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Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner

Alacrity (n) GRE

promptness in response
hint hint

Anomaly (n) GRE Commonly seen

deviation from the common rule

Arduous (adj) GRE

hard to accomplish or acheive

Austere (adj) GRE
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, marked simple or unadorned, giving little or no scope of pleasure
Axiomatic (adj) GRE
self evident

Canonical (adj) GRE

authorized, following the canon of the bible
Censure (n/v) GRE
strong or vehement expression of disapproval, official reprimand; to criticize or reproach in harch or vehement manner
Convoluted (adj) GRE
twisted, coiled, complicated

Disabuse (v) GRE

to free person from deception or error
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse

Discordant (adj) GRE

being at variance, disagree, incongruous, dissonant, harsh

Laud (v/n) GRE Laudable Commonly Seen–2

to praise/extol ;a song hym or praise
Lucid (adj) GRE
suffused w/ light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
+Magnanimity (n) GRE
full of generous forgiveness in an insult or injury, noble – high minded
Marital (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to marriage/conjugal/matrimonial
Mundane (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to this world/earth as contrasted w/ heaven, common/ordinary/unimaginative
Banal
Nascent (adj) GRE
beginning to exist or develop
Nebulous (adj) GRE
hazy/vague/indistinct/confused, cloudy/cloudlike
Neologism (n) GRE
a new word/meaning/usage/phrase, new doctrine
Noxious (adj) GRE

harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, morally harmful

Abstain (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to choose not to do something
Abyss
an extremeely deep hole
Adulterate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to make impure
Advocate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak in favor of
Proponent Eulogy Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Aesthetic (adj) GRE
concerning the appreciation of beauty
Connoisseur
Aggrandize
to increase in power, influence and reputation
Alleviate (v) GRE
to make more bearable/releive
Appease Alleviate Amerliorate Assuage Assist Mitigate Mollify Slake
Amalgamate
to combine/mix together
Ambiguous
doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted in several ways
Ameliorate (v) GRE
to make better to improve
Appease Alleviate Assuage Assit Mollify Slake
Anachronism
something out of place in time
Banal
predictable, cliched, boring
Bolster (v) Commonly Seen–3
to support
Abet Ancillary Corroborate Mainstay
–Bombastic (adj) GRE
pompous in speech and manner
Cacophony (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
harsh, jarring noise
Candid
impartial and honest in speech
Castigate (v) GRE
to punish or criticize harshly
Diatribe Deride
Catalyst
something that brings about a change in something else
Foment Engender Precipitate
Caustic
biting in whit
Chaos
great disorder or confusion
Chauvanist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
Dissemble Equivocate
Cogent
convincing and well reasoned
Condone
to overlook, pardon, disregard
Convoluted
intricate and complicated
Corroborate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to provide supporting evidence
Ancillary Bolster Mainstay
Credulous
too trusting: gullible
Crescendo
steady increasing volume or force
Decorum
approproateness of behavior or conduct
Deference
respect, courtesy
Deride (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak of or treat with contempt: to mock
Desiccate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to dry out thoroughly
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
Diatribe
an abuse condemnatory speech
Castigate Deride
Diffident
lack of self confidence
Dilate
to make larger/expand
Dilatory
intended to delay
Filabuster
Dilettante
someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge
funeral humn or mournful speech
Elegy
Discern
to perceive/recognize
Disparate
fundamentally different, entirely unlike
Dissemble
to present a false appearance/disguise one's real intentions or character
Dissonance (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a harsh and disagreeable combination
Dogma
a fairly held opinion
Dupe
to perceive, a person who is easily deceived
Eclectic
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Efficacy
effectiveness
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Dirge
Eloquent
persuasive and moving speech
Emulate
to copy/try to equal or excel
Engender (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to produce cause/bring about: initiate
Catalyst Foment
Enigma (n) GRE Commonly Seen
a puzzle
Enumerate
to count/list/itemize
Ephemeral (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
lasting a short time
Erratic
wandering and unpredictable
Esoteric
known or understood by a few
Estimable
admirable
Eulogy (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
speech in praise of someone
Advocate Proponent Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Euphemism
use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Exacerbate
to make worse
Exculpate
to clear from blame/prove innocent
VINDICATE Exonerate Disabuse
Exigent
urgent/requiring immediate action
Exonerate
to clear blame to releive
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse RELEIVE Appease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify
Explicit
clearly stated or shown forthright in expression
Fanatical
acting excessively enthusiastic/filled with extreme/unquestioned devotion
Fawn
to grovel
Fervid (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
intensely emotional/feverish
–Florid (adj) GRE
excessively decorated or embelished
Foment
to arouse or incite
Catalyst Engender
Frugality
a tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Garrulous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
tending to talk a lot
Guile
deceit or trickery
Gullible (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
easily deceived
Homogeneous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
of a similar kind
Iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions
Imperturbable
not capable of being disturbed
Impervious
impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected
Impetuous
quickly to act without thinking
Implacable
unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Intransigent
Inchoate
not fully formed:disorganized
Inimical
hostile, unfriendly
Innocuous
harmless
Insipid
Lack of interest Lack of flavor
LoInterest Insipid
Intransigent
uncompromising/refusing to be reconciled
Implacable
Inundate
to overwhelm/cover with water
Irascible
easily made angry
Laconic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
using few words
Lament
to express sorrow/greive
Lavish
to praise unspraringly/extremely generous/extravegant
Lethargic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner
Loquacious (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
talkative
Lucid
clear and easily understood
Luminous
bright, brilliant, glowing
Malinger
to evade resonsibility by pretending to be ill
Malleable (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
capable of being shaped
Metaphor
a figure of speech comparing two different things/symbols
Meticulous
extremely careful about details
Misanthrope (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a person who dislikes others
Mitigate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to releive by softening/lessening
Apease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify Exonerate
Mollify
to calm or make less severe
Monotony
lack of variation
Naive
lacking sophistication or experience
Obdurate (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
hardened in feeling/resistant to persuasion
Obsequious
overly submissive and eager to please
Obstinate
stubborn, unyielding
Obviate
to prevent/make unecessary
Occlude
to stop/prevent the passage of
Onerous
troublesome and oppressive/burdensome
Opaque (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
impossible to see through/preventing the passage of light
Opprobrium
public disgrace
Ostentation (adj) Commonly Seen–3
excessive showiness
Paradox (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a contradiction or dilema
Paragon
model of excellence or perfection
Pedant (n) GRE Pedantic Commonly Seen–2
someone who shows off learning
Perfidious
willing to betray one's trust
Perfunctory
done in a routine way/indifferent
Philanthropy (n) GRE Philanthropic Commonly Seen–3
charity/a desire or effort to promote goodness
Placate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to soothe or pacify
Plastic
able to be molded, altered or bent
Plethora
excess
Pragmatic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
practical as opposed to idealistic
Precipitate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to bring about change to act quickly
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Healdlong Abrupt Impetuous Apace Whimsical CHANGE Catalyst Foment Engender
Prevaricate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to lie or deviate from the truth
Chicanery Dissemble Equivocate
Pristine
fresh and clean/uncorrupted
Prodigal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
lavish/wasteful
Proliferate
to increase in number quickly
Propitiate
to concilate/appease
Propriety (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
correct behavior/obedience to rules and customs
Prudence
wisdom, caution, restraint
Pungent
sharp and irritating to the senses
Quiescent
motionless
Rarefy
to make thinner or sparser
Repudiate
to reject the validity of
Reticent
silent and reserved
Rhetoric
effective writing or speaking
Satiate
to satisfy fully or over indulge
Soporific
causing sleep or lethargy
Specious
deceptively attractive/seemingly plausible but fallacious
Stigma
a mark of shame or discredit
Stolid
unemotional/lacking sensitivity
Sublime
lofty or grand
Tacit
done without using words
Taciturn
silent, not talkative
Tirade (n) GRE
long harsh speech or verbal attack
Castigate Deride Diatribe Dirge Disapraging Elegy Lambaste
Torpor
extreme mental and physical slugishness
Transitory
temporary lasting a brief time
Vacillate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to sway:physically indecisive
Venerate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to respect deeply
Veracity
filled with truth and accuracy
Verbose
wordy
Waver (v) Commonly Seen–3
to fluctuate between choices
Whimsical
acting in fanciful or capricious manner
Capricious– Healdlong Abrupt Imetpuous Percipitate Apace
Zeal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
passion and excitement
Ardor
Abet (v) GRE
To support
Appease (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy To calm
Slake (v) GRE

