Gre Vocab

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Insipid
adj.

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1. lacking flavor.
"mugs of insipid coffee"
synonyms: tasteless, flavorless, bland, weak, wishy-washy; "insipid coffee"
antonyms: tasty

2. lacking vigor or interest.
"many artists continued to churn out insipid, shallow works"
synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninspiring, characterless, flat,

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Assiduous
adj.

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1. showing great care and perseverance. Careful unremitting attention or persistent application
"she was assiduous in pointing out every feature"
synonyms: diligent, careful, meticulous, thorough, sedulous, attentive

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Acerbic
adj.

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1. (esp. of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright.
"his acerbic wit"
synonyms: sharp, sarcastic, sardonic, mordant, trenchant, cutting

2. (archaictechnical) tasting sour or bitter.

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Rapacious
adj.

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1. aggressively greedy or grasping.
"rapacious landlords"
synonyms: grasping, greedy, avaricious, acquisitive

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Specious
adj.

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1. superficially plausible, but actually wrong.
"a specious argument"

2. misleading in appearance, esp. misleadingly attractive.
"the music trade gives Golden Oldies a specious appearance of novelty"
synonyms: misleading, deceptive, false,

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Truculent
adj.

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1. eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
"his days of truculent defiance were over"
synonyms: defiant, aggressive, antagonistic, combative, belligerent,

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Craven
Adj.

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1. contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly.
"a craven abdication of his moral duty"
synonyms: cowardly, lily-livered, faint-hearted,

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Misanthrope
noun

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1. a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society.
synonyms: hater of mankind, hater, cynic;

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Soporific

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1. tending to induce drowsiness or sleep.
"the motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect"

also: sleepy or drowsy.
"some medicine made her soporific"

also: tediously boring or monotonous.
"a libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific"

synonyms: sleep-inducing, sedative, somnolent, calmative,

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Foundering
verb/gerund

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1. (of a ship) fill with water and sink.
"six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Florida coast"
synonyms: sink, go to the bottom, go down

Also: (of a plan or undertaking) fail or break down, typically as a result of a particular problem or setback.
"the talks foundered on the issue of reform"
synonyms: fail, be unsuccessful, not succeed, fall flat, fall through

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Pertinacious
adj.

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1. holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action.
"he worked with a pertinacious resistance to interruptions"
synonyms: determined, tenacious, persistent, persevering, purposeful, resolute,

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Obdurate

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1. stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.
synonyms: stubborn, obstinate, intransigent, inflexible, unyielding, unbending,