Gre Vocabulary Group 6

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abjure (v.)

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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adumbrate (v.)

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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anathema (n.)

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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne (adj./n.)

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soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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apogee (n.)

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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apostate (n.)

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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apotheosis (n.)

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deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfections

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asperity (n.)

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severity rigor; roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability

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asseverate (v.)

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to aver, allege, assert

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assiduous (adj.)

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diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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augury (n.)

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omen, portent

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bellicose (adj.)

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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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calumniate (v.)

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to slander, make a false statement

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captious (adj.)

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disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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cavil (v.)

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to find fault without good reason

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celerity (n.)

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speed, alacrity

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chimera (n.)

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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contumacious (adj.)

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insubordinate, rebellious

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debacle (n.)

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rout, fiasco, complete failure

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denouement (n.)

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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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descry (v.)

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to discriminate or discern

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desuetude (n.)

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disuse

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desultory (adj.)

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random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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diaphanous (adj.)

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transparent, gauzy

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diffident (adj.)

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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dirge (n.)

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a song of grief or lamentation

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encomium (n.)

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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eschew (v.)

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to shun or avoid

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excoriate (v.)

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate (v.)

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denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil

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exegesis (n.)

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critical examination, explication

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expiate (v.)

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to atone or make amends for

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extirpate (v.)

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to destroy; exterminate, cut out, exscind

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fatuous (adj.)

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dilly, inanely foolish

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gainsay (v.)

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to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

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fractious (adj.)

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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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heterodox (adj.)

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio (n.)

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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indefatigable (adj.)

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not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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ineluctable (adj.)

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certain, inevitable

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inimitable (adj.)

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one of a kind, peerless

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insouciant (adj.)

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate (adj.)

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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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jejune (adj.)

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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lubricious (adj.)

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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mendicant (n.)

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a beggar, supplicant

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meretricious (adj.)

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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minatory (adj.)

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menacing, threatening

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nadir (n.)

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low point, perigee

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nonplussed (adj.)

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous (adj.)

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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ossified (adj.)

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tending to become more, rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

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palliate (v.)

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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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panegyric (n.)

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium

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parsimonious (adj.)

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cheap, miserly

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pellucid (adj.)

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration (n.)

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the concluding part of a speech, flowery, rhetorical speech

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plangent (adj.)

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix (adj.)

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long-winded, verbose

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propitiate (v.)

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to appease; to conciliate

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puerile (adj.)

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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puissance (n.)

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power, strength

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pusillanimous (adj.)

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cowardly, craven

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remonstrate (v.)

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to protest, object

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sagacious (adj.)

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having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage

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salacious (adj.)

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary (adj.)

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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sanguine (adj.)

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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saturnine (adj.)

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sententious (adj.)

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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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stentorian (adj.)

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extremely loud and powerful

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stygian (adj.)

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gloomy, dark

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sycophant (n.)

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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

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tendentious (adj.)

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biased; showing marked tendencies

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timorous (adj.)

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timid, fearful, diffident

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tyro (n.)

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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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vitiate (v.)

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to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective

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voluble (adj.)

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language