To releive To satisfy

Ancillary (n) GRE
1supporting/supplementary 2subordinate
SUPPORT Abet Bolster Corroborate Mainstay
Defer (v) GRE
to delay for a future time/procrastinate
Disparaging (adj) GRE
Tending to belittle Tending to bring reproach
Diatribe Castigate Deride Reproach
Reproach (v) GRE
To blame/discredit/censure
Diatribe Castigate Deride Disparaging
Fervor (adj) GRE
warm and earnestness/passion
Quixotic (adj) GRE
Impulsive/rashly unpredictable Impractically and extravagently chivalrous/romantic
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Headlong Abrupt Impetuous Precipitate Apace Whimsical
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Phoenix
Arkansas
Little Rock
California
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Sacramento
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Hartford
Delaware
Dover
Florida
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Tallahassee
Georgia
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Atlanta
Hawaii
Honolulu
Idaho
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Boise
Illinois
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Springfield
Indiana
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Indianapolis
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas
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Topeka
Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Maine
Augusta
Maryland
Annapolis
Massachusetts
Boston
Michigan
Lansing
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Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner
Aberant (adj) GRE
departing from the right, normal or usual course
Alacrity (n) GRE
promptness in response
hint hint
Anomaly (n) GRE Commonly seen
deviation from the common rule
Arduous (adj) GRE
hard to accomplish or acheive
Assuage (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to lessen the intensity pain or distress
Reordered
Austere (adj) GRE
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, marked simple or unadorned, giving little or no scope of pleasure
Axiomatic (adj) GRE
self evident
Canonical (adj) GRE
authorized, following the canon of the bible
Censure (n/v) GRE
strong or vehement expression of disapproval, official reprimand; to criticize or reproach in harch or vehement manner
Connoisseur (n) GRE
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, a discerning judge of the best in any field
Aesthetic
Convoluted (adj) GRE
twisted, coiled, complicated
Disabuse (v) GRE
to free person from deception or error
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse
Discordant (adj) GRE
being at variance, disagree, incongruous, dissonant, harsh
Laud (v/n) GRE Laudable Commonly Seen–2
to praise/extol ;a song hym or praise
Lucid (adj) GRE
suffused w/ light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
+Magnanimity (n) GRE
full of generous forgiveness in an insult or injury, noble – high minded
Marital (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to marriage/conjugal/matrimonial
Mundane (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to this world/earth as contrasted w/ heaven, common/ordinary/unimaginative
Banal
Nascent (adj) GRE
beginning to exist or develop
Nebulous (adj) GRE
hazy/vague/indistinct/confused, cloudy/cloudlike
Neologism (n) GRE
a new word/meaning/usage/phrase, new doctrine
Noxious (adj) GRE
harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, morally harmful
Abstain (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to choose not to do something
Abyss
an extremeely deep hole
Adulterate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to make impure
Advocate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak in favor of
Proponent Eulogy Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Aesthetic (adj) GRE
concerning the appreciation of beauty
Connoisseur
Aggrandize
to increase in power, influence and reputation
Alleviate (v) GRE
to make more bearable/releive
Appease Alleviate Amerliorate Assuage Assist Mitigate Mollify Slake
Amalgamate
to combine/mix together
Ambiguous
doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted in several ways
Ameliorate (v) GRE
to make better to improve
Appease Alleviate Assuage Assit Mollify Slake
Anachronism
something out of place in time
Banal
predictable, cliched, boring
Bolster (v) Commonly Seen–3
to support
Abet Ancillary Corroborate Mainstay
–Bombastic (adj) GRE
pompous in speech and manner
Cacophony (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
harsh, jarring noise
Candid
impartial and honest in speech
Castigate (v) GRE
to punish or criticize harshly
Diatribe Deride
Catalyst
something that brings about a change in something else
Foment Engender Precipitate
Caustic
biting in whit
Chaos
great disorder or confusion
Chauvanist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
Dissemble Equivocate
Cogent
convincing and well reasoned
Condone
to overlook, pardon, disregard
Convoluted
intricate and complicated
Corroborate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to provide supporting evidence
Ancillary Bolster Mainstay
Credulous
too trusting: gullible
Crescendo
steady increasing volume or force
Decorum
approproateness of behavior or conduct
Deference
respect, courtesy
Deride (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak of or treat with contempt: to mock
Desiccate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to dry out thoroughly
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
Diatribe
an abuse condemnatory speech
Castigate Deride
Diffident
lack of self confidence
Dilate
to make larger/expand
Dilatory
intended to delay
Filabuster
Dilettante
someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge
funeral humn or mournful speech
Elegy
Discern
to perceive/recognize
Disparate
fundamentally different, entirely unlike
Dissemble
to present a false appearance/disguise one's real intentions or character
Dissonance (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a harsh and disagreeable combination
Dogma
a fairly held opinion
Dupe
to perceive, a person who is easily deceived
Eclectic
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Efficacy
effectiveness
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Dirge
Eloquent
persuasive and moving speech
Emulate
to copy/try to equal or excel
Engender (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to produce cause/bring about: initiate
Catalyst Foment
Enigma (n) GRE Commonly Seen
a puzzle
Enumerate
to count/list/itemize
Ephemeral (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
lasting a short time
Erratic
wandering and unpredictable
Esoteric
known or understood by a few
Estimable
admirable
Eulogy (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
speech in praise of someone
Advocate Proponent Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Euphemism
use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Exacerbate
to make worse
Exculpate
to clear from blame/prove innocent
VINDICATE Exonerate Disabuse
Exigent
urgent/requiring immediate action
Exonerate
to clear blame to releive
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse RELEIVE Appease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify
Explicit
clearly stated or shown forthright in expression
Fanatical
acting excessively enthusiastic/filled with extreme/unquestioned devotion
Fawn
to grovel
Fervid (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
intensely emotional/feverish
–Florid (adj) GRE
excessively decorated or embelished
Foment
to arouse or incite
Catalyst Engender
Frugality
a tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Garrulous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
tending to talk a lot
Guile
deceit or trickery
Gullible (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
easily deceived
Homogeneous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
of a similar kind
Iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions
Imperturbable
not capable of being disturbed
Impervious
impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected
Impetuous
quickly to act without thinking
Implacable
unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Intransigent
Inchoate
not fully formed:disorganized
Inimical
hostile, unfriendly
Innocuous
harmless
Insipid
Lack of interest Lack of flavor
LoInterest Insipid
Intransigent
uncompromising/refusing to be reconciled
Implacable
Inundate
to overwhelm/cover with water
Irascible
easily made angry
Laconic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
using few words
Lament
to express sorrow/greive
Lavish
to praise unspraringly/extremely generous/extravegant
Lethargic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner
Loquacious (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
talkative
Lucid
clear and easily understood
Luminous
bright, brilliant, glowing
Malinger
to evade resonsibility by pretending to be ill
Malleable (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
capable of being shaped
Metaphor
a figure of speech comparing two different things/symbols
Meticulous
extremely careful about details
Misanthrope (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a person who dislikes others
Mitigate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to releive by softening/lessening
Apease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify Exonerate
Mollify
to calm or make less severe
Monotony
lack of variation
Naive
lacking sophistication or experience
Obdurate (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
hardened in feeling/resistant to persuasion
Obsequious
overly submissive and eager to please
Obstinate
stubborn, unyielding
Obviate
to prevent/make unecessary
Occlude
to stop/prevent the passage of
Onerous
troublesome and oppressive/burdensome
Opaque (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
impossible to see through/preventing the passage of light
Opprobrium
public disgrace
Ostentation (adj) Commonly Seen–3
excessive showiness
Paradox (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a contradiction or dilema
Paragon
model of excellence or perfection
Pedant (n) GRE Pedantic Commonly Seen–2
someone who shows off learning
Perfidious
willing to betray one's trust
Perfunctory
done in a routine way/indifferent
Philanthropy (n) GRE Philanthropic Commonly Seen–3
charity/a desire or effort to promote goodness
Placate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to soothe or pacify
Plastic
able to be molded, altered or bent
Plethora
excess
Pragmatic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
practical as opposed to idealistic
Precipitate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to bring about change to act quickly
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Healdlong Abrupt Impetuous Apace Whimsical CHANGE Catalyst Foment Engender
Prevaricate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to lie or deviate from the truth
Chicanery Dissemble Equivocate
Pristine
fresh and clean/uncorrupted
Prodigal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
lavish/wasteful
Proliferate
to increase in number quickly
Propitiate
to concilate/appease
Propriety (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
correct behavior/obedience to rules and customs
Prudence
wisdom, caution, restraint
Pungent
sharp and irritating to the senses
Quiescent
motionless
Rarefy
to make thinner or sparser
Repudiate
to reject the validity of
Reticent
silent and reserved
Rhetoric
effective writing or speaking
Satiate
to satisfy fully or over indulge
Soporific
causing sleep or lethargy
Specious
deceptively attractive/seemingly plausible but fallacious
Stigma
a mark of shame or discredit
Stolid
unemotional/lacking sensitivity
Sublime
lofty or grand
Tacit
done without using words
Taciturn
silent, not talkative
Tirade (n) GRE
long harsh speech or verbal attack
Castigate Deride Diatribe Dirge Disapraging Elegy Lambaste
Torpor
extreme mental and physical slugishness
Transitory
temporary lasting a brief time
Vacillate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to sway:physically indecisive
Venerate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to respect deeply
Veracity
filled with truth and accuracy
Verbose
wordy
Waver (v) Commonly Seen–3
to fluctuate between choices
Whimsical
acting in fanciful or capricious manner
Capricious– Healdlong Abrupt Imetpuous Percipitate Apace
Zeal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
passion and excitement
Ardor
Abet (v) GRE
To support
Appease (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy To calm
Slake (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy
Ancillary (n) GRE
1supporting/supplementary 2subordinate
SUPPORT Abet Bolster Corroborate Mainstay
Defer (v) GRE
to delay for a future time/procrastinate
Disparaging (adj) GRE
Tending to belittle Tending to bring reproach
Diatribe Castigate Deride Reproach
Reproach (v) GRE
To blame/discredit/censure
Diatribe Castigate Deride Disparaging
Fervor (adj) GRE
warm and earnestness/passion
Quixotic (adj) GRE
Impulsive/rashly unpredictable Impractically and extravagently chivalrous/romantic
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Headlong Abrupt Impetuous Precipitate Apace Whimsical
mhmm
okay
sure
Arizona
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Phoenix
Arkansas
Little Rock
California
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Sacramento
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Hartford
Delaware
Dover
Florida
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Tallahassee
Georgia
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Atlanta
Hawaii
Honolulu
Idaho
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Boise
Illinois
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Springfield
Indiana
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Indianapolis
