Gre Vocabulary Words

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Abscond

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To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the norm (like Aberration)

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Austere

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Without adornment; bare; severly simple;

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted traditional standards,

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Censure

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To criticize severely, to officially rebuke

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Chicanery

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Trickery, subterfuge

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Disabuse

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To set right, to undeceive

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Disparate

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness, presumptousness

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Enervate

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To weaken, to reduce in vitality

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Equivocate

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To use ambigious language with a deceptive intent

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Exigent

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Urgent, pressing, requiring immediate action or attention

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Extemperaneous

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Improvised; done without preparation

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Fulminate

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To loudly attack or denounce

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Ingenuous

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Frank, candid, lacking in sophistication

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Inured

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Toughened and hardened, accustomed to hardship

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Martial

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Associted with war and the armed forces

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Nascent

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In early developmental stages, coming into being

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Neologism

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A new word or expression

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Obviate

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To anticipate an event so that te event's consequences are minimal

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Onerous

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Troubling; burdensome

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Paean

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Song or hymn of praise

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Perennial

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Everlasting or happening repeatedly

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Perfidy

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Treachery, breach of trust

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Perspicacious

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Acutely perceptive

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Precipitate (adj.)

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Acting with excessive haste or impulse

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Precipitate (v.)

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To bring about prematurely

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Predilection

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Preference, a disposition in favor of something

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Prescience

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Knowing of events prior to their occuring, like clairvoyance

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Prevaricate

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To deliberately avoid the truth, to mislead

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Recant

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To retract (especially beliefs)

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Relegate

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To forcibly assign

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Solicitous

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Concerned and attentive, eager

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Stymie

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To block or thwart

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Tortuous

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Winding, twisting, excessively complicated

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Truculent

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Fierce and cruel, eager to fight

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Veracity

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Truthfulness, honesty

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful, bitterly hostile

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Abate

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To lessen in intensity or degree

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Adulation

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Excessive praise, intense adoration

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Ascetic

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One who practices rigid self-denial (especially in a religious context, like Buddhists denying pleasure)

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly or flourish

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Canon

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An stablished set of principles (especially in religion)

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Castigation

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Severe criticism or punishment

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Caustic

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Burning or stinging, causing corrosion

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Chary

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Wary, cautious, sparing

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Cogent

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Convincing

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Complaisance

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The willingness to comply with the wishes of others

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Contentious

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Argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy

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Contrite

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Regretful; penitent

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Dearth

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Smallness of quantity, a lack

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Demur

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To question or oppose

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Disinterested

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Impartial, free of bias

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Ebullience

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High spirits, exuberance

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Empirical

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Based on observation and experiment

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Esoteric

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Intended for a specific group (very specialized)

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Furtive

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Sneaky, stealthy

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Harangue

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To deliver a pompous speech

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Impecunious

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Lacking funds, without money

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Incipient

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Beginning to come into being, becoming apparent

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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

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Inveigle

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To obtain by deception or flattery

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Penurious

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Penny-pinching, ungenerous

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Prodigious

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Abundant in size, force, or extent

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Putrefy

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To rot and decay

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Quaff

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To drink deeply

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Redoubtable

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Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor

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Stoic

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Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain

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Supplant

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To take the place of, supersede

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Torpid

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Lethargic, sluggish, dormant

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Flag

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To lessen in vigor and energy

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Gaffe

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A social blunder, faux pas

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Adulterate

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To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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Aver

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To state as a fact, to declare or assert

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Dissemble

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To disguise or conceal, to mislead

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Endemic

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Chracteristic of a region, locality, or people

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Evanescent

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Vanishing, disappearing (like vapor)

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Exacerbate

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To make worse or more severe

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Fervent

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Greatly emotional or zealous

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Fortuitous

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Happening by chance (like lucky)

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Germane

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Relevant to the subject at hand

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Halcyon

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Calm and peaceful

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Hegemony

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Dominance of one state/ideology over others

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Iconoclast

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One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

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Impassive

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Revealing no emotion

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Imperturbable

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Marked by extreme calm and steadiness

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Implacable

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Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

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Impunity

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Immunity from punishment or penalty

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Inchoate

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In an initial stage, not fully formed

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Infelicitous (2 meanings)

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Unfortunate, in appropriate

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Mendacity

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The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty

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Obdurate

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Unyielding, hardhearted

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Obsequious

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Obedient to the point of fawning

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace, contempt

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with minutae and conventions, ostentatious with one's learning

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Pine (2 meanings)

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To yearn intensely, to lose vigor

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Pith

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The essential or central part

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Pithy

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Precise and brief

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Platitude

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A superficial remark, especially one that is supposed to be meaningful

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Polemical

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Argumentative, an opinion against the norm

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Prodigal (2 meanings)

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Recklessly wasteful and extravangant, Abundant

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Profuse

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Giving something in great quantities

