Gre Vocab 2

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abstruse

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hard to understand, esoteric

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arcane

Back 2

known or understood by few

Front 3

bemusing

Back 3

bewildering

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inscrutable

Back 4

incapable of being scrutanized or understood. mysetious

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recondite

Back 5

dealing with profound or abstruse subject matter

And his fondness for stopping his readers short in their tracks with evidence of his recondite vocabulary is wonderfully irritating.

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turbid

Back 6

not clear, confused

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defile

Back 7

to make foul or dirty

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fetid

Back 8

stinking, having an offenwsive odor

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inviduous

Back 9

calculated to create ill will or resentment (inviduous remarks)

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noisome

Back 10

offensive/disgusting

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odious

Back 11

deserving or causing hatred

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putrid

Back 12

in a state of decomposition

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rebarbative

Back 13

repellant, causing annoyance or aversion

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cogent

Back 14

convincing, relevant (a cogent argument)

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limpid

Back 15

free from obscurity, clear, pellucid. (a limpid prose)

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pellucid

Back 16

clear in meaning, expression, style (like a pellucid way of writing)

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abberant

Back 17

departing from the right/normal circumstances

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anachronism

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something that is not in its correct historical time

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anomalous

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devient from the correct order

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abash

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to make ashamed

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chagrin

Back 21

feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment, to vex by humiliation

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compunction

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remorse, feeling anxiety because of wrong-doing

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contrition

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sincere penitence or remorse

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diffident

Back 24

shy, lacking self-confidence

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expiate

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to make amends or atone for

Ex: to expiate one's crimes, to expiate one's sins

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foible

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minor weakness of character

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gaucherie

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lack of social grace

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rue

Back 28

to feel sorror or bitter regret

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equitable

Back 29

equality or fairness

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equity

Back 30

equality, fairness

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tantamount

Back 31

equalled, as a value, effect, etc

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apocryphal

Back 32

of doubtful authentifcity

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canard

Back 33

a deliberately misleading fabrication

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dissemble

Back 34

to feign or conceal something

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equivocate

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to use ambiguous language

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erroneous

Back 36

containing error

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ersatz

Back 37

an artifical substitute used to replace something genuine

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fallacious

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containing a fallacy, deceptive

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feigned

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put on the expression of

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guile

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deception

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mendacious/mendacity

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telling lies, especially habitually

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perfidy

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deliberate breaking of faith or trust

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prevaricate

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to speak falsely or misleadingly, to lie

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specious

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havin he ring, taste, or probablity of, but actually fallacious

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spurious

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not genuine or authentic (a spurious gesture)

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conjugal

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pertaining to the relationship of the husband and wife

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consanguine

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having the same ancestry in blood

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distaff

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women's work

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endogamous

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marries within a specific tribe

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filial

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pertaining to the on or daughter

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progenitor

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a biologically related ancestor

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scion

Back 52

a descendent

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ardor

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great warmth of feeling, favor

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doctrinaire

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a person who applies doctrine w/out sufficient regard for actual evidence

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partisan

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a supporter of a person

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fervid

Back 56

heated in spirit/enthusiasm

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tendentious

Back 57

Marked by a strong tendency in favor of a particular point of view…a tendentious novel.

Most writing about Wagner has been like political pamphleteering--tendentious, one-sided and full of revisionist zeal.

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zealot

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a person who shows zeal

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absolve

Back 59

to free from guilt/blame

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exculpate

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to free from guilt or blame

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exonerate

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to free, as from an accusation

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expiate

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to attone for/make amends for

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palliate

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to conceal the gravity of an offense

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redress

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to set something right

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vindicate

Back 65

to clear, as from an accusation

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chortle

Back 66

to chuckle gleefully

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droll

Back 67

amusing in an odd way, whimsicle humorous

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flippant

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frivalously disrespectful, lacking in serioiusness

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gibe

Back 69

to jeer or taunt

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jocular

Back 70

characterized by joking

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levity

Back 71

lightness of mind/character or behavior

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ludicrous

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provoking laughter bc of absurdity

Front 73

raillery

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good humored ridicule

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riposte

Back 74

a quick sharp return in speaking

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simper

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to smile in a self conscious way

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desiccate

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to remove vitality from something

to remove moisture from something

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pedant

Back 77

someone who makes an ostentious display of learning

someone who pays attention to formal scholarship and to unimportant rules and details

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deride

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to ridicule or show contempt for something or somebody

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ingenuous

Back 79

showing lack of worldliness or sophistication, innocence

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disabuse

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to set right, to free from error

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desultory

Back 81

jumping from one thing to another, disconnected

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syllogism

Back 82

reasoning from the general to the specific

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abject

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with no hope of improvement or relief (abject poverty)

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perdition

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in religion, eternal damnation or hell. complete destruction

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restive

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uneasy, restless

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sedulity

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diligence

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plucky

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brave