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375 GRE Vocabulary Tests 3750 Words by Meaning

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 1

Q1

adj. of a substance, especially a strong acid; erosive; mordant (a) stellar

Q2

(c) modish

(d) dexterous

(c) parochial

(d) propulsive

(c) knead

(d) espouse

(c) ravine

(d) chalice

(c) polemic

(d) homeostasis

(c) warble

(d) protract

(c) torrent

(d) recourse

(b) demonic

(b) methodical

(b) scrimp

(b) enate

(b) paladin

v. place a bet on; stake; game; punt (a) gage

Q9

(d) exemplary

n. someone who fights for a cause; hero (a) paranoia

Q8

(c) unrequited

n. a bowl-shaped drinking vessel (a) junta

Q7

(b) famished

v. adopt; sweep up; support an idea or principle (a) burgeon

Q6

(d) vitriolic

adj. tending to or capable of propelling; propelling (a) malicious

Q5

(c) prophylactic

adj. in the current fashion or style (a) blowsy

Q4

(b) puerile

adj. not returned in kind (a) insalubrious

Q3

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(b) decrypt

n. a worker who makes metal castings (a) founder

(b) aureole

Q10 adj. notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex; saw-toothed; toothed; notched (a) serrate

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(b) voracious

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(c) ineluctable

(d) sporadic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 2

Q1

adj. capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; viable; workable (a) headstrong

Q2

(d) practicable

(b) nonnatural

(c) voluble

(d) hardy

(b) intrepid

(c) veracious

(d) generic

adj. not elegant or graceful in expression; inapt; inept; ill-chosen (a) cumbersome

Q5

(c) coy

adj. general; of or pertaining to a class or kind (a) stalwart

Q4

(b) unattired

adj. invulnerable to fear or intimidation; dauntless; fearless; intrepid; unfearing (a) absolute

Q3

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(b) unfaltering

(c) prophylactic

(d) reticent

n. a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line (a) expletive

Q6

(b) grok

(c) vacillate

(d) gorge

(b) burbling

(c) gawky

(d) suppliant

adj. markedly different from an accepted norm; deviate (a) compact

Q9

(d) habitue

adj. uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; effusive; gushing (a) indicative

Q8

(c) pantry

v. gather, as of natural products (a) glean

Q7

(b) epaulet

(b) equine

(c) aberrant

(d) germinal

(b) brumous

(c) imprudent

(d) anthropomorphic

adj. large in capacity (a) capacious

Q10 adj. having existed from the beginning; primeval; primordial (a) acetose

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(b) potable

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(c) bloated

(d) primaeval

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 3

Q1

n. the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets (a) skeptic

Q2

(c) debutante

(d) curmudgeon

(c) impishness

(d) collage

(c) crosshatch

(d) mirth

(c) ethos

(d) depravity

(c) indignation

(d) rhomb

(c) relinquish

(d) harrow

(b) befoulment

(b) coda

(b) hombre

(b) pulchritude

(b) skulduggery

v. cry weakly or softly; pule (a) mewl

Q9

(d) enigma

n. a parallelogram with four equal sides; diamond (a) arbitrator

Q8

(c) imbecility

n. physical beauty (especially of a woman) (a) decorum

Q7

(b) constraint

n. great merriment; glee; gleefulness (a) terminology

Q6

(d) tidings

n. the closing section of a musical composition (a) milieu

Q5

(c) ductility

n. invulnerability; sacredness (a) inviolability

Q4

(b) pizzaz

n. the act of constraining (a) coppice

Q3

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(b) encrypt

n. a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision (a) hinterlands

(b) mortician

(c) optician

(d) berretta

Q10 n. wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite (a) pinafore

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(b) warren

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(c) yen

(d) pyre

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 4

Q1

v. speak unfavorably about; traduce; drag through the mud (a) malign

Q2

(b) prostrate

(c) cavil

(d) discredit

(b) precipitate

(c) languish

(d) consort

(b) ingratiate

(c) palpitate

(d) integrate

(b) memorialize

(c) quaff

(d) waylay

(c) burlesque

(d) pummel

(b) comport

v. frustrate; balk; prevent someone from succeeding (a) foil

Q9

(d) dishearten

v. bear; deport; conduct; carry (a) ebb

Q8

(c) bait

v. commemorate; record (a) contaminate

Q7

(b) disclose

v. mix; merge; blend; join; unite (a) oscillate

Q6

(d) inundate

v. become feeble (a) cull

Q5

(c) verbalize

v. reject as false (a) tether

Q4

(b) fret

v. stick out; project; bulge (a) protrude

Q3

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(b) ostracize

(c) misconstrue

(d) posture

v. make a characteristic sound, of a horse; whicker; whinny (a) neigh

(b) invalidate

(c) extrude

(d) nigrify

Q10 v. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; scrounge; cadge (a) demur

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(b) mollycoddle

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(c) perpetrate

(d) schnorr

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 5

Q1

n. an upward slope or grade (as in a road); rise; raise; climb; upgrade (a) maelstrom

Q2

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(b) saga

(c) discretion

(d) acclivity

adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; supposed; suppositional; suppositious; supposititious (a) piquant

Q3

(c) contest

(d) wrawl

(c) gamely

(d) apropos

(b) contaminate

(b) gingerly

(b) privation

(c) uniformity

(d) misanthrope

(c) stifle

(d) posture

(b) sextant

(c) piddle

(d) leniency

(b) hale

(c) squishy

(d) motionless

(c) befoulment

(d) sluice

(b) hopple

n. liquid excretory product; pee; weewee; water (a) doldrums

Q9

(d) incense

v. be asphyxiated; asphyxiate (a) flourish

Q8

(c) rook

n. someone who is married to two or more people at the same time (a) polygamist

Q7

(b) execrate

adv. adwith reference to; regarding (a) pell-mell

Q6

(d) offhand

v. make radioactive by adding radioactive material (a) bowdlerize

Q5

(c) hypothetical

v. make furious (a) ptyalize

Q4

(b) irreconcilable

adj. static; still; stationary (a) temperate

Q10 n. the state of being polluted; pollution (a) amenities

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(b) ambience

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 6

Q1

adj. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; implanted; planted (a) seamy

Q2

(c) abstracted

(d) rousing

(b) jaded

(c) serrated

(d) mangled

(b) patrician

(c) iconoclastic

(d) drab

(b) prone

(c) encomiastic

(d) adroit

n. adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder (a) centurion

Q7

(b) contumacious

adj. formally expressing praise; panegyric; panegyrical (a) crabby

Q6

(d) obscure

adj. destructive of images used in religious worship (a) misbegot

Q5

(c) ingrained

adj. notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex; saw-toothed; toothed; notched (a) volatile

Q4

(b) intractable

adj. of or for the common people (a) demotic

Q3

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(b) epaulet

(c) idolatry

(d) pedagogue

adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; inglorious; opprobrious; shameful (a) incipient

Q8

(c) ignominious

(d) thematic

(b) fervid

(c) lethargic

(d) unconscionable

(b) pulmonary

(c) devious

(d) obscure

(b) anchoritic

(c) dire

(d) eugenic

adj. extremely hot (a) nascent

Q9

(b) spurious

adj. remote and separate physically or socially (a) bicameral

Q10 adj. of or near the belly (a) ventral

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 7

Q1

n. small mouselike mammal with a long snout (a) bobber

Q2

(b) penchant

(c) chagrin

(d) depilator

(b) nostalgia

(c) provenance

(d) claustrophobia

(b) fortitude

(c) rider

(d) migrant

(b) affidavit

(c) lechery

(d) tepidity

(b) repartee

(c) isotope

(d) swerving

adj. characteristic of false pride; egotistical; swollen; vain (a) hieratical

Q9

(d) trinket

n. one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons (a) qualms

Q8

(c) deluge

n. written statement made under oath (a) conflagration

Q7

(b) vagabond

n. addition or appendix to a document (a) bereavement

Q6

(d) peroration

n. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; place of origin; provenience (a) veneer

Q5

(c) shrew

n. a strong liking; predilection; taste (a) hummock

Q4

(b) furor

n. the act of detonating an explosive (a) detonation

Q3

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(b) conceited

(c) laxative

(d) scurrilous

v. cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light; daze (a) bedazzle

(b) propound

(c) doff

(d) ignite

(b) bugaboo

(c) taper

(d) scenario

Q10 n. selfishness; vanity (a) egoism

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 8

Q1

v. unwrap; let on; bring out; reveal; break; give away (a) disclose

Q2

(b) dote

(c) cark

(d) cohere

(c) implore

(d) shimmer

(b) enfeoff

(c) transcribe

(d) bicker

(b) attribute

(c) transmute

(d) wax

(b) reforge

(b) manacle

(c) grovel

(d) contest

(c) bewail

(d) tote

v. align oneself with a group or a way of thinking (a) rescind

Q9

(d) lament

v. make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; repugn (a) forgo

Q8

(c) memorialize

v. drop sharply (a) plummet

Q7

(b) wane

v. treat, mention, or speak to rudely (a) affront

Q6

(d) bedraggle

v. call upon in supplication; pray (a) atone

Q5

(c) petrify

v. have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results (a) validate

Q4

(b) bedamn

v. regret strongly; bewail; bemoan (a) annihilate

Q3

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(b) array

v. save up as for future use; cache; lay away; hive up; squirrel away (a) stash

(b) unfurl

(c) exacerbate

(d) lambaste

(c) rubberize

(d) swerve

Q10 v. coat or impregnate with elastic material (a) suborn

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 9

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n. deceit; deception (a) libretto

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(b) escarp

(c) juggernaut

(d) aplomb

(b) lurk

(c) incur

(d) disport

(b) painstaking

(c) tertiary

(d) actuarial

(b) tome

(c) arboretum

(d) redress

(b) bowlegged

(c) minute

(d) mannered

(c) miasmal

(d) bucolic

(c) propensity

(d) hooks

adj. filled with vapor; vaporous; vapourous (a) inconsequential

Q9

(d) plauditory

adj. difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; clumsy; ungainly (a) bunglesome

Q8

(c) asinine

n. a (usually) large and scholarly book (a) negation

Q7

(b) virile

adj. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position (a) coalesced

Q6

(d) emendation

v. fill something that had previously been emptied; fill again (a) replenish

Q5

(c) bluff

n. great coolness and composure under strain; cool; poise; sang-froid (a) travail

Q4

(b) petiteness

adj. devoid of intelligence; inane; mindless; vacuous (a) ironic

Q3

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(b) molten

n. large strong hand (as of a fighter); maulers (a) procurement

(b) prey

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(b) murmurous

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(c) wan

(d) invincible

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 10

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adj. extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance (a) noxious

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(b) quaint

(c) looted

(d) swarthy

(c) irrevocable

(d) physiological

(c) linguistic

(d) tantamount

(b) discrete

(c) amoral

(d) lilliputian

(b) mannered

(c) burly

(d) verbose

(c) abdominous

(d) maladroit

(b) dulcet

(b) pursy

adj. expressing offensive reproach (a) abuzz

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(d) merged

adj. sturdy; strong (a) unmedical

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(c) myopic

adj. lying outside the sphere of morals (a) vitreous

Q7

(b) pragmatic

adj. of or relating to the scientific study of language (a) giddy

Q6

(d) fantastic

adj. incapable of being retracted or revoked (a) especial

Q5

(c) unwarranted

adj. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); olde worlde (a) debonnaire

Q4

(b) twee

adj. guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; practical (a) comely

Q3

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(b) scurrilous

adj. awkwardly simple and provincial; rustic; unsophisticated (a) bumpkinly

(b) punctilious

(c) avuncular

(d) commensurate

(b) precarious

(c) gilt

(d) nonimmune

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 11

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n. someone who educates young people (a) inebriety

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(d) reminiscence

(b) motility

(c) circumlocution

(d) dossier

(b) vixen

(c) debutante

(d) anemia

n. rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; volley; burst (a) ken

Q5

(c) outskirts

n. a female fox (a) mace

Q4

(b) pedagogue

n. a change of position that does not entail a change of location; move (a) pittance

Q3

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(b) concession

(c) fusillade

(d) posterity

n. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain (a) apoplexy

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(c) eddy

(d) barterer

(b) emetic

(c) boding

(d) hegemony

(b) demagogue

(c) lagoon

(d) proxy

(b) derision

n. floater; vagabond (a) vagrant

Q9

(d) conniption

n. a feeling of evil to come; presentiment (a) ambivalence

Q8

(c) tribulation

n. a trader who exchanges goods and not money (a) cataclysm

Q7

(b) curator

n. the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects (a) mimicry

(b) centaur

(c) exegesis

(d) blende

(c) geta

(d) poltroon

Q10 n. an abject coward; recreant (a) restraint

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(b) milieu

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 12

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v. rebuke formally; criminate (a) disembowel

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(c) broach

(d) gerrymander

(b) supplant

(c) flay

(d) delude

(b) bask

(c) dote

(d) hotfoot

(b) illuminate

(c) debunk

(d) tout

(b) apprehend

(c) espouse

(d) skimp

(b) extrude

(c) resuscitate

(d) attest

(b) wangle

(c) spume

(d) exploit

(c) bushel

(d) muckrake

v. return to consciousness (a) steep

Q9

(b) canvass

v. treat with excessive indulgence; cosset; baby; coddle; mollycoddle; spoil; indulge (a) cocker

Q8

(d) facilitate

v. expose while ridiculing (a) bushel

Q7

(c) exemplify

(b) jeer

v. shower with love (a) reverberate

Q6

(d) goad

v. strip the skin off (a) exonerate

Q5

(c) censure

v. study; examine; scrutinize (a) genuflect

Q4

(b) aggrandize

v. make easy; assist forward; promote (a) replenish

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v. work excessively hard (a) descry

Q10 v. say, state, or perform again; iterate; restate; retell (a) ingeminate

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(b) compound

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 13

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adj. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; heady (a) judicious

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(b) florid

(c) imponderable

(d) concurrent

(b) mellifluous

(c) innocuous

(d) lucullan

(b) tributary

(c) conception

(d) cornice

(b) amok

(c) askew

(d) gratis

(c) nonchalance

(d) balker

(c) synchronous

(d) natty

(b) vertex

adj. reluctant to draw attention to yourself; retiring (a) reticent

Q9

(d) devolve

n. the highest point (of something); apex; acme (a) podium

Q8

(c) grok

adv. adin a state of rage (a) agape

Q7

(b) obscure

n. the creation of something in the mind; excogitation; design (a) decrepitude

Q6

(d) wanton

adj. lacking intent or capacity to injure (a) unsightly

Q5

(c) ethnic

adj. difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision (a) offensive

Q4

(b) fallow

v. vague; hazy; dark; dim (a) stultify

Q3

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(b) preeminent

adj. troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; harried; pestered; vexed (a) histrionic

(b) harassed

(c) precise

(d) dabbled

Q10 adj. using or containing too many words; verbose; windy (a) wordy

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(b) incitive

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(c) uttered

(d) receptive

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 14

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adj. suitable for drinking (a) lustrous

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(b) odious

(c) bogus

(d) zany

(b) facile

(c) consequential

(d) voracious

(b) theoretical

(c) infinitesimal

(d) bilious

(b) provident

(c) vulpine

(d) tautological

(b) gustatory

(c) conscientious

(d) predatory

adj. making great mental demands; knotty; problematic; problematical; tough (a) serpentine

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(d) cryptic

adj. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain (a) pliant

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(c) nonimmune

adj. showing pensive sadness (a) wistful

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(b) linguistic

adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion; dyspeptic; liverish (a) conjugal

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(d) putrid

adj. having important issues or results (a) clogging

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(c) potable

adj. of or relating to gustation; gustatorial (a) gustatory

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(b) coincident

adj. having a puzzling terseness (a) worldly

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(b) baffling

(c) belated

(d) infantile

adj. capable of being corrupted; dishonest; purchasable; venal (a) actuarial

(b) stealthy

(c) bribable

(d) sonorous

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(b) lilting

(c) desultory

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 15

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n. a sound defeat; drubbing; slaughter; trouncing; whipping (a) carapace

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(b) verdancy

(c) acuity

(d) witticism

(b) satire

(c) pastiche

(d) reconnaissance

(b) nemesis

(c) gadfly

(d) embonpoint

n. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; extension (a) hinterlands

Q6

(d) roving

n. vengeful opponent (a) luster

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(c) auspices

n. the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) (a) restitution

Q4

(b) debacle

n. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; core; center (a) gist

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(b) caviler

(c) denotation

(d) codicil

n. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape (a) arbour

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(d) bureaucracy

(b) roiling

(c) implacable

(d) inordinate

(b) dipped

(c) ludicrous

(d) pragmatic

adj. inconspicuous (a) unobtrusive

Q9

(c) opus

adj. incapable of being placated (a) rabid

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(b) apparition

n. large open car seating four with folding top; tourer (a) phaeton

(b) decomposition

(c) paleontology

(d) witticism

(c) feudatory

(d) huffing

Q10 n. an act of forcible exhalation; snorting (a) phaeton

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(b) ferment

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 16

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v. take pleasure in a taste or odor; enjoy; delight in (a) disgorge

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(c) beguile

(d) bash

(b) affiance

(c) epitomize

(d) attest

(b) countermand

(c) contend

(d) secrete

(b) keel

(c) interdict

(d) pall

(b) apprehend

(c) gloat

(d) amass

(b) eclipse

(c) reforge

(d) usurp

v. take the place of (a) cark

Q9

(b) swathe

v. gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy (a) delete

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(d) extol

v. irritate or vex (a) gall

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(c) gawk

(b) vent

v. be engaged in a fight; struggle (a) hopple

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(d) conflate

v. surround; restrict (a) circumscribe

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(c) congeal

v. wrap in swaddling clothes (a) prune

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(b) savor

v. praise, glorify, or honor; exalt; glorify; proclaim (a) badger

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v. change from one system to another; convert; change over (a) wreak

(b) paginate

(c) metricate

(d) recapitulate

(c) fete

(d) rant

Q10 v. convert code into ordinary language; decipher (a) decrypt

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(b) pussyfoot

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 17

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v. ask for or request earnestly; adjure; press; conjure (a) convoke

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(b) junket

(c) runt

(d) downiness

(b) finicky

(c) cruddy

(d) cadaverous

(b) nauseate

(c) snivel

(d) gape

(c) misogynist

(d) purloo

n. a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular (a) conniption

Q6

(d) wax

v. be wide open; yaw (a) controvert

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(c) entreat

adj. exacting especially about details; fussy; particular; picky (a) mundane

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(b) gloat

n. compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad (a) frond

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(b) confluence

n. the skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor (a) paucity

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(d) placebo

(b) prohibitive

(c) slumbery

(d) nondescript

adj. showing lack of favoritism; impartial (vs. partial) (a) droll

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(c) chassis

adj. used of old persons or old trees; knotted; knotty; knobbed (a) gnarly

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(b) doggerel

(b) malicious

(c) mercurial

(d) disinterested

v. declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; assert; avow; swan; swear (a) bedaze

(b) requite

(c) maul

(d) aver

Q10 n. showing characteristics of both sexes; bisexuality (a) aphasia

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(b) androgyny

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(c) chagrin

(d) fasciculus

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 18

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adj. having a common center; homocentric (a) amorous

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(b) obtrusive

(c) congenital

(d) adventitious

(b) nubile

(c) disgraced

(d) jovial

(b) vivacious

(c) pert

(d) cragged

(b) ellipsis

(c) gadfly

(d) regatta

(b) frolicsome

(c) palatable

(d) grudging

adj. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; inexorable; intransigent (a) kinetic

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(d) ostentatious

adj. given to merry frolicking; frolicky; rollicking; sportive (a) arcane

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(c) implausible

n. a meeting for boat races (a) muggins

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(b) penurious

adj. bold; insolent; forward (a) crabbed

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(d) concentric

adj. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work); lowly (a) menial

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(c) wonted

adj. associated by chance and not an integral part (a) filial

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(b) avaricious

adj. highly imaginative but unlikely (a) devoid

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(b) adamant

(c) seedy

(d) doddery

adj. not bound by shackles and chains; unshackled; untied (a) unchained

(b) devout

(c) permeable

(d) uninhibited

(c) overbold

(d) resonant

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(b) curdled

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 19

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n. a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle (a) citadel

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(b) podiatrist

(c) parable

(d) oratorio

n. characteristic nature of a people or community or era (a) harping

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(b) lineaments

(c) resignation

(d) ethos

n. in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy (a) humus

Q4

(c) gnome

(d) conferment

n. an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.) (a) solemnity

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(b) laity

(b) impropriety

(c) jounce

(d) vagary

n. use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; beginning rhyme; head rhyme (a) patina

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(b) rift

(c) anachronism

(d) momism

(b) chirology

(c) insurrection

(d) coiffure

n. the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest; remonstration; objection (a) brevity

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(d) volition

n. changing a particular word or phrase; rephrasing (a) recasting

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(c) progenitor

n. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); break; severance; falling out (a) virtue

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(b) alliteration

(b) weft

(c) couturier

(d) remonstrance

(c) mishap

(d) gyroscope

(c) cesspit

(d) progeny

n. a source of danger; peril; risk; endangerment (a) prelate

(b) jeopardy

Q10 n. a covered cistern; sink; sump (a) homily

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(b) conserves

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 20

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v. revoke formally (a) befuddle

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(b) pall

(c) debunk

(d) tantalize

(b) nullify

(c) extrude

(d) overhaul

(b) preen

(c) knit

(d) domineer

(b) assent

(c) brook

(d) array

(b) salvage

(c) foist

(d) harrow

v. receive a specified treatment (abstract); find; obtain (a) incur

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(d) beset

v. collect discarded or refused material (a) demean

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(c) exhort

v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; endure; stick out (a) collaborate

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(b) appraise

v. dress or groom with elaborate care; plume; dress (a) foist

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(d) abrogate

v. form or shape by forcing through an opening (a) accost

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(c) undergird

v. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; weary; fatigue; jade (a) gestate

Q4

(b) beget

v. consider in a comprehensive way (a) rout

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(b) careen

(c) grill

(d) winnow

(c) placate

(d) dislodge

v. look down on with disdain; scorn; disdain (a) contemn

(b) manducate

Q10 v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; dismantle; tear down; take down; pull down (a) waft

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(b) maim

(c) hopple

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(d) rase

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 21

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v. make complete or perfect (a) nonplus

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(b) rout

(c) envisage

(d) compress

(b) misbegot

(c) random

(d) careworn

(b) berserk

(c) bifurcated

(d) seismic

(b) rubble

(c) cite

(d) debacle

(b) impropriety

(c) sentinel

(d) anachronism

(b) desiccate

(c) granulate

(d) mortify

v. form granulating tissue (a) infringe

Q9

(d) vogue

n. a person who seems to be displaced in time (a) provender

Q8

(c) clairvoyant

n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; junk; detritus (a) disquisition

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(b) ovation

adj. marked by active interest and enthusiasm (a) avid

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(d) complement

adj. lacking any definite plan or order or purpose (a) ludicrous

Q5

(c) gybe

v. excavate the earth beneath (a) sap

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(b) flit

n. an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty; crown (a) diadem

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adj. covered with water; flooded; inundated; overflowing (a) ingenious

(b) awash

(c) gregarious

(d) satiny

Q10 n. a trait of dignified seriousness; solemnity; solemness (a) ramble

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(b) detraction

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(c) sedateness

(d) chapeau

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 22

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adj. believing the worst of human nature and motives; misanthropical (a) cynical

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(b) synoptic

(c) giddy

(d) hypocritical

(b) embryonic

(c) inanimate

(d) enigmatic

(b) famed

(c) hypocritical

(d) pedantic

adj. foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention (a) condign

Q6

(d) incorporeal

adj. observant; conservative (a) orthodox

Q5

(c) mismated

adj. in an early stage of development (a) connubial

Q4

(b) motley

adj. lacking seriousness; empty-headed; featherbrained; light-headed; lightheaded; silly (a) brittle

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(b) cussed

(c) ascribable

(d) prophetic

n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage; crawler; lackey; asskisser (a) toady

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(d) ragamuffin

(b) delusive

(c) wonted

(d) piquant

(b) artless

(c) analgesic

(d) vernal

(b) cuticular

(c) diffusing

(d) knotty

(c) despondent

(d) amylaceous

adj. capable of relieving pain; anodyne (a) potable

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(c) poignancy

adj. so thin as to transmit light; filmy; see-through; sheer; transparent (a) diaphanous

Q8

(b) clangoring

adj. epidermic; dermal (a) jesting

Q10 adj. extremely hungry; sharp-set; starved; esurient (a) famished

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(b) lissom

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 23

Q1

n. an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics (a) array

Q2

(b) pigment

(c) antiseptic

(d) blackleg

(b) arboretum

(c) deadlock

(d) pantry

(b) embezzlement

(c) retort

(d) knavery

(b) debutante

(c) anachronism

(d) tributary

(b) grotto

(c) gall

(d) pedagogy

adj. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; juvenile (a) unassuming

Q9

(d) habitue

n. the trait of being rude and impertinent; impertinence; impudence; insolence; cheekiness; freshness (a) obeisance

Q8

(c) remissness

n. a young woman making her entry into society (a) setoff

Q7

(b) medley

n. the fraudulent appropriation of funds; defalcation; misapplication; misappropriation (a) countenance

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(d) barf

n. a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition (a) quandary

Q5

(c) torso

n. an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly (a) apparition

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(b) portent

n. manmade water channel equipped with a valve or gate for regulating water flow (a) sluice

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(b) partisan

(c) unscathed

(d) puerile

n. an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation; premature infant; preterm infant; premie (a) preemie

(b) levity

(c) multiplicity

(d) digression

(c) pinafore

(d) quadruped

Q10 n. a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; pinny (a) larder

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(b) fatso

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 24

Q1

v. exhaust by attacking repeatedly (a) bolster

Q2

(b) arraign

(c) snivel

(d) harbor

(b) temporize

(c) profane

(d) eclipse

(b) shinny

(c) tamp

(d) transcribe

(b) aspirant

(c) sage

(d) longevity

(b) bash

(c) conflate

(d) enervate

(c) finagle

(d) rehabilitate

v. censure severely; objurgate; chasten; correct (a) chastise

Q9

(d) decrypt

v. disturb the composure of; unsettle (a) seep

Q8

(c) render

n. any of various plants of the genus Salvia (a) kismet

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(b) retaliate

v. cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; hush up (a) gloss over

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(d) cohere

v. outshine; surpass; outdo (a) unfrock

Q5

(c) stultify

v. accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy (a) kindle

Q4

(b) harass

v. grant in a condescending manner (a) vouchsafe

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(b) cohere

v. substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured (a) subrogate

(b) defoliate

(c) decoke

(d) defrock

(c) deface

(d) reek

Q10 v. anticipate with dread or anxiety (a) anneal

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(b) apprehend

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 25

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adj. large in number or quantity (especially of discourse) (a) static

Q2

(c) uninhibited

(d) practical

(c) agape

(d) amok

(b) atheistic

(b) gamely

(b) philistine

(c) indignity

(d) servitude

(b) bacchanalian

(c) loath

(d) coalesced

(b) consign

(c) immolate

(d) sunder

n. an onerous or difficult concern; encumbrance; incumbrance (a) delirium

Q9

(d) addendum

v. break apart or in two, using violence (a) implement

Q8

(c) celerity

adj. toasted or roasted slightly (a) parched

Q7

(b) genre

n. a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC (a) tithe

Q6

(d) voluminous

adv. open-mouthed; shocked (a) inadvertently

Q5

(c) fabricated

adj. pertaining to the belief that God does not exist (a) vagrant

Q4

(b) seismic

n. relative importance (a) magnitude

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(b) necromancy

(c) discrepancy

(d) onus

v. pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain; swoon; pass out (a) leaven

(b) infer

(c) faint

(d) metricate

(c) galaxy

(d) rave

Q10 n. public statement listing policies and objectives (a) runtiness

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(b) manifesto

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 26

Q1

adj. temporary; impermanent (a) libelous

Q2

(b) enamored

(c) brittle

(d) touchy

(b) penurious

(c) humdrum

(d) circumspect

(b) abstract

(c) agrarian

(d) begrimed

(b) seamy

(c) dubious

(d) gaudy

(b) malefic

(c) retroactive

(d) gibelike

adj. distributed or sold illicitly; black-market; contraband; smuggled (a) bootleg

Q9

(d) disaffected

adj. taking effect on a past date (a) elliptical

Q8

(c) diaphanous

adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display; jazzy; showy; sporty (a) awash

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(b) zestful

adj. intangible; unconnected to concrete reality (a) posthumous

Q6

(d) privy

adj. heedful of potential consequences (a) tractable

Q5

(c) disputatious

adj. (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured (a) brindled

Q4

(b) transient

adj. discontented as toward authority; malcontent; rebellious (a) baseless

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(b) sectarian

(c) avid

(d) placid

(c) aquiline

(d) injurious

adj. having a sophisticated charm; suave (a) debonnaire

(b) importunate

Q10 adj. disinclined to work or exertion; lazy; otiose; slothful; work-shy (a) cringing

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(b) obsolete

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(c) incorrigible

(d) faineant

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 27

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n. someone who dislikes people in general (a) misanthrope

Q2

(b) roofy

(c) trudger

(d) martinet

(b) jubilation

(c) assumption

(d) impending

(b) hitchhike

(c) ensconce

(d) plonk

(c) gamely

(d) pell-mell

(b) askew

(b) ennui

(c) reserve

(d) whit

(c) portent

(d) eddo

(c) defection

(d) largess

n. license to market a company's goods or services (a) granger

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(d) clapper

n. the feeling of being bored by something tedious; tedium (a) correlation

Q8

(c) multiplicity

adv. adcrookedly; slanted; at an angle (a) inadvertently

Q7

(b) vagrant

v. fix firmly (a) goad

Q6

(d) swerving

n. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights (a) privation

Q5

(c) clapper

n. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms; moralist (a) metaphor

Q4

(b) bureaucracy

n. statement that seems to be self-contradictory (a) paradox

Q3

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(b) franchise

n. coloring material used as paint or dye (a) pigment

(b) misadventure

Q10 n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field; pundit (a) mesmerism

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(b) propellant

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(c) voyeur

(d) savant

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 28

Q1

v. measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line (a) fathom

Q2

(b) dissemble

(c) unfrock

(d) canvass

(b) palpitate

(c) entice

(d) infer

(c) traverse

(d) slough

(b) reconcile

(b) esoteric

(c) gleeful

(d) amorphous

(b) dismiss

(c) intersperse

(d) cyclostyle

(c) deride

(d) forestall

v. treat or speak of with contempt (a) fleck

Q9

(d) commandeer

v. print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil (a) teeter

Q8

(c) extricate

adj. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness (a) rakish

Q7

(b) abye

v. accept as inevitable; submit (a) extirpate

Q6

(d) faze

v. beat rapidly (a) abash

Q5

(c) assert

v. dismiss from priestly office (a) granulate

Q4

(b) rubberize

v. release from entanglement of difficulty; disentangle; disencumber (a) delve

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(b) gorge

v. terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; cut short (a) implore

(b) curtail

(c) exude

(d) relapse

Q10 v. censure severely or angrily; rag; trounce; reproof; lecture (a) befoul

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(b) divest

(c) infringe

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(d) reprimand

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 29

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adj. produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation (a) centigrade

Q2

(b) quarry

(c) frieze

(d) temerity

(c) maternal

(d) shrewd

(c) claustrophobia

(d) torrent

(b) inflated

(b) procurement

(b) sybarite

(c) virus

(d) tract

(b) filiform

(c) rustic

(d) simian

(b) liquidate

(c) reave

(d) gerrymander

(b) extirpate

(c) clabber

(d) debilitate

v. impregnate; aerate (a) oxygenate

Q9

(d) ingrate

adj. thin in diameter; filamentlike; threadlike; thready (a) bellying

Q8

(c) hubris

n. microorganism which functions as an infectious agent (a) eon

Q7

(b) temerity

n. an overwhelming number or amount; deluge (a) bubbliness

Q6

(d) hypercritical

adj. used of persons; conniving; scheming (a) tensile

Q5

(c) addlepated

n. fearless daring (a) entrepreneur

Q4

(b) studied

n. an understanding of something that is not correct (a) misapprehension

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v. turn into curds; clot (a) deplete

Q10 v. hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; block; hinder; stymy; embarrass (a) quell

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(b) roil

(c) cull

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(d) stymie

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 30

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adj. decorated with channels or grooves (a) praetorial

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(b) filial

(c) canny

(d) hapless

(b) pallid

(c) tainted

(d) rarefied

(b) venturesome

(c) timid

(d) comatose

(b) bogus

(c) jaundiced

(d) vacuous

(b) incidental

(c) potential

(d) profligate

(c) armada

(d) artifacts

n. everyone being of one mind (a) unanimity

Q9

(d) seminal

adj. expected to become or be (a) capricious

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(c) accessible

adj. showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste (a) thespian

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(b) impregnable

adj. in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness (a) explicit

Q6

(d) shrewd

adj. shockingly repellent; grisly; gruesome; sick (a) macabre

Q5

(c) savory

adj. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; clever (a) seasoned

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(b) fluted

adj. containing seeds of later development (a) pestilential

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(b) diva

adj. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; draped; wrapped (a) prosy

(b) mnemonic

(c) mantled

(d) abusive

(c) buxom

(d) zestful

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 31

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n. a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy (a) ventriloquist

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(b) crosspatch

(c) stolidity

(d) sinecure

(b) hallucination

(c) inertia

(d) spectrum

(b) pauper

(c) crescendo

(d) formality

(b) euphoria

(c) artisan

(d) recourse

(b) oneirism

(c) stint

(d) bane

n. an addition that extends a main building; extension; wing (a) prow

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(d) memento

n. something causing misery or death; scourge; nemesis (a) custodian

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(c) waiver

n. a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation (a) taxonomist

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(b) sedateness

n. a gradual increase in loudness (music) (a) litany

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(d) bludgeon

n. a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities (a) covenant

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(c) quietude

n. washing (a) ablution

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(b) lucre

n. a reminder of past events (a) sybarite

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(b) annexe

(c) centrifuge

(d) apprisal

n. an expression of approval and commendation; kudos (a) extolment

(b) plenitude

(c) pest

(d) apothegm

(c) turgidity

(d) animosity

Q10 n. pompously embellished language; flatulence (a) crosshatch

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(b) quiver

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 32

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v. get or gather together; accumulate; pile up; amass; compile (a) hoard

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(b) sustain

(c) disport

(d) sublimate

(b) ordain

(c) grovel

(d) substantiate

(b) dismantle

(c) blackjack

(d) document

(b) gall

(c) abate

(d) warrant

(b) quash

(c) muckrake

(d) abstain

(c) ameban

(d) ignominious

(c) swank

(d) leaven

adj. practicing great self-denial; spartan (a) austere

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(d) intrude

v. explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures (a) plagiarize

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(c) chide

v. initiate; start; bring about (a) trigger

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(b) knit

v. indicate by signs; portend; prognosticate; betoken; augur (a) foreshadow

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(d) waffle

v. show submission or fear; creep; cringe; cower (a) blurt

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(c) amputate

v. transform a solid directly into a gas (a) ascribe

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(b) daunt

v. censure severely or angrily; rebuke; lecture; reprimand; scold; berate; bawl out (a) fetter

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(b) unwitting

v. display proudly; show off; ostentate (a) allure

(b) impinge

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(b) exuviate

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(d) memorialize

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 33

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n. wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline (a) quay

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(b) fructify

(c) squander

(d) allay

(b) annular

(c) sartorial

(d) erotic

(b) vegetate

(c) dismember

(d) commandeer

(b) masochist

(c) breadth

(d) anodyne

(b) initiatory

(c) mellifluous

(d) appeasing

(c) shun

(d) whinny

v. serve as the inciting cause of (a) discredit

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(d) chagrin

adj. pleasing to the ear; mellisonant; sweet (a) exiguous

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(c) altercation

n. someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment (a) gambit

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(b) continence

v. draft into active service; take over (a) canvass

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(d) stalemate

adj. of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring (a) prolix

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(c) rostrum

v. spend extravagantly; waste; ware (a) pander

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(b) rataplan

n. strong feelings of embarrassment; mortification (a) flotsam

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(b) instigate

v. make more complex, intricate, or richer; elaborate (a) perturb

(b) rarify

(c) scurry

(d) enwrap

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(b) getable

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(c) unembodied

(d) especial

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 34

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adj. beyond normal limits; undue; unreasonable (a) inordinate

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(b) burly

(c) gauche

(d) aberrant

(b) ulterior

(c) bootleg

(d) cannular

(b) collage

(c) nicety

(d) dustup

(b) inerrancy

(c) strut

(d) lout

(b) idiosyncratic

(c) resonant

(d) devouring

adj. repetition of same sense in different words; tautologic; tautological (a) affable

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(d) asinine

adj. (often followed by 'for') ardently or excessively desirous; esurient; greedy (a) coeval

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(c) niggardly

n. an awkward stupid person; oaf; lubber; lump; gawk (a) paean

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(b) brackish

n. any collection of diverse things (a) catastrophe

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(d) frantic

adj. lacking orderly continuity; garbled; illogical; scattered; unconnected (a) disjointed

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(c) bribable

adj. lacking social polish; unpolished (a) chapfallen

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(b) innate

adj. showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; saturnine; sullen (a) dour

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(b) redundant

(c) withdrawn

(d) scrupulous

adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; meddling; busy; busybodied (a) impervious

(b) recalcitrant

(c) parched

(d) officious

(c) parched

(d) decollete

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(b) abstracted

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 35

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n. the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something (a) alloy

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(b) declivity

(c) scenario

(d) ken

(b) epilogue

(c) cognizance

(d) insularity

(b) flick

(c) fusion

(d) levee

(b) virtue

(c) obeisance

(d) ambience

(b) derision

(c) legacy

(d) proclivity

n. a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action (a) rote

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(d) temperament

n. social insect living in organized colonies; pismire (a) emmet

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(c) obeisance

n. a particular moral excellence (a) calamity

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(b) paradigm

n. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything; particle; corpuscle; speck (a) mote

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(d) semblance

n. the state of being isolated or detached; insularism; detachment (a) harlotry

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(c) bane

n. a downward slope or bend; fall; decline; declination; declension; downslope (a) glossary

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(b) excerpt

n. the act of obeying (a) equity

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(b) innovation

(c) grievance

(d) galleon

(c) daftness

(d) argot

(c) maxillary

(d) throes

n. informal terms for insanity; flakiness (a) behemoth

(b) residue

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(b) contriver

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 36

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v. cause to turn away from a previous or expected course (a) gratify

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(b) cozen

(c) extort

(d) writhe

(b) bode

(c) forswear

(d) warble

(b) capitulate

(c) fritter

(d) abash

(b) complement

(c) decelerate

(d) bequeath

(b) sceptic

(c) bugaboo

(d) bestower

(b) dote

(c) martyrize

(d) emend

v. torture and torment (a) parry

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(d) defray

n. someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs; doubter (a) realty

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(c) oxygenate

v. leave or give by will after one's death; leave (a) presage

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(b) console

v. surrender under agreed conditions (a) entreat

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(d) thwart

v. indicate by signs; portend; prognosticate; omen; presage (a) prate

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(c) enunciate

v. obtain (money, information, etc.) through threat or intimidation (a) foster

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(b) deviate

v. give moral or emotional strength to; solace (a) annihilate

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v. embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; epitomise (a) gloat

(b) fabricate

(c) perforate

(d) epitomize

(c) refashion

(d) pillage

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(b) deign

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 37

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adj. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; stupendous (a) ambidextrous

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(b) comestible

(c) galaxy

(d) setoff

(b) pastoral

(c) fantastic

(d) malefic

(b) ecologist

(c) dregs

(d) physiognomy

(b) exacting

(c) tractile

(d) anomalous

(b) coprolith

(c) acumen

(d) barterer

(c) acquittal

(d) parquet

n. act of declaring innocent (a) sedateness

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(d) corporeal

n. shrewdness shown by keen insight (a) pyromaniac

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(c) sinuous

adj. trying; severe; demanding (a) diverse

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(b) carnivorous

n. sediment; particles which settle at the bottom of wine or other liquor (a) foliage

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(d) colossal

adj. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic (a) encomiastic

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(c) hallowed

n. any substance that can be used as food; eatable; pabulum; victual; victuals (a) dupe

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(b) cuspate

adj. curved or curving in and out; wiggly (a) blase

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(b) resolve

adj. having an oblique or slanted direction; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping (a) famished

(b) aslant

(c) interlaced

(d) chivalrous

(c) accost

(d) encompass

Q10 v. stop from happening or developing; block (a) anele

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(b) kibosh

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 38

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adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; suspicious; untrusting (a) wary

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(b) cuticular

(c) laxative

(d) garrulous

(b) insuperable

(c) methodical

(d) whimsical

(c) tacit

(d) ingenious

(c) contrived

(d) sectarian

(c) seamy

(d) initiatory

(b) reparable

(b) bellying

(b) maddening

adj. invulnerable to fear or intimidation; dauntless; fearless; hardy; unfearing (a) intrepid

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(d) absolute

adj. serving to set in motion; first; maiden (a) bland

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(c) receptive

adj. artificially formal; hokey; stilted (a) invincible

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(b) enervating

adj. capable of being repaired or rectified (a) tautological

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(d) baseless

adj. awkward; clumsy (a) maladroit

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(c) phoney

adj. void of expression (a) vacuous

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(b) derisory

adj. not capable of being violated or infringed; inviolable (a) irresolute

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(b) shrewd

(c) knotty

(d) compensatory

adj. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; enticing; tempting (a) alluring

(b) apprehensive

(c) knowable

(d) ternary

Q10 adj. covered with bright patches (often used in combination); splashed; splattered (a) internecine

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(b) voluptuous

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(c) dabbled

(d) cabalistic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 39

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n. things that make you comfortable and at ease; conveniences (a) artifacts

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(b) credo

(c) argot

(d) phenomena

(b) geniality

(c) cognizance

(d) mausoleum

(b) proletarian

(c) stickler

(d) prude

(b) incentive

(c) drone

(d) cubicle

(b) extrapolation

(c) virus

(d) influx

(c) fodder

(d) czarina

n. the wife or widow of a male monarch or emperor (a) chicanery

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(d) machiavellian

n. the process of flowing in (a) deciliter

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(c) vigilance

n. small area set off by walls for special use; stall; kiosk (a) entity

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(b) augury

n. a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum (a) servility

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(d) amenities

n. intense aversion; horror (a) revulsion

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(c) cirque

n. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); jargon; lingo; patois; vernacular (a) proponent

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(b) natation

n. an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; foretoken; preindication (a) terminology

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(b) formality

n. a formal written statement of relinquishment; discharge (a) anonymity

(b) progeny

(c) waiver

(d) carat

(c) paranoia

(d) infraction

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(b) intellect

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 40

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v. put into a bad mood or into bad humour (a) disgruntle

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(d) rile

(b) extol

(c) deface

(d) splice

(b) excise

(c) waylay

(d) rant

(c) garotte

(d) quibble

(b) burlesque

(b) rationalize

(c) incorporate

(d) comport

(c) rhapsodize

(d) ostracize

(c) trigger

(d) dishevel

(c) nullify

(d) disembowel

v. cause to grow thin or weak (a) macerate

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(c) annunciate

(b) exalt

v. invent possible reasons for an action which are not the true reasons (a) presage

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(d) daub

v. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow (a) stupefy

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(c) don

(b) keel

v. remove by cutting (a) deprecate

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(d) exemplify

v. join by interweaving strands (a) sully

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(c) depreciate

v. impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) (a) deflect

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(b) shew

v. put clothing on one's body; get into; assume (a) deprecate

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(b) retrench

v. disarrange or rumple; tangle (a) muddle

(b) lope

Q10 v. carry with difficulty; tug (a) levitate

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(b) tote

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 41

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v. mock; deride; degrade (a) higgle

Q2

(c) muggy

(d) wanton

(c) momentous

(d) stratified

(b) tinder

(c) axiom

(d) horde

(b) traverse

(c) bask

(d) relegate

(c) maritime

(d) callous

(c) nincompoop

(d) raconteur

(b) dubious

(b) causal

(b) jaundiced

n. a person skilled in telling anecdotes (a) quietude

Q9

(d) enervating

adj. having calluses; thickened (a) acidulent

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(c) guileless

v. cross; pass over (a) importune

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(b) convoluted

n. premise; basic assumption (a) asceticism

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(d) stultify

adj. lacking in harmony; dissonant; inharmonic (a) discordant

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(c) perturb

adj. hot or warm and humid; sticky (a) agog

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(b) contend

adj. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; involved; knotty; tangled; tortuous (a) incorporeal

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(b) amebiasis

n. thinks about unfortunate things that might happen; worrywart (a) fusspot

(b) histrion

(c) obsidian

(d) canker

(c) polyglot

(d) podgy

Q10 adj. short and plump; pudgy; tubby; roly-poly (a) clairvoyant

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(b) outlandish

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 42

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adj. showing little if any change; unchanging (a) offbeat

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(b) reputed

(c) savory

(d) rancid

(b) muted

(c) crotchety

(d) causal

(b) medley

(c) effrontery

(d) piety

(b) junta

(c) opus

(d) unguent

(b) inimical

(c) disparate

(d) carbonic

adj. capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature (a) mutable

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(d) conscientious

adj. including markedly dissimilar elements (a) deft

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(c) frenzied

n. a musical work that has been created; composition; piece; piece of music (a) androgyny

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(b) errant

n. righteousness by virtue of being pious (a) melee

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(d) transient

adj. in fear or dread of possible evil or harm (a) apprehensive

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(c) luxuriant

adj. known as; regarded as (a) insolvent

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(b) static

adj. excessively agitated; phrenetic (a) leftover

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(b) jovial

(c) unbridled

(d) tactile

adj. having superior power and influence; predominant; predominate; preponderant; preponderating (a) resurgent

(b) anomalous

(c) paramount

(d) foolhardy

Q10 adj. too sacred to be uttered; unspeakable; unutterable (a) fetid

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(b) unnameable

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(c) sonorous

(d) graphic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 43

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n. transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words (a) collusion

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(c) conjecture

(d) vernacular

(b) benefactor

(c) stigma

(d) outskirts

(b) vogue

(c) irony

(d) secession

(b) anticlimax

(c) neigh

(d) rebate

n. a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people (a) succor

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(b) luster

n. a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together (a) indignity

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(d) spoonerism

n. group; team; friends (a) cohorts

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(c) rampart

n. a very steep cliff (a) precipice

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(b) yen

n. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone (a) obsession

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(b) rapport

(c) psychiatrist

(d) blastoderm

n. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; acknowledgment; credit; reference; mention; quotation (a) comestible

Q8

(c) enormity

(d) legacy

(c) disinclination

(d) polemic

n. a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) (a) revulsion

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(b) cite

(b) fanaticism

n. close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) (a) surveillance

(b) topography

(c) spatula

(d) tirade

Q10 n. person who makes a gift of property; presenter; conferrer (a) truism

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(b) facade

(c) remnant

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(d) bestower

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 44

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v. defeat disastrously (a) pester

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(b) stash

(c) strew

(d) inter

(b) intrude

(c) hoodwink

(d) bolster

(b) coldcock

(c) toil

(d) manipulate

(b) stentorian

(c) unsavory

(d) sophomoric

(b) condole

(c) tapdance

(d) delude

v. arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way (a) bungle

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(d) whinny

v. make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the shoes (a) ogle

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(c) disconcert

adj. not pleasing in odor or taste; unsavoury (a) lank

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(b) scrimp

v. treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed (a) deride

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(d) raze

v. thrust oneself in as if by force (a) schnorr

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(c) rout

v. place in a grave or tomb; inhume; lay to rest (a) glut

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(b) rant

v. cause to lose one's composure; untune; discomfit (a) tantalize

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(b) vent

(c) infatuate

(d) subjugate

(c) affront

(d) cede

(c) fate

(d) mire

v. make froth or foam and become bubbly; suds (a) spume

(b) ascribe

Q10 v. soil with mud or muck; muck up (a) emend

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(b) actuate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 45

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v. turn up, loosen, or remove earth; cut into; turn over (a) perpetrate

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(b) increment

(c) upshot

(d) trappings

(b) tribulation

(c) malefactor

(d) onomatopoeia

(b) list

(c) scrutinize

(d) plonk

(b) odyssey

(c) gastronomy

(d) occident

(b) uncanny

(c) lachrymose

(d) unctuous

(c) fleece

(d) emptor

(c) aloft

(d) incognito

n. outer coat of especially sheep and yaks (a) exploit

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(d) intrinsically

adj. unresponsive to stimulation (a) insensible

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(c) askew

n. a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur (a) paranoia

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(b) gingerly

v. advance beyond the usual limit; impinge (a) infringe

Q6

(d) fleece

n. using words that imitate the sound they denote (a) befoulment

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(c) pester

n. the amount by which something increases (a) pathos

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(b) delve

adv. in a hurried and disorganized fashion (a) pell-mell

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(b) roofy

adv. anonymously; in disguise (a) asunder

(b) headlong

Q10 v. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; flush; redden (a) repeal

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(b) guttle

(c) crimson

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(d) unravel

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 46

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adj. devoid of warmth and cordiality; frozen; glacial; icy; wintry (a) frigid

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(b) capricious

(c) peppy

(d) passe

(b) capricious

(c) fetid

(d) antagonistic

(b) annular

(c) crusted

(d) ludicrous

(b) cordial

(c) precarious

(d) drab

(b) emancipate

(c) scruple

(d) doff

(c) unprepossessing

(d) momentous

(c) accoutre

(d) beget

adj. of very great significance (a) peppy

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(d) tenacious

v. beg persistently and urgently (a) importune

Q8

(c) exuberant

adj. characterized by iniquity; ungodly (a) iniquitous

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(b) sportive

adj. incongruous; derisory; idiotic; laughable; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous (a) ominous

Q6

(d) commensurate

adj. offensively malodorous; foul; noisome; smelly; stinking (a) prodigal

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(c) superannuated

adj. having or displaying great dignity or nobility; majestic; proud (a) lofty

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(b) implausible

adj. characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components (a) asymmetric

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(b) erratic

v. move out of position; splay; slip (a) staunch

(b) luxate

Q10 adj. transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; grumous; grumose (a) fluted

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(b) curdled

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(c) quotidian

(d) ovoid

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 47

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n. a colony of rabbits (a) warren

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(b) kerfuffle

(c) inquisitor

(d) tureen

(b) catapult

(c) perquisite

(d) genre

(b) waif

(c) smattering

(d) catapult

(b) opiate

(c) betise

(d) procurement

(b) ebullition

(c) carnage

(d) intellect

n. any thick, viscous matter; goop; gook; muck; ooze (a) guck

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(d) touchstone

n. physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression); uneasiness (a) malaise

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(c) amyotonia

n. a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative (a) ruse

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(b) roster

n. a crime less serious than a felony; violation; infringement (a) infraction

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(d) interloper

n. an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; bricole; mangonel; onager (a) charisma

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(c) coda

n. an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition (a) seclusion

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(b) dossier

n. a list of names (a) partiality

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(b) microcosm

(c) yield

(d) nirvana

n. the property of being very small in size; tininess; weeness (a) clamor

(b) diversion

(c) petiteness

(d) acme

(c) blackleg

(d) alleviant

Q10 n. a contorted facial expression (a) grimace

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(b) toga

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 48

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v. reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust (a) peach

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(b) arraign

(c) domineer

(d) embroil

(b) faint

(c) overhaul

(d) cavort

(b) constraint

(c) defamation

(d) whelp

(b) carrion

(c) flotsam

(d) taper

(b) chouse

(c) nauseate

(d) circumvent

(b) pauperize

(c) harry

(d) ameliorate

(c) stanch

(d) waft

v. get better; improve (a) loiter

Q9

(d) pan

v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade (a) ptyalize

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(c) swank

n. the dead and rotting body of an animal (a) incarnation

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(b) unravel

n. young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf (a) resolve

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(d) decoke

v. make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to; modernise (a) endorse

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(c) repudiate

v. rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner (a) pussyfoot

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(b) lacerate

v. certify; confirm (a) attest

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v. stop the flow of a liquid; staunch; halt (a) relinquish

(b) entice

Q10 v. consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; equate (a) stoke

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(b) dishearten

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(c) liken

(d) adulterate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 49

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adj. briefly giving the gist of something; succinct; summary (a) temporal

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(b) sustain

(c) propitiate

(d) cyclostyle

(b) floe

(c) coterie

(d) anticlimax

(b) inequity

(c) proletarian

(d) multiplicity

(b) cameo

(c) predilection

(d) lechery

(b) intermittent

(c) calorific

(d) abrasive

n. a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks (a) tonsure

Q9

(d) zephyr

adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety; gamey; juicy; naughty; racy; spicy (a) risque

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(c) escapade

n. a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols (a) orthography

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(b) tarantula

n. a large number (a) severance

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(d) uncanny

n. the action of putting something into operation (a) application

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(c) compact

v. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; substantiate; support; affirm (a) goad

Q4

(b) diabolical

n. large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites (a) poltroon

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(b) lode

(c) fluke

(d) immurement

adj. having a play of lustrous rainbow colors; opalescent; pearlescent (a) merged

(b) germinal

(c) opaline

(d) winsome

Q10 adj. defying expression or description; ineffable; unspeakable; unutterable (a) untellable

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(b) amylaceous

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(c) impeccable

(d) erudite

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 50

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adj. native; local; indigenous (a) lilting

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(c) endemic

(d) lank

(b) primaeval

(c) sere

(d) prefatory

(b) carbonic

(c) concave

(d) recondite

adj. curving inward (a) sluggish

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(b) licentious

adj. offering no resistance; unresisting (a) supine

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adj. pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions (a) synchronous

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(c) tainted

(d) feckless

(b) decollete

(c) glutinous

(d) seedy

(b) interminable

(c) explicit

(d) indocile

(b) factious

(c) inimical

(d) abortive

(c) ostentatious

(d) predatory

adj. not friendly (a) heathen

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(b) fain

adj. in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term (a) igneous

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(d) ovoid

adj. morally degraded; sleazy; sordid; squalid (a) recondite

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(c) artless

adj. generally incompetent and ineffectual (a) superannuated

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(b) sagacious

adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar (a) subliminal

(b) cabalistic

Q10 adj. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; butterfingered; ham-fisted; hamhanded; handless; heavy-handed; left-handed (a) bumbling

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(b) serrate

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(c) definitive

(d) derelict

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 51

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n. a holding device attached to a workbench (a) balm

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(d) vise

(b) tonsure

(c) pizzaz

(d) conformity

(b) compilation

(c) flair

(d) proviso

(c) libertine

(d) rigor

n. adroitness and cleverness in reply (a) repartee

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(c) cubby

n. a stipulated condition (a) countenance

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(b) tedium

n. hardened conventionality (a) drudgery

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(b) pugilist

n. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); gold rush; gravy; godsend; manna from heaven; bunce (a) collation

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(b) assessment

(c) flatulency

(d) stricture

(b) whinny

(c) dismiss

(d) forgo

(b) denotation

(c) remissness

(d) behemoth

(b) pacifist

(c) czarina

(d) vivisection

(c) amyotonia

(d) farce

n. the quality of being lax and neglectful; slackness (a) compliance

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(d) misanthrope

v. declare void (a) verbalize

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(c) windfall

n. a clear seasoned broth (a) bouillon

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(b) impasse

n. a midday meal; tiffin (a) dejeuner

Q10 n. lack of normal muscular tension or tonus; atonia (a) generality

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(b) parlance

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 52

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v. make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil (a) dwindle

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(b) grate

(c) lope

(d) mire

(b) poseur

(c) recrimination

(d) emendation

(b) catechism

(c) unction

(d) brawn

(b) premeditate

(c) maim

(d) slake

(b) misconstrue

(c) appease

(d) ostracize

(c) palter

(d) pillage

v. postpone; put off until a later time; delay (a) procrastinate

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(d) chastise

v. avoid speaking to or dealing with (a) hotfoot

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(c) reverberate

v. think or reflect beforehand or in advance (a) malign

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(b) renounce

n. possessing muscular strength; muscle; muscularity; sinew; heftiness (a) poseur

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(d) dote

n. mutual accusations (a) encomium

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(c) retaliate

v. scratch repeatedly (a) anathematize

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(b) sidestep

v. swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; swig (a) quaff

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(b) trigger

v. pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; clear; discharge; exculpate (a) schnorr

(b) grovel

(c) exonerate

(d) dissemble

(c) recuperate

(d) convene

Q10 v. make amends for; atone (a) abye

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(b) extort

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 53

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n. a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; hallucination (a) fleece

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(c) shunt

(d) check

(c) perspicuity

(d) oaf

(c) fellate

(d) invalidate

(b) debilitate

(b) conifer

(b) exhort

(b) sleazy

(c) pharisaical

(d) compact

(b) grapple

(c) nettle

(d) waft

(c) tyro

(d) pugilist

n. someone new to a field or activity; tiro; initiate (a) dregs

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(d) inception

v. cause annoyance in; rag; get to; bother (a) proliferate

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(c) conscript

adj. excessively or hypocritically pious; pietistical; sanctimonious; self-righteous (a) osseous

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(b) functionary

v. force or impel in an indicated direction; press (a) bode

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(d) delusion

n. any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones (a) hovel

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(c) calligraphy

v. compose; write in words (a) indite

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(b) fiat

n. hell; purgatory; inferno (a) perdition

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(b) masque

v. talk socially without exchanging too much information; shoot the breeze; chat; confabulate; confab (a) defoliate

(b) claver

(c) actuate

(d) affix

Q10 adj. full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; shelvy; shoaly (a) reefy

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(b) ambulatory

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(c) unsullied

(d) rakish

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 54

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adj. deviating from a straight course; roundabout (a) devious

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(b) amphibian

(c) spanking

(d) prophetic

(b) terrestrial

(c) timid

(d) primordial

(b) celestial

(c) salutary

(d) elated

(b) itinerary

(c) treatise

(d) vintner

(b) coltish

(c) uttered

(d) combustible

adj. having a natural fragrance; perfumed; scented; sweet; sweet-scented; sweet-smelling (a) carinate

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(d) glutinous

adj. given to merry frolicking; frolicky; rollicking; sportive (a) malleable

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(c) trite

n. hats for women (a) millinery

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(b) supercilious

adj. full of high-spirited delight; joyful; jubilant (a) brittle

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(d) muggy

adj. of this earth (a) bilious

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(c) lugubrious

adj. able to live both on land and water (a) prolix

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(b) spatial

adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive; gummy; mucilaginous; pasty; sticky; viscid; viscous (a) glaring

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(b) debonnaire

(c) aghast

(d) odorous

(c) ingrained

(d) quaint

adj. not straightforward or candid (a) seasoned

(b) disingenuous

Q10 adj. consisting of fine particles; pulverized; pulverised; small-grained; fine-grained (a) abrasive

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(b) powdered

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(c) gleeful

(d) sinewy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 55

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n. transmission; transfer (a) exposure

Q2

(b) viand

(c) skulduggery

(d) peroration

(b) momentum

(c) jeopardy

(d) frieze

(b) decorum

(c) rider

(d) languor

(b) slander

(c) alchemy

(d) pother

(b) bereft

(c) baleful

(d) practicable

n. a state of commotion and noise and confusion; uproar (a) dermatologist

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(d) troth

adj. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently (a) shoddy

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(c) ventriloquist

n. revelry in drinking; bender; toot; booze-up (a) carousal

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(b) litigation

n. inactivity; sluggishness; phlegm; flatness (a) anvil

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(d) conveyance

n. a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap (a) carcinogenic

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(c) credulity

n. conclusion of a speech in which a speaker reviews the major points of their report (a) acme

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(b) rubric

n. a solemn pledge of fidelity (a) delta

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(b) garboil

(c) chaff

(d) calamity

(c) espial

(d) residue

n. the act of detecting something; spying; spotting (a) fresco

(b) hap

Q10 n. the concluding part of any performance; closing curtain; finis (a) eloquence

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(b) adactylia

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(c) ballast

(d) finale

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 56

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v. let off the hook; free (a) chevvy

Q2

(b) roister

(c) deify

(d) masticate

(b) lallygag

(c) crimson

(d) swank

(b) authenticate

(c) saunter

(d) execrate

(b) peach

(c) hulk

(d) dilute

(b) shinny

(c) gape

(d) divine

v. become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light (a) avert

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(d) protrude

v. keep company (a) consort

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(c) cumber

v. fall away or decline (a) ebb

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(b) manumit

v. establish the authenticity of something (a) comminute

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(d) absolve

v. fill or fit with glass; cover with glass or something sweet (a) glaze

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(c) infatuate

v. chew (food); manducate; jaw (a) stupefy

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(b) solder

v. free from slavery or servitude (a) suborn

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(b) solder

(c) coldcock

(d) suffuse

v. conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; hoodwink; lead by the nose; play false (a) don

(b) vindicate

(c) bamboozle

(d) stem from

(b) ravage

(c) dispel

(d) exude

Q10 v. determine; decide (a) resolve

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 57

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adj. slow to learn or understand; dull; dumb; slow (a) obtuse

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(b) resignation

(c) tract

(d) misdemeanor

(b) urbane

(c) chaffing

(d) annular

(c) maltreated

(d) importunate

(b) apathetic

(b) escapade

(c) disinclination

(d) callowness

(b) physiological

(c) nocturnal

(d) rustic

(b) astute

(c) obtrusive

(d) obscure

adj. sticking out (a) bantam

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(d) stifle

adj. characteristic of the fields or country (a) suppliant

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(c) denounce

n. a certain degree of unwillingness; hesitation; indisposition (a) projectile

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(b) pauperize

adj. expressing earnest entreaty (a) pierced

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(d) ruddy

adj. teasing (a) queasy

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(c) hypercritical

n. a crime less serious than a felony; infraction; violation; infringement (a) contagion

Q4

(b) nondescript

v. stir up or tend (a) stoke

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adj. filled or abounding with fog or mist; hazy; misty (a) brumous

(b) serrate

(c) viscous

(d) narrative

Q10 adj. propelled violently in a usually narrow stream; spurting; squirting (a) calamitous

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(b) jetting

(c) aneurismal

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(d) unimpeachable

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 58

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adj. (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed (a) sedate

Q2

(b) tantamount

(c) absolute

(d) politic

(b) corrugated

(c) burbling

(d) sanguinary

(b) eulogistic

(c) enwrapped

(d) knowable

(b) bumbling

(c) venturesome

(d) retiring

(b) chaotic

(c) impalpable

(d) devoid

adj. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; romantic (a) indeterminate

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(d) skittish

adj. not perceptible to the touch (a) alimental

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(c) autonomous

adj. open to taking risks; willing to experience new things (a) plaintive

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(b) deducible

adj. formally expressing praise; panegyric; panegyrical (a) amorphous

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(d) bacchic

adj. impatient especially under restriction or delay (a) restive

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(c) pellucid

adj. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; suave; bland (a) seedy

Q4

(b) loath

adj. (of a male) capable of copulation (a) potent

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(b) bicameral

(c) amorous

(d) linguistic

(c) cosmic

(d) staccato

adj. having edges that are jagged from injury; torn (a) overbearing

(b) mangled

Q10 adj. having three units or components or elements; triple; triplex (a) ternary

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(b) brusque

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(c) parsimonious

(d) corrugated

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 59

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n. the act of inventing a word or phrase; coinage (a) corium

Q2

(b) dross

(c) moodiness

(d) hireling

(b) befoulment

(c) rhomb

(d) kudos

(b) confrere

(c) juggernaut

(d) aphasia

(b) boon

(c) audit

(d) requisite

(b) queue

(c) fasciculus

(d) atrophy

n. the activities of educating or instructing; teaching; didactics; educational activity (a) spate

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(d) perversion

n. any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) (a) gentry

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(c) heresy

n. a desirable state (a) alloy

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(b) shard

n. a crude idol of Krishna (a) transition

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(d) neologism

n. an expression of approval and commendation; extolment (a) millennium

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(c) increment

n. a person who works only for money (a) demagogue

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(b) fracas

n. hanging down from something; ornament (hanging from a necklace, etc.) (a) pendant

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(b) vestige

(c) pedagogy

(d) hilarity

n. abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; struma; thyromegaly (a) goitre

(b) knell

(c) yeoman

(d) wrath

Q10 n. a long noosed rope used to catch animals; riata; reata (a) auspicious

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(b) amphitheater

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(c) dolt

(d) lariat

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 60

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v. hold back a thought or feeling about; shield (a) beleaguer

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(b) ogle

(c) disperse

(d) reek

(b) avert

(c) niggle

(d) amass

(b) gratify

(c) shimmer

(d) recuperate

(b) slag

(c) quay

(d) cathartic

(b) bedaze

(c) outstrip

(d) orient

(c) metricate

(d) requite

(c) wrawl

(d) chevvy

v. gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts (a) acclimate

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(d) abscond

v. go far ahead of; distance (a) ameliorate

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(c) extricate

n. a purging medicine; physic; aperient (a) melee

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(b) douse

v. get over an illness or shock; convalesce (a) procrastinate

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(d) dismiss

v. strike, usually with the fist; biff (a) pummel

Q5

(c) harbor

v. attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war (a) embed

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(b) exhume

v. take the place or move into the position of; supervene upon; supercede (a) supersede

Q3

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(b) ingratiate

v. cry loudly, as of animals; yammer; yowl (a) bungle

(b) gage

Q10 v. walk as if unable to control one's movements; lurch; swag; careen (a) keel

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(b) swish

(c) memorialize

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(d) mewl

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 61

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n. a senior clergyman and dignitary; high priest; primate (a) wench

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(b) earreach

(c) artisan

(d) turncoat

(b) disband

(c) pore

(d) tarry

(b) leery

(c) fulsome

(d) fain

(b) shard

(c) carnage

(d) perigee

(b) perdition

(c) inerrancy

(d) conducive

n. a disputant who advocates reform; crusader; social reformer (a) immurement

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(d) abetment

n. a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others (a) surrogate

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(c) decomposition

n. a broken piece of a brittle artifact; fragment (a) libido

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(b) arrogance

adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; suspicious; untrusting; wary (a) versatile

Q6

(d) adiposity

v. direct one's attention on something; center; centre; rivet (a) gestate

Q5

(c) prelate

n. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft; journeyman; artificer (a) attrition

Q4

(b) epoch

n. the analysis of a vector field; disintegration; the organic phenomenon of rotting; decay (a) nostrum

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(b) meliorist

(c) filigree

(d) nadir

n. untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) (a) elixir

(b) urchin

(c) disarray

(d) obstetrician

(c) reimburse

(d) pester

Q10 v. annoy persistently; bug; beleaguer (a) protrude

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(b) shackle

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 62

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adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; spiffy; snappy (a) ternary

Q2

(b) thespian

(c) existential

(d) eminent

(b) distrait

(c) infantile

(d) igneous

(b) ethnic

(c) foolhardy

(d) derelict

(b) viper

(c) stigma

(d) bigotry

(b) devouring

(c) luxuriant

(d) causal

adj. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; debonaire; jaunty (a) unfledged

Q9

(d) odorous

adj. produced or growing in extreme abundance; profuse; riotous (a) unassuming

Q8

(c) prudent

n. the intolerance and prejudice (a) prickling

Q7

(b) tautological

adj. in deplorable condition; dilapidated; ramshackle; tatterdemalion; tumble-down (a) orthodox

Q6

(d) spruce

adj. fiery; of or pertaining to fire (a) recalcitrant

Q5

(c) dolourous

adj. impossible to reconcile (a) irreconcilable

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(b) metallurgical

adj. repetition of same sense in different words (a) monolithic

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(b) chipper

(c) iconoclastic

(d) coeval

(c) devout

(d) insouciant

adj. wet through and through (a) sodden

(b) maniacal

Q10 adj. having removed clothing; unclad; undressed; ungarbed; ungarmented (a) inclement

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(b) unattired

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(c) busybodied

(d) celibate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 63

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n. a servile or fawning dependant (a) minion

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(b) trek

(c) ideology

(d) homeostasis

n. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; outcome; result; event; issue (a) amphitheater

Q3

(d) czarina

(b) agnostic

(c) demolition

(d) conducive

(c) glob

(d) sibling

n. someone to whom private matters are confided (a) confidant

Q5

(c) gargoyle

n. the act of demolishing (a) contortions

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(b) upshot

(b) knavery

n. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors; hauteur; high-handedness; lordliness (a) poltroon

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(b) tract

(c) cesspit

(d) incredulity

(b) glut

(c) nonplus

(d) douse

(c) waiver

(d) scabbard

(c) busby

(d) yack

(c) quarry

(d) androgyny

n. a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet (a) distortion

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(d) memento

v. supply with an excess of (a) tipple

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(c) haughtiness

n. a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain (a) liaison

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(b) brawn

(b) magnitude

n. operation on logical values (a) negation

(b) consternation

Q10 n. animal hunted or caught for food (a) emptor

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(b) snicker

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v. bind a person in service to another for a specified period of time (a) languish

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(b) disabuse

(c) doff

(d) ramify

(c) primp

(d) transpire

(b) hibernate

(b) savor

(c) steep

(d) amass

(b) tittup

(c) bandy

(d) hoard

(b) splice

(c) jeer

(d) patronize

(b) strew

(c) harbor

(d) curtail

v. put at a disadvantage (a) hamper

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(d) evince

v. be a regular customer or client of; patronage; support; keep going (a) hunker

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(c) quell

v. cry or whine with snuffling; blubber; blub; snuffle (a) snivel

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(b) prune

v. get or gather together; accumulate; pile up; compile; hoard (a) indemnify

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(d) indenture

v. dress or groom with elaborate care; plume; dress (a) tink

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(c) nauseate

v. remove (a) bedraggle

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(b) stipple

v. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; rationalize; rationalise (a) convene

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v. walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; hobble; hitch (a) gimp

