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GRE Vocab
a litst of vocabulary words that commonly appera on tests such as the GRE and the SAT
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08/05/2012

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Abolish
Definition
To do away with, to destroy totally
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Abridge
Definition
To reduce or lessen in duration
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Abstemious
Definition
Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking
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Accent/Accented
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To give emphasis or prominence to
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Accolade
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Any award or honor (specifically knighthood)
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Acquiesce
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To submit or comply with no protest
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Affirmation
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The act of stating or asserting positivley
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Amass
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To gether for oneself
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Ambivalence/Ambivalent
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Uncertainty between desires to do two opposite things
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Ambulatory
Definition
Of or pertaining to walking
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Ameliorate
Definition
To make or become better
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Amity
Definition
Friendship; peaceful harmony; mutual understanding
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Anchor
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To fix or fasten firmly
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Antediluvian
Definition
Antiqued or primitave
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Ascendancy
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State of being in a position of dominance
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Atrophy
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Degeneration; decline; decrease from disuse
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Bane/Baneful
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A person or thing that ruins or spoils
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Bizarre
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Markedly unusual
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Blunder
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A gross, stupid, or careless mistake
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Bungle
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To do clumsily and awkwardly
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Burgeon
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A bud or sprout
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Capitulate/Capitulation
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To surrender unconditonally or on stipulated terms
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Capricious
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Subject to suddenly change
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Clemency
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A act of mercy
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Coalesce/Coalescence
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To grow together or into one body
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Cohere/Coherent
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To stick together
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Compress/Compression
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to press together
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Confide/Confidential
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to have full trust/ a secret
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Confound
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To perplex or amaze
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Congeal
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To change from a soft or fluid state to a sloid or riged state
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Contaminate/Contaminant
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To render impure by contacvt with something that is unclean
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Converge
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To tend to meet in a point or line
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Convivial
Definition
Fond of feasting, drinking, and companionship
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Copious
Definition
Large in quanity or number
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Corroborate
Definition
To confirm, make certain
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Corrugated
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To draw or bend into folds or alternative furrows and ridges
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Corrupt/Corruption
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Guilty or dishonest practices
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Cursory
Definition
Performed rapidly withour noticing details
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Daunt/Dauntless
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To overcome with fear/ not to be daunted
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Debilitate
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To make weak or feeble
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Deplete
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To decrease seriously
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Discrepancy
Definition
Inconsistency
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Disentangle
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To free or become free of entanglement
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Disputatious/Dispute
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Given to an argumentative nature
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Distend/Distension
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To spread in all directions, expand; swell
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Drawback
Definition
A hindrance or disadvantage
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Efface
Definition
To wipe out or destroy; to do away with
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Effervesce/Effervescent
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To give off bubbles or gas; as fermenting liquors
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Enhance
Definition
To raise to a higher degree
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Enigmatic
Definition
Resembling an enigma; mysterious
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Ephemeral
Definition
Lasting a very short time; transitory
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Equilibrium
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A state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces
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Euphonious/Euphony
Definition
Pleasant sounding
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Evacuate
Definition
To leave empty
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Evanescent
Definition
Vanishing, passing away, fleeting
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Expedite/Expeditious
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To speed up the progress of
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Expendable/Expenidtures
Definition
Capable of being used up
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Exclude
Definition
To shut or keep out
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Facilitate
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To make easier or less dificult
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Fallow
Definition
Plowed and left unseeded for at least one season, uncultivated
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Fertile
Definition
Bearing, producing, or capabale of producing vegetation, crops etc. abundantly
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Flourish/Flower
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To be in a vigorous state
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Fraudulent
