Testmakers Favorite Gre Words

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Anomaly

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Not normal

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Equivocal

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Confusing

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Lucid

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Understandable

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Precipitate

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To cause something (bad) to happen

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Assuage

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Satisfy or relieve

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Erudite

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Educated, intelligent

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Opaque

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Not transparent, blurry

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Prodigal

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Wastefully extravagant

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Enigma

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Mysterious

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Fervid

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Passionate

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Placate

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To please

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Zeal

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Great energy

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Abstain

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To refrain, restrain

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Audacious

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(Good)Bold, (bad)rude

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Dessicate

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To dry out

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Gullible

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Credulous, naive

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Laudable

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Deserving praise

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Pedant

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Perfectionist

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Vacilllate

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Indecisive

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Adulterate

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To make impure

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Capricious

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BIPOLAR, temperamental, mercurial

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Engender

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To cause

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Homogeneous

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The same

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Pragmatic

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Logical

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Voliatile

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Liable to change rapidly

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Apathy

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Lack of interest

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Corroborate

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Confirm

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Ephemeral

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Short lived

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Laconic

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A person of few words

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Mitigate

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Lessen

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Propriety

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Decency, good mannered

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Pretentious/ostentatious

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Showy, Pretending to have or known more than is actually possessed, showy, pompous

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Taciturn

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A person of few words, laconic, reticient

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Arcane

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Abstruse, esoteric, Known to only a few

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In lieu of

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Instead of

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Approbatory

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Full of praise

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Tepid

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Unenthusiastic, half hearted

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Profligacy

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Recklessness, wastefulness

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Cirtuitous

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Indirect, winding, meandering

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Bellicose

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Belligerent, hostile, aggressive, truculent

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Vapid

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Bland, uninteresting, prosaic, pedestrian, insipid

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Tumid

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Bloated

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Prosaic

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Bland, uninteresting, vapid

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Trenchant

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Incisive, demonstrating a Great ability to analyze.

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Misanthrope

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Hater of human kind

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Specious

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False

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Exigent

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Immediate

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Ineffable

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Unable to be expressed

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Foment

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To incite violent, unlawful behavior

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Recompense

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To compensate

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Obloquy

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Disgrace or public censure

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Diaphanous

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See through

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Esoteric

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Arcane, abstruse known to only a few

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Insoluble

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Incapable if being solved

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Pernicious

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Destructive

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Deletrious

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Harmful

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Chicanery

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Trickery, artifice

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Hegemony

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Influence, dominace

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Ribald

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Vulgar

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Despondent

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Very sad

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Myopic

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Shortsighted

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Diffident

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Timid, lacking Self confidence

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Conciliatory

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Intending to please

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Abstruse

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Esoteric, arcane, known to only a few.

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Dubious

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Doubtful, suspect

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Decorum

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Propriety

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Abscond

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To leave secretly

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Deference

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Respect

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Deride

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To mock

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Bombastic

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Pompous in speech and manner, pretentious

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Dilettante

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Superficial interest In a topic

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace

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Onerous

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Burdensome

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Occlude

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To stop, obstruct

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Obstinate

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Stubborn, obdurate

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Obsequious

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Eager to please

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Obdurate

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Stubbornly refusing to change ones opinion, obstinate

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Mollify

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To calm, make less severe

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Malinger

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Evading responsibility by pretending to be ill

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Euphemism

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Polite substitute

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Eulogy

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Speech in praise of some one, typically of the dead

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Estimable

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Admirable

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Obviate

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To make unnecessary