(b) commandeer

(c) befoul

(d) foil

(c) annul

(d) constringe

Q10 v. make false by mutilation or addition; warp (a) garble

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(b) apprehend

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adj. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; pestiferous; plaguey (a) pestilential

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(b) asteroid

(c) lariat

(d) whorl

(b) hatch

(c) title

(d) natator

(b) blinding

(c) bawdy

(d) beatific

(b) devolve

(c) exhort

(d) disparage

(b) machiavellian

(c) ventriloquist

(d) fluke

(c) seclusion

(d) vivisection

n. a long loud emotional utterance; ululation (a) equipoise

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(d) riveting

n. a follower of Machiavelli's principles (a) clarion

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(c) comatose

v. grow worse; drop; degenerate (a) obfuscate

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(b) finite

adj. humorously vulgar; ribald (a) wary

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(d) sinewy

n. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic; throwback (a) atavism

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(c) sonorous

n. a notation used by choreographers (a) choreography

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(b) metaphysical

adj. having limitations; having bounds (a) cognitive

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(b) howling

adj. implied by or inferred from actions or statements; understood (a) partial

(b) pastoral

(c) agog

(d) tacit

(c) guttle

(d) garotte

Q10 v. strangle with an iron collar; scrag (a) bait

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(b) scram

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adj. being sour to the taste; acidulent (a) integral

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(b) acidulous

(c) hoary

(d) gustatory

(c) personable

(d) nascent

adj. involving risk or danger; wild (a) hazardous

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(b) gnarled

adj. conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; hugger-mugger; hush-hush; secret; undercover; underground (a) merged

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(d) glutinous

(b) titanic

(c) lavish

(d) amicable

(b) monumental

(c) retrospective

(d) ciliated

(b) virtual

(c) surd

(d) multifarious

adj. (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars (a) piscatorial

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(c) demoniac

adj. produced without vibration of the vocal cords; hard (a) copacetic

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(b) preeminent

adj. having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections (a) auroral

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(d) surreptitious

adj. of great force or power (a) rococo

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(c) obstinate

adj. berserk; possessed (predicate) (a) rococo

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(b) imprudent

(b) pharisaical

(c) impious

(d) sidereal

(c) grisly

(d) dogged

adj. causing debilitation; enfeebling; weakening (a) enervating

(b) perfidious

Q10 adj. full of or showing high-spirited merriment; jolly; merry; mirthful (a) jovial

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(b) bristling

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(c) chipper

(d) sodding

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 67

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n. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend; scrooge; churl (a) skinflint

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(b) brocade

(c) limner

(d) troth

(b) purgatory

(c) cliche

(d) epaulet

(b) devotee

(c) conflagration

(d) lull

(b) knell

(c) knoll

(d) cavalcade

(b) debonnaire

(c) insurgent

(d) lethargic

(c) extradition

(d) gentry

n. large mackerel with long pointed snout; cero (a) pedagogy

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(d) ewe

adj. of or denoted by an integer (a) integral

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(c) inquisitor

n. the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something (a) debacle

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(b) bountiful

n. a very intense and uncontrolled fire (a) dormer

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(d) fleece

n. banality; commonplace; bromide (a) hatchway

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(c) meliorist

n. thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern (a) libretto

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(b) anvil

n. the state of being senile (a) senility

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(b) cavalla

n. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike; rat (a) advent

(b) assurance

(c) truculence

(d) blackleg

Q10 n. one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals; steward (a) custodian

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(b) titter

(c) agglomeration

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(d) verity

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 68

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v. provide with nourishment; sustain (a) nurture

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(b) inveigle

(c) wane

(d) gall

(b) lacerate

(c) inveigle

(d) orient

(b) burgeon

(c) wean

(d) harass

(c) swill

(d) facilitate

(b) hitchhike

(b) sheathe

(c) rant

(d) eclipse

(b) wreak

(c) vex

(d) purge

(b) whet

(c) codify

(d) reprove

(c) necrose

(d) garble

v. solidify, firm, or strengthen (a) substantiate

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(d) promulgate

v. talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner; jabber; spout; rabbit on; rave (a) tucker

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(c) blanch

v. come into rough contact with while moving (a) jostle

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(b) drone

v. grow and flourish (a) incubate

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(d) swerve

v. adjust to a specific need or market (a) ramify

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(c) enhance

v. take the place or move into the position of; supersede; supervene upon; supercede (a) supplant

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(b) emancipate

v. put a law into effect by formal declaration (a) enshroud

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v. take to task (a) outwit

Q10 v. undergo necrosis; mortify; sphacelate (a) render

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(b) refrain

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n. a strong liking; taste (a) laity

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(c) monarchy

(d) vigilance

(b) coriaceous

(c) circuitous

(d) bemused

(b) expostulation

(c) anarchist

(d) drone

(b) travail

(c) sepulcher

(d) ramble

(c) oracular

(d) ailing

adj. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought (a) maltreated

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(b) inconsistency

n. stroll; promenade (a) neophyte

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(d) debaucher

n. an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof (a) nubbiness

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(c) predilection

adj. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; confounded; confused; lost (a) inductive

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(b) gyroscope

n. an autocracy governed by a king who usually inherits the authority (a) heathen

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(b) shoddy

n. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.; renegade; turncoat; recreant; ratter (a) veracity

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(c) apostate

(d) machiavellian

(c) reforge

(d) levitate

(c) tanginess

(d) stealth

(c) beleaguer

(d) roister

v. cast or model anew; remodel (a) gorge

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(b) largess

(b) babble

n. a stupid mistake; folly; foolishness; imbecility (a) betise

(b) cacophony

Q10 v. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; riot (a) cow

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(b) crimson

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 70

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adj. unpleasant to look at (a) terse

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(b) synthetic

(c) ovoid

(d) noncommittal

(b) finite

(c) arcane

(d) nascent

(b) crotchety

(c) rife

(d) portly

(b) stereotyped

(c) cuticular

(d) existential

(b) agio

(c) concession

(d) limbo

adj. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle (a) bucolic

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(d) risque

n. a point conceded or yielded (a) coquette

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(c) empirical

adj. lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; stereotypical; unimaginative (a) sallow

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(b) coalesced

adj. euphemisms for 'fat' (a) garish

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(d) unsightly

adj. pardonable (a) venial

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(c) verbatim

adj. refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like (a) porous

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(b) pierced

adj. learned through observation (a) rabid

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(b) pugnacious

(c) mincing

(d) therapeutic

adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; ruthful (a) gruff

(b) rueful

(c) hazy

(d) devoid

Q10 adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; gaga; senile (a) doddery

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(b) detrimental

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(c) circuitous

(d) desultory

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 71

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n. poor and often mischievous city child (a) wench

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(b) fracas

(c) crevice

(d) zeta

(b) runniness

(c) chassis

(d) fusion

(b) periphery

(c) arbour

(d) potentate

(b) perversion

(c) galaxy

(d) bombast

(b) bedazzle

(c) bowdlerize

(d) replicate

(c) apathetic

(d) drudging

(c) nape

(d) arbitrator

(c) rataplan

(d) contrition

adj. marked by a lack of interest (a) gargantuan

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(d) crone

v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; expurgate; castrate; shorten (a) suffuse

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(c) jounce

n. system of stars held together by gravity (a) psychiatrist

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(b) jinrikisha

n. a ruler who is unconstrained by law (a) roving

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(d) urchin

n. a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations (a) anesthetic

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(c) postulate

n. noisy quarrel (a) conundrum

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(b) dissertation

n. personal magnetism (a) charisma

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(b) chaotic

n. the back side of the neck; nucha (a) shard

(b) dormer

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(b) bigotry

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 72

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v. attract; enamor; captivate; entrance; enchant (a) renege

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(b) adorn

(c) embed

(d) gibe

(b) preachify

(c) fathom

(d) vex

(b) garble

(c) vouchsafe

(d) addle

(c) gawk

(d) preen

v. look with amazement; gawp (a) betroth

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(d) suffuse

v. become rotten (a) reprove

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(c) beguile

v. be superior or better than some standard; overstep; pass; go past; top (a) transcend

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(b) allure

v. laugh at with contempt and derision; flout; barrack (a) yaup

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(b) stymy

v. bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; normalize (a) dally

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(d) refute

(b) stealthy

(c) sequential

(d) hypothetical

(c) flourish

(d) transmute

(c) jawbone

(d) scruple

v. be silly or tease one another; josh; banter (a) imbue

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(c) anneal

adj. not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex; definitive (a) determinate

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(b) patinate

(b) jolly

v. explain; light up; brighten; elucidate (a) annotate

(b) illuminate

Q10 v. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; stretch (a) aver

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(b) bedamn

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(c) adulterate

(d) whittle

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 73

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n. a disposition free from stress or emotion; placidity; serenity; tranquility (a) neologism

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(b) exacting

(c) petulant

(d) malleable

(b) malediction

(c) pluck

(d) junta

(b) construe

(c) mulct

(d) flay

(b) indiscriminate

(c) demographic

(d) ramshackle

(b) chaparral

(c) cerulean

(d) onus

(b) aloft

(c) awry

(d) gratis

adv. addistorted; crooked (a) indubitably

Q9

(d) enate

n. dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes; bush (a) founder

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(c) succor

adj. in deplorable condition; derelict; dilapidated; tatterdemalion; tumble-down (a) scurvy

Q7

(b) doldrums

v. impose a fine on (a) prompt

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(d) tranquillity

n. the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord (a) economy

Q5

(c) libertine

adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; pliable; pliant; tensile; tractile (a) unsavory

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(b) coiffure

n. assistance in time of difficulty; succour; ministration (a) fancier

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v. render holy by means of religious rites; hallow; sanctify (a) avert

(b) muckrake

(c) compound

(d) consecrate

(c) magisterial

(d) mobile

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(b) retentive

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 74

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adj. exaggeratedly proper; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; strait-laced (a) prim

Q2

(b) doddering

(c) irremediable

(d) suppliant

(b) vagrant

(c) unruly

(d) overweening

(b) idyllic

(c) willful

(d) faineant

adj. causing dejection; dark; dingy; disconsolate; drear; dreary (a) drab

Q6

(d) satirical

adj. smelling of fermentation or staleness (a) rancid

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(c) unequaled

adj. presumptuously arrogant (a) insouciant

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(b) bawdy

adj. humbly entreating; supplicatory (a) finite

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(b) unripened

(c) corrosive

(d) putative

adj. of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees (a) germane

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(d) astronomical

(b) dispassionate

(c) servile

(d) bigmouthed

(c) phoney

(d) perspicacious

adj. mentally acute or penetratingly discerning (a) prudish

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(c) centigrade

adj. unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice (a) cardinal

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(b) dissident

(b) savory

adj. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed; jaggy; notched; toothed (a) erose

(b) taut

(c) discrete

(d) stratified

Q10 adj. moving and bending with ease; lithe; lithesome; slender; supple; svelte; sylphlike (a) nonionized

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(b) outmoded

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(c) lissom

(d) derelict

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 75

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n. the immediate descendants of a person; issue (a) bluejacket

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(b) gambit

(c) quadruped

(d) skinflint

(b) timbre

(c) inequity

(d) ferment

(b) inequity

(c) timidity

(d) numismatist

(b) cog

(c) penury

(d) migrant

(b) synthetic

(c) eulogistic

(d) tumescent

v. appear very large or occupy a commanding position; predominate (a) hulk

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(d) piety

adj. casually thoughtless or inconsiderate (a) offhand

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(c) wont

n. tooth on the rim of gear wheel (a) limbo

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(b) equinox

n. a collector and student of money (and coins in particular); coin collector (a) stalemate

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(d) progeny

n. injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards (a) anesthetic

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(c) tussle

n. an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking (a) shirking

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(b) huffing

n. an established custom (a) panache

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(b) prolong

(c) plummet

(d) grill

n. sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation; contriteness (a) contrition

(b) rubble

(c) crescendo

(d) secession

(c) premonition

(d) scaffold

Q10 n. a small float usually made of cork; cork; bobfloat (a) bobber

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(b) ecstasy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 76

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v. examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; scrutinise; inspect (a) scrutinize

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(b) sear

(c) wax

(d) abate

(b) assent

(c) defoliate

(d) wrangle

(b) toil

(c) fellate

(d) whet

(b) anguish

(c) rapport

(d) confluence

(b) prod

(c) defray

(d) becloud

(c) cavil

(d) jolly

v. raise trivial objections; chicane (a) mulct

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(d) tink

v. make less visible or unclear; obnubilate; haze over (a) dawdle

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(c) emancipate

n. extreme distress of body or mind (a) amble

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(b) vacillate

v. work hard; fag; travail; grind; drudge; dig; moil (a) liken

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(d) quash

v. agree or express agreement; acquiesce (a) terminate

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(c) seep

v. become less in amount or intensity; slack off; slack; die away (a) instigate

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(b) lallygag

v. free from slavery or servitude (a) loiter

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(b) niggle

v. shift from one side of the ship to the other; jib; change course (a) begrudge

(b) tout

(c) intrude

(d) gybe

Q10 v. move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; swosh; swoosh (a) swish

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(b) imply

(c) disperse

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(d) scuffle

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adj. including much or everything (a) wriggling

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(b) kinetic

(c) sacrosanct

(d) enraptured

(b) apocalyptic

(c) sinuous

(d) commemorative

(b) testator

(c) piety

(d) clime

(b) kayoed

(c) impertinent

(d) variegated

(b) communal

(c) craven

(d) perspicacious

n. a methodical examination or review of a condition or situation (a) zenith

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(d) febrile

adj. relating to a small administrative district or community (a) salving

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(c) subliminal

adj. having a variety of colors (a) impotent

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(b) beholden

n. apprehension; worry; doubt (a) misgivings

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(d) inclusive

adj. intended as a commemoration (a) jesting

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(c) invulnerable

adj. supplying motive force (a) unattired

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(b) chaste

adj. completely wanting or lacking; free; innocent (a) devoid

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(b) clangoring

(c) audit

(d) modicum

(c) gloomful

(d) enervating

adj. being sour to the taste; acidulous (a) bootleg

(b) acidulent

Q10 n. someone who expresses strong approval; indorser (a) runniness

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(b) audit

(c) ratifier

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(d) disdain

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adj. wilfully obstinate (a) contumacious

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(b) supposititious

(c) foiled

(d) carinate

(b) pontifical

(c) chanceful

(d) dingy

(b) stygian

(c) visionary

(d) riveting

(b) calorific

(c) pathological

(d) passe

(b) scrupulous

(c) incontinent

(d) fundamental

adj. without real or apparent crystalline form; uncrystallised (a) recalcitrant

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(d) heedless

adj. far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something (a) glistening

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(c) practical

adj. out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded (a) integral

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(b) lavish

adj. not practical or realizable; Laputan; windy (a) endemic

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(d) quaint

adj. capable of life or normal growth and development (a) viable

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(c) discordant

adj. lacking interest or significance or impact (a) insipid

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(b) nonimmune

adj. feasible; useful; workable; applicable (a) swarthy

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(b) fetid

(c) amorphous

(d) coltish

adj. (of reputation) free from blemishes; unsullied; untainted; untarnished (a) stainless

(b) interlaced

(c) bristling

(d) fractious

Q10 adj. fixed or established especially by order or command; ordained; prescribed (a) covetous

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(b) cumbersome

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(c) definitive

(d) decreed

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 79

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n. broadside (a) ruse

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(b) codicil

(c) recession

(d) cadaver

(b) runniness

(c) malcontent

(d) condiments

(b) enclave

(c) allusion

(d) mustelid

(b) trough

(c) forte

(d) trilogy

(b) taciturn

(c) pedantic

(d) simian

adj. characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; slatternly; sluttish (a) compelling

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(d) discrimination

adj. habitually reserved and uncommunicative (a) redundant

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(c) spontaneity

n. individual's strong point; talent (a) touchstone

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(b) velocity

n. an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it (a) subpoena

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(d) comestible

n. seasoning (a) velocity

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(c) insularity

n. understanding and entering into another's feelings (a) empathy

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(b) tirade

n. the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished (a) ovalbumin

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(b) irreverent

(c) blowsy

(d) peregrine

n. belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins); ire; ira (a) compact

(b) enclave

(c) wrath

(d) nonchalance

(c) pomposity

(d) whit

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(b) manger

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v. live in a country area (a) perpetrate

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(b) kibosh

(c) mussitate

(d) egest

(b) fructify

(c) mutter

(d) depreciate

(b) fancify

(c) ravage

(d) absolve

(b) winnow

(c) circumvent

(d) sheathe

(b) amend

(c) depose

(d) fancify

v. put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society (a) reimburse

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(d) stymie

v. cooperate as a traitor (a) collaborate

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(c) parry

v. blow away or off with a current of air (a) clamber

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(b) refrain

v. sit on (eggs); cover (a) incubate

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(d) dulcify

v. make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; grumble; croak; gnarl (a) yaup

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(c) bode

v. increase the volume of (a) amplify

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(b) rusticate

v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade; put off; circumvent; elude (a) contend

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(b) prate

(c) enfeoff

(d) stipple

v. fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) (a) expunge

(b) pacify

(c) berate

(d) endorse

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(b) stifle

(c) incite

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n. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) (a) ruse

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(b) morbid

(c) jocular

(d) predatory

(b) intrinsically

(c) askance

(d) indubitably

(b) tribunal

(c) shyster

(d) gargoyle

(b) probe

(c) accelerate

(d) cajole

(b) shrew

(c) circumlocution

(d) tycoon

(c) abscond

(d) complement

v. cause to move faster; speed up (a) reverberate

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(d) veneer

n. an indirect way of expressing something (a) increment

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(c) contempt

v. investigate; research; study (a) faze

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(b) labyrinth

n. a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground) (a) bevy

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(d) bravado

adv. unquestionably; without a doubt (a) aloof

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(c) spontaneity

adj. characterized by jokes and good humor; joking (a) perspicacious

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(b) bauble

n. a complex system of interconnecting cavities (a) perquisite

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(b) accelerate

n. someone who is morally reprehensible; dog; hound; heel (a) latitude

(b) fecundity

(c) blackguard

(d) epaulet

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(b) discretion

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(c) jocoseness

(d) surveillance

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adj. lacking in sophistication or worldliness (a) incipient

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(b) dolorous

(c) balmy

(d) fell

(b) marital

(c) serrated

(d) cyan

(b) mandatory

(c) eerie

(d) chaotic

(b) enologist

(c) debaucher

(d) transition

(b) incisive

(c) mesmeric

(d) busybodied

(c) gleeful

(d) dyspneic

adj. full of high-spirited delight; joyful; jubilant (a) motionless

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(d) ultimate

adj. favorable to health of mind or body (a) salubrious

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(c) pensive

n. a passage that connects a topic to one that follows (a) paroxysm

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(b) tumescent

adj. confused; lacking order (a) libelous

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(d) unnameable

adj. conveying information to the muscles from the CNS (a) centrifugal

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(c) pervasive

adj. deliberately impassive in manner; impassive; poker-faced; unexpressive (a) deadpan

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(b) ingenuous

adj. meditative; thoughtful; musing (a) dour

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(b) wistful

adj. resembling the new moon in shape; semilunar; lunate (a) crescent

(b) overwrought

(c) ternary

(d) celestial

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(b) compact

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(c) irascible

(d) burnished

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 83

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n. a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner; indoor garden (a) protuberance

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(c) impunity

(d) conjecture

(b) canter

(c) proletarian

(d) automation

(b) bountiful

(c) amble

(d) momentum

(b) cascade

(c) psychosis

(d) ideology

(c) alkene

(d) taper

n. stick of wax with a wick in the middle; wax light (a) impediment

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(b) volition

n. any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted (a) ratifier

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(d) antecedents

n. stain; blemish; mark; insult; disgrace (a) slur

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(c) sophistication

n. a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); worker (a) premonition

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(b) conservatory

n. reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence (a) neophyte

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(b) pterodactyl

n. the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected (a) negation

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(b) ferment

(c) coterie

(d) zenith

n. a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources; pastiche (a) chantey

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(b) egoism

(c) medley

(d) timbre

(c) cerulean

(d) veracity

n. a light shade of blue; sapphire; lazuline; sky-blue (a) carousal

(b) transition

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(b) muggins

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(c) heathen

(d) paean

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v. make subservient (a) subjugate

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(b) intervene

(c) despise

(d) tender

(b) endorse

(c) scavenge

(d) ambuscade

(c) swerve

(d) forsake

(b) bestow

(b) temper

(c) molt

(d) yield

(b) disgruntle

(c) lionize

(d) accede

(b) deign

(c) low

(d) elicit

(b) ingeminate

(c) sire

(d) baulk

v. extract from; bring out (a) inter

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(d) circumscribe

v. agree or express agreement; acquiesce (a) lampoon

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(c) wean

v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; exuviate; moult; slough (a) inveigle

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(b) raze

v. turn sharply; curve; trend; veer; slue; slew; cut (a) reprimand

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(d) clabber

v. clean up; cleanse (a) chafe

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(c) sear

v. look down on with disdain; scorn; disdain (a) desolate

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(b) champion

v. detach the affections of (a) resolve

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v. refuse to comply; jib (a) nigrify

Q10 v. move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); wriggle; squirm; twist (a) authenticate

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(b) worm

(c) dismantle

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(d) daub

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adj. intermittently stopping and starting (a) craven

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(b) bestow

(c) resuscitate

(d) imbue

(c) impertinent

(d) diurnal

(c) blurt

(d) obfuscate

(b) compensatory

(b) contaminate

(b) insolence

(c) stridence

(d) awe

(b) chirology

(c) jollity

(d) centaur

(c) motility

(d) rampart

n. act of exiting; going out (a) egress

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(d) concentric

n. joviality (a) enmity

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(c) reprehensible

n. a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; veneration (a) skinflint

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(b) nonionized

v. hide (feelings) from other people (a) dissimulate

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(d) versatile

adj. serving to make up for or atone (a) faux

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(c) fitful

v. suffuse with color (a) knit

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(b) hapless

adj. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; deplorable; vicious (a) vulnerable

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(b) heresy

n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; disaster; tragedy; cataclysm (a) repulsion

(b) calamity

(c) relish

(d) probity

(b) regimen

(c) advent

(d) aristocracy

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adj. improperly forward or bold; impudent; overbold; smart; saucy; sassy; wise (a) impertinent

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(b) cumulative

(c) querulous

(d) rigid

(b) cringing

(c) inductive

(d) alluring

(b) germane

(c) repellent

(d) gibelike

(b) aplomb

(c) gratuity

(d) waif

(b) aery

(c) terse

(d) craven

adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; grabby; grasping; greedy; prehensile (a) congenial

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(d) rudimentary

adj. brief and to the point; laconic (a) accessible

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(c) heterogeneous

n. in former times was free and cultivated his own land (a) yeoman

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(b) execrable

adj. incapable of absorbing or mixing with (a) grudging

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(d) animated

adj. totally submissive; grovelling; wormlike; wormy (a) schematic

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(c) regal

adj. given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences; self-examining (a) introspective

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(b) dogged

adj. originating outside the body (a) ceremonious

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(b) insipid

(c) absolute

(d) avaricious

adj. of or providing nourishment; nourishing; nutrient; nutritious; nutritive (a) authoritative

(b) aglow

(c) alimental

(d) cognate

(c) buffoonish

(d) unequivocal

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(b) kindred

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n. process of contesting in a court of law (a) cataclysm

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(b) boule

(c) declivity

(d) rebuttal

(b) eon

(c) proviso

(d) canker

(c) rift

(d) vixen

(c) expertise

(d) propensity

(b) forebears

n. unrestrained merrymaking (a) revelry

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(d) rivulet

n. a cavity or passage in a tubular organ (a) lumen

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(c) quagmire

n. long period of time (a) verge

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(b) litigation

n. opposition; refutation; contradiction (a) machinations

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(b) millinery

n. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other noncash expenses); net profit; earnings (a) ruse

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(d) homeostasis

(b) cacography

(c) malaise

(d) quorum

n. an occurrence that involves the production of a union; unification (a) merger

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(c) eloquence

n. inherent ability (a) aptitude

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(b) lucre

(b) jollity

(c) truism

(d) prude

(b) mentor

(c) malefactor

(d) prosperity

(b) objective

(c) diorama

(d) tarantula

n. extreme greed for material wealth; covetousness (a) cupidity

Q10 n. aim; purpose; goal (a) dupery

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v. make children; engender; sire; generate (a) festinate

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(b) atone

(c) quail

(d) flail

(b) polarize

(c) hoodwink

(d) acclimate

(c) petrify

(d) recapitulate

(c) preclude

(d) foment

(b) protean

(c) antsy

(d) indisputable

(b) worm

(c) scruple

(d) supersede

(c) stem

(d) paginate

(c) exhume

(d) fathom

(b) immure

(b) dislodge

v. have doubts about (a) validate

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(d) contaminate

adj. nervous and unable to relax; fretful; itchy (a) feasible

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(c) foster

v. bathe with warm water or medicated lotions (a) accost

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(b) atone

v. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern (a) fret

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(d) beget

v. make up something artificial or untrue; cook up; make up; invent (a) fabricate

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(c) assert

v. turn away from sin or do penitence (a) mollycoddle

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(b) decimate

v. help develop, help grow (a) expedite

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v. number the pages of a book or manuscript; page (a) nurture

(b) gage

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(b) curtail

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n. a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier); criminal; felon; crook (a) diffidence

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(b) tarantula

(c) scad

(d) conceiver

(b) niggle

(c) rusticate

(d) flail

(b) podiatrist

(c) foil

(d) mountebank

(b) ornithologist

(c) dotage

(d) gibberish

(c) dilapidated

(d) bespoke

(c) verge

(d) roseola

(c) decant

(d) expiate

(b) articled

n. a swaggering show of courage (a) bravado

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(d) reputable

adj. bound by contract; bound; indentured (a) sodding

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(c) graspable

n. unintelligible talking (a) carcinogenic

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(b) quadruplex

n. a flamboyant deceiver (a) mischance

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(d) desperado

v. argue over petty things; pettifog; bicker; squabble; brabble (a) disconcert

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(c) virus

n. any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae (a) peregrination

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(b) ford

adj. causing fear or dread or terror; dreaded; dreadful; horrendous; horrific; terrible (a) dire

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(b) tarantula

v. make or become black; melanise; black (a) sensify

(b) nigrify

Q10 adj. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority; resistive (a) equitable

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(b) zestful

(c) insubordinate

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(d) gnarly

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adj. uncertain how to act or proceed (a) irrepressible

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(b) permeant

(c) explicit

(d) abusive

(b) frigid

(c) equitable

(d) sensual

(b) seminary

(c) papyrus

(d) affiliation

(b) excoriate

(c) disport

(d) fritter

(b) vampire

(c) cissy

(d) kinetic

(c) manifold

(d) pithy

(c) subliminal

(d) offbeat

adj. concise and full of meaning (a) eugenic

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(d) definitive

adj. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; blameable; blameful; censurable (a) culpable

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(c) getable

v. move about or proceed hurriedly; skitter; scuttle (a) scurry

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(b) deadpan

n. equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation (a) automation

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(d) irresolute

adj. sexually exciting or gratifying (a) helminthic

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(c) glaring

adj. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment (a) vampire

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(b) contrived

adj. supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement (a) invidious

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(b) bicornate

adj. below the threshold of conscious perception (a) salubrious

(b) practicable

Q10 adj. offensively curious or inquisitive; prying; snoopy (a) celibate

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(b) nosey

(c) hortatory

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(d) frizzly

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 91

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n. disturbance usually in protest; upheaval; hullabaloo (a) clime

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(c) fracas

(d) hubbub

(b) rhomb

(c) conscript

(d) jongleur

(c) potentate

(d) paucity

n. memorization by repetition (a) rote

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(b) turmoil

n. official written document summoning a witness to appear in court (a) subpoena

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(b) conspiracy

n. a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position (a) atrophy

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(c) gambit

(d) girth

(c) quisling

(d) carcinogenic

n. causing or tending to cause cancer (a) berretta

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(b) excerpt

(b) laity

n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way; slickness; hanky panky; jiggery-pokery; skullduggery (a) somnambulist

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(b) skulduggery

(c) fatalism

(d) victuals

n. the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities; agenda; schedule (a) betise

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(c) fiasco

(d) baring

n. a woman who cohabits with an important man; doxy (a) paramour

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(b) docket

(b) rendezvous

(c) curmudgeon

(d) dolt

n. shading consisting of multiple crossing lines; hachure (a) clangoring

(b) crosshatch

(c) retribution

(d) imbalance

Q10 n. flowering plant with two cotyledons; magnoliopsid; exogen (a) dicot

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(b) anarchist

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(c) centaur

(d) gentility

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 92

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v. cover (a) transmute

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(b) tether

(c) skulk

(d) cozen

(b) desecrate

(c) stipple

(d) outwit

(b) divine

(c) gasp

(d) annotate

(b) astronomical

(c) zany

(d) inane

(b) bourgeon

(c) warrant

(d) tipple

v. bring into focus or alignment; focalize; focalise; focus (a) belabor

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(d) relent

v. stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of (a) loll

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(c) clamber

adj. inconceivably large; galactic (a) hibernal

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(b) hew

v. search by divining, as if with a rod (a) comport

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(d) grouse

v. apply small dots or dabs of paint or ink to a surface (a) scale

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(c) badger

v. move stealthily (a) splice

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(b) strew

v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling; shin; shinny; skin; struggle; sputter (a) bicker

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(b) concenter

(c) cranch

(d) intimate

v. talk idly or casually and in a friendly way; schmooze; schmoose (a) tarry

(b) jawbone

(c) fleck

(d) haggle

(c) pauperize

(d) condole

Q10 v. go stealthily or furtively; creep (a) substantiate

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(b) pussyfoot

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 93

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n. gullet (a) cornice

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(b) solicitous

(c) spasmodic

(d) altruistic

(b) lineage

(c) declivity

(d) cavalla

(b) fleece

(c) relegate

(d) indue

(b) sarcasm

(c) wastrel

(d) inconsistency

(b) document

(c) lambaste

(d) foreshadow

adj. characterized by jokes and good humor; jocular; joking (a) plausible

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(d) viable

v. support or supply with references (a) interpolate

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(c) jaunty

n. the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts (a) unanimity

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(b) lunar

v. shear the wool from (a) underscore

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(d) gorge

n. any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. (a) pest

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(c) polemic

adj. occurring in spells and often abruptly (a) lackluster

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(b) paladin

adj. having or showing profound knowledge (a) erudite

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(b) autonomous

(c) jaundiced

(d) jocose

adj. adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations (a) propitious

(b) universal

(c) crescent

(d) resinous

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(b) bellying

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(c) figurative

(d) cruddy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 94

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adj. constituting a separate entity or part (a) menial

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(b) insensate

(c) bellying

(d) irreverent

(c) categorical

(d) permeant

(b) nonnatural

(b) ascribable

(c) gory

(d) amicable

(b) runic

(c) detrimental

(d) asymmetric

(b) propound

(c) disseminate

(d) chide

(c) equine

(d) dire

(c) ramate

(d) circumspect

adj. stopping and starting at irregular intervals (a) intermittent

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(d) incorrigible

v. meet; assemble (a) converge

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(c) cogent

adj. relating to or consisting of runes (a) bleak

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(b) aberrant

adj. accompanied by bloodshed; sanguineous; slaughterous; butcherly (a) garish

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(d) discrete

adj. of a pale to moderate greyish violet color (a) mauve

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(c) bonnie

adj. not revering god (a) infatuated

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(b) jocose

adj. impervious to correction by punishment (a) erotic

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(b) barbarian

adj. having branches; ramose; ramous (a) alluring

(b) miserly

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(b) tertiary

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(c) unscathed

(d) disputatious

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n. a very wealthy or powerful businessman; business leader; king; magnate; mogul; power; top executive (a) perspicuity

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(b) pedagogy

(c) tycoon

(d) pandemonium

n. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud; chiseller; chiseler; gouger; scammer; grifter (a) chalice

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(b) transgression

(c) tycoon

(d) credo

(b) jaunt

(c) caviler

(d) carillon

(b) accelerate

(c) shimmer

(d) affiance

(b) dormer

(c) nostrum

(d) jargon

n. the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation (a) adjunct

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(d) vanguard

n. patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable (a) scabbard

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(c) hatch

v. emit a soft flickering light (a) manacle

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(b) conspiracy

n. a journey taken for pleasure; outing; pleasure trip; expedition; sashay (a) reparation

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(d) swindler

n. fabled monster being half man and half horse (a) centaur

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(c) alimony

n. the position of greatest importance or advancement; cutting edge (a) gadfly

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(b) artisan

(b) genesis

(c) hymnal

(d) embonpoint

(c) paean

(d) parallelism

(c) circlet

(d) travail

n. voiced or written song of rejoicing (a) geta

(b) kaleidoscope

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(b) argot

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 96

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v. indicate by signs; portend; omen; presage; betoken; forecast (a) prognosticate

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(b) appal

(c) slake

(d) yield

(b) cocker

(c) quibble

(d) slither

(b) veer

(c) relapse

(d) pan

(b) terrestrial

(c) perfervid

(d) staggering

(b) exuviate

(c) knead

(d) coagulate

(c) shew

(d) salvage

v. press down tightly; pack (a) tamp

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(d) knead

v. manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes (a) enwrap

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(c) pine

adj. stimulating evacuation of feces (a) laxative

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(b) compromise

v. shift to a clockwise direction (a) undergird

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(d) marshal

v. pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly (a) prevaricate

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(c) tittup

v. cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water (a) flinch

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(b) tamp

v. place on top of; lay over (a) superimpose

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(b) bilk

v. remove the consecration from a person or an object; deconsecrate (a) contest

(b) squander

(c) blackleg

(d) desecrate

Q10 v. wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; waylay; lurk; lie in wait (a) contemn

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(b) indemnify

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(c) bamboozle

(d) ambuscade

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adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; outrageous; steep; usurious (a) civil

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(b) bowdlerize

(c) distill

(d) surfeit

(b) optician

(c) reconnaissance

(d) orientation

(b) porous

(c) acidulous

(d) acrid

(b) ennui

(c) behemoth

(d) impending

(b) vernacular

(c) presentiment

(d) fluctuation

(c) grotesque

(d) ancillary

adj. ludicrously odd; fantastical (a) cardinal

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(d) gala

n. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) (a) wrath

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(c) trek

n. a person of exceptional importance and reputation; giant; heavyweight; titan (a) alias

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(b) verbiage

adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; bitter; blistering; caustic; virulent (a) sensual

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(d) unconscionable

n. the floating wreckage of a ship (a) flotsam

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(c) beneficent

v. divest of church officials (a) defrock

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(b) cringing

n. the act of starting something for the first time; foundation; institution; origination; creation (a) innovation

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(b) alterative

adj. having a secret or hidden meaning; qabalistic; cryptic; cryptical; sibylline (a) cabalistic

(b) perceptive

(c) gilt

(d) ineffectual

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(b) salving

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(c) somatic

(d) febrile

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 98

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adj. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; sanguine (a) sedulous

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(c) methodical

(d) virulent

(b) retentive

(c) heterogeneous

(d) resurgent

(b) kindred

(c) humid

(d) chatoyant

(b) mendicant

(c) reprieve

(d) idolatry

(b) futile

(c) witless

(d) connubial

(c) resilient

(d) subversive

adj. of lustrous grey; silvery; silverish (a) coy

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(b) recumbent

adj. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment; soft-witted (a) erotic

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(d) incontinent

n. the worship of idols (a) entrepreneur

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(c) sanguinary

(b) lethargic

adj. related by blood or marriage (a) gabby

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(d) unbridled

adj. unrestrained (a) uninhibited

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(c) licentious

adj. marked by a ready flow of speech (a) voluble

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(b) florid

adj. deficient in alertness or activity (a) derelict

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(b) argent

adj. full of trivial conversation; garrulous; loquacious; talkative; talky (a) climactic

(b) downcast

(c) insipid

(d) gabby

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(b) burbling

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(c) placid

(d) irrelevant

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 99

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n. an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others; self-importance (a) assurance

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(c) lineage

(d) egotism

(b) catharsis

(c) lassitude

(d) granary

(c) merger

(d) epistemologist

n. a specialist in epistemology (a) knell

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(b) posterity

n. purging; purification (a) talon

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(b) inviolability

n. a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) (a) turmoil

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(c) milieu

(d) mirid

(b) discerning

(c) seemly

(d) succulent

(c) jaunt

(d) marsupial

(c) serendipity

(d) bestower

(b) stint

n. a gay festivity; jamboree; blowout (a) gala

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(b) seminary

n. an individual's prescribed share of work (a) faculty

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(d) interloper

adj. purported (a) putative

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(c) penance

n. the environmental condition (a) profusion

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(b) dossier

(b) cavalla

n. a very boastful and talkative person; boaster; blowhard; line-shooter; vaunter (a) swindler

(b) braggart

(c) ravine

(d) regimen

(c) prelate

(d) andiron

Q10 n. metal supports for logs in a fireplace; dog (a) voyeur

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(b) projectile

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 100

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v. add details to; lard; embellish; aggrandise; blow up; dramatize (a) aggrandize

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(b) extrude

(c) rubberize

(d) depict

(b) rarify

(c) renovate

(d) nauseate

(b) wrawl

(c) pinion

(d) espouse

(b) repository

(c) pachyderm

(d) aegis

(b) impale

(c) garner

(d) sheathe

(c) reprove

(d) impale

(c) ratify

(d) wangle

v. kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole (a) scuffle

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(d) broach

v. shine brightly, like a star or a light (a) glimmer

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(c) colourize

n. shelter; protection; sponsorship; auspices (a) whit

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(b) consecrate

v. cut the wings off (of birds) (a) impale

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(d) cranch

v. cause aversion in; sicken; churn up (a) flinch

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(c) capsulate

v. give a description of; describe; make a portrait of; portray (a) imbibe

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(b) bewail

v. alternate the direction of motion of (a) reciprocate

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(b) capitulate

v. increase the value of; apprise (a) encrypt

(b) appreciate

Q10 v. kill in large numbers; extinguish; eradicate; wipe out; decimate; carry off (a) ferret

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(b) censure

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(c) funk

(d) annihilate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 101

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v. walk leisurely and with no apparent aim (a) stanch

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(d) unerringly

(b) befit

(c) depose

(d) fancify

(b) repellent

(c) maddening

(d) magniloquent

(c) mode

(d) paramour

(b) gall

(b) paroxysm

(c) nonchalance

(d) ictus

n. a musical composition that evokes rural life; idyll; idyl (a) pastorale

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(c) inadvertently

(b) askance

n. the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; indifference (a) litotes

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(d) wispy

n. style; way; manner; fashion (a) respiration

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(c) unripened

(b) fugitive

adj. lofty in style; tall (a) presumptuous

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(d) saunter

v. make a deposition; depone (a) fabricate

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(c) contemn

adv. mistakenly; unintentionally (a) awry

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(b) genuflect

adj. lacking clarity or distinctness; shadowy; vague (a) wizened

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(b) trough

(c) indignity

(d) foliage

adj. (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively; cultivatable; tillable (a) lucullan

(b) concentric

(c) blasphemous

(d) cultivable

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(b) raconteur

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(c) ambrosia

(d) bludgeon

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 102

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adj. old (a) illicit

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(b) bumpkinly

(c) maternal

(d) maniacal

(b) soldierly

(c) cornered

(d) oblique

(b) chivalrous

(c) unequivocal

(d) archaic

(b) deducible

(c) obstinate

(d) discombobulated

(b) handbuild

(c) salvage

(d) reiterate

(c) mottled

(d) saccharine

adj. having spots or patches of color (a) perverse

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(d) unprecedented

v. make without a potter's wheel; coil (a) satiate

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(c) sublime

adj. presenting or taking the same point of view (a) synoptic

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(b) retiring

adj. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type (a) fanciful

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(d) enwrapped

adj. capable of arousing and holding the attention; fascinating; gripping (a) riveting

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(c) superannuated

adj. wildly disordered (a) amiable

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(b) extrinsic

adj. reluctant to draw attention to yourself (a) ebullient

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(b) sanguine

adj. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; loose; promiscuous; sluttish (a) wanton

(b) imponderable

(c) acidulous

(d) alveolate

(c) crabbed

(d) marred

Q10 adj. expressing extreme contempt; scornful (a) worldly

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(b) insulting

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 103

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n. powerlessness revealed by an inability to act (a) solecism

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(b) impuissance

(c) emmet

(d) curator

n. a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); exclusive right (a) proximity

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(b) nib

(c) aureole

(d) atrocity

(b) colander

(c) conveyance

(d) abetment

(b) polemic

(c) nutrient

(d) myriad

(b) toga

(c) cacography

(d) mayhem

n. the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research) (a) intelligentsia

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(d) aspiration

n. poor handwriting; scrawl (a) prestige

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(c) volition

n. a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself (a) eddy

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(b) cataract

n. bowl-shaped strainer (a) knell

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(d) garboil

n. an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint; halo; nimbus; glory; gloriole (a) nape

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(c) perquisite

n. lawyer; attorney (a) barrister

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(b) egress

(b) concubine

(c) vivisection

(d) jambon

(b) bigotry

(c) humus

(d) adversity

n. a stroke of ill fortune (a) diffusion

Q10 n. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication (a) anathema

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(b) economy

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(c) emigree

(d) addendum

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 104

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v. make a parody of; parody (a) gouge

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(b) parry

(c) superimpose

(d) incense

(b) indue

(c) limn

(d) befuddle

(b) deviate

(c) annul

(d) underscore

(b) balk

(c) manducate

(d) peach

(b) foment

(c) compromise

(d) affiance

(c) excise

(d) dissuade

v. turn away from by persuasion (a) truncate

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(d) propound

v. give to in marriage; plight (a) kindle

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(c) decelerate

v. stoop short, as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue; foil (a) guttle

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(b) amplify

v. cancel officially; countermand; reverse; rescind (a) barf

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(d) misconstrue

v. indulge (one's appetite) to satiety (a) surfeit

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(c) burlesque

v. disturb the composure of; enervate; unsettle (a) faze

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(b) careen

v. put forward, as of an idea (a) adorn

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(b) compound

v. give qualities or abilities to; gift; empower; invest; endue (a) scotch

(b) skulk

(c) undergird

(d) indue

(c) exemplify

(d) list

Q10 v. clarify by giving an example of; instance (a) bewail

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(b) scintillate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 105

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adj. relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing (a) mealymouthed

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(b) friskiness

(c) liability

(d) pragmatist

(b) neophyte

(c) stealth

(d) axiom

(b) genealogy

(c) apparition

(d) largess

(b) imbecility

(c) poltroon

(d) shambles

(b) cuspate

(c) sundry

(d) culinary

n. something intended to deceive; dupery; humbug; put-on (a) natator

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(d) autonomous

adj. motionless; inactive (a) quiescent

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(c) cursory

n. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline; derivation; filiation (a) lineage

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(b) benign

n. liberality in bestowing gifts; magnanimity; openhandedness (a) oaf

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(d) dutiful

n. a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist (a) discrepancy

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(c) piscatorial

n. a very wealthy or powerful businessman; king; magnate; power; top executive; tycoon (a) mogul

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(b) austere

adj. (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment; self-reliant (a) piebald

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(b) incline

(c) agility

(d) hoax

(c) blasphemous

(d) deciduous

(c) categorical

(d) inclement

adj. characterized by profanity or cursing; profane (a) malevolent

(b) beneficent

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(b) irresolute

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 106

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adj. characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides (a) internecine

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(b) saturnine

(c) maritime

(d) refreshed

(b) privy

(c) bonnie

(d) precise

(b) niggardly

(c) pleonastic

(d) engraved

(b) disheveled

(c) clogging

(d) endemic

(b) psychiatrist

(c) incline

(d) welter

adj. generous in assistance to the poor; eleemosynary; philanthropic (a) earthy

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(d) lithe

n. a confused multitude of things; muddle; fuddle; smother (a) archness

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(c) errant

adj. in disarray; frowzled; rumpled; tousled (a) bleak

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(b) ingenious

adj. capable of being deduced (a) deducible

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(d) motionless

adj. (followed by 'to') informed about something secret or not generally known (a) irresolute

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(c) odorous

adj. showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; moody; morose; sour; sullen (a) bland

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(b) lancinate

adj. moving and bending with ease; slender; supple; svelte; sylphlike (a) hardy

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(b) beneficent

(c) brusque

(d) reparable

adj. based on or told of in traditional stories; mythologic; mythological (a) conventional

(b) mythical

(c) analogous

(d) earthy

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(b) enwrapped

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(c) figurative

(d) culinary

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 107

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n. a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians (a) nubbiness

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(b) apothegm

(c) repartee

(d) taper

(b) disarray

(c) dupe

(d) choreography

(b) runtiness

(c) bombast

(d) antithesis

(b) dallier

(c) drooler

(d) jeer

(b) fluster

(c) disabuse

(d) incite

n. a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) (a) castigation

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(d) reproach

v. urge on; egg on (a) stoke

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(c) libretto

n. color; aspect; outcry (a) hue

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(b) prickling

n. heavenly state that exists beyond the cycle of reincarnation (a) nirvana

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(d) conception

n. income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments (a) annuity

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(c) getup

n. an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack (a) diversion

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(b) herpetologist

n. the words of an opera or musical play (a) tiro

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(b) effluvium

(c) bereavement

(d) ambivalence

(b) amphitheater

(c) squabble

(d) decrepitude

(c) arrogance

(d) parlance

n. stadium; arena (a) aphorism

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(b) decadence

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 108

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v. criticize harshly or violently; crucify (a) daub

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(b) dislodge

(c) mutilate

(d) luxate

(b) plonk

(c) confound

(d) shackle

(b) hover

(c) bedizen

(d) attest

(b) don

(c) energize

(d) daunt

(b) tether

(c) decry

(d) espouse

(c) refute

(d) reiterate

(c) pinion

(d) tipple

(c) deviate

(d) pillory

v. say, state, or perform again; ingeminate; restate (a) exhume

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(d) belittle

v. express strong disapproval of; objurgate; excoriate (a) scarper

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(c) scale

v. raise to a higher energy level; energise (a) unfurl

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(b) flay

v. linger in an area; waver; vacillate (a) abase

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(d) defray

v. mistake one thing for another (a) affix

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(c) pillory

v. remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied (a) defile

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(b) coagulate

v. climb; ascend; weigh (a) scoff

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(b) muse

v. find repugnant; execrate (a) stint

(b) abominate

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(b) preachify

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 109

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adj. showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others (a) mellifluous

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(b) primaeval

(c) pliant

(d) factious

(b) depilator

(c) euphemism

(d) lumen

(b) concatenate

(c) buttress

(d) loiter

(b) disheveled

(c) atheistic

(d) menial

(b) euthanasia

(c) zeal

(d) hyperbole

(c) hermetic

(d) grisly

adj. recklessly wasteful; profligate; spendthrift (a) leechlike

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(d) millennium

n. crossbreed (a) hybrid

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(c) sextant

adj. existent everywhere at all times (a) omnipresent

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(b) reprobate

v. link together (a) deify

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(d) astral

n. excessive intolerance of opposing views; zealotry (a) fanaticism

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(c) incarnate

adj. dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) (a) perdurable

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(b) altruistic

n. one thousand years (a) cliche

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(b) prodigal

n. a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) (a) verisimilitude

(b) auspices

(c) heretic

(d) eddy

(c) painstaking

(d) abstract

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(b) frizzly

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 110

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adj. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; purple; regal; royal (a) moribund

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(b) pleonastic

(c) roseate

(d) tangential

(b) taut

(c) antsy

(d) petty

(b) viscous

(c) disquieted

(d) subservient

(c) auroral

(d) callous

adj. characteristic of the dawn (a) baleful

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(d) illicit

adj. having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; brinded; tabby (a) brindled

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(c) imperial

adj. subjected to great tension (a) sleazy

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(b) demode

adj. touching at a single point (a) florid

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(b) temporal

v. assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned; cue (a) palter

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(d) prompt

(b) idiosyncratic

(c) discombobulated

(d) jutting

(c) hypercritical

(d) shoddy

adj. inclined to judge too severely (a) gargantuan

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(c) cocker

adj. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; projecting; protruding; relieved (a) slapdash

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(b) welter

(b) culpable

adj. not firmly fastened or secured; unlatched; unlocked; unsecured (a) tendentious

(b) unbarred

(c) vivacious

(d) crinkled

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(b) drab

(c) cherubic

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(d) turbid

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 111

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n. the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals; dross (a) disapprobation

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(c) restitution

(d) chasteness

(b) inkling

(c) vagabond

(d) foresight

(b) reprieve

(c) matriarch

(d) quack

(b) gadfly

(c) rapport

(d) pastorale

(b) knavery

(c) defection

(d) die

(b) annexe

(c) felon

(d) hap

(c) chantey

(d) pretending

(c) centrifuge

(d) adiposity

n. depressant; downer (a) sedative

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(b) subaltern

n. lack of honesty (a) physiognomy

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(d) orifice

n. any of various large flies that annoy livestock (a) fresco

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(c) provender

(b) celerity

n. postponement; delay (a) remonstrance

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(d) chasm

n. floater (a) recasting

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(c) slag

n. the time between two reigns, governments, etc. (a) interregnum

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(b) millennium

n. a stock or supply of foods; viands; victuals (a) materialism

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n. a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors (a) gala

(b) proviso

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(b) epic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 112

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v. offer formally; suggest (a) scranch

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(d) swelter

(c) savor

(d) assail

(b) fetter

(c) patinate

(d) whittle

(b) temper

(c) drone

(d) saunter

(b) sensify

(b) higgle

(c) depict

(d) paginate

(b) strew

(c) commutate

(d) wane

(c) salvage

(d) tink

(c) proliferate

(d) allege

v. decrease in phase (a) ensconce

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(c) mortify

(b) annotate

v. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster (a) placate

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(d) warble

v. reproduce; bring forth (a) spawn

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(c) gawk

(b) gybe

v. cut small bits or pare shavings from (a) glaze

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(d) ravel

v. attack in speech or writing (a) liken

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(c) tender

v. undergo necrosis; sphacelate (a) forswear

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(b) appease

v. sing by changing register; descant (a) daunt

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v. make or emit a high sound; clink; chink (a) bedraggle

(b) flout

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adj. sealed by fusion so as to be airtight; obscure and mysterious; occult (a) gemmed

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(b) adorn

(c) rail

(d) befit

(b) matriarch

(c) eon

(d) leniency

(b) malfeasance

(c) skeptic

(d) nicety

(b) prefatory

(c) pellucid

(d) puerile

(b) demode

(c) unfaltering

(d) seemly

n. an auxiliary activity; hobby; pursuit; sideline; spare-time activity (a) misdemeanor

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(d) cartographer

adj. out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded; passe; passee (a) crescent

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(c) acme

adj. of or relating to or similar to bears (a) ursine

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(b) stint

n. wrongful conduct by a public official (a) ramble

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(d) bereft

n. a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons) (a) sarcasm

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(c) hermetic

v. furnish with power or authority (a) unravel

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(b) filiform

n. the highest point (of something); apex (a) despotism

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(b) missile

(c) avocation

(d) cliche

(c) accredited

(d) aglow

(c) aperient

(d) cite

adj. softly bright or radiant; lucent; luminous (a) cragged

(b) supple

Q10 n. a purging medicine; physic (a) epitome

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(b) whelp

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adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; raffish; rakish; spiffy; snappy; spruce (a) insubstantial

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(b) rousing

(c) stygian

(d) sluggish

(b) finical

(c) viscous

(d) simplistic

(b) arcane

(c) uxorious

(d) sinuous

(b) manifest

(c) optional

(d) visceral

(b) trite

(c) invulnerable

(d) invidious

(b) ethereal

(c) unrequited

(d) singular

adj. heavenly; light; airy (a) pastoral

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(d) ethnic

adj. of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air; terrestrial; terrene (a) tellurian

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(c) filiform

adj. obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation (a) diffusing

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(b) paltry

adj. defying imitation (a) inimitable

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(d) natty

adj. characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity (a) enwrapped

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(c) unseemly

adj. slow; inactive; lethargic (a) sodden

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(b) copacetic

adj. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam; pagan (a) imponderable

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adj. lacking sense or understanding or judgment (of especially persons) (a) ominous

(b) affected

(c) nitwitted

(d) scurrilous

(b) succulent

(c) looted

(d) linguistic

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n. an instance of misfortune; mischance (a) bouillon

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(b) reprobate

(c) agenda

(d) mishap

n. a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time (a) tranquillity

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(b) onomatopoeia

(c) posterity

(d) oneirism

(c) hierarchy

(d) paragon

(c) diffidence

(d) blastoderm

(b) facet

(b) canter

(b) truism

(c) aspirant

(d) feudatory

(b) auspicious

(c) reparation

(d) asylum

n. favorable; beneficent (a) convert

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(d) transport

n. an ambitious and aspiring young person; hopeful; wannabe; wannabee (a) cephalitis

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(c) xenophobia

n. a smooth three-beat gait (a) regime

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(b) ascendancy

n. a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone) (a) ecologist

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(d) cirque

n. all future generations (a) subsidy

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(c) verdigris

n. a state of extreme confusion and disorder; bedlam; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness (a) pandemonium

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(b) hoax

n. a butcher's knife having a large square blade; chopper (a) barrage

(b) cleaver

(c) quagmire

(d) revulsion

Q10 n. a framework that supports climbing plants; bower; pergola (a) arbour

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(b) heretic

(c) barb

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(d) turgidity

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v. make repayment for or return something (a) execute

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(c) stupefy

(d) maul

(c) accoutre

(d) chafe

(c) sheathe

(d) interpolate

(c) dishevel

(d) quarry

(c) satiate

(d) beset

(c) lallygag

(d) slacken

(c) desolate

(d) doss

(b) jawbone

(b) nigrify

(b) unfurl

(b) prevail

(b) stem

v. be about; lounge; loaf; hang around; mill around (a) illuminate

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(d) bequeath

v. arise; come from; originate (a) prolong

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(c) prostrate

v. hew; chisel; dig; excavate (a) abrogate

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(b) cull

v. plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh (a) blackleg

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(d) premeditate

v. warm by rubbing, as with the hands (a) buttress

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(c) chastise

v. be a precursor of; introduce (a) inaugurate

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(b) requite

v. look for and gather (a) dilute

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(b) ambuscade

v. become tight or as if tight; narrow (a) enumerate

(b) constringe

Q10 v. engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; conjure; machinate (a) complot

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(b) supplicate

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(c) wangle

(d) relapse

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n. convent; monastery (a) cloister

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(b) impenetrable

(c) abortive

(d) punctilious

(b) ambivalence

(c) pessimism

(d) semblance

(b) aplomb

(c) malcontent

(d) peon

(b) blinding

(c) incontinent

(d) unwieldy

(b) servitude

(c) hencoop

(d) euthanasia

adj. lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body (a) vindictive

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(d) affidavit

n. state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment (a) chaw

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(c) camaraderie

adj. not having control over urination and defecation (a) heathen

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(b) responsiveness

n. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work; navvy; galley slave (a) dais

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(d) apotheosis

n. mixed feelings or emotions (a) diffusion

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(c) aspiration

adj. having an unpleasant smell; unpleasant-smelling; ill-smelling; stinky (a) malodorous

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(b) rostrum

n. quality of being quick to react (a) testator

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(b) disaffected

(c) leery

(d) lateral

n. the state of being under the control of another person; vassalage (a) assiduity

(b) bluff

(c) din

(d) serfdom

Q10 adj. of or belonging to or active during the day; having a daily cycle or occurring every day (a) bendable

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(b) halting

(c) kindred

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(d) diurnal

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adj. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades (a) spartan

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(b) convex

(c) ramate

(d) resurgent

(b) berserk

(c) incorporeal

(d) jingoistic

(b) bode

(c) blanch

(d) germinate

(b) conjecture

(c) imbroglio

(d) coiffure

(b) convex

(c) satirical

(d) jaded

(b) guileless

(c) scurvy

(d) lackluster

adj. free of deceit (a) blase

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(d) hypothetical

adj. curving or bulging outward (a) uttered

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(c) irrelevant

n. the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair); hair style (a) timidity

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(b) bacchic

v. turn pale; whiten (a) deign

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(d) perdurable

adj. frenzied as if possessed by a demon; demoniac; demoniacal (a) impervious

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(c) stygian

adj. rising again as to new life and vigor (a) rife

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(b) prudish

adj. having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue (a) titanic

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adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; meddling; officious (a) acuate

(b) busybodied

(c) therapeutic

(d) rapacious

(c) phlegmatic

(d) fitful

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(b) azure

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n. hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles; cuticle; shield (a) dispassion

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(b) vivisection

(c) purgatory

(d) cognizance

(b) remorse

(c) verbiage

(d) catapult

(b) lode

(c) barb

(d) gargoyle

(b) bovine

(c) glowering

(d) satirical

(b) rebate

(c) paleontology

(d) neologism

n. edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants; dasheen (a) clarion

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(d) coping

n. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving; filling; pick (a) weft

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(c) criteria

adj. exposing human folly to ridicule (a) appeasing

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(b) incidence

n. an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal (a) queue

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(d) crypt

n. the manner in which something is expressed in words; phrasing; phraseology; choice of words (a) mirage

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(c) mountebank

n. place of purification (a) flick

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(b) carapace

n. a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; standard (a) refraction

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(b) requiem

(c) eddo

(d) apathy

n. a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) (a) trinket

(b) potentate

(c) preamble

(d) penury

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(b) jingoism

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(c) redress

(d) obituary

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v. determine the number or amount of (a) pine

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(b) skulk

(c) fete

(d) romanize

(b) environ

(c) jampack

(d) muse

(b) stanch

(c) balk

(d) supplicate

(b) assail

(c) countenance

(d) drone

(b) equable

(c) ventral

(d) muggy

(c) foster

(d) flay

v. move or swing from side to side regularly (a) careen

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(d) rehabilitate

adj. not easily irritated; good-tempered; placid (a) militant

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(c) mulct

v. fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters (a) scuffle

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(b) construe

v. ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer (a) bash

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(d) ravel

v. reflect deeply on a subject; think over; meditate; contemplate; reflect (a) sate

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(c) replenish

v. have a celebration (a) scranch

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(b) enumerate

v. take exception to; except (a) demur

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(b) oscillate

v. make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; negate (a) scavenge

(b) energize

(c) nullify

(d) raze

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(b) lacerate

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(c) neigh

(d) sire

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n. one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather (a) functionary

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(c) apropos

(d) unerringly

(b) aloof

(b) misgivings

(c) mendicant

(d) residue

(b) dolourous

(c) ligneous

(d) seismic

(b) incite

(c) desiccate

(d) document

(b) resolve

(c) megalomania

(d) impetus

(c) bantam

(d) garish

(c) obituary

(d) panegyric

(c) check

(d) bungle

adj. tastelessly showy; cheap; flash; gaudy (a) calamitous

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(d) dismantle

n. apoapsis in Earth orbit (a) apogee

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(c) incur

v. lose water or moisture; dry up (a) equivocate

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(b) accede

adj. subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration (a) testy

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(d) founder

n. something left after other parts have been taken away; residual; residuum; rest (a) virtue

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(c) vise

adv. without error; accurately (a) agape

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(b) barb

v. take off or remove (a) waffle

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(b) unsullied

n. a notice of someone's death; necrology (a) fulcrum

(b) agenda

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(b) refute

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adj. spiteful; harmful; deadly (a) especial

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(b) unintimidating

(c) artless

(d) indicative

(b) ramshackle

(c) climactic

(d) carping

(b) halting

(c) forensic

(d) sanguine

(b) eon

(c) invective

(d) bivouac

(b) sordid

(c) belligerent

(d) cerebral

(c) importunate

(d) pursy

adj. lacking moral discipline (a) licentious

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(d) hazy

adj. in deplorable condition; derelict; ramshackle; tatterdemalion; tumble-down (a) dilapidated

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(c) anthropoid

n. temporary camp (a) pittance

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(b) fervid

adj. hard; stiff; inflexible (a) rigid

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(d) equable

adj. (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted (a) congenial

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(c) conciliatory

adj. spreading or spread throughout; permeative (a) pervasive

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(b) malignant

adj. blurry; foggy; fuzzy; muzzy (a) distrait

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(b) malleable

adj. characterized by intense emotion; fiery; impassioned; torrid (a) brumous

(b) perfervid

(c) squat

(d) overweening

(c) tractile

(d) nonplused

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(b) dispassionate

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n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); guile; wile; shenanigan (a) chicanery

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(b) proponent

(c) opus

(d) hallucination

(b) gargoyle

(c) conflagration

(d) virtuoso

(b) ragamuffin

(c) espial

(d) atrocity

(b) cliche

(c) bevy

(d) endearment

(b) philology

(c) fiasco

(d) podium

n. causing to move repeatedly from side to side; shake (a) leeway

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(d) taxonomist

n. the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; interpretation (a) rendition

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(c) hummock

n. the act of showing affection (a) pendant

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(b) emendation

n. a dirty shabbily clothed urchin (a) hireling

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(d) amazon

n. a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry (a) levee

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(c) diorama

n. expression; set phrase (a) idiom

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(b) forte

n. a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues (a) antiseptic

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(b) numismatist

(c) waggle

(d) calling

(c) collusion

(d) limner

n. agreement on a secret plot (a) pediatrician

(b) foreboding

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(b) fiasco

(c) lagoon

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(d) lariat

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v. indicate by signs; portend; prognosticate; omen; betoken; foreshadow (a) exploit

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(b) ordain

(c) simulate

(d) divine

(c) chase

(d) nurture

(c) rankle

(d) tarry

(b) decapitate

(b) extenuate

v. offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction (a) embroil

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(d) spawn

v. leave slowly and hesitantly (a) delineate

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(c) repudiate

v. cut the head of; decollate (a) recidivate

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(b) presage

v. turn away or aside (a) avert

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(b) immolate

(c) slough

(d) preachify

v. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; tempt (a) entice

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(d) supersede

(b) foil

(c) glower

(d) bandy

v. complain; grouse; crab; squawk; bellyache; holler (a) patinate

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(c) fetter

v. manage in a makeshift way (a) improvise

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(b) teeter

(b) harbor

(c) ravage

(d) beef

(b) flail

(c) higgle

(d) patinate

(b) mediate

(c) low

(d) abstain

v. coat with a green incrustation (a) construe

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n. a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar (a) oculist

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(c) acuity

(d) succor

(b) philatelist

(c) pomposity

(d) automation

adj. having existed from the beginning; primeval; primaeval (a) tensile

Q4

(b) pestle

n. a collector and student of postage stamps (a) compilation

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(b) musky

(c) primordial

(d) seedy

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; emaciated; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted (a) inflated

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(c) clavicle

(d) cleft

(b) collage

(c) consanguinity

(d) indolence

(c) gasp

(d) intimate

(b) liken

v. approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation (a) balk

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(b) component

v. breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; heave (a) bedazzle

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(d) discerning

n. kinship; blood relation (a) gratuity

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(c) sixpenny

n. bone linking the scapula and sternum (a) warren

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(b) gaunt

(b) ratify

(c) authenticate

(d) undulate

adj. situated at or extending to great depth; unplumbed; unsounded (a) unfathomed

(b) qualified

(c) sensuous

(d) argent

Q10 v. annoy continually or chronically; hassle; harry; plague; provoke (a) chevvy

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(b) filch

(c) integrate

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(d) obscure

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adj. impossible to doubt or dispute (a) articled

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(b) prehensile

(c) contumacious

(d) hieratical

(b) unsullied

(c) virtual

(d) pertinacious

(b) czarist

(c) brusque

(d) reputed

(b) hoggish

(c) embryonic

(d) alluvial

(b) withdrawn

(c) querulous

(d) despondent

(c) detrimental

(d) discerning

adj. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety (a) prodigal

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(d) hieratical

adj. without or almost without hope (a) ascribable

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(c) mangled

adj. of or relating to alluvium (a) imprudent

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(b) introspective

adj. pleasing to the sense of taste; savoury (a) savory

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(d) indisputable

adj. existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact (a) unchained

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(c) secular

adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; grabby; grasping; greedy (a) impassive

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(b) lethal

adj. (used especially of persons) of inferior size; shrimpy (a) puny

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(b) sedulous

adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; obstinate; unrepentant (a) gibelike

(b) cussed

(c) slapdash

(d) unruly

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(b) partisan

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(c) dyspneic

(d) culinary

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n. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; nonpareil; saint; apotheosis; nonesuch; nonsuch (a) rebate

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(b) rider

(c) daftness

(d) paladin

(b) condiments

(c) intimidation

(d) amnesia

(b) lumen

(c) inquisitor

(d) dupe

(b) demeanor

(c) gibberish

(d) alimony

(b) drudging

(c) sophomoric

(d) quizzical

n. a small book usually having a paper cover; folder; leaflet; pamphlet (a) apiary

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(d) obsession

adj. doing arduous or unpleasant work; labouring; toiling (a) hypothetical

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(c) zenith

n. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated (a) isthmus

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(b) dint

n. a person who is tricked or swindled (a) obsequy

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(d) warranty

n. a communication that makes you afraid to try something (a) censor

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(c) sedative

n. a passage selected from a larger work; extract; selection (a) excerpt

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(b) paragon

n. good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries (a) serendipity

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(b) tanner

(c) brochure

(d) culmination

n. structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly; offset (a) alimony

(b) setoff

(c) throes

(d) quarry

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(b) busby

(c) autocrat

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(d) agnate

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v. censure severely or angrily; reprimand; jaw; dress down; call down (a) becloud

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(b) bolster

(c) gibe

(d) winnow

(b) coalesce

(c) improvise

(d) dissuade

(b) plummet

(c) sire

(d) waffle

(c) empale

(d) incriminate

(b) glimmer

(c) retaliate

(d) prevaricate

(b) delude

(c) affix

(d) unhallow

(c) aggrandize

(d) allure

(c) egest

(d) recidivate

(b) wither

v. be false to; cozen (a) prattle

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(d) renovate

v. wish ill or allow unwillingly (a) begrudge

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(c) delineate

v. accuse; serve as evidence against (a) appreciate

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(b) underscore

v. pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness (a) lament

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(d) assail

v. tie with a rope or chain (a) tether

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(c) berate

v. add padding to (a) infatuate

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(b) parry

v. draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to (a) sully

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v. dispose or incline or entice to (a) array

(b) baulk

Q10 v. eliminate from the body; eliminate; pass (a) fleece

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(b) gratify

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 129

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adj. of or relating to demography (a) demographic

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(b) writhe

(c) hover

(d) daunt

(b) countermand

(c) simper

(d) fluster

(b) dross

(c) insolence

(d) miscellany

(c) jambon

(d) ethos

(c) plenitude

(d) daftness

(b) trident

(b) transition

adj. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam; pagan; ethnic (a) noncommittal

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(d) fritter

n. a full supply; plenteousness; plentitude (a) equinox

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(c) abye

n. a raised or strengthened seam (a) welt

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(b) smolder

n. an unfavorable omen (a) foreboding

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(d) bucolic

v. make a spot or mark onto; blob; blot (a) fleck

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(c) acidulent

v. cause to lose courage; scare off; pall; frighten off; scare away; frighten away; scare (a) divine

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(b) lavish

v. catch sight of; espy; spy (a) descry

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(b) prohibitive

(c) heathen

(d) universal

(c) leonine

(d) hirsute

(c) ennead

(d) yack

adj. having or covered with hair (a) convoluted

(b) pertinacious

Q10 n. noisy talk; yakety-yak; chatter; cackle (a) prosperity

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(b) pouffe

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adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; ornery (a) tactile

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(c) caustic

(d) lissom

(b) lithe

(c) convivial

(d) offhand

adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; self-willed; wilful (a) homespun

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(b) crotchety

adj. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated; high-flown; high-minded; lofty (a) rarefied

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(b) willful

(c) murmurous

(d) subsidiary

adj. characterized by directness in manner or speech; forthright; frank; point-blank; straight-from-theshoulder (a) submissive

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(c) tantamount

(d) sundry

(b) demode

(c) figurative

(d) articled

(b) serrated

(c) waggish

(d) lachrymose

(c) aberrant

(d) uttered

adj. communicated in words; verbalized; verbalised (a) ailing

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(b) cordial

adj. showing sorrow; tearful; weeping (a) slovenly

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(d) retroactive

adj. consisting of or forming human or animal figures (a) fundamental

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(c) outspoken

adj. sincerely or intensely felt (a) libelous

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(b) dappled

(b) sprawling

adj. required by obligation or compulsion or convention (a) pallid

(b) benign

(c) obligatory

(d) narrative

Q10 adj. spreading by diffusion; dispersive; disseminative (a) feckless

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(b) strident

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(c) meandering

(d) diffusing

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n. a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility; bad blood (a) archness

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(c) holster

(d) severity

(b) manifestation

(c) digression

(d) incidence

(b) requiem

(c) misapprehension

(d) contortions

(b) circlet

(c) physiognomy

(d) assurance

(b) patina

(b) demonic

(c) taut

(d) cyan

(b) senility

(c) diversion

(d) prosody

n. study of poetic meter (a) cache

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(d) legerdemain

adj. extremely evil or cruel; diabolical; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy (a) cannular

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(c) influx

n. promise; pledge (a) extrovert

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(b) saga

n. bending; distorting (a) flotsam

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(d) camaraderie

n. the striking of a light beam on a surface (a) enclave

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(c) dialectic

n. a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal (a) sluggard

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(b) animosity

n. a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family (a) fatso

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n. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; assumption (a) effrontery

(b) disapprobation

(c) impetus

(d) raiment

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(b) colander

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(c) mandate

(d) tenacity

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v. conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; lead by the nose; play false (a) swathe

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(d) badger

(c) fathom

(d) vindicate

(c) champion

(d) relinquish

(c) nullify

(d) entreat

(c) scram

(d) commiserate

(c) befit

(d) festinate

(b) glean

(b) daub

(b) bilk

(b) abominate

v. act or move at high speed; hurry; look sharp (a) distill

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(c) reforge

(b) expunge

v. leave immediately; fuck off; get (a) scranch

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(d) resuscitate

v. escape, either physically or mentally (a) discredit

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(c) nonplus

v. coat with plaster; plaster; smear (a) infiltrate

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(b) replicate

v. express or state clearly; vocalize; vocalise (a) enunciate

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(d) hoodwink

v. persuade through constant efforts (a) console

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(c) disband

v. duplicate; copy (a) beguile

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(b) unearth

(b) dodder

v. play boisterously; lark; rollick; skylark; disport; sport (a) shimmer

(b) cavort

(c) depose

(d) delete

(c) pore

(d) flummox

Q10 v. be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get (a) sunder

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(b) bamboozle

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v. enumerate (a) transcribe

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(b) pulmonary

(c) standpat

(d) querulous

(b) requisite

(c) tureen

(d) quietude

(b) engraved

(c) vivacious

(d) mundane

(b) doff

(c) limn

(d) dishearten

(b) cubby

(c) dallier

(d) gyroscope

adj. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; suave (a) decollete

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(d) dapper

n. a small secluded room; snuggery; snug (a) cache

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(c) meek

v. take away the enthusiasm of (a) demean

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(b) derisory

adj. vigorous and animated (a) astringent

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(d) list

n. large deep serving dish with a cover (a) parallelism

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(c) disparage

adj. habitually complaining; whiney; whiny (a) embryonic

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(b) consort

adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; natty; raffish (a) lofty

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(b) infatuated

(c) bland

(d) rancid

(c) homogeneous

(d) stellar

adj. all of the same or similar kind or nature (a) balmy

(b) qualified

Q10 n. the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) (a) caption

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(b) stamina

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(c) malediction

(d) mezcal

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adj. repeated too often; commonplace; old-hat; shopworn; threadbare; timeworn (a) intractable

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(b) internecine

(c) cryptic

(d) brazen

(b) roseate

(c) redoubtable

(d) spry

(b) sententious

(c) orthodox

(d) palatable

(b) bugaboo

(c) shambles

(d) disdain

(b) stodgy

(c) rummy

(d) bunglesome

adj. (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear (a) tremulous

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(d) stilted

adj. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; odd; peculiar; queer; singular (a) corporeal

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(c) maternal

n. a source of concern (a) malaise

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(b) recalcitrant

adj. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; waxy (a) pliant

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(d) unkempt

adj. of something having a dusty purplish pink color; rosaceous (a) contumacious

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(c) disparate

adj. made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) (a) invulnerable

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(b) trite

adj. marked by stubborn resistance to authority (a) formidable

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(b) marred

(c) voluminous

(d) jocular

adj. having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship; keeled (a) carinate

(b) argent

(c) elliptical

(d) bleak

(c) ceremonious

(d) brindled

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(b) tutelary

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n. a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing (a) berretta

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(b) consort

(c) modicum

(d) libertine

(b) rostrum

(c) lull

(d) knoll

(b) deluge

(c) litoral

(d) ambrosia

(b) ape

(c) tantrum

(d) sophistry

(b) chapiter

(c) atar

(d) yield

(b) microcosm

(c) declivity

(d) empathy

(c) sextant

(d) anemia

(c) repository

(d) diadem

n. a stopping (a) cessation

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(d) repugnance

n. a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public (a) subsidy

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(c) holocaust

n. person who resembles a nonhuman primate (a) occident

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(b) demolition

n. the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets (a) espionage

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(d) cordon

n. declaration that something is true (a) affirmation

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(c) chapeau

n. a small or moderate or token amount (a) exposure

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(b) dissection

n. the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 (a) docket

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n. tone of voice; quality of sound (a) timbre

(b) windfall

Q10 n. a burial vault (usually for some famous person) (a) witticism

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(b) clique

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 136

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v. remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; undress (a) divest

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(b) defray

(c) doss

(d) haggle

(c) disclaim

(d) roil

(b) addle

(b) integrate

(c) waylay

(d) kibosh

(b) consign

(c) enervate

(d) denigrate

(c) sensify

(d) domineer

(b) incriminate

v. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; ideate (a) envisage

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(d) denudate

v. cause to feel shame; chagrin; humble (a) abase

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(c) environ

v. send to an address (a) beget

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(b) fetter

v. wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; lurk; ambuscade; lie in wait (a) rout

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(d) abrogate

v. make turbid by stirring up the sediments of (a) flout

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(c) affiance

v. bear the expenses of (a) annihilate

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(b) vent

v. chain; shackle (a) languish

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(b) jostle

(c) bushel

(d) dispel

v. go back to bad behavior; regress; retrogress; fall back (a) stanch

(b) gerrymander

(c) censure

(d) recidivate

(c) attenuate

(d) befoul

Q10 v. spot, stain, or pollute; defile; maculate (a) abscond

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(b) capsulate

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adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; cordial; genial (a) uninhibited

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(c) foist

(d) oscillate

(c) unassuaged

(d) leechlike

(b) firebrand

(c) arquebus

(d) maelstrom

(b) coinciding

(c) unmingled

(d) irremediable

(b) provoke

(b) skittish

(b) overwrought

(c) looted

(d) inimitable

(c) turgidity

(d) bubbliness

n. the property of giving off bubbles; frothiness (a) adjunct

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(d) martinet

adj. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; plundered; ransacked (a) inanimate

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(c) incantation

adj. changeable; unstable (a) labile

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(b) connivance

n. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface (a) catastrophe

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(d) viable

adj. unsatisfied; not soothed (a) militant

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(c) affable

v. annoy continually or chronically; hassle; harry (a) cavil

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(b) heterogeneous

n. a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect (a) multiplicity

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(b) annexe

adj. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; lukewarm (a) kayoed

(b) disinterested

(c) tepid

(d) effectual

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(b) tutelary

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(c) bribable

(d) faineant

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adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion; liverish (a) centripetal

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(b) soldierly

(c) crestfallen

(d) execrable

(b) atheistic

(c) hunched

(d) stellar

(b) climactic

(c) oblique

(d) derisory

(b) forgo

(c) decant

(d) hurtle

(b) inured

(c) mercantile

(d) contrite

adj. in opposition to a civil authority or government; subversive (a) mauve

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(d) testy

adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; rueful; ruthful (a) wordy

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(c) saccharine

v. pour out (a) temporize

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(b) wan

adj. indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way (a) unbarred

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(d) amphibian

adj. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars (a) intractable

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(c) nether

adj. brought low in spirit; deflated (a) lachrymose

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(b) dyspeptic

adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness (a) guileless

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(b) famed

(c) insurgent

(d) bespoke

adj. intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; placative; placatory (a) appeasing

(b) odoriferous

(c) malevolent

(d) abstract

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(b) concluding

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(c) initiatory

(d) piebald

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n. an ancestor in the direct line (a) harlotry

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(b) firebrand

(c) garrulity

(d) conducive

(b) enmity

(c) precipice

(d) jongleur

(b) garroter

(c) unguent

(d) drudgery

(b) carat

(c) repartee

(d) carafe

(b) responsiveness

(c) articulate

(d) pouffe

n. the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains; fossilology (a) baring

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(d) hombre

n. thick cushion used as a seat; puff; hassock (a) microcosm

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(c) demise

n. a state of deterioration due to old age or long use (a) decrepitude

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(b) torso

n. hard monotonous routine work; grind; donkeywork (a) pulchritude

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(d) reconciler

n. the feeling of a hostile person; ill will (a) carapace

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(c) embezzlement

n. the quality of being wordy and talkative; loquaciousness; loquacity; talkativeness (a) proclivity

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(b) progenitor

n. the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; body (a) felon

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(b) bobber

(c) braggart

(d) paleontology

(c) missile

(d) apoplexy

n. informing by words; notification (a) levity

(b) apprisal

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(b) foreboding

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(c) portent

(d) nubbiness

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 140

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v. become smaller or lose substance; dimish (a) dwindle

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(c) circumscribe

(d) expunge

(b) stymy

(c) disclaim

(d) tapdance

(b) intimate

(c) brook

(d) cumber

(c) fluster

(d) inundate

(b) clapper

(c) egression

(d) vent

(b) rig

(c) check

(d) indenture

(b) superimpose

v. verify; examine (a) confound

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(b) glimmer

n. the act of coming (or going) out; emergence (a) imperiousness

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(d) disclose

v. cause to be nervous or upset (a) claver

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(c) retrench

(b) garner

v. imply as a possibility (a) ameliorate

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(d) obfuscate

v. disavow; deny (a) belittle

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(c) writhe

v. divide unfairly and to one's advantage (a) gerrymander

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(b) illuminate

v. assemble or get together; collect; pull together (a) languish

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v. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; fix; doctor; furbish up; restore; touch on (a) bushel

(b) forestall

(c) colourize

(d) scuffle

Q10 v. walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; ruffle; prance; strut; sashay; cock (a) unfrock

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(b) dodder

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(c) tittup

(d) gage

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adj. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; in love; potty; smitten (a) chipper

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(c) luxuriant

(d) barefaced

(b) paramount

(c) dilapidated

(d) detached

(b) calorific

(c) tractable

(d) sequential

(b) smolder

(c) appreciate

(d) emancipate

n. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; volute; helix (a) hymnal

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(b) tessellated

v. make turbid by stirring up the sediments of (a) rile

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(d) dolorous

adj. showing hovering attentiveness (a) solicitous

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(c) enamored

adj. separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; come off; come away (a) effectual

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(b) shoddy

adj. decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic (a) vituperative

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(b) whorl

(c) pretending

(d) brochure

n. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity; pompousness; pretentiousness; puffiness; splashiness; inflation (a) paradox

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(c) dichotomy

(d) pomposity

(c) adverse

(d) opportune

adj. showing sorrow; lachrymose; tearful; weeping (a) contrite

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(b) awl

(b) dolorous

v. give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; effeminise; womanize (a) rusticate

(b) effeminize

(c) placate

(d) resolve

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(b) honcho

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(c) cohorts

(d) runt

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adj. not worth considering; trifling (a) alluring

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(b) petty

(c) sibylline

(d) headstrong

(b) shrewd

(c) concerted

(d) astringent

(b) kayoed

(c) minuscule

(d) schematic

(b) ligneous

(c) aery

(d) sinewy

(b) morose

(c) filiform

(d) concerted

(c) unsightly

(d) feasible

adj. in an opposing direction (a) paramount

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(d) discombobulated

adj. showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; moody; saturnine; sour; sullen (a) homogeneous

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(c) quaint

adj. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; muscular; powerful (a) meek

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(b) scurrilous

adj. diagrammatic (a) inept

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(d) absorbing

adj. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue (a) factitious

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(c) negligible

adj. having a secret or hidden meaning; qabalistic; cryptic; cryptical (a) unharmed

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(b) rueful

adj. having self-possession upset (a) brinded

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(b) adverse

adj. not defended or capable of being defended; undefended; open (a) impregnable

(b) propulsive

(c) visionary

(d) assailable

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(b) demoniac

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(c) stentorian

(d) pragmatic

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n. legal order (a) tanginess

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(b) malingerer

(c) mentor

(d) amnesty

(b) saboteur

(c) expletive

(d) genealogy

(b) franchise

(c) jounce

(d) nincompoop

(b) retrograde

(c) ignite

(d) abominate

(b) centrifuge

(c) realty

(d) diorama

n. a street with only one way in or out; dead-end street (a) cabby

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(d) uniformity

n. property consisting of houses and land; immovable (a) wizardry

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(c) euphoria

v. arouse or excite feelings and passions; wake; heat; fire up (a) prostrate

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(b) hue

n. last station; end (a) terminus

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(d) rectitude

n. the study or investigation of ancestry and family history (a) anguish

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(c) writ

n. someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity; shammer (a) runtiness

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(b) solace

n. the act of secluding yourself from others (a) seclusion

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(b) title

(c) impasse

(d) optician

(c) rundle

(d) neologism

(c) materialism

(d) poultice

n. a capacious bag or basket; tote; tote bag (a) carryall

(b) efficacy

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(b) lambency

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v. join; unite; fuse; mend (a) muddle

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(b) malign

(c) maim

(d) collaborate

(b) extenuate

(c) attenuate

(d) shirk

(c) swelter

(d) protract

(c) interdict

(d) countenance

(c) wither

(d) perforate

(b) flag

(b) shirk

(b) replicate

v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; retract; resile (a) flummox

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(d) truncate

v. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality (a) attribute

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(c) dissimulate

v. make secure underneath (a) undergird

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(b) petrify

v. suffer from intense heat (a) tote

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(d) solder

v. avoid dealing with (a) surmount

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(c) filch

v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation (a) prolong

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(b) disinter

v. harass with persistent criticism or carping; razz; rag; cod (a) tantalize

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(b) forswear

(c) adorn

(d) dismiss

v. express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death (a) swathe

(b) countenance

(c) hurtle

(d) condole

Q10 v. achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods; manage (a) decoke

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(b) pulsate

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(c) finagle

(d) denudate

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v. cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; play (a) upbraid

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(b) incur

(c) wreak

(d) refute

n. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled; rowboat (a) inertia

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(c) aquiline

(d) rampant

(b) ineffectual

(c) unrequited

(d) livid

(b) imperiousness

(c) sobriety

(d) acquittal

(c) protuberance

(d) awe

(c) obit

(d) cubicle

(b) verbose

(b) formality

n. a notice of someone's death; necrology (a) spatula

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(d) dogged

n. a person who carries a message (a) courier

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(c) multifarious

n. overbearingness (a) malapropism

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(b) abuzz

adj. lacking in power or forcefulness; unable (a) factious

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(d) dinghy

adj. curved down like an eagle's beak (a) dutiful

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(c) modulation

adj. stubbornly unyielding; persistent; pertinacious; tenacious; unyielding (a) busybodied

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(b) malapropism

(b) spangle

adj. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; corporeal (a) somatic

(b) offbeat

(c) eldritch

(d) theoretical

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(b) inconsequential

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(d) impregnable

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adj. tangled in knots or snarls; snarly (a) loath

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(b) pejorative

(c) malefic

(d) virile

(b) iniquitous

(c) nondescript

(d) rakish

(b) castigation

(c) elixir

(d) alleviant

(c) cull

(d) abase

(c) pithy

(d) idiosyncratic

(b) reek

(b) facile

adj. relating to the blood vessels or blood; hematal; haematal (a) prudish

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(d) molten

adj. depressingly dark; sulky (a) gloomful

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(c) negligible

v. give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc. (a) bestow

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(b) therapeutic

n. verbal punishment (a) figurine

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(d) waggish

adj. lacking distinct or individual characteristics (a) outspoken

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(c) knotty

adj. furnishing added support; adjuvant; appurtenant; auxiliary (a) ancillary

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(b) effeminate

adj. relating to or involved in therapy (a) malleable

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(b) reputed

(c) haemal

(d) opaque

(b) ancillary

(c) hibernal

(d) odious

(b) temporal

(c) venerable

(d) provident

adj. characteristic of or relating to winter; hiemal (a) sacrilegious

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n. a very embarrassing misunderstanding (a) piddle

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(b) megalomania

(c) victuals

(d) aviary

(b) restraint

(c) dissertation

(d) stickler

(b) polity

(c) boding

(d) setoff

(b) diversity

(c) apothegm

(d) spat

(b) sloth

(c) dispassion

(d) conceiver

(c) auspices

(d) vendetta

(c) cataclysm

(d) nutrient

n. kindly endorsement and guidance; aegis (a) transitoriness

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(d) unguent

n. someone who creates new things; mastermind (a) trivia

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(c) plethora

n. a short pithy instructive saying; apophthegm (a) lariat

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(b) jambon

n. shrewd or crafty management of public affairs (a) verve

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(d) miasma

n. someone who insists on something (a) exchequer

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(c) imbroglio

n. a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur (a) equestrian

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(b) foray

n. balm; ointment (a) vertex

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(b) rubric

n. a miniature model of something (a) wont

(b) microcosm

Q10 n. stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance; rakishness (a) fecundity

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(b) pedant

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(c) dapperness

(d) gall

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v. assign great social importance to; celebrate (a) primp

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(b) scintillate

(c) disgorge

(d) promulgate

(c) annul

(d) hoodwink

(b) enfeoff

(b) roster

(c) barterer

(d) ingrate

(b) prelate

(c) pouffe

(d) coprolith

(b) interdict

(c) imbibe

(d) supinate

v. hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; block; hinder; stymie; embarrass (a) fester

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(d) jawbone

v. make more beautiful; embellish; prettify (a) fancify

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(c) incorporate

n. a club used as a weapon (a) bludgeon

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(b) dispel

n. a person who shows no gratitude; ungrateful person (a) pterodactyl

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(d) sublimate

v. express a negative opinion of; pick at (a) disparage

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(c) lionize

v. shine; sparkle; glow (a) denigrate

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(b) ruminate

v. cause to separate and go in different directions; break up; scatter (a) scurry

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(b) stymy

(c) controvert

(d) titillate

(c) bedaze

(d) inter

(c) throttle

(d) swelter

v. overcome as with astonishment or disbelief (a) decimate

(b) confound

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(b) binge

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adj. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars (a) optional

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(b) manifest

(c) fancied

(d) paltry

(b) boding

(c) filigree

(d) continence

(b) stalemate

(c) pugilist

(d) functionary

(b) combustible

(c) ineffectual

(d) dexterous

(b) vituperative

(c) labile

(d) nomadic

(c) rescind

(d) knead

(c) courier

(d) getup

v. express criticism towards (a) upbraid

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(d) lurk

adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism (a) resonant

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(c) reimburse

adj. capable of igniting and burning (a) recumbent

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(b) mint

n. someone who fights with his fists for sport (a) relic

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(d) astral

n. delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire); fillagree (a) maxim

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(c) thematic

adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; fictional; fictitious (a) remediable

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(b) comely

v. cast off; repudiate (a) renounce

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(b) contend

n. a set of clothing (with accessories); rig; turnout (a) raconteur

(b) torque

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(b) lofty

(c) outspoken

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(d) exacting

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adj. of a color at the end of the color spectrum; blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; crimson (a) bogus

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(b) impecunious

(c) amorous

(d) jaded

(c) disquieted

(d) multifarious

(b) blasphemous

(b) parallelism

(c) conformity

(d) retraction

(b) mussitate

(c) lallygag

(d) grouse

(b) initiatory

(c) outlawed

(d) crusted

(c) witless

(d) outlandish

(c) innocuous

(d) vicarious

(c) ironic

(d) disaffected

adj. producing a sizeable profit; remunerative (a) lucrative

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(d) indocile

adj. banned (a) macabre

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(c) graspable

v. complain; crab; beef; squawk; bellyache; holler (a) deride

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(b) narrative

n. the process of pulling or holding or drawing a part back (a) solemnity

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(d) inscrutable

adj. having many aspects; miscellaneous (a) outlawed

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(c) imponderable

adj. extremely scanty (a) exiguous

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(b) ruddy

adj. consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story (a) homogeneous

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(b) perverse

adj. tending to promote physical well-being (a) unfettered

(b) salutary

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(b) mangy

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n. a sudden and violent collapse (a) fiasco

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(b) welt

(c) dint

(d) notoriety

(b) pediatrician

(c) sobriety

(d) concession

(b) mausoleum

(c) balker

(d) comity

(b) brochure

(c) exodus

(d) slur

(b) unequaled

(c) wistful

(d) practical

(c) unequivocal

(d) garbled

adj. clearly defined or formulated (a) leechlike

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(d) tomfoolery

adj. alone; unique; unparalleled (a) unharmed

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(c) epoch

n. an extravagantly enthusiastic review (a) rave

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(b) requiem

n. a large burial chamber, usually above ground (a) conglomeration

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(d) jurisprudence

n. a specialist in the care of babies; pediatrist; paediatrician (a) egress

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(c) flippancy

n. the act of ordaining (a) ordination

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(b) assiduity

n. a Mass celebrated for the dead (a) decomposition

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(b) resinous

n. a theatrical performer; player; thespian; role player (a) ideology

(b) histrion

(c) knoll

(d) bulwark

Q10 n. an obsolete firearm with a long barrel; hackbut; hagbut (a) pantomime

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(b) ordination

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(c) objective

(d) arquebus

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v. lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of (a) scintillate

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(d) sap

(b) jell

(c) relent

(d) masticate

(b) aver

(c) vouchsafe

(d) jell

(b) exacerbate

(c) muddle

(d) pester

(b) ruthless

(c) piquant

(d) demeaning

(c) abash

(d) intimate

v. cause to be embarrassed (a) badger

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(c) repeal

adj. attracting or delighting (a) wonted

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(b) sustain

v. mix up or confuse; puddle (a) saunter

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(d) disabuse

v. make amends for; abye; atone (a) expiate

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(c) instigate

v. give in, as to influence or pressure; soften (a) mosh

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(b) belittle

v. cancel officially; lift; countermand; reverse; overturn; rescind; vacate (a) propound

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(b) demean

v. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; prevaricate (a) annunciate

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(b) palter

(c) disgruntle

(d) palpitate

v. remove the consecration from a person or an object; deconsecrate (a) unhallow

(b) whittle

(c) traverse

(d) binge

(c) pore

(d) befit

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(b) dispel

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adj. used of old persons or old trees; knotted; knotty; knobbed (a) amylaceous

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(b) fractious

(c) ambulatory

(d) pendulous

(b) viscid

(c) libidinous

(d) impeccable

(c) necromancy

(d) refectory

(b) prescience

(b) overhaul

(c) rook

(d) dawdle

(b) ingenious

(c) timid

(d) irrevocable

(c) seep

(d) worst

(c) dupery

(d) malcontent

(c) egression

(d) criteria

v. defeat thoroughly; mop up; whip; rack up (a) commutate

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(d) acclimate

adj. showing inventiveness and skill (a) enduring

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(c) vegetate

v. kill in large numbers; extinguish; eradicate; wipe out; carry off (a) decimate

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(b) disperse

n. a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery) (a) swindler

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(d) susceptible

adj. driven by lust; lustful (a) coriaceous

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(c) gnarled

adj. (of a male) unable to copulate (a) impotent

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(b) fanciful

v. adapt; adjust (a) sap

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(b) prevail

n. a person who is discontented or disgusted (a) galaxy

(b) viper

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(b) idiom

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adj. rendered competent through trial and experience (a) incompatible

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(b) jetting

(c) dappled

(d) surreptitious

(b) demonic

(c) ebullient

(d) cumbersome

(b) insubordinate

(c) surly

(d) mangy

(b) harbinger

(c) junket

(d) servitude

(b) heedless

(c) unnameable

(d) horticultural

(c) nomadic

(d) ventral

adj. unwisely talking too much; blabby; talkative (a) bunglesome

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(d) condign

adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; grief-stricken; grieving (a) bereft

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(c) mercurial

n. a trip taken by an official at public expense (a) shirking

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(b) asinine

adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace (a) infatuated

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(d) stereotyped

adj. joyously unrestrained; high-spirited (a) bumpkinly

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(c) spatial

adj. having spots or patches of color (a) touchy

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(b) seasoned

adj. fitting or appropriate and deserved (a) hoary

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(b) bigmouthed

adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; discomfited; frustrated; thwarted (a) foiled

(b) commensurate

(c) sultry

(d) potent

(c) stalwart

(d) phoney

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(b) narrative

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n. scorn; disdain (a) viand

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(b) celerity

(c) balm

(d) ratifier

(b) androgyny

(c) vigor

(d) nomenclature

(b) precursor

(c) ordeal

(d) nib

(b) ventriloquist

(c) pragmatist

(d) ramification

(b) refereeing

(c) disinclination

(d) censor

n. a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote (a) coup

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(d) enologist

n. the act of umpiring; officiating (a) heyday

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(c) inception

n. any substance that can be used as food; eatable; pabulum (a) victuals

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(b) incidence

n. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt (a) forte

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(d) arboretum

n. a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language (a) insurrection

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(c) talisman

n. ointment; cream; lotion (a) bluff

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(b) contempt

n. an event that is a beginning (a) magnitude

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(b) obelisk

(c) slander

(d) pedagogue

n. an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation (a) carrion

(b) gratuity

(c) cupidity

(d) debris

Q10 n. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature; cap (a) neophyte

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(b) generality

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(c) philistine

(d) chapiter

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v. free somebody (from an erroneous belief) (a) undulate

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(b) wallow

(c) bask

(d) infringe

(c) reimburse

(d) evince

(b) tittup

(b) deplete

(c) bate

(d) quell

(c) consecrate

(d) throttle

(c) reciprocate

(d) presage

(b) wean

(c) beset

(d) quibble

(b) swill

(c) wane

(d) temper

(c) transcribe

(d) facilitate

(b) wince

(b) sidestep

v. decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) (a) manipulate

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(d) harry

v. spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly (a) bungle

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(c) squander

v. make a face indicating disgust or dislike (a) whittle

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(b) unearth

v. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity (a) levitate

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(d) disabuse

v. repay; refund; compensate for a loss (a) accoutre

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(c) desolate

v. be exposed (a) appal

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(b) despise

v. fill or cover completely, usually with water; submerge (a) inundate

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v. restrain (a) chevvy

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(b) funk

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v. destroy or injure severely (a) rarify

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(b) fawning

(c) appeasing

(d) apathetic

(b) insubordinate

(c) dingy

(d) mordant

(b) unravel

(c) pinion

(d) usurp

(b) kleptomaniac

(c) calligraphy

(d) shirking

(b) crabby

(c) antsy

(d) enduring

(b) hover

(c) malign

(d) propitiate

v. grant voting rights (a) enfranchise

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(d) caustic

adj. annoyed and irritable; cross; fussy; grouchy; grumpy; bad-tempered; ill-tempered (a) frolicsome

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(c) infinitesimal

n. someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive (a) ravine

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(b) nautical

v. become undone (a) loll

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(d) dishearten

adj. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; rasping; rough; scratchy (a) raspy

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(c) mutilate

adj. attempting to win favor by flattery; sycophantic; toadyish (a) carping

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(b) capitulate

adj. infinitely or immeasurably small (a) manifold

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adj. of or relating to or characteristic of a person having great power (a) staid

(b) austere

(c) bracing

(d) czarist

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(b) crestfallen

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(c) frenzied

(d) invincible

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adj. uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable (a) errant

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(b) jocular

(c) infinitesimal

(d) balmy

(b) verbose

(c) trite

(d) lithe

(b) bugaboo

(c) entomology

(d) genealogy

(b) distrait

(c) sixpenny

(d) jocose

(c) volatile

(d) heterodox

(b) morbid

(c) undoable

(d) incredulous

(b) sallow

(c) immoveable

(d) prohibitive

(b) downcast

adj. not disposed or willing to believe (a) pandemic

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(d) mantled

adj. rapidly changing; fickle (a) bloated

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(c) molten

adj. of a son or daughter (a) filial

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(b) surreptitious

n. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (beneath a church) (a) crypt

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(d) patent

adj. using or containing too many words; windy; wordy (a) unfathomed

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(c) compensatory

adj. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary (a) innate

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(b) parochial

adj. reduced to liquid form by heating; liquified (a) susceptible

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adj. unhealthy looking (a) universal

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(b) eugenic

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(c) baseless

(d) dispirited

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n. category name (a) cupidity

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(b) soliloquy

(c) treatise

(d) incredulity

(b) renown

(c) perusal

(d) vertex

(b) regime

(c) stratum

(d) imperiousness

(b) glob

(c) subterfuge

(d) ordination

(b) castigation

(c) homeostasis

(d) vintner

(c) inviolability

(d) indolence

n. the removal of covering; uncovering; husking (a) tome

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(d) marsupial

n. tendency of a system to safeguard internal stability (a) carafe

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(c) pedant

n. act of guessing or inferring (a) extrapolation

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(b) impending

n. a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other (a) vendetta

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(d) torso

n. the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed (a) pathos

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(c) clime

n. doubt about the truth of something; skepticism; mental rejection (a) factotum

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(b) rubric

n. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit; scholastic (a) jubilation

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(b) baring

n. rushing about hastily in an undignified way; scurry (a) culmination

(b) scamper

(c) blunder

(d) yeoman

(c) boding

(d) ballyhoo

Q10 n. blatant or sensational promotion; hype; plug (a) vantage

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(b) libido

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v. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; scant (a) stint

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(b) dissimulate

(c) ravage

(d) manducate

(b) render

(c) teeter

(d) lope

(b) expiate

(c) quaff

(d) constringe

(c) befuddle

(d) spawn

v. make stupid with alcohol (a) evoke

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(d) circumvent

v. correct by punishment or discipline; subdue (a) chasten

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(c) enfranchise

v. give; submit; do; provide (a) cauterize

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(b) manumit

v. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; devastate; desolate; scourge (a) ensconce

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(b) titillate

v. curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment; anathemize; comminate; anathemise; anathematize; anathematise (a) execrate

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(d) imbue

(b) vociferous

(c) stalwart

(d) objective

(c) toil

(d) obfuscate

v. make obscure or unclear (a) repeal

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(c) sidestep

adj. based on pretense (a) specious

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(b) simper

(b) egest

v. turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg) (a) supinate

(b) rebuff

(c) compress

(d) stymie

Q10 v. make impossible, especially beforehand; close out (a) preclude

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(b) macerate

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(c) imbue

(d) rhapsodize

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v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; palaver; blarney; coax; sweet-talk (a) vouchsafe

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(b) rail

(c) evoke

(d) galvanize

(b) repercussion

(c) midget

(d) clamor

(b) hilarity

(c) ovalbumin

(d) colloquy

(b) wax

(c) divagate

(d) emanate

(c) naivete

(d) mirage

(c) stifle

(d) transpire

(c) rudimentary

(d) profound

(c) abduce

(d) spume

(b) verisimilitude

v. give off (water) through the skin (a) ameliorate

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(d) inaugurate

n. something illusory and unattainable (a) alloy

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(c) dawdle

v. increase in phase (a) rarify

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(b) usurp

n. formal conversation (a) mosaic

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(d) jeer

n. a movement back from an impact; rebound; backlash (a) discrimination

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(c) inveigle

v. send by train; construct a fence (a) hotfoot

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(b) prune

v. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.; fall back; fall behind (a) jolly

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(b) resolve

adj. basic; elementary; fundamental (a) alimentary

(b) mundane

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(b) execute

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adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; menacing (a) getable

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(b) glacial

(c) pristine

(d) hallowed

(b) vulpine

(c) overcast

(d) insurgent

(b) austerity

(c) nib

(d) rancor

(b) bulwark

(c) atavism

(d) friskiness

(b) incorrigible

(c) hieratical

(d) niggardly

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; scrupulous (a) painstaking

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(d) unfettered

adj. associated with the priesthood or priests; sacerdotal (a) leonine

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(c) insolvent

n. great merriment; mirthfulness; glee; gleefulness (a) hilarity

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(b) extant

n. horny projecting mouth of a bird; neb; pecker (a) canasta

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(d) headstrong

adj. resembling or characteristic of a fox (a) hermetic

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(c) bristling

adj. immaculately clean and unused (a) fervent

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(b) baleful

adj. impossible to repair, rectify, or amend (a) irreparable

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(b) pivotal

(c) nonnatural

(d) objective

adj. having hair on the cheeks and chin; bewhiskered; whiskered; whiskery (a) permeant

(b) barbate

(c) obligatory

(d) urbane

Q10 adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; sneaky; surreptitious (a) tacit

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(b) stealthy

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(c) burbling

(d) piscatorial

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 163

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n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field; savant (a) biquadrate

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(b) consensus

(c) voyeur

(d) viand

(b) centrifuge

(c) primogeniture

(d) transitoriness

(b) equipoise

(c) paroxysm

(d) impunity

(b) rancour

(c) rejoinder

(d) solemnity

(b) beneficiary

(c) xenophobia

(d) disdain

(c) verdant

(d) spasmodic

adj. characterized by abundance of verdure (a) cognate

Q9

(d) semblance

n. a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting; vomitive; nauseant (a) emetic

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(c) flair

n. reply; answer; response (a) aptitude

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(b) canasta

n. exemption from punishment or loss (a) cathartic

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(d) paradox

n. an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension; separator (a) podium

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(c) pundit

n. a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others; peeper (a) bauble

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(b) partiality

n. picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing (a) tanner

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(b) salving

adj. shaped like a ring; annulated; circinate; ringed; ring-shaped; doughnut-shaped (a) annular

(b) aslant

(c) praetorial

(d) aseptic

(c) dissection

(d) tribunal

Q10 n. an angry dispute; row; words; run-in (a) gastronomy

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(b) dustup

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 164

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v. occur as a result of (a) barf

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(d) oscillate

(b) pore

(c) disperse

(d) muse

(b) alienate

(c) wrest

(d) absolve

(c) waffle

(d) bestow

v. contribute; add; bring; grant (a) petrify

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(c) stem from

v. obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically (a) rusticate

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(b) subjugate

v. cause to become widely known; circularize; propagate; broadcast; spread; diffuse; pass around (a) environ

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(b) slacken

adj. more than is needed, desired, or required; redundant; spare; superfluous; supernumerary; surplus (a) miasmal

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(d) supererogatory

(b) foster

(c) pine

(d) veer

v. expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute (a) enervate

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(c) supple

v. have a desire for something or someone who is not present; yen; languish (a) anathematize

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(b) acuate

(b) compromise

(c) enunciate

(d) burlesque

v. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; palter (a) allure

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(b) prevaricate

(c) probe

(d) mortify

(c) chase

(d) countenance

v. consent to, give permission; let (a) descry

(b) carp

Q10 v. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; plop; plunk; plump down; plunk down; plump (a) chafe

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(b) anathematize

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(c) plonk

(d) disgorge

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 165

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n. influencing strongly; impact (a) ape

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(b) ineluctable

(c) hackneyed

(d) asinine

(b) adverse

(c) indicative

(d) cordial

(b) chaotic

(c) authoritative

(d) powdered

(b) recuperate

(c) disinter

(d) defoliate

(b) converge

(c) warble

(d) recidivate

v. run away; absquatulate; decamp; run off; go off; make off (a) abscond

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(d) couturier

v. sign in the presence of witnesses (a) execute

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(c) patina

v. strip the leaves or branches from (a) boob

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(b) nepotism

adj. sanctioned by established authority; authorised (a) harassed

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(d) encroachment

adj. showing; pointing out; suggestive (a) boisterous

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(c) hencoop

adj. of or belonging to the family Equidae (a) equine

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(b) disquisition

n. favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs) (a) mores

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(b) flit

(c) dwindle

(d) ferret

(b) incorporate

(c) bedizen

(d) manducate

v. chew (food); jaw (a) carp

Q10 n. a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower (a) jollity

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(b) toady

(c) cascade

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(d) venue

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adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; double-dealing; duplicitous (a) ambidextrous

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(c) apprehensive

(d) withdrawn

(b) potential

(c) coeval

(d) maritime

(b) miserly

(c) conventional

(d) visceral

(b) catholic

(c) random

(d) sallow

(b) remediable

(c) anchoritic

(d) disgraced

(c) assent

(d) exploit

(c) leftover

(d) albinal

v. make a reduction, as in one's workforce (a) logroll

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(b) dexterous

adj. suffering shame; dishonored; shamed (a) imperial

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(d) statutory

adj. free from provincial prejudices or attachments (a) unsightly

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(c) privy

adj. (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; tight (a) finicky

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(b) facile

adj. of the same period; contemporaneous (a) antiquated

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(d) staggering

adj. involving or constituting a cause (a) causal

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(c) equine

adj. prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute (a) mercantile

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(b) blase

(b) retrench

adj. not used up; odd; remaining; unexpended (a) sententious

(b) dipped

Q10 adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; pliable; pliant; tensile (a) deranged

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(b) prudent

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(c) tractile

(d) devout

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 167

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n. a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease (a) turbulence

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(b) languor

(c) hierarchy

(d) repercussion

(b) ethos

(c) faculty

(d) cerebration

(b) uniformity

(c) vertigo

(d) maelstrom

(b) factitious

(c) fluted

(d) headstrong

(b) abetment

(c) scaffold

(d) doggerel

n. street names for flunitrazepan; rophy; rope; roach; forget me drug; circle (a) expertise

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(d) smirk

n. the verbal act of urging on; instigation (a) fodder

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(c) peon

adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; self-willed; willful; wilful (a) insouciant

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(b) whelp

n. the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) (a) corium

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(d) orientation

n. the body of teachers and administrators at a school (a) canker

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(c) drooler

n. a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times (a) alchemy

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(b) stigma

n. a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure (a) temerity

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(b) roofy

(c) cerebration

(d) auspicious

(c) tanginess

(d) propellant

(c) decorum

(d) hedonism

n. a tart spicy quality; piquancy; piquantness; zest (a) inconsistency

(b) incredulity

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(b) snicker

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 168

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v. declare invalid; void; avoid; nullify (a) quash

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(b) extol

(c) sate

(d) hurtle

(b) indite

(c) maul

(d) chide

(b) compound

(c) protract

(d) chouse

(b) surfeit

(c) faint

(d) flail

(c) tyro

(d) insolence

(c) ptyalize

(d) imbibe

(c) comport

(d) slake

(c) exalt

(d) binge

(b) roseola

v. receive into the mind and retain (a) tantalize

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(d) endue

n. an offensive disrespectful impudent act (a) honcho

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(c) exalt

v. strike; beat; hit (a) scurry

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(b) primp

v. combine so as to form a whole (a) instigate

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(d) canvass

v. injure badly by beating (a) tamp

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(c) nurture

v. throw forcefully; cast (a) attribute

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(b) energize

v. raise in rank, character, or status (a) abduce

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(b) assert

v. sleep in a convenient place; crash (a) ebb

(b) doss

Q10 v. overeat or eat immodestly; overindulge (a) sham

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(b) impinge

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 169

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n. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will; gall; rancour (a) ingrate

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(b) sensuous

(c) vitriolic

(d) variegated

(b) bequeath

(c) genuflect

(d) champion

(b) delirium

(c) mustelid

(d) carcinogenic

(b) floridity

(c) anodyne

(d) propinquity

(b) florid

(c) pied

(d) papistical

adj. having or exerting a malignant influence; malign; evil (a) wan

Q9

(d) labile

adj. of or relating to or supporting Romanism; Romanist; romish; Roman Catholic (a) superannuated

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(c) pallid

n. a medicine used to relieve pain; painkiller; pain pill (a) brevity

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(b) tepid

n. a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations (a) notoriety

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(d) assessment

v. argue over petty things; pettifog; bicker; squabble; brabble (a) quibble

Q5

(c) rancor

adj. taking delight in beauty (a) bespoke

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(b) boule

adj. abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse (a) chaste

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(b) maltreated

(c) malevolent

(d) perennial

(c) inopportune

(d) lowering

(c) pliant

(d) volatile

adj. darkened by clouds; sullen; threatening (a) mobile

(b) squishy

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(b) tacit

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adj. unpleasantly loud and harsh (a) convoluted

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(b) tertiary

(c) strident

(d) obtuse

adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; cruel; roughshod; savage; vicious (a) fell

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(b) demotic

(c) myopic

(d) coltish

(b) esoteric

(c) bouldered

(d) pliable

(b) nuance

(c) frailty

(d) trivia

(b) unscathed

(c) acrid

(d) inarticulate

(b) ubiquitous

(c) posthumous

(d) bonnie

(b) somatic

(c) convex

(d) susceptible

(c) fractious

(d) provincial

adj. being present everywhere at once (a) portly

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(d) equable

adj. without or deprived of the use of speech or words (a) rubicund

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(c) abstracted

n. something of small importance; trifle; small beer (a) tome

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(b) forensic

adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; gaga; senile (a) doddering

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(d) swooning

adj. lacking foresight or scope; unforesightful (a) vociferous

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(c) transient

adj. used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law (a) subversive

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(b) chapfallen

adj. dulled by surfeit (a) jaded

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(b) flint

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 171

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n. irregular atmospheric motion (a) turbulence

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(b) correlation

(c) tremor

(d) catharsis

(b) centurion

(c) isthmus

(d) converse

(b) foil

(c) patness

(d) bourgeois

(b) hubbub

(c) recrimination

(d) corollary

(b) caste

(c) tirade

(d) endogen

n. formal and explicit approval; endorsement; warrant; imprimatur (a) auberge

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(d) mirid

n. social status or position conferred by a system based on class (a) forebears

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(c) faculty

n. loud confused noise from many sources; brouhaha; katzenjammer (a) psychosis

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(b) confrere

n. a member of the middle class (a) spendthrift

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(d) supposition

n. leader of 100 soldiers in the Roman army (a) rhetoric

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(c) eddy

n. shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease) (a) subaltern

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(b) depredation

n. an act of economizing (a) economy

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(b) marque

(c) larceny

(d) countenance

n. a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair; twist (a) tress

(b) affluence

(c) yeoman

(d) coquette

(c) hencoop

(d) impasse

Q10 n. a farm building for housing poultry; henhouse (a) curmudgeon

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(b) connotation

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 172

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v. undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; condense (a) perturb

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(d) infer

(b) exhume

(c) affix

(d) swank

(b) envisage

(c) bandy

(d) surmount

(b) attribute

(c) lout

(d) wastrel

(c) unearth

(d) gibe

v. recover through digging (a) hurtle

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(c) tender

(b) indemnify

n. someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently (a) flippancy

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(d) wrangle

v. fight (a) forswear

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(c) loll

v. attach or become attached to a stem word (a) foment

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(b) distill

v. make amends for; repair (a) beef

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(b) comminute

v. strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison (a) belabor

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(c) dislodge

(d) hopple

(b) debauch

(c) rase

(d) decry

(c) gimp

(d) barf

v. conceal; hide; cover (a) enshroud

Q9

(b) dally

v. purge; cast; sick; chuck; honk; hrow up (a) garner

(b) denudate

Q10 v. enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; enclose (a) enwrap

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(b) lurk

(c) jell

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(d) erode

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n. distance travelled per unit time (a) tyranny

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(d) dousing

(b) testy

(c) lethal

(d) papistical

(b) singular

(c) antiquated

(d) virulent

(b) conserves

(c) orifice

(d) aegis

(b) ubiquitous

(c) muted

(d) rueful

(c) faux

(d) unbridled

adj. not genuine or real; imitation; simulated (a) reprehensible

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(c) cavalcade

adj. being or made softer or less loud or clear; softened (a) febrile

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(b) impediment

n. an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; porta (a) obsession

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(d) repulsion

adj. the single one of its kind (a) devouring

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(c) kismet

adj. easily irritated or annoyed; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peevish (a) cultivable

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(b) velocity

n. a procession of people traveling on horseback (a) apathy

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(b) officious

n. animal belonging to a subdivision of animals whose bodies and limbs are composed of segments jointed together (a) quagmire

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(b) articulate

(c) reaper

(d) proclivity

(c) jutting

(d) effusive

adj. extravagantly demonstrative; gushy (a) infernal

(b) pedantic

Q10 n. any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods (a) influx

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(b) mite

(c) egotism

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(d) nape

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 174

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adj. profoundly honored; venerable (a) primordial

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(c) crestfallen

(d) noncommittal

(b) preternatural

(c) generic

(d) prone

(c) allusion

(d) demeanor

(b) obeisance

(b) recourse

(c) emetic

(d) trilogy

(b) interminable

(c) variegated

(d) spanking

adj. used of a person's appearance or behavior; imposing (a) planless

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(b) decreed

adj. tiresomely long (a) chanceful

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(d) refractory

n. something or someone turned to for assistance or security; resort (a) gibberish

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(c) unilateral

(b) churlish

n. the state of being anonymous (a) anonymity

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(d) quizzical

adj. lying face downward (a) pandemic

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(c) chaffing

adj. producing a sensation of touch (a) tactile

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(b) august

adj. having the ability to perceive or understand (a) perceptive

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(b) magisterial

(c) improvident

(d) dour

adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; vertiginous (a) woozy

(b) baleful

(c) mantled

(d) gaudy

(c) mesmeric

(d) practical

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(b) perfidious

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 175

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n. a deep opening in the earth's surface (a) grievance

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(b) quorum

(c) comeuppance

(d) preemie

(b) merger

(c) empathy

(d) pauper

(b) patness

(c) devotee

(d) toga

(b) crone

(c) roseola

(d) etymology

(b) rebuff

(c) retrograde

(d) mint

(c) granger

(d) pastille

n. a person who operates a farm; sodbuster (a) alliteration

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(d) fiat

v. get worse or fall back to a previous condition; retrogress (a) don

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(c) palette

n. the study of the sources and development of words (a) attribute

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(b) reprobation

n. an ardent follower and admirer; lover (a) nubbiness

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(d) chasm

n. a person who is very poor (a) melee

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(c) vestige

n. an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved; comeupance (a) euphoria

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(b) anarchy

n. decree; command (a) gesticulation

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(b) yack

n. the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean; littoral zone; sands (a) retribution

(b) debauchee

(c) docket

(d) litoral

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(b) barterer

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(c) optometrist

(d) jinrikisha

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v. advance beyond the usual limit (a) blackjack

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(d) temper

(b) vilify

(c) veer

(d) imply

(b) complot

(c) depict

(d) incorporate

(b) impute

(c) allay

(d) scrimp

(b) scruple

(c) fritter

(d) concenter

(c) sordid

(d) callous

adj. meanly avaricious and mercenary (a) passe

Q8

(c) galvanize

v. spend frivolously and unwisely; dissipate; shoot; fool (a) coalesce

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(b) exude

v. attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source (a) cocker

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(d) behoove

v. combine; blend; unify; unite; include (a) devolve

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(c) chasten

v. have as a necessary feature (a) abstain

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(b) impinge

v. stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock (a) prompt

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(b) unilateral

v. reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current (a) commutate

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(b) weather

(c) quash

(d) gape

(b) scarper

(c) weather

(d) refashion

(b) eclipse

(c) cumber

(d) forsake

v. flee; run; turn tail; lam; run away; escape (a) rail

Q10 v. hold back; constrain (a) inundate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 177

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adv. adapart; reserved (a) apropos

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(d) aloof

(b) visceral

(c) primaeval

(d) disputatious

(b) glut

(c) sublimate

(d) gloss over

(b) cession

(c) plethora

(d) counterpart

n. the act of ceding (a) verdigris

Q5

(c) amok

v. make stronger or defensible (a) buttress

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(b) askance

adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolor; painted (a) piebald

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n. the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; battery; bombardment; shelling (a) barrage

Q6

(b) somnambulist

(c) lectern

(d) cupidity

(b) diversion

(c) breadth

(d) chaparral

n. a formal expression of praise; panegyric; paean; pean (a) encomium

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(d) espial

n. the extent of something from side to side (a) carrion

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(c) finale

n. someone who walks about in their sleep; noctambulist (a) purloo

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(b) inquisitor

(b) privation

(c) recrimination

(d) dichotomy

adj. old-fashioned and out of date; unprogressive; nonprogressive (a) prehensile

(b) standpat

(c) sanguine

(d) glutinous

Q10 n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing; gewgaw; novelty; trinket (a) bauble

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(b) appurtenances

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(c) enologist

(d) asylum

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 178

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adj. capable of being wounded or hurt (a) vulnerable

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(b) multilingual

(c) monumental

(d) odoriferous

(b) manifold

(c) gaunt

(d) prudent

(b) aquiline

(c) lucrative

(d) desultory

(b) nether

(c) barbate

(d) random

(b) terminate

(c) jell

(d) rehabilitate

adj. stubbornly unyielding; persistent; tenacious; unyielding (a) knotty

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(d) overbearing

v. become gelatinous; congeal (a) appraise

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(c) mutable

adj. having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water (a) retentive

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(b) timid

adj. pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced (a) eugenic

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(d) prehensile

adj. many and varied (a) mauve

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(c) parsimonious

adj. imposing in size or bulk or solidity (a) homespun

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(b) jovial

adj. lacking conviction or boldness or courage; faint-hearted (a) bendable

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(b) ironic

(c) rubicund

(d) pertinacious

(c) gargantuan

(d) overweening

adj. completely satisfactory; copesetic; copesettic (a) copacetic

(b) grotesque

Q10 adj. attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; mesmerizing; spellbinding (a) finical

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(b) mesmeric

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(c) despicable

(d) effeminate

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n. someone who is punished for the errors of others (a) mores

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(b) torrent

(c) canker

(d) implication

(b) animadversion

(c) optometrist

(d) refereeing

(b) regicide

(c) jingoism

(d) cesspit

(b) incentive

(c) dialectic

(d) stridence

(b) gnarled

(c) sententious

(d) resilient

n. a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled (a) foreboding

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(d) verdigris

adj. elastic; lively; springy (a) musty

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(c) limbo

n. a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction (a) aspersion

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(b) limner

n. fanatical patriotism; superpatriotism; ultranationalism (a) ramp

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(d) ethnology

n. a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses (a) roofy

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(c) scapegoat

n. a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of (a) icon

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(b) serenity

n. state of oblivion (a) criteria

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(b) tilter

(c) floridity

(d) missile

(b) patness

(c) homage

(d) epitome

n. respectful deference (a) acquittal

Q10 n. the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation; verdure (a) nirvana

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(b) verdancy

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(d) awe

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v. expose to atmospheric conditions (a) weather

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(b) caulk

(c) loll

(d) execrate

(b) prattle

(c) disgorge

(d) burgeon

(b) lament

(c) congeal

(d) intervene

(b) vaunted

(c) frigid

(d) chaste

(b) rescind

(c) deflect

(d) assail

(c) authenticate

(d) hunker

(b) indue

(c) fructify

(d) warrant

(b) enervate

(c) delve

(d) infer

v. sit on one's heels; scrunch (a) flummox

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(d) grok

v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade; put off; circumvent; parry (a) sidestep

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(c) incriminate

adj. highly praised (a) comatose

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(b) granulate

v. occur between other event or between certain points of time (a) expiate

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(d) censure

v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; purge; cast; regurgitate; throw up (a) commiserate

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(c) upbraid

v. be lazy or idle; bum around; loaf; frig around; lounge about (a) scram

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(b) worst

v. shift; divert; alter the course of (a) shunt

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(b) complot

v. make sweeter in taste; edulcorate; dulcorate (a) dulcify

Q10 v. derive; conclude (a) squander

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 181

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n. unwillingness to tell lies (a) chicanery

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(b) humdrum

(c) jingoistic

(d) ashen

(b) balk

(c) sully

(d) wangle

(b) sonorous

(c) meddlesome

(d) unequaled

(b) polity

(c) meliorist

(d) sophist

(b) antagonistic

(c) incommodious

(d) austere

(c) jolty

(d) reverent

(c) barf

(d) venue

adj. engaged in war; war-ridden; warring (a) synchronous

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(d) deciliter

adj. charming in a childlike or naive way (a) winsome

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(c) magnate

n. someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious (a) augury

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(b) charisma

adj. full and loud and deep (a) dilatory

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(d) andiron

v. tamper, with the purpose of deception; fake; falsify; cook; misrepresent (a) quarry

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(c) veracity

adj. pale; gray (a) irreconcilable

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(b) discretion

n. a very wealthy or powerful businessman; king; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon (a) rectitude

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(b) belligerent

n. the matter ejected in vomiting; puke (a) cascade

(b) desperado

Q10 adj. serving to bring to mind; remindful; reminiscent (a) resonant

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(b) feckless

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(c) ramate

(d) sensuous

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 182

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adj. relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen; marine (a) incisive

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(b) indissoluble

(c) stimulated

(d) erratic

(b) disingenuous

(c) distant

(d) provincial

(b) aslant

(c) corrugated

(d) bifurcated

(b) churlish

(c) receptive

(d) astronomical

(b) finite

(c) prodigal

(d) witless

adj. used of riotously drunken merrymaking; carousing; orgiastic (a) bacchic

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(d) conciliatory

adj. ending in a sharp point; sharp; needlelike (a) acuate

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(c) despicable

adj. able to absorb liquid (not repellent) (a) invidious

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(b) sedulous

adj. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges (a) foiled

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(d) salving

adj. consisting of or causing a climax (a) climactic

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(c) offhand

adj. likely to perform unpredictably (a) beholden

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(b) nautical

adj. marked by care and persistent effort (a) salubrious

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(b) inclusive

(c) monochromatic

(d) alimentary

adj. resembling or made to resemble leather; leatherlike; leathery (a) serrate

(b) elliptical

(c) coriaceous

(d) disputatious

Q10 adj. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; purple; royal (a) impotent

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(b) marked

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(c) subsidiary

(d) regal

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 183

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n. a brilliant and notable success (a) coup

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(b) squabble

(c) vagary

(d) herpetologist

n. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity (a) adjunct

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(c) egoism

(d) diva

(b) crevice

(c) ardor

(d) formality

(b) minion

(c) amulet

(d) summation

(c) parallelism

(d) animus

(b) carapace

n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot; morass; slack (a) lode

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(b) barf

n. similarity by virtue of corresponding (a) filigree

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(d) stipend

n. addition; total (a) peroration

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(c) moodiness

(b) trajectory

n. ceremony; procedure (a) suavity

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(d) endearment

n. inactivity resulting from a dislike of work (a) indolence

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(c) metaphor

n. having temperamental and changeable moods (a) rebus

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(b) efficacy

(b) cantata

(c) quagmire

(d) nimiety

n. a short moral story (often with animal characters); allegory (a) seminary

(b) ford

(c) apologue

(d) fanaticism

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(b) outturn

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(c) ebullition

(d) potpourri

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 184

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v. make a small cut or score into (a) decry

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(b) deviate

(c) provoke

(d) scotch

v. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; throw overboard; waive; forego (a) abate

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(b) harry

(c) simulate

(d) refrain

(b) renege

(c) defrock

(d) feign

(b) ductility

(c) poseur

(d) blackguard

(b) carp

(c) erode

(d) brook

(c) disparage

(d) carp

v. raise trivial objections; chicane (a) spawn

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(d) harass

v. hurl or throw violently (a) precipitate

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(c) temporize

n. a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not (a) gourmet

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(b) necrose

v. fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; renegue on; go back on (a) pummel

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(d) forgo

v. make a pretence of; sham; feign (a) incense

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(c) excoriate

v. draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time (a) clamber

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(b) rail

(b) mutter

v. exert pressure on someone through threats; pressure (a) deify

(b) blackjack

(c) gouge

(d) promulgate

(c) enumerate

(d) ignite

Q10 v. subsist on a meager allowance; skimp (a) scrimp

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(b) allege

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 185

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adj. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person (a) slovenly

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(b) demeaning

(c) azure

(d) lustrous

(b) privation

(c) rapport

(d) ambience

(b) succulent

(c) puny

(d) delusive

(b) receptive

(c) tenacious

(d) fanciful

(b) pandemic

(c) unrequited

(d) esoteric

(b) filibuster

(c) compromise

(d) scrutinize

(c) retiring

(d) laudatory

(c) disingenuous

(d) haemal

v. grow (a) vegetate

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(d) cirque

adj. confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle (a) seminal

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(c) ebullition

adj. having a curiously intricate quality (a) crabby

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(b) transgression

adj. inappropriate to reality or facts (a) complacent

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(d) unwitting

n. the atmosphere of an environment (a) naivete

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(c) dabbled

adj. reflecting light; sheeny; shiny; shining (a) morbid

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(b) ruthless

n. the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit (a) brocade

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adj. impressive in appearance; noble; stately (a) baronial

(b) irascible

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(b) brusque

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adj. of or characteristic of or occurring in spring (a) vernal

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(b) surly

(c) vainglorious

(d) vociferous

(b) verbatim

(c) risque

(d) fugitive

(b) kismet

(c) cadence

(d) roster

(c) cynosure

(d) converse

(c) wary

(d) chatoyant

(b) conniption

(b) concluding

adj. not having a material body; bodiless; unbodied; disembodied (a) ciliated

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(d) dauntless

adj. of plants or persons; bloodsucking (a) leechlike

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(c) untellable

n. a proposition obtained by conversion (a) fortitude

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(b) berserk

n. fate; destiny (a) antipathy

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(d) funereal

adj. in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker (a) affected

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(c) studied

adj. conspicuously and offensively loud; clamorous; strident (a) tellurian

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(b) mauve

adj. invulnerable to fear or intimidation; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing (a) capillary

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(b) magniloquent

(c) incandescent

(d) unembodied

(c) fogyish

(d) garrulous

adj. small; little; unimportant (a) dulcet

(b) petty

Q10 adj. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; pliant; waxy (a) extrinsic

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(b) baffling

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(c) gregarious

(d) bendable

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 187

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n. a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself (a) crabbiness

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(d) preamble

(b) generality

(c) confidant

(d) epilogue

(b) abetment

(c) respiration

(d) comity

n. an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; visitation (a) calamity

Q5

(c) megalomania

n. a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect (a) cog

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(b) patriarch

n. a short passage added at the end of a literary work (a) fecundity

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(b) tribulation

(c) rivulet

(d) congruence

n. the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) (a) poignancy

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(b) concomitant

(c) decorum

(d) prescience

(b) humid

(c) homogeneous

(d) reverent

(c) suborn

(d) supplant

v. squeeze together; compact; contract (a) pan

Q9

(d) defection

adj. showing great reverence for god; worshipful (a) affable

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(c) grimace

n. propriety in manners and conduct (a) senility

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(b) mote

(b) compress

n. a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices; rabblerouser (a) diadem

(b) urchin

(c) torque

(d) demagogue

Q10 n. a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; burnouse (a) aloneness

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(b) burnoose

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(c) analogy

(d) doldrums

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 188

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v. induce to commit perjury or give false testimony (a) reprimand

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(b) shunt

(c) codify

(d) intervene

(b) splice

(c) prompt

(d) posture

(b) recount

(c) infiltrate

(d) dismember

(b) pan

(c) tapdance

(d) decapitate

(b) chasten

(c) broach

(d) teeter

v. pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue; follow out; carry out; put through; go through (a) supinate

Q9

(d) relent

v. move unsteadily, with a rocking motion; totter (a) transpire

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(c) babble

v. express a totally negative opinion of; trash (a) acclimate

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(b) lampoon

v. pass through an enemy line (a) reprove

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(d) grapple

v. viewpoint; standpoint; attitude (a) validate

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(c) suborn

v. organize into a code or system, such as a body of law (a) envisage

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(b) blanch

v. ridicule with satire (a) disembowel

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(b) implement

(c) disclaim

(d) sunder

(b) claver

(c) yield

(d) devolve

(c) funk

(d) mussitate

v. produce; supply (a) gimp

Q10 v. talk indistinctly; maunder (a) extricate

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(b) abominate

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v. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; adulterate; stretch (a) delineate

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(b) recount

(c) anneal

(d) roister

(b) sundry

(c) unprepossessing

(d) suppliant

(b) jaunt

(c) litotes

(d) ecologist

(b) penniless

(c) sadistic

(d) halting

(b) wriggling

(c) noxious

(d) sluggish

v. settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off (a) capsulate

Q9

(d) faux

adj. injurious to physical or mental health (a) gemmed

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(c) bursiform

adj. fragmentary from emotional strain (a) bland

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(b) carnal

n. a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment (a) yack

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(d) amputate

adj. creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression (a) mutinous

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(c) dilute

v. perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; pull (a) perpetrate

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(b) console

adj. of or relating to the body or flesh (a) salutary

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(b) glaze

(c) liquidate

(d) betroth

n. a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal; gas (a) flatulency

(b) rendezvous

(c) agility

(d) impinging

(c) flag

(d) enfeoff

Q10 v. process fast and efficiently (a) expedite

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(b) jampack

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 190

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adj. of persons; ungovernable (a) fawning

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(b) scurvy

(c) sacrosanct

(d) twee

(b) rapacious

(c) crinkled

(d) sixpenny

(b) harassed

(c) calorific

(d) demoniac

(c) regal

(d) stereotyped

(b) contiguous

(b) paucity

(c) frippery

(d) figment

(c) impassive

(d) degraded

adj. poker-faced; unexpressive; apathetic (a) restive

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(d) saturnine

n. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers; inn; lodge (a) auberge

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(c) hypercritical

adj. increasing by successive addition (a) cumulative

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(b) omnipresent

adj. heat-generating (a) reprehensible

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(d) twisting

adj. of trifling worth (a) dissident

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(c) lank

adj. of the most contemptible kind; low-down; miserable; scummy (a) visionary

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(b) unruly

adj. disdainfully or ironically humorous (a) sardonic

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(b) hackneyed

adj. not converted into ions; unionized; unionised; nonionic (a) nonionized

(b) wizened

(c) ambidextrous

(d) mythical

(c) pivotal

(d) insensible

Q10 adj. not fully developed or mature; immature (a) strident

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(b) unripened

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 191

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n. a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed); self-reproach (a) onslaught

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(b) atrocity

(c) compunction

(d) blackguard

n. the outside boundary or surface of something; outer boundary (a) chaparral

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(b) circumlocution

(c) periphery

(d) larceny

n. the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars (a) irony

Q4

(d) entity

(b) astigmatism

(c) garrulity

(d) murkiness

(b) gourmand

(c) treatise

(d) clairvoyant

(c) coy

(d) jerkwater

(c) nib

(d) fatalism

(b) abortive

n. an ornamental coating to a building (a) veneer

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(c) deferment

adj. easy to get along with or talk to (a) accessible

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(b) occident

n. a formal exposition (a) penchant

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(d) tumult

n. the quality of being cloudy; muddiness (a) imbroglio

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(c) apex

n. that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) (a) component

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(b) latitude

(b) apothegm

n. a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons); hoard; stash (a) insularity

(b) hegemony

(c) euphony

(d) cache

(c) redress

(d) dupe

Q10 n. a person holding a fief; liegeman; liege subject (a) blowhard

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(b) feudatory

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 192

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v. lose in value; devaluate; devalue (a) depreciate

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(b) hew

(c) low

(d) flit

(b) precipitate

(c) belittle

(d) disband

(b) cavort

(c) jampack

(d) glower

(b) blanch

(c) retain

(d) pander

(b) coagulate

(c) apostatize

(d) outstrip

(c) crimson

(d) preclude

v. mar or spoil the appearance of; blemish (a) deface

Q9

(d) renege

v. abandon one's beliefs or allegiances; tergiversate (a) underscore

Q8

(c) codify

v. divide into pieces; discerp (a) dismember

Q7

(b) annotate

v. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval (a) marshal

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(d) clamber

v. stop functioning or cohering as a unit (a) retain

Q5

(c) pall

v. provide with military equipment (a) accoutre

Q4

(b) exult

v. provide analytical notes (a) cavort

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(b) subrogate

v. expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; ptyalise; spew; spue (a) implore

(b) wrawl

(c) outwit

(d) ptyalize

Q10 v. wish harm upon; anathemize; imprecate; maledict (a) requite

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(b) incense

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(c) bedamn

(d) hover

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 193

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v. call together (a) convoke

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(b) baffling

(c) inclined

(d) extant

(b) silt

(c) junket

(d) hymnal

(b) sepulcher

(c) coiffure

(d) rotundity

(b) invert

(c) flourish

(d) filch

(b) rase

(c) stymy

(d) discount

(c) puny

(d) permeable

adj. marked by precise accordance with details (a) propulsive

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(d) erode

v. wear out completely; beat (a) tucker

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(c) flinch

v. make off with belongings of others; cabbage; purloin; hook; sneak (a) decant

Q7

(b) manumit

n. the fullness of a tone of voice (a) tanner

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(d) simper

n. mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake (a) turbulence

Q5

(c) ambuscade

adj. having made preparations; prepared (a) stentorian

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(b) sear

v. draw back, as with fear or pain; funk; cringe; shrink; wince; recoil; quail (a) germinate

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(b) punctilious

adj. commonly used or practiced; usual; accustomed; customary; habitual (a) unassuming

(b) wonted

(c) indissoluble

(d) redoubtable

(c) serpentine

(d) stainless

Q10 adj. sensible and practical (a) earthy

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(b) redundant

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 194

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adj. expressing sorrow (a) tepid

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(b) sidereal

(c) partial

(d) dolorous

(c) antagonistic

(d) irrevocable

(b) laudable

(b) estranged

(c) cognitive

(d) rapacious

(b) obtrusive

(c) animated

(d) lunar

(b) diminution

(c) debauchee

(d) hindrance

(c) opportune

(d) irascible

adj. characterized by anger (a) cadaverous

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(d) hale

n. the act of decreasing or reducing something; reduction; step-down (a) appurtenances

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(c) sanguine

adj. made to appear to move as living creatures do (a) impalpable

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(b) virulent

adj. of or characteristic of or resembling a king of beasts (a) leonine

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(d) retentive

adj. comical in an odd or whimsical manner (a) droll

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(c) plaintive

adj. precisely accurate (a) veracious

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(b) penniless

adj. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; florid (a) undoable

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(b) lilting

adj. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition; excursive; rambling (a) studied

(b) discursive

(c) divergent

(d) primordial

(c) jetting

(d) crusted

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n. an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business; judicature (a) comeuppance

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(b) homily

(c) tremor

(d) embonpoint

(b) reaper

(c) mirth

(d) shyster

(b) incantation

(c) facsimile

(d) viand

(b) peroration

(c) madrigal

(d) reprise

(b) coprolith

(c) agenda

(d) carrell

n. a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility; bad blood (a) nemesis

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(d) ordeal

n. a hard mass of fecal matter; faecalith; stercolith (a) killjoy

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(c) brevity

n. an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices (a) orthography

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(b) carousal

n. a choice or delicious dish (a) sluice

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(d) barrage

n. a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods (a) emolument

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(c) tribunal

n. the bodily property of being well rounded; roundness (a) expostulation

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(b) sherbet

n. the attribute of being brief or fleeting; transience (a) awe

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(b) mogul

(c) verisimilitude

(d) animus

n. one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder; rung (a) rundle

(b) detraction

(c) atar

(d) dejeuner

(c) deferment

(d) aria

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v. expel from a community or group; ostracize; ostracise; cast out; blackball (a) festinate

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(b) cauterize

(c) mutter

(d) energize

(b) wrest

(c) lurk

(d) swish

(c) polarize

(d) ratify

(b) pulverize

(c) cyclostyle

(d) vilify

(b) thwart

(c) wallow

(d) propitiate

(b) foment

v. move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); wriggle; worm; squirm; twist (a) roil

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(d) exhort

v. make peace with (a) disclose

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(c) relegate

v. become powder or dust; pulverise; powderise (a) retain

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(b) fester

v. separate into opposing groups; contrapose (a) convoke

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(d) shun

v. wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; waylay; ambuscade; lie in wait (a) unfrock

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(c) cavil

v. move or swing back and forth; wave (a) flourish

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(b) grate

v. generate pus; rankle; produce irritation or resentment (a) secrete

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(b) reconcile

(c) writhe

(d) primp

(c) yaup

(d) tote

v. emit long loud cries; wail; roar; yawl (a) subrogate

(b) throttle

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(b) preen

(c) endue

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n. a Gestalt principle of organization holding that objects or events that are near to one another are perceived as belonging together as a unit (a) proximity

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(c) surly

(d) sophomoric

(c) defection

(d) equity

(c) cloister

(d) mayhem

(c) romanize

(d) careen

(b) stickler

(b) welt

(b) attenuate

(b) fatso

(c) amnesty

(d) avocation

adj. having two horns or horn-shaped parts; bicornuate; bicornuous (a) practicable

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(b) quiescent

n. the property of flowing easily; liquidity; liquidness (a) runniness

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(d) romanize

v. move sideways or in an unsteady way; shift; tilt (a) wreak

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(c) disseminate

n. violent and needless disturbance (a) tightwad

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(b) bait

n. conformity with rules or standards (a) zeta

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(d) vertigo

adj. youthful; immature (a) unmedical

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(c) peregrination

v. violate the sacred character of a place or language; outrage; violate (a) profane

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(b) ejaculation

(b) motionless

(c) bicornate

(d) metaphysical

n. a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin; tepidness (a) tepidity

(b) spat

(c) equestrian

(d) dais

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(b) exuberant

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(c) gauche

(d) precipitate

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adj. unpleasantly cool and humid (a) brazen

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(b) winsome

(c) exemplary

(d) compliant

(b) hale

(c) debonair

(d) phoney

(b) vociferous

(c) mottled

(d) nocturnal

(c) insensible

(d) devouring

adj. fraudulent; phony; phoney; bastard (a) dulcet

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(d) bribable

adj. of the night (a) cornered

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(c) dank

adj. being attentive to women like an ideal knight; knightly (a) chivalrous

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(b) abrasive

adj. persistent petty and unjustified criticism; faultfinding (a) carping

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(b) bogus

n. a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule (a) repertoire

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(d) perusal

(b) voracious

(c) derivative

(d) bootleg

(c) bursiform

(d) callous

adj. shaped like a pouch; pouchlike; saclike (a) obtuse

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(c) insurrection

adj. of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband (a) connubial

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(b) hydrophobia

(b) uncanny

adj. having unsuitable feminine qualities; epicene; sissified; sissyish; sissy (a) cissy

(b) subjective

(c) prophetic

(d) hackneyed

Q10 adj. pertaining to or resembling amoebae; amoeban; amoebous; amebous (a) whimsical

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(b) ameban

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(c) vicarious

(d) verdant

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n. tendency to believe readily (a) sloth

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(b) anomaly

(c) trek

(d) vantage

(c) machinations

(d) narcissist

(b) ellipsis

(b) aspirant

(c) satellite

(d) impediment

(b) zephyr

(c) harping

(d) cognizance

(b) jesting

(c) aery

(d) apprehensive

(c) redoubtable

(d) emaciated

adj. very pleasing to the eye; comely; fair; sightly (a) perfidious

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(d) contagion

adj. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; airy; ethereal (a) abusive

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(c) awl

n. range or scope of what is perceived (a) servility

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(b) howling

n. any structure that makes progress difficult; obstructer (a) floe

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(d) imperiousness

n. act of plotting or scheming; conspiracy (a) suavity

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(c) credulity

n. journey (a) impuissance

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(b) gesticulation

n. a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes (a) exodus

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(b) bonnie

n. the activeness of an energetic personality; oomph; zing (a) diversity

(b) pulchritude

(c) pizzaz

(d) castigation

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(b) adactylia

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(c) oculist

(d) vent

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v. confine; imprison (a) immure

