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GRE VOCAB
vocab words from 2011 GRE
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Graduate
10/12/2011
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didactic
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instructional
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traduce
 Definition
betray, violate, shame
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endemic
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native to
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abstruse
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obscure
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specious
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misleading, wrong
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immure
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incarcerate
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internecine
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destructive to both sides
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attenuate
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mitigate, reduce
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senescent
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grows old
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moribund
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dying
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pugnacious
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aggressive
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credulous
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gullible
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febrile
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feverish
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suborn
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bribe
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truculent
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aggressive
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parsimony
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stingy
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munificence
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generosity
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rueful
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regretful, sad
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salutary
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beneficial
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noisome
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smelly, gross
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surfeit
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excessive amount
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dissemble
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feign
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clemency
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mercy
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pulchritude
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beauty
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assiduous
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diligent
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aspersion
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slanderous remark
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florid
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elaborate, itnricate
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redoubtable
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formidable
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trounce
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defeat, punish, rebuke
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suborned
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bribed
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polemical
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controversial argument
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turbid
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murky, obscure
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unequivocal
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leaving no doubt
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temerity
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confidence, audacity
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sinistral
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left-handed
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sinisters
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left-handed
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discountenance
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disallow
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vagary
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freak situation
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sibyl
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prophetess
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nostrum
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remedy
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impugn
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question someones honor
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homiletics
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giving homilies
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sedulity
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thoroughness, perseverance
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quisling
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traitor
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maculated
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spotted
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apposite
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suitable
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dissemble
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avoid the truth
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cloture
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closure of debate by voting
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improbity
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dishonesty
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atavism
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regression to ancestral traits
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indigence
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poverty
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avarice
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greed
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probity
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uprightness, honesty
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impugned
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called into question, challenged
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opprobrious
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great scorn
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encomium
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priase
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recondite
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obscure
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contumacious
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stubborn
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perfidy
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treachery
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peripatetic
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nomadic
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