Definition
Given to or using deciet or trickery
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Fruitful/Fruitless
Definition
Productive of good results/ Useless
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Garner
Definition
to get; acquire
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Guile
Definition
insidious cunning; artful deception
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Hackneyed
Definition
made commonplace or trite
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Hefty
Definition
Heavy; weighty
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Hideous
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Horrible or frightful to the senses
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Hilarity
Definition
Boisterous gaiety
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Humane
Definition
Characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for men and animals
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Hypocrisy/Hypocritical
Definition
Seeming to have publicly aproved attitudes that one does not actually posses
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Innocuous
Definition
Not harmful; harmless
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Irascible
Definition
Easily provoked to anger
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Jettison
Definition
The act of casting goods overboard to lighten a vessle or improve its stability in an emergency
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Kindle
Definition
To start a fire
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Leniency
Definition
The quality of being generally tolerant
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Lenient
Definition
Agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent
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Levity
Definition
Lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness
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Levitate
Definition
To rise or float in the air, especially as a result of a supernatural power that overcomes gravity
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Listless
Definition
Having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent
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Maladroit
Definition
Lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless
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Mitigate
Definition
To lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate
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Mobile
Definition
Possessing the ability to move
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Munificent/Munificence
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Extremely liberal in giving; very generous
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Myriad
Definition
Of an indefinitely great number; innumerable
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Nefarious
Definition
Extremely wicked or villainous
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Obscure/Obscurity
Definition
Not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain
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Opaque/Opacity
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Not translucent or transparent; not allowing light to pass through
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Parisimony
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Extreme or excessive stinginess
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Paucity
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Smallness or insufficiency of number or amount
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Penury
Definition
Extreme poverty
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Peripheral/Periphery
Definition
The external boundary of any surface or area
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Placate
Definition
To appease or pacify
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Precise/Precision
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Definitely or strictly state, defined, or fixed
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Premature
Definition
Happening too soon
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Premeditated
Definition
Planned beforehand
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Prevalent
Definition
Of wide extent or occurrence
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Proclivity
Definition
Natural or habitual inclination or tendency
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Prodigal/Prodigious
Definition
Wastefully or recklessly extravagant
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Profuse/Profusion
Definition
Extravagantly generous
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Pulverize/Pulverized
Definition
To reduce to dust or powder as by pounding or grinding
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Rant
Definition
To speak or declaim extravagantly or violently
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Recalcitrant
Definition
Resisting authority or control
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Recant
Definition
To withdraw a statement or opinion
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Replete
Definition
Abundantly supplied or provided
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Rescind
Definition
To revoke or appeal
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Reserve
Definition
To keep back or save for future use
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Ruffle
Definition
To destroy the smoothness or evenness of
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Rupture
Definition
The act of breaking or bursting
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Saccharine
Definition
Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing sugar
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Salubrious
Definition
Favorable to or promoting health
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Somber
Definition
Gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted
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Specify/Specificity
Definition
To mention or name in detail
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Spurn
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To reject with disdain
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Squander
Definition
To spend or use wastefully
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Stymie
Definition
A situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it
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Subtle
Definition
Delicate in meaning
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Summary
Definition
A comprehensive and usually brief recapitulation of previous statements
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Summon
Definition
To call or order to some duty
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Sumptuous
Definition
Entailing great expense, as from great workmanship, materials, etc
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Surrepititous/Surreptitiously
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Obtained, done, made, etc by stealth
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Tantamount
Definition
Equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification (think of equal)
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Tenacious/Tenacity
Definition
Holding fast, characterized by keeping a firm hold
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Transience/Transient
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Not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory
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Turbulence
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The quality or state of being agitated or disturbed
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Venturesome
Definition
Having a tendency to undertake adventures
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Viable
Definition
Capable of living, growing, and developing, as an infant, plant etc.
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Vibrancy/Vibrant
Definition
Moving to or fro rapidly (Vibrating)
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Vilification
Definition
To defame or slander
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Virulence/Virulent
Definition
The quality of being actively poisonous
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Whet
Definition
To sharpen by grinding or friction
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Zany
Definition
Ludicrously or whimsically comical
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