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GRE Vocab 3
GRE Vocabulary Words 100-150
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Undergraduate 4
06/06/2011

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inured
Definition
accustomed to; accepting of something undesirable
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martial
Definition
associated with war and the armed forces
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inimical
Definition
hostile, unfriendly
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exigent
Definition
urgent; requiring immediate action
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florid
Definition
excessively decorated or embellished
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abscond
Definition
to leave secretly
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adulterate
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to make impure
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amalgamate
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to combine; to mix together
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banal
Definition
predictable; cliche; boring
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antipathy
Definition
extreme dislike
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burgeon
Definition
to grow and flourish
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cogent
Definition
convincing and well-reasoned
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corroborate
Definition
supporting evidence
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condone
Definition
to overlook, pardon or disregard
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credulous
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too trusting, gullible
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canonical
Definition
following or in agreement with accepted with traditional standards
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edify
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to build someone up by teaching (personal development, esp. intellectual, moral, spiritual)
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disabuse
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set right, free from error
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equivocate
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to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
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opprobrium
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public disgrace
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obviate
Definition
to prevent, to make unncessary
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pendant
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someone who shows off learning
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venerate
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to respect deeply
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torpor
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extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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esoteric
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known or understood only by a few
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irascible
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easily angered
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ingenuous
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showing innocence or childlike simplicity, unsophisticated, artless, straightforward
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prodigal
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lavish, wasteful
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rarefy
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to make sparser or thinner
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stolid
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unemotional; lacking sensitivity
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repudiate
Definition
to reject the validity of
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axiomatic
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taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
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retrenchment
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reducing expenditure, an interior fortification
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pusillanimous
Definition
lacking courage, cowardly
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aggrandize
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to make greater, to exaggerate
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ambrosial
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extremely pleasing to the senses, divine, delicious
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bandishment
Definition
speech or action intended to coax someone
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cadge
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to get somthing by taking advantage of someone
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caprice
Definition
impulse
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chicanery
Definition
deception by trickery
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conflagration
Definition
a great fire
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craven
Definition
cowardly, a coward
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depredation
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preying upon or plundering
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descry
Definition
to make clear, to say
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dissemble
Definition
to feign, to conceal one's motive
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effluent
Definition
something that flows out; the quality of flowing out
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encomium
Definition
a eulogy or speech of praise
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equivocal
Definition
subject to more than one interpretation, ambiguous, unclear
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erudite
Definition
scholarly, displaying deep or intensive learning
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exculpate
Definition
to prove blameless
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