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(c) marshal

(d) enhance

(b) faint

(c) verbalize

(d) elicit

(c) countermand

(d) impute

(c) allay

(d) appal

(c) exploit

(d) stridence

(b) germinate

(b) jolly

n. retreat; isolated dwelling (a) dialectic

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(b) actuate

v. fill with apprehension or alarm (a) brook

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(d) hamper

v. cause to grow or sprout (a) quarry

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(c) denounce

v. bear fruit (a) fructify

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(b) disconcert

v. lead ceremoniously, as in a procession (a) palter

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(b) hermitage

v. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; wander (a) recuperate

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(c) divagate

(d) abduce

(b) prod

(c) glower

(d) vindicate

(b) colourize

(c) beguile

(d) convoke

(c) burgeon

(d) unhallow

v. force or drive back; fight off; drive back (a) rebuff

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(b) importune

v. add color to (a) polarize

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(b) bewail

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adj. deserving or inciting pity; pathetic; piteous; poor; wretched (a) vulpine

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(b) assiduity

(c) avaritia

(d) clairvoyant

(c) ascribe

(d) evince

(b) scavenge

(b) cherubic

(c) surly

(d) gelid

(b) osseous

(c) sodden

(d) unkempt

(b) irremediable

(c) conversant

(d) irrepressible

(b) retort

(c) torque

(d) collation

(c) amend

(d) argufy

n. a twisting force (a) febricity

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(d) wily

adj. (usually followed by 'with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly (a) foppish

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(c) impenetrable

adj. impossible to remedy or correct or redress (a) irremediable

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(b) heathen

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; gaunt; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted (a) emaciated

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(d) tautological

v. attribute or credit to; assign; attribute (a) denigrate

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(c) hapless

n. fortuneteller (a) terminology

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(b) concave

adj. marked by skill in deception; cunning; foxy; guileful; knavish; slick (a) ingenuous

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v. reduce the seriousness of (a) vex

(b) extenuate

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(b) thespian

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(c) incredulous

(d) exacting

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adj. having a cheerful; charming jaunty (a) debonair

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(c) profligate

(d) centrifugal

(b) pivotal

(c) lilliputian

(d) synoptic

adj. resistant to guidance or discipline; perverse; wayward (a) cynical

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(b) covetous

adj. being of crucial importance (a) unripened

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(b) regal

(c) lateral

(d) obstinate

adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy; unctuous (a) impenetrable

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(c) ignominious

(d) insubstantial

(b) volatile

(c) albinal

(d) quotidian

(b) retrench

(c) fellate

(d) bate

(b) odious

(c) variegated

(d) dorsal

adj. on or near the back (a) jingoistic

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(b) ebullient

v. provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation; blow; go down on (a) apostatize

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(d) provident

adj. found in the ordinary course of events; routine; unremarkable; workaday (a) incredulous

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(c) putrid

adj. lacking in nutritive value (a) pithy

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(b) fulsome

adj. lacking orderly continuity; disjointed; disordered; illogical; scattered; unconnected (a) rubicund

(b) gullible

(c) garbled

(d) willful

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(b) sectarian

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(c) albinal

(d) igneous

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n. dominance through threat of punishment and violence; despotism (a) tyranny

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(b) incidence

(c) liability

(d) anodyne

(b) stratum

(c) imbecility

(d) fille

(b) miscellany

(c) tundra

(d) ictus

(b) miasma

(c) sinecure

(d) cavalier

(b) dodder

(c) mediate

(d) repeal

(c) vassal

(d) immobility

(c) animosity

(d) desperado

(c) tidings

(d) haughtiness

n. fruit preserved by cooking with sugar; preserves (a) tribunal

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(d) abeyance

v. intervene; reconciliate (a) decapitate

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(c) profusion

n. unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources (a) turncoat

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(b) archives

n. an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. (a) arroyo

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(d) chantey

n. a stupid mistake; folly; foolishness (a) colander

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(c) sleight

n. the quality of being something that holds you back (a) chiding

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(b) obstetrician

n. temporary cessation or suspension (a) litany

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(b) conserves

n. variable which determines the form of a function (a) realty

(b) parameter

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(b) emptor

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v. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses (a) abduce

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(d) welter

(b) staccato

(c) nondescript

(d) fallow

(b) gilt

(c) lamentable

(d) sublime

(b) timorous

(c) errant

(d) specious

(b) rationalize

(c) bandy

(d) burnish

(b) delineate

(c) atone

(d) douse

(c) supplant

(d) berate

(c) oxygenate

(d) gasp

v. describe in vivid detail (a) stoke

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(c) smolder

(b) dissuade

v. polish and make shiny; furbish (a) unhallow

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(d) slacken

adj. of or pertaining to the smell secreted by certain animals (a) musky

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(c) shunt

adj. perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) (a) quizzical

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(b) prune

adj. relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) (a) existential

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(d) refashion

v. have strong suppressed feelings (a) terminate

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(c) incriminate

v. slow down; decelerate (a) pinion

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(b) pulsate

v. make insensitive or callous; cauterise (a) cauterize

(b) discount

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(b) sham

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n. a celebrity who is an inspiration to others; guiding light; notable; notability (a) pastorale

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(d) reparation

(b) erratic

(c) soporific

(d) venerable

(c) caption

(d) touchstone

(b) chiding

n. a very boastful and talkative person; boaster; line-shooter; vaunter (a) predilection

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(c) luminary

n. brief description accompanying an illustration (a) deferment

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(b) scapegoat

adj. profoundly honored (a) supposititious

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(b) alkene

(c) blowhard

(d) depredation

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; imperious; lordly; prideful; sniffy; supercilious; swaggering (a) vicarious

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(b) supposition

(c) gruel

(d) preponderance

(b) impolitic

(c) heterodox

(d) irreverent

(b) unharmed

(c) beneficent

(d) abdominous

(b) hitchhike

(c) welter

(d) sire

(c) succinct

(d) unfettered

adj. having a large belly; paunchy; potbellied (a) pert

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(d) pliable

adj. not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed; nonmedicinal (a) unmedical

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(c) punctilious

n. exceeding in heaviness (a) ratiocination

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(b) overbearing

v. be immersed in (a) burnish

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(b) craven

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adj. being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion; stirred; touched (a) affected

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(c) profound

(d) clairvoyant

(b) sere

(c) kindred

(d) personable

(b) baronial

(c) musky

(d) saline

(b) incarnate

(c) testy

(d) gnarly

(b) deciliter

(c) casualty

(d) balm

adj. modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures (a) putative

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(b) antagonistic

n. a metric unit of volume (capacity) (a) pragmatist

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(d) funereal

adj. invested with a bodily form especially of a human body (a) redundant

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(c) histrionic

(b) interlaced

adj. having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety (a) distrait

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(d) coinciding

adj. dry; withered (a) staid

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(c) salubrious

adj. incapable of harmonious association (a) famed

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(b) reputable

adj. characteristic of acting or a stage performance (a) repellent

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(b) viable

(c) coy

(d) subservient

adj. capable of being known; cognisable; cognoscible (a) overbold

(b) altruistic

(c) lustrous

(d) knowable

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(b) rudimentary

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(c) powdered

(d) invincible

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n. the quality of agreeing (a) regicide

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(b) congruence

(c) atar

(d) ennead

n. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; impasse; stalemate; standstill (a) deadlock

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(d) demeanor

(b) penumbra

(c) curator

(d) seine

(b) dotage

(c) equity

(d) amazon

n. aggressive woman (a) delirium

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(c) rotundity

n. the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) (a) acuity

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(b) refectory

n. an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); lyssa; madness (a) hydrophobia

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(b) quip

(c) comeuppance

(d) jocoseness

(b) insulting

(c) roiling

(d) modeled

(c) ciliated

(d) laudatory

adj. lacking wise self-restraint (a) imprudent

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(d) rave

adj. capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms; parasiticidal (a) helminthic

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(c) rejoinder

n. someone who makes wine; wine maker (a) vintner

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(b) entity

(b) impalpable

adj. pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb); cavitied; honeycombed; pitted (a) incipient

(b) squat

(c) alveolate

(d) alterative

(b) solace

(c) writ

(d) cinnamene

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v. cut a furrow into a columns (a) bourgeon

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(d) relent

(b) stipple

(c) evince

(d) galvanize

(c) incubate

(d) tink

(c) becloud

(d) wither

(b) disgruntle

(b) supplicate

(b) qualms

(c) responsiveness

(d) fluke

(b) rankle

(c) mulct

(d) truncate

v. gnaw into; grate (a) unearth

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(c) rile

n. parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host; trematode worm (a) requisite

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(b) vent

v. include in scope; comprehend; cover (a) encompass

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(d) probe

v. make apparent by one's mood or behavior (a) exude

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(c) chase

v. give expression to (a) forsake

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(b) hibernate

v. expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; air out; air (a) inter

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v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; disquiet; trouble; distract; disorder (a) indite

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(b) delve

(c) cark

(d) ignite

(b) exult

(c) fret

(d) effeminize

v. worry; annoy; irritate (a) shinny

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(b) divest

(c) manipulate

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(d) vilify

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adj. abstaining from sexual intercourse (a) succinct

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(c) gestate

(d) garotte

(c) limn

(d) deflect

(b) erode

(b) scoff

(b) sanguinary

(c) hazy

(d) finicky

(b) excoriate

(c) jostle

(d) preachify

(b) compelling

(c) mordant

(d) sluggish

(c) celestial

(d) pestilential

adj. unproductive of success; sleeveless; vain (a) unobtrusive

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(d) allay

adj. of a substance, especially a strong acid; erosive; vitriolic (a) prim

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(c) slake

v. tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading (a) ingeminate

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(b) bolster

adj. filled with melancholy and despondency; grim; blue; depressed; dispirited; low-spirited (a) downcast

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(d) definitive

v. treat with contemptuous disregard (a) filch

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(c) anthropomorphic

v. remove soil or rock; fret (a) cauterize

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(b) celibate

v. satisfy (thirst); assuage (a) supersede

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(b) futile

adj. so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; stupefying (a) staggering

(b) dapper

(c) omnipresent

(d) vacuous

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(b) valedictory

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(c) complacent

(d) sordid

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adj. of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; sky-blue; bright blue (a) helminthic

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(c) sphinx-like

(d) provisional

(b) monolithic

(c) overbearing

(d) irrelevant

(b) goitre

(c) notoriety

(d) ecologist

(b) slither

(c) probe

(d) hibernate

(b) subliminal

(c) putrid

(d) incandescent

adj. capable of arousing and holding the attention; fascinating; gripping; riveting (a) insalubrious

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(b) optional

adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; tumid; turgid (a) tumescent

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(d) seamy

v. make improvements or corrections to (a) emend

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(c) unintimidating

n. the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality (a) jubilation

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(b) burly

adj. characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity (a) animated

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(d) azure

adj. resembling a creature with the body of a lion and the face of a woman (a) fell

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(c) demeaning

adj. morally degraded; sleazy; sordid; squalid (a) motley

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(b) vituperative

(b) vacuous

(c) absorbing

(d) unequivocal

adj. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; somatic (a) aglow

(b) corporeal

(c) encomiastic

(d) seismic

(b) downlike

(c) mnemonic

(d) callow

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n. a contrived or fantastic idea (a) slub

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(b) conglomeration

(c) boule

(d) diminution

(b) verge

(c) retribution

(d) conifer

(c) palimpsest

(d) ramp

(b) tress

(c) tanner

(d) anathema

(b) incline

(c) glob

(d) trappings

(b) daftness

n. a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; meld (a) carrion

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(d) aria

n. slope; grade; slant (a) barrister

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(c) rhetoric

n. person who makes animal hides into leather (a) ramble

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(b) venue

n. a nervous restrained laugh (a) titter

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(d) figment

n. edge; brink (a) repugnance

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(c) digression

n. a correction by emending (a) emendation

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(b) swindler

n. study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) (a) burnoose

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(b) amazon

(c) canasta

(d) nimiety

n. a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses (a) pallet

(b) cabby

(c) sybarite

(d) rigor

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(b) fasciculus

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(d) pallet

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v. act in advance of; counter (a) necrose

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(b) burnish

(c) ingratiate

(d) muddle

(b) check

(c) perturb

(d) sate

(b) foreshadow

(c) interpolate

(d) procrastinate

(b) adulterate

(c) misconstrue

(d) spume

(b) prate

(c) feign

(d) effeminize

(b) aver

(c) deplete

(d) excoriate

(b) plagiarize

(c) swish

(d) denudate

(c) imply

(d) rationalize

v. use up (resources or materials); use up; eat (a) feign

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(d) mewl

v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; piffle; palaver; tittle-tattle (a) ravel

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(c) reave

v. interpret in the wrong way; misconceive; misunderstand; misapprehend; be amiss (a) debauch

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(b) attenuate

v. insert something new (a) bedaze

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(d) leaven

v. throw into great confusion or disorder; throw out of kilter (a) perforate

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(c) forestall

v. call together (a) convene

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(b) divagate

v. become thin; diminish (a) harass

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v. lay bare; strip (a) ferret

Q10 v. choose not to consume; desist (a) abstain

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(b) renounce

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n. a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior; systematist (a) ductility

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(c) taxonomist

(d) ordeal

(c) lugubrious

(d) slapdash

adj. of or relating to an apocalypse (a) capacious

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(b) obelisk

(b) apocalyptic

n. an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another; attendant; cooccurrence (a) catechism

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(c) materialism

(d) concomitant

(b) ambulatory

(c) inured

(d) foppish

adj. able to walk about (a) dauntless

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(b) mogul

n. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors; hauteur; high-handedness; lordliness (a) titter

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(b) marked

(c) modeled

(d) inflated

(b) slither

(c) reverberate

(d) finagle

(b) arraign

(c) amputate

(d) precipitate

(c) romanize

(d) amputate

v. cut off a limb (a) molt

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(d) adiposity

v. echo; resound (a) cozen

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(c) arrogance

adj. swollen; filled with air or gas; expanded (a) seminal

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(b) intimidation

v. write in the Latin alphabet; Latinize; Latinise (a) elicit

(b) extenuate

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(b) genteel

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(c) sardonic

(d) plauditory

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adj. without material form or substance (a) demented

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(b) heterogeneous

(c) discrete

(d) fabricated

(c) chaffing

(d) statutory

(b) temperate

(b) martyrize

(c) prognosticate

(d) tout

(b) scabbard

(c) pizzaz

(d) oneirism

(b) magniloquent

(c) synoptic

(d) bowlegged

(c) comely

(d) obligatory

(c) obstreperous

(d) taciturn

adj. very pleasing to the eye; fair; sightly (a) corrugated

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(d) riveting

adj. most frequent or common; predominant; dominant; rife (a) prevailing

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(c) moribund

n. especially fine or decorative clothing; regalia (a) raiment

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(b) serpentine

v. introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions (a) intersperse

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(d) incorporeal

adj. not expedient; unwise (a) impolitic

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(c) erudite

adj. crazy; wacky (a) zany

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(b) gusty

adj. being on the point of death (a) enraptured

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(b) innocuous

adj. expressing disapproval (a) pejorative

(b) derivative

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(b) impregnable

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(c) embryonic

(d) profound

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n. an energetic style (a) contagion

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(b) connivance

(c) citadel

(d) aristocracy

(b) jurisprudence

(c) antipathy

(d) repulsion

(b) concord

(c) shyster

(d) adjutant

(b) demean

(c) exult

(d) smolder

(b) incantation

(c) contortions

(d) ballast

n. voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge (a) rendezvous

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(d) disarray

n. the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift; conferral (a) conferment

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(c) emmet

v. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; disgrace; put down (a) trigger

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(b) anarchist

n. a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion (a) gesticulation

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(d) attrition

n. the act of repulsing or repelling an attack (a) catharsis

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(c) verve

n. the most powerful members of a society (a) fanfare

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(b) avocation

n. an advocate of anarchism; syndicalist (a) ballyhoo

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(b) sage

(c) continence

(d) nisus

n. an indication that something has been present; tincture; shadow (a) vestige

(b) scamper

(c) animosity

(d) invective

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(b) dregs

(c) fanfare

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(d) astigmatism

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v. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; waver (a) vacillate

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(b) begild

(c) befoul

(d) ogle

(b) desiccate

(c) tapdance

(d) rescind

(b) chronicle

(c) deface

(d) skimp

(b) fete

(c) absolve

(d) prognosticate

(b) muckrake

(c) thwart

(d) scale

(c) loiter

(d) mutilate

(c) rationalize

(d) sublimate

v. be about; lounge; mess about; mill around (a) staunch

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(d) hulk

v. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; spoil; scotch; cross (a) render

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(c) prostrate

v. delight greatly in (a) wallow

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(b) facilitate

v. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; scant (a) apostatize

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(d) caulk

v. cancel officially; lift; countermand; reverse; repeal; overturn; vacate (a) console

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(c) hoard

v. look at with amorous intentions (a) mint

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(b) fate

v. throw down flat, as on the ground (a) grate

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(b) renovate

v. call to mind; paint a picture (a) evoke

(b) effeminize

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(b) stint

(c) cede

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(d) implement

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v. become less intense; slacken off (a) excise

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(b) miscellany

(c) coda

(d) slub

(b) countermand

(c) recount

(d) babble

(b) enclave

(c) probity

(d) circlet

(b) assurance

(c) dejeuner

(d) opprobrium

(b) pander

(c) luxate

(d) hitchhike

adj. incongruous; idiotic; laughable; ludicrous; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous (a) carinate

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(d) machinations

v. travel by getting free rides from motorists; thumb (a) paginate

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(c) caption

n. the act of fusing (or melting) together (a) fusion

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(b) necromancy

n. decorated metal band worn around the head (a) mirth

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(d) impair

v. cancel officially; lift; reverse; repeal; overturn; rescind; vacate (a) mosh

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(c) pillory

n. sepulchre; sepulture (a) sepulcher

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(b) flag

n. conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying (a) chalice

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(b) concluding

(c) derisory

(d) alimentary

(c) despotism

(d) disapprobation

n. an expression of strong disapproval (a) prude

(b) calling

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(b) amble

(c) cephalitis

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(d) killjoy

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adj. characterized by dignity and propriety (a) verdant

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(b) papistical

(c) nubile

(d) conjugal

(b) tenacious

(c) puissant

(d) grudging

(b) hindmost

(c) kinetic

(d) mincing

(b) presentiment

(c) hue

(d) naivete

(b) begrimed

(c) metallurgical

(d) convivial

adj. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination (a) pendulous

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(d) canny

adj. occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company (a) improvident

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(c) indeterminate

n. lack of sophistication or worldliness; naiveness (a) carryall

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(b) comatose

adj. affectedly dainty or refined; niminy-piminy; prim; twee (a) humane

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(d) staid

adj. petty or reluctant in giving or spending; scrimy (a) hazardous

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(c) infernal

adj. not modified or restricted by reservations; flat; unconditional (a) categorical

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(b) stealthy

adj. uncertain; indefinite; unclear; ambiguous (a) cardinal

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(b) astral

(c) minute

(d) connubial

(c) provincial

(d) gloomful

adj. filled or abounding with clouds; sunless (a) overcast

(b) deciduous

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(b) objective

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(c) cornered

(d) glistening

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n. periapsis in Earth orbit (a) delta

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(d) gentry

(b) carat

(c) exodus

(d) rebuttal

(b) appellation

(c) fauna

(d) slag

(b) armada

(c) doggerel

(d) aviary

n. a date (a) rendezvous

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(c) affiliation

n. the discharge of semen in males (a) ejaculation

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(b) perigee

n. the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; kt (a) throng

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n. mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs (a) farce

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(b) bard

(c) centurion

(d) hieroglyphic

n. the point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected (a) advent

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(d) onomatopoeia

(b) satiate

(c) alienate

(d) bask

(c) gourmet

(d) bourgeois

n. an ore that is the chief source of zinc; sphalerite (a) blende

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(c) semblance

v. overeat or eat immodestly; overindulge; glut; stuff; engorge (a) prognosticate

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(b) nadir

(b) incarnation

n. foolish or senseless behavior; craziness; lunacy; indulgence (a) connivance

(b) heretic

(c) quack

(d) tomfoolery

(c) polygamist

(d) chassis

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(b) dallier

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v. be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get (a) ordain

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(b) kindle

(c) keel

(d) collaborate

(b) renovate

(c) nettle

(d) debunk

(b) dissemble

(c) plagiarize

(d) equivocate

(b) begrudge

(c) worst

(d) anele

(c) infatuate

(d) endue

(b) encrypt

v. laugh at with contempt and derision; barrack; gibe (a) founder

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(d) pulsate

v. give qualities or abilities to; gift; empower; invest (a) buttress

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(c) immolate

v. restrain with fetters (a) shackle

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(b) transmute

v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; pervert; subvert; demoralize; profane (a) debauch

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(d) enwrap

v. give new life or energy to; reanimate; revive; repair; quicken; vivify; revivify (a) pacify

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(c) interpolate

v. scar; burn; brand (a) sear

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(b) nonplus

v. change form (a) binge

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(b) pacify

(c) nettle

(d) flout

(b) dally

(c) gorge

(d) comminute

(b) becloud

(c) wrangle

(d) decimate

v. overeat or eat immodestly (a) congeal

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n. any substance that propels (a) welter

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(b) rife

(c) brazen

(d) dogged

(b) perceptive

(c) decollete

(d) astute

(b) insubstantial

(c) mottled

(d) personable

(b) serfdom

(c) usury

(d) contrition

(b) labyrinth

(c) extolment

(d) trivia

n. the path followed by an object moving through space (a) kyphosis

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(d) ruddy

n. a colorless oily liquid; phenylethylene; vinylbenzene (a) cinnamene

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(c) overwrought

n. a person who makes a will (a) testator

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(b) marred

adj. (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality (a) incandescent

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(d) confluence

adj. (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline; low-necked (a) inarticulate

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(c) yield

adj. excessively abundant (a) doddering

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(b) propellant

adj. deeply agitated especially from emotion (a) hoggish

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(b) habitue

(c) aria

(d) trajectory

n. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique (a) nutrient

(b) genre

(c) pestle

(d) foresight

(c) grueling

(d) recumbent

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(b) raspy

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adj. given to merry frolicking; frolicky; rollicking (a) absorbing

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(b) monochromatic

(c) rigid

(d) doctrinaire

(b) malignant

(c) unflurried

(d) tensile

(b) artless

(c) frolicsome

(d) minute

(b) anthropoid

(c) serpentine

(d) imperial

(b) mellifluous

(c) audacious

(d) analogous

adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins; jeweled; jewelled; sequined; spangled; spangly (a) gemmed

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(d) recondite

adj. being born or beginning (a) nascent

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(c) osseous

adj. twisting; winding; sly; wily; treacherous (a) eulogistic

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(b) despoiled

adj. natural; unaffected; uncultured (a) ashen

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(d) sportive

adj. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; mixed; motley (a) sundry

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(c) cruddy

adj. having or appearing to have only one color; monochromic; monochromous (a) barbarian

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(b) blowsy

adj. composed of or containing bone; bony (a) effusive

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(b) stainless

(c) jolty

(d) piebald

(c) clairvoyant

(d) ambulatory

adj. foreseeing the future; second-sighted (a) propitious

(b) noxious

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(b) churlish

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(c) pied

(d) despoiled

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n. mode of rule; system of government (a) rancor

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(b) scaffold

(c) vantage

(d) dermatologist

(b) garroter

(c) braggadocio

(d) apothecary

(b) tyranny

(c) epic

(d) quorum

(b) burnoose

(c) tantrum

(d) genealogy

(b) colic

(c) idolatry

(d) ellipsis

(c) tempo

(d) modicum

n. a style that has the power to evoke feelings (a) jongleur

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(d) geniality

n. omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences (a) enigma

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(c) efficacy

n. an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) (a) suffragist

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(b) phenomena

n. an elaborate song for solo voice (a) aria

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(d) regime

n. vain and empty boasting; rodomontade; rhodomontade (a) blackguard

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(c) gourmand

n. a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers (a) felon

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(b) retraction

n. capacity or power to produce a desired effect (a) disinclination

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(b) pathos

n. any red eruption of the skin; efflorescence; skin rash (a) quirk

(b) avocation

(c) roseola

(d) bane

(c) debauchee

(d) geta

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(b) patois

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v. move along rapidly and lightly; fleet; dart (a) patronize

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(b) entice

(c) warrant

(d) allege

(c) denounce

(d) quell

(b) pacify

(b) quail

(c) defile

(d) appraise

(b) epitomize

(c) decry

(d) surmount

(b) futile

(c) odoriferous

(d) bemused

(c) dissimulate

(d) steep

v. give a reduction in price on (a) discount

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(d) annul

adj. having a natural fragrance; perfumed; scented; sweet; sweet-scented; sweet-smelling (a) prim

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(c) patronize

v. be or do something to a greater degree; outmatch; outgo; exceed; outdo; outperform (a) sunder

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(b) relegate

v. draw back, as with fear or pain; funk; cringe; shrink; wince; recoil (a) chide

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(d) enshroud

v. overcome or allay; appease (a) vacillate

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(c) flit

v. report or maintain; say (a) hunker

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(b) stupefy

v. assign to a class or kind (a) yaup

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(b) neigh

v. convert ordinary language into code; cipher; cypher; inscribe; write in code (a) encrypt

(b) ogle

(c) imbibe

(d) reprimand

(c) mortify

(d) skimp

Q10 v. make a crushing noise; scraunch; crackle (a) scranch

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(b) fete

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n. the cognitive process of supposing (a) requiem

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(b) verbalize

(c) complot

(d) behoove

(c) stricture

(d) crypt

(c) magnitude

(d) phenomena

(c) gentry

(d) preponderance

(b) pother

(b) kaleidoscope

(b) influx

(b) aery

(c) incensed

(d) insensate

adj. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; sibylline; sibyllic; vatic; vatical (a) prosy

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(d) haughtiness

adj. angered at something unjust or wrong; outraged; umbrageous (a) bracing

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(c) soliloquy

n. the most powerful members of a society (a) taxonomist

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(b) alias

n. event or circumstance that can be observed (a) catastrophe

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(d) patina

n. a building where birds are kept; volary (a) aviary

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(c) supposition

v. express in words (a) dulcify

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(b) array

n. a name that has been assumed temporarily; false name (a) yen

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(b) mantic

(c) bowlegged

(d) archaic

adj. in regular succession without gaps; serial; successive (a) unruly

(b) evenhanded

(c) sequential

(d) statutory

(c) kleptomaniac

(d) pother

Q10 n. an excited state of agitation; fuss; tizzy; flap (a) girth

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(b) verge

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adj. presenting favorable circumstances (a) malevolent

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(b) dulcet

(c) lowering

(d) sardonic

(b) incidental

(c) voluble

(d) conclusive

(b) condign

(c) ovoid

(d) iniquitous

(b) hypocritical

(c) culpable

(d) sphinx-like

(b) premonitory

(c) agrarian

(d) therapeutic

(c) inclement

(d) meandering

adj. disagreeing, especially with a majority (a) dissident

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(d) bounderish

adj. relating to rural matters (a) palmy

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(c) intrepid

adj. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument (a) compelling

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(b) podgy

adj. rounded like an egg; elliptical; oval; oval-shaped; ovate; oviform; prolate (a) magniloquent

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(d) prehensile

adj. forming an end or termination (a) impermeable

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(c) gaunt

adj. pleasing to the ear; mellifluous; mellisonant; sweet (a) pathetic

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(b) propitious

adj. inducing mental lethargy (a) soporific

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(b) unchained

adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; patent; plain; unmistakable (a) mantic

(b) odorous

(c) coincident

(d) manifest

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(b) miasmal

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(c) centripetal

(d) covetous

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n. a course introducing a new situation or environment (a) paean

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(b) uniformity

(c) orientation

(d) euthanasia

n. detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work) (a) ecstasy

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(b) dissection

(c) demise

(d) reaper

n. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone; sophistication (a) motility

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(d) decoy

(b) cache

(c) hubbub

(d) incongruity

(b) vindicate

(c) orient

(d) scotch

(b) litotes

(c) hackles

(d) hierarchy

(c) obsequy

(d) oaf

n. a wise and trusted guide and advisor (a) mentor

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(c) brocade

n. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body; pecking order (a) velocity

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(b) cathartic

v. clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof (a) stem from

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(d) sophistry

n. the quality of disagreeing (a) verity

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(c) onus

n. something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed; lure (a) credulity

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(b) tutelage

(b) precipice

n. an unrestrained expression of emotion; outburst; blowup (a) coppice

(b) monarchy

(c) ebullition

(d) affluence

(c) fancier

(d) arrogance

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v. cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state (a) coagulate

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(c) prestige

(d) disquisition

(b) psychopathic

(c) discordant

(d) celestial

(b) restive

(c) coincident

(d) static

(b) fundamental

(c) imperial

(d) buxom

(c) subversive

(d) pulmonary

adj. relating to or affecting the lungs; pulmonic (a) eclectic

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(b) trajectory

adj. (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous; zoftig (a) degraded

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(d) pummel

adj. matching point for point (a) episodic

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(c) implore

adj. of heaven or the spirit; supernal (a) disparate

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(b) desecrate

n. a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc. (a) galleon

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(b) gloomful

n. absentminded dreaming while awake; daydream; daydreaming; air castle; castle in the air; castle in Spain (a) abeyance

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(c) oneirism

(d) warranty

(b) dappled

(c) livid

(d) centripetal

(c) elysian

(d) optimum

adj. bluish; very angry (a) synthetic

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(b) paradigm

adj. extremely annoying or displeasing; vexing (a) maddening

(b) dapper

Q10 n. the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people (a) cavalcade

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(d) contagion

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adj. tending to discourage (especially of prices) (a) tertiary

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(b) oracular

(c) unbridled

(d) livid

(b) concentric

(c) unwarranted

(d) frenzied

(b) ebullient

(c) gruesome

(d) valedictory

(b) elliptical

(c) indicative

(d) taut

(b) contentious

(c) inarticulate

(d) opaline

(b) precarious

(c) amorous

(d) demented

adj. earnest; heartfelt (a) devout

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(d) unilateral

adj. brought low in spirit; crestfallen; deflated (a) chapfallen

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(c) determinate

adj. characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements (a) gawky

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(b) rudimentary

adj. dim; dull; very boring (a) lackluster

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(d) serrated

adj. lacking justification or authorization (a) simplistic

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(c) prohibitive

adj. not restrained or controlled; uncurbed; ungoverned (a) cussed

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(b) unassuaged

adj. tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only (a) unimpeachable

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adj. occurring or operating at the same time; concurrent; co-occurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous (a) coinciding

(b) dilatory

(c) demographic

(d) adamant

(c) nitwitted

(d) ominous

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(b) equable

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n. belief in a single God (a) temperament

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(d) regeneration

(b) figurine

(c) ambrosia

(d) discrepancy

(b) constraint

(c) digression

(d) tryst

n. a person who is not very bright; stupe; dullard; pudding head; pudden-head; poor fish; pillock (a) tome

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(c) profusion

n. wandering from the main path of a journey (a) garboil

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(b) monotheism

n. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; shade; subtlety; refinement (a) nuance

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(b) slag

(c) dolt

(d) drone

n. a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them (a) fatalism

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(b) guffaw

(c) cartographer

(d) contraband

(b) stipend

(c) talon

(d) welter

(c) rhomb

(d) panache

n. a narrow groove beside a beading (a) decoy

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(d) negation

n. a sum of money allotted on a regular basis (a) deciliter

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(c) concord

n. a person who makes maps (a) mirage

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(b) plenitude

(b) quirk

n. a person who is member of one's class or profession; fellow (a) confrere

(b) infraction

(c) mendicant

(d) larder

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(b) alleviant

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(d) ratiocination

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adj. shockingly repellent; gruesome; macabre; sick (a) wily

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(b) lethal

(c) prosaic

(d) pathological

(b) intangible

(c) tellurian

(d) discombobulated

(b) pacifist

(c) bravado

(d) alchemy

(b) indolence

(c) regatta

(d) misanthrope

(b) planless

(c) uxorious

(d) squalid

(c) dotage

(d) debaucher

n. the act of applying force suddenly (a) incantation

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(d) autocrat

adj. aimlessly drifting; aimless; directionless; rudderless; undirected (a) precipitate

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(c) propinquity

n. wooden floor (a) parquet

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(b) heckler

n. someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes; disarmer (a) faction

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(d) august

adj. impalpable; cannot be seen or touched (a) cadaverous

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(c) grisly

adj. of the study of diseases; sickly (a) hindmost

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(b) pugnacious

n. a cruel and oppressive dictator; despot (a) penury

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(b) impetus

adj. breathing laboriously or convulsively; short-winded; winded (a) pursy

(b) unearthly

(c) temporal

(d) rummy

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(b) precedent

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(c) coalesced

(d) fulsome

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adj. fulfilling many functions (a) versatile

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(c) satirical

(d) tactile

(c) supererogatory

(d) premonitory

(c) multilingual

(d) ameban

(b) arcane

(b) intangible

(b) accredited

(b) repertoire

(c) apotheosis

(d) asteroid

(b) brackish

(c) nonplused

(d) murmurous

(c) indiscriminate

(d) ultimate

adj. being the last or concluding element of a series (a) factious

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(d) unconscionable

adj. cheap and shoddy (a) tawdry

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(c) optimum

n. the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) (a) coup

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(b) prudent

adj. using or knowing more than one language (a) inept

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(d) stratified

adj. warning of future misfortune (a) diverse

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(c) adroit

adj. requiring secret or mysterious knowledge (a) muggy

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(b) despicable

adj. careful and sensible (a) coriaceous

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(b) jocular

adj. struck with fear, dread, or consternation; dismayed; shocked (a) insipid

(b) awash

(c) aghast

(d) buffoonish

(c) whimsical

(d) trenchant

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(b) piquant

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n. duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio; fax (a) mosaic

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(b) fecundity

(c) odyssey

(d) fille

(b) amphitheater

(c) incubus

(d) sybarite

(b) arrears

(c) husbandry

(d) resignation

(b) coinciding

(c) spatial

(d) incommodious

(b) mimicry

(c) abeyance

(d) misapprehension

n. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event; sentry; watch; spotter; scout; picket (a) benefactor

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(d) hilarity

n. the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) (a) perversion

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(c) bludgeon

adj. pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space (a) ultimate

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(b) aloneness

n. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock (a) trappings

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(d) agility

n. someone who depresses or worries others (a) reprise

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(c) facsimile

n. the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth (a) mite

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(b) aureole

n. a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things (a) pessimism

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(b) atrophy

(c) sentinel

(d) sophistry

n. a quantity much larger than is needed; surplusage (a) martinet

(b) nimiety

(c) aptitude

(d) acclivity

(c) onomatopoeia

(d) carat

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(b) enologist

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adj. containing salt (a) saline

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(b) beleaguer

(c) exonerate

(d) disseminate

(b) monolithic

(c) hackneyed

(d) oblique

(b) introvert

(c) pyromaniac

(d) presentiment

(b) tutelage

(c) exertion

(d) scad

(b) perimeter

(c) impropriety

(d) sedative

adj. coming at a subsequent time or stage; posterior (a) vindictive

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(d) eloquence

n. an act of undue intimacy; indecorum; liberty (a) preponderance

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(c) postulate

n. use of physical or mental energy; travail; sweat (a) gruel

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(b) heckler

n. a basis for comparison; measure (a) touchstone

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(d) distant

adj. repeated too often; commonplace; old-hat; shopworn; threadbare (a) supple

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(c) molten

v. cause to become widely known; circularize; propagate; broadcast (a) slough

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(b) checkered

n. powerful and effective language; smoothness (a) grandeur

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(b) ulterior

(c) inanimate

(d) contrite

n. a songbook containing a collection of hymns; hymnary (a) masochist

(b) enate

(c) hymnal

(d) condiments

(c) largess

(d) callowness

Q10 n. the act of deriding or treating with contempt (a) derision

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(b) rotunda

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adj. presaging ill fortune (a) ominous

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(b) ligneous

(c) barefaced

(d) careworn

(b) psychopathic

(c) conclusive

(d) reparable

(b) faux

(c) addlepated

(d) hazy

(b) gleeful

(c) chimerical

(d) unearthly

(b) resurgent

(c) cognitive

(d) resinous

(c) subsidiary

(d) fancied

(c) refreshed

(d) timorous

(c) gullible

(d) pulmonary

adj. briefly giving the gist of something; summary (a) foppish

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(d) gruesome

adj. having the characteristics of pitch or tar; resiny; tarry (a) pathological

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(c) analgesic

adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; uncanny (a) maladroit

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(b) potent

adj. containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor (a) humid

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(d) insalubrious

adj. (sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury; prejudicial; prejudicious (a) detrimental

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(c) uxorious

adj. deserving a curse (a) execrable

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(b) gaudy

adj. shockingly repellent; grisly; macabre; sick (a) woozy

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(b) succinct

adj. with restored energy; reinvigorated (a) sedulous

(b) privy

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(b) unsavory

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n. the savage and excessive killing of many people; mass murder; butchery (a) benefactor

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(b) timbre

(c) ferment

(d) heresy

(b) migrant

(c) accretion

(d) enmity

(b) transport

(c) poignancy

(d) impunity

(b) application

(c) frond

(d) attrition

(b) despoiled

(c) compliant

(d) painstaking

(c) anguish

(d) levity

(c) succor

(d) confrere

n. a manner lacking seriousness (a) progeny

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(d) fusillade

adj. disposed or willing to comply (a) mandatory

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(c) purloo

n. a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader (a) saboteur

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(b) defamation

n. a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) (a) aristocracy

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(d) resumption

n. the property of being extremely abundant; richness; cornucopia (a) profusion

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(c) conformity

n. a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances (a) hatchway

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(b) carnage

n. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; slander; denigration (a) wrath

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(b) depravity

n. smallness of stature; stuntedness (a) runtiness

(b) whiff

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(b) perimeter

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(c) dustup

(d) yield

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n. a large waterfall (a) ambivalence

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(c) mayhem

(d) surveillance

(b) elixir

(c) retort

(d) fille

(c) musty

(d) servile

adj. stale and unclean smelling; frowsty (a) ethereal

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(b) cataract

n. a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat (a) huffing

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(b) demographic

v. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; prevaricate; palter (a) condole

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(c) grapple

(d) glean

(c) slander

(d) prosperity

n. the condition of prospering (a) trepidation

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(b) equivocate

(b) mustelid

n. the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution (a) skinflint

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(d) kleptomaniac

(b) mustelid

(c) retraction

(d) cacography

adj. shedding foliage at the end of the growing season (of plants and shrubs) (a) inveterate

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(c) ethnology

n. fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals; musteline (a) restitution

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(b) bevy

(b) fancied

(c) deciduous

(d) unassuaged

n. headdress that protects the head from bad weather; lid (a) pendant

(b) chapeau

(c) animadversion

(d) choreography

(c) glaring

(d) impeccable

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(b) undoable

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adj. easily irritated or annoyed; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peevish (a) veracious

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(b) manifest

(c) petulant

(d) swarthy

adj. not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; unbecoming; uncomely; untoward (a) osseous

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(d) unseemly

(b) convex

(c) musky

(d) lethargic

adj. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; pliant; waxy (a) unfathomed

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(c) haemal

adj. without partiality (a) evenhanded

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(b) wily

(b) graphic

(c) pliable

(d) aneurismal

adj. following or accompanying as a consequence; accompanying; concomitant; ensuant; resultant; sequent (a) sporadic

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(b) bantering

(c) nomadic

(d) conjugal

(b) acetose

(c) finical

(d) multifarious

adj. characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards (a) bifurcate

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(d) incidental

adj. exacting especially about details; fussy; particular; picky (a) reprehensible

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(c) temperate

adj. migratory; peregrine; roving; wandering (a) flint

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(b) pellucid

(b) heterodox

(c) maladroit

(d) propitious

(c) bumbling

(d) psychopathic

(c) partial

(d) phlegmatic

adj. not given careful consideration; shortsighted (a) improvident

(b) catholic

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(b) empirical

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n. state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one (a) facade

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(d) refectory

(b) vixen

(c) litoral

(d) atrophy

(b) malapropism

(c) howling

(d) wisecrack

(b) quorum

(c) homily

(d) huffing

(b) despoiled

(c) carping

(d) temperate

n. either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator (a) stealth

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(c) mores

adj. not extreme (a) bantering

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(b) heyday

n. a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business (a) compunction

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(d) wisecrack

n. pang of the conscience; regret; sorrow (a) qualms

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(c) pediatrician

n. a feathered plume on a helmet (a) panache

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(b) bereavement

n. traditional customs of a community (a) retort

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(b) anthropologist

(c) badinage

(d) solstice

n. (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people; behavior; behaviour; conduct; deportment (a) ford

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(b) egression

(c) tidings

(d) demeanor

(c) slur

(d) vogue

n. a current state of general acceptance and use (a) incubus

(b) haughtiness

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(b) acumen

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(c) howling

(d) fasciculus

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adj. belonging to this earth or world (a) hunched

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(b) empale

(c) recount

(d) hamper

(b) fervid

(c) partial

(d) universal

(b) hoggish

(c) monastic

(d) impassive

(b) tundra

(c) compilation

(d) ewe

(b) spruce

(c) jerkwater

(d) tantamount

(c) extricate

(d) marshal

v. bring up a topic for discussion (a) broach

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(d) behoove

adj. being essentially equal to something (a) grotesque

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(c) depose

n. the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) (a) nihilism

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(b) transcend

adj. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows; conventual (a) gruesome

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(d) sodden

adj. incomplete; biased; having a liking for something (a) rummy

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(c) mundane

v. tell; narrate (a) swelter

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(b) chapfallen

v. be appropriate or necessary (a) contest

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(b) exemplify

v. get the meaning of something; comprehend; savvy; dig; grasp; compass; apprehend (a) enhance

(b) blackjack

(c) grok

(d) chase

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(b) concerted

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(c) gory

(d) bacchanalian

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adj. worthy of high praise; praiseworthy (a) personable

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(b) terse

(c) inopportune

(d) iconoclastic

(b) fallow

(c) chimerical

(d) beholden

(b) aghast

(c) indiscriminate

(d) germane

(b) unsullied

(c) grisly

(d) vitriolic

(b) bunglesome

(c) wanton

(d) meddlesome

adj. quick and energetic; lively; merry; rattling; snappy; zippy (a) avid

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(d) pristine

adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; meddling; officious; busy; busybodied (a) laudatory

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(c) chaffing

adj. (of reputation) free from blemishes; untainted; untarnished (a) obstreperous

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(b) anthropomorphic

adj. not marked by fine distinctions (a) hindmost

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(d) laudable

adj. undeveloped but potentially useful (a) spatial

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(c) malodorous

adj. untimely; unsuitable; inappropriate (a) effusive

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(b) fancied

adj. fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience (a) equitable

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(b) spanking

(c) lilliputian

(d) conventional

adj. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; sober; solemn (a) amphibian

(b) sedate

(c) visionary

(d) contiguous

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(b) inarticulate

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(c) dutiful

(d) extrinsic

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n. longing for something past (a) nostalgia

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(b) encroachment

(c) arbitrator

(d) apoplexy

(b) incentive

(c) nihilism

(d) virtuoso

(b) spate

(c) urchin

(d) facsimile

(b) pyre

(c) rotunda

(d) galleon

(b) consanguinity

(c) gorge

(d) aphorism

(c) malingerer

(d) consensus

n. front part of a vessel or aircraft; stem (a) crone

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(d) friction

n. a short pithy instructive saying; apophthegm (a) gazette

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(c) parable

n. a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts (a) mote

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(b) kaleidoscope

n. the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow (a) tilter

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(d) clarion

n. arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture (a) mosaic

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(c) holster

n. the act of someone who floats on the water (a) natation

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(b) denotation

n. proverb; short tale that teaches a moral lesson (a) derision

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(b) prow

n. reprehensible acquisitiveness; covetousness; rapacity (a) avaritia

(b) raiment

(c) pendant

(d) expletive

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(b) manger

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(c) bonce

(d) amnesia

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n. anything indispensable; requirement; necessary (a) polygamist

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(b) annuity

(c) grimace

(d) covenant

(b) seminary

(c) bluejacket

(d) natation

(b) enduring

(c) demented

(d) vivacious

(c) confound

(d) pander

v. arrange for sexual partners for others; procure (a) suffuse

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(d) requisite

adj. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses); spooky; nervous (a) skittish

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(c) faction

n. a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis (a) rampart

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(b) indignation

n. a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action (a) preemie

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(b) renege

n. the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble; lightness; lightsomeness; nimbleness (a) lineaments

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(d) quisling

(b) deify

(c) purge

(d) vegetate

(c) cadence

(d) panegyric

n. a formal expression of praise; paean; pean (a) smirk

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(c) continence

v. exalt to the position of a God (a) necrose

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(b) agility

(b) inertia

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; disastrous; fatal; fateful (a) porous

(b) negligible

(c) argent

(d) calamitous

Q10 n. excessive sternness; severeness; harshness; inclemency; hardness; stiffness (a) palimpsest

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(c) rigor

(d) midget

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adj. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; transcendental (a) mythical

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(b) obstinate

(c) convoluted

(d) agog

(b) sacrosanct

(c) ostentatious

(d) bigmouthed

(b) inclusive

(c) bigmouthed

(d) modish

(b) quadruped

(c) solstice

(d) consanguinity

(b) aseptic

(c) tutelary

(d) subsidiary

(c) retroactive

(d) rampant

(c) skittish

(d) affected

adj. behaving wildly; abundant (a) astringent

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(d) polyglot

adj. functioning in a supporting capacity; supplemental; supplementary (a) effeminate

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(c) bilious

n. a short pithy saying expressing a general truth (a) gnome

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(b) bovine

adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; floating; vagabond (a) vagrant

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(d) preternatural

adj. occurring or operating at the same time; coinciding; co-occurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous (a) concurrent

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(c) tractile

adj. highly excited (a) debonair

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(b) sequential

adj. having a command of or composed in many languages (a) graduated

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(b) ramshackle

adj. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought (a) enigmatic

(b) discordant

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(b) gilt

(c) supercilious

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n. an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps (a) ballast

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(b) precursor

(c) summation

(d) vintner

n. any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis (a) nutrient

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(b) misogynist

(c) transitoriness

(d) contriver

(b) patriarch

(c) dissection

(d) anodyne

(b) reconnaissance

(c) mortician

(d) piddle

(b) retrospective

(c) contrite

(d) quiescent

(c) accredited

(d) igneous

adj. given official approval to act; licensed; licenced (a) scurvy

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(d) conspiracy

adj. concerned with or related to the past (a) pontifical

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(c) knottiness

n. one whose business is the management of funerals; funeral undertaker; funeral director (a) agio

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(b) astigmatism

n. someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force (a) quisling

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(d) extradition

n. frivolous banter (a) badinage

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(c) papyrus

n. unequal curvature of the lens of the eye creating a distorted image (a) scamper

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(b) shrew

(b) abdominous

n. a young woman; missy; young lady; young woman (a) hoax

(b) neigh

(c) magnate

(d) fille

(b) barrister

(c) exploit

(d) obsequy

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adj. morally reprehensible; vile; slimy; unworthy; worthless; wretched (a) retrospective

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(b) kleptomaniac

(c) hap

(d) penury

(b) fawning

(c) formidable

(d) untellable

(b) inkling

(c) realm

(d) egotism

(b) lineage

(c) madrigal

(d) torrent

(b) reputable

(c) incisive

(d) crescent

adj. capable of being apprehended or understood; perceivable; understandable (a) graspable

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(d) verbatim

adj. suitable for cutting or piercing (a) pathetic

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(c) mythical

n. a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances (a) spatula

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(b) animated

n. a slight suggestion or vague understanding; glimmering; glimmer (a) wench

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(d) despicable

adj. full of trivial conversation; loquacious; talkative; talky (a) garrulous

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(c) czarist

n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution; pauperism; pauperization (a) legerdemain

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(b) barbate

adj. existing everywhere (a) pandemic

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(b) woozy

(c) concurrent

(d) aslant

(c) jampack

(d) worm

(c) abash

(d) debauch

v. crowd to capacity; ram; chock up; cram; wad (a) metricate

(b) skulk

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(b) waylay

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adj. moving quickly and lightly; quick (a) agrarian

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(b) assailable

(c) lancinate

(d) subservient

(b) stratified

(c) risque

(d) lofty

(b) extant

(c) lateral

(d) slapdash

(b) trinket

(c) alimony

(d) drooler

(b) saline

(c) especial

(d) pallid

(b) impeccable

(c) supine

(d) capillary

adj. not capable of sin (a) astute

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(d) incensed

adj. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness (a) incensed

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(c) ligneous

n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing; gaud; gewgaw; novelty; fallal (a) mite

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(b) reefy

adj. marked by great carelessness; slipshod; sloppy (a) sunk

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(d) nautical

adj. arranged in layers (a) buxom

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(c) spry

adj. abjectly submissive; submissive (a) inimitable

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(b) querulous

adj. made of wood (a) acrid

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adj. marked by repeated turns and bends; twisty; winding; voluminous (a) blasphemous

(b) reactionary

(c) pertinacious

(d) twisting

(b) vampire

(c) synthetic

(d) incarnate

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n. an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode (a) hallucination

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(b) delta

(c) obsidian

(d) callowness

(b) distortion

(c) cynosure

(d) glossary

(b) plenitude

(c) docket

(d) correlation

(b) tangential

(c) reputable

(d) iniquitous

(b) herpetologist

(c) sheaf

(d) debris

(b) clavicle

(c) paradigm

(d) longevity

n. length of life (a) nurseling

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(d) pessimism

n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; junk; rubble; detritus (a) allusion

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(c) slur

adj. having a good reputation (a) cumbersome

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(b) hencoop

n. decorations; ornaments; adornments (a) trappings

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(d) adiposis

n. something that strongly attracts attention and admiration (a) hatch

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(c) misdemeanor

n. acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization (a) shyster

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(b) antithesis

n. the state of being imprisoned; incarceration (a) immurement

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n. someone who leaves one country to settle in another; outgoer (a) ratifier

(b) emigree

(c) juggernaut

(d) devotee

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(b) efficacy

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(c) monotheism

(d) lavalier

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v. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; devastate; ravage; scourge (a) transpire

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(b) foil

(c) faze

(d) befuddle

(b) undulate

(c) flout

(d) coalesce

(b) harassed

(c) unearthly

(d) winsome

(b) communal

(c) sadistic

(d) sententious

(b) jerkwater

(c) sultry

(d) cabalistic

v. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold; engild (a) indemnify

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(d) inerrancy

adj. small and remote and insignificant; pokey; poky (a) patent

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(c) altercation

adj. concise and full of meaning (a) outmoded

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(b) crabbiness

adj. harmful to living things (a) injurious

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(d) desolate

v. fuse or cause to grow together (a) kibosh

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(c) wince

v. pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings (a) seep

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(b) palpitate

n. infallibleness (a) rationalization

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(b) coldcock

(c) begild

(d) shun

adj. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; bumpy; jolting; jumpy (a) vulnerable

(b) jolty

(c) ailing

(d) viscid

(c) emaciated

(d) sportive

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(b) outlawed

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adj. fairly large; sizeable (a) vainglorious

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(b) egregious

(c) monastic

(d) inscrutable

(b) actuarial

(c) gusty

(d) slumbery

(b) ample

(c) bereft

(d) inimitable

(b) divergent

(c) fetid

(d) nuptial

(b) adroit

(c) willful

(d) insubordinate

(c) terrestrial

(d) obstreperous

(c) disparate

(d) gregarious

adj. boisterously and noisily aggressive (a) graduated

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(d) compliant

adj. quick or skillful or adept in action or thought (a) mercantile

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(c) garbled

adj. being or relating to an uncle (a) avuncular

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(b) cordial

adj. containing seeds of later development; seminal (a) germinal

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(d) vulpine

adj. blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts (a) venturesome

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(c) refractory

adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; flagrant; glaring; gross; rank (a) cuspate

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(b) ample

adj. stubborn; obstinate (a) refractory

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(b) dank

adj. born out of wedlock; spurious (a) misbegot

(b) illicit

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(b) mincing

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(c) prolix

(d) incitive

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n. a period of calm weather (a) antecedents

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(b) repercussion

(c) pallet

(d) lumen

(c) harlotry

(d) lineaments

(b) polity

(c) vagabond

(d) purgatory

(b) bureaucracy

(c) extolment

(d) apostate

(c) coppice

(d) crosspatch

(c) infirmity

(d) auberge

(b) badinage

(b) preemie

n. act of quitting a position; relinquishment (a) orthography

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(d) attrition

n. a dense growth of bushes; copse; thicket (a) bourgeois

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(c) myriad

n. a bottle with a stopper (a) carafe

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(b) transgression

n. the pivot about which a lever turns (a) fulcrum

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(d) lull

n. facial details; characteristics (a) knottiness

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(c) tussle

n. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used (a) effrontery

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(b) inception

n. the act of rubbing together (a) sceptic

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(b) resignation

n. telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand; chiromancy (a) aegis

(b) adactylia

(c) projectile

(d) chirology

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(b) jaunt

(c) perigee

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(d) gazette

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n. formal separation from an alliance or federation (a) secession

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(b) unscathed

(c) pastoral

(d) queasy

(c) humdrum

(d) plausible

(c) molt

(d) capitulate

(b) disheveled

(b) hibernate

(b) unwitting

(c) strident

(d) ingenuous

(b) potpourri

(c) precedent

(d) midget

n. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); simulacrum (a) scad

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(d) spoonerism

n. noisy quarrel; fracas (a) altercation

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(c) papyrus

adj. unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; unknowing (a) opaline

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(b) lectern

v. be in an inactive or dormant state (a) desiccate

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(d) anguish

adj. tediously repetitious or lacking in variety (a) stimulated

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(c) conundrum

adj. not injured; whole (a) manifold

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(b) clangor

n. desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer (a) misdemeanor

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(b) gorge

(c) tyro

(d) effigy

(c) emanate

(d) cow

(c) aggrandize

(d) compress

v. give out (breath or an odor) (a) invalidate

(b) staunch

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(b) quail

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adj. extremely conservative; far-right (a) maculated

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(d) precise

(b) conversant

(c) heedless

(d) bawdy

(b) inopportune

(c) interminable

(d) invulnerable

(c) submissive

(d) outmoded

(c) dispirited

(d) ramshackle

(b) concave

(b) pendulous

adj. concerned with theories rather than their practical applications (a) theoretical

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(c) meek

(b) wispy

adj. swinging; hanging loosely (a) precarious

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(d) mutinous

adj. obedient; meek, compliant, yielding (a) supererogatory

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(c) demotic

(b) optional

adj. immune to attack (a) flint

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(d) reactionary

adj. characterized by careless unconcern (a) effusive

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(c) authoritative

adj. evidencing little spirit or courage (a) waggish

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(b) rummy

adj. possible but not necessary (a) spruce

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(b) tendentious

(c) mismated

(d) panoramic

adj. selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas (a) vagrant

(b) prone

(c) acned

(d) eclectic

(c) degraded

(d) azure

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(b) indocile

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n. a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power (a) carrell

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(b) vertigo

(c) parable

(d) venison

(b) drone

(c) fleece

(d) debris

(c) credo

(d) optometrist

(b) corollary

(c) stigma

(d) agglomeration

(b) onslaught

(c) wont

(d) tempo

(b) apiary

n. an awkward stupid person; stumblebum; goon; lubber; lummox; lump; gawk (a) coppice

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(d) intimidation

n. assault; mighty attack (a) busby

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(c) mirth

n. the act of collecting in a mass (a) barrister

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(b) demise

n. any system of principles or beliefs (a) husbandry

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(d) scenario

n. a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone; bourdon (a) caviler

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(c) junta

n. meat from a deer used as food (a) garboil

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(b) exertion

n. the time when something ends (a) manifesto

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(b) apex

(c) oaf

(d) garroter

n. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; buttery (a) impuissance

(b) pantry

(c) trident

(d) outturn

(c) sustenance

(d) rundle

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(b) lectern

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n. collection of records especially about an institution (a) covenant

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(b) unprepossessing

(c) inductive

(d) protean

(b) squabble

(c) affirmation

(d) cerulean

(b) purge

(c) garner

(d) proliferate

(b) drudging

(c) meteoric

(d) corrosive

(b) inaugurate

(c) cow

(d) profane

(c) fallow

(d) incredulous

adj. very long lasting; undestroyable (a) perdurable

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(d) petiteness

v. subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe (a) swill

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(c) diffidence

adj. spitefully sarcastic (a) modeled

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(b) roving

v. excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) (a) concatenate

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(d) tress

n. a quarrel about petty points; spat; tiff; pettifoggery; fuss (a) spoonerism

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(c) archives

adj. taking on different forms (a) lamentable

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(b) suavity

n. lack of self-confidence; self-distrust (a) bubbliness

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(b) intangible

n. the physical coming together of two or more things; striking (a) verbiage

(b) miscreant

(c) agnate

(d) impinging

(c) temperament

(d) diversity

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(b) sobriety

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adj. detached; having distinct breaks between successive tones (a) staccato

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(c) pendulous

(d) mercantile

(c) coeval

(d) dipped

(b) inclined

(b) ignominious

(b) commemorative

(c) incandescent

(d) fawning

(b) plaintive

(c) oracular

(d) deranged

(b) momentous

(c) veracious

(d) deadpan

adj. affectedly dainty or refined; niminy-piminy; prim (a) tellurian

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(d) consequential

adj. devoted to a cause or party (a) partisan

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(c) stilted

adj. driven insane; half-crazed (a) nitwitted

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(b) monastic

adj. characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance (a) callow

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(d) macabre

adj. allowing passage in and out (a) porous

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(c) irascible

adj. relating to or characteristic of trade or traders (a) incommodious

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(b) asymmetric

adj. exalted; noble; lofty (a) sublime

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(b) pensive

(c) twee

(d) precedent

(c) quadruplex

(d) infernal

adj. being of the underworld (a) unwitting

(b) restive

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(b) succinct

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(c) rapacious

(d) frivolous

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n. compulsory force or threat (a) rundle

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(b) ordination

(c) philanderer

(d) ordinance

(b) peppiness

(c) duress

(d) histrion

(b) periphery

(c) gruel

(d) dousing

(b) equestrian

(c) blowhard

(d) momism

(b) impecunious

(c) supererogatory

(d) horticultural

n. a person who exercises control over workers; gaffer; boss (a) tightwad

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(d) alliteration

adj. not having enough money to pay for necessities; penniless; penurious; pinched (a) substantive

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(c) momentum

n. a man skilled in equitation; horseback rider (a) turmoil

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(b) onslaught

n. a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal) (a) rote

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(d) defamation

n. a political system governed by old men (a) gerontocracy

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(c) duress

n. the property of being close together (a) propinquity

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(b) malfeasance

n. the product of a body's mass and its velocity (a) chaparral

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(b) honcho

(c) patriarch

(d) iota

(c) travail

(d) beatitude

(c) aloneness

(d) aphasia

n. use of physical or mental energy; exertion; sweat (a) apiary

(b) recasting

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(b) acumen

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n. attraction; closeness (a) masque

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(b) spontaneity

(c) canto

(d) scad

(c) frizzly

(d) ruthless

(c) reek

(d) delete

(b) versatile

(b) enfranchise

(b) exchequer

(c) supposition

(d) dapperness

(b) celibate

(c) mealymouthed

(d) futile

(c) overcast

(d) miserly

adj. involving or likely to cause controversy (a) contentious

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(d) supinate

adj. impossible to avoid or evade:; unavoidable (a) ineluctable

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(c) expunge

n. the funds of a government or institution or individual (a) mischance

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(b) intervene

v. remove or make invisible; cancel; erase (a) cow

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(d) affinity

adj. without mercy or pity; unpitying (a) nonplused

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(c) saga

n. inappropriate levity (a) flippancy

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(b) rubric

v. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; excise (a) elicit

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(b) unobtrusive

n. someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs; doubter (a) pastille

(b) spectrum

(c) skeptic

(d) cathartic

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(b) sartorial

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(c) zestful

(d) malefic

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adj. taking place by degrees (a) bracing

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(c) parsimonious

(d) corrosive

(b) bacchanalian

(c) potential

(d) natty

(b) incarnate

(c) stimulated

(d) waggish

(c) nether

(d) injurious

(c) graspable

(d) dolourous

(b) hortatory

adj. located farthest to the rear; rearmost (a) hindmost

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(b) limpid

adj. giving strong encouragement; hortative (a) sensual

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(d) graduated

adj. witty or joking (a) implausible

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(c) ambidextrous

adj. used of riotously drunken merrymaking; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic (a) protean

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(b) mangled

adj. transparent; easy to understand (a) elysian

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(b) ulterior

n. the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration (a) diffusion

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(c) epoch

(d) amyotonia

(b) doctrinaire

(c) corrosive

(d) recondite

(c) crestfallen

(d) permeable

adj. difficult to penetrate (a) mandatory

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(b) treatise

adj. not easy to combine harmoniously; unsuited (a) grueling

(b) mismated

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(b) magisterial

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(c) palmy

(d) studied

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n. an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth (a) armada

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(c) mishap

(d) jocoseness

(b) cordon

(c) monotheism

(d) pigment

(c) resumption

(d) throes

n. violent pangs of suffering (a) ichthyology

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(b) verity

n. a small cave (usually with attractive features) (a) grotto

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(b) obsidian

n. a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin (a) incline

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(c) transitoriness

(d) parlance

(b) prow

(c) rendition

(d) patriarch

(b) leonine

(c) begrimed

(d) rampant

(c) ascendancy

(d) antipathy

(c) tiro

(d) concubine

(c) facet

(d) adversity

n. the object of a feeling of intense aversion (a) sluice

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(b) argot

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; grimy; grubby; grungy; raunchy (a) diaphanous

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(d) sherbet

n. funeral ceremony (a) obsequy

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(c) mirage

n. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying (a) verdancy

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(b) furor

(b) valor

n. someone new to a field or activity; tyro; initiate (a) barrage

(b) malfeasance

Q10 n. any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon; olefin (a) alkene

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(b) ballyhoo

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n. an idle slothful person (a) rejoinder

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(b) horticultural

(c) voluptuous

(d) insuperable

(b) incredulity

(c) vent

(d) viper

(b) disclaim

(c) worm

(d) swill

(b) infiltrate

(c) glut

(d) refrain

(b) penurious

(c) downlike

(d) mannered

n. a woman who cohabits with an important man; doxy; paramour (a) confidant

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(d) sportive

adj. excessively unwilling to spend (a) bursiform

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(c) static

v. choose not to consume; desist (a) wither

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(b) alveolate

v. drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) (a) begrudge

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(d) propriety

n. venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw (a) opus

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(c) sage

adj. of or relating to the cultivation of plants (a) mesmeric

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(b) sluggard

adj. according with custom or propriety; comme il faut; decent; decorous (a) seemly

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(b) diva

(c) concubine

(d) boon

(c) martyrize

(d) prevaricate

v. enclose in a capsule; capsulize; capsulise (a) temporize

(b) capsulate

Q10 n. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will; gall; rancor (a) epistemologist

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(b) rancour

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(c) hierarchy

(d) pedant

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adj. causing or able to cause nausea; noisome; queasy; loathsome; sickening; vile (a) graduated

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(b) invidious

(c) anomalous

(d) soldierly

(b) inordinate

(c) corporeal

(d) lank

(c) acidulent

(d) doddery

(b) rampant

(b) unfaltering

(c) doddery

(d) modish

(b) phlegmatic

(c) singular

(d) impervious

adj. (of clothing) custom-made; made-to-order; tailored; tailor-made (a) mutable

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(d) whimsical

adj. not admitting of passage or capable of being affected (a) plausible

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(c) posthumous

adj. marked by firm determination or resolution; steady; stiff; unbendable; unshakable; unwavering (a) implacable

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(b) outspoken

adj. stiff or rigid with anger (a) bristling

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(d) benign

adj. long and lean (a) cissy

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(c) mobile

adj. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice (a) atheistic

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(b) offensive

adj. determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity or reason (a) meteoric

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(b) sophomoric

(c) bespoke

(d) monumental

adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; whimsical (a) doddering

(b) capricious

(c) impassive

(d) alluvial

Q10 adj. relating to or affected by an aneurysm; aneurysmatic; aneurismatic (a) aneurismal

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(b) dyspneic

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(c) wan

(d) sere

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n. the range of vision (a) verity

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(b) beatitude

(c) penance

(d) knoll

(b) andiron

(c) adjuration

(d) coup

(b) debacle

(c) aspiration

(d) recluse

(b) repugnance

(c) redress

(d) usury

(b) engraved

(c) adventitious

(d) derivative

n. the act of making a noisy disturbance; ruction; ruckus; rumpus; tumult (a) nostalgia

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(d) repository

adj. resulting from or employing derivation (a) anthropoid

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(c) blunder

n. the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time; inconsistency (a) gist

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(b) unanimity

n. the act of inhaling; intake; breathing in (a) trough

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(d) cessation

n. a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something (a) preamble

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(c) braggart

n. a small natural hill; hillock; hummock; hammock (a) mite

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(b) ken

n. the amount by which a propagating wave is bent (a) refraction

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(b) senility

(c) din

(d) mosaic

(c) herpetologist

(d) venison

(c) pomposity

(d) nomenclature

n. sound of something in rapid motion; birr (a) whirring

(b) conjecture

Q10 n. imaginary or visionary theorization (a) ideology

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(b) silt

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n. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law (a) catastrophe

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(b) gory

(c) pied

(d) worldly

(b) demagogue

(c) pyromaniac

(d) misadventure

(b) penniless

(c) musty

(d) spasmodic

(b) ambience

(c) egoism

(d) cavalier

(b) titular

(c) obligatory

(d) blase

(b) orifice

(c) insularity

(d) contusion

(c) concord

(d) crosspatch

(c) levitate

(d) coldcock

n. the action of bruising (a) nicety

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(d) hazardous

adj. nonchalantly unconcerned (a) patrician

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(c) agog

n. a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War (a) coping

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(b) uncanny

adj. performed in a systematic way; orderly (a) methodical

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(d) archives

n. the act of becoming formally connected or joined (a) affiliation

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(c) holocaust

adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolor; particolored (a) coltish

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(b) contraband

adj. surpassing the ordinary or normal (a) planless

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n. a bad-tempered person; crank; churl (a) infirmity

(b) compunction

Q10 v. knock down with force; dump; knock down; floor (a) muse

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(b) exuviate

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adj. parallel; similar (a) dingy

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(b) dauntless

(c) odious

(d) graphic

(b) analogous

(c) impious

(d) refreshed

(c) titanic

(d) subjective

(b) metallurgical

(b) oracular

(c) monumental

(d) fugitive

(b) downcast

(c) indiscriminate

(d) caustic

adj. formed or united into a whole; integrated; unified (a) dutiful

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(d) meteoric

adj. of a substance, especially a strong acid; erosive; vitriolic; mordant (a) inane

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(c) paramount

adj. lasting for a markedly brief time; momentaneous; momentary (a) retroactive

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(b) garrulous

adj. of or relating to metallurgy (a) esoteric

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(d) condign

adj. difficult to handle (a) touchy

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(c) analogous

adj. unequivocally detestable; execrable (a) lowering

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(b) pontifical

adj. fast and brilliant (a) communal

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(b) tendentious

(c) merged

(d) archaic

adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; clunky; ungainly; unwieldy (a) gawky

(b) convivial

(c) physiological

(d) estranged

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(b) meddlesome

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(c) callow

(d) unchained

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n. pretending to be another person (a) manger

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(d) imposture

(b) zeal

(c) tract

(d) rejoinder

(b) affirmation

(c) cessation

(d) heyday

(c) trudger

(d) materialism

n. belief that physical comfort is the highest value (a) awl

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(c) colic

n. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity; peak; bloom; blossom; efflorescence; flush (a) saboteur

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(b) carnage

n. exceptional creative ability (a) wizardry

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(b) liability

n. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink); gastronome; bon vivant; epicurean; foodie (a) franchise

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(b) nadir

(c) tyro

(d) gourmet

n. a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol; intoxication; tipsiness; insobriety (a) inebriety

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(d) jeer

(b) anemia

(c) inviolability

(d) rebus

n. one related on the father's side; patrilineal kin; patrisib; patrilineal sib (a) reserve

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(c) pachyderm

n. genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds (a) prey

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(b) welter

(b) agnate

(c) vanguard

(d) kyphosis

n. a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster (a) fresco

(b) intransigence

(c) compact

(d) collation

(c) cacophony

(d) spangle

Q10 n. loud confusing disagreeable sounds (a) conferment

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(b) pessimism

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v. make a groove in (a) descry

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(b) inertia

(c) die

(d) tenacity

(b) slough

(c) scavenge

(d) logroll

(b) anvil

(c) detraction

(d) gerontocracy

(b) bubbliness

(c) aperient

(d) forebears

(b) trepidation

(c) equinox

(d) coda

(b) gratify

(c) filibuster

(d) demur

v. yield (to) (a) pillory

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(d) encompass

n. either of two times in a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator (a) demise

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(c) enumerate

n. ancestor (a) parable

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(b) intersperse

n. discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander) (a) arbour

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(d) solder

v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; exuviate; moult (a) bate

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(c) shew

n. inactivity; immobility (a) condiments

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(b) gouge

v. make weak; drain (a) debilitate

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n. a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice (a) infraction

(b) cadaver

(c) depravity

(d) tiro

Q10 adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive; gummy; mucilaginous; pasty; sticky; viscid (a) visceral

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(b) viscous

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(c) reputed

(d) trenchant

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adj. of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning (a) physiological