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Querulous

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Prone to complaining or grumbling, peevish

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Repudiate

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To disown, To refuse to have anything to do with

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Rescind

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To invalidate, to repeal, to retract

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Salubrious

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Promoting health or well-being

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Solvent

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Able to meet financial obligations

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Specious

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Misleadingly attractive, seeming true but actually false

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Spurious

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Lacking validity, Counterfeit

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Surfeit

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An overabundant supply (noun) or to feed/supply to excess (verb)

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Tenacity

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Persistent determination, the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued

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Tenuous

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Having little strength or substance, weak and flimsy

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Aggrandize

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To increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige

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Amenable

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Agreeable, responsive to suggestion

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Astringent

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Harsh, severe, tightening effect on tissue

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Contiguous

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Sharing a border, adjacent

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Credulous

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Gullible, tending to believe too readily

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Cynicism

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Belief that all people are motivated by selfishness

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Dilettante

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One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge

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Disparage

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To insult, belittle, slight

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Flout

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To show contempt for (with rules)

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Garrulous

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Talking too much, pointlessly talkative

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Immutable

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Not capable of change

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Inimical

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Damaging, harmful, injurious

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Intractable

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Stubborn, obstinate

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Maverick

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Individual that goes his own path, different than the rest of the group

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Phlegmatic (3 meanings)

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Calm, sluggish, unemotional

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Probity

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Adherence to highest principles, uprightness

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Proclivity

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Natural predisposition

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Profligate

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Excessively wasteful and extravagant

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Prosaic

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Dull, lacking in imagination

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Quixotic

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Foolishly impractical, marked my romantic ideals

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Quotidian

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Occuring or recurring daily, commonplace

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Rarefy

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To refine, to make thin and less dense

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Recondite

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Hidden, concealed, difficult to understand

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Refulgent

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Radiant, shiny, brilliant

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Renege

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To fail to honor a comitment, to go back on a promise

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Sedulous

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diligent, persistent, hard-working

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Spendthrift

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One who spends money wastefully

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Trenchant

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Sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating

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Untenable (2 meanings)

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Uninhabitable, Indefensible

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Variegated

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Multicolored (with patches of different color)

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Vexation

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Annoyance, irritation

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Vituperate

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To urse harsh condemanatory language, to abuse verbally

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Restiveness

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Impatience, unease

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Cronyism

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Favoring one's friends

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Sublime

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Elevated in thought, impressing the mind in grandeur

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Pusillanimous

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Lacking courage

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Aphorism

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Saying of general truth (absolute power corrupts absolutely)

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Ken

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Range of sight and vision

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Palpable

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Readily or plainly seen

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Seminal

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Having possibilities of future development

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Ponderious

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Awkward, unwieldy, dull

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Belie

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To contradict

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Candor

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The state of being open and frank

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Blandishment

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Something intended to coax and flatter

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Abet

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To encourage or support

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Panegyric

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A lofty piece of writing that highly praises something

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Prolix

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Long and wordy

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Munificent

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Extremely liberal in giving

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Recreant

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Cowardly or traitorous

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Turbid

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Cloudy or opaque, confused

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Regale

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To entertain lavishly

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Perfervid

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Very fervent

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Otiose (2 meanings)

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Useless, indolent

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Reprobate

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An evil person, sinner, rejected by God

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Lucubratory

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Learned, sounding smart

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Vitiate

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To impair the quality of, to debase

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Augur

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Soothsayer, prophet, to prophecize

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Sere

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Dry or withered

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Divestiture

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Depravation

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Indeilibility

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Permanence, not able to be changed or forgotten

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Hapless

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Unfortunate, unlucky

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Noisome

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Offensive or disgusting, possibly harmful to health

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Incorrigibility

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Refusal to change, beyond repair

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, gloomy

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Burnish

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To polish by friction

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Rapacious

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Greedy

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Pellucid

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Clear, transparent

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Stolid

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Unemotional, impassive

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Distend

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To expand by stretching

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Unceremonious (2 meanings)

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Abrupt and rude, informal

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Unwonted

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Rare

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Cadge

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To mooch or beg

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Palliate

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To relieve or lessen

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Beatify

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To make blissfully happy

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Adventitious

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Additional part, not integral

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Peripatetic

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Walking or traveling about

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Sweetly or innocently charming

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Recumbent

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Lying down, reclining, inactive

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Saturnine

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Gloomy, taciturn

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Canard

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False or baseless story, usually derogatory

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Compendious

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Describing something concisely

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Putative

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Commonly seen as, supposedly

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Upbraid

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To find fault with, criticize

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Turgid

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Inflated, overblown, pompous

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Teetotaler

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One who abstains from alcohol

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Canticle

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A type of church hymn

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Dissolute

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Tending to be immoral

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Concupiscent

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Lustful, horny

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Limn

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To draw or sketch

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Histrionic

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Characteristic of acting

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful