or shyness due to a lack of self-confidence

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Belie

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To fail to give a true impression of something

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Intractable

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Hard to control or deal with

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Circumscribe

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To restrict something within limits

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Pellucid

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Translucently clear, easily understood

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Vociferous

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Vehement or clamorous

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Recalcitrant

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Uncooperative towards authority

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Venerate

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To show great respect

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Tyro

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Beginner

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Tacit

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Unspoken

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Tractable

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Easily managed

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Turpitude

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Depravity, baselessness

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Saturnine

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Gloomy

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Sedulous

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Diligent

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Specious

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Seemingly true but really false

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Prevaricate

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To evade the truth

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Propitiate

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To appease

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Pulchritude

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Beautiful

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Quiescence

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Inactivity

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Pussilanimous

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Cowardly, petty

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Phlegmatic

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Not easily excited

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Perfidious

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Dishonest, deliberately treacherous

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Noisome

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Harmful, offensive, destructive

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Obdurate

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Hardened against influence or feeling

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Obviate

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To make unnecessary

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Occlude

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To obstruct

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Pecadillo

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Small sin or fault

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Panegyric

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Writing or speech in praise of a person or thing

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Laconic

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Terse

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Intransigent

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Stubborn

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Lugubrious

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Excessively gloomy

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Aggrandize

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To exaggerate

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Aver

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To declare

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Antediluvian

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Outmoded

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Cadge

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To get something by taking advantage of someone

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Blandishment

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Speech intended to manipulate

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Caprice

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Impulse

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Caustic

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Highly critical

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Craven

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Cowardly

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Deprecation

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Belittlement

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Depredation

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The act of preying upon

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Diffident

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Modest

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Disabuse

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To free a person from falsehood or error

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Effluent

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The quality of flowing out

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Exculpate

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To prove blameless

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Garrulous

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Talkative

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Florid

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Flowery language or rosy flush

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Emollient

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Softening

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Encomium

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Formal eulogy or speech of praise

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Esoteric

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Understood only by a few

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Erudite

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Scholarly

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous

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Enervate

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To weaken