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(c) hale

(d) papistical

(b) taciturn

(b) ample

(c) complacent

(d) queasy

(b) hardy

(c) satiny

(d) dorsal

(b) pinafore

(c) remnant

(d) balderdash

(b) sixpenny

(c) bursiform

(d) voluptuous

(c) diabolical

(d) ventral

(c) refractory

(d) carbonic

(c) august

(d) chaste

adj. having a hole cut through; perforate; punctured (a) barbate

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(d) lustrous

adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; luxuriant; sybaritic; voluptuary (a) belated

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(c) bemused

n. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold; oddment (a) vagary

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(b) stentorian

adj. divided into or made up of two parts (a) bifurcated

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(d) inopportune

adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; uneasy; unquiet (a) unsavory

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(c) calamitous

adj. exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health (a) cultivable

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(b) sensuous

adj. used of the voice (a) inflated

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(b) pierced

adj. relating to or consisting of or yielding coal (a) impolitic

(b) marital

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(b) sodding

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n. an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion (a) cephalitis

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(b) tanginess

(c) respiration

(d) cubicle

(b) rote

(c) firebrand

(d) cadence

(b) relish

(c) trilogy

(d) mode

(b) ambrosia

(c) cloister

(d) optician

(b) quip

(c) animus

(d) severance

(c) oratorio

(d) premonition

(c) malefactor

(d) floridity

n. witty remark; sally; quip (a) imbalance

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(d) factotum

n. the act of severing (a) pluck

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(c) vanguard

n. legendary food of the gods; something that tastes wonderful (a) dinghy

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(b) tonic

n. a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme (a) fusillade

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(d) egression

n. the close of a musical section; meter; metre; measure; beat (a) hovel

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(c) verdancy

n. an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); vigour; vim (a) vigor

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(b) disquisition

n. a servant employed to do a variety of jobs (a) cameo

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(b) wisecrack

n. extravagant elaborateness; showiness (a) catechism

(b) peregrination

Q10 n. a loud harsh or strident noise; cacophony; clamor; din (a) blaring

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(b) hydrophobia

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(c) masochist

(d) animus

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adj. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; inspired (a) morose

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(b) gauche

(c) dexterous

(d) mutinous

(b) amend

(c) mediate

(d) veer

(b) boon

(c) severity

(d) veneer

(b) rococo

(c) penitent

(d) hapless

(b) festinate

(c) validate

(d) patronize

n. a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone (a) wastrel

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(d) stem

v. confirm; sanction; legalize (a) bicker

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(c) garble

adj. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation (a) internecine

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(b) ravel

n. excessive sternness; harshness; rigor; rigorousness; inclemency; stiffness (a) miscreant

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(d) submissive

v. set straight or right; remedy; repair (a) grouse

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(c) spry

adj. skillful in physical movements; dextrous (a) judicious

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(b) elysian

v. tangle or complicate; knot (a) anele

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(b) facet

(c) autocrat

(d) gritrock

(c) affluence

(d) homage

n. act of anointing; pouring of oil (a) unction

(b) malingerer

Q10 n. a person who lacks good judgment; saphead; tomfool (a) muggins

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(b) husbandry

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(c) proxy

(d) voyeur

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adj. inflexible; stubborn; unyielding (a) miasmal

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(b) irreparable

(c) voracious

(d) piscatorial

(b) fogyish

(c) intangible

(d) malodorous

(b) preeminent

(c) vulnerable

(d) incidental

(b) gnarled

(c) panoramic

(d) prophylactic

(b) squishy

(c) palatable

(d) impious

adj. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; disturbed; upset; worried (a) nonionized

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(d) minuscule

adj. easily squashed; spongelike (a) impecunious

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(c) mottled

adj. consisting of two chambers (a) bicameral

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(b) statutory

adj. greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement (a) carnivorous

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(d) scrupulous

adj. showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt (a) vindictive

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(c) runic

adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; wolfish (a) wizened

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(b) intractable

adj. very small (a) idyllic

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(b) gusty

(c) disquieted

(d) impolitic

adj. of an obscure nature; deep; mysterious; mystifying (a) unfledged

(b) drudging

(c) inscrutable

(d) orthodox

Q10 adj. cut or impressed into a surface; graven; incised; inscribed (a) runic

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(b) engraved

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(c) misbegot

(d) dilatory

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n. light sword; thin metal sheets (a) pyre

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(b) perquisite

(c) audit

(d) melee

(b) smattering

(c) escarp

(d) rebuttal

(b) hedonism

(c) venison

(d) tempo

n. persistent determination; persistence; persistency; tenaciousness; pertinacity (a) malaise

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(d) lode

n. an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good (a) credulity

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(c) foil

n. a slight or superficial understanding of a subject (a) nape

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(b) anthropologist

n. a noisy riotous fight; battle royal (a) bevy

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(b) hinterlands

(c) tenacity

(d) catapult

n. mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried (a) merger

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(d) apotheosis

(b) repercussion

(c) berretta

(d) soliloquy

n. a sign of something about to happen; presage; prognostic; prognostication; prodigy (a) portent

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(c) marsupial

n. a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; birretta (a) dregs

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(b) lucre

(b) extrapolation

(c) raiment

(d) die

(c) isotope

(d) fanfare

(c) affirmation

(d) regimen

n. lack of ornamentation; simplicity; simpleness (a) trilogy

(b) chasteness

Q10 n. government; reign; mode of rule (a) solecism

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(b) patois

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adj. of or relating to a melodic subject (a) thematic

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(c) recourse

(d) epitome

(b) hirsute

(c) homespun

(d) ostentatious

(c) apprisal

(d) implication

(b) ratiocination

(b) pestle

(c) refereeing

(d) rostrum

(b) twisting

(c) lugubrious

(d) planless

(c) hue

(d) regatta

n. overbearing pride or presumption (a) natator

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(b) trek

adj. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred (a) sacrilegious

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(d) grill

n. beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils (a) ethnology

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(c) scrutinize

(b) haggle

n. logical and methodical reasoning (a) cacophony

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(d) factitious

adj. hand-woven (a) penitent

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(c) unflurried

n. a brief abstract (as of an article or book) (a) tonsure

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(b) pharisaical

v. barbecue; interrogate; cross-examine (a) decrypt

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(b) hubris

n. the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one; niner; Nina from Carolina (a) impetus

(b) fusillade

(c) ennead

(d) heyday

(c) exploit

(d) impishness

Q10 n. a person who uses the mind creatively (a) alloy

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(b) intellect

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adj. inconceivably extended in space or time (a) licentious

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(c) droll

(d) irrelevant

(b) cissy

(c) fulsome

(d) mnemonic

(b) graphic

(c) careworn

(d) lowering

(b) civil

(c) crabbed

(d) monochromatic

adj. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; backbreaking; hard; heavy (a) implausible

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(b) congenial

adj. annoyed and irritable; cross; fussy; grouchy; grumpy; bad-tempered; ill-tempered (a) frivolous

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(d) unimpeachable

adj. evoking lifelike images within the mind; pictorial; vivid (a) abstracted

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(c) cosmic

adj. of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory; mnemotechnical (a) perdurable

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(b) detached

adj. suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things; humanlike (a) anthropomorphic

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(b) grueling

(c) carbonic

(d) libidinous

adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolor; particolored; varicolored; varicolo (a) enamored

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(c) ancillary

(d) motley

(c) episodic

(d) evenhanded

(c) virile

(d) rousing

adj. limited in duration to a single episode (a) wordy

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(b) dyspneic

(b) jaunty

adj. (of a male) capable of copulation (a) baffling

(b) sagacious

Q10 adj. recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances (a) diarrheal

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(b) tessellated

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(c) noxious

(d) sporadic

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n. abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will; vitriol (a) invective

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(c) regicide

(d) epitome

(b) perimeter

(c) aloneness

(d) polity

(b) adiposis

(c) stealth

(d) rataplan

(b) miasma

(c) detonation

(d) amnesty

(c) enormity

(d) earreach

(c) custodian

(d) solemnity

(c) feudatory

(d) serenity

(c) anarchy

(d) inebriety

(b) horde

n. gravity; seriousness; formality (a) amebiasis

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(b) kudos

n. atrociousness; offensiveness (a) seclusion

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(d) jeopardy

n. pardon; clemency (a) poultice

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(c) outturn

n. avoiding detection by moving carefully (a) alliteration

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(b) convert

n. the size of something as given by the distance around it (a) euphony

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(d) gambit

n. the act of killing a king (a) vertex

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(c) mace

n. proselyte (a) dicot

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(b) incongruity

(b) sleight

n. an informal term for a youth or man; bozo (a) cadence

(b) hombre

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(b) homily

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v. copy another person's written work without giving the proper acknowledgement (a) rig

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(b) smirk

(c) censor

(d) sleeper

(b) valor

(c) prestige

(d) locality

(b) fleck

(c) fellate

(d) traverse

(b) bard

(c) hermitage

(d) rotundity

(b) hovel

(c) entrepreneur

(d) franchise

(c) tremulous

(d) gibelike

(c) dolourous

(d) saccharine

adj. abusing vocally; jeering; mocking; taunting (a) forensic

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(d) intersperse

n. small crude shelter used as a dwelling; hutch; shack; shanty (a) libretto

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(c) interdict

n. an ornamental caparison for a horse (a) bestower

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(b) propitiate

v. drink moderately but regularly (a) tipple

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(d) plagiarize

n. trick; magic; conjuration; illusion; deception (a) legerdemain

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(c) martyrize

n. a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence (a) colloquy

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(b) demur

v. command against; proscribe; veto; disallow; nix (a) tender

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(b) rarefied

adj. showing sorrow; lachrymose; tearful; weeping (a) sublime

(b) opportune

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(b) pauper

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(c) finale

(d) junket

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adj. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose (a) reactionary

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(b) dissident

(c) congenital

(d) apocalyptic

(b) macabre

(c) libidinous

(d) viscid

(b) humid

(c) mutable

(d) congenital

(b) ennui

(c) timidity

(d) cession

(b) genteel

(c) bifurcate

(d) terrestrial

adj. fanatically patriotic; nationalistic; ultranationalistic; superpatriotic (a) spasmodic

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(d) simian

adj. resembling a fork; branched; forked; fork-like; forficate; pronged; prongy (a) gustatory

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(c) churlish

n. fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities (a) chasteness

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(b) patent

adj. excessively forward (a) presumptuous

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(d) desultory

adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive; gummy; mucilaginous; pasty; sticky; viscous (a) lancinate

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(c) prosaic

adj. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; innate (a) aseptic

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(b) quadruplex

adj. having a bad disposition (a) grotesque

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(b) jingoistic

(c) comely

(d) surd

(c) stalwart

(d) insensate

adj. used especially of persons (a) synchronous

(b) secular

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(b) mordant

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(c) famed

(d) retiring

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n. facial features (a) seine

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(b) hieroglyphic

(c) impediment

(d) orientation

(b) accretion

(c) gourmet

(d) nomenclature

(b) parameter

(c) quiver

(d) anonymity

(b) provenance

(c) sentinel

(d) obsession

(b) aspersion

(c) pundit

(d) cataclysm

n. a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual; mannerism (a) panacea

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(d) virtuoso

n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; disaster; tragedy (a) blastoderm

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(c) yen

n. common language (a) patois

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(b) blaring

n. the act of vibrating; shiver (a) augury

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(d) physiognomy

n. expansion or increase due to gradual buid-up or additions (a) reserve

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(c) revelry

n. a writing system using picture symbols (a) repulsion

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(b) lectern

n. the basic unit of money in Japan (a) inkling

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(b) ennead

(c) idiosyncrasy

(d) litigation

(c) limner

(d) intelligentsia

(c) remonstrance

(d) clavicle

n. a painter or drawer of portraits; portrayer (a) rhetoric

(b) bulwark

Q10 n. the act of turning aside suddenly; veering (a) rendition

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(b) swerving

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adj. worthy of religious veneration (a) carnal

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(c) outstrip

(d) leaven

(c) vitreous

(d) ruthless

(c) fester

(d) wean

(b) burnish

(b) indocile

(b) bait

(b) circumscribe

(c) bedizen

(d) manipulate

(b) fogyish

(c) antiquated

(d) refreshed

v. deprive of by deceit; swindle; goldbrick; defraud; scam (a) wrangle

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(d) congeal

adj. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; mossy; stodgy (a) enceinte

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(c) proliferate

v. treat with excessive indulgence; cosset; cocker; baby; spoil; indulge (a) mollycoddle

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(b) appal

v. attack with dogs or set dogs upon (a) grouse

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(d) hallowed

adj. providing protective supervision (a) tutelary

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(c) pristine

v. influence; cause gradual change (a) tarry

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(b) impermeable

v. become gelatinous (a) mediate

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(b) rook

(c) macerate

(d) decant

(c) zeal

(d) minutia

n. the property of excessive fatness; stoutness (a) adiposis

(b) reminiscence

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(b) conflate

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(c) amplify

(d) contemn

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adj. (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely (a) queasy

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(b) overbold

(c) diabolical

(d) petulant

(b) outlawed

(c) unfledged

(d) eminent

(b) twisting

(c) degraded

(d) inordinate

(c) lucullan

(d) averse

(c) scrupulous

(d) glistening

(b) balmy

(b) unctuous

adj. tasting or smelling like vinegar; vinegary; vinegarish (a) acetose

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(d) buxom

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort (a) bicornate

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(c) conceited

adj. mild and pleasant; soft (a) voluptuous

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(b) alimentary

adj. lowered in value (a) reefy

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(d) frizzly

adj. young and inexperienced; callow (a) unobtrusive

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(c) supple

adj. extremely evil or cruel; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy (a) gullible

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(b) carnal

adj. of or providing nourishment; nourishing; nutrient; nutritious; nutritive (a) gruff

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(b) gelid

(c) assailable

(d) phlegmatic

(c) amorphous

(d) sadistic

adj. readily reacting to suggestions and influences (a) begrimed

(b) tractable

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(b) vaunted

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(c) acned

(d) pristine

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n. an early warning about a future event (a) remissness

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(b) primogeniture

(c) premonition

(d) imposture

n. the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause (a) cavalier

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(b) soliloquy

(c) quip

(d) mode

(b) transport

(c) toga

(d) rift

(b) whit

(c) pastiche

(d) arrears

(b) sunk

(c) slovenly

(d) albinal

(c) waggle

(d) chasteness

n. obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness (a) truculence

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(d) pantomime

adj. no longer in use (a) obsolete

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(c) caste

n. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount; iota; tittle; smidgen; smidgeon; smidgin; smidge (a) contrition

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(b) expostulation

n. a one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome (a) sloth

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(d) beneficiary

n. a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections (a) extrapolation

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(c) cog

n. a performance using gestures and body movements without words; dumb show (a) guck

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(b) cohorts

(b) hydrophobia

n. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; sustainment; maintenance; upkeep (a) tepidity

(b) pluck

(c) reconciler

(d) sustenance

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(b) legacy

(c) furor

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(d) clairvoyant

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v. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes (a) weather

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(b) outlandish

(c) amoral

(d) inept

(b) summation

(c) reproach

(d) extolment

(c) toady

(d) kudos

(c) bifurcated

(d) seasoned

(c) clientele

(d) philatelist

(b) extrovert

(b) tawdry

(b) tenacity

v. give an incentive for action; propel; move; prompt; incite (a) actuate

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(d) artisan

n. a serviceman in the navy; sailor; sailor boy (a) bluejacket

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(c) coterie

adj. not arrogant or presuming (a) unassuming

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(b) epilogue

n. a person whose interests are directed outward (a) whorl

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(d) harry

n. disgrace or shame (a) sibling

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(c) lampoon

adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; eccentric; freaky; flaky (a) injurious

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(b) dwindle

n. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose; ingroup; inner circle; pack; camp (a) whirring

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(b) roister

(c) worst

(d) fate

v. commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; blunder; goof (a) pine

(b) boob

(c) bedazzle

(d) cranch

Q10 v. produce buds, branches, or germinate; germinate; pullulate; burgeon forth; sprout (a) scotch

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(b) list

(c) supplicate

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(d) bourgeon

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adj. skillful in statecraft or management (a) odoriferous

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(b) provincial

(c) unkempt

(d) tawdry

(b) blowsy

(c) venial

(d) pharisaical

(b) inductive

(c) spanking

(d) conversant

(b) prude

(c) circlet

(d) litotes

(b) adverse

(c) limpid

(d) supercilious

(c) culpable

(d) lethal

(c) distant

(d) sibylline

adj. of an instrument of certain death (a) bacchic

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(d) obsolete

adj. expressive of contempt; snide (a) brindled

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(c) tainted

n. manner of speaking which uses a negative to state a positive (a) equestrian

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(b) feasible

adj. of or pertaining to electric or magnetic induction (a) potable

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(d) sagacious

adj. feeding on animals (used of plants as well as animals) (a) carnivorous

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(c) infantile

adj. not properly maintained or cared for (a) reparable

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(b) berserk

adj. touched by rot or decay (a) canny

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(b) propulsive

adj. located far away spatially (a) stodgy

(b) twee

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(b) judicious

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(c) roiling

(d) cryptic

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n. a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to); amiability; amiableness; bonhomie (a) alkene

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(b) temerity

(c) assumption

(d) tantrum

(c) propriety

(d) espial

(b) mortician

(b) virus

(c) accretion

(d) brevity

(b) rotunda

(c) blende

(d) venue

(b) abuzz

(c) aneurismal

(d) leery

n. a protective structure of stone or concrete; groyne; mole; seawall; jetty (a) bulwark

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(d) jinrikisha

adj. noisy like the sound of a bee (a) unmingled

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(c) reprobate

n. in law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held (a) tirade

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(b) farce

n. a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window (a) dormer

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(d) subsidy

n. correct or appropriate behavior; correctitude (a) probity

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(c) geniality

n. hypothesis (a) girth

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(b) philatelist

n. a person without moral scruples (a) clientele

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(b) imposture

(c) citadel

(d) dustup

n. brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall; cope (a) coping

(b) chicanery

(c) sepulcher

(d) talisman

(c) carryall

(d) precipice

Q10 n. a variety of leaf bug; capsid (a) nisus

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(b) mirid

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n. a long narrow opening; fissure; scissure (a) guffaw

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(b) converse

(c) millinery

(d) quarry

(b) shirk

(c) chronicle

(d) disband

(b) fester

(c) reciprocate

(d) swathe

(b) liaison

(c) amnesia

(d) alchemy

(b) sibylline

(c) paltry

(d) spurious

n. a socially awkward or tactless act; slip; gaucherie (a) solecism

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(d) thwart

adj. intended to deceive (a) officious

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(c) appraise

n. partial or total loss of memory; blackout (a) hyperbole

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(b) cajole

v. be false to; be dishonest with; deceive; lead on; delude (a) cozen

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(d) luminary

v. record in chronological order (a) refashion

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(c) dupery

n. distinctive appellation denoting rank or achievement (a) title

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(b) crevice

v. spot, stain, or pollute; maculate (a) defile

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(b) bouillon

(c) quirk

(d) cubby

(c) unseemly

(d) virtual

(c) integrate

(d) gasp

adj. not clearly understood or expressed (a) opaque

(b) brackish

Q10 v. give to in marriage; affiance; plight (a) quarry

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(b) betroth

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adj. suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose (a) opaline

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(b) enigmatic

(c) qualified

(d) insolvent

(b) alluvial

(c) abstract

(d) potent

(c) averse

(d) woozy

(b) sylvan

(b) maddening

(c) irreparable

(d) abortive

(b) cyan

(c) buffoonish

(d) deft

adj. characterized by extravagance and profusion; lush; plush; plushy (a) preternatural

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(d) minuscule

adj. like a clown; clownlike; zany (a) nosey

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(c) gaunt

adj. failing to accomplish an intended result; unsuccessful (a) immoveable

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(b) foolhardy

adj. relating to or characteristic of wooded regions (a) anchoritic

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(d) opportune

adj. existing in name only (a) titular

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(c) multilingual

adj. certified; licensed (a) ludicrous

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(b) congenital

adj. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; rash; reckless (a) reticent

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(b) emaciated

(c) lavish

(d) complacent

adj. characterized by extravagance and profusion; lush; plush; plushy (a) lucullan

(b) pestilential

(c) categorical

(d) aquiline

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(b) blinding

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(c) compelling

(d) aglow

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n. previous legal decision serving as an authoritative rule (a) clientele

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(b) serenity

(c) philistine

(d) cleft

(b) affinity

(c) tundra

(d) tomfoolery

(b) hedonism

(c) trepidation

(d) artifacts

(c) pantomime

(d) intelligentsia

(c) choreography

(d) apothecary

(b) shard

(b) debaucher

n. the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event (a) bard

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(d) apostate

n. someone who assaults others sexually; ravisher (a) murkiness

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(c) mace

n. an educated and intellectual elite (a) foray

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(b) purveyor

n. man made object (a) pungency

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(d) intimidation

n. a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen (a) partiality

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(c) precedent

n. the absence of mental stress or anxiety; peace of mind; repose; heartsease; ataraxis (a) pediatrician

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(b) acquittal

n. spiked club used as a weapon (a) knottiness

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(b) philistine

(c) assessment

(d) entity

n. an algebraic equation of the fourth degree; quartic; fourth power (a) cleaver

(b) biquadrate

(c) anticlimax

(d) waiver

Q10 n. a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula; blastodisc; germinal area (a) interloper

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(b) blastoderm

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(c) protuberance

(d) posterity

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adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy (a) unctuous

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(c) postulate

(d) conceiver

(b) terminate

(c) bedamn

(d) indite

(b) decreed

(c) avaricious

(d) unimpeachable

(b) contriver

(c) podiatrist

(d) pundit

(b) beatific

(c) verdant

(d) crotchety

n. an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output (a) impishness

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(b) pittance

adj. having cusps or points; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated (a) cuspate

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(d) hackles

n. a specialist in care for the feet (a) surrogate

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(c) severance

adj. completely acceptable (a) obstreperous

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(b) histrion

v. fire; give notice; dismiss; sack (a) chronicle

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(d) supine

n. to presume; to suppose (a) array

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(c) monolithic

n. a feeling of anger and animosity (a) subpoena

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(b) irrepressible

(b) incentive

(c) charisma

(d) rotundity

(c) adulterate

(d) macerate

v. exasperate or irritate; aggravate (a) hunker

(b) exacerbate

Q10 n. the hemisphere that includes North America and South America; New World (a) nostrum

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(b) asceticism

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(c) occident

(d) faction

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adj. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth (a) prevailing

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(d) accredited

(b) crinkled

(c) paltry

(d) barefaced

(b) warren

(c) limbo

(d) covenant

(c) precipitate

(d) burnished

(c) premonitory

(d) unearthly

(b) remediable

(b) adamant

adj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; overzealous (a) noncommittal

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(c) fitful

(b) alluvial

adj. narrowly restricted in outlook or scope (a) parochial

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(d) hibernal

adj. capable of being remedied or redressed (a) acidulous

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(c) precipitate

n. extinct flying reptile (a) pterodactyl

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(b) chimerical

adj. contemptibly small in amount (a) obscure

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(d) sodding

adj. having unnatural mannerisms (a) mannered

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(c) precise

adj. hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy (a) mealymouthed

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(b) moribund

(b) elated

(c) singular

(d) rabid

adj. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; preternatural; transcendental (a) salutary

(b) nonnatural

(c) erudite

(d) modish

Q10 adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping; crooked (a) ubiquitous

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(b) hunched

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(c) roseate

(d) puissant

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n. a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; hommos; hoummos; humous (a) humus

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(c) ablution

(d) cohorts

(c) trident

(d) satellite

(b) pterodactyl

(b) tranquillity

(c) gnome

(d) congruence

(b) ordinance

(c) friction

(d) fusspot

(b) mire

(c) vilify

(d) mutter

adj. suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder; psychopathological (a) tractable

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(b) arroyo

v. talk in a monotonous voice (a) drone

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(d) obstetrician

n. effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure; rubbing (a) economy

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(c) killjoy

n. elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression (a) gentility

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(b) kudos

n. a spear with three prongs (a) ape

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(d) metaphor

n. intermittent river (a) effrontery

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(c) throes

n. a physician specializing in obstetrics (a) valor

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(b) wizardry

(b) hortatory

(c) addlepated

(d) psychopathic

(c) slub

(d) pecs

n. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; burl (a) medley

(b) placebo

Q10 n. the act of wetting something by submerging it; ducking (a) dousing

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(b) reprobation

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(c) turgidity

(d) levity

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adj. of or relating to the work of an actuary (a) cumulative

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(c) mayhem

(d) apoplexy

(b) discourse

(b) apex

(c) levee

(d) felon

(b) aperient

(c) interregnum

(d) amnesty

(b) controvert

(c) manacle

(d) pulverize

(b) niggardly

(c) dilapidated

(d) clairvoyant

(c) crusted

(d) inscrutable

adj. powerfully persuasive; weighty (a) contentious

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(d) stint

adj. petty or reluctant in giving or spending; scrimy (a) glacial

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(c) throttle

v. prove to be false or incorrect (a) glower

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(b) rebuff

n. a channel for communication between groups; contact; inter-group communication (a) liaison

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(d) mantled

n. a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail (a) tremor

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(c) incompatible

n. the quality of not moving (a) immobility

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(b) actuarial

v. reduce the air supply (a) profane

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(b) cogent

n. the range within which a voice can be heard; hearing (a) repugnance

(b) earreach

(c) seine

(d) naivete

(b) unfledged

(c) objective

(d) puny

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adj. peculiar to the individual (a) idiosyncratic

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(b) audacious

(c) sphinx-like

(d) redoubtable

(b) squat

(c) secular

(d) sinewy

(b) resilient

(c) exuberant

(d) ravenous

(b) ceremonious

(c) indeterminate

(d) unfettered

(b) placid

(c) analgesic

(d) lunar

(c) momentous

(d) hoary

adj. gray; white; ancient; old (a) vituperative

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(d) nuptial

adj. not easily irritated; good-tempered (a) sibylline

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(c) cornered

adj. not bound by shackles and chains; unshackled; untied (a) rarefied

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(b) politic

adj. produced or growing in extreme abundance; luxuriant; profuse; riotous (a) prevailing

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(d) staggering

adj. having a low center of gravity (a) faineant

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(c) opaque

adj. worthy of respect or honor (a) intrepid

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(b) burnished

adj. of or relating to a wedding; spousal (a) ashen

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(b) remediable

adj. showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement (a) astral

(b) finicky

(c) chatoyant

(d) humane

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(d) ailing

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n. an impression that something might be the case; suspicion (a) apotheosis

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(c) curmudgeon

(d) natation

(b) peon

(c) adjuration

(d) ennui

(b) trident

(c) manifestation

(d) oculist

(b) renown

(c) lagoon

(d) podiatrist

(b) centigrade

(c) sordid

(d) vernal

adj. of or like glass (a) vitreous

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(b) renown

n. a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral; lagune (a) holster

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(d) intuition

n. a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye (a) predilection

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(c) masque

n. a special way of doing something; hang (a) bent

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(b) exegesis

n. a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas (a) gritrock

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n. a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications; warrantee (a) espionage

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(c) warranty

(d) innovation

(c) chasm

(d) conceit

n. something of little value or significance; frivolity (a) frippery

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(b) escarp

(b) poseur

n. the act of giving a false appearance; simulation; feigning (a) ratiocination

(b) nurseling

(c) bivouac

(d) pretending

(b) facade

(c) panegyric

(d) anarchy

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n. a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease (a) prow

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(c) talisman

(d) stolidity

(b) dulcify

(c) limn

(d) impale

v. describe; portray (a) swerve

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(b) pundit

n. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs; chemist; pill pusher; pill roller (a) deadlock

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(d) crescendo

(b) mussitate

(c) titillate

(d) dismantle

(b) scabbard

(c) equipoise

(d) motility

(b) eldritch

(c) irrevocable

(d) indisputable

(c) jolty

(d) devious

(c) rigid

(d) cragged

adj. of uncertain outcome; dicey; dodgy (a) chanceful

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(c) vigor

adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; uncanny; unearthly (a) auroral

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(b) culmination

n. equality of distribution; counterbalance (a) arroyo

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(d) apothecary

v. excite pleasurably or erotically (a) sham

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(c) brawn

n. a final climactic stage; apogee; a concluding action (a) getup

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(b) summation

(b) pejorative

adj. having hills and crags; hilly; mountainous (a) fogyish

(b) encomiastic

Q10 n. a somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles; tingling (a) counterpart

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(b) kerfuffle

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(c) prickling

(d) waggle

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adj. ex; old-fashioned; passe; passee (a) supposititious

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(b) dapper

(c) endemic

(d) prophylactic

(b) disjointed

(c) witless

(d) unprecedented

(b) amicable

(c) cerebral

(d) sere

(b) analgesic

(c) jocose

(d) standpat

(b) entomology

(c) canto

(d) brochure

adj. without civilizing influences; savage; uncivilized; uncivilised; wild (a) barbarian

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(d) sprawling

n. a major division of a long poem (a) pestle

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(c) eldritch

adj. patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble (a) enduring

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(b) servile

adj. tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length (a) prolix

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(d) outmoded

adj. novel; unexampled (a) nocturnal

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(c) muted

adj. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease (a) prosy

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(b) czarist

adj. relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants (a) valedictory

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(b) lucrative

(c) unintimidating

(d) perceptive

adj. imparting vitality and energy; fresh; refreshing; refreshful; tonic (a) impervious

(b) undoable

(c) bracing

(d) colossal

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(b) deft

(c) dorsal

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n. the trait of being unduly vain; vanity (a) conceit

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(b) espionage

(c) stickler

(d) affidavit

n. a manuscript on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible (a) numismatist

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(b) austerity

(c) embezzlement

(d) verbiage

(b) litany

(c) affiliation

(d) contusion

(b) reconnaissance

(c) affinity

(d) tantrum

(b) spectrum

(c) theocracy

(d) discrimination

n. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand (a) pronation

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(d) anvil

n. the belief in government by divine guidance (a) upshot

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(c) agnate

n. a display of bad temper; scene; conniption (a) cavalier

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(b) imbroglio

n. a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation (a) inconsistency

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(d) asceticism

n. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures); nonindulgence (a) fiat

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(c) palimpsest

n. the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes (a) recasting

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(b) objective

(b) espionage

(c) conflux

(d) myriad

(b) fusspot

(c) manger

(d) prestige

(b) gritrock

(c) idiosyncrasy

(d) anomaly

n. a display of bad temper; scene (a) conniption

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adj. powerful; forceful (a) prefatory

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(b) ruminate

(c) barf

(d) orient

(b) goitre

(c) articulate

(d) escapade

(b) relish

(c) hackles

(d) clapper

(b) implacable

(c) muted

(d) insalubrious

(b) gloat

(c) pillage

(d) replenish

(c) stilted

(d) incorrigible

adj. not challenging; unglamorous; unglamourous (a) monastic

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(d) duress

v. steal goods; loot; reave; strip; rifle; ransack; foray (a) prevail

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(c) conceit

adj. detrimental to health; unhealthy (a) ursine

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(b) entomology

n. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side (a) contraband

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(d) puissant

n. any carefree episode (a) pyre

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(c) germinal

v. chew cud (a) prod

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(b) sartorial

n. the branch of zoology that studies insects (a) endogen

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(b) prosaic

n. a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence (a) adjunct

(b) amenities

(c) eddo

(d) sophistication

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(b) attribute

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(c) immobility

(d) megalomania

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adj. incongruous; unsuitable (a) incompatible

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(b) fantastic

(c) generic

(d) passe

adj. capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; practicable; viable; workable (a) feasible

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(b) sedate

(c) gemmed

(d) virulent

(b) antiquated

(c) cosmic

(d) homespun

(b) gabby

(c) dubious

(d) gargantuan

(b) turbid

(c) puerile

(d) tessellated

(c) gelid

(d) tessellated

(c) determinate

(d) unwieldy

(c) ravenous

(d) evenhanded

adj. lasting throughout the whole year (a) perennial

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(d) august

adj. relating to or containing or caused by mercury (a) mercurial

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(c) cynical

adj. of great mass; giant; jumbo (a) abuzz

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(b) insurgent

adj. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; archaic (a) garbled

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(d) overbold

adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; acerbic; blistering; caustic; sulfurous (a) funereal

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(c) marital

adj. having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap (a) mangy

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(b) thematic

(b) putative

adj. kind; favorable; gentle (a) benign

(b) bacchanalian

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(b) immoveable

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n. inheritance; bequest (a) beneficiary

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(b) foliage

(c) cinnamene

(d) jargon

(b) apogee

(c) amble

(d) friction

(b) philatelist

(c) precept

(d) insurrection

(b) clique

(c) paramour

(d) axiom

(b) tedium

(c) sophistication

(d) usury

(c) intuition

(d) resolve

n. a formal expression by a meeting (a) servility

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(d) minutia

n. the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest (a) hombre

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(c) advent

n. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose; ingroup; inner circle; pack; camp (a) jargon

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(b) rectitude

n. organized opposition to authority; revolt; rising; uprising (a) legend

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(d) appellation

n. a leisurely walk (usually in some public place); saunter; stroll; perambulation (a) veracity

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(c) legacy

n. specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject (a) lull

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(b) finale

n. righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest (a) emigree

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(b) pillock

n. either of two large muscles of the chest; pectoralis; musculus pectoralis (a) cacography

(b) asylum

(c) pecs

(d) impunity

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(b) nostrum

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(c) chiding

(d) retribution

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adj. full of or giving praise; praising (a) stainless

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(b) erotic

(c) repellent

(d) unassuaged

(b) incubus

(c) indignation

(d) conception

(b) corium

(c) equipoise

(d) xenophobia

(b) delusion

(c) cartographer

(d) artifacts

(b) demode

(c) sardonic

(d) jetting

adj. inclined to or marked by drowsiness; slumbrous; somnolent (a) execrable

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(d) perfidious

adj. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; blue; blue-blooded; gentle (a) patrician

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(c) inimical

n. unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity (a) lechery

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(b) genteel

n. instability; unequal distribution of weight (a) imbalance

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(d) malicious

n. a feeling of righteous anger (a) quandary

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(c) laudatory

adj. giving sexual pleasure (a) unprecedented

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(b) forensic

adj. timid by nature or revealing timidity; trepid (a) timorous

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(b) cryptic

(c) slumbery

(d) metaphysical

n. a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion (a) heresy

(b) bent

(c) harbinger

(d) nihilism

(b) disinter

(c) champion

(d) impair

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adj. resembling or characteristic of a phantom; ghostly; phantasmal; spiritual (a) disgraced

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(d) unconscionable

(b) empirical

(c) ravenous

(d) dispirited

(b) unflurried

(c) prefatory

(d) demonic

(c) jaundiced

(d) taciturn

adj. of or being or relating to or involving cognition (a) cognitive

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(c) spectral

adj. serving as an introduction or preface (a) sensual

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(b) gawky

adj. filled with melancholy; depressed; downcast; downhearted; down in the mouth (a) penurious

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(b) bicornate

adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; defamatory; denigrative; denigrating; denigratory; slanderous (a) unctuous

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(b) nostalgia

(c) convert

(d) flair

(b) inane

(c) egregious

(d) precedent

(c) inclined

(d) dauntless

adj. devoid of intelligence; mindless; vacuous (a) inane

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(d) halting

adj. preceding in time, order, or significance (a) archaic

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(c) famished

n. a shape that spreads outward (a) exertion

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(b) libelous

(b) moribund

adj. pertaining to abnormally frequent and fluid bowel movements (a) cragged

(b) inclusive

(c) diarrheal

(d) marked

(c) hoggish

(d) pathetic

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n. a difficult problem; brain-teaser (a) enigma

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(b) acclivity

(c) masochist

(d) calligraphy

(b) ovalbumin

(c) camaraderie

(d) pecs

(b) whiff

(c) chantey

(d) regeneration

(b) counterpart

(c) testator

(d) hooks

(b) biquadrate

(c) troth

(d) deluge

(b) dross

(c) sedateness

(d) venison

(b) balderdash

(c) caste

(d) corollary

(b) phenomena

(c) faction

(d) yokel

n. a sudden jarring impact; shock (a) jounce

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(d) pillock

n. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; alluvion (a) figment

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(c) ford

n. a duplicate copy; twin (a) rift

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(b) cynosure

n. a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike (a) leeway

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(d) spate

n. the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability; comradeliness; comradery; comradeship (a) guck

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(c) emptor

n. beautiful handwriting; chirography (a) harbinger

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(b) talon

n. the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse (a) depilator

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n. trivial nonsense; piffle (a) garrulity

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n. an offering of a tenth part of some personal income (a) meliorist

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(b) bendable

(c) checkered

(d) cannular

(b) forsake

(c) colourize

(d) glean

(b) narcissist

(c) grandeur

(d) tedium

(b) extol

(c) chouse

(d) sate

(b) downlike

(c) diurnal

(d) averse

adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; silken; silky; silklike; slick (a) squishy

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(d) infernal

adj. (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed (a) fervent

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(c) nether

v. fill to satisfaction; replete; fill (a) stymie

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(b) formidable

n. dullness owing to length or slowness; tiresomeness (a) carousal

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(d) archness

v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; desolate; desert (a) implement

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(c) tithe

adj. resembling human beings (a) anthropoid

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(b) increment

adj. located below or beneath something else (a) judicious

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(b) palmy

(c) knowable

(d) satiny

(c) contempt

(d) demolition

(c) nuptial

(d) lamentable

n. a monocotyledonous flowering plant; liliopsid (a) pacifist

(b) endogen

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(b) lateral

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adj. applauding; commending (a) sultry

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(b) conciliatory

(c) adroit

(d) unwarranted

(b) clogging

(c) beatific

(d) sylvan

(b) acned

(c) palatable

(d) frantic

(b) canto

(c) girth

(d) amulet

(b) disinterested

(c) fain

(d) militant

adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter (a) diarrheal

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(d) potential

adj. engaged in war; war-ridden; warring (a) servile

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(c) audacious

n. stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place (a) balderdash

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(b) boisterous

adj. acceptable to the taste or mind (a) solicitous

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(d) venturesome

adj. marked by utter benignity; saintlike; saintly; sainted (a) cosmic

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(c) plauditory

adj. intended to placate (a) egregious

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(b) diarrheal

adj. violently agitated and turbulent; rough (a) conclusive

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(b) tawdry

(c) capillary

(d) prone

(c) virtual

(d) diverse

(c) sunk

(d) rueful

adj. distinctly dissimilar or unlike (a) exuberant

(b) figurative

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(b) capacious

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n. a postulated sequence of possible events (a) scenario

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(b) pouffe

(c) agglomeration

(d) magnate

(b) emolument

(c) cleft

(d) ovation

(c) febricity

(d) obit

(b) comity

(b) vendetta

(c) diorama

(d) aphorism

(b) recluse

(c) austerity

(d) regeneration

v. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme (a) attribute

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(d) foil

n. one who lives in solitude; solitary; solitudinarian; troglodyte (a) dint

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(c) alias

n. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene (a) tutelage

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(b) vassal

n. scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought (a) latitude

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(d) manifestation

n. an obvious truth (a) truism

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(c) aphorism

n. a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed (a) granary

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(b) wastrel

n. a person holding a fief; liegeman; liege subject; feudatory (a) breadth

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(b) enfranchise

(c) depict

(d) surmount

(b) hirsute

(c) delusive

(d) voluminous

adj. must be kept sacred (a) sacrosanct

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(b) nurseling

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(c) canter

(d) sherbet

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n. senility; infatuation (a) dotage

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(b) sphinx-like

(c) ingrained

(d) pejorative

(b) gaudy

(c) turbid

(d) multilingual

(b) meteoric

(c) discursive

(d) putrid

(b) cataract

(c) amulet

(d) introvert

(b) slither

(c) lambaste

(d) galvanize

(c) misadventure

(d) nemesis

n. passing reference or indirect mention (a) allusion

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(d) caulk

v. censure severely or angrily; rebuke; rag; reprimand (a) clabber

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(c) amplify

n. person who tends to focus on their own thoughts and feelings (a) chapiter

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(b) rubberize

adj. morally corrupt or evil (a) centrifugal

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(d) misapprehension

adj. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; mirky; murky (a) ramate

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(c) harping

adj. small; tiny (a) lilliputian

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(b) decomposition

v. make believe with the intent to deceive; pretend; affect; dissemble (a) sham

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(b) expertise

v. unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state (a) ruminate

(b) slacken

(c) unfurl

(d) cede

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(b) relapse

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(c) niggle

(d) wrest

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adj. hasty and without attention to detail; perfunctory (a) cursory

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(b) substantive

(c) eulogistic

(d) nosey

(b) zeta

(c) idiom

(d) euthanasia

(c) titular

(d) rousing

(b) protrude

(c) anathematize

(d) winnow

(b) provisional

(c) tenacious

(d) bouldered

(b) discerning

(c) spurious

(d) congenial

(b) vernal

adj. lifeless; spiritless (a) inanimate

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(d) motley

adj. sticking together (a) filial

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(c) histrionic

v. curse or declare to be evil (a) gibe

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(b) effeminate

adj. stirring; stimulating; exciting (a) carnivorous

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(d) bloated

n. the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) (a) foresight

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(c) helminthic

adj. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; sulfurous; sulphurous (a) sultry

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(b) innocuous

adj. having unsuitable feminine qualities; epicene; cissy; sissified; sissyish; sissy (a) plaintive

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adj. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; florid; sanguine (a) maculated

(b) libidinous

(c) rubicund

(d) insuperable

(c) egregious

(d) unharmed

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(b) sinuous

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n. stock; supply; military force that is not on active duty but can be mobilized as needed (a) adherent

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(b) ichthyology

(c) sophist

(d) compilation

(b) rubble

(c) cunctation

(d) sarcasm

(b) philanderer

(c) quietude

(d) austerity

(b) sheaf

(c) reproach

(d) imbalance

(b) penance

(c) sleeper

(d) adherent

(b) minutia

(c) iota

(d) jinrikisha

(c) conformity

(d) emigree

(c) habitue

(d) serfdom

n. a small or minor detail (a) kerfuffle

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(d) sustenance

n. someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another (a) modulation

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(c) obit

n. approaching; coming soon; looming (a) impending

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(b) tycoon

n. tranquility; silence; noiselessness; stillness (a) euphony

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(d) reserve

n. something of sentimental value; token (a) relic

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(c) scamper

n. the branch of zoology that studies fishes (a) ornithologist

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(b) prosody

n. a fear of foreigners or strangers (a) xenophobia

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n. person who writes or compiles a dictionary (a) anarchist

(b) lexicographer

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(b) peppiness

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adj. peaceful; charmingly rustic; picturesque (a) divergent

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(b) circumvent

(c) founder

(d) alienate

(b) awry

(c) gratis

(d) intrinsically

(b) quail

(c) ordain

(d) epitomize

n. someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement (a) blackleg

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(d) idyllic

v. issue an order (a) expedite

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(c) pivotal

adv. in an essential manner; naturally (a) aloft

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(b) incompatible

v. make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated (a) cohere

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(b) animadversion

(c) braggadocio

(d) casualty

n. a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting (a) proxy

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(d) dais

(b) feign

(c) manumit

(d) appease

(c) dilatory

(d) ursine

(c) malediction

(d) stratum

adj. wasting time; poky; pokey (a) simplistic

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(c) inception

v. make a pretence of; sham (a) flummox

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(b) contempt

(b) nonplused

n. horizontal layer of material (a) infirmity

(b) icon

Q10 n. a person who is not very bright; stupe; dullard; dolt; pudding head (a) penumbra

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(b) pillock

(c) epic

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(d) terminus

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adj. situated at or extending to great depth; unplumbed; unsounded (a) profound

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(b) impermeable

(c) inclement

(d) wispy

(b) limpid

(c) turbid

(d) patrician

(b) cuticular

(c) secular

(d) earthy

(b) bent

(c) zeal

(d) obstetrician

(b) conventional

(c) lithe

(d) impecunious

(c) lissom

(d) praetorial

adj. of or relating to a Roman judge (a) hardy

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(d) ursine

adj. customary; routine; formal (a) cogent

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(c) spruce

n. prompt willingness; forwardness (a) impuissance

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(b) circuitous

adj. characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy (a) finical

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(d) mismated

adj. noticeable; significant; conspicuous (a) marked

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(c) pensive

adj. preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through (a) vindictive

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(b) colossal

adj. still in existence (a) extant

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(b) gory

adj. occurring or coming into existence after a person's death (a) venerable

(b) humane

(c) demotic

(d) posthumous

Q10 adj. very small; lilliputian; midget; petite; tiny; flyspeck (a) bantam

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(b) omnipresent

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(c) unfaltering

(d) mantic

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n. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text (a) escapade

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(b) conspiracy

(c) pinafore

(d) provender

(b) subterfuge

(c) plethora

(d) ablution

(b) discourse

(c) tilter

(d) fluctuation

(b) arrears

(c) armada

(d) bigotry

(b) cerulean

(c) paradigm

(d) apologue

n. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one (a) anticlimax

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(d) hireling

n. the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time (a) brawn

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(c) panegyric

n. a large fleet (a) cadaver

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(b) decadence

n. a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs (a) cavalcade

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(d) odyssey

n. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity (a) opiate

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(c) cantata

n. intrigue; plot (a) hindrance

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(b) articulate

n. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities; decadency (a) kyphosis

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(b) conception

(c) conflagration

(d) chagrin

n. the act of making a noisy disturbance; ruction; ruckus; rumpus (a) frippery

(b) vogue

(c) minion

(d) tumult

(c) dialectic

(d) effluvium

Q10 n. antecedent; predecessor (a) adjuration

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(b) precursor

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n. someone who supplies provisions (especially food) (a) hoax

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(b) bereavement

(c) empathy

(d) frailty

(c) invert

(d) founder

(c) steep

(d) invert

(c) pervasive

(d) vitreous

(b) grapple

(b) exacerbate

(b) conscientious

(b) episodic

(c) meddlesome

(d) amiable

adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace; lowbred; rude; underbred; yokelish (a) supine

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(d) pert

adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; cordial; genial (a) averse

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(c) frigid

adj. corresponding in size or degree or extent (a) commensurate

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(b) profligate

v. let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse (a) gimp

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(d) legend

v. grip or seize, as in a wrestling match (a) logroll

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(c) imbecility

n. moral weakness (a) ballyhoo

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(b) purveyor

adj. used of decisions and contracts (a) indissoluble

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(b) bounderish

(c) abusive

(d) oblique

(c) pauperize

(d) wince

v. reduce to beggary; pauperise (a) controvert

(b) deprecate

Q10 adj. in an advanced stage of pregnancy; expectant; gravid (a) enceinte

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(b) frenzied

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(c) stodgy

(d) perennial

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adj. shabby; base; despicable (a) substantive

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(b) pied

(c) militant

(d) cherubic

(b) ethereal

(c) stilted

(d) empirical

(b) prod

(c) grill

(d) fabricate

(b) aptitude

(c) atrocity

(d) breadth

(b) provident

(c) centrifugal

(d) burnished

(c) peregrine

(d) swooning

(c) sidereal

(d) heterodox

adj. unpleasantly cold and damp; raw (a) bleak

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(d) spartan

adj. careful in regard to your own interests (a) ciliated

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(c) inclined

n. an act of atrocious cruelty (a) blende

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(b) unintimidating

v. poke or thrust abruptly; stab; poke; dig (a) apostatize

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(d) curdled

adj. artificially formal; hokey (a) outlandish

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(c) disquieted

adj. having a sweet nature befitting an angel; seraphic; sweet (a) awash

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(b) sleazy

adj. unfrightening (a) unkempt

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(b) dire

adj. subjected to cruel treatment; mistreated (a) grudging

(b) maltreated

Q10 adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; fictional; fictitious (a) unwarranted

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(b) optimum

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(c) fabricated

(d) antsy

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n. the dead body of a human being; corpse; stiff; clay; remains (a) cadaver

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(b) prickling

(c) decoy

(d) paradox

(b) vernacular

(c) levee

(d) slub

(b) manifestation

(c) dermatologist

(d) consort

(b) embezzlement

(c) retraction

(d) potpourri

(b) heathen

(c) boule

(d) oculist

(c) cartographer

(d) litigation

n. statement which is unspecific or lacking in detail (a) curator

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(d) pigment

n. an inlaid furniture decoration; buhl (a) intelligentsia

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(c) cynosure

n. a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) (a) tryst

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(b) cantata

n. demonstration or indication or something (a) remonstrance

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(d) minion

n. an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing (a) gesticulation

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(c) magnate

n. lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers (a) leniency

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(b) detonation

n. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing; self-abasement (a) penance

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(b) generality

n. a disorderly outburst or tumult; commotion; flutter; hurly burly (a) contortions

(b) subpoena

(c) vixen

(d) kerfuffle

(c) fatso

(d) idiom

Q10 n. a rotund individual; roly-poly; butterball (a) ecstasy

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(b) responsiveness

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n. person who ruins the fun or enjoyment of others (a) milieu

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(b) troth

(c) sloth

(d) stratum

(b) scram

(c) plummet

(d) enshroud

(b) avuncular

(c) frolicsome

(d) irreparable

(c) sophist

(d) claustrophobia

n. a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space (a) scapegoat

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(d) constraint

adj. without compunction or human feeling; inhuman (a) insensate

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(c) flippancy

v. play boisterously; lark; rollick; run around (a) disport

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(b) killjoy

n. laziness; slow-moving tree-dwelling mammal (a) ordinance

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(b) censor

n. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; hick; yahoo; hayseed; bumpkin; chawbacon (a) yokel

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(d) refraction

(b) cogent

(c) belated

(d) swooning

n. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally; numbness; spiritlessness (a) isthmus

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(c) madrigal

adj. weak and likely to lose consciousness; light-headed; lightheaded (a) sporadic

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(b) consanguinity

(b) smattering

(c) numismatist

(d) apathy

(c) polarize

(d) purge

v. hit hard; whop; whap; bonk (a) baulk

(b) bash

Q10 n. the characteristic sounds made by a horse; whicker; whinny (a) intuition

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(b) neigh

(c) cog

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(d) whorl

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adj. incapable of being surmounted or excelled (a) insuperable

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(c) beatific

(d) pliable

(b) belated

(b) demented

(c) introspective

(d) leftover

(b) transient

(c) offensive

(d) factitious

(b) withdrawn

(c) quotidian

(d) menial

(b) unilateral

(c) feckless

(d) ulterior

adj. uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves; rippled; wavy; wavelike (a) devious

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(d) accessible

adj. constituting a tube; tubelike; tube-shaped; vasiform (a) cannular

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(c) estranged

adj. tending to reserve or introspection (a) innate

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(b) supercilious

adj. not produced by natural forces (a) mobile

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(d) contrived

adj. affected with madness or insanity; disturbed; mad; sick; unbalanced; unhinged (a) altruistic

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(c) malignant

adj. after the expected or usual time; tardy (a) perspicacious

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(b) diaphanous

adj. caused to be unloved (a) delusive

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(b) insubstantial

(c) crinkled

(d) hunched

adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; manifest; plain; unmistakable (a) disaffected

(b) patent

(c) fanciful

(d) chanceful

Q10 adj. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse (a) disingenuous

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(b) ineluctable

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(c) inept

(d) impotent

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n. harmony; peace; agreement (a) equity

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(b) augury

(c) subterfuge

(d) migrant

(b) gaffe

(c) cessation

(d) revelry

(b) gibberish

(c) sophistication

(d) apostate

(b) tumult

(c) conservatory

(d) seine

(b) isotope

(c) malingerer

(d) anesthetic

(b) icon

(c) component

(d) polygamist

n. image; statue; idol (a) precept

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(d) conservatory

n. a reeling sensation; lightheadedness (a) vertigo

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(c) solace

n. a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom (a) tureen

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(b) larder

n. falsification by the use of sophistry (a) conglomeration

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(d) concord

n. a socially awkward or tactless act; solecism; slip; gaucherie (a) prosody

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(c) culmination

n. traveler who moves from one region or country to another (a) acme

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(b) balderdash

n. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; buttery (a) arquebus

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n. the particular occupation for which you are trained; vocation (a) addendum

(b) baring

(c) calling

(d) crypt

Q10 n. great and constant diligence and attention; concentration (a) whiff

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(b) assiduity

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(c) circumlocution

(d) renown

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adj. deviating from the general or common order or type (a) anomalous

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(b) gestate

(c) commiserate

(d) embed

(b) raspy

(c) hazardous

(d) haemal

(b) elixir

(c) concubine

(d) proxy

(b) pachyderm

(c) fanfare

(d) brocade

(b) stultify

(c) subrogate

(d) rig

n. showing your contempt by derision; mockery; scoff; scoffing (a) realm

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(d) hovel

v. pierce with a sharp stake or point; spike (a) empale

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(c) monotheism

n. flourish played by trumpets (a) idiosyncrasy

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(b) modicum

n. substance which supposedly prolongs life (a) amyotonia

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(d) laxative

adj. of or relating to the cerebrum or brain (a) cerebral

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(c) venerable

v. be pregnant with; carry; expect (a) excise

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(b) raspy

n. complete denial of all established authority and institutions (a) nihilism

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(b) jeer

(c) zephyr

(d) catharsis

n. an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding; ravage (a) depredation

(b) carrell

(c) theocracy

(d) rave

Q10 n. one related on the mother's side; matrilineal kin; matrisib; matrilineal sib (a) silt

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(b) enate

(c) mountebank

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(d) panacea

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adj. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects (a) pedantic

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(b) lucrative

(c) preeminent

(d) importunate

(b) hortatory

(c) irreverent

(d) roseate

(b) vainglorious

(c) maniacal

(d) unmingled

(b) fabricated

(c) minuscule

(d) incipient

(b) iconoclastic

(c) decreed

(d) lunar

adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities; rapacious; ravening; voracious; wolfish (a) ravenous

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(d) mealymouthed

adj. of or relating to or associated with the moon (a) deducible

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(c) funereal

adj. only partly in existence (a) ceremonious

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(b) agrarian

adj. feeling self-importance (a) minute

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(d) auroral

adj. having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one (a) tendentious

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(c) bouldered

adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness (a) impious

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(b) rococo

adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial (a) quizzical

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(b) reactionary

(c) mordant

(d) belligerent

(c) catholic

(d) swooning

(c) alimental

(d) deadpan

adj. marked by lively action; spirited; zippy (a) peppy

(b) amiable

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(b) mangy

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n. the condition of being protuberant (a) bouillon

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(b) genesis

(c) bluejacket

(d) placebo

(b) usury

(c) harping

(d) altercation

(b) mimicry

(c) smattering

(d) epoch

(c) application

(d) sleight

(b) deadlock

(b) anemia

(c) escarp

(d) conceit

n. a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about (a) realm

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(d) philanderer

n. a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification; protective embankment (a) solecism

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(c) laity

n. adroitness in using the hands (a) revelry

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(b) compact

n. period; era (a) pantry

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(d) genre

n. tedious dwelling on a subject (a) stolidity

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(c) fluke

n. tablet that contains no medication but has medical effects due to purely psychological reasons (a) clamor

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(b) protuberance

n. flirt; gallivanter; womanizer (a) wizardry

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(b) reprieve

(c) lassitude

(d) gorge

n. a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned (a) friction

(b) waif

(c) tryst

(d) bobber

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(b) sheaf

(c) surveillance

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(d) vagrant

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n. space or time to maneuver; additional money (a) eddo

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(b) bilk

(c) caulk

(d) prate

(b) obit

(c) hieroglyphic

(d) bravado

(b) maxillary

(c) sleeper

(d) mandate

(b) garotte

(c) ascribe

(d) encompass

(b) dank

(c) interlaced

(d) premonitory

(c) miscreant

(d) extradition

(c) hallucination

(d) servility

(c) friskiness

(d) exertion

n. a person without moral scruples (a) homage

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(d) unbarred

adj. having a pattern of fretwork or latticework; latticed; latticelike (a) hermetic

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(c) peppy

v. confine or restrain with handcuffs; bind (a) manacle

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(b) diffusing

n. railroad passenger car with beds (a) euphoria

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(d) conferment

n. the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding; interference (a) hindrance

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(c) etymology

v. make watertight; stop up leaks (a) retaliate

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(b) leeway

adj. of girls or women who are eligible to marry (a) nubile

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(b) granary

n. abject or cringing submissiveness; subservience (a) carryall

(b) waif

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(b) lambency

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adj. impossible to understand (a) consequential

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(b) inveterate

(c) bucolic

(d) unprecedented

(c) submissive

(d) diverse

(c) febrile

(d) contrived

(c) jeopardy

(d) virtuoso

(b) doctrinaire

(b) acetose

(b) incongruity

(b) inconsequential

(c) innate

(d) quadruplex

(c) meandering

(d) boisterous

(c) succulent

(d) equitable

adj. of a path e.g.; winding (a) catholic

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(d) fundamental

adj. having four units or components; fourfold; four-fold (a) avid

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(c) asymmetric

n. brief description accompanying an illustration (a) legend

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(b) fractious

adj. of or relating to or characterized by fever (a) bilious

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(d) assailable

adj. of or relating to the state of marriage; married (a) marital

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(c) ample

adj. habitual (a) presumptuous

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(b) impenetrable

adj. unpredictably difficult in operation (a) morose

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(b) surreptitious

adj. indirect; through another (a) vicarious

(b) enceinte

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(b) elysian

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(c) sartorial

(d) soldierly

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n. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text (a) palette

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(b) oratorio

(c) conifer

(d) manifesto

n. a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist) (a) reprobation

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(c) vassal

(d) mischance

(b) downiness

(b) pauper

(c) liaison

(d) chaff

(b) rotunda

(c) badinage

(d) blaring

(b) frailty

(c) discrimination

(d) euphemism

n. an embarrassing mistake; blooper; bungle; pratfall; foul-up (a) terminus

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(d) stricture

n. infection by a disease-causing ameba; amebiosis; amoebiosis (a) amebiasis

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(c) truculence

n. a large circular room (a) irony

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(b) gratuity

n. someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections (a) heckler

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(d) casualty

n. an instance of misfortune (a) paragon

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(c) tithe

n. severe criticism (a) sleeper

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(b) agnostic

(b) blunder

(c) annexe

(d) cleaver

n. informal terms for a human head; noodle; noggin; dome (a) bonce

(b) suffragist

(c) coping

(d) theocracy

Q10 n. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime; crook; outlaw (a) prey

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(b) saga

(c) proviso

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(d) malefactor

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v. increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves (a) gawk

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(b) insouciant

(c) generic

(d) saturnine

(b) higgle

(c) hew

(d) defile

(b) pervasive

(c) colossal

(d) pontifical

(b) tempo

(c) exegesis

(d) vise

(c) marque

(d) consternation

(c) beef

(d) mosh

(c) emend

(d) amend

(c) glacial

(d) derivative

(b) exchequer

v. remove the entrails of; draw (a) prattle

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(d) proponent

n. fear resulting from the awareness of danger (a) longevity

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(c) czarina

n. rhythm; beat (a) quay

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(b) orthography

adj. puffed up with vanity; pompous; portentous (a) copacetic

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(d) deflect

v. strike with an axe (a) impair

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(c) repudiate

adj. marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant (a) impermeable

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(b) undulate

n. a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea; exponent (a) heckler

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(b) disembowel

v. administer an oil or ointment to; oil; embrocate (a) expedite

(b) anele

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(b) cursory

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n. a difficult problem; enigma; brain-teaser (a) contusion

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(b) stamina

(c) conundrum

(d) mishap

n. the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater (a) pedagogue

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(b) antiseptic

(c) disapprobation

(d) obsidian

(b) diffidence

(c) peregrination

(d) bonce

(b) catechism

(c) serendipity

(d) goitre

(b) covetous

(c) surd

(d) dipped

(c) clavicle

(d) discourse

n. complete and confirmed integrity (a) excerpt

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(d) adjutant

adj. having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses); swayback; swaybacked (a) insensible

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(c) nepotism

n. book containing the main principles of Christianity (a) cesspit

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(b) asceticism

n. traveling or wandering around (a) spendthrift

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(d) hireling

n. a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft (a) ramp

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(c) analogy

n. rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint (a) missile

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(b) provenance

(b) probity

n. information about recent and important events; word (a) peppiness

(b) bureaucracy

(c) tidings

(d) placebo

Q10 n. a party of guests wearing costumes and masks; mask (a) archives

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(b) honcho

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(c) masque

(d) indignation

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n. a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) (a) maelstrom

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(b) refraction

(c) pungency

(d) lavalier

(b) optimum

(c) bawdy

(d) foiled

(b) glaze

(c) whinny

(d) whet

(b) eloquence

(c) ballast

(d) fauna

(b) lilting

(c) brinded

(d) contiguous

(c) defrock

(d) snivel

(c) stem from

(d) ware

(c) calling

(d) dispassion

v. behave unnaturally or affectedly; act (a) posture

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(d) indeterminate

adj. having a common boundary or edge (a) intermittent

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(c) maternal

n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement; beast; brute; creature (a) enormity

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(b) droll

v. make a characteristic sound, of a horse; whicker (a) cede

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(d) decadence

adj. most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied (a) loath

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(c) liability

n. a strong odor or taste property; sharpness; raciness (a) dissertation

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(b) gruel

adj. related on the mother's side (a) theoretical

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(b) dissemble

v. spend extravagantly; waste (a) scoff

(b) hoard

Q10 n. objectivity and detachment; dryness (a) rancour

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(b) serfdom

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n. an instance of misfortune; mischance (a) flatulency

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(b) remorse

(c) detonation

(d) agenda

(b) spat

(c) encroachment

(d) apparition

(b) potpourri

(c) application

(d) barf

(c) ewe

(d) gnome

(b) luxuriant

(c) susceptible

(d) titanic

(b) paleontology

(c) boon

(d) vendetta

(c) perspicuity

(d) momism

(c) surrogate

(d) nincompoop

(b) agglomeration

n. humiliation; insult (a) indignity

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(d) tonic

adj. easily impressed emotionally (a) absorbing

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(c) pastiche

n. the mistake of misrepresenting the facts (a) distortion

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(b) interregnum

n. a jar of mixed flower petals and spices used as perfume (a) rectitude

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(d) ablution

n. a young oyster or other bivalve (a) carillon

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(c) misadventure

n. a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting); order of business (a) satellite

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(b) behemoth

n. a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work (a) confidant

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n. excessive protection; overshielding (a) viper

(b) aspiration

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(b) endearment

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adj. having a dark complexion (a) viscid

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(b) colloquy

(c) connotation

(d) conflux

(b) ductility

(c) vantage

(d) reminiscence

(b) simplistic

(c) culinary

(d) mincing

(b) mollycoddle

(c) pall

(d) enunciate

(b) partisan

(c) consequential

(d) sprawling

(b) vaunted

(c) detached

(d) unprepossessing

(c) inimical

(d) implacable

(c) lagoon

(d) conscript

adj. outgoing; sociable (a) gregarious

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(d) grimace

adj. spreading out in different directions; rambling; straggly (a) vitriolic

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(c) collusion

v. divulge confidential information or secrets; let the cat out of the bag (a) babble

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(b) shrew

adj. of or relating to or used in cooking (a) introspective

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(d) blinding

n. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position (a) sceptic

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(c) runic

n. an idea that is implied or suggested (a) defamation

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(b) swarthy

n. a loud resonant repeating noise; clank; clash; crash (a) clangor

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adj. under a moral obligation to someone (a) beholden

(b) stereotyped

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(b) prescience

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n. shaving the crown of the head by priests or members of a monastic order (a) itinerary

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(b) anthropologist

(c) nadir

(d) geniality

(b) nemesis

(c) clime

(d) nuance

(b) clamor

(c) gala

(d) repository

(b) intransigence

(c) lambency

(d) lavalier

(b) myriad

(c) larceny

(d) din

(b) pugnacious

(c) leery

(d) inveterate

(b) caste

(c) busby

(d) cephalitis

adj. ready and able to resort to force or violence (a) cherubic

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(d) hegemony

n. footwear usually with wooden soles; patten; sabot (a) geta

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(c) propinquity

n. the trait of being intransigent (a) analogy

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(b) auspices

n. loud and persistent outcry from many people; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry (a) unanimity

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(d) tonsure

n. the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time (a) adjuration

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(c) cordon

n. the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance (a) antithesis

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(b) petiteness

n. the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others (a) gerontocracy

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n. tall hat; shako (a) canto

Q10 n. a fee charged for exchanging currencies; premium; exchange premium (a) sentinel

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(b) dallier

(c) agio

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(d) propriety

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v. cause to be more favorably inclined; conciliate; assuage; appease; mollify; gentle; gruntle (a) placate

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(b) trough

(c) stipend

(d) rebate

(c) malicious

(d) hallowed

(b) throng

(c) optometrist

(d) tureen

(b) abate

(c) surfeit

(d) accelerate

(b) decrepitude

(c) raconteur

(d) bountiful

(b) baronial

n. a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; peyote; Lophophora williamsii (a) cascade

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(d) construe

n. plentiful (a) balm

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(c) hamper

v. beat soundly (a) belabor

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(b) bilk

n. a large gathering of people; concourse (a) idolatry

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(d) affront

adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice (a) incitive

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(c) delude

n. a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed (a) philanderer

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(b) pillage

v. make sense of; see (a) deplete

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(b) atavism

(c) mezcal

(d) rhetoric

n. thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; poilu (a) purloo

(b) cubby

(c) disarray

(d) rigor

Q10 adj. given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments (a) plausible

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(b) compliant

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(c) caustic

(d) idyllic

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n. trespasser (a) antithesis

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(b) gerontocracy

(c) interloper

(d) diminution

n. an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh (a) panache

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(c) debauchee

(d) postulate

(b) isotope

(c) severity

(d) poultice

(b) tremor

(c) frieze

(d) diva

(c) talon

(d) etymology

n. a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey (a) forebears

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(b) diadem

n. a distinguished female operatic singer (a) agio

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(d) beneficiary

n. a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal; plaster (a) hooks

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(c) affidavit

n. significant events and incidents in a person's early life (a) antecedents

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(b) euphemism

(b) tussle

adj. characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is (a) pragmatic

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(c) ironic

(d) baseless

n. someone who kills by strangling; strangler; throttler; choker (a) rebuttal

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(b) acuate

(b) cubicle

(c) garroter

(d) deluge

n. a branch that flows into the main stream; confluent; affluent (a) monarchy

(b) obituary

(c) drudgery

(d) tributary

Q10 n. an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column; hunchback (a) restraint

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(b) kyphosis

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(c) braggart

(d) amebiasis

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adj. in opposition to a civil authority or government (a) subversive

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(b) penumbra

(c) codicil

(d) knavery

(b) awry

(c) pell-mell

(d) aloft

(c) clientele

(d) effigy

(b) sluggard

(b) despise

(c) grate

(d) simulate

(b) serenity

(c) opprobrium

(d) hatchway

n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing; rant; claptrap; blah (a) encomium

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(d) fusion

n. a state of extreme dishonor (a) topography

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(c) shambles

v. show off; swash; shoot a line; brag; bluster; vaunt (a) tout

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(b) dolt

n. customers collectively; business (a) encomium

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(d) gabby

adv. at a great height (a) agape

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(c) natty

n. partly lighted area around any shadow (a) rendition

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(b) peregrine

n. a building where animals are butchered; slaughterhouse (a) crosspatch

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(b) bombast

(c) arquebus

(d) regimen

(c) fugitive

(d) bantam

(c) effluvium

(d) exposure

adj. not serious in content or attitude or behavior (a) unnameable

(b) frivolous

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(b) concomitant

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n. adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing; diamante (a) severance

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(b) recession

(c) whelp

(d) fatalism

(b) apologue

(c) toady

(d) luster

(b) invective

(c) acumen

(d) acuity

(b) quadruped

(c) penchant

(d) narcissist

(b) sanguinary

(c) hoary

(d) ruddy

adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; shrewd (a) astute

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(d) miscellany

adj. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed (a) histrionic

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(c) hyperbole

n. someone in love with themselves (a) carafe

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(b) momentum

n. a quick and penetrating intelligence; sharpness; keenness (a) litoral

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(d) spangle

n. a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain (a) flatulency

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(c) apex

n. an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives (a) partiality

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(b) crevice

n. extravagant exaggeration (a) spoonerism

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(b) chipper

(c) glacial

(d) rife

(c) progenitor

(d) innovation

(c) tributary

(d) incubus

n. a compact mass; lump; clump; chunk (a) glob

(b) malcontent

Q10 n. liveliness and energy; ginger (a) residue

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(b) peppiness

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v. smile affectedly or derisively (a) simper

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(c) skimp

(d) blackleg

(b) pursy

(c) chimerical

(d) zany

(b) askew

(c) gratis

(d) unerringly

adv. free of charge (a) aloof

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(b) mire

adj. produced by a wildly fanciful imagination (a) cussed

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n. compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) (a) emolument

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(c) oxygenate

(d) wince

(b) tyranny

(c) reprobation

(d) spangle

(b) embroil

(c) gybe

(d) prattle

adj. unrestrained by convention or morality; degraded; dissipated; dissolute; libertine; riotous; fast (a) cursory

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(b) sustain

v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; blab; gibber; blabber; gabble (a) abase

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(d) precedent

n. severe disapproval (a) homage

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(c) chassis

v. argue over petty things; pettifog; squabble; brabble (a) bicker

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(b) silt

(b) profligate

(c) conceited

(d) acrid

(c) jaunty

(d) protean

adj. migratory; roving; wandering (a) obsolete

(b) peregrine

Q10 n. meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked); gammon (a) chaff

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(b) stricture

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(c) conveyance

(d) jambon

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n. an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge (a) immobility

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(b) anathema

(c) reprise

(d) betise

(b) bent

(c) biquadrate

(d) prey

(b) provenance

(c) cornice

(d) tilter

(b) progenitor

(c) egotism

(d) primogeniture

(b) squalid

(c) overweening

(d) untellable

(c) extrovert

(d) mogul

n. harsh criticism or disapproval (a) animadversion

Q9

(d) icon

adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; sordid (a) sylvan

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(c) phaeton

n. right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son (a) effigy

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(b) strut

n. the topmost projecting part of an entablature (a) opprobrium

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(d) unguent

n. animal hunted or caught for food (a) counterpart

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(c) decadence

n. repetition of a musical theme (a) fulcrum

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(b) glossary

n. one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (a) beatitude

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(b) proponent

n. the act of getting possession of something; procural (a) paladin

(b) granary

(c) tedium

(d) procurement

Q10 n. rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face downward (a) foray

