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Subjects : gre, english, vocabulary, bvat
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1. Climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble






2. Young woman making formal entrance into society






3. Assist (someone in difficulty); aid; comfort; N.






4. Exact






5. Disparage; depreciate






6. Add leaven to; cause to rise or grow lighter; enliven; N: agent - such as yeast - that causes dough to rise (by fermentation); element that lightens or enlivens






7. Petty or trivial details; CF. minutia






8. Minor crime; misdeed; wrongdoing






9. Opinionated; holding stubbornly to one's opinion; arbitrary; doctrinal






10. Successful; rich; affluent; well-to-do; well-off






11. Unreasonable or capricious; random; tyrannical; Ex. arbitrary ruler






12. Hint; slight indication






13. Wetland; marsh; V: flood; overwhelm; drench in with liquid






14. Propaganda pamphlet (esp. by a religious or political group); expanse of land; region of indefinite size; system of related organs; Ex. digestive tract






15. Rudeness without any sense of shame; shameless boldness; presumptousness; nerve; cheek






16. (of a position - esp. in an argument) indefensible; not able to be maintained






17. Malodorous; foul






18. Sink to a lower level; settle down; sink to the bottom (as a sediment); descend; grow quiet; become less; moderate; abate






19. Resorting to help when in trouble; Ex. without recourse to






20. Predict (according to present indications)






21. Attract; employ; hire; pledge oneself; confront; fight; enter into confliction; interlock; lock together; participate; N. engagement: agreement to marry; arrangement to meet someone or to do something; battle






22. Acute pain; extreme suffering






23. Absurd; completely unreasonable; ridiculous






24. Cord used to draw and tie together two opposite edges (as of a shoe); delicate fabric made of fine threads; V: draw together by tying a lace






25. Nearsighted; lacking foresight; N. myopia






26. Fortress






27. Gigantic; N. titan






28. Demand and obtain by force; Ex. exact a promise from him; N. exaction






29. Sun's corona; halo; bright circle of light






30. Disloyal; cowardly; N: disloyal and cowardly person






31. Period of time






32. Rebound; reaction; reverberation; Ex. serious repercussion






33. Tending toward the center






34. Bitterness of feeling; nerve; effrontery; CF. gall bladder






35. Wild tumult(commotion); wild noisy disorder; CF. Paradise Lost






36. Thoroughly soaked; dull or stupid as if from drink






37. Adjoining; neighboring; close by






38. Renounce; give up (position - right - or responsibility)






39. Of low rank or position; modest; having a low opinion of oneself and a high opinion of others; unassuming; not proud; V. humiliate: make humble; cause to feel ashamed or to lose the respect of others






40. Like a spirit or fairy; unearthly light; heavenly; unusually refined; Ex. She has an ethereal beauty; CF. ether: upper air






41. Condition of being squalid; filth; degradation; dirty neglected state; ADJ. squalid: dirty; sordid; morally repulsive; Ex. squalid story






42. Swindle or cheat; N: wedgelike tool for cutting






43. Cutting off; separation






44. Purest and highest embodiment; perfect example; apotheosis; most essential element; Ex. quintessence of wit; ADJ. quintessential; CF. fifth essence






45. Vessel in which substances are crushed with a pestle






46. Solidly uniform; unchangeable; unyielding; N. monolith: large block of stone






47. Celebrity (in a specific field); dignitary; object that gives light (as a celestial body)






48. Of the law and its administration; CF. judicial: of courts of law; CF. judiciary






49. Short poem idealizing rural life; simple happy period of life (in the country); scene from such a time; Ex. idyll of two young lovers






50. Unfortunate; luckless