Princeton Gre Words

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Effrontery

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n. Extreme boldness; presumptuousness.

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Ennui

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n. Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy.

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Exigent

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adj. Urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention.

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Fulminate

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v. Loudly attack or denounce.

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Stymie

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v. To block; thwart.

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Adulation

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n. Excessive praise; intense adoration.

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Castigation

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n. Severe criticism or punishment.

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Chary

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adj. Wary; cautious; sparing.

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Demur

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v. To question or oppose.

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Ebullience

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n. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings.

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Incipient

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adj. Beginning to come into being or to become apparent.

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Inveigle

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v. To obtain by deception or flattery.

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Pithy

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adj. Precise and brief.

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Polemical

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adj. Controversial; argumentative.

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Germane

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adj. Relevant to the subject at hand.

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Hackneyed

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adj. Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage.

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Hegemony

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n. The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others.

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Impunity

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n. Immunity from punishment or penalty.

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Cynicism

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n. An attitude or belief that all people are motivated by selfishness.

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Dilettante

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

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Glib

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adj. Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; superficial.

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Quixotic

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adj. Foolishly impractical.

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Sedulous

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adj. Diligent; persistent; hard-working.

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Tout

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v. To publicly praise or promote.

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Untenable

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adj. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable.

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Vituperate

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v. To use harsh words; to abuse or censure severely or abusively.

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Brook

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v. To tolerate; endure; countenance.

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Chauvinist

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n. A blindly devoted patriot.

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Die

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n. A tool used for shaping.

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Essay

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v. To test or try; attempt.

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Fell

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adj. Inhumanly cruel.

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Guy

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n. A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide.

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List

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v. To tilt or lean to one side.

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Nice

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adj. Exacting; fastidious.

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Rail

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v. To complain about bitterly.

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Stand

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n. A group of trees.

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Table

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v. To remove from consideration.

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Wag

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n. Wit, joker.

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Asseverate

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v. To aver, allege, assert.

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Calumniate

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v. To slander, make a false accusation.

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Captious

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adj. Disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument.

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Descry

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v. To discriminate or discern.

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Desuetude

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n. Disuse.

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Extirpate

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v. To destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind.

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Heterodox

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adj. Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic.

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Imbroglio

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n. Difficult or embarrassing situation.

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Ineluctable

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adj. Certain, inevitable.

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Lubricious

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adj. Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery.

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Minatory

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adj. Menacing, threatening.

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Palliate

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v. To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less sever or intense.

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Pellucid

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adj. Transparent, easy to understand.

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Peroration

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n. The concluding part of a speech; flawy rhetorical speech.

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Propitiate

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v. To appease; to conciliate.