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(b) concomitant

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(c) pronation

(d) introvert

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n. a shed containing a number of beehives (a) apiary

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(b) adjutant

(c) psychosis

(d) heathen

(b) wriggling

(c) curdled

(d) labile

(b) abdominous

(c) giddy

(d) doctrinaire

(b) amicable

(c) reverent

(d) enraptured

(b) consign

(c) overhaul

(d) sensify

adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork; haggard; raddled (a) provisional

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(d) concenter

v. make sensitive or aware; sensibilize; sensibilise (a) dawdle

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(c) chasten

adj. characterized by friendship and good will (a) deranged

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(b) shackle

adj. stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability (a) chivalrous

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(d) libido

adj. legendary creature believed to be a rejuvenated corpse who sucks people's blood at night (a) vampire

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(c) millinery

n. assistant to a commanding officer (a) tranquillity

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(b) guffaw

v. be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get (a) vex

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(b) careworn

(c) frantic

(d) spurious

adj. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms (a) aseptic

(b) vaunted

(c) staid

(d) bumpkinly

(c) premeditate

(d) prolong

Q10 v. lengthen or extend in duration or space; keep up (a) yield

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(b) schnorr

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n. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it; pulpit; rostrum; ambo; stump; soapbox (a) nonchalance

Q2

(c) anonymity

(d) reprobate

(b) secession

(c) cameo

(d) litany

(b) appurtenances

(c) consensus

(d) entomology

(b) verve

(c) ewe

(d) murkiness

(b) caption

(c) sinecure

(d) latitude

n. feelings of great warmth and intensity; fervor; fervour; fervency; fire; fervidness (a) warranty

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(b) bourgeois

n. assemblage (a) confluence

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(d) minutia

n. female sheep (a) axiom

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(c) trepidation

n. agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole (a) stipend

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(b) scaffold

n. engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring) (a) factotum

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(d) dais

n. material for starting a fire; touchwood; spunk; punk (a) tinder

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(c) hybrid

n. a feeling of alarm or dread (a) gourmand

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(b) subsidy

(b) egress

(c) timidity

(d) ardor

n. precise detailed study of the surface features of a region (a) pungency

(b) regicide

(c) topography

(d) rationalization

(c) reconciler

(d) talisman

Q10 n. enduring strength and energy; toughness (a) misogynist

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(b) stamina

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n. getting something back again; restoration; regaining (a) restitution

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(b) infiltrate

(c) gouge

(d) secrete

(b) heretic

(c) custodian

(d) grandeur

(b) spartan

(c) cardinal

(d) slovenly

(b) unembodied

(c) dyspeptic

(d) circuitous

(b) metaphysical

(c) barbarian

(d) effectual

(c) dismember

(d) staunch

(c) downiness

(d) hegemony

v. stop the flow of a liquid; halt (a) simulate

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(d) sleazy

adj. highly abstract and overly theoretical (a) guileless

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(c) dubious

adj. deviating from a straight course; roundabout (a) authoritative

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(b) dorsal

adj. being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order (a) monochromatic

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(d) pastille

n. the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct; magnanimousness (a) wont

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(c) marsupial

v. place out of sight (a) fret

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(b) cession

adj. not convinced (a) malodorous

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(b) argufy

n. a light softness; fluffiness (a) beatitude

(b) granger

Q10 n. a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water) (a) longevity

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(b) ravine

(c) spat

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(d) palimpsest

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n. a person's brother or sister (a) sibling

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(c) intellect

(d) prosody

(b) maxim

(c) fauna

(d) machiavellian

(c) astigmatism

(d) paucity

n. an insufficient quantity or number (a) cunctation

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(b) denotation

n. expression of general truth; code of behavior (a) cleaver

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(b) incarnation

n. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others; designation; appellative (a) intuition

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(b) lavalier

(c) ramification

(d) celerity

(b) memento

(c) endearment

(d) entrepreneur

(c) psychiatrist

(d) impasse

n. a physician who specializes in psychiatry; shrink (a) colloquy

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(d) appellation

n. someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it (a) matriarch

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(c) contriver

n. a rate that is rapid; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a) appellation

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(b) debutante

(b) consensus

n. a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement) (a) mausoleum

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(b) gist

(c) implication

(d) introvert

(c) quiver

(d) regatta

n. puckishness; whimsicality (a) balker

(b) impishness

Q10 n. something intended to deceive; hoax; humbug; put-on (a) preponderance

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(b) dupery

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(c) extrovert

(d) dapperness

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n. the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint (a) saboteur

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(b) volition

(c) opiate

(d) chaw

(b) languor

(c) hatch

(d) zenith

(b) laudable

(c) unembodied

(d) dank

(b) frieze

(c) skulduggery

(d) grandeur

(b) outskirts

(c) mausoleum

(d) codicil

n. an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) (a) aviary

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(d) sophist

n. addition to a will (a) tiro

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(c) remorse

n. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; shade; subtlety; refinement (a) nicety

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(b) anesthetic

adj. marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; mad; unrestrained (a) frantic

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(d) dinghy

n. an opening in a wall or floor (a) canter

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(c) spontaneity

n. the act of making a choice (a) claustrophobia

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(b) horde

n. a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed); self-reproach (a) debris

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(b) luster

(c) swerving

(d) foray

n. someone who designs clothing; clothes designer; designer (a) floe

(b) couturier

(c) grotto

(d) windfall

Q10 adj. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; in love; potty; smitten (a) grueling

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(b) infatuated

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(c) dispassionate

(d) despondent

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n. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone; predecessor; herald; precursor (a) bivouac

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(c) aegis

(d) trivia

n. abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open) (a) pretending

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(b) harbinger

(b) subaltern

(c) exposure

(d) braggadocio

n. a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions (a) effluvium

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(c) oratorio

(d) spate

(c) sinecure

(d) mores

n. an office that involves minimal duties (a) ardor

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(b) pragmatist

(b) juggernaut

n. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; thought process; intellection; mentation (a) quay

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(b) demolition

(c) coquette

(d) cerebration

n. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it; pulpit; rostrum; ambo; stump; soapbox (a) podium

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(d) windfall

(b) astringent

(c) convivial

(d) dour

(b) unction

(c) obelisk

(d) zephyr

(c) flair

(d) corium

n. breeze (a) incongruity

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(c) panacea

adj. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; fluent; silver; silver-tongued; smooth-spoken (a) facile

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(b) ordeal

n. the deep vascular inner layer of the skin; derma (a) labyrinth

(b) vagary

Q10 n. weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy; lethargy; slackness (a) lassitude

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(b) anachronism

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(c) courier

(d) husbandry

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n. an accidental occurrence (a) collusion

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(b) venial

(c) wistful

(d) eerie

(b) dispirited

(c) bantering

(d) maniacal

(b) palmy

(c) barefaced

(d) compensatory

v. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; fork; furcate; separate (a) rook

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(d) revulsion

adj. unrestrained by convention or propriety; bodacious; brassy; brazen; insolent (a) giddy

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(c) weft

adj. cleverly amusing in tone; tongue-in-cheek (a) gruff

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(b) hap

adj. inspiring a feeling of fear (a) polyglot

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(b) ramify

(c) lionize

(d) renounce

n. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; ascendence; ascendency; control (a) savant

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(d) ascendancy

(b) disdain

(c) countenance

(d) propensity

(c) incensed

(d) intermittent

adj. feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds (a) penitent

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(c) contraband

n. a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; patronage (a) pathos

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(b) nurseling

(b) checkered

n. a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; raptus (a) consternation

(b) ictus

(c) facet

(d) vagrant

Q10 n. a family of similar musical instrument playing together (a) servitude

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(b) mace

(c) consort

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(d) endogen

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n. someone who spends money prodigally; spender; scattergood (a) quiver

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(c) collage

(d) spendthrift

(b) compliance

(c) rationalization

(d) adjutant

n. someone who deliberately foments trouble; inciter; instigant (a) firebrand

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(b) enmity

n. act of inventing possible reasons for an action that are not based on the true reasons (a) psychosis

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(b) gentility

(c) squabble

(d) mote

n. a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease (a) amulet

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(c) interregnum

(d) tumult

(c) quack

(d) onslaught

(c) lout

(d) solace

(b) inebriety

(b) recession

adj. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; iridescent; shot (a) sedate

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(b) queue

n. the act of becoming more distant (a) nimiety

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(d) proletarian

n. the harsh sound of a duck (a) subterfuge

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(c) conservatory

n. line; file; row (a) imposture

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(b) luminary

(b) ultimate

(c) chatoyant

(d) trenchant

n. a wad of something chewable as tobacco; cud; quid; plug; wad (a) scapegoat

(b) perdition

(c) vernacular

(d) chaw

Q10 n. witty language used to convey insults or scorn; caustic remark (a) satire

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(b) vanguard

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(c) quack

(d) abeyance

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n. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.; renegade; recreant; ratter (a) turncoat

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(c) camaraderie

(d) inkling

(b) humane

(c) thespian

(d) stellar

(b) incognito

(c) indubitably

(d) headlong

(c) terminus

(d) hackles

(c) ingenuous

(d) meek

(b) cleft

(b) fain

n. a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea (a) mesmerism

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(b) dissertation

adj. having made preparations; prepared (a) quotidian

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(d) ingratiate

n. a long narrow opening; crevice; fissure; scissure (a) propellant

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(c) ferret

adv. cautiously; carefully (a) gingerly

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(b) chastise

adj. of or relating to drama (a) boisterous

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(d) stint

n. a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research (a) serendipity

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(c) array

v. search and discover through persistent investigation (a) incubate

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(b) ethnology

(b) floe

(c) granger

(d) obituary

(c) dodder

(d) harrow

(c) harlotry

(d) writ

v. walk unsteadily; totter; paddle; waddle (a) begild

(b) intrude

Q10 n. offering sexual intercourse for pay; whoredom (a) credo

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(b) tithe

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n. the trait of judging wisely and objectively (a) discretion

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(b) remnant

(c) exchequer

(d) panacea

(b) vigilance

(c) ichthyology

(d) equinox

(b) grievance

(c) dichotomy

(d) desperado

(b) larder

(c) comity

(d) proclivity

(b) strut

(c) annuity

(d) aspersion

n. activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion (a) vent

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(d) arroyo

n. witty language used to convey insults or scorn; satire; caustic remark (a) sarcasm

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(c) libido

n. a natural inclination; leaning (a) sustenance

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(b) tundra

n. film; moving picture; motion-picture show (a) flick

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(d) ingrate

n. vigilant attentiveness; weather eye (a) frond

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(c) auberge

n. hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; catholicon; cure-all (a) tribulation

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(b) clangor

n. sexual instinct (a) parameter

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(b) compliance

(c) rationalization

(d) amnesia

n. a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; cwm (a) cirque

(b) turbulence

(c) bivouac

(d) bauble

Q10 n. the act of moving something from one location to another; transfer; transferral; conveyance (a) anomaly

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(b) transport

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(c) burnoose

(d) hermitage

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adj. childish; puerile (a) solicitous

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(c) contentious

(d) existential

(b) itinerary

(c) expostulation

(d) pyromaniac

(b) headlong

(c) asunder

(d) intrinsically

(b) parsimonious

(b) ashen

(c) petty

(d) mutinous

(b) titular

(c) perverse

(d) mandatory

(b) exalt

(c) founder

(d) gloss over

(c) foist

(d) rhapsodize

v. stumble and nearly fall (a) despise

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(d) avaritia

adj. required by rule; required (a) myopic

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(c) palette

adj. consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny (a) roiling

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(b) clique

adv. rashly; recklessly (a) unerringly

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(d) infantile

n. a person with an obsessive desire to light fires (a) unction

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(c) negligible

adj. excessively unwilling to spend (a) bemused

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(b) dyspeptic

n. a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects (a) sextant

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v. insert surreptitiously or without warrant (a) scintillate

(b) debilitate

Q10 adj. having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; tabby (a) detached

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(b) exemplary

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(c) praetorial

(d) brinded

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n. abundant wealth (a) chaw

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(b) autocrat

(c) affluence

(d) verdigris

n. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter; humour; wittiness (a) blunder

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(b) rivulet

(c) deferment

(d) modulation

(b) sheaf

(c) couturier

(d) turmoil

(b) maritime

(c) leftover

(d) qualified

(b) savant

(c) jongleur

(d) mode

n. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language (a) conveyance

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(d) euphemism

n. a singer of folk songs; minstrel; poet-singer; troubadour (a) cameo

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(c) reaper

adj. bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea (a) tumescent

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(b) febricity

n. a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing (a) cloister

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(d) embonpoint

n. a worker who holds or is invested with an office (a) functionary

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(c) witticism

n. farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields (a) hubbub

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(b) awl

(b) lout

(c) cerebration

(d) parlance

(c) moodiness

(d) relic

n. a name given to a product or service; brand (a) marque

(b) adactylia

Q10 n. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life; juvenility (a) callowness

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(b) provender

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(c) gaffe

(d) lexicographer

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n. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age); debility; feebleness; frailness; valetudinarianism (a) gastronomy

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(c) gape

(d) extirpate

(b) lexicographer

(c) figurine

(d) paragon

(b) malapropism

(c) locality

(d) realm

(b) stolidity

(c) lechery

(d) solstice

(b) liquidate

(c) protract

(d) consecrate

(c) pellucid

(d) soporific

(c) comestible

(d) gentility

adj. intelligible; clear in meaning; understandable (a) erratic

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(b) commutate

v. lengthen in time; extend; draw out (a) ingeminate

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(d) arrears

n. an indifference to pleasure or pain; stolidness (a) holocaust

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(c) objective

n. the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar (a) vigilance

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(b) apprisal

n. a small carved or molded figure (a) tinder

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(d) gaffe

v. destroy; eradicate; uproot (a) wallow

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(c) infirmity

n. an unpaid overdue debt (a) jocoseness

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(b) machinations

(b) improvident

n. the white part of an egg; albumen (a) ovalbumin

(b) remorse

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(b) curtail

(c) immure

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(d) reave

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n. right associated with ownership of property (a) appurtenances

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(b) refereeing

(c) gastronomy

(d) fodder

(b) isthmus

(c) queue

(d) madrigal

(b) strut

(c) maxim

(d) ardor

(b) auspicious

(c) upshot

(d) pandemonium

(b) mirid

(c) iota

(d) pittance

(c) doggerel

(d) reprise

n. a comic verse of irregular measure; jingle (a) dicot

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(d) pastiche

n. an inadequate payment (a) galleon

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(c) adversity

n. ingredient; single piece which forms part of a larger whole; element (a) component

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(b) alias

n. pompous walk; supporting bar (a) phaeton

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(d) perimeter

n. a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure (a) runt

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(c) centurion

n. the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food (a) onus

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(b) peon

n. medicine or agent that strengthens and invigorates (a) tonic

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(b) nisus

n. travelling about without any clear destination; vagabondage (a) roving

(b) inequity

(c) purveyor

(d) comeuppance

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(b) pastille

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(c) floridity

(d) spatula

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n. encouragement; implied permission (a) frailty

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(c) cringing

(d) erose

(c) dishevel

(d) assent

(b) effectual

(b) rehabilitate

(b) beleaguer

(c) emanate

(d) complement

(b) saturnine

(c) placid

(d) marred

(b) extort

(c) usurp

(d) abye

(c) centigrade

(d) morose

adj. made tough by habitual exposure; hardened (a) inured

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(d) amok

v. sign as evidence of legal transfer (a) endorse

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(c) incognito

adj. blemished by injury or rough wear (a) preternatural

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(b) gingerly

v. surround so as to force to give up; surround; hem in; circumvent (a) divest

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(d) pillock

v. restore to a state of good condition or operation (a) bowdlerize

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(c) mezcal

adj. having legal efficacy or force (a) jutting

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(b) connivance

adv. apart; in shreds (a) asunder

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(b) exiguous

adj. free from emotional agitation or nervous tension; unperturbed; unruffled (a) unflurried

(b) disheveled

(c) quiescent

(d) nuptial

Q10 n. a loud resonant repeating noise; clangour; clank; clash; crash (a) amenities

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(b) surrogate

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(c) nepotism

(d) clangoring

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n. the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet (a) delta

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(c) propriety

(d) subaltern

(b) quip

(c) figurine

(d) malfeasance

(c) facsimile

(d) apogee

(b) penchant

(b) collation

(c) marque

(d) ejaculation

(b) amiable

(c) conversant

(d) exemplary

(c) enhance

(d) transcend

v. make better or more attractive (a) accede

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(b) hummock

adj. serving to warn; monitory (a) venial

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(d) mezcal

n. careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement (a) locality

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(c) jurisprudence

(b) aplomb

n. a small stream; run; runnel; streamlet (a) rivulet

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(d) paramour

n. witty remark; sally (a) adherent

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(c) rancor

n. military officer below the rank of captain (a) consternation

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(b) clangor

n. the collection of rules imposed by authority (a) sluggard

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(b) delete

n. the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty) (a) extradition

(b) emmet

(c) antecedents

(d) automation

Q10 n. rebuking a person harshly; objurgation; tongue-lashing (a) aspirant

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(b) savant

(c) chiding

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(d) poultice

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v. feel or express sympathy or compassion; sympathise (a) begild

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(b) forestall

(c) consign

(d) commiserate

n. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men; vamp; vamper; minx; tease; prickteaser (a) parquet

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(b) disinter

(c) rankle

(d) decelerate

(b) fanaticism

(c) fresco

(d) tightwad

(b) brumous

(c) hypocritical

(d) fluted

(b) entreat

(c) deride

(d) denigrate

adj. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; perverted; reprobate (a) perverse

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(d) jingoism

v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; calumniate; smear; sully; besmirch (a) boob

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(c) humus

adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have (a) impertinent

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(b) perspicuity

n. boredom; depression (a) doldrums

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(d) torque

v. dig up for reburial or for medical investigation (a) disseminate

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(c) nepotism

n. clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous; plainness (a) andiron

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(b) coquette

(b) murmurous

(c) ethnic

(d) prophetic

n. small individual study area in a library; cubicle; stall (a) carrell

(b) transgression

(c) martinet

(d) ragamuffin

Q10 adj. stupid and confused; puddingheaded; muddleheaded (a) estranged

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(b) addlepated

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(c) portly

(d) perfervid

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n. a dissolute person; rounder (a) dejeuner

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(b) suavity

(c) hermitage

(d) chapiter

(b) ecstasy

(c) pandemonium

(d) prescience

(b) enigma

(c) aperient

(d) hummock

(b) forte

(c) proximity

(d) detraction

(b) aureole

(c) piddle

(d) asylum

(c) paranoia

(d) attribute

(c) aspersion

(d) coterie

n. a flowing together; merging (a) founder

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(d) coprolith

n. shelter; refuge; mental home (a) epilogue

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(c) whirring

n. any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star (a) satellite

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(b) jubilation

n. a small natural hill; hillock; hammock (a) faculty

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(d) skeptic

n. street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine; XTC; go; disco biscuit; cristal (a) cite

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(c) libertine

n. the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner; blandness; smoothness (a) perusal

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(b) maxillary

n. the utterance of sounds expressing great joy (a) bountiful

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(b) conflux

n. the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) (a) converse

(b) adiposity

Q10 n. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess; trencherman (a) rider

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(b) epistemologist

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(c) millennium

(d) gourmand

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n. any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) (a) obelisk

Q2

(c) formidable

(d) amoral

(b) implication

(c) conflux

(d) fodder

(b) insulting

(c) sidereal

(d) bloated

(c) clogging

(d) urbane

(b) apathetic

(b) bovine

(c) foolhardy

(d) wary

(c) patois

(d) chirology

n. an arrangement of branching parts (a) ramification

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(b) unwieldy

adj. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; debonaire (a) jaunty

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(d) ovation

adj. preventing movement; impeding; obstructive (a) sylvan

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(c) solstice

adj. puffy; swollen (a) despondent

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(b) depredation

n. food fed to livestock (a) rebus

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(d) asteroid

adj. inspiring fear; unnerving (a) tremulous

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(c) fiat

n. manifestation of a deity or spirit in an earthly form (a) incarnation

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(b) metaphor

(b) yokel

v. divulge confidential information or secrets; let the cat out of the bag; talk (a) indenture

(b) beef

(c) peach

(d) jostle

(c) labyrinth

(d) penumbra

Q10 n. puzzling complexity; tortuousness (a) knottiness

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(b) blaring

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adj. disposed to venture or take risks; venturesome; venturous (a) nomadic

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(b) limpid

(c) bumbling

(d) saccharine

(b) cyclostyle

(c) scoff

(d) raze

(b) ellipsis

(c) emolument

(d) snicker

(b) jutting

(c) nubile

(d) conjugal

(b) stimulated

(c) livid

(d) mnemonic

(b) mandate

(c) theocracy

(d) manifesto

(c) barb

(d) crabbiness

(c) lassitude

(d) maxim

n. order; command (a) figment

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(d) discourse

adj. emotionally aroused; stirred up; aroused (a) cerebral

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(c) conifer

adj. of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband (a) squalid

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(b) ramification

n. a social scientist who specializes in anthropology (a) anthropologist

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(d) avuncular

v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; rase; dismantle; tear down; take down; pull down (a) immolate

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(c) saline

adj. overly sweet; syrupy; treacly (a) sagacious

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(b) audacious

n. extended verbal expression in speech or writing; preaching; treatment (a) filigree

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n. a disposition to be ill-tempered; crossness (a) shambles

(b) hubris

Q10 n. an effortful attempt to attain a goal; pains; strain (a) bombast

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(b) nisus

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adj. foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife (a) uxorious

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(b) retrograde

(c) preen

(d) subjugate

(b) flick

(c) dint

(d) cacophony

(b) abrasive

(c) perennial

(d) apocalyptic

(b) resuscitate

(c) gloss over

(d) wrest

(b) nirvana

(c) aristocracy

(d) sherbet

n. a rise in the temperature of the body; pyrexia; feverishness (a) febricity

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(d) reconcile

n. leaves (a) foliage

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(c) impute

v. reduce the speed of (a) decelerate

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(b) lampoon

adj. sharply disagreeable (a) jerkwater

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(d) combustible

n. interchangeable with 'means' in the expression 'by means of' (a) impinging

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(c) verbatim

v. deeply hurt the feelings of (a) lacerate

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(b) schematic

v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; blarney; coax; inveigle (a) cajole

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(b) delusion

(c) sage

(d) realty

(c) mantic

(d) malignant

adj. of a speech expressing leave-taking (a) valedictory

(b) spectral

Q10 adj. unable to meet or discharge financial obligations (a) insolvent

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(b) stygian

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(c) squat

(d) reticent

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v. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster (a) haggle

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(b) reminiscence

(c) hooks

(d) primogeniture

(b) eerie

(c) touchy

(d) deft

(b) environ

(c) grovel

(d) sap

(b) satire

(c) title

(d) respiration

(b) assessment

(c) necromancy

(d) potentate

(b) dichotomy

(c) ken

(d) antiseptic

n. being twofold (a) proximity

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(d) terse

n. courage; endurance (a) fortitude

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(c) overwrought

n. the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; ventilation (a) throng

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(b) reverent

v. extend on all sides of simultaneously; ring; skirt; border (a) ware

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(d) flinch

adj. skillful in physical movements; dextrous (a) immoveable

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(c) distill

n. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) (a) apathy

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(b) array

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; outlawed; unlawful (a) illicit

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n. skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge (a) ramp

(b) expertise

(c) cabby

(d) dapperness

Q10 adj. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; knifelike; piercing; stabbing; lancinating (a) determinate

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(b) rustic

(c) alveolate

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(d) lancinate

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n. textual matter that is added onto a publication; postscript (a) addendum

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(b) wispy

(c) extrinsic

(d) pensive

(b) devotee

(c) apogee

(d) ovation

(b) articled

(c) tremulous

(d) glaring

(b) trudger

(c) lineaments

(d) restraint

(b) inadvertently

(c) askance

(d) asunder

(c) enceinte

(d) pathetic

adj. inspiring scornful pity; silly (a) trenchant

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(d) irrepressible

adv. distrustfully (a) headlong

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(c) burly

n. a device that retards something's motion (a) titter

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(b) prosaic

adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; flagrant; gross; rank (a) conclusive

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(d) pallet

n. enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause) (a) somnambulist

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(c) philology

adj. not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside (a) podgy

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(b) refectory

adj. unrestrainable; uncontrollable (a) canny

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(b) fantastic

n. remedy that alleviates pain without curing; alleviator (a) precept

(b) alleviant

(c) dousing

(d) resumption

(b) fervent

(c) prim

(d) pleonastic

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v. make peace with (a) exonerate

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(b) inaugurate

(c) appease

(d) concenter

(c) epistemologist

(d) gritrock

n. a disposition to behave in a certain way (a) grievance

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(b) propensity

adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; svelte (a) bounderish

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(d) rakish

(b) ramify

(c) welter

(d) embroil

(b) fluctuation

(c) correlation

(d) pungency

(b) substantive

(c) meandering

(d) eminent

n. acute abdominal pain (especially in infants); gripes; griping (a) leeway

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(c) adventitious

adj. existing independently; real; tangible (a) cognate

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(b) capacious

n. a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; coefficient (a) pest

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(d) pithy

v. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; sweep; sweep up; drag; drag in (a) cark

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(c) integral

adj. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; pathologic; pathological (a) morbid

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(b) urbane

(b) colic

(c) bane

(d) fauna

adj. resembling sculpture; sculptured; sculpturesque (a) modeled

(b) plauditory

(c) brittle

(d) garish

Q10 n. state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options (a) quandary

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(b) calligraphy

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(d) turncoat

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n. law; statute; regulation (a) ordinance

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(b) neigh

(c) bluff

(d) relish

(b) decapitate

(c) rankle

(d) maul

(b) amoral

(c) maculated

(d) nocturnal

(b) prosperity

(c) blowhard

(d) writ

(b) pugilist

(c) glossary

(d) diversity

v. press or grind with a crushing noise; craunch; grind (a) retrograde

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(d) languor

n. someone who tries to bring peace; pacifier; peacemaker (a) reconciler

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(c) mendicant

n. back country (a) hinterlands

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(b) apologue

adj. dirty; stained (a) pathological

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(d) cavalla

v. shorten (a) truncate

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(c) hindrance

n. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth; flavour (a) jollity

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(b) purveyor

n. a pauper who lives by begging (a) leniency

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(b) exploit

(c) constringe

(d) cranch

n. a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant (a) remnant

(b) hubris

(c) facade

(d) vagabond

(c) patness

(d) getup

Q10 n. timely convenience; timeliness (a) muggins

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v. give away information about somebody; tell on; betray; give away (a) obscure

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(b) provoke

(c) procrastinate

(d) deprecate

(c) filibuster

(d) promulgate

(c) outskirts

(d) citadel

(c) spectral

(d) checkered

(c) divergent

(d) aghast

(b) exuviate

(b) parquet

(b) inveterate

(b) pert

adj. (often followed by 'to') likely to be affected with; nonresistant; unresistant (a) unseemly

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(d) bonce

adj. tending to move apart in different directions (a) spectral

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(c) pother

adj. marked by changeable fortune (a) rustic

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(b) regeneration

n. outlying areas (as of a city or town) (a) recession

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(d) denounce

v. express great joy; rejoice; triumph; jubilate (a) exult

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(c) finagle

v. belittle; vilipend (a) bequeath

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(b) equivocate

n. restoration to good condition; renewal (a) roster

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(b) nonimmune

(c) schematic

(d) bantering

v. laugh at with contempt and derision; flout; barrack; gibe (a) scarper

(b) extort

(c) jeer

(d) convene

Q10 n. the evasion of work or duty; soldiering; goofing off; goldbricking (a) tomfoolery

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(b) shirking

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(c) pronation

(d) luminary

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adj. narrow-minded; having a limited perspective (a) powdered

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(b) deciduous

(c) sadistic

(d) erose

(b) tonic

(c) mandate

(d) cataract

(c) reave

(d) dissuade

(b) outwit

(b) piety

(c) corollary

(d) purgatory

(b) whet

(c) preclude

(d) conflate

(c) drooler

(d) murkiness

n. a person who dribbles; slobberer (a) ichthyology

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(d) imply

v. sharpen by rubbing (a) stash

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(c) discount

n. an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition (logic) (a) somnambulist

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(b) impair

v. beat through cleverness; outsmart; outfox; beat (a) ratify

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(d) sectarian

n. the appearance of truth (a) verisimilitude

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(c) sallow

adj. deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another (a) explicit

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(b) civil

v. make imperfect; spoil; deflower; vitiate (a) consort

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(b) crosshatch

v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling; skin; struggle; sputter (a) ostracize

(b) shinny

(c) tucker

(d) improvise

Q10 v. do something that one considers to be below one's dignity; descend (a) deign

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(b) low

(c) importune

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n. a newspaper or official journal (a) ragamuffin

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(b) secrete

(c) kindle

(d) lambaste

(b) guffaw

(c) cantata

(d) trajectory

(b) savor

(c) pulsate

(d) harrow

(b) baronial

(c) diurnal

(d) cognate

(b) exegesis

(c) pedant

(d) wisecrack

(c) pacifist

(d) presentiment

n. a feeling of evil to come; boding (a) pecs

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(d) gamely

n. interpretation (a) reproach

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(c) indubitably

adj. related linguistically; allied by blood; similar or akin in nature (a) fell

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(b) apropos

v. bother; harass (a) pussyfoot

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(d) adherent

n. a burst of deep loud hearty laughter (a) ape

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(c) genesis

v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); evoke; raise; provoke (a) quaff

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(b) gazette

adv. bravely; heroically (a) incognito

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(b) assumption

v. foreshadow or presage; harbinger; foretell; herald (a) scale

(b) depreciate

(c) annunciate

(d) superimpose

Q10 v. defeat someone through trickery or deceit; shaft; screw; chicane; jockey (a) chouse

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(b) hew

(c) replicate

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n. extreme excess; superfluity; embarrassment (a) mesmerism

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(b) puissant

(c) gusty

(d) lugubrious

(c) behoove

(d) clabber

(b) impute

(b) looted

(c) sacrilegious

(d) magisterial

(b) pulchritude

(c) matriarch

(d) modulation

(b) mountebank

(c) reparation

(d) antipathy

(c) pluck

(d) relic

n. the act of inducing hypnosis; suggestion (a) mesmerism

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(d) crone

n. compensation for a past injury; correction of problems or malfunctions (a) adversity

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(c) genesis

n. variation (a) rancour

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(b) perigee

adj. of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system (a) centripetal

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(d) victuals

v. bend the knees and bow in a servile manner (a) genuflect

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(c) rubble

adj. excessively mournful (a) exiguous

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(b) plethora

n. an ugly evil-looking old woman; beldame; witch (a) enormity

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(b) agnostic

n. someone who drives a taxi for a living; cabdriver; cabman; hack driver; hack-driver; livery driver (a) factotum

(b) ascendancy

(c) cabby

(d) fortitude

Q10 v. move fast; hasten; hie; speed; race; pelt along; rush along (a) claver

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(b) hotfoot

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(c) repudiate

(d) annunciate

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n. any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds (a) annuity

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(b) petulant

(c) overcast

(d) panoramic

(b) bedizen

(c) bamboozle

(d) mutilate

(b) bedraggle

(c) hulk

(d) empale

(b) genteel

(c) resilient

(d) gauche

(b) wordy

(c) tensile

(d) hibernal

(b) guttle

(c) germinate

(d) dilute

v. eat greedily; raven; pig (a) endue

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(d) shirk

adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; pliable; pliant; tractile (a) distant

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(c) rig

adj. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull (a) stodgy

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(b) embed

v. make wet and dirty, as from rain (a) domineer

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(d) euphony

v. dress up garishly and tastelessly (a) ebb

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(c) decoy

adj. as from an altitude or distance (a) disinterested

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(b) nomenclature

v. equip with sails or masts; set up (a) boob

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adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; clunky; ungainly (a) unwieldy

(b) maculated

(c) dyspeptic

(d) indissoluble

(c) alimental

(d) resinous

Q10 adj. having legs that curve outward at the knees (a) miserly

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(b) bowlegged

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v. run easily (a) bourgeon

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(b) doss

(c) assert

(d) evoke

(c) gall

(d) fleece

(b) flag

(b) aphasia

(c) farce

(d) chasm

(b) sibling

(c) connotation

(d) slander

(b) circumspect

(c) rabid

(d) permeable

n. having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound; stridency (a) mimicry

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(d) irreconcilable

adj. allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through (a) unattired

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(c) enamored

n. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; defamation; denigration (a) legerdemain

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(b) disjointed

n. inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion (a) contusion

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(d) execute

v. use persuasion successfully (a) prevail

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(c) lope

v. declare; insist on (a) substantiate

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(b) beset

adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit (a) worldly

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(b) poignancy

(c) stridence

(d) fracas

n. the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes (a) fluctuation

(b) sophistry

(c) compunction

(d) conceiver

Q10 adj. showing a brooding ill humor; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen (a) unbarred

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(b) presumptuous

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(c) glowering

(d) seemly

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n. a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools (a) holster

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(b) kaleidoscope

(c) connotation

(d) perversion

(b) mischance

(c) irony

(d) torso

(b) orifice

(c) dermatologist

(d) mentor

(b) ameban

(c) subjective

(d) demoniac

(b) dispassionate

(c) recumbent

(d) offensive

adj. resembling starch; amyloid; amyloidal; farinaceous (a) indisputable

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(d) belabor

adj. lying down (a) predatory

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(c) rhapsodize

adj. existing in the mind; personal (a) tainted

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(b) toil

n. a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin (a) spectrum

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(d) topography

n. a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs (a) effigy

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(c) jargon

n. an optical toy in a tube (a) rataplan

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(b) chalice

v. say (something) with great enthusiasm (a) pulverize

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(b) amylaceous

(c) specious

(d) brinded

n. the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; thievery; thieving; stealing (a) larceny

(b) dossier

(c) misgivings

(d) cordon

Q10 v. remove carbon from (an engine); decarburize; decarburise (a) transcend

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(b) indenture

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(c) decoke

(d) divagate

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v. reverse; turn upside down (a) handbuild

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(b) perdition

(c) horde

(d) gist

(b) timorous

(c) cynical

(d) subjective

(b) bovine

(c) disgraced

(d) commemorative

(b) pest

(c) diminution

(d) immurement

(b) amass

(c) invalidate

(d) reiterate

(b) conducive

(c) clique

(d) emetic

(c) momism

(d) precursor

n. encouraging; helpful (a) asteroid

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(d) eminent

v. take away the legal force of or render ineffective; vitiate (a) codify

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(c) coincident

n. the act of procrastinating; shillyshally (a) cunctation

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(b) eclectic

adj. dull and slow-moving and stolid (a) surd

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(d) invert

adj. relating to or resembling an ape (a) simian

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(c) stem

n. a moving crowd; swarm (a) qualms

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(b) dishevel

adj. of imposing height; soaring; towering (a) avaricious

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n. a small and economical car (a) compact

(b) truculence

Q10 n. an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; wall (a) trinket

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(b) tinder

(c) suffragist

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(d) rampart

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adj. relevant and appropriate (a) germane

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(b) acclivity

(c) sedative

(d) recluse

(b) spry

(c) soporific

(d) wizened

(b) blurt

(c) extirpate

(d) debunk

(b) retain

(c) scarper

(d) glimmer

(c) caviler

(d) vassal

(b) drudgery

v. give long speeches in order to delay or prevent a decision from being made (a) filibuster

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(d) impropriety

n. a disputant who quibbles; pettifogger (a) conundrum

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(c) ornithologist

v. keep in one's mind (a) nettle

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(b) opiate

v. utter impulsively; blunder out; blunder; ejaculate (a) ware

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(d) erose

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; shrunken; withered (a) eerie

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(c) precedent

n. a disrespectful laugh; snigger (a) snicker

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(b) eclectic

n. a zoologist who studies birds (a) jurisprudence

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(b) masticate

(c) disconcert

(d) alienate

adj. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow; stunned (a) somatic

(b) kayoed

(c) wily

(d) belligerent

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(b) bifurcate

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(c) glistening

(d) affable

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adj. uncomfortably or inconveniently small (a) incontinent

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(b) idiosyncrasy

(c) hybrid

(d) discrepancy

(b) dingy

(c) alterative

(d) squalid

(b) grotto

(c) pachyderm

(d) etymology

(b) kismet

(c) philology

(d) dinghy

(b) prudish

(c) metallurgical

(d) lackluster

(c) foresight

(d) whirring

(c) whiff

(d) quandary

(c) impalpable

(d) concave

n. seeing ahead; farsightedness; prospicience (a) courier

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(d) apothecary

adj. exaggeratedly proper; prim; prissy; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; tight-laced (a) enigmatic

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(c) duress

n. the humanistic study of language and literature (a) preamble

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(b) bard

n. any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant (a) vise

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(d) combustible

adj. causing dejection; dark; disconsolate; gloomy; grim (a) elated

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(c) incommodious

n. an event that departs from expectations; variant (a) insolence

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(b) ethereal

n. a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) (a) benefactor

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(b) spendthrift

n. inappropriate playfulness; pertness; sauciness (a) archness

(b) assumption

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(b) reefy

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n. a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone (a) delirium

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(c) throng

(d) valor

(b) frond

(c) projectile

(d) cunctation

(b) jingoism

(c) virtue

(d) colic

(b) amazon

(b) delusion

(c) severity

(d) rebus

(b) crabbiness

(c) balker

(d) legend

v. pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance (a) satiate

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(d) memento

n. a person who refuses to comply; noncompliant (a) opprobrium

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(c) carillon

n. a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words (a) gaffe

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(b) welt

n. the act of submitting (a) compliance

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(d) clarion

n. any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine (a) affinity

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(c) hieroglyphic

n. the qualities of a hero or heroine (a) atavism

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(b) ejaculation

n. an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass (a) conglomeration

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(b) rase

(c) perforate

(d) ware

v. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; crunch; bray (a) chafe

(b) comminute

(c) masticate

(d) converge

(b) incite

(c) allege

(d) waft

Q10 v. blow gently (a) outstrip

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adj. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; provisionary; tentative (a) crabby

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(b) provisional

(c) conceited

(d) random

(c) vigor

(d) furor

n. a sudden outburst (as of protest) (a) verve

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(b) ictus

adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; hypothetical; hypothetic; supposed; suppositional; suppositious (a) adventitious

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(b) tangential

(c) obtuse

(d) supposititious

n. an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys (a) temperament

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(c) periphery

(d) lexicographer

(b) dross

(c) agnostic

(d) consort

(b) insulting

(c) bouldered

(d) gnarly

(b) argufy

(c) recapitulate

(d) addle

v. summarize; conclude (a) appreciate

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(b) colander

adj. abounding in rocks or stones; stony (a) politic

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(d) intransigence

n. the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals (a) tress

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(c) criteria

n. a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy (a) odyssey

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(b) philology

v. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; establish; show (a) titillate

(b) provoke

(c) emanate

(d) shew

Q10 v. decree or designate beforehand; doom; designate (a) stash

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(b) roil

(c) fate

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(d) neigh

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v. weave by joining loops of yarn or thread (a) discredit

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(b) blurt

(c) abrogate

(d) douse

(b) intransigence

(c) perusal

(d) smirk

(b) tepid

(c) sunk

(d) civil

(b) resumption

(c) depravity

(d) recrimination

(c) sleight

(d) jeer

(b) papyrus

n. someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner; slogger (a) trudger

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(d) dabbled

n. paper reed; ancient document (a) misogynist

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(c) concerted

n. beginning again (a) notoriety

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(b) unfathomed

adj. of or in a condition of social order (a) incitive

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(d) fluster

n. reading carefully with intent to remember; poring over; studying (a) braggadocio

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(c) desecrate

v. cover with liquid; dowse; soak; sop; souse (a) handbuild

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(b) knit

adj. involving the joint activity of two or more; conjunctive; cooperative (a) communal

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(b) fusspot

(c) hedonism

(d) despotism

v. have a disagreement over something; scrap; altercate (a) anneal

(b) molt

(c) maim

(d) argufy

(c) relinquish

(d) tucker

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(b) baulk

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n. drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check (a) gazette

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(b) bate

(c) converge

(d) premeditate

(b) liquidate

(c) ruminate

(d) cajole

(b) rancid

(c) brackish

(d) debonair

(b) friskiness

(c) pastorale

(d) tightwad

(b) holocaust

(c) midget

(d) garrulity

(b) contiguous

(c) bounderish

(d) obtrusive

adj. corpse-like; ghastly (a) cadaverous

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(d) casualty

n. a person who is markedly small; nanus (a) runt

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(c) tryst

n. a miserly person (a) fulcrum

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(b) lambency

adj. slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) (a) opaque

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(d) repertoire

v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; denigrate; calumniate; smear; besmirch (a) sully

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(c) sceptic

v. diminish; decrease (a) mewl

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(b) stalemate

n. a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language (a) terminology

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adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; granitic; obdurate; stony (a) parched

(b) nitwitted

(c) portly

(d) flint

(c) impinging

(d) maxillary

Q10 n. the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium (a) inerrancy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 375

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v. consider not very seriously; play (a) lionize

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(d) callow

(b) diffusion

(c) carillon

(d) lucre

(b) quirk

(c) tepidity

(d) sobriety

(b) dicot

(c) guck

(d) chaff

(b) elated

(c) adamant

(d) deranged

n. attention and management implying responsibility for safety; guardianship (a) tutelage

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(c) carnal

adj. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; husky (a) gruff

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(b) downlike

n. foil in thin strips (a) stamina

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(d) chronicle

n. abstaining from excess (a) din

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(c) dally

n. playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower (a) repertoire

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(b) reciprocate

adj. young and inexperienced (a) politic

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(b) crescendo

(c) regime

(d) distortion

n. rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction (a) gyroscope

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(b) suffragist

(c) satire

(d) hybrid

(b) handbuild

(c) upbraid

(d) berate

v. tease; drive (a) goad

Q10 adj. capable of being assigned or credited to; imputable; referable (a) discursive

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(d) specious

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 1 (Answer Keys)

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adj. of a substance, especially a strong acid; erosive; mordant definition (d) vitriolic

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adj. not returned in kind definition (c) unrequited

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adj. in the current fashion or style definition (c) modish

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adj. tending to or capable of propelling; propelling definition (d) propulsive

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v. adopt; sweep up; support an idea or principle definition (d) espouse

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n. a bowl-shaped drinking vessel definition (d) chalice

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n. someone who fights for a cause; hero definition (b) paladin

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v. place a bet on; stake; game; punt definition (a) gage

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n. a worker who makes metal castings definition (a) founder

A10 adj. notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex; saw-toothed; toothed; notched definition (a) serrate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 2 (Answer Keys)

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adj. capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; viable; workable definition (d) practicable

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adj. invulnerable to fear or intimidation; dauntless; fearless; intrepid; unfearing definition (d) hardy

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adj. general; of or pertaining to a class or kind definition (d) generic

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adj. not elegant or graceful in expression; inapt; inept; ill-chosen definition (a) cumbersome

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n. a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line definition (a) expletive

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v. gather, as of natural products definition (a) glean

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adj. uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; effusive; gushing definition (b) burbling

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adj. markedly different from an accepted norm; deviate definition (c) aberrant

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adj. large in capacity definition (a) capacious

A10 adj. having existed from the beginning; primeval; primordial definition (d) primaeval

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 3 (Answer Keys)

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n. the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets definition (c) ductility

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n. the act of constraining definition (b) constraint

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n. invulnerability; sacredness definition (a) inviolability

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n. the closing section of a musical composition definition (b) coda

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n. great merriment; glee; gleefulness definition (d) mirth

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n. physical beauty (especially of a woman) definition (b) pulchritude

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n. a parallelogram with four equal sides; diamond definition (d) rhomb

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v. cry weakly or softly; pule definition (a) mewl

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n. a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision definition (c) optician

A10 n. wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite definition (d) pyre

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 4 (Answer Keys)

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v. speak unfavorably about; traduce; drag through the mud definition (a) malign

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v. stick out; project; bulge definition (a) protrude

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v. reject as false definition (d) discredit

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v. become feeble definition (c) languish

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v. mix; merge; blend; join; unite definition (d) integrate

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v. commemorate; record definition (b) memorialize

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v. bear; deport; conduct; carry definition (b) comport

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v. frustrate; balk; prevent someone from succeeding definition (a) foil

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v. make a characteristic sound, of a horse; whicker; whinny definition (a) neigh

A10 v. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; scrounge; cadge definition (d) schnorr

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 5 (Answer Keys)

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n. an upward slope or grade (as in a road); rise; raise; climb; upgrade definition (d) acclivity

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adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; supposed; suppositional; suppositious; supposititious definition (c) hypothetical

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v. make furious definition (d) incense

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v. make radioactive by adding radioactive material definition (b) contaminate

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adv. adwith reference to; regarding definition (d) apropos

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n. someone who is married to two or more people at the same time definition (a) polygamist

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v. be asphyxiated; asphyxiate definition (c) stifle

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n. liquid excretory product; pee; weewee; water definition (c) piddle

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adj. static; still; stationary definition (d) motionless

A10 n. the state of being polluted; pollution definition (c) befoulment

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 6 (Answer Keys)

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adj. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; implanted; planted definition (c) ingrained

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adj. of or for the common people definition (a) demotic

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adj. notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex; saw-toothed; toothed; notched definition (c) serrated

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adj. destructive of images used in religious worship definition (c) iconoclastic

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adj. formally expressing praise; panegyric; panegyrical definition (c) encomiastic

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n. adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder definition (b) epaulet

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adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; inglorious; opprobrious; shameful definition (c) ignominious

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adj. extremely hot definition (b) fervid

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adj. remote and separate physically or socially definition (d) obscure

A10 adj. of or near the belly definition (a) ventral

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 7 (Answer Keys)

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n. small mouselike mammal with a long snout definition (c) shrew

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n. the act of detonating an explosive definition (a) detonation

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n. a strong liking; predilection; taste definition (b) penchant

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n. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; place of origin; provenience definition (c) provenance

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n. addition or appendix to a document definition (c) rider

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n. written statement made under oath definition (b) affidavit

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n. one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons definition (c) isotope

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adj. characteristic of false pride; egotistical; swollen; vain definition (b) conceited

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v. cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light; daze definition (a) bedazzle

A10 n. selfishness; vanity definition (a) egoism

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 8 (Answer Keys)

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v. unwrap; let on; bring out; reveal; break; give away definition (a) disclose

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v. regret strongly; bewail; bemoan definition (d) lament

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v. have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results definition (d) cohere

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v. call upon in supplication; pray definition (c) implore

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v. treat, mention, or speak to rudely definition (a) affront

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v. drop sharply definition (a) plummet

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v. make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; repugn definition (d) contest

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v. align oneself with a group or a way of thinking definition (b) array

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v. save up as for future use; cache; lay away; hive up; squirrel away definition (a) stash

A10 v. coat or impregnate with elastic material definition (c) rubberize

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 9 (Answer Keys)

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n. deceit; deception definition (c) bluff

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adj. devoid of intelligence; inane; mindless; vacuous definition (c) asinine

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n. great coolness and composure under strain; cool; poise; sang-froid definition (d) aplomb

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v. fill something that had previously been emptied; fill again definition (a) replenish

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adj. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position definition (c) tertiary

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n. a (usually) large and scholarly book definition (b) tome

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adj. difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; clumsy; ungainly definition (a) bunglesome

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adj. filled with vapor; vaporous; vapourous definition (c) miasmal

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n. large strong hand (as of a fighter); maulers definition (d) hooks

A10 adj. characterized by soft sounds; soughing; susurrous definition (b) murmurous

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 10 (Answer Keys)

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adj. extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance definition (d) fantastic

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adj. guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; practical definition (b) pragmatic

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adj. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); olde worlde definition (b) quaint

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adj. incapable of being retracted or revoked definition (c) irrevocable

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adj. of or relating to the scientific study of language definition (c) linguistic

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adj. lying outside the sphere of morals definition (c) amoral

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adj. sturdy; strong definition (c) burly

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adj. expressing offensive reproach definition (b) scurrilous

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adj. awkwardly simple and provincial; rustic; unsophisticated definition (a) bumpkinly

A10 adj. not secure definition (b) precarious

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 11 (Answer Keys)

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n. someone who educates young people definition (b) pedagogue

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n. a change of position that does not entail a change of location; move definition (b) motility

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n. a female fox definition (b) vixen

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n. rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; volley; burst definition (c) fusillade

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n. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain definition (a) apoplexy

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n. a trader who exchanges goods and not money definition (d) barterer

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n. a feeling of evil to come; presentiment definition (c) boding

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n. floater; vagabond definition (a) vagrant

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n. the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects definition (a) mimicry

A10 n. an abject coward; recreant definition (d) poltroon

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 12 (Answer Keys)

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v. rebuke formally; criminate definition (c) censure

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v. make easy; assist forward; promote definition (d) facilitate

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v. study; examine; scrutinize definition (b) canvass

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v. strip the skin off definition (c) flay

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v. shower with love definition (c) dote

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v. expose while ridiculing definition (c) debunk

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v. treat with excessive indulgence; cosset; baby; coddle; mollycoddle; spoil; indulge definition (a) cocker

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v. return to consciousness definition (c) resuscitate

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v. work excessively hard definition (d) exploit

A10 v. say, state, or perform again; iterate; restate; retell definition (a) ingeminate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 13 (Answer Keys)

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adj. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; heady definition (a) judicious

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v. vague; hazy; dark; dim definition (b) obscure

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adj. difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision definition (c) imponderable

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adj. lacking intent or capacity to injure definition (c) innocuous

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n. the creation of something in the mind; excogitation; design definition (c) conception

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adv. adin a state of rage definition (b) amok

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n. the highest point (of something); apex; acme definition (b) vertex

A8

adj. reluctant to draw attention to yourself; retiring definition (a) reticent

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adj. troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; harried; pestered; vexed definition (b) harassed

A10 adj. using or containing too many words; verbose; windy definition (a) wordy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 14 (Answer Keys)

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adj. suitable for drinking definition (c) potable

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adj. having a puzzling terseness definition (d) cryptic

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adj. of or relating to gustation; gustatorial definition (a) gustatory

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adj. having important issues or results definition (c) consequential

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adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion; dyspeptic; liverish definition (d) bilious

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adj. showing pensive sadness definition (a) wistful

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adj. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain definition (d) predatory

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adj. making great mental demands; knotty; problematic; problematical; tough definition (b) baffling

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adj. capable of being corrupted; dishonest; purchasable; venal definition (c) bribable

A10 adj. characterized by a buoyant rhythm; swingy; tripping definition (b) lilting

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 15 (Answer Keys)

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n. a sound defeat; drubbing; slaughter; trouncing; whipping definition (b) debacle

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n. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; core; center definition (a) gist

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n. the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) definition (d) reconnaissance

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n. vengeful opponent definition (b) nemesis

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n. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; extension definition (c) denotation

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n. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape definition (d) bureaucracy

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adj. incapable of being placated definition (c) implacable

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adj. inconspicuous definition (a) unobtrusive

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n. large open car seating four with folding top; tourer definition (a) phaeton

A10 n. an act of forcible exhalation; snorting definition (d) huffing

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 16 (Answer Keys)

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v. take pleasure in a taste or odor; enjoy; delight in definition (b) savor

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v. praise, glorify, or honor; exalt; glorify; proclaim definition (d) extol

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v. wrap in swaddling clothes definition (b) swathe

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v. surround; restrict definition (a) circumscribe

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v. be engaged in a fight; struggle definition (c) contend

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v. irritate or vex definition (a) gall

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v. gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy definition (c) gloat

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v. take the place of definition (d) usurp

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v. change from one system to another; convert; change over definition (c) metricate

A10 v. convert code into ordinary language; decipher definition (a) decrypt

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 17 (Answer Keys)

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v. ask for or request earnestly; adjure; press; conjure definition (c) entreat

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n. compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad definition (a) frond

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adj. exacting especially about details; fussy; particular; picky definition (b) finicky

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v. be wide open; yaw definition (d) gape

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n. a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular definition (c) misogynist

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n. the skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor definition (c) chassis

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adj. used of old persons or old trees; knotted; knotty; knobbed definition (a) gnarly

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adj. showing lack of favoritism; impartial (vs. partial) definition (d) disinterested

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v. declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; assert; avow; swan; swear definition (d) aver

A10 n. showing characteristics of both sexes; bisexuality definition (b) androgyny

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 18 (Answer Keys)

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adj. having a common center; homocentric definition (d) concentric

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adj. highly imaginative but unlikely definition (c) implausible

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adj. associated by chance and not an integral part definition (d) adventitious

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adj. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work); lowly definition (a) menial

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adj. bold; insolent; forward definition (c) pert

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n. a meeting for boat races definition (d) regatta

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adj. given to merry frolicking; frolicky; rollicking; sportive definition (b) frolicsome

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adj. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; inexorable; intransigent definition (b) adamant

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adj. not bound by shackles and chains; unshackled; untied definition (a) unchained

A10 adj. impudent; smart; saucy; sassy; wise definition (c) overbold

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 19 (Answer Keys)

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n. a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle definition (a) citadel

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n. characteristic nature of a people or community or era definition (d) ethos

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n. in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy definition (b) laity

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n. an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.) definition (d) vagary

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n. use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; beginning rhyme; head rhyme definition (b) alliteration

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n. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); break; severance; falling out definition (b) rift

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n. changing a particular word or phrase; rephrasing definition (a) recasting

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n. the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest; remonstration; objection definition (d) remonstrance

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n. a source of danger; peril; risk; endangerment definition (b) jeopardy

A10 n. a covered cistern; sink; sump definition (c) cesspit

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 20 (Answer Keys)

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v. revoke formally definition (d) abrogate

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v. consider in a comprehensive way definition (b) appraise

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v. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; weary; fatigue; jade definition (b) pall

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v. form or shape by forcing through an opening definition (c) extrude

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v. dress or groom with elaborate care; plume; dress definition (b) preen

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v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; endure; stick out definition (c) brook

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v. collect discarded or refused material definition (b) salvage

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v. receive a specified treatment (abstract); find; obtain definition (a) incur

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v. look down on with disdain; scorn; disdain definition (a) contemn

A10 v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; dismantle; tear down; take down; pull down definition (d) rase

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 21 (Answer Keys)

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v. make complete or perfect definition (d) complement

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n. an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty; crown definition (a) diadem

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v. excavate the earth beneath definition (a) sap

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adj. lacking any definite plan or order or purpose definition (c) random

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adj. marked by active interest and enthusiasm definition (a) avid

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n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; junk; detritus definition (b) rubble

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n. a person who seems to be displaced in time definition (d) anachronism

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v. form granulating tissue definition (c) granulate

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adj. covered with water; flooded; inundated; overflowing definition (b) awash

A10 n. a trait of dignified seriousness; solemnity; solemness definition (c) sedateness

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 22 (Answer Keys)

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adj. believing the worst of human nature and motives; misanthropical definition (a) cynical

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adj. lacking seriousness; empty-headed; featherbrained; light-headed; lightheaded; silly definition (c) giddy

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adj. in an early stage of development definition (b) embryonic

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adj. observant; conservative definition (a) orthodox

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adj. foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention definition (d) prophetic

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n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage; crawler; lackey; asskisser definition (a) toady

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adj. so thin as to transmit light; filmy; see-through; sheer; transparent definition (a) diaphanous

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adj. capable of relieving pain; anodyne definition (c) analgesic

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adj. epidermic; dermal definition (b) cuticular

A10 adj. extremely hungry; sharp-set; starved; esurient definition (a) famished

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 23 (Answer Keys)

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n. an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics definition (a) array

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n. manmade water channel equipped with a valve or gate for regulating water flow definition (a) sluice

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n. an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly definition (a) apparition

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n. a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition definition (b) arboretum

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n. the fraudulent appropriation of funds; defalcation; misapplication; misappropriation definition (b) embezzlement

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n. a young woman making her entry into society definition (b) debutante

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n. the trait of being rude and impertinent; impertinence; impudence; insolence; cheekiness; freshness definition (c) gall

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adj. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; juvenile definition (d) puerile

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n. an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation; premature infant; preterm infant; premie definition (a) preemie

A10 n. a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; pinny definition (c) pinafore

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 24 (Answer Keys)

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v. exhaust by attacking repeatedly definition (b) harass

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v. grant in a condescending manner definition (a) vouchsafe

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v. accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy definition (b) arraign

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v. outshine; surpass; outdo definition (d) eclipse

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v. cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; hush up definition (a) gloss over

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n. any of various plants of the genus Salvia definition (c) sage

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v. disturb the composure of; unsettle definition (d) enervate

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v. censure severely; objurgate; chasten; correct definition (a) chastise

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v. substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured definition (a) subrogate

A10 v. anticipate with dread or anxiety definition (b) apprehend

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 25 (Answer Keys)

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adj. large in number or quantity (especially of discourse) definition (d) voluminous

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n. relative importance definition (a) magnitude

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adj. pertaining to the belief that God does not exist definition (b) atheistic

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adv. open-mouthed; shocked definition (c) agape

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n. a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC definition (b) philistine

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adj. toasted or roasted slightly definition (a) parched

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v. break apart or in two, using violence definition (d) sunder

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n. an onerous or difficult concern; encumbrance; incumbrance definition (d) onus

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v. pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain; swoon; pass out definition (c) faint

A10 n. public statement listing policies and objectives definition (b) manifesto

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 26 (Answer Keys)

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adj. temporary; impermanent definition (b) transient

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adj. discontented as toward authority; malcontent; rebellious definition (d) disaffected

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adj. (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured definition (c) brittle

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adj. heedful of potential consequences definition (d) circumspect

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adj. intangible; unconnected to concrete reality definition (b) abstract

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adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display; jazzy; showy; sporty definition (d) gaudy

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adj. taking effect on a past date definition (c) retroactive

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adj. distributed or sold illicitly; black-market; contraband; smuggled definition (a) bootleg

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adj. having a sophisticated charm; suave definition (a) debonnaire

A10 adj. disinclined to work or exertion; lazy; otiose; slothful; work-shy definition (d) faineant

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n. someone who dislikes people in general definition (a) misanthrope

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n. statement that seems to be self-contradictory definition (a) paradox

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n. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms; moralist definition (d) martinet

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n. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights definition (a) privation

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v. fix firmly definition (c) ensconce

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adv. adcrookedly; slanted; at an angle definition (b) askew

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n. the feeling of being bored by something tedious; tedium definition (b) ennui

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n. license to market a company's goods or services definition (b) franchise

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n. coloring material used as paint or dye definition (a) pigment

A10 n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field; pundit definition (d) savant

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 28 (Answer Keys)

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v. measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line definition (a) fathom

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v. release from entanglement of difficulty; disentangle; disencumber definition (c) extricate

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v. dismiss from priestly office definition (c) unfrock

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v. beat rapidly definition (b) palpitate

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v. accept as inevitable; submit definition (b) reconcile

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adj. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness definition (a) rakish

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v. print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil definition (d) cyclostyle

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v. treat or speak of with contempt definition (c) deride

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v. terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; cut short definition (b) curtail

A10 v. censure severely or angrily; rag; trounce; reproof; lecture definition (d) reprimand

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 29 (Answer Keys)

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adj. produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation definition (b) studied

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n. an understanding of something that is not correct definition (a) misapprehension

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n. fearless daring definition (d) temerity

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adj. used of persons; conniving; scheming definition (d) shrewd

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n. an overwhelming number or amount; deluge definition (d) torrent

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n. microorganism which functions as an infectious agent definition (c) virus

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adj. thin in diameter; filamentlike; threadlike; thready definition (b) filiform

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v. impregnate; aerate definition (a) oxygenate

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v. turn into curds; clot definition (c) clabber

A10 v. hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; block; hinder; stymy; embarrass definition (d) stymie

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 30 (Answer Keys)

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adj. decorated with channels or grooves definition (b) fluted

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adj. containing seeds of later development definition (d) seminal

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adj. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; clever definition (c) canny

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adj. shockingly repellent; grisly; gruesome; sick definition (a) macabre

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adj. in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness definition (d) comatose

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adj. showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste definition (c) jaundiced

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adj. expected to become or be definition (c) potential

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n. everyone being of one mind definition (a) unanimity

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adj. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; draped; wrapped definition (c) mantled

A10 adj. marked by spirited enjoyment; zesty; barmy definition (d) zestful

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 31 (Answer Keys)

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n. a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy definition (a) ventriloquist

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n. a reminder of past events definition (d) memento

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n. washing definition (a) ablution

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n. a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities definition (d) spectrum

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n. a gradual increase in loudness (music) definition (c) crescendo

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n. a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation definition (b) euphoria

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n. something causing misery or death; scourge; nemesis definition (d) bane

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n. an addition that extends a main building; extension; wing definition (b) annexe

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n. an expression of approval and commendation; kudos definition (a) extolment

A10 n. pompously embellished language; flatulence definition (c) turgidity

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 32 (Answer Keys)

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v. get or gather together; accumulate; pile up; amass; compile definition (a) hoard

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v. censure severely or angrily; rebuke; lecture; reprimand; scold; berate; bawl out definition (c) chide

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v. transform a solid directly into a gas definition (d) sublimate

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v. show submission or fear; creep; cringe; cower definition (c) grovel

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v. indicate by signs; portend; prognosticate; betoken; augur definition (a) foreshadow

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v. initiate; start; bring about definition (a) trigger

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v. explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures definition (c) muckrake

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adj. practicing great self-denial; spartan definition (a) austere

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v. display proudly; show off; ostentate definition (c) swank

A10 v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; moult; slough definition (b) exuviate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 33 (Answer Keys)

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n. wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline definition (a) quay

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n. strong feelings of embarrassment; mortification definition (d) chagrin

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v. spend extravagantly; waste; ware definition (c) squander

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adj. of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring definition (c) sartorial

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v. draft into active service; take over definition (d) commandeer

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n. someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment definition (b) masochist

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adj. pleasing to the ear; mellisonant; sweet definition (c) mellifluous

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v. serve as the inciting cause of definition (b) instigate

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v. make more complex, intricate, or richer; elaborate definition (b) rarify

A10 adj. surpassing what is common or usual or expected definition (d) especial

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 34 (Answer Keys)

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adj. beyond normal limits; undue; unreasonable definition (a) inordinate

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adj. showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; saturnine; sullen definition (a) dour

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adj. lacking social polish; unpolished definition (c) gauche

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adj. lacking orderly continuity; garbled; illogical; scattered; unconnected definition (a) disjointed

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n. any collection of diverse things definition (b) collage

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n. an awkward stupid person; oaf; lubber; lump; gawk definition (d) lout

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adj. (often followed by 'for') ardently or excessively desirous; esurient; greedy definition (d) devouring

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adj. repetition of same sense in different words; tautologic; tautological definition (b) redundant

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adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; meddling; busy; busybodied definition (d) officious

A10 adj. lost in thought; scatty definition (b) abstracted

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 35 (Answer Keys)

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n. the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something definition (a) alloy

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n. the act of obeying definition (c) obeisance

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n. a downward slope or bend; fall; decline; declination; declension; downslope definition (b) declivity

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n. the state of being isolated or detached; insularism; detachment definition (d) insularity

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n. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything; particle; corpuscle; speck definition (a) mote

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n. a particular moral excellence definition (b) virtue

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n. social insect living in organized colonies; pismire definition (a) emmet

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n. a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action definition (c) grievance

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n. informal terms for insanity; flakiness definition (c) daftness

A10 n. a person who makes plans; deviser definition (b) contriver

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 36 (Answer Keys)

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v. cause to turn away from a previous or expected course definition (b) deviate

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v. give moral or emotional strength to; solace definition (b) console

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v. obtain (money, information, etc.) through threat or intimidation definition (c) extort

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v. indicate by signs; portend; prognosticate; omen; presage definition (b) bode

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v. surrender under agreed conditions definition (b) capitulate

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v. leave or give by will after one's death; leave definition (d) bequeath

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n. someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs; doubter definition (b) sceptic

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v. torture and torment definition (c) martyrize

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v. embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; epitomise definition (d) epitomize

A10 v. make new; redo; make over definition (c) refashion

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 37 (Answer Keys)

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adj. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; stupendous definition (d) colossal

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adj. curved or curving in and out; wiggly definition (c) sinuous

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n. any substance that can be used as food; eatable; pabulum; victual; victuals definition (b) comestible

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adj. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic definition (b) pastoral

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n. sediment; particles which settle at the bottom of wine or other liquor definition (c) dregs

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adj. trying; severe; demanding definition (b) exacting

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n. shrewdness shown by keen insight definition (c) acumen

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n. act of declaring innocent definition (c) acquittal

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adj. having an oblique or slanted direction; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping definition (b) aslant

A10 v. stop from happening or developing; block definition (b) kibosh

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 38 (Answer Keys)

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adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; suspicious; untrusting definition (a) wary

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adj. not capable of being violated or infringed; inviolable definition (d) absolute

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adj. void of expression definition (a) vacuous

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adj. awkward; clumsy definition (a) maladroit

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adj. capable of being repaired or rectified definition (b) reparable

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adj. artificially formal; hokey; stilted definition (c) contrived

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adj. serving to set in motion; first; maiden definition (d) initiatory

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adj. invulnerable to fear or intimidation; dauntless; fearless; hardy; unfearing definition (a) intrepid

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adj. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; enticing; tempting definition (a) alluring

A10 adj. covered with bright patches (often used in combination); splashed; splattered definition (c) dabbled

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 39 (Answer Keys)

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n. things that make you comfortable and at ease; conveniences definition (d) amenities

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n. an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; foretoken; preindication definition (b) augury

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n. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); jargon; lingo; patois; vernacular definition (c) argot

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n. intense aversion; horror definition (a) revulsion

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n. a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum definition (d) prude

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n. small area set off by walls for special use; stall; kiosk definition (d) cubicle

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n. the process of flowing in definition (d) influx

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n. the wife or widow of a male monarch or emperor definition (d) czarina

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n. a formal written statement of relinquishment; discharge definition (c) waiver

A10 n. a sudden uncontrollable attack; convulsion definition (a) paroxysm

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 40 (Answer Keys)

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v. put into a bad mood or into bad humour definition (a) disgruntle

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v. put clothing on one's body; get into; assume definition (c) don

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v. impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) definition (a) deflect

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v. join by interweaving strands definition (d) splice

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v. remove by cutting definition (b) excise

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v. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow definition (a) stupefy

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v. invent possible reasons for an action which are not the true reasons definition (b) rationalize

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v. cause to grow thin or weak definition (a) macerate

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v. disarrange or rumple; tangle definition (d) dishevel

A10 v. carry with difficulty; tug definition (b) tote

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 41 (Answer Keys)

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v. mock; deride; degrade definition (d) stultify

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adj. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; involved; knotty; tangled; tortuous definition (b) convoluted

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adj. hot or warm and humid; sticky definition (c) muggy

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adj. lacking in harmony; dissonant; inharmonic definition (a) discordant

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n. premise; basic assumption definition (c) axiom

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v. cross; pass over definition (b) traverse

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adj. having calluses; thickened definition (d) callous

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n. a person skilled in telling anecdotes definition (d) raconteur

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n. thinks about unfortunate things that might happen; worrywart definition (a) fusspot

A10 adj. short and plump; pudgy; tubby; roly-poly definition (d) podgy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 42 (Answer Keys)

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adj. showing little if any change; unchanging definition (b) static

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adj. excessively agitated; phrenetic definition (c) frenzied

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adj. known as; regarded as definition (b) reputed

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adj. in fear or dread of possible evil or harm definition (a) apprehensive

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n. righteousness by virtue of being pious definition (d) piety

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n. a musical work that has been created; composition; piece; piece of music definition (c) opus

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adj. including markedly dissimilar elements definition (c) disparate

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adj. capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature definition (a) mutable

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adj. having superior power and influence; predominant; predominate; preponderant; preponderating definition (c) paramount

A10 adj. too sacred to be uttered; unspeakable; unutterable definition (b) unnameable

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 43 (Answer Keys)

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n. transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words definition (d) spoonerism

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n. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone definition (a) obsession

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n. a very steep cliff definition (a) precipice

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n. group; team; friends definition (a) cohorts

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n. a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together definition (d) rebate

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n. a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people definition (b) rapport

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n. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; acknowledgment; credit; reference; mention; quotation definition (b) cite

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n. a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) definition (d) polemic

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n. close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) definition (a) surveillance

A10 n. person who makes a gift of property; presenter; conferrer definition (d) bestower

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 44 (Answer Keys)

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v. defeat disastrously definition (c) rout

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v. cause to lose one's composure; untune; discomfit definition (c) disconcert

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v. place in a grave or tomb; inhume; lay to rest definition (d) inter

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v. thrust oneself in as if by force definition (b) intrude

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v. treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed definition (d) manipulate

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adj. not pleasing in odor or taste; unsavoury definition (c) unsavory

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v. make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the shoes definition (c) tapdance

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v. arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way definition (c) infatuate

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v. make froth or foam and become bubbly; suds definition (a) spume

A10 v. soil with mud or muck; muck up definition (d) mire

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 45 (Answer Keys)

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v. turn up, loosen, or remove earth; cut into; turn over definition (b) delve

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adv. in a hurried and disorganized fashion definition (a) pell-mell

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n. the amount by which something increases definition (b) increment

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n. using words that imitate the sound they denote definition (d) onomatopoeia

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v. advance beyond the usual limit; impinge definition (a) infringe

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n. a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur definition (a) paranoia

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adj. unresponsive to stimulation definition (a) insensible

