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GRE Synonyms
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Language - English
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01/12/2008

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Abbreviated Communication
Definition
Abridge, Compendium, Cursory, Curtail, Syllabus, Synopsis, Terse
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Act Quickly
Definition
Apace, Abrupt, Headlong, Impetuous, Precipitate
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Assist
Definition
Abet, Advocate, Ancillary, Bolster, Corroborate, Countenance, Espouse, Mainstay, Munificent, Proponent, Stalwart, Sustenance
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Bad Mood
Definition
Bilious, Dudgeon, Irascible, Pettish, Petulant, Pique, Querulous, Umbrage, Waspish
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Beginner/Amateur
Definition
Dilettante, Fledgling, Neophyte, Novitiate, Proselyte, Tyro
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Beginning/Young
Definition
Burgeoning, Callow, Engender, Inchoate, Incipient, Nascent
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Biting (as in wit or temperament)
Definition
Acerbic, Acidulous, Acrimonious, Asperity, Caustic, Mordacious, Mordant, Trenchant
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Bold
Definition
Audacious, Courageous, Dauntless
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Boring
Definition
Banal, Fatuous, Hackneyed, Insipid, Mundane, Pedestrian, Platitude, Prosaic, Quotidian, Trite
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Carousal, (Get Fucked Up)
Definition
Bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude
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Changing Quickly
Definition
Capricious, Mercurial, Volatile
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Copy
Definition
Counterpart, Emulate, Facsimile, Factitious, Paradigm, Precursor, Quintessence, Simulated, Vicarious
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Criticize, Criticism
Definition
Aspersion, Belittle, Berate, Calumny, Castigate, Decry, Defamation, Denounce, Deride/Derisive, Diatribe, Disparage, Excoriate, Gainsay, Harangue, Impugn, Inveigh, Lambaste, Objurgate, Obloquy, Opprobrium, Pillory, Rebuke, Remonstrate, Reprehend, Reprove, Revile, Tirade, Vituperate
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Death/Mourning
Definition
Bereave, Cadaver, Defunct, Demise, Dolorous, Elegy, Knell, Lament, Macabre, Moribund, Obsequies, Sepulchral, Wraith
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Denying of Self
Definition
Abnegate, Abstain, Ascetic, Spartan, Stoic, Temperate
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Dictatorial
Definition
Authoritarian, Despotic, Dogmatic, Hegemonic (Hegemony), Imperious, Peremptory, Tyrannical
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Difficult to Understand
Definition
Abstruse, Ambiguous, Arcane, Bemusing, Cryptic, Enigmatic, Esoteric, Inscrutable, Obscure, Opaque, Paradoxical, Perplexing, Recondite, Turbid
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Disgusting/Offensive
Definition
Defile, Fetid, Invidious, Noisome, Odious, Putrid, Rebarbative
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Easy to Understand
Definition
Articulate, Cogent, Eloquent, Evident, Limpid, Lucid, Pellucid
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Eccentric/Dissimilar
Definition
Aberrant, Anachronism, Anomalous, Iconoclast, Discrete, Eclectic, Esoteric
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Embarrass
Definition
Abash, Chagrin, Compunction, Contrition, Diffidence, Expiate, Foible, Gaucherie, Rue
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Equal
Definition
Equitable, Equity, Tantamount
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Falsehood
Definition
Apocryphal, Canard, Chicanery, Dissemble, Duplicity, Equivocate, Erroneous, Ersatz, Fallacious, Feigned, Guile, Mendacious/Mendacity, perfidy, Prevaricate, Specious, Spurious
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Family
Definition
Conjugal, Consanguine, Distaff, Endogamous, Filial, Fraticide, Progenitor, Scion
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Favoring/Not Impartial
Definition
Ardor/Ardent, Doctrinaire, Fervid, Partisan, Tendentious, Zealot
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Forgive
Definition
Absolve, Acquit, Exculpate, Exonerate, Expiate, Palliate, Redress, Vindicate
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Funny
Definition
Chortle, Droll, Facetious, Flippant, Gibe, Jocular, Levity, Ludicrous, Raillery, Riposte, Simper
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Gaps/Openings
Definition
Abatement, Aperture, Fissure, Hiatus, Interregnum, Intersice, Lull, Orifice, Rent, Respite, Rift
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Generous/Kind
Definition
Altruistic, Beneficent, Clement, Largess, Magnanimous, Munificent, Philanthropic, Unstinting
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greedy
Definition
avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
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hardhearted
Definition
asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
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harmful
Definition
baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
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harsh-sounding
Definition
cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
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hatred
Definition
abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
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healthy
Definition
beneficial, salubrious, salutary
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hesitate
Definition
dither, oscillate, teeter, vascillate, waver
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hostile
Definition
antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
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innocence/inexperienced
Definition
credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
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insincere
Definition
disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
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investigate
Definition
appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
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lazy/sluggish
Definition
indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
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luck
Definition
adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitious, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
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nag
Definition
admonish, cavil, belabor, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
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nasty
Definition
fetid, noisome, noxious
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not a straight line
Definition
askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex
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overblown/wordy
Definition
bombastic, circumlocation, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
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pacify/satisfy
Definition
ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify,  placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, sooth
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pleasant sounding
Definition
euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
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poor
Definition
[image][image]destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent
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praise
Definition
acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
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predict
Definition
augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
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prevent/obstruct
Definition
discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude
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smart/learned
Definition
astutem, canny, erudite, perspicacious
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sorrow
Definition
disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
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stubborn
Definition
implacable, inexorable, intractable, instransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
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terse
Definition
compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
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time/order/duration
Definition
anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millenium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
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timid/timidity
Definition
craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
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truth
Definition
candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
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unusual
Definition
aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
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walking about
Definition
ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
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wandering
Definition
discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
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weaken
Definition
adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stulify, undermine, vitiate
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wisdom
Definition
adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
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withdrawal/defeat
Definition
abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde
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