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas
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Topeka
Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Maine
Augusta
Maryland
Annapolis
Massachusetts
Boston
Michigan
Lansing
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Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner
Aberant (adj) GRE
departing from the right, normal or usual course
Alacrity (n) GRE
promptness in response
hint hint
Anomaly (n) GRE Commonly seen
deviation from the common rule
Arduous (adj) GRE
hard to accomplish or acheive
Assuage (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to lessen the intensity pain or distress
Reordered
Austere (adj) GRE
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, marked simple or unadorned, giving little or no scope of pleasure
Axiomatic (adj) GRE
self evident
Canonical (adj) GRE
authorized, following the canon of the bible
Censure (n/v) GRE
strong or vehement expression of disapproval, official reprimand; to criticize or reproach in harch or vehement manner
Connoisseur (n) GRE
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, a discerning judge of the best in any field
Aesthetic
Convoluted (adj) GRE
twisted, coiled, complicated
Disabuse (v) GRE
to free person from deception or error
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse
Discordant (adj) GRE
being at variance, disagree, incongruous, dissonant, harsh
Laud (v/n) GRE Laudable Commonly Seen–2
to praise/extol ;a song hym or praise
Lucid (adj) GRE
suffused w/ light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
+Magnanimity (n) GRE
full of generous forgiveness in an insult or injury, noble – high minded
Marital (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to marriage/conjugal/matrimonial
Mundane (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to this world/earth as contrasted w/ heaven, common/ordinary/unimaginative
Banal
Nascent (adj) GRE
beginning to exist or develop
Nebulous (adj) GRE
hazy/vague/indistinct/confused, cloudy/cloudlike
Neologism (n) GRE
a new word/meaning/usage/phrase, new doctrine
Noxious (adj) GRE
harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, morally harmful
Abstain (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to choose not to do something
Abyss
an extremeely deep hole
Adulterate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to make impure
Advocate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak in favor of
Proponent Eulogy Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Aesthetic (adj) GRE
concerning the appreciation of beauty
Connoisseur
Aggrandize
to increase in power, influence and reputation
Alleviate (v) GRE
to make more bearable/releive
Appease Alleviate Amerliorate Assuage Assist Mitigate Mollify Slake
Amalgamate
to combine/mix together
Ambiguous
doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted in several ways
Ameliorate (v) GRE
to make better to improve
Appease Alleviate Assuage Assit Mollify Slake
Anachronism
something out of place in time
Banal
predictable, cliched, boring
Bolster (v) Commonly Seen–3
to support
Abet Ancillary Corroborate Mainstay
–Bombastic (adj) GRE
pompous in speech and manner
Cacophony (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
harsh, jarring noise
Candid
impartial and honest in speech
Castigate (v) GRE
to punish or criticize harshly
Diatribe Deride
Catalyst
something that brings about a change in something else
Foment Engender Precipitate
Caustic
biting in whit
Chaos
great disorder or confusion
Chauvanist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
Dissemble Equivocate
Cogent
convincing and well reasoned
Condone
to overlook, pardon, disregard
Convoluted
intricate and complicated
Corroborate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to provide supporting evidence
Ancillary Bolster Mainstay
Credulous
too trusting: gullible
Crescendo
steady increasing volume or force
Decorum
approproateness of behavior or conduct
Deference
respect, courtesy
Deride (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak of or treat with contempt: to mock
Desiccate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to dry out thoroughly
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
Diatribe
an abuse condemnatory speech
Castigate Deride
Diffident
lack of self confidence
Dilate
to make larger/expand
Dilatory
intended to delay
Filabuster
Dilettante
someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge
funeral humn or mournful speech
Elegy
Discern
to perceive/recognize
Disparate
fundamentally different, entirely unlike
Dissemble
to present a false appearance/disguise one's real intentions or character
Dissonance (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a harsh and disagreeable combination
Dogma
a fairly held opinion
Dupe
to perceive, a person who is easily deceived
Eclectic
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Efficacy
effectiveness
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Dirge
Eloquent
persuasive and moving speech
Emulate
to copy/try to equal or excel
Engender (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to produce cause/bring about: initiate
Catalyst Foment
Enigma (n) GRE Commonly Seen
a puzzle
Enumerate
to count/list/itemize
Ephemeral (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
lasting a short time
Erratic
wandering and unpredictable
Esoteric
known or understood by a few
Estimable
admirable
Eulogy (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
speech in praise of someone
Advocate Proponent Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Euphemism
use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Exacerbate
to make worse
Exculpate
to clear from blame/prove innocent
VINDICATE Exonerate Disabuse
Exigent
urgent/requiring immediate action
Exonerate
to clear blame to releive
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse RELEIVE Appease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify
Explicit
clearly stated or shown forthright in expression
Fanatical
acting excessively enthusiastic/filled with extreme/unquestioned devotion
Fawn
to grovel
Fervid (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
intensely emotional/feverish
–Florid (adj) GRE
excessively decorated or embelished
Foment
to arouse or incite
Catalyst Engender
Frugality
a tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Garrulous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
tending to talk a lot
Guile
deceit or trickery
Gullible (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
easily deceived
Homogeneous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
of a similar kind
Iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions
Imperturbable
not capable of being disturbed
Impervious
impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected
Impetuous
quickly to act without thinking
Implacable
unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Intransigent
Inchoate
not fully formed:disorganized
Inimical
hostile, unfriendly
Innocuous
harmless
Insipid
Lack of interest Lack of flavor
LoInterest Insipid
Intransigent
uncompromising/refusing to be reconciled
Implacable
Inundate
to overwhelm/cover with water
Irascible
easily made angry
Laconic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
using few words
Lament
to express sorrow/greive
Lavish
to praise unspraringly/extremely generous/extravegant
Lethargic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner
Loquacious (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
talkative
Lucid
clear and easily understood
Luminous
bright, brilliant, glowing
Malinger
to evade resonsibility by pretending to be ill
Malleable (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
capable of being shaped
Metaphor
a figure of speech comparing two different things/symbols
Meticulous
extremely careful about details
Misanthrope (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a person who dislikes others
Mitigate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to releive by softening/lessening
Apease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify Exonerate
Mollify
to calm or make less severe
Monotony
lack of variation
Naive
lacking sophistication or experience
Obdurate (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
hardened in feeling/resistant to persuasion
Obsequious
overly submissive and eager to please
Obstinate
stubborn, unyielding
Obviate
to prevent/make unecessary
Occlude
to stop/prevent the passage of
Onerous
troublesome and oppressive/burdensome
Opaque (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
impossible to see through/preventing the passage of light
Opprobrium
public disgrace
Ostentation (adj) Commonly Seen–3
excessive showiness
Paradox (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a contradiction or dilema
Paragon
model of excellence or perfection
Pedant (n) GRE Pedantic Commonly Seen–2
someone who shows off learning
Perfidious
willing to betray one's trust
Perfunctory
done in a routine way/indifferent
Philanthropy (n) GRE Philanthropic Commonly Seen–3
charity/a desire or effort to promote goodness
Placate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to soothe or pacify
Plastic
able to be molded, altered or bent
Plethora
excess
Pragmatic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
practical as opposed to idealistic
Precipitate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to bring about change to act quickly
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Healdlong Abrupt Impetuous Apace Whimsical CHANGE Catalyst Foment Engender
Prevaricate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to lie or deviate from the truth
Chicanery Dissemble Equivocate
Pristine
fresh and clean/uncorrupted
Prodigal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
lavish/wasteful
Proliferate
to increase in number quickly
Propitiate
to concilate/appease
Propriety (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
correct behavior/obedience to rules and customs
Prudence
wisdom, caution, restraint
Pungent
sharp and irritating to the senses
Quiescent
motionless
Rarefy
to make thinner or sparser
Repudiate
to reject the validity of
Reticent
silent and reserved
Rhetoric
effective writing or speaking
Satiate
to satisfy fully or over indulge
Soporific
causing sleep or lethargy
Specious
deceptively attractive/seemingly plausible but fallacious
Stigma
a mark of shame or discredit
Stolid
unemotional/lacking sensitivity
Sublime
lofty or grand
Tacit
done without using words
Taciturn
silent, not talkative
Tirade (n) GRE
long harsh speech or verbal attack
Castigate Deride Diatribe Dirge Disapraging Elegy Lambaste
Torpor
extreme mental and physical slugishness
Transitory
temporary lasting a brief time
Vacillate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to sway:physically indecisive
Venerate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to respect deeply
Veracity
filled with truth and accuracy
Verbose
wordy
Waver (v) Commonly Seen–3
to fluctuate between choices
Whimsical
acting in fanciful or capricious manner
Capricious– Healdlong Abrupt Imetpuous Percipitate Apace
Zeal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
passion and excitement
Ardor
Abet (v) GRE
To support
Appease (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy To calm
Slake (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy
Ancillary (n) GRE
1supporting/supplementary 2subordinate
SUPPORT Abet Bolster Corroborate Mainstay
Defer (v) GRE
to delay for a future time/procrastinate
Disparaging (adj) GRE
Tending to belittle Tending to bring reproach
Diatribe Castigate Deride Reproach
Reproach (v) GRE
To blame/discredit/censure
Diatribe Castigate Deride Disparaging
Fervor (adj) GRE
warm and earnestness/passion
Quixotic (adj) GRE
Impulsive/rashly unpredictable Impractically and extravagently chivalrous/romantic
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Headlong Abrupt Impetuous Precipitate Apace Whimsical
mhmm
okay
sure
Arizona
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Phoenix
Arkansas
Little Rock
California
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Sacramento
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Hartford
Delaware
Dover
Florida
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Tallahassee
Georgia
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Atlanta
Hawaii
Honolulu
Idaho
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Boise
Illinois
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Springfield
Indiana
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Indianapolis
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas
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Topeka
Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Maine
Augusta
Maryland
Annapolis
Massachusetts
Boston
Michigan
Lansing
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Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner
Aberant (adj) GRE
departing from the right, normal or usual course
Alacrity (n) GRE
promptness in response
hint hint
Anomaly (n) GRE Commonly seen
deviation from the common rule
Arduous (adj) GRE
hard to accomplish or acheive
Assuage (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to lessen the intensity pain or distress
Reordered
Austere (adj) GRE
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, marked simple or unadorned, giving little or no scope of pleasure
Axiomatic (adj) GRE
self evident
Canonical (adj) GRE
authorized, following the canon of the bible
Censure (n/v) GRE
strong or vehement expression of disapproval, official reprimand; to criticize or reproach in harch or vehement manner
Connoisseur (n) GRE
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, a discerning judge of the best in any field
Aesthetic
Convoluted (adj) GRE
twisted, coiled, complicated
