Kaplan Gre Words

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Histirionic

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Excessively dramatic or emotional; exaggerated

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand; obscure

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Scanty

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Small or insufficient in quantity or amount

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Prosaic

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Having the style of diction or prose; lacking romantic or poetic beauty

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Spurn

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Reject with disdain

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Brusque

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Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner

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Congenial

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Pleasant or agreeable personality

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Scurrilous

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Making/spreading scandalous claims with the intent to damage a reputation; insulting

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Arcane

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Understood by few; mysterious or secret

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Infallable

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Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong

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Abjure

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Solemnly renounce a belief or claim

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Chagrin

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Distress or embarrassment

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Altruism

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Belief in selfness concern for the well-being of others at their own expense

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Malfeaseance

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Wrongdoing

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Ribald

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Referring to sexual matters in a rude or obscene way

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Supercilious

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Behaving or looking as though superior to others

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Ingenuous

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Innocent and unsuspecting

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Toothsome

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Delicious or attractive

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Ignominious

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Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

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Inconspicious

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Not clearly visible or attracting attention

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Apocryphal

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Statment of doubtful authenticity, although circulated as true

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Acumen

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The ability to make good judgements and decisions

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Acrid

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Having an irritatingly strong or unpleasant taste/smell; angry and bitter

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Trenchancy

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Incisiveness; keeness and forecfulness of thought or intellect

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Extirpate

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Root out and destroy completely

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Recondite

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Little known of a subject or knowledge; abstruse

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Detritus

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Waste or debris

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Bedlam

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A scene of uproar and confusion

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Punctilious

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Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

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Vociferous

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Noisy or clamorous

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Waggish

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Humorous in a playful, mischievious, or facetious manner

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Scathing

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Severely critical or caustic

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Mien

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A person's look or manner, indicating their character or mood

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Repudiation

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Rejecting or disowning, claiming as invalid

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Convalesce

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Recover or recuperate

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Salubrious

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Wholesome and healthy

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Truculent

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Eager to agrue; aggressively defiant

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Panegyrical

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Formally expressing praise; ecomiastic

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Ebullient

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Cheerful and full of energy, exuberant; boiling of liquid/matter

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Phlegmatic

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Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition

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Deplore

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Feel or express strong disapproval

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Apogee

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Highest point in the development of something; climax or culmination

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Apex

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High point or climax

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Deprecate

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Express disapproval of

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Forwent

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Omit or refrain from

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Facetious

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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant

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Imprudent

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Unwise

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Myriad

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A great number

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Quixotic

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Foolishly idealistic

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Derision

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Ridicule

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Calumny

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Slander

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Salient

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Most noticeable or important

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Opprobrious

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Disgraceful or shameful