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n. outer coat of especially sheep and yaks definition (c) fleece

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adv. anonymously; in disguise definition (d) incognito

A10 v. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; flush; redden definition (c) crimson

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 46 (Answer Keys)

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adj. devoid of warmth and cordiality; frozen; glacial; icy; wintry definition (a) frigid

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adj. characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components definition (a) asymmetric

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adj. having or displaying great dignity or nobility; majestic; proud definition (a) lofty

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adj. offensively malodorous; foul; noisome; smelly; stinking definition (c) fetid

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adj. incongruous; derisory; idiotic; laughable; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous definition (d) ludicrous

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adj. characterized by iniquity; ungodly definition (a) iniquitous

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v. beg persistently and urgently definition (a) importune

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adj. of very great significance definition (d) momentous

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v. move out of position; splay; slip definition (b) luxate

A10 adj. transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; grumous; grumose definition (b) curdled

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 47 (Answer Keys)

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n. a colony of rabbits definition (a) warren

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n. a list of names definition (b) roster

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n. an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition definition (c) inquisitor

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n. an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; bricole; mangonel; onager definition (b) catapult

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n. a crime less serious than a felony; violation; infringement definition (a) infraction

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n. a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative definition (b) opiate

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n. physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression); uneasiness definition (a) malaise

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n. any thick, viscous matter; goop; gook; muck; ooze definition (a) guck

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n. the property of being very small in size; tininess; weeness definition (c) petiteness

A10 n. a contorted facial expression definition (a) grimace

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 48 (Answer Keys)

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v. reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust definition (c) repudiate

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v. certify; confirm definition (a) attest

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v. rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner definition (c) domineer

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v. make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to; modernise definition (c) overhaul

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n. young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf definition (d) whelp

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n. the dead and rotting body of an animal definition (b) carrion

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v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade definition (d) circumvent

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v. get better; improve definition (d) ameliorate

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v. stop the flow of a liquid; staunch; halt definition (c) stanch

A10 v. consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; equate definition (c) liken

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 49 (Answer Keys)

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adj. briefly giving the gist of something; succinct; summary definition (c) compact

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n. large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites definition (b) tarantula

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v. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; substantiate; support; affirm definition (b) sustain

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n. the action of putting something into operation definition (a) application

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n. a large number definition (d) multiplicity

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n. a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols definition (a) orthography

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adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety; gamey; juicy; naughty; racy; spicy definition (a) risque

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n. a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks definition (b) lode

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adj. having a play of lustrous rainbow colors; opalescent; pearlescent definition (c) opaline

A10 adj. defying expression or description; ineffable; unspeakable; unutterable definition (a) untellable

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 50 (Answer Keys)

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adj. native; local; indigenous definition (c) endemic

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adj. offering no resistance; unresisting definition (a) supine

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adj. curving inward definition (c) concave

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adj. pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions definition (a) synchronous

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adj. generally incompetent and ineffectual definition (d) feckless

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adj. morally degraded; sleazy; sordid; squalid definition (d) seedy

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adj. in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term definition (c) explicit

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adj. not friendly definition (c) inimical

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adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar definition (c) ostentatious

A10 adj. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; butterfingered; ham-fisted; hamhanded; handless; heavy-handed; left-handed definition (a) bumbling

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 51 (Answer Keys)

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n. a holding device attached to a workbench definition (d) vise

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n. hardened conventionality definition (d) conformity

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n. a stipulated condition definition (d) proviso

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n. adroitness and cleverness in reply definition (a) repartee

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n. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); gold rush; gravy; godsend; manna from heaven; bunce definition (c) windfall

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n. a clear seasoned broth definition (a) bouillon

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v. declare void definition (c) dismiss

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n. the quality of being lax and neglectful; slackness definition (c) remissness

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n. a midday meal; tiffin definition (a) dejeuner

A10 n. lack of normal muscular tension or tonus; atonia definition (c) amyotonia

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 52 (Answer Keys)

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v. make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil definition (c) retaliate

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v. swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; swig definition (a) quaff

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v. scratch repeatedly definition (b) grate

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n. mutual accusations definition (c) recrimination

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n. possessing muscular strength; muscle; muscularity; sinew; heftiness definition (d) brawn

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v. think or reflect beforehand or in advance definition (b) premeditate

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v. avoid speaking to or dealing with definition (d) ostracize

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v. postpone; put off until a later time; delay definition (a) procrastinate

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v. pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; clear; discharge; exculpate definition (c) exonerate

A10 v. make amends for; atone definition (a) abye

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 53 (Answer Keys)

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n. a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; hallucination definition (d) delusion

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n. hell; purgatory; inferno definition (a) perdition

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v. compose; write in words definition (a) indite

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n. any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones definition (b) conifer

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v. force or impel in an indicated direction; press definition (b) exhort

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adj. excessively or hypocritically pious; pietistical; sanctimonious; self-righteous definition (c) pharisaical

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v. cause annoyance in; rag; get to; bother definition (c) nettle

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n. someone new to a field or activity; tiro; initiate definition (c) tyro

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v. talk socially without exchanging too much information; shoot the breeze; chat; confabulate; confab definition (b) claver

A10 adj. full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; shelvy; shoaly definition (a) reefy

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adj. deviating from a straight course; roundabout definition (a) devious

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adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive; gummy; mucilaginous; pasty; sticky; viscid; viscous definition (d) glutinous

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adj. able to live both on land and water definition (b) amphibian

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adj. of this earth definition (b) terrestrial

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adj. full of high-spirited delight; joyful; jubilant definition (d) elated

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n. hats for women definition (a) millinery

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adj. given to merry frolicking; frolicky; rollicking; sportive definition (b) coltish

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adj. having a natural fragrance; perfumed; scented; sweet; sweet-scented; sweet-smelling definition (d) odorous

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adj. not straightforward or candid definition (b) disingenuous

A10 adj. consisting of fine particles; pulverized; pulverised; small-grained; fine-grained definition (b) powdered

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n. transmission; transfer definition (d) conveyance

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n. a solemn pledge of fidelity definition (d) troth

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n. conclusion of a speech in which a speaker reviews the major points of their report definition (d) peroration

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n. a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap definition (d) frieze

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n. inactivity; sluggishness; phlegm; flatness definition (d) languor

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n. revelry in drinking; bender; toot; booze-up definition (a) carousal

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adj. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently definition (a) shoddy

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n. a state of commotion and noise and confusion; uproar definition (b) garboil

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n. the act of detecting something; spying; spotting definition (c) espial

A10 n. the concluding part of any performance; closing curtain; finis definition (d) finale

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v. let off the hook; free definition (d) absolve

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v. free from slavery or servitude definition (b) manumit

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v. chew (food); manducate; jaw definition (d) masticate

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v. fill or fit with glass; cover with glass or something sweet definition (a) glaze

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v. establish the authenticity of something definition (b) authenticate

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v. fall away or decline definition (a) ebb

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v. keep company definition (a) consort

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v. become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light definition (d) suffuse

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v. conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; hoodwink; lead by the nose; play false definition (c) bamboozle

A10 v. determine; decide definition (a) resolve

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adj. slow to learn or understand; dull; dumb; slow definition (a) obtuse

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v. stir up or tend definition (a) stoke

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n. a crime less serious than a felony; infraction; violation; infringement definition (d) misdemeanor

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adj. teasing definition (c) chaffing

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adj. expressing earnest entreaty definition (d) importunate

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n. a certain degree of unwillingness; hesitation; indisposition definition (c) disinclination

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adj. characteristic of the fields or country definition (d) rustic

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adj. sticking out definition (c) obtrusive

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adj. filled or abounding with fog or mist; hazy; misty definition (a) brumous

A10 adj. propelled violently in a usually narrow stream; spurting; squirting definition (b) jetting

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 58 (Answer Keys)

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adj. (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed definition (b) loath

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adj. (of a male) capable of copulation definition (a) potent

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adj. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; suave; bland definition (d) politic

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adj. impatient especially under restriction or delay definition (a) restive

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adj. formally expressing praise; panegyric; panegyrical definition (b) eulogistic

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adj. open to taking risks; willing to experience new things definition (c) venturesome

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adj. not perceptible to the touch definition (c) impalpable

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adj. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; romantic definition (c) amorous

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adj. having edges that are jagged from injury; torn definition (b) mangled

A10 adj. having three units or components or elements; triple; triplex definition (a) ternary

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 59 (Answer Keys)

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n. the act of inventing a word or phrase; coinage definition (d) neologism

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n. hanging down from something; ornament (hanging from a necklace, etc.) definition (a) pendant

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n. a person who works only for money definition (d) hireling

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n. an expression of approval and commendation; extolment definition (d) kudos

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n. a crude idol of Krishna definition (c) juggernaut

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n. a desirable state definition (b) boon

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n. any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) definition (d) atrophy

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n. the activities of educating or instructing; teaching; didactics; educational activity definition (c) pedagogy

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n. abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; struma; thyromegaly definition (a) goitre

A10 n. a long noosed rope used to catch animals; riata; reata definition (d) lariat

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 60 (Answer Keys)

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v. hold back a thought or feeling about; shield definition (c) harbor

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v. take the place or move into the position of; supervene upon; supercede definition (a) supersede

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v. attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war definition (a) embed

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v. strike, usually with the fist; biff definition (a) pummel

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v. get over an illness or shock; convalesce definition (d) recuperate

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n. a purging medicine; physic; aperient definition (d) cathartic

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v. go far ahead of; distance definition (c) outstrip

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v. gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts definition (b) ingratiate

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v. cry loudly, as of animals; yammer; yowl definition (c) wrawl

A10 v. walk as if unable to control one's movements; lurch; swag; careen definition (a) keel

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 61 (Answer Keys)

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n. a senior clergyman and dignitary; high priest; primate definition (c) prelate

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n. the analysis of a vector field; disintegration; the organic phenomenon of rotting; decay definition (c) decomposition

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n. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft; journeyman; artificer definition (c) artisan

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v. direct one's attention on something; center; centre; rivet definition (c) pore

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adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; suspicious; untrusting; wary definition (b) leery

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n. a broken piece of a brittle artifact; fragment definition (b) shard

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n. a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others definition (a) surrogate

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n. a disputant who advocates reform; crusader; social reformer definition (b) meliorist

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n. untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) definition (c) disarray

A10 v. annoy persistently; bug; beleaguer definition (d) pester

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 62 (Answer Keys)

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adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; spiffy; snappy definition (d) spruce

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adj. repetition of same sense in different words definition (b) tautological

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adj. impossible to reconcile definition (a) irreconcilable

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adj. fiery; of or pertaining to fire definition (d) igneous

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adj. in deplorable condition; dilapidated; ramshackle; tatterdemalion; tumble-down definition (d) derelict

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n. the intolerance and prejudice definition (d) bigotry

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adj. produced or growing in extreme abundance; profuse; riotous definition (c) luxuriant

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adj. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; debonaire; jaunty definition (b) chipper

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adj. wet through and through definition (a) sodden

A10 adj. having removed clothing; unclad; undressed; ungarbed; ungarmented definition (b) unattired

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 63 (Answer Keys)

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n. a servile or fawning dependant definition (a) minion

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n. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; outcome; result; event; issue definition (b) upshot

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n. the act of demolishing definition (c) demolition

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n. someone to whom private matters are confided definition (a) confidant

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n. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors; hauteur; high-handedness; lordliness definition (c) haughtiness

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n. a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain definition (b) tract

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v. supply with an excess of definition (b) glut

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n. a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet definition (d) scabbard

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n. operation on logical values definition (a) negation

A10 n. animal hunted or caught for food definition (c) quarry

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 64 (Answer Keys)

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v. bind a person in service to another for a specified period of time definition (d) indenture

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v. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; rationalize; rationalise definition (b) prune

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v. remove definition (c) doff

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v. dress or groom with elaborate care; plume; dress definition (c) primp

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v. get or gather together; accumulate; pile up; compile; hoard definition (d) amass

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v. cry or whine with snuffling; blubber; blub; snuffle definition (a) snivel

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v. be a regular customer or client of; patronage; support; keep going definition (d) patronize

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v. put at a disadvantage definition (a) hamper

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v. walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; hobble; hitch definition (a) gimp

A10 v. make false by mutilation or addition; warp definition (a) garble

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 65 (Answer Keys)

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adj. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; pestiferous; plaguey definition (a) pestilential

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adj. having limitations; having bounds definition (b) finite

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n. a notation used by choreographers definition (a) choreography

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n. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic; throwback definition (a) atavism

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adj. humorously vulgar; ribald definition (c) bawdy

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v. grow worse; drop; degenerate definition (b) devolve

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n. a follower of Machiavelli's principles definition (b) machiavellian

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n. a long loud emotional utterance; ululation definition (b) howling

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adj. implied by or inferred from actions or statements; understood definition (d) tacit

A10 v. strangle with an iron collar; scrag definition (d) garotte

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 66 (Answer Keys)

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adj. being sour to the taste; acidulent definition (b) acidulous

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adj. involving risk or danger; wild definition (a) hazardous

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adj. conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; hugger-mugger; hush-hush; secret; undercover; underground definition (d) surreptitious

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adj. berserk; possessed (predicate) definition (c) demoniac

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adj. of great force or power definition (b) titanic

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adj. having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections definition (d) ciliated

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adj. produced without vibration of the vocal cords; hard definition (c) surd

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adj. (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars definition (d) sidereal

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adj. causing debilitation; enfeebling; weakening definition (a) enervating

A10 adj. full of or showing high-spirited merriment; jolly; merry; mirthful definition (a) jovial

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 67 (Answer Keys)

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n. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend; scrooge; churl definition (a) skinflint

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n. the state of being senile definition (a) senility

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n. thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern definition (b) brocade

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n. banality; commonplace; bromide definition (c) cliche

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n. a very intense and uncontrolled fire definition (c) conflagration

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n. the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something definition (b) knell

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adj. of or denoted by an integer definition (a) integral

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n. large mackerel with long pointed snout; cero definition (b) cavalla

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n. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike; rat definition (d) blackleg

A10 n. one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals; steward definition (a) custodian

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 68 (Answer Keys)

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v. provide with nourishment; sustain definition (a) nurture

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v. put a law into effect by formal declaration definition (d) promulgate

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v. take the place or move into the position of; supersede; supervene upon; supercede definition (a) supplant

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v. adjust to a specific need or market definition (d) orient

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v. grow and flourish definition (b) burgeon

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v. come into rough contact with while moving definition (a) jostle

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v. talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner; jabber; spout; rabbit on; rave definition (c) rant

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v. solidify, firm, or strengthen definition (a) substantiate

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v. take to task definition (d) reprove

A10 v. undergo necrosis; mortify; sphacelate definition (c) necrose

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 69 (Answer Keys)

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n. a strong liking; taste definition (c) predilection

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n. an autocracy governed by a king who usually inherits the authority definition (c) monarchy

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adj. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; confounded; confused; lost definition (d) bemused

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n. an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof definition (b) expostulation

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n. stroll; promenade definition (d) ramble

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adj. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought definition (c) oracular

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n. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.; renegade; turncoat; recreant; ratter definition (c) apostate

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v. cast or model anew; remodel definition (c) reforge

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n. a stupid mistake; folly; foolishness; imbecility definition (a) betise

A10 v. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; riot definition (d) roister

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 70 (Answer Keys)

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adj. unpleasant to look at definition (d) unsightly

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adj. learned through observation definition (c) empirical

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adj. refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like definition (d) noncommittal

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adj. pardonable definition (a) venial

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adj. euphemisms for 'fat' definition (d) portly

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adj. lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; stereotypical; unimaginative definition (b) stereotyped

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n. a point conceded or yielded definition (c) concession

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adj. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle definition (a) bucolic

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adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; ruthful definition (b) rueful

A10 adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; gaga; senile definition (a) doddery

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 71 (Answer Keys)

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n. poor and often mischievous city child definition (d) urchin

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n. personal magnetism definition (a) charisma

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n. noisy quarrel definition (b) fracas

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n. a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations definition (a) anesthetic

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n. a ruler who is unconstrained by law definition (d) potentate

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n. system of stars held together by gravity definition (c) galaxy

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v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; expurgate; castrate; shorten definition (c) bowdlerize

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adj. marked by a lack of interest definition (c) apathetic

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n. the back side of the neck; nucha definition (c) nape

A10 n. the sound made by beating a drum; drumbeat definition (c) rataplan

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 72 (Answer Keys)

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v. attract; enamor; captivate; entrance; enchant definition (c) beguile

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v. laugh at with contempt and derision; flout; barrack definition (d) gibe

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v. be superior or better than some standard; overstep; pass; go past; top definition (a) transcend

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v. become rotten definition (d) addle

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v. look with amazement; gawp definition (c) gawk

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v. bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; normalize definition (c) anneal

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adj. not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex; definitive definition (a) determinate

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v. be silly or tease one another; josh; banter definition (b) jolly

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v. explain; light up; brighten; elucidate definition (b) illuminate

A10 v. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; stretch definition (c) adulterate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 73 (Answer Keys)

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n. a disposition free from stress or emotion; placidity; serenity; tranquility definition (d) tranquillity

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n. assistance in time of difficulty; succour; ministration definition (c) succor

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adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; pliable; pliant; tensile; tractile definition (d) malleable

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n. the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord definition (c) pluck

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v. impose a fine on definition (c) mulct

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adj. in deplorable condition; derelict; dilapidated; tatterdemalion; tumble-down definition (d) ramshackle

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n. dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes; bush definition (b) chaparral

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adv. addistorted; crooked definition (c) awry

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v. render holy by means of religious rites; hallow; sanctify definition (d) consecrate

A10 adj. affording change (especially in social status) definition (d) mobile

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 74 (Answer Keys)

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adj. exaggeratedly proper; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; strait-laced definition (a) prim

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adj. humbly entreating; supplicatory definition (d) suppliant

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adj. presumptuously arrogant definition (d) overweening

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adj. smelling of fermentation or staleness definition (a) rancid

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adj. causing dejection; dark; dingy; disconsolate; drear; dreary definition (a) drab

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adj. of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees definition (c) centigrade

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adj. unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice definition (b) dispassionate

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adj. mentally acute or penetratingly discerning definition (d) perspicacious

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adj. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed; jaggy; notched; toothed definition (a) erose

A10 adj. moving and bending with ease; lithe; lithesome; slender; supple; svelte; sylphlike definition (c) lissom

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 75 (Answer Keys)

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n. the immediate descendants of a person; issue definition (d) progeny

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n. an established custom definition (c) wont

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n. an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking definition (c) quadruped

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n. injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards definition (c) inequity

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n. a collector and student of money (and coins in particular); coin collector definition (d) numismatist

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n. tooth on the rim of gear wheel definition (b) cog

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adj. casually thoughtless or inconsiderate definition (a) offhand

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v. appear very large or occupy a commanding position; predominate definition (a) hulk

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n. sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation; contriteness definition (a) contrition

A10 n. a small float usually made of cork; cork; bobfloat definition (a) bobber

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 76 (Answer Keys)

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v. examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; scrutinise; inspect definition (a) scrutinize

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v. free from slavery or servitude definition (c) emancipate

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v. become less in amount or intensity; slack off; slack; die away definition (d) abate

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v. agree or express agreement; acquiesce definition (b) assent

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v. work hard; fag; travail; grind; drudge; dig; moil definition (b) toil

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n. extreme distress of body or mind definition (b) anguish

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v. make less visible or unclear; obnubilate; haze over definition (d) becloud

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v. raise trivial objections; chicane definition (c) cavil

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v. shift from one side of the ship to the other; jib; change course definition (d) gybe

A10 v. move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; swosh; swoosh definition (a) swish

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 77 (Answer Keys)

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adj. including much or everything definition (d) inclusive

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adj. completely wanting or lacking; free; innocent definition (a) devoid

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adj. supplying motive force definition (b) kinetic

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adj. intended as a commemoration definition (d) commemorative

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n. apprehension; worry; doubt definition (a) misgivings

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adj. having a variety of colors definition (d) variegated

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adj. relating to a small administrative district or community definition (b) communal

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n. a methodical examination or review of a condition or situation definition (c) audit

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adj. being sour to the taste; acidulous definition (b) acidulent

A10 n. someone who expresses strong approval; indorser definition (c) ratifier

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 78 (Answer Keys)

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adj. wilfully obstinate definition (a) contumacious

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adj. feasible; useful; workable; applicable definition (c) practical

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adj. lacking interest or significance or impact definition (a) insipid

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adj. capable of life or normal growth and development definition (a) viable

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adj. not practical or realizable; Laputan; windy definition (c) visionary

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adj. out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded definition (d) passe

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adj. far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something definition (d) fundamental

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adj. without real or apparent crystalline form; uncrystallised definition (c) amorphous

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adj. (of reputation) free from blemishes; unsullied; untainted; untarnished definition (a) stainless

A10 adj. fixed or established especially by order or command; ordained; prescribed definition (d) decreed

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 79 (Answer Keys)

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n. broadside definition (b) tirade

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n. the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished definition (d) discrimination

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n. understanding and entering into another's feelings definition (a) empathy

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n. seasoning definition (d) condiments

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n. an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it definition (b) enclave

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n. individual's strong point; talent definition (c) forte

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adj. habitually reserved and uncommunicative definition (b) taciturn

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adj. characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; slatternly; sluttish definition (c) blowsy

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n. belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins); ire; ira definition (c) wrath

A10 n. what is produced in a given time period; turnout definition (a) outturn

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 80 (Answer Keys)

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v. live in a country area definition (b) rusticate

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v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade; put off; circumvent; elude definition (c) parry

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v. increase the volume of definition (a) amplify

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v. make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; grumble; croak; gnarl definition (c) mutter

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v. sit on (eggs); cover definition (a) incubate

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v. blow away or off with a current of air definition (b) winnow

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v. cooperate as a traitor definition (a) collaborate

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v. put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society definition (c) enfeoff

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v. fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) definition (b) pacify

A10 v. draw back, as with fear or pain; cringe; shrink; wince; recoil; quail definition (d) funk

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n. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) definition (a) ruse

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n. a complex system of interconnecting cavities definition (b) labyrinth

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adj. characterized by jokes and good humor; joking definition (c) jocular

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adv. unquestionably; without a doubt definition (d) indubitably

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n. a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground) definition (a) bevy

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v. investigate; research; study definition (b) probe

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n. an indirect way of expressing something definition (c) circumlocution

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v. cause to move faster; speed up definition (b) accelerate

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n. someone who is morally reprehensible; dog; hound; heel definition (c) blackguard

A10 n. the trait of merry joking; merriness; humorousness definition (c) jocoseness

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 82 (Answer Keys)

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adj. lacking in sophistication or worldliness definition (b) ingenuous

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adj. meditative; thoughtful; musing definition (c) pensive

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adj. deliberately impassive in manner; impassive; poker-faced; unexpressive definition (a) deadpan

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adj. conveying information to the muscles from the CNS definition (a) centrifugal

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adj. confused; lacking order definition (d) chaotic

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n. a passage that connects a topic to one that follows definition (d) transition

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adj. favorable to health of mind or body definition (a) salubrious

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adj. full of high-spirited delight; joyful; jubilant definition (c) gleeful

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adj. resembling the new moon in shape; semilunar; lunate definition (a) crescent

A10 adj. made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; lustrous; shining; shiny definition (d) burnished

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n. a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner; indoor garden definition (b) conservatory

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n. reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence definition (d) conjecture

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n. a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); worker definition (c) proletarian

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n. stain; blemish; mark; insult; disgrace definition (a) slur

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n. any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted definition (c) psychosis

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n. stick of wax with a wick in the middle; wax light definition (d) taper

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n. the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected definition (d) zenith

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n. a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources; pastiche definition (c) medley

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n. a light shade of blue; sapphire; lazuline; sky-blue definition (c) cerulean

A10 n. a person who does not acknowledge your god; gentile; infidel definition (c) heathen

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 84 (Answer Keys)

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v. make subservient definition (a) subjugate

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v. detach the affections of definition (c) wean

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v. look down on with disdain; scorn; disdain definition (c) despise

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v. clean up; cleanse definition (c) scavenge

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v. turn sharply; curve; trend; veer; slue; slew; cut definition (c) swerve

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v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; exuviate; moult; slough definition (c) molt

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v. agree or express agreement; acquiesce definition (d) accede

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v. extract from; bring out definition (d) elicit

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v. refuse to comply; jib definition (d) baulk

A10 v. move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); wriggle; squirm; twist definition (b) worm

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 85 (Answer Keys)

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adj. intermittently stopping and starting definition (c) fitful

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adj. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; deplorable; vicious definition (c) reprehensible

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v. suffuse with color definition (d) imbue

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adj. serving to make up for or atone definition (b) compensatory

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v. hide (feelings) from other people definition (a) dissimulate

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n. a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; veneration definition (d) awe

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n. joviality definition (c) jollity

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n. act of exiting; going out definition (a) egress

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n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; disaster; tragedy; cataclysm definition (b) calamity

A10 n. coming of Christ definition (c) advent

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 86 (Answer Keys)

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adj. improperly forward or bold; impudent; overbold; smart; saucy; sassy; wise definition (a) impertinent

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adj. originating outside the body definition (c) heterogeneous

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adj. given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences; self-examining definition (a) introspective

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adj. totally submissive; grovelling; wormlike; wormy definition (b) cringing

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adj. incapable of absorbing or mixing with definition (c) repellent

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n. in former times was free and cultivated his own land definition (a) yeoman

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adj. brief and to the point; laconic definition (c) terse

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adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; grabby; grasping; greedy; prehensile definition (d) avaricious

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adj. of or providing nourishment; nourishing; nutrient; nutritious; nutritive definition (c) alimental

A10 adj. extremely cold; glacial; icy; polar definition (a) gelid

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 87 (Answer Keys)

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n. process of contesting in a court of law definition (b) litigation

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n. opposition; refutation; contradiction definition (d) rebuttal

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n. long period of time definition (b) eon

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n. a cavity or passage in a tubular organ definition (a) lumen

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n. unrestrained merrymaking definition (a) revelry

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n. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other noncash expenses); net profit; earnings definition (b) lucre

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n. inherent ability definition (a) aptitude

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n. an occurrence that involves the production of a union; unification definition (a) merger

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n. extreme greed for material wealth; covetousness definition (a) cupidity

A10 n. aim; purpose; goal definition (b) objective

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 88 (Answer Keys)

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v. make children; engender; sire; generate definition (d) beget

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v. help develop, help grow definition (c) foster

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v. turn away from sin or do penitence definition (b) atone

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v. make up something artificial or untrue; cook up; make up; invent definition (a) fabricate

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v. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern definition (c) petrify

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v. bathe with warm water or medicated lotions definition (d) foment

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adj. nervous and unable to relax; fretful; itchy definition (c) antsy

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v. have doubts about definition (c) scruple

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v. number the pages of a book or manuscript; page definition (d) paginate

A10 v. dig up for reburial or for medical investigation definition (c) exhume

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 89 (Answer Keys)

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n. a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier); criminal; felon; crook definition (d) desperado

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adj. causing fear or dread or terror; dreaded; dreadful; horrendous; horrific; terrible definition (a) dire

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n. any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae definition (c) scad

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v. argue over petty things; pettifog; bicker; squabble; brabble definition (b) niggle

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n. a flamboyant deceiver definition (d) mountebank

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n. unintelligible talking definition (d) gibberish

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adj. bound by contract; bound; indentured definition (b) articled

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n. a swaggering show of courage definition (a) bravado

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v. make or become black; melanise; black definition (b) nigrify

A10 adj. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority; resistive definition (c) insubordinate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 90 (Answer Keys)

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adj. uncertain how to act or proceed definition (d) irresolute

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adj. supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement definition (d) definitive

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adj. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment definition (d) abusive

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adj. sexually exciting or gratifying definition (d) sensual

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n. equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation definition (a) automation

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v. move about or proceed hurriedly; skitter; scuttle definition (a) scurry

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adj. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; blameable; blameful; censurable definition (a) culpable

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adj. concise and full of meaning definition (d) pithy

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adj. below the threshold of conscious perception definition (c) subliminal

A10 adj. offensively curious or inquisitive; prying; snoopy definition (b) nosey

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 91 (Answer Keys)

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n. disturbance usually in protest; upheaval; hullabaloo definition (b) turmoil

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n. official written document summoning a witness to appear in court definition (a) subpoena

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n. memorization by repetition definition (a) rote

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n. a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position definition (c) gambit

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n. causing or tending to cause cancer definition (d) carcinogenic

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n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way; slickness; hanky panky; jiggery-pokery; skullduggery definition (b) skulduggery

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n. the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities; agenda; schedule definition (b) docket

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n. a woman who cohabits with an important man; doxy definition (a) paramour

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n. shading consisting of multiple crossing lines; hachure definition (b) crosshatch

A10 n. flowering plant with two cotyledons; magnoliopsid; exogen definition (a) dicot

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 92 (Answer Keys)

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v. cover definition (b) strew

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v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling; shin; shinny; skin; struggle; sputter definition (c) clamber

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v. move stealthily definition (c) skulk

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v. apply small dots or dabs of paint or ink to a surface definition (c) stipple

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v. search by divining, as if with a rod definition (b) divine

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adj. inconceivably large; galactic definition (b) astronomical

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v. stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of definition (c) warrant

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v. bring into focus or alignment; focalize; focalise; focus definition (b) concenter

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v. talk idly or casually and in a friendly way; schmooze; schmoose definition (b) jawbone

A10 v. go stealthily or furtively; creep definition (b) pussyfoot

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 93 (Answer Keys)

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n. gullet definition (d) gorge

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adj. having or showing profound knowledge definition (a) erudite

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adj. occurring in spells and often abruptly definition (c) spasmodic

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n. any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. definition (a) pest

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v. shear the wool from definition (b) fleece

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n. the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts definition (d) inconsistency

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v. support or supply with references definition (b) document

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adj. characterized by jokes and good humor; jocular; joking definition (d) jocose

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adj. adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations definition (b) universal

A10 adj. curving outward; bulbous; bulging; bulgy; protuberant definition (b) bellying

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 94 (Answer Keys)

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adj. constituting a separate entity or part definition (d) discrete

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adj. impervious to correction by punishment definition (d) incorrigible

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adj. not revering god definition (d) irreverent

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adj. of a pale to moderate greyish violet color definition (a) mauve

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adj. accompanied by bloodshed; sanguineous; slaughterous; butcherly definition (c) gory

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adj. relating to or consisting of runes definition (b) runic

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v. meet; assemble definition (a) converge

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adj. stopping and starting at irregular intervals definition (a) intermittent

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adj. having branches; ramose; ramous definition (c) ramate

A10 adj. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; disputative; litigious definition (d) disputatious

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 95 (Answer Keys)

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n. a very wealthy or powerful businessman; business leader; king; magnate; mogul; power; top executive definition (c) tycoon

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n. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud; chiseller; chiseler; gouger; scammer; grifter definition (d) swindler

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n. the position of greatest importance or advancement; cutting edge definition (d) vanguard

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n. fabled monster being half man and half horse definition (a) centaur

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n. a journey taken for pleasure; outing; pleasure trip; expedition; sashay definition (b) jaunt

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v. emit a soft flickering light definition (c) shimmer

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n. patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable definition (c) nostrum

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n. the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation definition (b) genesis

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n. voiced or written song of rejoicing definition (c) paean

A10 n. entrance; opening; scuttle definition (a) hatchway

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 96 (Answer Keys)

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v. indicate by signs; portend; omen; presage; betoken; forecast definition (a) prognosticate

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v. place on top of; lay over definition (a) superimpose

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v. cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water definition (c) slake

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v. pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly definition (d) slither

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v. shift to a clockwise direction definition (b) veer

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adj. stimulating evacuation of feces definition (a) laxative

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v. manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes definition (c) knead

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v. press down tightly; pack definition (a) tamp

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v. remove the consecration from a person or an object; deconsecrate definition (d) desecrate

A10 v. wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; waylay; lurk; lie in wait definition (d) ambuscade

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 97 (Answer Keys)

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adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; outrageous; steep; usurious definition (d) unconscionable

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n. the act of starting something for the first time; foundation; institution; origination; creation definition (a) innovation

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v. divest of church officials definition (a) defrock

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n. the floating wreckage of a ship definition (a) flotsam

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adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; bitter; blistering; caustic; virulent definition (d) acrid

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n. a person of exceptional importance and reputation; giant; heavyweight; titan definition (c) behemoth

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n. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) definition (b) vernacular

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adj. ludicrously odd; fantastical definition (c) grotesque

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adj. having a secret or hidden meaning; qabalistic; cryptic; cryptical; sibylline definition (a) cabalistic

A10 adj. having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin; softening definition (b) salving

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 98 (Answer Keys)

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adj. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; sanguine definition (b) florid

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adj. deficient in alertness or activity definition (b) lethargic

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adj. marked by a ready flow of speech definition (a) voluble

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adj. unrestrained definition (a) uninhibited

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adj. related by blood or marriage definition (b) kindred

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n. the worship of idols definition (d) idolatry

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adj. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment; soft-witted definition (c) witless

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adj. of lustrous grey; silvery; silverish definition (b) argent

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adj. full of trivial conversation; garrulous; loquacious; talkative; talky definition (d) gabby

A10 adj. characterized by ascetic solitude; eremitical; hermitic; hermitical definition (a) anchoritic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 99 (Answer Keys)

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n. an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others; self-importance definition (d) egotism

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n. purging; purification definition (b) catharsis

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n. a specialist in epistemology definition (d) epistemologist

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n. a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) definition (b) dossier

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n. the environmental condition definition (c) milieu

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adj. purported definition (a) putative

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n. an individual's prescribed share of work definition (b) stint

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n. a gay festivity; jamboree; blowout definition (a) gala

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n. a very boastful and talkative person; boaster; blowhard; line-shooter; vaunter definition (b) braggart

A10 n. metal supports for logs in a fireplace; dog definition (d) andiron

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 100 (Answer Keys)

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v. add details to; lard; embellish; aggrandise; blow up; dramatize definition (a) aggrandize

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v. alternate the direction of motion of definition (a) reciprocate

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v. give a description of; describe; make a portrait of; portray definition (d) depict

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v. cause aversion in; sicken; churn up definition (d) nauseate

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v. cut the wings off (of birds) definition (c) pinion

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n. shelter; protection; sponsorship; auspices definition (d) aegis

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v. shine brightly, like a star or a light definition (a) glimmer

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v. kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole definition (d) impale

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v. increase the value of; apprise definition (b) appreciate

A10 v. kill in large numbers; extinguish; eradicate; wipe out; decimate; carry off definition (d) annihilate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 101 (Answer Keys)

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v. walk leisurely and with no apparent aim definition (d) saunter

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adj. lacking clarity or distinctness; shadowy; vague definition (d) wispy

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adv. mistakenly; unintentionally definition (c) inadvertently

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v. make a deposition; depone definition (c) depose

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adj. lofty in style; tall definition (d) magniloquent

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n. style; way; manner; fashion definition (c) mode

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n. the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; indifference definition (c) nonchalance

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n. a musical composition that evokes rural life; idyll; idyl definition (a) pastorale

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adj. (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively; cultivatable; tillable definition (d) cultivable

A10 n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator; absolutism; authoritarianism; oneman rule; shogunate; totalitarianism; tyranny definition (a) despotism

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 102 (Answer Keys)

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adj. old definition (c) superannuated

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adj. reluctant to draw attention to yourself definition (b) retiring

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adj. wildly disordered definition (d) maniacal

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adj. capable of arousing and holding the attention; fascinating; gripping definition (a) riveting

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adj. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type definition (d) archaic

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adj. presenting or taking the same point of view definition (a) synoptic

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v. make without a potter's wheel; coil definition (b) handbuild

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adj. having spots or patches of color definition (c) mottled

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adj. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; loose; promiscuous; sluttish definition (a) wanton

A10 adj. expressing extreme contempt; scornful definition (b) insulting

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 103 (Answer Keys)

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n. powerlessness revealed by an inability to act definition (b) impuissance

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n. a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); exclusive right definition (c) perquisite

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n. lawyer; attorney definition (a) barrister

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n. an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint; halo; nimbus; glory; gloriole definition (c) aureole

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n. bowl-shaped strainer definition (b) colander

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n. a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself definition (a) eddy

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n. poor handwriting; scrawl definition (c) cacography

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n. the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research) definition (c) vivisection

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n. a stroke of ill fortune definition (d) adversity

A10 n. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication definition (a) anathema

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 104 (Answer Keys)

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v. make a parody of; parody definition (c) burlesque

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v. put forward, as of an idea definition (d) propound

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v. disturb the composure of; enervate; unsettle definition (a) faze

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v. indulge (one's appetite) to satiety definition (a) surfeit

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v. cancel officially; countermand; reverse; rescind definition (c) annul

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v. stoop short, as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue; foil definition (b) balk

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v. give to in marriage; plight definition (d) affiance

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v. turn away from by persuasion definition (d) dissuade

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v. give qualities or abilities to; gift; empower; invest; endue definition (d) indue

A10 v. clarify by giving an example of; instance definition (c) exemplify

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 105 (Answer Keys)

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adj. relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing definition (c) piscatorial

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adj. (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment; self-reliant definition (d) autonomous

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n. a very wealthy or powerful businessman; king; magnate; power; top executive; tycoon definition (a) mogul

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n. a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist definition (b) neophyte

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n. liberality in bestowing gifts; magnanimity; openhandedness definition (d) largess

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n. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline; derivation; filiation definition (a) lineage

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adj. motionless; inactive definition (a) quiescent

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n. something intended to deceive; dupery; humbug; put-on definition (d) hoax

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adj. characterized by profanity or cursing; profane definition (c) blasphemous

A10 adj. used of persons or behavior definition (d) inclement

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 106 (Answer Keys)

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adj. characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides definition (a) internecine

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adj. moving and bending with ease; slender; supple; svelte; sylphlike definition (d) lithe

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adj. showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; moody; morose; sour; sullen definition (b) saturnine

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adj. (followed by 'to') informed about something secret or not generally known definition (b) privy

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adj. capable of being deduced definition (a) deducible

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adj. in disarray; frowzled; rumpled; tousled definition (b) disheveled

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n. a confused multitude of things; muddle; fuddle; smother definition (d) welter

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adj. generous in assistance to the poor; eleemosynary; philanthropic definition (b) beneficent

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adj. based on or told of in traditional stories; mythologic; mythological definition (b) mythical

A10 adj. giving or marked by complete attention to; engrossed; intent definition (b) enwrapped

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 107 (Answer Keys)

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n. a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians definition (b) herpetologist

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n. the words of an opera or musical play definition (c) libretto

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n. an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack definition (a) diversion

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n. income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments definition (a) annuity

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n. heavenly state that exists beyond the cycle of reincarnation definition (a) nirvana

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n. color; aspect; outcry definition (a) hue

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v. urge on; egg on definition (d) incite

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n. a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) definition (b) effluvium

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n. stadium; arena definition (b) amphitheater

A10 n. a doctrine that is taught; commandment definition (a) precept

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v. criticize harshly or violently; crucify definition (c) pillory

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v. climb; ascend; weigh definition (c) scale

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v. remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied definition (b) dislodge

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v. mistake one thing for another definition (c) confound

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v. linger in an area; waver; vacillate definition (b) hover

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v. raise to a higher energy level; energise definition (c) energize

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v. express strong disapproval of; objurgate; excoriate definition (c) decry

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v. say, state, or perform again; ingeminate; restate definition (d) reiterate

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v. find repugnant; execrate definition (b) abominate

A10 v. express moral judgements; sermonize; moralize definition (b) preachify

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adj. showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others definition (b) altruistic

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n. one thousand years definition (d) millennium

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adj. dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) definition (d) factious

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n. excessive intolerance of opposing views; zealotry definition (a) fanaticism

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v. link together definition (b) concatenate

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adj. existent everywhere at all times definition (a) omnipresent

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n. crossbreed definition (a) hybrid

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adj. recklessly wasteful; profligate; spendthrift definition (b) prodigal

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n. a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) definition (c) heretic

A10 adj. (of hair) in small tight curls; frizzy; kinky; nappy definition (b) frizzly

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adj. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; purple; regal; royal definition (c) imperial

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adj. touching at a single point definition (d) tangential

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adj. subjected to great tension definition (b) taut

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adj. having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; brinded; tabby definition (a) brindled

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adj. characteristic of the dawn definition (c) auroral

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v. assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned; cue definition (d) prompt

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adj. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; projecting; protruding; relieved definition (d) jutting

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adj. inclined to judge too severely definition (c) hypercritical

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adj. not firmly fastened or secured; unlatched; unlocked; unsecured definition (b) unbarred

A10 adj. not having enough money to pay for necessities; penurious; pinched definition (a) penniless

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n. the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals; dross definition (c) slag

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n. a stock or supply of foods; viands; victuals definition (c) provender

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n. the time between two reigns, governments, etc. definition (a) interregnum

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n. floater definition (c) vagabond

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n. postponement; delay definition (b) reprieve

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n. any of various large flies that annoy livestock definition (b) gadfly

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n. lack of honesty definition (b) knavery

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n. depressant; downer definition (a) sedative

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n. a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors definition (c) chantey

A10 n. having the property of containing fat; fattiness definition (d) adiposity

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v. offer formally; suggest definition (c) tender

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v. sing by changing register; descant definition (d) warble

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v. undergo necrosis; sphacelate definition (c) mortify

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v. attack in speech or writing definition (d) assail

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v. cut small bits or pare shavings from definition (d) whittle

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v. reproduce; bring forth definition (a) spawn

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v. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster definition (b) higgle

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v. decrease in phase definition (d) wane

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v. make or emit a high sound; clink; chink definition (d) tink

A10 v. cause to grow or increase rapidly definition (c) proliferate

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adj. sealed by fusion so as to be airtight; obscure and mysterious; occult definition (c) hermetic

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n. the highest point (of something); apex definition (c) acme

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v. furnish with power or authority definition (b) adorn

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n. a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons) definition (b) matriarch

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n. wrongful conduct by a public official definition (b) malfeasance

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adj. of or relating to or similar to bears definition (a) ursine

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adj. out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded; passe; passee definition (b) demode

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n. an auxiliary activity; hobby; pursuit; sideline; spare-time activity definition (c) avocation

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adj. softly bright or radiant; lucent; luminous definition (d) aglow

A10 n. a purging medicine; physic definition (c) aperient

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adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; raffish; rakish; spiffy; snappy; spruce definition (d) natty

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adj. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam; pagan definition (d) ethnic

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adj. slow; inactive; lethargic definition (d) sluggish

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adj. characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity definition (d) simplistic

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adj. defying imitation definition (a) inimitable

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adj. obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation definition (d) visceral

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adj. of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air; terrestrial; terrene definition (a) tellurian

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adj. heavenly; light; airy definition (b) ethereal

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adj. lacking sense or understanding or judgment (of especially persons) definition (c) nitwitted

A10 adj. full of juice definition (b) succulent

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n. an instance of misfortune; mischance definition (d) mishap

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n. a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time definition (c) verdigris

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n. a state of extreme confusion and disorder; bedlam; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness definition (a) pandemonium

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n. all future generations definition (c) posterity

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n. a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone) definition (b) facet

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n. a smooth three-beat gait definition (b) canter

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n. an ambitious and aspiring young person; hopeful; wannabe; wannabee definition (c) aspirant

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n. favorable; beneficent definition (b) auspicious

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n. a butcher's knife having a large square blade; chopper definition (b) cleaver

A10 n. a framework that supports climbing plants; bower; pergola definition (a) arbour

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v. make repayment for or return something definition (b) requite

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v. look for and gather definition (b) cull

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v. be a precursor of; introduce definition (a) inaugurate

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v. warm by rubbing, as with the hands definition (d) chafe

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v. plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh definition (c) sheathe

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v. hew; chisel; dig; excavate definition (d) quarry

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v. arise; come from; originate definition (b) stem

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v. be about; lounge; loaf; hang around; mill around definition (c) lallygag

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v. become tight or as if tight; narrow definition (b) constringe

A10 v. engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; conjure; machinate definition (a) complot

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n. convent; monastery definition (a) cloister

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n. quality of being quick to react definition (b) responsiveness

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adj. having an unpleasant smell; unpleasant-smelling; ill-smelling; stinky definition (a) malodorous

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n. mixed feelings or emotions definition (b) ambivalence

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n. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work; navvy; galley slave definition (d) peon

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adj. not having control over urination and defecation definition (c) incontinent

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n. state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment definition (b) servitude

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adj. lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body definition (d) lateral

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n. the state of being under the control of another person; vassalage definition (d) serfdom

A10 adj. of or belonging to or active during the day; having a daily cycle or occurring every day definition (d) diurnal

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adj. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades definition (c) stygian

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adj. having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue definition (c) irrelevant

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adj. rising again as to new life and vigor definition (d) resurgent

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adj. frenzied as if possessed by a demon; demoniac; demoniacal definition (b) berserk

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v. turn pale; whiten definition (c) blanch

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n. the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair); hair style definition (d) coiffure

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adj. curving or bulging outward definition (b) convex

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adj. free of deceit definition (b) guileless

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adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; meddling; officious definition (b) busybodied

A10 adj. not following logically as a consequence definition (a) inconsequential

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 119 (Answer Keys)

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n. hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles; cuticle; shield definition (b) carapace

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n. a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; standard definition (c) criteria

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n. place of purification definition (c) purgatory

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n. the manner in which something is expressed in words; phrasing; phraseology; choice of words definition (c) verbiage

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n. an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal definition (d) gargoyle

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adj. exposing human folly to ridicule definition (d) satirical

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n. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving; filling; pick definition (a) weft

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n. edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants; dasheen definition (c) eddo

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n. a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) definition (c) preamble

A10 n. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil; remediation definition (c) redress

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 120 (Answer Keys)

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v. determine the number or amount of definition (b) enumerate

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v. take exception to; except definition (a) demur

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v. have a celebration definition (c) fete

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v. reflect deeply on a subject; think over; meditate; contemplate; reflect definition (d) muse

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v. ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer definition (d) supplicate

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v. fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters definition (a) scuffle

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adj. not easily irritated; good-tempered; placid definition (b) equable

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v. move or swing from side to side regularly definition (b) oscillate

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v. make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; negate definition (c) nullify

A10 v. make children; engender; father; mother; generate; bring forth definition (d) sire

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n. one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather definition (b) barb

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v. take off or remove definition (d) dismantle

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adv. without error; accurately definition (d) unerringly

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n. something left after other parts have been taken away; residual; residuum; rest definition (d) residue

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adj. subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration definition (d) seismic

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v. lose water or moisture; dry up definition (c) desiccate

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n. apoapsis in Earth orbit definition (a) apogee

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adj. tastelessly showy; cheap; flash; gaudy definition (d) garish

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n. a notice of someone's death; necrology definition (c) obituary

A10 v. prove to be false or incorrect; controvert definition (b) refute

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 122 (Answer Keys)

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adj. spiteful; harmful; deadly definition (b) malignant

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adj. blurry; foggy; fuzzy; muzzy definition (d) hazy

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adj. spreading or spread throughout; permeative definition (a) pervasive

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adj. (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted definition (a) congenial

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adj. hard; stiff; inflexible definition (a) rigid

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n. temporary camp definition (d) bivouac

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adj. in deplorable condition; derelict; ramshackle; tatterdemalion; tumble-down definition (a) dilapidated

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adj. lacking moral discipline definition (a) licentious

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adj. characterized by intense emotion; fiery; impassioned; torrid definition (b) perfervid

A10 adj. filled with bewilderment; nonplussed; puzzled definition (d) nonplused

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 123 (Answer Keys)

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n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); guile; wile; shenanigan definition (a) chicanery

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n. a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues definition (a) antiseptic

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n. expression; set phrase definition (a) idiom

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n. a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry definition (d) virtuoso

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n. a dirty shabbily clothed urchin definition (b) ragamuffin

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n. the act of showing affection definition (d) endearment

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n. the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; interpretation definition (a) rendition

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n. causing to move repeatedly from side to side; shake definition (c) waggle

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n. agreement on a secret plot definition (c) collusion

A10 n. a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds; epos definition (a) epic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 124 (Answer Keys)

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v. indicate by signs; portend; prognosticate; omen; betoken; foreshadow definition (b) presage

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v. turn away or aside definition (a) avert

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v. cut the head of; decollate definition (b) decapitate

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v. leave slowly and hesitantly definition (d) tarry

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v. offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction definition (b) immolate

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v. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; tempt definition (a) entice

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v. manage in a makeshift way definition (a) improvise

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v. complain; grouse; crab; squawk; bellyache; holler definition (d) beef

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v. coat with a green incrustation definition (d) patinate

A10 v. moo definition (c) low

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 125 (Answer Keys)

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n. a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar definition (b) pestle

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n. a collector and student of postage stamps definition (b) philatelist

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adj. having existed from the beginning; primeval; primaeval definition (c) primordial

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adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; emaciated; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted definition (b) gaunt

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n. bone linking the scapula and sternum definition (c) clavicle

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n. kinship; blood relation definition (c) consanguinity

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v. breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; heave definition (c) gasp

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v. approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation definition (b) ratify

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adj. situated at or extending to great depth; unplumbed; unsounded definition (a) unfathomed

A10 v. annoy continually or chronically; hassle; harry; plague; provoke definition (a) chevvy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 126 (Answer Keys)

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adj. impossible to doubt or dispute definition (d) indisputable

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adj. (used especially of persons) of inferior size; shrimpy definition (a) puny

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adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; grabby; grasping; greedy definition (b) prehensile

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adj. existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact definition (c) virtual

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adj. pleasing to the sense of taste; savoury definition (a) savory

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adj. of or relating to alluvium definition (d) alluvial

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adj. without or almost without hope definition (d) despondent

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adj. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety definition (d) discerning

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adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; obstinate; unrepentant definition (b) cussed

A10 adj. not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty; dyspnoeic; dyspneal; dyspnoeal definition (c) dyspneic

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n. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; nonpareil; saint; apotheosis; nonesuch; nonsuch definition (b) paragon

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n. good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries definition (a) serendipity

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n. a passage selected from a larger work; extract; selection definition (a) excerpt

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n. a communication that makes you afraid to try something definition (c) intimidation

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n. a person who is tricked or swindled definition (d) dupe

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n. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated definition (d) alimony

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adj. doing arduous or unpleasant work; labouring; toiling definition (b) drudging

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n. a small book usually having a paper cover; folder; leaflet; pamphlet definition (c) brochure

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n. structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly; offset definition (b) setoff

A10 n. a surrounding or nearby region; neighborhood; neighbourhood; neck of the woods definition (a) locality

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v. censure severely or angrily; reprimand; jaw; dress down; call down definition (c) berate

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v. draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to definition (b) underscore

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v. add padding to definition (b) bolster

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v. tie with a rope or chain definition (a) tether

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v. pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness definition (d) waffle

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v. accuse; serve as evidence against definition (d) incriminate

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v. wish ill or allow unwillingly definition (a) begrudge

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v. be false to; cozen definition (b) delude

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v. dispose or incline or entice to definition (d) allure

A10 v. eliminate from the body; eliminate; pass definition (c) egest

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adj. of or relating to demography definition (a) demographic

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v. catch sight of; espy; spy definition (a) descry

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v. cause to lose courage; scare off; pall; frighten off; scare away; frighten away; scare definition (d) daunt

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v. make a spot or mark onto; blob; blot definition (a) fleck

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n. an unfavorable omen definition (a) foreboding

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n. a raised or strengthened seam definition (a) welt

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n. a full supply; plenteousness; plentitude definition (c) plenitude

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adj. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam; pagan; ethnic definition (c) heathen

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adj. having or covered with hair definition (d) hirsute

A10 n. noisy talk; yakety-yak; chatter; cackle definition (d) yack

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adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; ornery definition (b) crotchety

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adj. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated; high-flown; high-minded; lofty definition (a) rarefied

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adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; self-willed; wilful definition (b) willful

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adj. characterized by directness in manner or speech; forthright; frank; point-blank; straight-from-theshoulder definition (c) outspoken

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adj. sincerely or intensely felt definition (b) cordial

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adj. consisting of or forming human or animal figures definition (c) figurative

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adj. showing sorrow; tearful; weeping definition (d) lachrymose

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adj. communicated in words; verbalized; verbalised definition (d) uttered

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adj. required by obligation or compulsion or convention definition (c) obligatory

A10 adj. spreading by diffusion; dispersive; disseminative definition (d) diffusing

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n. a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility; bad blood definition (b) animosity

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n. a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family definition (b) saga

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n. a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal definition (b) patina

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n. the striking of a light beam on a surface definition (d) incidence

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n. bending; distorting definition (d) contortions

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n. promise; pledge definition (d) assurance

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adj. extremely evil or cruel; diabolical; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy definition (b) demonic

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n. study of poetic meter definition (d) prosody

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n. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; assumption definition (a) effrontery

A10 n. someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue; umpire definition (a) arbitrator

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v. conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; lead by the nose; play false definition (d) hoodwink

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v. duplicate; copy definition (b) replicate

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v. persuade through constant efforts definition (d) badger

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v. express or state clearly; vocalize; vocalise definition (a) enunciate

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v. coat with plaster; plaster; smear definition (b) daub

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v. escape, either physically or mentally definition (b) bilk

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v. leave immediately; fuck off; get definition (c) scram

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v. act or move at high speed; hurry; look sharp definition (d) festinate

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v. play boisterously; lark; rollick; skylark; disport; sport definition (b) cavort

A10 v. be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get definition (d) flummox

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 133 (Answer Keys)

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v. enumerate definition (d) list

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adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; natty; raffish definition (d) dapper

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adj. habitually complaining; whiney; whiny definition (d) querulous

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n. large deep serving dish with a cover definition (c) tureen

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adj. vigorous and animated definition (c) vivacious

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v. take away the enthusiasm of definition (d) dishearten

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n. a small secluded room; snuggery; snug definition (b) cubby

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adj. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; suave definition (c) bland

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adj. all of the same or similar kind or nature definition (c) homogeneous

A10 n. the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) definition (c) malediction

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adj. repeated too often; commonplace; old-hat; shopworn; threadbare; timeworn definition (b) trite

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adj. marked by stubborn resistance to authority definition (b) recalcitrant

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adj. made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) definition (d) brazen

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adj. of something having a dusty purplish pink color; rosaceous definition (b) roseate

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adj. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; waxy definition (a) pliant

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n. a source of concern definition (b) bugaboo

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adj. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; odd; peculiar; queer; singular definition (c) rummy

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adj. (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear definition (a) tremulous

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adj. having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship; keeled definition (a) carinate

A10 adj. rigidly formal or bound by convention definition (c) ceremonious

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n. a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing definition (d) cordon

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n. the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 definition (c) holocaust

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n. a small or moderate or token amount definition (c) modicum

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n. declaration that something is true definition (a) affirmation

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n. the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets definition (a) espionage

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n. person who resembles a nonhuman primate definition (b) ape

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n. a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public definition (a) subsidy

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n. a stopping definition (a) cessation

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n. tone of voice; quality of sound definition (a) timbre

A10 n. a burial vault (usually for some famous person) definition (c) repository

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v. remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; undress definition (a) divest

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v. chain; shackle definition (b) fetter

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v. bear the expenses of definition (b) defray

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v. make turbid by stirring up the sediments of definition (d) roil

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v. wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; lurk; ambuscade; lie in wait definition (c) waylay

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v. send to an address definition (b) consign

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v. cause to feel shame; chagrin; humble definition (a) abase

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v. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; ideate definition (a) envisage

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v. go back to bad behavior; regress; retrogress; fall back definition (d) recidivate

A10 v. spot, stain, or pollute; defile; maculate definition (d) befoul

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adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; cordial; genial definition (c) affable

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n. a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect definition (c) incantation

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v. annoy continually or chronically; hassle; harry definition (b) provoke

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adj. unsatisfied; not soothed definition (c) unassuaged

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n. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface definition (a) catastrophe

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adj. changeable; unstable definition (a) labile

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adj. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; plundered; ransacked definition (c) looted

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n. the property of giving off bubbles; frothiness definition (d) bubbliness

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adj. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; lukewarm definition (c) tepid

A10 adj. capable of being obtained; obtainable; procurable definition (a) getable

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adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion; liverish definition (b) dyspeptic

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adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness definition (b) wan

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adj. brought low in spirit; deflated definition (c) crestfallen

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adj. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars definition (d) stellar

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adj. indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way definition (c) oblique

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v. pour out definition (c) decant

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adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; rueful; ruthful definition (d) contrite

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adj. in opposition to a civil authority or government; subversive definition (c) insurgent

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adj. intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; placative; placatory definition (a) appeasing

A10 adj. occurring at or forming an end or termination; last; terminal definition (b) concluding

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 139 (Answer Keys)

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n. an ancestor in the direct line definition (b) progenitor

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n. the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; body definition (b) torso

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n. the quality of being wordy and talkative; loquaciousness; loquacity; talkativeness definition (c) garrulity

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n. the feeling of a hostile person; ill will definition (b) enmity

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n. hard monotonous routine work; grind; donkeywork definition (d) drudgery

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n. a state of deterioration due to old age or long use definition (a) decrepitude

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n. thick cushion used as a seat; puff; hassock definition (d) pouffe

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n. the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains; fossilology definition (d) paleontology

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n. informing by words; notification definition (b) apprisal

A10 n. looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth); tweediness definition (d) nubbiness

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v. become smaller or lose substance; dimish definition (a) dwindle

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v. assemble or get together; collect; pull together definition (b) garner

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v. divide unfairly and to one's advantage definition (a) gerrymander

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v. disavow; deny definition (c) disclaim

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v. imply as a possibility definition (b) intimate

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v. cause to be nervous or upset definition (c) fluster

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n. the act of coming (or going) out; emergence definition (c) egression

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v. verify; examine definition (c) check

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v. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; fix; doctor; furbish up; restore; touch on definition (a) bushel

A10 v. walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; ruffle; prance; strut; sashay; cock definition (c) tittup

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 141 (Answer Keys)

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adj. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; in love; potty; smitten definition (c) enamored

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adj. decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic definition (b) tessellated

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adj. separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; come off; come away definition (d) detached

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adj. showing hovering attentiveness definition (a) solicitous

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v. make turbid by stirring up the sediments of definition (a) rile

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n. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; volute; helix definition (b) whorl

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n. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity; pompousness; pretentiousness; puffiness; splashiness; inflation definition (d) pomposity

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adj. showing sorrow; lachrymose; tearful; weeping definition (b) dolorous

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v. give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; effeminise; womanize definition (b) effeminize

A10 n. disparaging terms for small people; peewee; half-pint definition (d) runt

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 142 (Answer Keys)

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adj. not worth considering; trifling definition (c) negligible

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adj. having self-possession upset definition (d) discombobulated

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adj. having a secret or hidden meaning; qabalistic; cryptic; cryptical definition (c) sibylline

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adj. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue definition (d) astringent

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adj. diagrammatic definition (d) schematic

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adj. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; muscular; powerful definition (d) sinewy

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adj. showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; moody; saturnine; sour; sullen definition (b) morose

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adj. in an opposing direction definition (b) adverse

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adj. not defended or capable of being defended; undefended; open definition (d) assailable

A10 adj. tending to cure or restore to health; remedial; sanative; therapeutic definition (a) alterative

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 143 (Answer Keys)

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n. legal order definition (c) writ

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n. the act of secluding yourself from others definition (a) seclusion

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n. someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity; shammer definition (b) malingerer

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n. the study or investigation of ancestry and family history definition (d) genealogy

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n. last station; end definition (a) terminus

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v. arouse or excite feelings and passions; wake; heat; fire up definition (c) ignite

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n. property consisting of houses and land; immovable definition (c) realty

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n. a street with only one way in or out; dead-end street definition (c) impasse

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n. a capacious bag or basket; tote; tote bag definition (a) carryall

A10 n. an appearance of reflected light; glow definition (b) lambency

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 144 (Answer Keys)

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v. join; unite; fuse; mend definition (d) solder

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v. harass with persistent criticism or carping; razz; rag; cod definition (a) tantalize

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v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation definition (c) maim

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v. avoid dealing with definition (d) shirk

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v. suffer from intense heat definition (c) swelter

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v. make secure underneath definition (a) undergird

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v. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality definition (c) wither

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v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; retract; resile definition (b) forswear

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v. express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death definition (d) condole

A10 v. achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods; manage definition (c) finagle

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 145 (Answer Keys)

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v. cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; play definition (c) wreak

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n. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled; rowboat definition (d) dinghy

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adj. stubbornly unyielding; persistent; pertinacious; tenacious; unyielding definition (d) dogged

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adj. curved down like an eagle's beak definition (c) aquiline

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adj. lacking in power or forcefulness; unable definition (b) ineffectual

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n. overbearingness definition (b) imperiousness

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n. a person who carries a message definition (a) courier

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n. a notice of someone's death; necrology definition (c) obit

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adj. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; corporeal definition (a) somatic

A10 adj. moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion; wriggly; writhing definition (a) wriggling

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 146 (Answer Keys)

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adj. tangled in knots or snarls; snarly definition (c) knotty

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adj. relating to or involved in therapy definition (b) therapeutic

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adj. furnishing added support; adjuvant; appurtenant; auxiliary definition (a) ancillary

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adj. lacking distinct or individual characteristics definition (c) nondescript

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n. verbal punishment definition (b) castigation

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v. give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc. definition (b) reek

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adj. depressingly dark; sulky definition (a) gloomful

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adj. relating to the blood vessels or blood; hematal; haematal definition (c) haemal

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adj. characteristic of or relating to winter; hiemal definition (c) hibernal

A10 adj. of this earth or world definition (b) temporal

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 147 (Answer Keys)

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n. a very embarrassing misunderstanding definition (c) imbroglio

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n. balm; ointment definition (d) unguent

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n. a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur definition (b) megalomania

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n. someone who insists on something definition (d) stickler

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n. shrewd or crafty management of public affairs definition (b) polity

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n. a short pithy instructive saying; apophthegm definition (c) apothegm

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n. someone who creates new things; mastermind definition (d) conceiver

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n. kindly endorsement and guidance; aegis definition (c) auspices

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n. a miniature model of something definition (b) microcosm

A10 n. stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance; rakishness definition (c) dapperness

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 148 (Answer Keys)

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v. assign great social importance to; celebrate definition (c) lionize

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v. cause to separate and go in different directions; break up; scatter definition (b) dispel

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v. shine; sparkle; glow definition (b) scintillate

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v. express a negative opinion of; pick at definition (a) disparage

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n. a person who shows no gratitude; ungrateful person definition (d) ingrate

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n. a club used as a weapon definition (a) bludgeon

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v. make more beautiful; embellish; prettify definition (a) fancify

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v. hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; block; hinder; stymie; embarrass definition (b) stymy

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v. overcome as with astonishment or disbelief definition (c) bedaze

A10 v. dance the slam dance; thrash definition (a) mosh

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adj. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars definition (d) astral

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v. cast off; repudiate definition (a) renounce

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adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; fictional; fictitious definition (c) fancied

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n. delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire); fillagree definition (c) filigree

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n. someone who fights with his fists for sport definition (c) pugilist

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adj. capable of igniting and burning definition (b) combustible

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adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism definition (b) vituperative

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v. express criticism towards definition (a) upbraid

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n. a set of clothing (with accessories); rig; turnout definition (d) getup

A10 adj. spreading or spread throughout; permeative; pervasive definition (a) permeant

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adj. of a color at the end of the color spectrum; blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; crimson definition (b) ruddy

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adj. consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story definition (b) narrative

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adj. extremely scanty definition (a) exiguous

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adj. having many aspects; miscellaneous definition (d) multifarious

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n. the process of pulling or holding or drawing a part back definition (d) retraction

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v. complain; crab; beef; squawk; bellyache; holler definition (d) grouse

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adj. banned definition (c) outlawed

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adj. producing a sizeable profit; remunerative definition (a) lucrative

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adj. tending to promote physical well-being definition (b) salutary

A10 adj. characterized by obscenity; foul; nasty; smutty definition (a) cruddy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 151 (Answer Keys)

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n. a sudden and violent collapse definition (a) fiasco

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n. a Mass celebrated for the dead definition (b) requiem

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n. the act of ordaining definition (a) ordination

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n. a specialist in the care of babies; pediatrist; paediatrician definition (b) pediatrician

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n. a large burial chamber, usually above ground definition (b) mausoleum

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n. an extravagantly enthusiastic review definition (a) rave

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adj. alone; unique; unparalleled definition (b) unequaled

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adj. clearly defined or formulated definition (c) unequivocal

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n. a theatrical performer; player; thespian; role player definition (b) histrion

A10 n. an obsolete firearm with a long barrel; hackbut; hagbut definition (d) arquebus

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 152 (Answer Keys)

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v. lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of definition (b) belittle

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v. cancel officially; lift; countermand; reverse; overturn; rescind; vacate definition (c) repeal

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v. give in, as to influence or pressure; soften definition (c) relent

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v. make amends for; abye; atone definition (a) expiate

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v. mix up or confuse; puddle definition (c) muddle

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adj. attracting or delighting definition (c) piquant

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v. cause to be embarrassed definition (c) abash

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v. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; prevaricate definition (b) palter

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v. remove the consecration from a person or an object; deconsecrate definition (a) unhallow

A10 v. accord or comport with; beseem definition (d) befit

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 153 (Answer Keys)

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adj. used of old persons or old trees; knotted; knotty; knobbed definition (c) gnarled

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v. adapt; adjust definition (d) acclimate

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adj. (of a male) unable to copulate definition (a) impotent

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adj. driven by lust; lustful definition (c) libidinous

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n. a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery) definition (d) refectory

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v. kill in large numbers; extinguish; eradicate; wipe out; carry off definition (a) decimate

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adj. showing inventiveness and skill definition (b) ingenious

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v. defeat thoroughly; mop up; whip; rack up definition (d) worst

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n. a person who is discontented or disgusted definition (d) malcontent

A10 n. the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet definition (a) iota

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adj. rendered competent through trial and experience definition (b) seasoned

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adj. fitting or appropriate and deserved definition (d) condign

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adj. having spots or patches of color definition (c) dappled

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adj. joyously unrestrained; high-spirited definition (c) ebullient

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adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace definition (c) surly

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n. a trip taken by an official at public expense definition (c) junket

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adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; grief-stricken; grieving definition (a) bereft

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adj. unwisely talking too much; blabby; talkative definition (b) bigmouthed

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adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; discomfited; frustrated; thwarted definition (a) foiled

A10 adj. fraudulent; phony; bastard definition (d) phoney

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 155 (Answer Keys)

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n. scorn; disdain definition (b) contempt

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n. an event that is a beginning definition (c) inception

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n. ointment; cream; lotion definition (c) balm

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n. a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language definition (d) nomenclature

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n. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt definition (c) ordeal

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n. any substance that can be used as food; eatable; pabulum definition (a) victuals

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n. the act of umpiring; officiating definition (b) refereeing

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n. a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote definition (b) obelisk

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n. an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation definition (b) gratuity

A10 n. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature; cap definition (d) chapiter

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 156 (Answer Keys)

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v. free somebody (from an erroneous belief) definition (d) disabuse

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v. fill or cover completely, usually with water; submerge definition (a) inundate

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v. be exposed definition (c) bask

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v. repay; refund; compensate for a loss definition (c) reimburse

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v. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity definition (a) levitate

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v. make a face indicating disgust or dislike definition (b) wince

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v. spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly definition (a) bungle

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v. decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) definition (c) beset

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v. restrain definition (d) temper

A10 v. make a written or typewritten copy definition (c) transcribe

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 157 (Answer Keys)

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v. destroy or injure severely definition (c) mutilate

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adj. infinitely or immeasurably small definition (c) infinitesimal

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adj. attempting to win favor by flattery; sycophantic; toadyish definition (b) fawning

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adj. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; rasping; rough; scratchy definition (a) raspy

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v. become undone definition (b) unravel

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n. someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive definition (b) kleptomaniac

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adj. annoyed and irritable; cross; fussy; grouchy; grumpy; bad-tempered; ill-tempered definition (b) crabby

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v. grant voting rights definition (a) enfranchise

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adj. of or relating to or characteristic of a person having great power definition (d) czarist

A10 adj. incapable of being overcome or subdued; unvanquishable definition (d) invincible

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adj. uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable definition (a) errant

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adj. reduced to liquid form by heating; liquified definition (c) molten

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adj. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary definition (a) innate

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adj. using or containing too many words; windy; wordy definition (b) verbose

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n. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (beneath a church) definition (a) crypt

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adj. of a son or daughter definition (a) filial

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adj. rapidly changing; fickle definition (c) volatile

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adj. not disposed or willing to believe definition (d) incredulous

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adj. unhealthy looking definition (b) sallow

A10 adj. without a basis in reason or fact; idle; unfounded; unwarranted; wild definition (c) baseless

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n. category name definition (b) rubric

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n. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit; scholastic definition (c) pedant

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n. doubt about the truth of something; skepticism; mental rejection definition (d) incredulity

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n. the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed definition (b) renown

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n. a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other definition (a) vendetta

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n. act of guessing or inferring definition (a) extrapolation

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n. tendency of a system to safeguard internal stability definition (c) homeostasis

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n. the removal of covering; uncovering; husking definition (b) baring

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n. rushing about hastily in an undignified way; scurry definition (b) scamper

A10 n. blatant or sensational promotion; hype; plug definition (d) ballyhoo

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v. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; scant definition (a) stint

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v. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; devastate; desolate; scourge definition (c) ravage

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v. give; submit; do; provide definition (b) render

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v. correct by punishment or discipline; subdue definition (a) chasten

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v. make stupid with alcohol definition (c) befuddle

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v. curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment; anathemize; comminate; anathemise; anathematize; anathematise definition (a) execrate