Disabuse (v) GRE
to free person from deception or error
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse
Discordant (adj) GRE
being at variance, disagree, incongruous, dissonant, harsh
Laud (v/n) GRE Laudable Commonly Seen–2
to praise/extol ;a song hym or praise
Lucid (adj) GRE
suffused w/ light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
+Magnanimity (n) GRE
full of generous forgiveness in an insult or injury, noble – high minded
Marital (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to marriage/conjugal/matrimonial
Mundane (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to this world/earth as contrasted w/ heaven, common/ordinary/unimaginative
Banal
Nascent (adj) GRE
beginning to exist or develop
Nebulous (adj) GRE
hazy/vague/indistinct/confused, cloudy/cloudlike
Neologism (n) GRE
a new word/meaning/usage/phrase, new doctrine
Noxious (adj) GRE
harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, morally harmful
Abstain (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to choose not to do something
Abyss
an extremeely deep hole
Adulterate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to make impure
Advocate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak in favor of
Proponent Eulogy Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Aesthetic (adj) GRE
concerning the appreciation of beauty
Connoisseur
Aggrandize
to increase in power, influence and reputation
Alleviate (v) GRE
to make more bearable/releive
Appease Alleviate Amerliorate Assuage Assist Mitigate Mollify Slake
Amalgamate
to combine/mix together
Ambiguous
doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted in several ways
Ameliorate (v) GRE
to make better to improve
Appease Alleviate Assuage Assit Mollify Slake
Anachronism
something out of place in time
Banal
predictable, cliched, boring
Bolster (v) Commonly Seen–3
to support
Abet Ancillary Corroborate Mainstay
–Bombastic (adj) GRE
pompous in speech and manner
Cacophony (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
harsh, jarring noise
Candid
impartial and honest in speech
Castigate (v) GRE
to punish or criticize harshly
Diatribe Deride
Catalyst
something that brings about a change in something else
Foment Engender Precipitate
Caustic
biting in whit
Chaos
great disorder or confusion
Chauvanist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
Dissemble Equivocate
Cogent
convincing and well reasoned
Condone
to overlook, pardon, disregard
Convoluted
intricate and complicated
Corroborate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to provide supporting evidence
Ancillary Bolster Mainstay
Credulous
too trusting: gullible
Crescendo
steady increasing volume or force
Decorum
approproateness of behavior or conduct
Deference
respect, courtesy
Deride (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak of or treat with contempt: to mock
Desiccate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to dry out thoroughly
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
Diatribe
an abuse condemnatory speech
Castigate Deride
Diffident
lack of self confidence
Dilate
to make larger/expand
Dilatory
intended to delay
Filabuster
Dilettante
someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge
funeral humn or mournful speech
Elegy
Discern
to perceive/recognize
Disparate
fundamentally different, entirely unlike
Dissemble
to present a false appearance/disguise one's real intentions or character
Dissonance (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a harsh and disagreeable combination
Dogma
a fairly held opinion
Dupe
to perceive, a person who is easily deceived
Eclectic
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Efficacy
effectiveness
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Dirge
Eloquent
persuasive and moving speech
Emulate
to copy/try to equal or excel
Engender (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to produce cause/bring about: initiate
Catalyst Foment
Enigma (n) GRE Commonly Seen
a puzzle
Enumerate
to count/list/itemize
Ephemeral (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
lasting a short time
Erratic
wandering and unpredictable
Esoteric
known or understood by a few
Estimable
admirable
Eulogy (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
speech in praise of someone
Advocate Proponent Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Euphemism
use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Exacerbate
to make worse
Exculpate
to clear from blame/prove innocent
VINDICATE Exonerate Disabuse
Exigent
urgent/requiring immediate action
Exonerate
to clear blame to releive
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse RELEIVE Appease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify
Explicit
clearly stated or shown forthright in expression
Fanatical
acting excessively enthusiastic/filled with extreme/unquestioned devotion
Fawn
to grovel
Fervid (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
intensely emotional/feverish
–Florid (adj) GRE
excessively decorated or embelished
Foment
to arouse or incite
Catalyst Engender
Frugality
a tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Garrulous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
tending to talk a lot
Guile
deceit or trickery
Gullible (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
easily deceived
Homogeneous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
of a similar kind
Iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions
Imperturbable
not capable of being disturbed
Impervious
impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected
Impetuous
quickly to act without thinking
Implacable
unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Intransigent
Inchoate
not fully formed:disorganized
Inimical
hostile, unfriendly
Innocuous
harmless
Insipid
Lack of interest Lack of flavor
LoInterest Insipid
Intransigent
uncompromising/refusing to be reconciled
Implacable
Inundate
to overwhelm/cover with water
Irascible
easily made angry
Laconic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
using few words
Lament
to express sorrow/greive
Lavish
to praise unspraringly/extremely generous/extravegant
Lethargic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner
Loquacious (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
talkative
Lucid
clear and easily understood
Luminous
bright, brilliant, glowing
Malinger
to evade resonsibility by pretending to be ill
Malleable (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
capable of being shaped
Metaphor
a figure of speech comparing two different things/symbols
Meticulous
extremely careful about details
Misanthrope (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a person who dislikes others
Mitigate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to releive by softening/lessening
Apease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify Exonerate
Mollify
to calm or make less severe
Monotony
lack of variation
Naive
lacking sophistication or experience
Obdurate (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
hardened in feeling/resistant to persuasion
Obsequious
overly submissive and eager to please
Obstinate
stubborn, unyielding
Obviate
to prevent/make unecessary
Occlude
to stop/prevent the passage of
Onerous
troublesome and oppressive/burdensome
Opaque (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
impossible to see through/preventing the passage of light
Opprobrium
public disgrace
Ostentation (adj) Commonly Seen–3
excessive showiness
Paradox (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a contradiction or dilema
Paragon
model of excellence or perfection
Pedant (n) GRE Pedantic Commonly Seen–2
someone who shows off learning
Perfidious
willing to betray one's trust
Perfunctory
done in a routine way/indifferent
Philanthropy (n) GRE Philanthropic Commonly Seen–3
charity/a desire or effort to promote goodness
Placate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to soothe or pacify
Plastic
able to be molded, altered or bent
Plethora
excess
Pragmatic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
practical as opposed to idealistic
Precipitate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to bring about change to act quickly
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Healdlong Abrupt Impetuous Apace Whimsical CHANGE Catalyst Foment Engender
Prevaricate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to lie or deviate from the truth
Chicanery Dissemble Equivocate
Pristine
fresh and clean/uncorrupted
Prodigal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
lavish/wasteful
Proliferate
to increase in number quickly
Propitiate
to concilate/appease
Propriety (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
correct behavior/obedience to rules and customs
Prudence
wisdom, caution, restraint
Pungent
sharp and irritating to the senses
Quiescent
motionless
Rarefy
to make thinner or sparser
Repudiate
to reject the validity of
Reticent
silent and reserved
Rhetoric
effective writing or speaking
Satiate
to satisfy fully or over indulge
Soporific
causing sleep or lethargy
Specious
deceptively attractive/seemingly plausible but fallacious
Stigma
a mark of shame or discredit
Stolid
unemotional/lacking sensitivity
Sublime
lofty or grand
Tacit
done without using words
Taciturn
silent, not talkative
Tirade (n) GRE
long harsh speech or verbal attack
Castigate Deride Diatribe Dirge Disapraging Elegy Lambaste
Torpor
extreme mental and physical slugishness
Transitory
temporary lasting a brief time
Vacillate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to sway:physically indecisive
Venerate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to respect deeply
Veracity
filled with truth and accuracy
Verbose
wordy
Waver (v) Commonly Seen–3
to fluctuate between choices
Whimsical
acting in fanciful or capricious manner
Capricious– Healdlong Abrupt Imetpuous Percipitate Apace
Zeal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
passion and excitement
Ardor
Abet (v) GRE
To support
Appease (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy To calm
Slake (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy
Ancillary (n) GRE
1supporting/supplementary 2subordinate
SUPPORT Abet Bolster Corroborate Mainstay
Defer (v) GRE
to delay for a future time/procrastinate
Disparaging (adj) GRE
Tending to belittle Tending to bring reproach
Diatribe Castigate Deride Reproach
Reproach (v) GRE
To blame/discredit/censure
Diatribe Castigate Deride Disparaging
Fervor (adj) GRE
warm and earnestness/passion
Quixotic (adj) GRE
Impulsive/rashly unpredictable Impractically and extravagently chivalrous/romantic
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Headlong Abrupt Impetuous Precipitate Apace Whimsical
mhmm
okay
sure
Arizona
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Phoenix
Arkansas
Little Rock
California
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Sacramento
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Hartford
Delaware
Dover
Florida
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Tallahassee
Georgia
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Atlanta
Hawaii
Honolulu
Idaho
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Boise
Illinois
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Springfield
Indiana
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Indianapolis
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas
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Topeka
Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Maine
Augusta
Maryland
Annapolis
Massachusetts
Boston
Michigan
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Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner
Aberant (adj) GRE
departing from the right, normal or usual course
Alacrity (n) GRE
promptness in response
hint hint
Anomaly (n) GRE Commonly seen
deviation from the common rule
Arduous (adj) GRE
hard to accomplish or acheive
Assuage (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to lessen the intensity pain or distress
Reordered
Austere (adj) GRE
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, marked simple or unadorned, giving little or no scope of pleasure
Axiomatic (adj) GRE
self evident
Canonical (adj) GRE
authorized, following the canon of the bible
Censure (n/v) GRE
strong or vehement expression of disapproval, official reprimand; to criticize or reproach in harch or vehement manner
Connoisseur (n) GRE
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, a discerning judge of the best in any field
Aesthetic
Convoluted (adj) GRE
twisted, coiled, complicated
Disabuse (v) GRE
to free person from deception or error
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse
Discordant (adj) GRE
being at variance, disagree, incongruous, dissonant, harsh
Laud (v/n) GRE Laudable Commonly Seen–2
to praise/extol ;a song hym or praise
Lucid (adj) GRE
suffused w/ light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
+Magnanimity (n) GRE
full of generous forgiveness in an insult or injury, noble – high minded
Marital (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to marriage/conjugal/matrimonial
Mundane (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to this world/earth as contrasted w/ heaven, common/ordinary/unimaginative
Banal
Nascent (adj) GRE
beginning to exist or develop
Nebulous (adj) GRE
hazy/vague/indistinct/confused, cloudy/cloudlike
Neologism (n) GRE
a new word/meaning/usage/phrase, new doctrine
Noxious (adj) GRE
harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, morally harmful
Abstain (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to choose not to do something
Abyss
an extremeely deep hole
Adulterate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to make impure
Advocate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak in favor of
