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The handful of difficult GRE vocabulary words that I'm not yet fluent with...good for someone who is expecting to get a perfect score on the GRE Verbal
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11/13/2010
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martinet
 Definition
believer in strict discipline
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pusillanimous
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cowardly
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peremptory
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commanding
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venial
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minor
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intransigent
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stubborn
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peripatetic
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nomadic
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invidious
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arousing envy
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inveterate
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habitual
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pernicious
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harmful, deleterious
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glacial
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hostile
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supercilious
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haughty
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redolent
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smelling of
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contumacious
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stubborn
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Sybarite
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lover of luxury
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feckless
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feeble, inefficacious
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meretricious
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tawdry, falsely attractive
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repine
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fret, worry
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venal
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corrupt
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recondite
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obscure
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caret
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punctuation mark signifying omission
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extirpate
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wipe out
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hortatory
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exhorting, encouraging
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opprobrious
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scornful
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encomium
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praise, plaudit
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demagogue
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mob leader, populist
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effrontery
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presumptive audacity
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nugatory
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insignificant, futile
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sinecure
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a job that requires little effort for the salary
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inchoate
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nascent, embryonic, undeveloped
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natty
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dapper
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suborn
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to bribe
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asperity
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harshness
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labile
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unstable
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sedulous
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eager, thorough
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descry
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catch a glimpse of
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atavism
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regression, return to ancestral features or traditional ways
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expostulate
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remonstrate, strongly object
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probity
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honesty
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homiletics
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the art of preaching
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nostrum
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remedy
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saw
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a wise saying, maxim
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amortize
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to pay off a debt in installments
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plaudit
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statement of praise
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ensconce
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establish firmly
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crepuscular
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pertaining to or being active at dusk or dawn
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laconic
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of few words; terse
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exegesis
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scholarly explanation or eleboration
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salacious
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lecherous, erotic
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turpitude
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depravity
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tyro
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novice, greenhorn, abecedarian
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