Gre Words To Know Pt.2

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Coda

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Ending that sums up what came before

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Catharsis

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Emotional release

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Homily

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Lecture

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Emblematic

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Symbolic

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Enigmatic to

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Difficult to understand or mysterious

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Quixotic

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Impractical

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Grandiloquent

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Pretentious

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Posit

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Claim

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Cajole

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Persuade

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Acerbic

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Sharp or sarcastic

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Inimical

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Harmful or hostile

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Impecunious

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Poor or destitute

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Pallid

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Pale

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Aghast

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Horrified

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Garrulous

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Overly talkative

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Verdant

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Green or lush

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Banal

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Unoriginal

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Sagacious

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Good judgement

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Castigated

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Severely criticized

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Deposed

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Forced out of power

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Concomitant

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Accompanying (often in a subordinate way)

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Ephemeral

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Short lived

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Omnipotent

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All powerful

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Heralded

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Celebrated

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Coalesced

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Come together

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Agglomerate

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Collect or form into a mass or group

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Calumnies

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Slander

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Obloquies

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Abusive language

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Garlands

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Prize or distinction

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Artifices

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Trickery or deception

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Pedantry

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Arrogant in relation to learning

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Parsimony

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Stinginess

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Minutiae

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Trivial details (not big picture)

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Enthralled

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Captivating

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Dissipation

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Wastefulness

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Profligate

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Irresponsible living

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Deplorable

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Surprisingly bad

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Equivocate

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To speak vaguely (usually with intention to mislead or deceive)

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous or unclear

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Unequivocal

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State it in such a way there is no room for doubt

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Hedge (verb)

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1. Play safely

2. Limit or qualify a statement

3. Avoid making a direct statement (equivocate)

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Flush

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To be in abundance

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Fell (adj)

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Terribly evil

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Arch

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Teasing

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Arch

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Teasing

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Arch as a root

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Chief or principal

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Beg

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1. Evade a question

2. Ask an obvious question

3. Ask a question that makes an unwarranted assumption

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Tender (v)

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Offer something up

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Intimate

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Subtly

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Wanting (adj)

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Lacking

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Becoming

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Appropriate or matches nicely

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Start

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Startle (move or dart in suffer direction)

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Fleece

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Decieve

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Telling

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Significant to another factor

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Wax

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To increase

(Thinking of a waxing and waning moon)

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Check

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To limit

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Kindered

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Related to

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Acute

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Severe

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Mitigate

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Lessen

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Obsolete

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Out dated