Proponent Eulogy Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Aesthetic (adj) GRE
concerning the appreciation of beauty
Connoisseur
Aggrandize
to increase in power, influence and reputation
Alleviate (v) GRE
to make more bearable/releive
Appease Alleviate Amerliorate Assuage Assist Mitigate Mollify Slake
Amalgamate
to combine/mix together
Ambiguous
doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted in several ways
Ameliorate (v) GRE
to make better to improve
Appease Alleviate Assuage Assit Mollify Slake
Anachronism
something out of place in time
Banal
predictable, cliched, boring
Bolster (v) Commonly Seen–3
to support
Abet Ancillary Corroborate Mainstay
–Bombastic (adj) GRE
pompous in speech and manner
Cacophony (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
harsh, jarring noise
Candid
impartial and honest in speech
Castigate (v) GRE
to punish or criticize harshly
Diatribe Deride
Catalyst
something that brings about a change in something else
Foment Engender Precipitate
Caustic
biting in whit
Chaos
great disorder or confusion
Chauvanist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
Dissemble Equivocate
Cogent
convincing and well reasoned
Condone
to overlook, pardon, disregard
Convoluted
intricate and complicated
Corroborate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to provide supporting evidence
Ancillary Bolster Mainstay
Credulous
too trusting: gullible
Crescendo
steady increasing volume or force
Decorum
approproateness of behavior or conduct
Deference
respect, courtesy
Deride (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak of or treat with contempt: to mock
Desiccate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to dry out thoroughly
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
Diatribe
an abuse condemnatory speech
Castigate Deride
Diffident
lack of self confidence
Dilate
to make larger/expand
Dilatory
intended to delay
Filabuster
Dilettante
someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge
funeral humn or mournful speech
Elegy
Discern
to perceive/recognize
Disparate
fundamentally different, entirely unlike
Dissemble
to present a false appearance/disguise one's real intentions or character
Dissonance (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a harsh and disagreeable combination
Dogma
a fairly held opinion
Dupe
to perceive, a person who is easily deceived
Eclectic
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Efficacy
effectiveness
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Dirge
Eloquent
persuasive and moving speech
Emulate
to copy/try to equal or excel
Engender (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to produce cause/bring about: initiate
Catalyst Foment
Enigma (n) GRE Commonly Seen
a puzzle
Enumerate
to count/list/itemize
Ephemeral (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
lasting a short time
Erratic
wandering and unpredictable
Esoteric
known or understood by a few
Estimable
admirable
Eulogy (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
speech in praise of someone
Advocate Proponent Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Euphemism
use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Exacerbate
to make worse
Exculpate
to clear from blame/prove innocent
VINDICATE Exonerate Disabuse
Exigent
urgent/requiring immediate action
Exonerate
to clear blame to releive
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse RELEIVE Appease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify
Explicit
clearly stated or shown forthright in expression
Fanatical
acting excessively enthusiastic/filled with extreme/unquestioned devotion
Fawn
to grovel
Fervid (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
intensely emotional/feverish
–Florid (adj) GRE
excessively decorated or embelished
Foment
to arouse or incite
Catalyst Engender
Frugality
a tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Garrulous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
tending to talk a lot
Guile
deceit or trickery
Gullible (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
easily deceived
Homogeneous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
of a similar kind
Iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions
Imperturbable
not capable of being disturbed
Impervious
impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected
Impetuous
quickly to act without thinking
Implacable
unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Intransigent
Inchoate
not fully formed:disorganized
Inimical
hostile, unfriendly
Innocuous
harmless
Insipid
Lack of interest Lack of flavor
LoInterest Insipid
Intransigent
uncompromising/refusing to be reconciled
Implacable
Inundate
to overwhelm/cover with water
Irascible
easily made angry
Laconic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
using few words
Lament
to express sorrow/greive
Lavish
to praise unspraringly/extremely generous/extravegant
Lethargic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner
Loquacious (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
talkative
Lucid
clear and easily understood
Luminous
bright, brilliant, glowing
Malinger
to evade resonsibility by pretending to be ill
Malleable (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
capable of being shaped
Metaphor
a figure of speech comparing two different things/symbols
Meticulous
extremely careful about details
Misanthrope (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a person who dislikes others
Mitigate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to releive by softening/lessening
Apease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify Exonerate
Mollify
to calm or make less severe
Monotony
lack of variation
Naive
lacking sophistication or experience
Obdurate (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
hardened in feeling/resistant to persuasion
Obsequious
overly submissive and eager to please
Obstinate
stubborn, unyielding
Obviate
to prevent/make unecessary
Occlude
to stop/prevent the passage of
Onerous
troublesome and oppressive/burdensome
Opaque (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
impossible to see through/preventing the passage of light
Opprobrium
public disgrace
Ostentation (adj) Commonly Seen–3
excessive showiness
Paradox (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a contradiction or dilema
Paragon
model of excellence or perfection
Pedant (n) GRE Pedantic Commonly Seen–2
someone who shows off learning
Perfidious
willing to betray one's trust
Perfunctory
done in a routine way/indifferent
Philanthropy (n) GRE Philanthropic Commonly Seen–3
charity/a desire or effort to promote goodness
Placate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to soothe or pacify
Plastic
able to be molded, altered or bent
Plethora
excess
Pragmatic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
practical as opposed to idealistic
Precipitate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to bring about change to act quickly
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Healdlong Abrupt Impetuous Apace Whimsical CHANGE Catalyst Foment Engender
Prevaricate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to lie or deviate from the truth
Chicanery Dissemble Equivocate
Pristine
fresh and clean/uncorrupted
Prodigal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
lavish/wasteful
Proliferate
to increase in number quickly
Propitiate
to concilate/appease
Propriety (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
correct behavior/obedience to rules and customs
Prudence
wisdom, caution, restraint
Pungent
sharp and irritating to the senses
Quiescent
motionless
Rarefy
to make thinner or sparser
Repudiate
to reject the validity of
Reticent
silent and reserved
Rhetoric
effective writing or speaking
Satiate
to satisfy fully or over indulge
Soporific
causing sleep or lethargy
Specious
deceptively attractive/seemingly plausible but fallacious
Stigma
a mark of shame or discredit
Stolid
unemotional/lacking sensitivity
Sublime
lofty or grand
Tacit
done without using words
Taciturn
silent, not talkative
Tirade (n) GRE
long harsh speech or verbal attack
Castigate Deride Diatribe Dirge Disapraging Elegy Lambaste
Torpor
extreme mental and physical slugishness
Transitory
temporary lasting a brief time
Vacillate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to sway:physically indecisive
Venerate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to respect deeply
Veracity
filled with truth and accuracy
Verbose
wordy
Waver (v) Commonly Seen–3
to fluctuate between choices
Whimsical
acting in fanciful or capricious manner
Capricious– Healdlong Abrupt Imetpuous Percipitate Apace
Zeal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
passion and excitement
Ardor
Abet (v) GRE
To support
Appease (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy To calm
Slake (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy
Ancillary (n) GRE
1supporting/supplementary 2subordinate
SUPPORT Abet Bolster Corroborate Mainstay
Defer (v) GRE
to delay for a future time/procrastinate
Disparaging (adj) GRE
Tending to belittle Tending to bring reproach
Diatribe Castigate Deride Reproach
Reproach (v) GRE
To blame/discredit/censure
Diatribe Castigate Deride Disparaging
Fervor (adj) GRE
warm and earnestness/passion
Quixotic (adj) GRE
Impulsive/rashly unpredictable Impractically and extravagently chivalrous/romantic
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Headlong Abrupt Impetuous Precipitate Apace Whimsical
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Arkansas
Little Rock
California
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Sacramento
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Hartford
Delaware
Dover
Florida
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Atlanta
Hawaii
Honolulu
Idaho
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Boise
Illinois
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Indiana
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Indianapolis
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas
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Topeka
Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Maine
Augusta
Maryland
Annapolis
Massachusetts
Boston
Michigan
Lansing
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Arizona
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Phoenix
Arkansas
Little Rock
California
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Sacramento
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Hartford
Delaware
Dover
Florida
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Tallahassee
Georgia
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Atlanta
Hawaii
Honolulu
Idaho
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Boise
Illinois
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Springfield
Indiana
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Indianapolis
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas
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Topeka
Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Maine
Augusta
Maryland
Annapolis
Massachusetts
Boston
Michigan
Lansing
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Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner
Aberant (adj) GRE
departing from the right, normal or usual course
Alacrity (n) GRE
promptness in response
hint hint
Anomaly (n) GRE Commonly seen
deviation from the common rule
Arduous (adj) GRE
hard to accomplish or acheive
Assuage (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to lessen the intensity pain or distress
Reordered
Austere (adj) GRE
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, marked simple or unadorned, giving little or no scope of pleasure
Axiomatic (adj) GRE
self evident
Canonical (adj) GRE
authorized, following the canon of the bible
Censure (n/v) GRE
strong or vehement expression of disapproval, official reprimand; to criticize or reproach in harch or vehement manner
Connoisseur (n) GRE
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, a discerning judge of the best in any field
Aesthetic
Convoluted (adj) GRE
twisted, coiled, complicated
Disabuse (v) GRE
to free person from deception or error
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse
Discordant (adj) GRE
being at variance, disagree, incongruous, dissonant, harsh
Laud (v/n) GRE Laudable Commonly Seen–2
to praise/extol ;a song hym or praise
Lucid (adj) GRE
suffused w/ light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
+Magnanimity (n) GRE
full of generous forgiveness in an insult or injury, noble – high minded
Marital (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to marriage/conjugal/matrimonial
Mundane (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to this world/earth as contrasted w/ heaven, common/ordinary/unimaginative
Banal
Nascent (adj) GRE
beginning to exist or develop
Nebulous (adj) GRE
hazy/vague/indistinct/confused, cloudy/cloudlike
Neologism (n) GRE
a new word/meaning/usage/phrase, new doctrine
Noxious (adj) GRE
harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, morally harmful
Abstain (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to choose not to do something
Abyss
an extremeely deep hole
Adulterate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to make impure
Advocate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak in favor of
Proponent Eulogy Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Aesthetic (adj) GRE
concerning the appreciation of beauty
Connoisseur
Aggrandize
to increase in power, influence and reputation
Alleviate (v) GRE
to make more bearable/releive
Appease Alleviate Amerliorate Assuage Assist Mitigate Mollify Slake
Amalgamate
to combine/mix together
Ambiguous
doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted in several ways
