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GRE Vocab
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gre
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bvat
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1. Cancel; retract; CF. irrevocable
pr'ecis
deposition
revoke
interpolate
2. Outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around
append
raze
circumvent
fledgling(fledgeling)
3. Effectual; producing a strong response; striking; in operation; in effect; Ex. effective speech/photograph
auxiliary
frustrate
delineate
effective
4. (of water) cover completely; defeat completely by much greater force; Ex. overwhelmed by grief
discerning
leery
overwhelm
pushy
5. Soft fatty tissue that fills most bone cavities and is the source of blood cells
marrow
mural
singular
reek
6. Roman outer robe
dappled
centaur
pervasive
toga
7. Understood but not stated; implied; unquestioning and complete; Ex. implicit trust
implicit
beset
hazard
libretto
8. Conceal in the palm of the hand; palm off: pass off; Ex. palm off some bad oranges onto the lady/the painting as a real Renoir
thermal
palm
disjunction
ambrosia
9. Confirm; support; strengthen
corroborate
stratagem
viscid
heckler
10. Concerning trade or merchants
alms
rotund
mercantile
floe
11. Chance; luck
hap
conclave
finesse
agape
12. Complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative; Ex. absolute honesty/ruler; CF. absolutism
deposition
absolute
sleazy
impart
13. Susceptible to wounds or attack; N. vulnerability
indolent
vulnerable
oculist
polyglot
14. Lie down
adversary
tribulation
recline
lugubrious
15. Remainder; balance
residue
umbrage
virus
quorum
16. Crookedly; slanted; at an angle
indict
sextant
askew
requiem
17. Long wave of water that moves continuously without breaking; V.
querulous
swell
dissent
d'ecollet'e
18. Bizzare; peculiar; unconventional
waft
outlandish
habituate
nonsense
19. Money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage
halfhearted
painstaking
conducive
dowry
20. That can be permeated; penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through; V. permeate: spread or flow throughout; charge
supplant
propitiate
levitate
permeable
21. Having to do with knowing or perceiving related to the mental processes; N. cognition: the mental process of knowing
repulsion
cognitive
increment
squat
22. Bombastic; stiffly pompous; Ex. stilted rhetoric; CF. stiff: formal
saga
unwitting
polarize
stilted
23. Concluding section of a musical or literary composition
blighted
catharsis
liability
coda
24. Deceive; lead astray by deception; wheedle(cajole); Ex. inveigle her into joining the club; CF. interest dishonestly
skeptic
inveigle
pachyderm
suckle
25. Small bit or fragment; discarded waste material; fight; Ex. a scrap of paper/cloth; V: break into parts for disposal; discard as worthless; fight; quarrel
matrimony
impotent
scrap
mar
26. Great amount; plenty; overabundance; excess; lavish expenditure; Ex. profusion of choices; ADJ. profuse: plentiful; copious; giving or given abundantly; extravagant
recrimination
profusion
regicide
imbibe
27. Approach and speak first to a person
tranquillity
accost
ravine
seine
28. Being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native; indigenous; N. aborigine
ascetic
conspire
aboriginal
convex
29. Operate with one's hands; control or play upon (people - forces - etc.) artfully; maneuver; Ex. how to manipulate publicity and men; ADJ. manipulative
overture
loiter
manipulate
imperious
30. Relating to paradise; blissful
elysian
fortuitous
brink
bulk
31. Stuff oneself (with food); glut; CF. gorgeous: dazzlingly beautiful
hue_and_cry
gorge
contrived
chip
32. Pommel; beat or pound with fists
galley
inexorable
pummel
prestige
33. Utter a deep guttural sound (as a pig does); N.
notoriety
grunt
shun
chafe
34. Alert and watchful; listening carefully; paying attention; considerate; thoughtful; politely helpful; Ex. attentive audience; Ex. He was attentive to the old lady; N. attentions: act of courtesy and consideration
rejoinder
tessellated
attentive
timbre
35. Contradict; oppose; violate (a rule - law - or custom); N. contravention
kismet
contravene
alcove
historic
36. Of psyche; mental; of or possessing extraordinary mental powers
psychic
icon(ikon)
tranquillity
calligraphy
37. Capricious happening; caprice; whim; CF. wander
scurvy
pinnace
vagary
blare
38. Line of ancestors; ancestry; lineage; ADJ. (of an animal) descended from of a chosen family; Ex. pedigree dog; CF. crane's foot
magnitude
pedigree
assert
laceration
39. Unsatisfied; not soothed
idiosyncrasy
esoteric
unassuaged
immutable
40. Laugh quietly
crossbreed
chuckle
sleeper
icon(ikon)
41. Rule over tyrannically
sprightly
static
domineer
haggle
42. Cold or cheerless; frigid; unlikely to be favorable; depressing
esteem
sartorial
bleak
brandish
43. Remove the sex organs (of a male animal or person)
riddle
castrate
delusion
accede
44. Glass water bottle; decanter
abrasive
odorous
astigmatism
carafe
45. Link as in a chain
invalid
savor
concatenate
epoch
46. Harmful; damaging; N. detriment
detrimental
dart
concoct
alms
47. Risk; expose to risk; dare; undertake a risk; N.
venture
interdict
plebiscite
mural
48. Violent; rough; noisy
bogus
ineffable
cataract
boisterous
49. Sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter
forensic
asperity
don
arroyo
50. Filled with excited joy and pride; overjoyed; in high spirits; joyful and proud; Ex. elated crowd; V. elate; N. elation
ramification
warrant
elated
siren