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gre
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english
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vocabulary
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bvat
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1. Division of a poem (composed of two or more lines)
varnish
blurt
prate
stanza
2. Stop or check (the flow of); Ex. stem the bleeding from the slashed artery; N: main axis of a plant; stalk
thespian
bristle
stem
exuberance
3. Urging; always demanding; troublesomely urgent or persistent
importunate
concordat
incongruity
nostrum
4. Daily; occurring during the daytime
bristle
husbandry
glossary
diurnal
5. Process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance; V. sensitize: make or become sensitive
patronize
sensitization
misconduct
slew
6. Swirling current of water - air - etc.; V.
flirt
spangle
eddy
unkempt
7. Skillful; skill in using hands or mind; N. dexterity
tactile
dexterous
avalanche
dignitary
8. Oblige or help someone; adjust or bring into harmony; adapt; make enough space for; ADJ. accommodative; CF. accomodating: helpful and obliging
accommodate
handsome
ovoid
obtuse
9. Underlying character of a culture - group - etc.; character or ideas peculiar to a specific person - group - or culture; Ex. the company ethos
barrister
ethos
mite
demur
10. Exhibiting art or skill; deceitful; cunning; CF. artifice
listless
shambles
artful
explicate
11. Trick; shift; sham blow; feigned attack to draw away defensive action; V.
treasure
dermatologist
feint
demean
12. Make amends for (a sin)
expiate
deft
imminent
peripheral
13. Make impossible; prevent; exclude; eliminate
extirpate
implode
preclude
omniscient
14. Medical treatment and care of old age
stump
brittle
amicable
geriatrics
15. Groom oneself with care; adorn oneself
primp
jostle
arcade
granary
16. (unpleasantly) swollen or puffed as with water or air
bloated
foster
punitive
inevitable
17. Force into less space; squeeze; contract; put into fewer words; N: thick mass of cloth pressed to part of the body to stop bleeding or swelling - reduce fever - etc.
compress
rickety
felicity
scotch
18. Harp on; dwell on tediously; explain or go over excessively or to a ridiculous degree; assail verbally; beat severely; attack physically
debonair
desultory
belabor
chasm
19. Little round hill; hillock
imperative
animus
knoll
duration
20. Overbright in color; unpleasantly bright; gaudy
impassable
garish
victuals
outmoded
21. Experiencing nausea; nauseated; easily nauseated; squeamish; Ex. feel a little queasy
dainty
queasy
congruence
venue
22. Decorate; add a garnish to; decorate (food or drink) with small items such as lemon slices; N.
bristle
unexceptionable
garnish
rivulet
23. Build; lie; make up (a story) in order to deceive; Ex. fabricate the whole story; CF. fabric: underlying structure; Ex. fabric of society
reputed
fabricate
perturb
sublime
24. Every two years
smirk
biennial
blanch
gloat
25. Damaged; disfigured; V. mar: spoil; disfigure
recital
tickle
sanctuary
marred
26. Able to be dissolved in a liquid; able to be worked out or solved
insipid
elicit
lust
soluble
27. Wasteful; reckless with money; profuse; Ex. a mind prodigal of ideas; N. prodigality
pious
stamina
prodigal
impecunious
28. (of something written or painted) still in existence
pass_off
extant
humid
casualty
29. Trickery; deception
billow
scheme
doddering
chicanery
30. Crude dwelling; shack
hut
solemnity
receptive
prefatory
31. Deep dish for serving soup
seasoned
tureen
obsessive
niggle
32. Authoritative and weighty statement (made by a judge in court); saying; maxim; CF. obiter dictum: incidental - nonbinding remark (something said in passing)
dictum
lampoon
defunct
fitful
33. Untidy (of a woman or clothes); slovenly; dressed in an unattractive way; shabby; CF. unattractive woman
prattle
incorporeal
pterodactyl
dowdy
34. Deprived of (someone beloved through death)
coup
bereaved
pediatrician
prosody
35. Frozen rain drop; V: salute or greet; precipitate hail
hail
tempestuous
repulse
lackluster
36. Overcome
obstinate
surmount
propulsive
merit
37. Place under water; dip; go under water; cover completely (as with water); Ex. submerged in work
devolve
hirsute
luxuriant
submerge
38. Please intensely; fill with rapture and delight
beneficiary
enrapture
harry
braggart
39. Having a dull edge; abrupt and frank in speech or manner; brusque; V: make or become blunt
calculated
opprobrium
blunt
eventual
40. Plants of a region or era
entomology
flora
harass
precise
41. Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter; Ex. filial respect
mercantile
draw
alimentary
filial
42. Good-fellowship; CF. comrade
camaraderie
finesse
slack
tardy
43. Bog; marsh; soft - wet - boggy land; predicament; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself
resplendent
quagmire
incarnate
vicar
44. Send out of the country; behave; N. deportation - deportment
hoodwink
deport
malignant
plumber
45. Clever in deceiving; secretive; not telling one's intentions
abolish
sly
anthropologist
periphery
46. Stubborn; hard to control or treat; Ex. obstinate cough; N. obstinacy
subsidiary
obstinate
mediate
ornate
47. Rebellious; N.
insurgent
anguish
comport
sphinx-like
48. Distasteful; disagreeable; morally offensive; Ex. unsavory activity/reputation
posterity
guffaw
smother
unsavory
49. Repeat
reiterate
roil
robust
smear
50. Reject bluntly; snub; beat back; Ex. She rebuffed his invitation; N.
rebuff
tantrum
debase
proviso
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