Ameliorate (v) GRE
to make better to improve
Appease Alleviate Assuage Assit Mollify Slake
Anachronism
something out of place in time
Banal
predictable, cliched, boring
Bolster (v) Commonly Seen–3
to support
Abet Ancillary Corroborate Mainstay
–Bombastic (adj) GRE
pompous in speech and manner
Cacophony (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
harsh, jarring noise
Candid
impartial and honest in speech
Castigate (v) GRE
to punish or criticize harshly
Diatribe Deride
Catalyst
something that brings about a change in something else
Foment Engender Precipitate
Caustic
biting in whit
Chaos
great disorder or confusion
Chauvanist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
Dissemble Equivocate
Cogent
convincing and well reasoned
Condone
to overlook, pardon, disregard
Convoluted
intricate and complicated
Corroborate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to provide supporting evidence
Ancillary Bolster Mainstay
Credulous
too trusting: gullible
Crescendo
steady increasing volume or force
Decorum
approproateness of behavior or conduct
Deference
respect, courtesy
Deride (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak of or treat with contempt: to mock
Desiccate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to dry out thoroughly
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
Diatribe
an abuse condemnatory speech
Castigate Deride
Diffident
lack of self confidence
Dilate
to make larger/expand
Dilatory
intended to delay
Filabuster
Dilettante
someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge
funeral humn or mournful speech
Elegy
Discern
to perceive/recognize
Disparate
fundamentally different, entirely unlike
Dissemble
to present a false appearance/disguise one's real intentions or character
Dissonance (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a harsh and disagreeable combination
Dogma
a fairly held opinion
Dupe
to perceive, a person who is easily deceived
Eclectic
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Efficacy
effectiveness
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Dirge
Eloquent
persuasive and moving speech
Emulate
to copy/try to equal or excel
Engender (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to produce cause/bring about: initiate
Catalyst Foment
Enigma (n) GRE Commonly Seen
a puzzle
Enumerate
to count/list/itemize
Ephemeral (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
lasting a short time
Erratic
wandering and unpredictable
Esoteric
known or understood by a few
Estimable
admirable
Eulogy (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
speech in praise of someone
Advocate Proponent Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Euphemism
use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Exacerbate
to make worse
Exculpate
to clear from blame/prove innocent
VINDICATE Exonerate Disabuse
Exigent
urgent/requiring immediate action
Exonerate
to clear blame to releive
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse RELEIVE Appease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify
Explicit
clearly stated or shown forthright in expression
Fanatical
acting excessively enthusiastic/filled with extreme/unquestioned devotion
Fawn
to grovel
Fervid (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
intensely emotional/feverish
–Florid (adj) GRE
excessively decorated or embelished
Foment
to arouse or incite
Catalyst Engender
Frugality
a tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Garrulous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
tending to talk a lot
Guile
deceit or trickery
Gullible (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
easily deceived
Homogeneous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
of a similar kind
Iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions
Imperturbable
not capable of being disturbed
Impervious
impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected
Impetuous
quickly to act without thinking
Implacable
unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Intransigent
Inchoate
not fully formed:disorganized
Inimical
hostile, unfriendly
Innocuous
harmless
Insipid
Lack of interest Lack of flavor
LoInterest Insipid
Intransigent
uncompromising/refusing to be reconciled
Implacable
Inundate
to overwhelm/cover with water
Irascible
easily made angry
Laconic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
using few words
Lament
to express sorrow/greive
Lavish
to praise unspraringly/extremely generous/extravegant
Lethargic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner
Loquacious (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
talkative
Lucid
clear and easily understood
Luminous
bright, brilliant, glowing
Malinger
to evade resonsibility by pretending to be ill
Malleable (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
capable of being shaped
Metaphor
a figure of speech comparing two different things/symbols
Meticulous
extremely careful about details
Misanthrope (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a person who dislikes others
Mitigate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to releive by softening/lessening
Apease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify Exonerate
Mollify
to calm or make less severe
Monotony
lack of variation
Naive
lacking sophistication or experience
Obdurate (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
hardened in feeling/resistant to persuasion
Obsequious
overly submissive and eager to please
Obstinate
stubborn, unyielding
Obviate
to prevent/make unecessary
Occlude
to stop/prevent the passage of
Onerous
troublesome and oppressive/burdensome
Opaque (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
impossible to see through/preventing the passage of light
Opprobrium
public disgrace
Ostentation (adj) Commonly Seen–3
excessive showiness
Paradox (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a contradiction or dilema
Paragon
model of excellence or perfection
Pedant (n) GRE Pedantic Commonly Seen–2
someone who shows off learning
Perfidious
willing to betray one's trust
Perfunctory
done in a routine way/indifferent
Philanthropy (n) GRE Philanthropic Commonly Seen–3
charity/a desire or effort to promote goodness
Placate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to soothe or pacify
Plastic
able to be molded, altered or bent
Plethora
excess
Pragmatic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
practical as opposed to idealistic
Precipitate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to bring about change to act quickly
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Healdlong Abrupt Impetuous Apace Whimsical CHANGE Catalyst Foment Engender
Prevaricate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to lie or deviate from the truth
Chicanery Dissemble Equivocate
Pristine
fresh and clean/uncorrupted
Prodigal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
lavish/wasteful
Proliferate
to increase in number quickly
Propitiate
to concilate/appease
Propriety (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
correct behavior/obedience to rules and customs
Prudence
wisdom, caution, restraint
Pungent
sharp and irritating to the senses
Quiescent
motionless
Rarefy
to make thinner or sparser
Repudiate
to reject the validity of
Reticent
silent and reserved
Rhetoric
effective writing or speaking
Satiate
to satisfy fully or over indulge
Soporific
causing sleep or lethargy
Specious
deceptively attractive/seemingly plausible but fallacious
Stigma
a mark of shame or discredit
Stolid
unemotional/lacking sensitivity
Sublime
lofty or grand
Tacit
done without using words
Taciturn
silent, not talkative
Tirade (n) GRE
long harsh speech or verbal attack
Castigate Deride Diatribe Dirge Disapraging Elegy Lambaste
Torpor
extreme mental and physical slugishness
Transitory
temporary lasting a brief time
Vacillate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to sway:physically indecisive
Venerate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to respect deeply
Veracity
filled with truth and accuracy
Verbose
wordy
Waver (v) Commonly Seen–3
to fluctuate between choices
Whimsical
acting in fanciful or capricious manner
Capricious– Healdlong Abrupt Imetpuous Percipitate Apace
Zeal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
passion and excitement
Ardor
Abet (v) GRE
To support
Appease (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy To calm
Slake (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy
Ancillary (n) GRE
1supporting/supplementary 2subordinate
SUPPORT Abet Bolster Corroborate Mainstay
Defer (v) GRE
to delay for a future time/procrastinate
Disparaging (adj) GRE
Tending to belittle Tending to bring reproach
Diatribe Castigate Deride Reproach
Reproach (v) GRE
To blame/discredit/censure
Diatribe Castigate Deride Disparaging
Fervor (adj) GRE
warm and earnestness/passion
Quixotic (adj) GRE
Impulsive/rashly unpredictable Impractically and extravagently chivalrous/romantic
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Headlong Abrupt Impetuous Precipitate Apace Whimsical
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Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner
Aberant (adj) GRE
departing from the right, normal or usual course
Alacrity (n) GRE
promptness in response
hint hint
Anomaly (n) GRE Commonly seen
deviation from the common rule
Arduous (adj) GRE
hard to accomplish or acheive
Assuage (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to lessen the intensity pain or distress
Reordered
Austere (adj) GRE
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, marked simple or unadorned, giving little or no scope of pleasure
Axiomatic (adj) GRE
self evident
Canonical (adj) GRE
authorized, following the canon of the bible
Censure (n/v) GRE
strong or vehement expression of disapproval, official reprimand; to criticize or reproach in harch or vehement manner
Connoisseur (n) GRE
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, a discerning judge of the best in any field
Aesthetic
Convoluted (adj) GRE
twisted, coiled, complicated
Disabuse (v) GRE
to free person from deception or error
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse
Discordant (adj) GRE
being at variance, disagree, incongruous, dissonant, harsh
Laud (v/n) GRE Laudable Commonly Seen–2
to praise/extol ;a song hym or praise
Lucid (adj) GRE
suffused w/ light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
+Magnanimity (n) GRE
full of generous forgiveness in an insult or injury, noble – high minded
Marital (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to marriage/conjugal/matrimonial
Mundane (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to this world/earth as contrasted w/ heaven, common/ordinary/unimaginative
Banal
Nascent (adj) GRE
beginning to exist or develop
Nebulous (adj) GRE
hazy/vague/indistinct/confused, cloudy/cloudlike
Neologism (n) GRE
a new word/meaning/usage/phrase, new doctrine
Noxious (adj) GRE
harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, morally harmful
Abstain (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to choose not to do something
Abyss
an extremeely deep hole
Adulterate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to make impure
Advocate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak in favor of
Proponent Eulogy Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Aesthetic (adj) GRE
concerning the appreciation of beauty
Connoisseur
Aggrandize
to increase in power, influence and reputation
Alleviate (v) GRE
to make more bearable/releive
Appease Alleviate Amerliorate Assuage Assist Mitigate Mollify Slake
Amalgamate
to combine/mix together
Ambiguous
doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted in several ways
Ameliorate (v) GRE
to make better to improve
Appease Alleviate Assuage Assit Mollify Slake
Anachronism
something out of place in time
Banal
predictable, cliched, boring
Bolster (v) Commonly Seen–3
to support
Abet Ancillary Corroborate Mainstay
–Bombastic (adj) GRE
pompous in speech and manner
Cacophony (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
harsh, jarring noise
Candid
impartial and honest in speech
Castigate (v) GRE
to punish or criticize harshly
Diatribe Deride
Catalyst
something that brings about a change in something else
Foment Engender Precipitate
Caustic
biting in whit
Chaos
great disorder or confusion
Chauvanist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
Dissemble Equivocate
Cogent
convincing and well reasoned
Condone
to overlook, pardon, disregard
Convoluted
intricate and complicated
Corroborate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to provide supporting evidence
Ancillary Bolster Mainstay
Credulous
too trusting: gullible
Crescendo
steady increasing volume or force
Decorum
approproateness of behavior or conduct
Deference
respect, courtesy
Deride (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak of or treat with contempt: to mock
Desiccate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to dry out thoroughly
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
Diatribe
an abuse condemnatory speech
Castigate Deride
Diffident
lack of self confidence
Dilate
to make larger/expand
Dilatory
intended to delay
Filabuster
Dilettante
someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge
funeral humn or mournful speech
Elegy
Discern
to perceive/recognize
Disparate
fundamentally different, entirely unlike
Dissemble
to present a false appearance/disguise one's real intentions or character
Dissonance (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a harsh and disagreeable combination
Dogma
a fairly held opinion
Dupe
to perceive, a person who is easily deceived
Eclectic
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Efficacy
effectiveness
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Dirge
Eloquent
