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GRE
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Education
Graduate
10/30/2010

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EXTEMPORANEOUS

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Improvised

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PERFIDY

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Breaking an agreement

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PREDILECTION

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Disposition that favors something.

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PERSPICACIOUS

 

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Acutely perceptive

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PREVARICATE

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Avoiding the truth; misleading

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OBVIATE

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To anticipate or make unnessary

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RECIPROCAL


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Inverse relationship, in exchange for.

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DEPREDATION

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The act of plundering or pillaging.

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RAPINE

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The seizure of property by force.

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STOLID

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Relating to "Stoic"; having little emotion

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SPORTIVE

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Sporty, in a friendly manner.

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FACETIOUS

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 Witty, cleverly amusing. 

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BITHE

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In a joyful, carefree manner; ignorance.

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JOCOSE

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Trait of being in a humorous, joking manner.

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PRECOCITY

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Matured early

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COUNTENANCE

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Explicit approval

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EVINCE

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To show clearly, manifest

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REGALE

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A feast, abundance. 

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AGGRANDIZE

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To increase in rank, or power. To make something appear better than it is.

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BELIED

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Misrepresent; contradict

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MEDACIOUS

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Untruthful, deceitful, falsehood.

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DIFFIDENT

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Modest reserve,  timid.

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HABILIMENT

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Relating to clothes

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SINECURE

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A paid position that has very little work attached to it.

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ARDOR

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A strong feeling of eagerness

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ESCARPMENT

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A steep slope; fortification.

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INSOUCIANCE

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Carelessness, heedless, indifferent.

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TACITURN

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Habitually reserved, uncommunicative.

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GARRULOUS

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Excessively talkative.

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RETICENT

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Reserved.

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PEDANT

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A person overly concerned with forms and rules.

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 MASTICATION

 

 

 

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To chew, bite, grind.

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DEGLUTITION

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The act of swallowing.

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RUMINATION

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Regurgitation of small amount of food.

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MANDUCTION

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The act of chewing

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EPULATION

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Feast; feasting.

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CACOPHONY

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A loud, harsh, and strident noise.

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PRECIOSITY

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Overabundance of glamorous things.

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PRECOCITY

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The exceptional ability of a child.

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FELICITOUS

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Exhibiting an agreeable and appropriate manner.

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SURREPTITOUS

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Stealthy, well-hidden, covert

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PECCADILLO

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Minor offense

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ATRABILIOUS

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Melancholy, sad.

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