Gre Vocabulary #1

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Execrable

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detestable, very bad, wretched

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Inured

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(1) harden somebody to something - to make somebody used to something unpleasant over a period of time, so that he or she no longer is bothered or upset by it (2) come into effect - to come into legal operation or effect

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Incredulous

Back 3

unwilling to believe

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Stolidity

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not excitable

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Prodigious

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sizable, marvelous

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Sidereal

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relating to stars, especially measured with reference to the apparent motion of the stars

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Etiolated

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(1) pale and spindly - describes a plant that is unusually tall and spindly and deficient in green pigment owing to lack of light, (2) weak and spiritless – feeble and without vigor or spirit

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Circumscribed

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(1) restrict - to limit the power of something or somebody to act independently (2) enclose within geometric shape - to draw one geometric figure around another so that they touch at every corner vertex of the enclosed figure or at every side of the enclosing figure without cutting across each other

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Calumnious

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(1) defamation - the making of false statements about somebody with malicious intent, (2) defamatory statement – a slanderous statement or false accusation

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Filigree

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(1) lacy metal ornamentation - delicate decorative openwork made from thin twisted wire in silver, gold, or another metal, (2) delicate work – a delicate ornamental tracery

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Tautology

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(1) linguistic redundancy - the redundant repetition of a meaning in a sentence, using different words, (2) logical true proposition

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Peregrination

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a journey or voyage

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Peroration

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(1) end speech - to finish a speech by summarizing its main points, (2) give speech - to speak at length, especially in a formal or pompous way

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Quotidian

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(1) commonplace - of the most ordinary everyday kind, (2) done daily - done or experienced on a daily basis, (3) recurring daily

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Recalcitrant

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(1) resisting authority, (2) hard to do or handle

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Pernicious

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(1) causing serious harm, (2) malicious

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Complaisant

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seeking to please

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Prescient

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knowing in advance

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Puerile

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(1) silly, (2) relating to childhood

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Inveterate

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(1) Habitual - fixed in a habit or practice, especially a bad one, (2) Firmly established

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Timorous

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timid, showing fear or hesitancy

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Cowed

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make submissive - to frighten somebody into submission or obedience

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Turgid

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(1) pompous and overcomplicated, (2) overflowing, (3) distended

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Erudite

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very knowledgeable through study

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Interdict

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(1) prohibitive order, (2) exclusion from church sacraments

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Expurgate

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edit something by removing offensive parts

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Deleterious

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harmful

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Predilection

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liking

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Churlish

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(1) crass, (2) unkind and grumpy

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Servile

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(1) too obedient, (2) menial - relating to work that is considered menial or degrading, (3) relating to slavery

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Garrulous

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(1) talking too much, (2) wordy

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Obsequious

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submissive

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Querulous

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(1) tending to complain, (2) whining

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Loquacious

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talkative

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extirpate

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to tear up by the roots or destroy completely

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cogent

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(1) having power to compel or constrain, (2) appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, pertinent or relevant