persuasive and moving speech
Emulate
to copy/try to equal or excel
Engender (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to produce cause/bring about: initiate
Catalyst Foment
Enigma (n) GRE Commonly Seen
a puzzle
Enumerate
to count/list/itemize
Ephemeral (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
lasting a short time
Erratic
wandering and unpredictable
Esoteric
known or understood by a few
Estimable
admirable
Eulogy (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
speech in praise of someone
Advocate Proponent Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Euphemism
use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Exacerbate
to make worse
Exculpate
to clear from blame/prove innocent
VINDICATE Exonerate Disabuse
Exigent
urgent/requiring immediate action
Exonerate
to clear blame to releive
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse RELEIVE Appease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify
Explicit
clearly stated or shown forthright in expression
Fanatical
acting excessively enthusiastic/filled with extreme/unquestioned devotion
Fawn
to grovel
Fervid (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
intensely emotional/feverish
–Florid (adj) GRE
excessively decorated or embelished
Foment
to arouse or incite
Catalyst Engender
Frugality
a tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Garrulous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
tending to talk a lot
Guile
deceit or trickery
Gullible (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
easily deceived
Homogeneous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
of a similar kind
Iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions
Imperturbable
not capable of being disturbed
Impervious
impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected
Impetuous
quickly to act without thinking
Implacable
unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Intransigent
Inchoate
not fully formed:disorganized
Inimical
hostile, unfriendly
Innocuous
harmless
Insipid
Lack of interest Lack of flavor
LoInterest Insipid
Intransigent
uncompromising/refusing to be reconciled
Implacable
Inundate
to overwhelm/cover with water
Irascible
easily made angry
Laconic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
using few words
Lament
to express sorrow/greive
Lavish
to praise unspraringly/extremely generous/extravegant
Lethargic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner
Loquacious (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
talkative
Lucid
clear and easily understood
Luminous
bright, brilliant, glowing
Malinger
to evade resonsibility by pretending to be ill
Malleable (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
capable of being shaped
Metaphor
a figure of speech comparing two different things/symbols
Meticulous
extremely careful about details
Misanthrope (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a person who dislikes others
Mitigate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to releive by softening/lessening
Apease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify Exonerate
Mollify
to calm or make less severe
Monotony
lack of variation
Naive
lacking sophistication or experience
Obdurate (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
hardened in feeling/resistant to persuasion
Obsequious
overly submissive and eager to please
Obstinate
stubborn, unyielding
Obviate
to prevent/make unecessary
Occlude
to stop/prevent the passage of
Onerous
troublesome and oppressive/burdensome
Opaque (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
impossible to see through/preventing the passage of light
Opprobrium
public disgrace
Ostentation (adj) Commonly Seen–3
excessive showiness
Paradox (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a contradiction or dilema
Paragon
model of excellence or perfection
Pedant (n) GRE Pedantic Commonly Seen–2
someone who shows off learning
Perfidious
willing to betray one's trust
Perfunctory
done in a routine way/indifferent
Philanthropy (n) GRE Philanthropic Commonly Seen–3
charity/a desire or effort to promote goodness
Placate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to soothe or pacify
Plastic
able to be molded, altered or bent
Plethora
excess
Pragmatic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
practical as opposed to idealistic
Precipitate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to bring about change to act quickly
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Healdlong Abrupt Impetuous Apace Whimsical CHANGE Catalyst Foment Engender
Prevaricate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to lie or deviate from the truth
Chicanery Dissemble Equivocate
Pristine
fresh and clean/uncorrupted
Prodigal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
lavish/wasteful
Proliferate
to increase in number quickly
Propitiate
to concilate/appease
Propriety (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
correct behavior/obedience to rules and customs
Prudence
wisdom, caution, restraint
Pungent
sharp and irritating to the senses
Quiescent
motionless
Rarefy
to make thinner or sparser
Repudiate
to reject the validity of
Reticent
silent and reserved
Rhetoric
effective writing or speaking
Satiate
to satisfy fully or over indulge
Soporific
causing sleep or lethargy
Specious
deceptively attractive/seemingly plausible but fallacious
Stigma
a mark of shame or discredit
Stolid
unemotional/lacking sensitivity
Sublime
lofty or grand
Tacit
done without using words
Taciturn
silent, not talkative
Tirade (n) GRE
long harsh speech or verbal attack
Castigate Deride Diatribe Dirge Disapraging Elegy Lambaste
Torpor
extreme mental and physical slugishness
Transitory
temporary lasting a brief time
Vacillate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to sway:physically indecisive
Venerate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to respect deeply
Veracity
filled with truth and accuracy
Verbose
wordy
Waver (v) Commonly Seen–3
to fluctuate between choices
Whimsical
acting in fanciful or capricious manner
Capricious– Healdlong Abrupt Imetpuous Percipitate Apace
Zeal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
passion and excitement
Ardor
Abet (v) GRE
To support
Appease (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy To calm
Slake (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy
Ancillary (n) GRE
1supporting/supplementary 2subordinate
SUPPORT Abet Bolster Corroborate Mainstay
Defer (v) GRE
to delay for a future time/procrastinate
Disparaging (adj) GRE
Tending to belittle Tending to bring reproach
Diatribe Castigate Deride Reproach
Reproach (v) GRE
To blame/discredit/censure
Diatribe Castigate Deride Disparaging
Fervor (adj) GRE
warm and earnestness/passion
Quixotic (adj) GRE
Impulsive/rashly unpredictable Impractically and extravagently chivalrous/romantic
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Headlong Abrupt Impetuous Precipitate Apace Whimsical
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Phoenix
Arkansas
Little Rock
California
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Sacramento
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Hartford
Delaware
Dover
Florida
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Tallahassee
Georgia
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Atlanta
Hawaii
Honolulu
Idaho
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Boise
Illinois
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Springfield
Indiana
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Indianapolis
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas
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Topeka
Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Maine
Augusta
Maryland
Annapolis
Massachusetts
Boston
Michigan
Lansing
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Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner
Aberant (adj) GRE
departing from the right, normal or usual course
Alacrity (n) GRE
promptness in response
hint hint
Anomaly (n) GRE Commonly seen
deviation from the common rule
Arduous (adj) GRE
hard to accomplish or acheive
Assuage (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to lessen the intensity pain or distress
Reordered
Austere (adj) GRE
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, marked simple or unadorned, giving little or no scope of pleasure
Axiomatic (adj) GRE
self evident
Canonical (adj) GRE
authorized, following the canon of the bible
Censure (n/v) GRE
strong or vehement expression of disapproval, official reprimand; to criticize or reproach in harch or vehement manner
Connoisseur (n) GRE
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, a discerning judge of the best in any field
Aesthetic
Convoluted (adj) GRE
twisted, coiled, complicated
Disabuse (v) GRE
to free person from deception or error
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse
Discordant (adj) GRE
being at variance, disagree, incongruous, dissonant, harsh
Laud (v/n) GRE Laudable Commonly Seen–2
to praise/extol ;a song hym or praise
Lucid (adj) GRE
suffused w/ light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
+Magnanimity (n) GRE
full of generous forgiveness in an insult or injury, noble – high minded
Marital (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to marriage/conjugal/matrimonial
Mundane (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to this world/earth as contrasted w/ heaven, common/ordinary/unimaginative
Banal
Nascent (adj) GRE
beginning to exist or develop
Nebulous (adj) GRE
hazy/vague/indistinct/confused, cloudy/cloudlike
Neologism (n) GRE
a new word/meaning/usage/phrase, new doctrine
Noxious (adj) GRE
harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, morally harmful
Abstain (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to choose not to do something
Abyss
an extremeely deep hole
Adulterate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to make impure
Advocate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak in favor of
Proponent Eulogy Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Aesthetic (adj) GRE
concerning the appreciation of beauty
Connoisseur
Aggrandize
to increase in power, influence and reputation
Alleviate (v) GRE
to make more bearable/releive
Appease Alleviate Amerliorate Assuage Assist Mitigate Mollify Slake
Amalgamate
to combine/mix together
Ambiguous
doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted in several ways
Ameliorate (v) GRE
to make better to improve
Appease Alleviate Assuage Assit Mollify Slake
Anachronism
something out of place in time
Banal
predictable, cliched, boring
Bolster (v) Commonly Seen–3
to support
Abet Ancillary Corroborate Mainstay
–Bombastic (adj) GRE
pompous in speech and manner
Cacophony (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
harsh, jarring noise
Candid
impartial and honest in speech
Castigate (v) GRE
to punish or criticize harshly
Diatribe Deride
Catalyst
something that brings about a change in something else
Foment Engender Precipitate
Caustic
biting in whit
Chaos
great disorder or confusion
Chauvanist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
Dissemble Equivocate
Cogent
convincing and well reasoned
Condone
to overlook, pardon, disregard
Convoluted
intricate and complicated
Corroborate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to provide supporting evidence
Ancillary Bolster Mainstay
Credulous
too trusting: gullible
Crescendo
steady increasing volume or force
Decorum
approproateness of behavior or conduct
Deference
respect, courtesy
Deride (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak of or treat with contempt: to mock
Desiccate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to dry out thoroughly
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
Diatribe
an abuse condemnatory speech
Castigate Deride
Diffident
lack of self confidence
Dilate
to make larger/expand
Dilatory
intended to delay
Filabuster
Dilettante
someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge
funeral humn or mournful speech
Elegy
Discern
to perceive/recognize
Disparate
fundamentally different, entirely unlike
Dissemble
to present a false appearance/disguise one's real intentions or character
Dissonance (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a harsh and disagreeable combination
Dogma
a fairly held opinion
Dupe
to perceive, a person who is easily deceived
Eclectic
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Efficacy
effectiveness
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Dirge
Eloquent
persuasive and moving speech
Emulate
to copy/try to equal or excel
Engender (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to produce cause/bring about: initiate
Catalyst Foment
Enigma (n) GRE Commonly Seen
a puzzle
Enumerate
to count/list/itemize
Ephemeral (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
lasting a short time
Erratic
wandering and unpredictable
Esoteric
known or understood by a few
Estimable
admirable
Eulogy (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
speech in praise of someone
Advocate Proponent Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Euphemism
use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Exacerbate
to make worse
Exculpate
to clear from blame/prove innocent
VINDICATE Exonerate Disabuse
Exigent
urgent/requiring immediate action
Exonerate
to clear blame to releive
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse RELEIVE Appease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify
Explicit
clearly stated or shown forthright in expression
Fanatical
acting excessively enthusiastic/filled with extreme/unquestioned devotion
Fawn
to grovel
Fervid (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
intensely emotional/feverish
–Florid (adj) GRE
excessively decorated or embelished
Foment
to arouse or incite
Catalyst Engender
Frugality
a tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Garrulous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
tending to talk a lot
Guile
deceit or trickery
Gullible (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
easily deceived
Homogeneous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
of a similar kind
Iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions
Imperturbable
not capable of being disturbed
Impervious
impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected
Impetuous
quickly to act without thinking
Implacable
unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Intransigent
Inchoate
not fully formed:disorganized
Inimical
hostile, unfriendly
Innocuous
harmless
Insipid
Lack of interest Lack of flavor
LoInterest Insipid
Intransigent
uncompromising/refusing to be reconciled
Implacable
Inundate
to overwhelm/cover with water
Irascible
easily made angry
Laconic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
using few words
Lament
to express sorrow/greive
Lavish
to praise unspraringly/extremely generous/extravegant
Lethargic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner
Loquacious (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
talkative
Lucid
clear and easily understood
Luminous
bright, brilliant, glowing
Malinger
to evade resonsibility by pretending to be ill
Malleable (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
capable of being shaped
Metaphor
a figure of speech comparing two different things/symbols
Meticulous
extremely careful about details
Misanthrope (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a person who dislikes others
Mitigate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to releive by softening/lessening
Apease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify Exonerate
Mollify
to calm or make less severe
Monotony
lack of variation
Naive
lacking sophistication or experience
Obdurate (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
hardened in feeling/resistant to persuasion
Obsequious
overly submissive and eager to please
Obstinate
stubborn, unyielding
Obviate
to prevent/make unecessary
Occlude
to stop/prevent the passage of
Onerous
troublesome and oppressive/burdensome
Opaque (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
impossible to see through/preventing the passage of light
Opprobrium
public disgrace
Ostentation (adj) Commonly Seen–3
excessive showiness
Paradox (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a contradiction or dilema
Paragon
model of excellence or perfection
Pedant (n) GRE Pedantic Commonly Seen–2
someone who shows off learning
Perfidious
willing to betray one's trust
Perfunctory
done in a routine way/indifferent
Philanthropy (n) GRE Philanthropic Commonly Seen–3
charity/a desire or effort to promote goodness
Placate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to soothe or pacify
Plastic
able to be molded, altered or bent
Plethora
excess
Pragmatic (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
practical as opposed to idealistic
Precipitate (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to bring about change to act quickly
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Healdlong Abrupt Impetuous Apace Whimsical CHANGE Catalyst Foment Engender
Prevaricate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to lie or deviate from the truth
Chicanery Dissemble Equivocate
Pristine
fresh and clean/uncorrupted
Prodigal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
lavish/wasteful
Proliferate
to increase in number quickly
Propitiate
to concilate/appease
Propriety (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
correct behavior/obedience to rules and customs
Prudence
wisdom, caution, restraint
Pungent
sharp and irritating to the senses
Quiescent
motionless
Rarefy
to make thinner or sparser
Repudiate
to reject the validity of
Reticent
silent and reserved
Rhetoric
effective writing or speaking
Satiate
to satisfy fully or over indulge
Soporific
causing sleep or lethargy
Specious
deceptively attractive/seemingly plausible but fallacious
Stigma
a mark of shame or discredit
Stolid
unemotional/lacking sensitivity
Sublime
lofty or grand
Tacit
done without using words
Taciturn
silent, not talkative
Tirade (n) GRE
long harsh speech or verbal attack
Castigate Deride Diatribe Dirge Disapraging Elegy Lambaste
Torpor
extreme mental and physical slugishness
Transitory
temporary lasting a brief time
Vacillate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to sway:physically indecisive
Venerate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to respect deeply
Veracity
filled with truth and accuracy
Verbose
wordy
Waver (v) Commonly Seen–3
to fluctuate between choices
Whimsical
acting in fanciful or capricious manner
Capricious– Healdlong Abrupt Imetpuous Percipitate Apace
Zeal (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
passion and excitement
Ardor
Abet (v) GRE
To support
Appease (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy To calm
Slake (v) GRE
To releive To satisfy
Ancillary (n) GRE
1supporting/supplementary 2subordinate
SUPPORT Abet Bolster Corroborate Mainstay
Defer (v) GRE
to delay for a future time/procrastinate
Disparaging (adj) GRE
Tending to belittle Tending to bring reproach
Diatribe Castigate Deride Reproach
Reproach (v) GRE
To blame/discredit/censure
Diatribe Castigate Deride Disparaging
Fervor (adj) GRE
warm and earnestness/passion
Quixotic (adj) GRE
Impulsive/rashly unpredictable Impractically and extravagently chivalrous/romantic
ACT QUICKLY Capricious Headlong Abrupt Impetuous Precipitate Apace Whimsical
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okay
sure
Arizona
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Phoenix
Arkansas
Little Rock
California
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Sacramento
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Hartford
Delaware
Dover
Florida
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Tallahassee
Georgia
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Atlanta
Hawaii
Honolulu
Idaho
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Boise
Illinois
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Springfield
Indiana
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Indianapolis
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas
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Topeka
Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Maine
Augusta
Maryland
Annapolis
Massachusetts
Boston
Michigan
Lansing
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Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner
Aberant (adj) GRE
departing from the right, normal or usual course
Alacrity (n) GRE
promptness in response
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Anomaly (n) GRE Commonly seen
deviation from the common rule
Arduous (adj) GRE
hard to accomplish or acheive
Assuage (v) GRE Commonly Seen
to lessen the intensity pain or distress
Reordered
Austere (adj) GRE
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, marked simple or unadorned, giving little or no scope of pleasure
Axiomatic (adj) GRE
self evident
Canonical (adj) GRE
authorized, following the canon of the bible
Censure (n/v) GRE
strong or vehement expression of disapproval, official reprimand; to criticize or reproach in harch or vehement manner
Connoisseur (n) GRE
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, a discerning judge of the best in any field
Aesthetic
Convoluted (adj) GRE
twisted, coiled, complicated
Disabuse (v) GRE
to free person from deception or error
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse
Discordant (adj) GRE
being at variance, disagree, incongruous, dissonant, harsh
Laud (v/n) GRE Laudable Commonly Seen–2
to praise/extol ;a song hym or praise
Lucid (adj) GRE
suffused w/ light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
+Magnanimity (n) GRE
full of generous forgiveness in an insult or injury, noble – high minded
Marital (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to marriage/conjugal/matrimonial
Mundane (adj) GRE
of or pertaining to this world/earth as contrasted w/ heaven, common/ordinary/unimaginative
Banal
Nascent (adj) GRE
beginning to exist or develop
Nebulous (adj) GRE
hazy/vague/indistinct/confused, cloudy/cloudlike
Neologism (n) GRE
a new word/meaning/usage/phrase, new doctrine
Noxious (adj) GRE
harmful or injurious to health or physical well being, morally harmful
Abstain (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to choose not to do something
Abyss
an extremeely deep hole
Adulterate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to make impure
Advocate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak in favor of
Proponent Eulogy Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Aesthetic (adj) GRE
concerning the appreciation of beauty
Connoisseur
Aggrandize
to increase in power, influence and reputation
Alleviate (v) GRE
to make more bearable/releive
Appease Alleviate Amerliorate Assuage Assist Mitigate Mollify Slake
Amalgamate
to combine/mix together
Ambiguous
doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted in several ways
Ameliorate (v) GRE
to make better to improve
Appease Alleviate Assuage Assit Mollify Slake
Anachronism
something out of place in time
Banal
predictable, cliched, boring
Bolster (v) Commonly Seen–3
to support
Abet Ancillary Corroborate Mainstay
–Bombastic (adj) GRE
pompous in speech and manner
Cacophony (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
harsh, jarring noise
Candid
impartial and honest in speech
Castigate (v) GRE
to punish or criticize harshly
Diatribe Deride
Catalyst
something that brings about a change in something else
Foment Engender Precipitate
Caustic
biting in whit
Chaos
great disorder or confusion
Chauvanist
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chicanery
deception by means of craft or guile
Dissemble Equivocate
Cogent
convincing and well reasoned
Condone
to overlook, pardon, disregard
Convoluted
intricate and complicated
Corroborate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to provide supporting evidence
Ancillary Bolster Mainstay
Credulous
too trusting: gullible
Crescendo
steady increasing volume or force
Decorum
approproateness of behavior or conduct
Deference
respect, courtesy
Deride (v) GRE Commonly Seen–3
to speak of or treat with contempt: to mock
Desiccate (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to dry out thoroughly
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
Diatribe
an abuse condemnatory speech
Castigate Deride
Diffident
lack of self confidence
Dilate
to make larger/expand
Dilatory
intended to delay
Filabuster
Dilettante
someone with amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge
funeral humn or mournful speech
Elegy
Discern
to perceive/recognize
Disparate
fundamentally different, entirely unlike
Dissemble
to present a false appearance/disguise one's real intentions or character
Dissonance (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
a harsh and disagreeable combination
Dogma
a fairly held opinion
Dupe
to perceive, a person who is easily deceived
Eclectic
selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Efficacy
effectiveness
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Dirge
Eloquent
persuasive and moving speech
Emulate
to copy/try to equal or excel
Engender (v) GRE Commonly Seen–2
to produce cause/bring about: initiate
Catalyst Foment
Enigma (n) GRE Commonly Seen
a puzzle
Enumerate
to count/list/itemize
Ephemeral (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
lasting a short time
Erratic
wandering and unpredictable
Esoteric
known or understood by a few
Estimable
admirable
Eulogy (n) GRE Commonly Seen–3
speech in praise of someone
Advocate Proponent Acclaim Encomium Extol Laud
Euphemism
use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Exacerbate
to make worse
Exculpate
to clear from blame/prove innocent
VINDICATE Exonerate Disabuse
Exigent
urgent/requiring immediate action
Exonerate
to clear blame to releive
VINDICATE Exculpate Disabuse RELEIVE Appease Alleviate Ameliorate Assuage Assist Slake Mollify
Explicit
clearly stated or shown forthright in expression
Fanatical
acting excessively enthusiastic/filled with extreme/unquestioned devotion
Fawn
to grovel
Fervid (adj) GRE Commonly Seen
intensely emotional/feverish
–Florid (adj) GRE
excessively decorated or embelished
Foment
to arouse or incite
Catalyst Engender
Frugality
a tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Garrulous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–3
tending to talk a lot
Guile
deceit or trickery
Gullible (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
easily deceived
Homogeneous (adj) GRE Commonly Seen–2
of a similar kind
Iconoclast
one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions
Imperturbable
not capable of being disturbed
Impervious
impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected
Impetuous
quickly to act without thinking
Implacable
unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Intransigent
Inchoate
not fully formed:disorganized
Inimical
hostile, unfriendly
Innocuous
harmless
Insipid
Lack of interest Lack of flavor
LoInterest Insipid
Intransigent
uncompromising/refusing to be reconciled
Implacable
Inundate
to overwhelm/cover with water
Abscond (v) GRE
to depart in a sudden and secret manner
Aberant (adj) GRE
departing from the right, normal or usual course
Organization :Formation Requirements
Steps: (1) Execute the certificate of incorporation (2) Deliver the certificate to the Department of State; and (3) Hold the organizational meeting ii.Required members: 1+ (adult humans only) Note: most other states allow other corporations to be an incorporator.