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adj. based on pretense definition (a) specious

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v. make obscure or unclear definition (d) obfuscate

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v. turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg) definition (a) supinate

A10 v. make impossible, especially beforehand; close out definition (a) preclude

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 161 (Answer Keys)

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v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; palaver; blarney; coax; sweet-talk definition (c) inveigle

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v. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.; fall back; fall behind definition (c) dawdle

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v. send by train; construct a fence definition (b) rail

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n. a movement back from an impact; rebound; backlash definition (b) repercussion

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n. formal conversation definition (d) colloquy

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v. increase in phase definition (b) wax

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n. something illusory and unattainable definition (d) mirage

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v. give off (water) through the skin definition (d) transpire

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adj. basic; elementary; fundamental definition (c) rudimentary

A10 v. advance evidence for; cite definition (c) abduce

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adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; menacing definition (b) baleful

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adj. impossible to repair, rectify, or amend definition (a) irreparable

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adj. immaculately clean and unused definition (c) pristine

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adj. resembling or characteristic of a fox definition (b) vulpine

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n. horny projecting mouth of a bird; neb; pecker definition (c) nib

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n. great merriment; mirthfulness; glee; gleefulness definition (a) hilarity

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adj. associated with the priesthood or priests; sacerdotal definition (c) hieratical

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adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; scrupulous definition (a) painstaking

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adj. having hair on the cheeks and chin; bewhiskered; whiskered; whiskery definition (b) barbate

A10 adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; sneaky; surreptitious definition (b) stealthy

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n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field; savant definition (c) pundit

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n. picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing definition (d) semblance

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n. a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others; peeper definition (c) voyeur

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n. an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension; separator definition (b) centrifuge

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n. exemption from punishment or loss definition (d) impunity

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n. reply; answer; response definition (c) rejoinder

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n. a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting; vomitive; nauseant definition (a) emetic

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adj. characterized by abundance of verdure definition (c) verdant

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adj. shaped like a ring; annulated; circinate; ringed; ring-shaped; doughnut-shaped definition (a) annular

A10 n. an angry dispute; row; words; run-in definition (b) dustup

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v. occur as a result of definition (c) stem from

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v. cause to become widely known; circularize; propagate; broadcast; spread; diffuse; pass around definition (c) disperse

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v. obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically definition (c) wrest

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v. contribute; add; bring; grant definition (d) bestow

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adj. more than is needed, desired, or required; redundant; spare; superfluous; supernumerary; surplus definition (d) supererogatory

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v. have a desire for something or someone who is not present; yen; languish definition (c) pine

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v. expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute definition (b) compromise

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v. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; palter definition (b) prevaricate

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v. consent to, give permission; let definition (d) countenance

A10 v. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; plop; plunk; plump down; plunk down; plump definition (c) plonk

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 165 (Answer Keys)

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n. influencing strongly; impact definition (d) encroachment

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n. favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs) definition (b) nepotism

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adj. of or belonging to the family Equidae definition (a) equine

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adj. showing; pointing out; suggestive definition (c) indicative

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adj. sanctioned by established authority; authorised definition (c) authoritative

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v. strip the leaves or branches from definition (d) defoliate

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v. sign in the presence of witnesses definition (a) execute

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v. run away; absquatulate; decamp; run off; go off; make off definition (a) abscond

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v. chew (food); jaw definition (d) manducate

A10 n. a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower definition (c) cascade

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 166 (Answer Keys)

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adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; double-dealing; duplicitous definition (a) ambidextrous

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adj. prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute definition (d) statutory

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adj. involving or constituting a cause definition (a) causal

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adj. of the same period; contemporaneous definition (c) coeval

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adj. (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; tight definition (b) miserly

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adj. free from provincial prejudices or attachments definition (b) catholic

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adj. suffering shame; dishonored; shamed definition (d) disgraced

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v. make a reduction, as in one's workforce definition (b) retrench

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adj. not used up; odd; remaining; unexpended definition (c) leftover

A10 adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; pliable; pliant; tensile definition (c) tractile

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 167 (Answer Keys)

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n. a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease definition (b) stigma

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n. a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure definition (d) smirk

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n. a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times definition (a) alchemy

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n. the body of teachers and administrators at a school definition (c) faculty

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n. the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) definition (b) uniformity

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adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; self-willed; willful; wilful definition (d) headstrong

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n. the verbal act of urging on; instigation definition (b) abetment

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n. street names for flunitrazepan; rophy; rope; roach; forget me drug; circle definition (b) roofy

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n. a tart spicy quality; piquancy; piquantness; zest definition (c) tanginess

A10 n. disorderly fighting; dogfight; rough-and-tumble definition (a) tussle

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 168 (Answer Keys)

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v. declare invalid; void; avoid; nullify definition (a) quash

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v. raise in rank, character, or status definition (c) exalt

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v. throw forcefully; cast definition (d) hurtle

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v. injure badly by beating definition (c) maul

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v. combine so as to form a whole definition (b) compound

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v. strike; beat; hit definition (d) flail

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n. an offensive disrespectful impudent act definition (d) insolence

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v. receive into the mind and retain definition (d) imbibe

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v. sleep in a convenient place; crash definition (b) doss

A10 v. overeat or eat immodestly; overindulge definition (d) binge

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 169 (Answer Keys)

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n. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will; gall; rancour definition (c) rancor

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adj. abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse definition (a) chaste

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adj. taking delight in beauty definition (b) sensuous

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v. argue over petty things; pettifog; bicker; squabble; brabble definition (a) quibble

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n. a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations definition (b) delirium

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n. a medicine used to relieve pain; painkiller; pain pill definition (c) anodyne

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adj. of or relating to or supporting Romanism; Romanist; romish; Roman Catholic definition (d) papistical

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adj. having or exerting a malignant influence; malign; evil definition (c) malevolent

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adj. darkened by clouds; sullen; threatening definition (d) lowering

A10 adj. rhapsodic; excited; delighted definition (a) enraptured

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 170 (Answer Keys)

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adj. unpleasantly loud and harsh definition (c) strident

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adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; cruel; roughshod; savage; vicious definition (a) fell

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adj. used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law definition (b) forensic

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adj. lacking foresight or scope; unforesightful definition (c) myopic

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adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; gaga; senile definition (a) doddering

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n. something of small importance; trifle; small beer definition (d) trivia

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adj. without or deprived of the use of speech or words definition (d) inarticulate

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adj. being present everywhere at once definition (b) ubiquitous

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adj. dulled by surfeit definition (a) jaded

A10 adj. characteristic of the provinces or their people definition (d) provincial

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 171 (Answer Keys)

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n. irregular atmospheric motion definition (a) turbulence

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n. an act of economizing definition (a) economy

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n. shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease) definition (c) tremor

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n. leader of 100 soldiers in the Roman army definition (b) centurion

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n. a member of the middle class definition (d) bourgeois

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n. loud confused noise from many sources; brouhaha; katzenjammer definition (b) hubbub

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n. social status or position conferred by a system based on class definition (b) caste

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n. formal and explicit approval; endorsement; warrant; imprimatur definition (d) countenance

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n. a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair; twist definition (a) tress

A10 n. a farm building for housing poultry; henhouse definition (c) hencoop

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 172 (Answer Keys)

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v. undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; condense definition (b) distill

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v. make amends for; repair definition (b) indemnify

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v. attach or become attached to a stem word definition (c) affix

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v. fight definition (c) bandy

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n. someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently definition (d) wastrel

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v. recover through digging definition (c) unearth

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v. strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison definition (d) hopple

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v. conceal; hide; cover definition (a) enshroud

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v. purge; cast; sick; chuck; honk; hrow up definition (d) barf

A10 v. enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; enclose definition (a) enwrap

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 173 (Answer Keys)

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n. distance travelled per unit time definition (b) velocity

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n. a procession of people traveling on horseback definition (c) cavalcade

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adj. easily irritated or annoyed; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peevish definition (b) testy

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adj. the single one of its kind definition (b) singular

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n. an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; porta definition (c) orifice

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adj. being or made softer or less loud or clear; softened definition (c) muted

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adj. not genuine or real; imitation; simulated definition (c) faux

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n. animal belonging to a subdivision of animals whose bodies and limbs are composed of segments jointed together definition (b) articulate

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adj. extravagantly demonstrative; gushy definition (d) effusive

A10 n. any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods definition (b) mite

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 174 (Answer Keys)

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adj. profoundly honored; venerable definition (b) august

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adj. having the ability to perceive or understand definition (a) perceptive

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adj. producing a sensation of touch definition (a) tactile

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adj. lying face downward definition (d) prone

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n. the state of being anonymous definition (a) anonymity

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n. something or someone turned to for assistance or security; resort definition (b) recourse

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adj. tiresomely long definition (b) interminable

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adj. used of a person's appearance or behavior; imposing definition (b) magisterial

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adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; vertiginous definition (a) woozy

A10 adj. tending to betray; treacherous definition (b) perfidious

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 175 (Answer Keys)

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n. a deep opening in the earth's surface definition (d) chasm

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n. decree; command definition (d) fiat

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n. an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved; comeupance definition (c) comeuppance

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n. a person who is very poor definition (d) pauper

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n. an ardent follower and admirer; lover definition (c) devotee

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n. the study of the sources and development of words definition (d) etymology

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v. get worse or fall back to a previous condition; retrogress definition (c) retrograde

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n. a person who operates a farm; sodbuster definition (c) granger

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n. the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean; littoral zone; sands definition (d) litoral

A10 n. a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; rickshaw definition (d) jinrikisha

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 176 (Answer Keys)

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v. advance beyond the usual limit definition (b) impinge

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v. stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock definition (c) galvanize

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v. have as a necessary feature definition (d) imply

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v. combine; blend; unify; unite; include definition (d) incorporate

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v. attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source definition (b) impute

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v. spend frivolously and unwisely; dissipate; shoot; fool definition (c) fritter

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adj. meanly avaricious and mercenary definition (c) sordid

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v. reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current definition (a) commutate

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v. flee; run; turn tail; lam; run away; escape definition (b) scarper

A10 v. hold back; constrain definition (c) cumber

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 177 (Answer Keys)

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adv. adapart; reserved definition (d) aloof

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adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolor; painted definition (a) piebald

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v. make stronger or defensible definition (a) buttress

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n. the act of ceding definition (b) cession

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n. the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; battery; bombardment; shelling definition (a) barrage

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n. someone who walks about in their sleep; noctambulist definition (b) somnambulist

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n. the extent of something from side to side definition (c) breadth

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n. a formal expression of praise; panegyric; paean; pean definition (a) encomium

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adj. old-fashioned and out of date; unprogressive; nonprogressive definition (b) standpat

A10 n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing; gewgaw; novelty; trinket definition (a) bauble

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 178 (Answer Keys)

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adj. capable of being wounded or hurt definition (a) vulnerable

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adj. lacking conviction or boldness or courage; faint-hearted definition (b) timid

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adj. imposing in size or bulk or solidity definition (c) monumental

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adj. many and varied definition (b) manifold

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adj. pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced definition (a) eugenic

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adj. having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water definition (a) retentive

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v. become gelatinous; congeal definition (c) jell

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adj. stubbornly unyielding; persistent; tenacious; unyielding definition (d) pertinacious

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adj. completely satisfactory; copesetic; copesettic definition (a) copacetic

A10 adj. attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; mesmerizing; spellbinding definition (b) mesmeric

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 179 (Answer Keys)

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n. someone who is punished for the errors of others definition (c) scapegoat

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n. state of oblivion definition (c) limbo

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n. a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of definition (c) canker

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n. a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses definition (c) optometrist

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n. fanatical patriotism; superpatriotism; ultranationalism definition (c) jingoism

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n. a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction definition (c) dialectic

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adj. elastic; lively; springy definition (d) resilient

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n. a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled definition (d) missile

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n. respectful deference definition (c) homage

A10 n. the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation; verdure definition (b) verdancy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 180 (Answer Keys)

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v. expose to atmospheric conditions definition (a) weather

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v. shift; divert; alter the course of definition (a) shunt

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v. be lazy or idle; bum around; loaf; frig around; lounge about definition (c) loll

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v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; purge; cast; regurgitate; throw up definition (c) disgorge

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v. occur between other event or between certain points of time definition (d) intervene

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adj. highly praised definition (b) vaunted

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v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade; put off; circumvent; parry definition (a) sidestep

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v. sit on one's heels; scrunch definition (d) hunker

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v. make sweeter in taste; edulcorate; dulcorate definition (a) dulcify

A10 v. derive; conclude definition (d) infer

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 181 (Answer Keys)

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n. unwillingness to tell lies definition (c) veracity

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n. a very wealthy or powerful businessman; king; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon definition (c) magnate

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adj. pale; gray definition (d) ashen

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v. tamper, with the purpose of deception; fake; falsify; cook; misrepresent definition (d) wangle

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adj. full and loud and deep definition (b) sonorous

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n. someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious definition (d) sophist

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adj. charming in a childlike or naive way definition (a) winsome

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adj. engaged in war; war-ridden; warring definition (b) belligerent

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n. the matter ejected in vomiting; puke definition (c) barf

A10 adj. serving to bring to mind; remindful; reminiscent definition (a) resonant

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 182 (Answer Keys)

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adj. relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen; marine definition (b) nautical

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adj. marked by care and persistent effort definition (b) sedulous

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adj. likely to perform unpredictably definition (d) erratic

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adj. consisting of or causing a climax definition (a) climactic

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adj. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges definition (c) corrugated

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adj. able to absorb liquid (not repellent) definition (c) receptive

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adj. ending in a sharp point; sharp; needlelike definition (a) acuate

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adj. used of riotously drunken merrymaking; carousing; orgiastic definition (a) bacchic

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adj. resembling or made to resemble leather; leatherlike; leathery definition (c) coriaceous

A10 adj. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; purple; royal definition (d) regal

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 183 (Answer Keys)

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n. a brilliant and notable success definition (a) coup

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n. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity definition (c) metaphor

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n. having temperamental and changeable moods definition (c) moodiness

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n. inactivity resulting from a dislike of work definition (a) indolence

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n. ceremony; procedure definition (d) formality

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n. addition; total definition (d) summation

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n. similarity by virtue of corresponding definition (c) parallelism

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n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot; morass; slack definition (c) quagmire

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n. a short moral story (often with animal characters); allegory definition (c) apologue

A10 n. informal terms for a (young) woman; skirt; chick; bird definition (a) wench

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 184 (Answer Keys)

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v. make a small cut or score into definition (d) scotch

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v. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; throw overboard; waive; forego definition (d) forgo

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v. draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time definition (c) temporize

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v. make a pretence of; sham; feign definition (c) simulate

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v. fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; renegue on; go back on definition (b) renege

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n. a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not definition (c) poseur

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v. hurl or throw violently definition (a) precipitate

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v. raise trivial objections; chicane definition (d) carp

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v. exert pressure on someone through threats; pressure definition (b) blackjack

A10 v. subsist on a meager allowance; skimp definition (a) scrimp

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 185 (Answer Keys)

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adj. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person definition (a) slovenly

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n. the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit definition (b) transgression

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adj. reflecting light; sheeny; shiny; shining definition (d) lustrous

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n. the atmosphere of an environment definition (d) ambience

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adj. inappropriate to reality or facts definition (d) delusive

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adj. having a curiously intricate quality definition (d) fanciful

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adj. confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle definition (d) esoteric

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v. grow definition (a) vegetate

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adj. impressive in appearance; noble; stately definition (a) baronial

A10 adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness; curt definition (b) brusque

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 186 (Answer Keys)

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adj. of or characteristic of or occurring in spring definition (a) vernal

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adj. invulnerable to fear or intimidation; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing definition (d) dauntless

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adj. conspicuously and offensively loud; clamorous; strident definition (d) vociferous

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adj. in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker definition (b) verbatim

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n. fate; destiny definition (b) kismet

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n. a proposition obtained by conversion definition (d) converse

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adj. of plants or persons; bloodsucking definition (a) leechlike

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adj. not having a material body; bodiless; unbodied; disembodied definition (d) unembodied

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adj. small; little; unimportant definition (b) petty

A10 adj. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; pliant; waxy definition (d) bendable

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 187 (Answer Keys)

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n. a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself definition (b) patriarch

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n. a short passage added at the end of a literary work definition (d) epilogue

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n. a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect definition (d) comity

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n. an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; visitation definition (b) tribulation

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n. the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) definition (d) defection

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n. propriety in manners and conduct definition (c) decorum

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adj. showing great reverence for god; worshipful definition (d) reverent

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v. squeeze together; compact; contract definition (b) compress

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n. a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices; rabblerouser definition (d) demagogue

A10 n. a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; burnouse definition (b) burnoose

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 188 (Answer Keys)

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v. induce to commit perjury or give false testimony definition (c) suborn

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v. ridicule with satire definition (b) lampoon

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v. organize into a code or system, such as a body of law definition (c) codify

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v. viewpoint; standpoint; attitude definition (d) posture

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v. pass through an enemy line definition (c) infiltrate

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v. express a totally negative opinion of; trash definition (b) pan

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v. move unsteadily, with a rocking motion; totter definition (d) teeter

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v. pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue; follow out; carry out; put through; go through definition (b) implement

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v. produce; supply definition (c) yield

A10 v. talk indistinctly; maunder definition (d) mussitate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 189 (Answer Keys)

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v. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; adulterate; stretch definition (c) dilute

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adj. of or relating to the body or flesh definition (b) carnal

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v. perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; pull definition (a) perpetrate

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adj. creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression definition (c) unprepossessing

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n. a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment definition (d) ecologist

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adj. fragmentary from emotional strain definition (d) halting

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adj. injurious to physical or mental health definition (c) noxious

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v. settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off definition (c) liquidate

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n. a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal; gas definition (a) flatulency

A10 v. process fast and efficiently definition (a) expedite

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 190 (Answer Keys)

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adj. of persons; ungovernable definition (b) unruly

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adj. disdainfully or ironically humorous definition (a) sardonic

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adj. of the most contemptible kind; low-down; miserable; scummy definition (b) scurvy

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adj. of trifling worth definition (d) sixpenny

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adj. heat-generating definition (c) calorific

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adj. increasing by successive addition definition (a) cumulative

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n. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers; inn; lodge definition (a) auberge

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adj. poker-faced; unexpressive; apathetic definition (c) impassive

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adj. not converted into ions; unionized; unionised; nonionic definition (a) nonionized

A10 adj. not fully developed or mature; immature definition (b) unripened

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n. a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed); self-reproach definition (c) compunction

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n. the outside boundary or surface of something; outer boundary definition (c) periphery

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n. the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars definition (c) apex

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n. that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) definition (d) entity

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n. the quality of being cloudy; muddiness definition (d) murkiness

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n. a formal exposition definition (c) treatise

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adj. easy to get along with or talk to definition (a) accessible

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n. an ornamental coating to a building definition (a) veneer

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n. a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons); hoard; stash definition (d) cache

A10 n. a person holding a fief; liegeman; liege subject definition (b) feudatory

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v. lose in value; devaluate; devalue definition (a) depreciate

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v. provide analytical notes definition (b) annotate

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v. provide with military equipment definition (a) accoutre

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v. stop functioning or cohering as a unit definition (d) disband

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v. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval definition (d) glower

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v. divide into pieces; discerp definition (a) dismember

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v. abandon one's beliefs or allegiances; tergiversate definition (c) apostatize

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v. mar or spoil the appearance of; blemish definition (a) deface

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v. expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; ptyalise; spew; spue definition (d) ptyalize

A10 v. wish harm upon; anathemize; imprecate; maledict definition (c) bedamn

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v. call together definition (a) convoke

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v. draw back, as with fear or pain; funk; cringe; shrink; wince; recoil; quail definition (c) flinch

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adj. having made preparations; prepared definition (c) inclined

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n. mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake definition (b) silt

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n. the fullness of a tone of voice definition (d) rotundity

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v. make off with belongings of others; cabbage; purloin; hook; sneak definition (d) filch

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v. wear out completely; beat definition (a) tucker

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adj. marked by precise accordance with details definition (b) punctilious

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adj. commonly used or practiced; usual; accustomed; customary; habitual definition (b) wonted

A10 adj. sensible and practical definition (a) earthy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 194 (Answer Keys)

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adj. expressing sorrow definition (c) plaintive

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adj. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; florid definition (c) sanguine

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adj. precisely accurate definition (a) veracious

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adj. comical in an odd or whimsical manner definition (a) droll

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adj. of or characteristic of or resembling a king of beasts definition (a) leonine

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adj. made to appear to move as living creatures do definition (c) animated

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n. the act of decreasing or reducing something; reduction; step-down definition (b) diminution

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adj. characterized by anger definition (d) irascible

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adj. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition; excursive; rambling definition (b) discursive

A10 adj. having a hardened covering definition (d) crusted

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 195 (Answer Keys)

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n. an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business; judicature definition (c) tribunal

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n. the attribute of being brief or fleeting; transience definition (c) brevity

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n. the bodily property of being well rounded; roundness definition (d) embonpoint

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n. a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods definition (d) shyster

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n. a choice or delicious dish definition (d) viand

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n. an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices definition (c) madrigal

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n. a hard mass of fecal matter; faecalith; stercolith definition (b) coprolith

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n. a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility; bad blood definition (d) animus

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n. one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder; rung definition (a) rundle

A10 n. act of putting off to a future time; deferral definition (c) deferment

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v. expel from a community or group; ostracize; ostracise; cast out; blackball definition (d) shun

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v. generate pus; rankle; produce irritation or resentment definition (b) fester

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v. move or swing back and forth; wave definition (a) flourish

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v. wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; waylay; ambuscade; lie in wait definition (c) lurk

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v. separate into opposing groups; contrapose definition (c) polarize

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v. become powder or dust; pulverise; powderise definition (b) pulverize

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v. make peace with definition (d) propitiate

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v. move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); wriggle; worm; squirm; twist definition (c) writhe

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v. emit long loud cries; wail; roar; yawl definition (c) yaup

A10 v. work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes definition (a) logroll

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 197 (Answer Keys)

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n. a Gestalt principle of organization holding that objects or events that are near to one another are perceived as belonging together as a unit definition (a) proximity

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v. violate the sacred character of a place or language; outrage; violate definition (a) profane

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adj. youthful; immature definition (d) sophomoric

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n. conformity with rules or standards definition (d) equity

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n. violent and needless disturbance definition (d) mayhem

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v. move sideways or in an unsteady way; shift; tilt definition (d) careen

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n. the property of flowing easily; liquidity; liquidness definition (a) runniness

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adj. having two horns or horn-shaped parts; bicornuate; bicornuous definition (c) bicornate

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n. a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin; tepidness definition (a) tepidity

A10 adj. done with very great haste and without due deliberation; precipitant; precipitous definition (d) precipitate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 198 (Answer Keys)

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adj. unpleasantly cool and humid definition (c) dank

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adj. persistent petty and unjustified criticism; faultfinding definition (a) carping

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adj. being attentive to women like an ideal knight; knightly definition (a) chivalrous

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adj. of the night definition (d) nocturnal

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adj. fraudulent; phony; phoney; bastard definition (b) bogus

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n. a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule definition (a) repertoire

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adj. of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband definition (a) connubial

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adj. shaped like a pouch; pouchlike; saclike definition (c) bursiform

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adj. having unsuitable feminine qualities; epicene; sissified; sissyish; sissy definition (a) cissy

A10 adj. pertaining to or resembling amoebae; amoeban; amoebous; amebous definition (b) ameban

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 199 (Answer Keys)

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n. tendency to believe readily definition (c) credulity

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n. a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes definition (c) awl

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n. journey definition (c) trek

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n. act of plotting or scheming; conspiracy definition (c) machinations

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n. any structure that makes progress difficult; obstructer definition (d) impediment

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n. range or scope of what is perceived definition (d) cognizance

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adj. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; airy; ethereal definition (c) aery

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adj. very pleasing to the eye; comely; fair; sightly definition (b) bonnie

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n. the activeness of an energetic personality; oomph; zing definition (c) pizzaz

A10 n. congenital absence of fingers and/or toes; adactylism definition (b) adactylia

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 200 (Answer Keys)

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v. confine; imprison definition (a) immure

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v. lead ceremoniously, as in a procession definition (c) marshal

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v. bear fruit definition (a) fructify

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v. cause to grow or sprout definition (b) germinate

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v. fill with apprehension or alarm definition (d) appal

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n. retreat; isolated dwelling definition (b) hermitage

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v. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; wander definition (c) divagate

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v. force or drive back; fight off; drive back definition (a) rebuff

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v. add color to definition (b) colourize

A10 v. regret strongly; bemoan definition (b) bewail

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 201 (Answer Keys)

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adj. deserving or inciting pity; pathetic; piteous; poor; wretched definition (c) hapless

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adj. marked by skill in deception; cunning; foxy; guileful; knavish; slick definition (d) wily

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n. fortuneteller definition (d) clairvoyant

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v. attribute or credit to; assign; attribute definition (c) ascribe

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adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; gaunt; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted definition (a) emaciated

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adj. impossible to remedy or correct or redress definition (a) irremediable

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adj. (usually followed by 'with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly definition (c) conversant

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n. a twisting force definition (c) torque

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v. reduce the seriousness of definition (b) extenuate

A10 adj. causing awareness of your shortcomings; humiliating; mortifying definition (a) demeaning

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 202 (Answer Keys)

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adj. having a cheerful; charming jaunty definition (a) debonair

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adj. being of crucial importance definition (b) pivotal

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adj. resistant to guidance or discipline; perverse; wayward definition (d) obstinate

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adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy; unctuous definition (b) fulsome

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adj. lacking in nutritive value definition (d) insubstantial

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adj. found in the ordinary course of events; routine; unremarkable; workaday definition (d) quotidian

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v. provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation; blow; go down on definition (c) fellate

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adj. on or near the back definition (d) dorsal

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adj. lacking orderly continuity; disjointed; disordered; illogical; scattered; unconnected definition (c) garbled

A10 adj. of or pertaining to or affected by albinism; albinic; albinistic definition (c) albinal

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 203 (Answer Keys)

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n. dominance through threat of punishment and violence; despotism definition (a) tyranny

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n. temporary cessation or suspension definition (d) abeyance

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n. the quality of being something that holds you back definition (c) liability

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n. a stupid mistake; folly; foolishness definition (c) imbecility

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n. an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. definition (b) miscellany

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n. unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources definition (b) miasma

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v. intervene; reconciliate definition (c) mediate

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n. fruit preserved by cooking with sugar; preserves definition (b) conserves

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n. variable which determines the form of a function definition (b) parameter

A10 n. a person who buys; vendee definition (b) emptor

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 204 (Answer Keys)

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v. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses definition (b) pulsate

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v. slow down; decelerate definition (d) slacken

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v. have strong suppressed feelings definition (c) smolder

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adj. relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) definition (a) existential

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adj. perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) definition (a) quizzical

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adj. of or pertaining to the smell secreted by certain animals definition (a) musky

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v. polish and make shiny; furbish definition (d) burnish

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v. describe in vivid detail definition (b) delineate

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v. make insensitive or callous; cauterise definition (a) cauterize

A10 v. approach with an offer of sexual favors definition (a) accost

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 205 (Answer Keys)

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n. a celebrity who is an inspiration to others; guiding light; notable; notability definition (c) luminary

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adj. profoundly honored definition (d) venerable

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n. brief description accompanying an illustration definition (c) caption

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n. a very boastful and talkative person; boaster; line-shooter; vaunter definition (c) blowhard

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adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; imperious; lordly; prideful; sniffy; supercilious; swaggering definition (b) overbearing

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n. exceeding in heaviness definition (d) preponderance

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adj. not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed; nonmedicinal definition (a) unmedical

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adj. having a large belly; paunchy; potbellied definition (d) abdominous

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v. be immersed in definition (c) welter

A10 adj. lacking even the rudiments of courage definition (b) craven

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 206 (Answer Keys)

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adj. being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion; stirred; touched definition (a) affected

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adj. characteristic of acting or a stage performance definition (c) histrionic

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adj. incapable of harmonious association definition (b) antagonistic

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adj. dry; withered definition (b) sere

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adj. having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety definition (a) distrait

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adj. invested with a bodily form especially of a human body definition (b) incarnate

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n. a metric unit of volume (capacity) definition (b) deciliter

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adj. modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures definition (c) coy

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adj. capable of being known; cognisable; cognoscible definition (d) knowable

A10 adj. repetition of same sense in different words; tautologic; tautological definition (a) pleonastic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 207 (Answer Keys)

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n. the quality of agreeing definition (b) congruence

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n. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; impasse; stalemate; standstill definition (a) deadlock

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n. the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) definition (c) curator

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n. aggressive woman definition (d) amazon

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n. an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); lyssa; madness definition (a) hydrophobia

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n. someone who makes wine; wine maker definition (a) vintner

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adj. capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms; parasiticidal definition (a) helminthic

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adj. lacking wise self-restraint definition (a) imprudent

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adj. pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb); cavitied; honeycombed; pitted definition (c) alveolate

A10 n. the act of consoling definition (b) solace

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 208 (Answer Keys)

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v. cut a furrow into a columns definition (c) chase

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v. expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; air out; air definition (b) vent

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v. give expression to definition (c) evince

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v. make apparent by one's mood or behavior definition (a) exude

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v. include in scope; comprehend; cover definition (a) encompass

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n. parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host; trematode worm definition (d) fluke

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v. gnaw into; grate definition (b) rankle

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v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; disquiet; trouble; distract; disorder definition (c) cark

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v. worry; annoy; irritate definition (c) fret

A10 v. spread negative information about; vituperate; rail definition (d) vilify

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 209 (Answer Keys)

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adj. abstaining from sexual intercourse definition (b) celibate

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v. satisfy (thirst); assuage definition (d) allay

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v. remove soil or rock; fret definition (b) erode

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v. treat with contemptuous disregard definition (b) scoff

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adj. filled with melancholy and despondency; grim; blue; depressed; dispirited; low-spirited definition (a) downcast

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v. tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading definition (b) excoriate

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adj. of a substance, especially a strong acid; erosive; vitriolic definition (c) mordant

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adj. unproductive of success; sleeveless; vain definition (b) futile

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adj. so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; stupefying definition (a) staggering

A10 adj. contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions definition (c) complacent

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 210 (Answer Keys)

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adj. of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; sky-blue; bright blue definition (d) azure

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adj. morally degraded; sleazy; sordid; squalid definition (d) seamy

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adj. resembling a creature with the body of a lion and the face of a woman definition (c) sphinx-like

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adj. characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity definition (b) monolithic

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n. the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality definition (c) notoriety

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v. make improvements or corrections to definition (a) emend

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adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; tumid; turgid definition (a) tumescent

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adj. capable of arousing and holding the attention; fascinating; gripping; riveting definition (c) absorbing

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adj. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; somatic definition (b) corporeal

A10 adj. flossy; fluffy definition (b) downlike

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 211 (Answer Keys)

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n. a contrived or fantastic idea definition (d) figment

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n. study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) definition (c) rhetoric

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n. a correction by emending definition (a) emendation

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n. edge; brink definition (b) verge

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n. a nervous restrained laugh definition (a) titter

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n. person who makes animal hides into leather definition (c) tanner

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n. slope; grade; slant definition (b) incline

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n. a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; meld definition (c) canasta

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n. a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses definition (c) sybarite

A10 n. a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair definition (a) depilator

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 212 (Answer Keys)

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v. act in advance of; counter definition (c) forestall

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v. become thin; diminish definition (b) attenuate

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v. call together definition (a) convene

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v. throw into great confusion or disorder; throw out of kilter definition (c) perturb

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v. insert something new definition (c) interpolate

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v. interpret in the wrong way; misconceive; misunderstand; misapprehend; be amiss definition (c) misconstrue

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v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; piffle; palaver; tittle-tattle definition (b) prate

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v. use up (resources or materials); use up; eat definition (c) deplete

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v. lay bare; strip definition (d) denudate

A10 v. choose not to consume; desist definition (a) abstain

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 213 (Answer Keys)

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n. a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior; systematist definition (c) taxonomist

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adj. of or relating to an apocalypse definition (b) apocalyptic

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n. an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another; attendant; cooccurrence definition (d) concomitant

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adj. able to walk about definition (b) ambulatory

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n. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors; hauteur; high-handedness; lordliness definition (c) arrogance

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adj. swollen; filled with air or gas; expanded definition (d) inflated

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v. echo; resound definition (c) reverberate

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v. cut off a limb definition (c) amputate

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v. write in the Latin alphabet; Latinize; Latinise definition (c) romanize

A10 adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; cultivated; cultured; polite definition (b) genteel

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 214 (Answer Keys)

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adj. without material form or substance definition (d) incorporeal

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adj. being on the point of death definition (c) moribund

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adj. crazy; wacky definition (a) zany

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adj. not expedient; unwise definition (a) impolitic

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v. introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions definition (a) intersperse

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n. especially fine or decorative clothing; regalia definition (a) raiment

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adj. most frequent or common; predominant; dominant; rife definition (a) prevailing

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adj. very pleasing to the eye; fair; sightly definition (c) comely

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adj. expressing disapproval definition (a) pejorative

A10 adj. incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted definition (b) impregnable

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 215 (Answer Keys)

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n. an energetic style definition (c) verve

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n. an advocate of anarchism; syndicalist definition (b) anarchist

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n. the most powerful members of a society definition (d) aristocracy

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n. the act of repulsing or repelling an attack definition (d) repulsion

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n. a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion definition (a) gesticulation

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v. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; disgrace; put down definition (b) demean

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n. the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift; conferral definition (a) conferment

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n. voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge definition (c) continence

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n. an indication that something has been present; tincture; shadow definition (a) vestige

A10 n. a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers definition (a) die

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 216 (Answer Keys)

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v. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; waver definition (a) vacillate

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v. throw down flat, as on the ground definition (c) prostrate

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v. look at with amorous intentions definition (d) ogle

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v. cancel officially; lift; countermand; reverse; repeal; overturn; vacate definition (d) rescind

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v. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; scant definition (d) skimp

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v. delight greatly in definition (a) wallow

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v. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; spoil; scotch; cross definition (c) thwart

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v. be about; lounge; mess about; mill around definition (c) loiter

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v. call to mind; paint a picture definition (a) evoke

A10 v. relinquish possession or control over; deliver; give up definition (c) cede

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 217 (Answer Keys)

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v. become less intense; slacken off definition (b) flag

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n. conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying definition (b) necromancy

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n. sepulchre; sepulture definition (a) sepulcher

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v. cancel officially; lift; reverse; repeal; overturn; rescind; vacate definition (b) countermand

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n. decorated metal band worn around the head definition (d) circlet

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n. the act of fusing (or melting) together definition (a) fusion

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v. travel by getting free rides from motorists; thumb definition (d) hitchhike

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adj. incongruous; idiotic; laughable; ludicrous; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous definition (c) derisory

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n. an expression of strong disapproval definition (d) disapprobation

A10 n. inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; phrenitis definition (c) cephalitis

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adj. characterized by dignity and propriety definition (d) staid

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adj. uncertain; indefinite; unclear; ambiguous definition (c) indeterminate

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adj. not modified or restricted by reservations; flat; unconditional definition (a) categorical

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adj. petty or reluctant in giving or spending; scrimy definition (d) grudging

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adj. affectedly dainty or refined; niminy-piminy; prim; twee definition (d) mincing

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n. lack of sophistication or worldliness; naiveness definition (d) naivete

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adj. occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company definition (d) convivial

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adj. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination definition (c) minute

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adj. filled or abounding with clouds; sunless definition (a) overcast

A10 adj. forced to turn and face attackers; trapped; treed definition (c) cornered

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 219 (Answer Keys)

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n. periapsis in Earth orbit definition (b) perigee

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n. the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; kt definition (b) carat

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n. the discharge of semen in males definition (a) ejaculation

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n. a date definition (a) rendezvous

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n. mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs definition (a) farce

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n. the point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected definition (b) nadir

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v. overeat or eat immodestly; overindulge; glut; stuff; engorge definition (b) satiate

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n. an ore that is the chief source of zinc; sphalerite definition (a) blende

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n. foolish or senseless behavior; craziness; lunacy; indulgence definition (d) tomfoolery

A10 n. someone who wastes time; mope; lounger definition (b) dallier

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v. be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get definition (b) nonplus

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v. change form definition (b) transmute

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v. scar; burn; brand definition (a) sear

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v. give new life or energy to; reanimate; revive; repair; quicken; vivify; revivify definition (b) renovate

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v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; pervert; subvert; demoralize; profane definition (a) debauch

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v. restrain with fetters definition (a) shackle

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v. give qualities or abilities to; gift; empower; invest definition (d) endue

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v. laugh at with contempt and derision; barrack; gibe definition (d) flout

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v. overeat or eat immodestly definition (c) gorge

A10 v. herd and care for definition (c) wrangle

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 221 (Answer Keys)

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n. any substance that propels definition (b) propellant

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adj. deeply agitated especially from emotion definition (c) overwrought

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adj. excessively abundant definition (b) rife

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adj. (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline; low-necked definition (c) decollete

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adj. (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality definition (d) personable

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n. a person who makes a will definition (a) testator

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n. a colorless oily liquid; phenylethylene; vinylbenzene definition (a) cinnamene

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n. the path followed by an object moving through space definition (d) trajectory

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n. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique definition (b) genre

A10 adj. not mixed with extraneous elements; unmixed definition (a) unmingled

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 222 (Answer Keys)

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adj. given to merry frolicking; frolicky; rollicking definition (d) sportive

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adj. composed of or containing bone; bony definition (c) osseous

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adj. having or appearing to have only one color; monochromic; monochromous definition (b) monochromatic

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adj. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; mixed; motley definition (a) sundry

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adj. natural; unaffected; uncultured definition (b) artless

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adj. twisting; winding; sly; wily; treacherous definition (c) serpentine

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adj. being born or beginning definition (a) nascent

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adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins; jeweled; jewelled; sequined; spangled; spangly definition (a) gemmed

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adj. foreseeing the future; second-sighted definition (c) clairvoyant

A10 adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; raped; ravaged; sacked definition (d) despoiled

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 223 (Answer Keys)

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n. mode of rule; system of government definition (d) regime

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n. capacity or power to produce a desired effect definition (c) efficacy

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n. a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers definition (b) scaffold

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n. vain and empty boasting; rodomontade; rhodomontade definition (c) braggadocio

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n. an elaborate song for solo voice definition (a) aria

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n. an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) definition (a) suffragist

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n. omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences definition (d) ellipsis

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n. a style that has the power to evoke feelings definition (b) pathos

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n. any red eruption of the skin; efflorescence; skin rash definition (c) roseola

A10 n. a dissolute person; rounder definition (c) debauchee

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 224 (Answer Keys)

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v. move along rapidly and lightly; fleet; dart definition (c) flit

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v. assign to a class or kind definition (b) relegate

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v. report or maintain; say definition (d) allege

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v. overcome or allay; appease definition (d) quell

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v. draw back, as with fear or pain; funk; cringe; shrink; wince; recoil definition (b) quail

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v. be or do something to a greater degree; outmatch; outgo; exceed; outdo; outperform definition (d) surmount

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adj. having a natural fragrance; perfumed; scented; sweet; sweet-scented; sweet-smelling definition (c) odoriferous

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v. give a reduction in price on definition (a) discount

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v. convert ordinary language into code; cipher; cypher; inscribe; write in code definition (a) encrypt

A10 v. make a crushing noise; scraunch; crackle definition (a) scranch

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 225 (Answer Keys)

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n. the cognitive process of supposing definition (c) supposition

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n. a name that has been assumed temporarily; false name definition (b) alias

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v. express in words definition (b) verbalize

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n. a building where birds are kept; volary definition (a) aviary

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n. event or circumstance that can be observed definition (d) phenomena

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n. the most powerful members of a society definition (c) gentry

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adj. angered at something unjust or wrong; outraged; umbrageous definition (c) incensed

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adj. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; sibylline; sibyllic; vatic; vatical definition (b) mantic

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adj. in regular succession without gaps; serial; successive definition (c) sequential

A10 n. an excited state of agitation; fuss; tizzy; flap definition (d) pother

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 226 (Answer Keys)

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adj. presenting favorable circumstances definition (b) propitious

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adj. inducing mental lethargy definition (a) soporific

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adj. pleasing to the ear; mellifluous; mellisonant; sweet definition (b) dulcet

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adj. forming an end or termination definition (d) conclusive

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adj. rounded like an egg; elliptical; oval; oval-shaped; ovate; oviform; prolate definition (c) ovoid

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adj. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument definition (a) compelling

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adj. relating to rural matters definition (c) agrarian

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adj. disagreeing, especially with a majority definition (a) dissident

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adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; patent; plain; unmistakable definition (d) manifest

A10 adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; grabby; grasping; greedy; prehensile definition (d) covetous

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 227 (Answer Keys)

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n. a course introducing a new situation or environment definition (c) orientation

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n. detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work) definition (b) dissection

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n. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone; sophistication definition (d) sophistry

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n. something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed; lure definition (d) decoy

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n. the quality of disagreeing definition (d) incongruity

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v. clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof definition (b) vindicate

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n. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body; pecking order definition (d) hierarchy

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n. a wise and trusted guide and advisor definition (a) mentor

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n. an unrestrained expression of emotion; outburst; blowup definition (c) ebullition

A10 n. a person having a strong liking for something definition (c) fancier

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 228 (Answer Keys)

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v. cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state definition (a) coagulate

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n. a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc. definition (c) prestige

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adj. of heaven or the spirit; supernal definition (d) celestial

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adj. matching point for point definition (c) coincident

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adj. (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous; zoftig definition (d) buxom

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adj. relating to or affecting the lungs; pulmonic definition (d) pulmonary

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n. absentminded dreaming while awake; daydream; daydreaming; air castle; castle in the air; castle in Spain definition (c) oneirism

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adj. bluish; very angry definition (c) livid

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adj. extremely annoying or displeasing; vexing definition (a) maddening

A10 n. the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people definition (d) contagion

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 229 (Answer Keys)

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adj. tending to discourage (especially of prices) definition (c) prohibitive

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adj. tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only definition (d) unilateral

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adj. not restrained or controlled; uncurbed; ungoverned definition (c) unbridled

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adj. lacking justification or authorization definition (c) unwarranted

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adj. dim; dull; very boring definition (a) lackluster

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adj. characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements definition (b) elliptical

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adj. brought low in spirit; crestfallen; deflated definition (a) chapfallen

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adj. earnest; heartfelt definition (a) devout

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adj. occurring or operating at the same time; concurrent; co-occurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous definition (a) coinciding

A10 adj. of a bluish shade of green; teal definition (a) cyan

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 230 (Answer Keys)

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n. belief in a single God definition (b) monotheism

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n. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; shade; subtlety; refinement definition (a) nuance

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n. wandering from the main path of a journey definition (c) digression

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n. a person who is not very bright; stupe; dullard; pudding head; pudden-head; poor fish; pillock definition (c) dolt

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n. a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them definition (a) fatalism

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n. a person who makes maps definition (c) cartographer

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n. a sum of money allotted on a regular basis definition (b) stipend

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n. a narrow groove beside a beading definition (b) quirk

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n. a person who is member of one's class or profession; fellow definition (a) confrere

A10 n. essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers; athar; ottar definition (a) atar

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 231 (Answer Keys)

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adj. shockingly repellent; gruesome; macabre; sick definition (c) grisly

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n. a cruel and oppressive dictator; despot definition (d) autocrat

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adj. of the study of diseases; sickly definition (d) pathological

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adj. impalpable; cannot be seen or touched definition (b) intangible

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n. someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes; disarmer definition (b) pacifist

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n. wooden floor definition (a) parquet

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adj. aimlessly drifting; aimless; directionless; rudderless; undirected definition (b) planless

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n. the act of applying force suddenly definition (b) impetus

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adj. breathing laboriously or convulsively; short-winded; winded definition (a) pursy

A10 adj. joined together into a whole; consolidated; fused definition (c) coalesced

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 232 (Answer Keys)

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adj. fulfilling many functions definition (a) versatile

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adj. careful and sensible definition (b) prudent

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adj. requiring secret or mysterious knowledge definition (b) arcane

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adj. warning of future misfortune definition (d) premonitory

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adj. using or knowing more than one language definition (c) multilingual

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n. the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) definition (c) apotheosis

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adj. cheap and shoddy definition (a) tawdry

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adj. being the last or concluding element of a series definition (d) ultimate

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adj. struck with fear, dread, or consternation; dismayed; shocked definition (c) aghast

A10 adj. clearly or sharply defined to the mind definition (d) trenchant

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 233 (Answer Keys)

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n. duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio; fax definition (c) facsimile

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n. a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things definition (a) pessimism

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n. the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth definition (b) fecundity

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n. someone who depresses or worries others definition (c) incubus

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n. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock definition (c) husbandry

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adj. pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space definition (c) spatial

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n. the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) definition (a) perversion

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n. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event; sentry; watch; spotter; scout; picket definition (c) sentinel

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n. a quantity much larger than is needed; surplusage definition (b) nimiety

A10 n. a specialist in wine making; fermentologist definition (b) enologist

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 234 (Answer Keys)

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adj. containing salt definition (a) saline

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n. powerful and effective language; smoothness definition (d) eloquence

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v. cause to become widely known; circularize; propagate; broadcast definition (d) disseminate

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adj. repeated too often; commonplace; old-hat; shopworn; threadbare definition (c) hackneyed

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n. a basis for comparison; measure definition (a) touchstone

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n. use of physical or mental energy; travail; sweat definition (c) exertion

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n. an act of undue intimacy; indecorum; liberty definition (c) impropriety

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adj. coming at a subsequent time or stage; posterior definition (b) ulterior

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n. a songbook containing a collection of hymns; hymnary definition (c) hymnal

A10 n. the act of deriding or treating with contempt definition (a) derision

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 235 (Answer Keys)

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adj. presaging ill fortune definition (a) ominous

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adj. shockingly repellent; grisly; macabre; sick definition (d) gruesome

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adj. deserving a curse definition (a) execrable

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adj. (sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury; prejudicial; prejudicious definition (a) detrimental

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adj. containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor definition (a) humid

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adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; uncanny definition (d) unearthly

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adj. having the characteristics of pitch or tar; resiny; tarry definition (d) resinous

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adj. briefly giving the gist of something; summary definition (b) succinct

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adj. with restored energy; reinvigorated definition (c) refreshed

A10 adj. easily tricked because of being too trusting definition (c) gullible

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 236 (Answer Keys)

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n. the savage and excessive killing of many people; mass murder; butchery definition (b) carnage

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n. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; slander; denigration definition (b) defamation

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n. a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances definition (c) ferment

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n. the property of being extremely abundant; richness; cornucopia definition (a) profusion

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n. a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) definition (c) poignancy

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n. a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader definition (a) saboteur

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adj. disposed or willing to comply definition (c) compliant

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n. a manner lacking seriousness definition (d) levity

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n. smallness of stature; stuntedness definition (a) runtiness

A10 n. the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time); production definition (d) yield

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 237 (Answer Keys)

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n. a large waterfall definition (b) cataract

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n. a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat definition (c) retort

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adj. stale and unclean smelling; frowsty definition (c) musty

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v. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; prevaricate; palter definition (b) equivocate

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n. the condition of prospering definition (d) prosperity

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n. the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution definition (c) ethnology

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n. fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals; musteline definition (b) mustelid

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adj. shedding foliage at the end of the growing season (of plants and shrubs) definition (c) deciduous

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n. headdress that protects the head from bad weather; lid definition (b) chapeau

A10 adj. impossible to achieve; unrealizable definition (b) undoable

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 238 (Answer Keys)

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adj. easily irritated or annoyed; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peevish definition (c) petulant

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adj. not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; unbecoming; uncomely; untoward definition (d) unseemly

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adj. without partiality definition (a) evenhanded

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adj. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; pliant; waxy definition (c) pliable

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adj. following or accompanying as a consequence; accompanying; concomitant; ensuant; resultant; sequent definition (d) incidental

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adj. migratory; peregrine; roving; wandering definition (c) nomadic

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adj. exacting especially about details; fussy; particular; picky definition (c) finical

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adj. characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards definition (b) heterodox

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adj. not given careful consideration; shortsighted definition (a) improvident

A10 adj. showing little emotion definition (d) phlegmatic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 239 (Answer Keys)

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n. state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one definition (b) bereavement

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n. traditional customs of a community definition (c) mores

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n. a feathered plume on a helmet definition (a) panache

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n. pang of the conscience; regret; sorrow definition (a) qualms

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n. a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business definition (b) quorum

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adj. not extreme definition (d) temperate

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n. either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator definition (d) solstice

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n. (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people; behavior; behaviour; conduct; deportment definition (d) demeanor

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n. a current state of general acceptance and use definition (d) vogue

A10 n. a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers); fascicle definition (d) fasciculus

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 240 (Answer Keys)

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adj. belonging to this earth or world definition (c) mundane

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v. be appropriate or necessary definition (d) behoove

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v. tell; narrate definition (c) recount

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adj. incomplete; biased; having a liking for something definition (c) partial

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adj. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows; conventual definition (c) monastic

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n. the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) definition (c) compilation

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adj. being essentially equal to something definition (d) tantamount

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v. bring up a topic for discussion definition (a) broach

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v. get the meaning of something; comprehend; savvy; dig; grasp; compass; apprehend definition (c) grok

A10 adj. characterized by jokes and good humor; jocular; joking definition (a) jesting

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 241 (Answer Keys)

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adj. worthy of high praise; praiseworthy definition (d) laudable

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adj. fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience definition (a) equitable

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adj. untimely; unsuitable; inappropriate definition (c) inopportune

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adj. undeveloped but potentially useful definition (b) fallow

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adj. not marked by fine distinctions definition (c) indiscriminate

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adj. (of reputation) free from blemishes; untainted; untarnished definition (b) unsullied

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adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; meddling; officious; busy; busybodied definition (d) meddlesome

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adj. quick and energetic; lively; merry; rattling; snappy; zippy definition (b) spanking

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adj. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; sober; solemn definition (b) sedate

A10 adj. willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect definition (c) dutiful

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 242 (Answer Keys)

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n. longing for something past definition (a) nostalgia

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n. proverb; short tale that teaches a moral lesson definition (c) parable

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n. the act of someone who floats on the water definition (a) natation

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n. arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture definition (a) mosaic

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n. the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow definition (b) spate

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n. a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts definition (d) galleon

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n. a short pithy instructive saying; apophthegm definition (d) aphorism

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n. front part of a vessel or aircraft; stem definition (b) prow

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n. reprehensible acquisitiveness; covetousness; rapacity definition (a) avaritia

A10 n. a container from which cattle or horses feed; trough definition (b) manger

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 243 (Answer Keys)

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n. anything indispensable; requirement; necessary definition (d) requisite

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n. a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action definition (d) covenant

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n. a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis definition (b) seminary

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adj. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses); spooky; nervous definition (a) skittish

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v. arrange for sexual partners for others; procure definition (d) pander

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n. the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble; lightness; lightsomeness; nimbleness definition (b) agility

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v. exalt to the position of a God definition (b) deify

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n. a formal expression of praise; paean; pean definition (d) panegyric

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adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; disastrous; fatal; fateful definition (d) calamitous

A10 n. excessive sternness; severeness; harshness; inclemency; hardness; stiffness definition (c) rigor

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 244 (Answer Keys)

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adj. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; transcendental definition (d) preternatural

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adj. having a command of or composed in many languages definition (d) polyglot

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adj. highly excited definition (d) agog

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adj. occurring or operating at the same time; coinciding; co-occurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous definition (a) concurrent

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adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; floating; vagabond definition (a) vagrant

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n. a short pithy saying expressing a general truth definition (a) gnome

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adj. functioning in a supporting capacity; supplemental; supplementary definition (d) subsidiary

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adj. behaving wildly; abundant definition (d) rampant

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adj. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought definition (a) enigmatic

A10 adj. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; gold; golden definition (b) gilt

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 245 (Answer Keys)

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n. an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps definition (a) ballast

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n. any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis definition (a) nutrient

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n. unequal curvature of the lens of the eye creating a distorted image definition (b) astigmatism

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n. frivolous banter definition (a) badinage

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n. someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force definition (a) quisling

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n. one whose business is the management of funerals; funeral undertaker; funeral director definition (c) mortician

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adj. concerned with or related to the past definition (b) retrospective

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adj. given official approval to act; licensed; licenced definition (c) accredited

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n. a young woman; missy; young lady; young woman definition (d) fille

A10 n. a notable achievement definition (c) exploit

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adj. morally reprehensible; vile; slimy; unworthy; worthless; wretched definition (d) despicable

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adj. existing everywhere definition (a) pandemic

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n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution; pauperism; pauperization definition (d) penury

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adj. full of trivial conversation; loquacious; talkative; talky definition (a) garrulous

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n. a slight suggestion or vague understanding; glimmering; glimmer definition (b) inkling

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n. a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances definition (a) spatula

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adj. suitable for cutting or piercing definition (c) incisive

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adj. capable of being apprehended or understood; perceivable; understandable definition (a) graspable

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v. crowd to capacity; ram; chock up; cram; wad definition (c) jampack

A10 v. form by stamping, punching, or printing; strike definition (a) mint

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 247 (Answer Keys)

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adj. moving quickly and lightly; quick definition (c) spry

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adj. made of wood definition (c) ligneous

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adj. abjectly submissive; submissive definition (d) subservient

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adj. arranged in layers definition (b) stratified

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adj. marked by great carelessness; slipshod; sloppy definition (d) slapdash

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n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing; gaud; gewgaw; novelty; fallal definition (b) trinket

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adj. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness definition (d) pallid

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adj. not capable of sin definition (b) impeccable

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adj. marked by repeated turns and bends; twisty; winding; voluminous definition (d) twisting

A10 adj. artificial; man-made definition (c) synthetic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 248 (Answer Keys)

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n. an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode definition (a) hallucination

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n. the state of being imprisoned; incarceration definition (a) immurement

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n. acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization definition (c) obsidian

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n. something that strongly attracts attention and admiration definition (c) cynosure

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n. decorations; ornaments; adornments definition (a) trappings

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adj. having a good reputation definition (c) reputable

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n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; junk; rubble; detritus definition (d) debris

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n. length of life definition (d) longevity

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n. someone who leaves one country to settle in another; outgoer definition (b) emigree

A10 n. jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck; lavalliere definition (d) lavalier

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 249 (Answer Keys)

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v. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; devastate; ravage; scourge definition (d) desolate

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n. infallibleness definition (d) inerrancy

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v. pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings definition (a) seep

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v. fuse or cause to grow together definition (d) coalesce

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adj. harmful to living things definition (a) injurious

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adj. concise and full of meaning definition (d) sententious

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adj. small and remote and insignificant; pokey; poky definition (b) jerkwater

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v. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold; engild definition (c) begild

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adj. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; bumpy; jolting; jumpy definition (b) jolty

A10 adj. informal terms; quirky; way-out definition (a) offbeat

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 250 (Answer Keys)

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adj. fairly large; sizeable definition (b) ample

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adj. stubborn; obstinate definition (a) refractory

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adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; flagrant; glaring; gross; rank definition (b) egregious

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adj. blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts definition (c) gusty

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adj. containing seeds of later development; seminal definition (a) germinal

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adj. being or relating to an uncle definition (a) avuncular

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adj. quick or skillful or adept in action or thought definition (b) adroit

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adj. boisterously and noisily aggressive definition (d) obstreperous

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adj. born out of wedlock; spurious definition (a) misbegot

A10 adj. arousing to action or rebellion; inflammatory; instigative; rabble-rousing; seditious definition (d) incitive

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 251 (Answer Keys)

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n. a period of calm weather definition (d) lull

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n. the act of rubbing together definition (d) attrition

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n. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used definition (c) pallet

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n. facial details; characteristics definition (d) lineaments

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n. the pivot about which a lever turns definition (a) fulcrum

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n. a bottle with a stopper definition (a) carafe

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n. a dense growth of bushes; copse; thicket definition (c) coppice

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n. act of quitting a position; relinquishment definition (b) resignation

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n. telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand; chiromancy definition (d) chirology

A10 n. the second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses definition (a) exodus

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 252 (Answer Keys)

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n. formal separation from an alliance or federation definition (a) secession

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n. desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer definition (b) lectern

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adj. not injured; whole definition (b) unscathed

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adj. tediously repetitious or lacking in variety definition (c) humdrum

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v. be in an inactive or dormant state definition (b) hibernate

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adj. unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; unknowing definition (b) unwitting

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n. noisy quarrel; fracas definition (a) altercation

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n. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); simulacrum definition (d) effigy

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v. give out (breath or an odor) definition (c) emanate

A10 v. take the place of work of someone on strike; rat definition (a) blackleg

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 253 (Answer Keys)

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adj. extremely conservative; far-right definition (d) reactionary

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adj. possible but not necessary definition (b) optional

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adj. evidencing little spirit or courage definition (c) meek

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adj. characterized by careless unconcern definition (c) heedless

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adj. immune to attack definition (d) invulnerable

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adj. obedient; meek, compliant, yielding definition (c) submissive

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adj. swinging; hanging loosely definition (b) pendulous

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adj. concerned with theories rather than their practical applications definition (a) theoretical

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adj. selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas definition (d) eclectic

A10 adj. of persons; ungovernable; unruly definition (b) indocile

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 254 (Answer Keys)

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n. a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power definition (c) junta

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n. the time when something ends definition (b) demise

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n. meat from a deer used as food definition (d) venison

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n. a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone; bourdon definition (b) drone

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n. any system of principles or beliefs definition (c) credo

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n. the act of collecting in a mass definition (d) agglomeration

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n. assault; mighty attack definition (b) onslaught

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n. an awkward stupid person; stumblebum; goon; lubber; lummox; lump; gawk definition (c) oaf

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n. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; buttery definition (b) pantry

A10 n. a proposed route of travel definition (a) itinerary

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 255 (Answer Keys)

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n. collection of records especially about an institution definition (c) archives

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n. lack of self-confidence; self-distrust definition (c) diffidence

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adj. taking on different forms definition (d) protean

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n. a quarrel about petty points; spat; tiff; pettifoggery; fuss definition (b) squabble

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v. excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) definition (b) purge

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adj. spitefully sarcastic definition (d) corrosive

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v. subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe definition (c) cow

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adj. very long lasting; undestroyable definition (a) perdurable

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n. the physical coming together of two or more things; striking definition (d) impinging

A10 n. the condition or result of being changeable definition (d) diversity

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 256 (Answer Keys)

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adj. detached; having distinct breaks between successive tones definition (a) staccato

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adj. exalted; noble; lofty definition (a) sublime

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adj. relating to or characteristic of trade or traders definition (d) mercantile

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adj. allowing passage in and out definition (a) porous

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adj. characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance definition (c) incandescent

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adj. driven insane; half-crazed definition (d) deranged

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adj. devoted to a cause or party definition (a) partisan

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adj. affectedly dainty or refined; niminy-piminy; prim definition (c) twee

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adj. being of the underworld definition (d) infernal

A10 adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish definition (c) rapacious

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 257 (Answer Keys)

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n. compulsory force or threat definition (c) duress

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n. the product of a body's mass and its velocity definition (c) momentum

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n. the property of being close together definition (a) propinquity

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n. a political system governed by old men definition (a) gerontocracy

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n. a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal) definition (c) gruel

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n. a man skilled in equitation; horseback rider definition (b) equestrian

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adj. not having enough money to pay for necessities; penniless; penurious; pinched definition (b) impecunious

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n. a person who exercises control over workers; gaffer; boss definition (b) honcho

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n. use of physical or mental energy; exertion; sweat definition (c) travail

A10 n. solitude; singularity; uniqueness definition (c) aloneness

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 258 (Answer Keys)

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n. attraction; closeness definition (d) affinity

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v. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; excise definition (c) expunge

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n. inappropriate levity definition (a) flippancy

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adj. without mercy or pity; unpitying definition (d) ruthless

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v. remove or make invisible; cancel; erase definition (d) delete

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n. the funds of a government or institution or individual definition (b) exchequer

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adj. impossible to avoid or evade:; unavoidable definition (a) ineluctable

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adj. involving or likely to cause controversy definition (a) contentious

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n. someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs; doubter definition (c) skeptic

A10 adj. having or exerting a malignant influence; malign; evil definition (d) malefic

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 259 (Answer Keys)

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adj. taking place by degrees definition (d) graduated

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adj. transparent; easy to understand definition (b) limpid

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adj. used of riotously drunken merrymaking; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic definition (b) bacchanalian

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adj. witty or joking definition (d) waggish

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adj. giving strong encouragement; hortative definition (b) hortatory

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adj. located farthest to the rear; rearmost definition (a) hindmost

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n. the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration definition (a) diffusion

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adj. difficult to penetrate definition (d) recondite

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adj. not easy to combine harmoniously; unsuited definition (b) mismated

A10 adj. very lively and profitable; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving definition (c) palmy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 260 (Answer Keys)

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n. an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth definition (b) verity

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n. a small cave (usually with attractive features) definition (a) grotto

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n. violent pangs of suffering definition (d) throes

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n. a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin definition (d) sherbet

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n. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying definition (c) transitoriness

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n. funeral ceremony definition (a) obsequy

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adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; grimy; grubby; grungy; raunchy definition (c) begrimed

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n. the object of a feeling of intense aversion definition (d) antipathy

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n. someone new to a field or activity; tyro; initiate definition (c) tiro

A10 n. any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon; olefin definition (a) alkene

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 261 (Answer Keys)

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n. an idle slothful person definition (b) sluggard

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adj. according with custom or propriety; comme il faut; decent; decorous definition (a) seemly

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adj. of or relating to the cultivation of plants definition (b) horticultural

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n. venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw definition (d) viper

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v. drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) definition (d) swill

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v. choose not to consume; desist definition (d) refrain

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adj. excessively unwilling to spend definition (b) penurious

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n. a woman who cohabits with an important man; doxy; paramour definition (c) concubine

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v. enclose in a capsule; capsulize; capsulise definition (b) capsulate

A10 n. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will; gall; rancor definition (b) rancour

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 262 (Answer Keys)

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adj. causing or able to cause nausea; noisome; queasy; loathsome; sickening; vile definition (b) offensive

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adj. determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity or reason definition (d) whimsical

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adj. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice definition (b) invidious

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adj. long and lean definition (d) lank

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adj. stiff or rigid with anger definition (a) bristling

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adj. marked by firm determination or resolution; steady; stiff; unbendable; unshakable; unwavering definition (b) unfaltering

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adj. not admitting of passage or capable of being affected definition (d) impervious

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adj. (of clothing) custom-made; made-to-order; tailored; tailor-made definition (c) bespoke

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adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; whimsical definition (b) capricious

A10 adj. relating to or affected by an aneurysm; aneurysmatic; aneurismatic definition (a) aneurismal

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 263 (Answer Keys)

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n. the range of vision definition (b) ken

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n. the amount by which a propagating wave is bent definition (a) refraction

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n. a small natural hill; hillock; hummock; hammock definition (d) knoll

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n. a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something definition (c) adjuration

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n. the act of inhaling; intake; breathing in definition (c) aspiration

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n. the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time; inconsistency definition (b) repugnance

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adj. resulting from or employing derivation definition (d) derivative

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n. the act of making a noisy disturbance; ruction; ruckus; rumpus; tumult definition (c) din

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n. sound of something in rapid motion; birr definition (a) whirring

A10 n. imaginary or visionary theorization definition (a) ideology

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 264 (Answer Keys)

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n. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law definition (b) contraband

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adj. surpassing the ordinary or normal definition (b) uncanny

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adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolor; particolored definition (c) pied

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n. the act of becoming formally connected or joined definition (a) affiliation

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adj. performed in a systematic way; orderly definition (a) methodical

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n. a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War definition (d) cavalier

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adj. nonchalantly unconcerned definition (d) blase

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n. the action of bruising definition (d) contusion

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n. a bad-tempered person; crank; churl definition (d) crosspatch

A10 v. knock down with force; dump; knock down; floor definition (d) coldcock

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 265 (Answer Keys)

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adj. parallel; similar definition (c) analogous

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adj. fast and brilliant definition (d) meteoric

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adj. unequivocally detestable; execrable definition (c) odious

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adj. difficult to handle definition (a) touchy

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adj. of or relating to metallurgy definition (b) metallurgical

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adj. lasting for a markedly brief time; momentaneous; momentary definition (d) fugitive

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adj. of a substance, especially a strong acid; erosive; vitriolic; mordant definition (d) caustic

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adj. formed or united into a whole; integrated; unified definition (c) merged

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adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; clunky; ungainly; unwieldy definition (a) gawky

A10 adj. guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong definition (a) conscientious

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 266 (Answer Keys)

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n. pretending to be another person definition (d) imposture

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n. exceptional creative ability definition (a) wizardry

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n. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity; peak; bloom; blossom; efflorescence; flush definition (d) heyday

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n. belief that physical comfort is the highest value definition (d) materialism

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n. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink); gastronome; bon vivant; epicurean; foodie definition (d) gourmet

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n. a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol; intoxication; tipsiness; insobriety definition (a) inebriety

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n. genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds definition (b) anemia

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n. one related on the father's side; patrilineal kin; patrisib; patrilineal sib definition (b) agnate

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n. a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster definition (a) fresco

A10 n. loud confusing disagreeable sounds definition (c) cacophony

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 267 (Answer Keys)

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v. make a groove in definition (b) gouge

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v. make weak; drain definition (a) debilitate

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n. inactivity; immobility definition (b) inertia

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v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; exuviate; moult definition (b) slough

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n. discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander) definition (c) detraction

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n. ancestor definition (d) forebears

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n. either of two times in a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator definition (c) equinox

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v. yield (to) definition (b) gratify

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n. a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice definition (c) depravity

A10 adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive; gummy; mucilaginous; pasty; sticky; viscid definition (b) viscous

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 268 (Answer Keys)

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adj. of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning definition (a) physiological

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adj. used of the voice definition (b) stentorian

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adj. exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health definition (c) hale

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adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; uneasy; unquiet definition (d) queasy

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adj. divided into or made up of two parts definition (a) bifurcated

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n. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold; oddment definition (c) remnant

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adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; luxuriant; sybaritic; voluptuary definition (d) voluptuous

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adj. having a hole cut through; perforate; punctured definition (b) pierced

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adj. relating to or consisting of or yielding coal definition (d) carbonic

A10 adj. without qualification; unadulterated definition (b) sodding

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 269 (Answer Keys)

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n. an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion definition (b) disquisition

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n. a servant employed to do a variety of jobs definition (d) factotum

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n. an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); vigour; vim definition (a) vigor

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n. the close of a musical section; meter; metre; measure; beat definition (d) cadence

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n. a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme definition (c) trilogy

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n. legendary food of the gods; something that tastes wonderful definition (b) ambrosia

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n. the act of severing definition (d) severance

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n. witty remark; sally; quip definition (b) wisecrack

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n. extravagant elaborateness; showiness definition (d) floridity

A10 n. a loud harsh or strident noise; cacophony; clamor; din definition (a) blaring

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 270 (Answer Keys)

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adj. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; inspired definition (b) elysian

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v. tangle or complicate; knot definition (b) ravel

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adj. skillful in physical movements; dextrous definition (c) dexterous

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v. set straight or right; remedy; repair definition (b) amend

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n. excessive sternness; harshness; rigor; rigorousness; inclemency; stiffness definition (c) severity

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adj. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation definition (b) rococo

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v. confirm; sanction; legalize definition (c) validate

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n. a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone definition (d) gritrock

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n. act of anointing; pouring of oil definition (a) unction

A10 n. a person who lacks good judgment; saphead; tomfool definition (a) muggins

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 271 (Answer Keys)

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adj. inflexible; stubborn; unyielding definition (b) intractable

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adj. very small definition (d) minuscule

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adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; wolfish definition (c) voracious

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adj. showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt definition (a) vindictive

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adj. greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement definition (b) preeminent

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adj. consisting of two chambers definition (a) bicameral

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adj. easily squashed; spongelike definition (b) squishy

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adj. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; disturbed; upset; worried definition (c) disquieted

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adj. of an obscure nature; deep; mysterious; mystifying definition (c) inscrutable

A10 adj. cut or impressed into a surface; graven; incised; inscribed definition (b) engraved

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 272 (Answer Keys)

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n. light sword; thin metal sheets definition (c) foil

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n. a noisy riotous fight; battle royal definition (d) melee

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n. a slight or superficial understanding of a subject definition (b) smattering

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n. an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good definition (b) hedonism

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n. persistent determination; persistence; persistency; tenaciousness; pertinacity definition (c) tenacity

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n. mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried definition (c) marsupial

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n. a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; birretta definition (c) berretta

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n. a sign of something about to happen; presage; prognostic; prognostication; prodigy definition (a) portent

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n. lack of ornamentation; simplicity; simpleness definition (b) chasteness

A10 n. government; reign; mode of rule definition (d) regimen

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adj. of or relating to a melodic subject definition (a) thematic

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v. barbecue; interrogate; cross-examine definition (d) grill

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n. a brief abstract (as of an article or book) definition (d) epitome

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adj. hand-woven definition (c) homespun

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n. logical and methodical reasoning definition (b) ratiocination

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n. beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils definition (d) rostrum

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adj. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred definition (a) sacrilegious

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n. overbearing pride or presumption definition (b) hubris

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n. the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one; niner; Nina from Carolina definition (c) ennead

A10 n. a person who uses the mind creatively definition (b) intellect

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adj. inconceivably extended in space or time definition (c) cosmic

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adj. suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things; humanlike definition (a) anthropomorphic

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adj. of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory; mnemotechnical definition (d) mnemonic

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adj. evoking lifelike images within the mind; pictorial; vivid definition (b) graphic

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adj. annoyed and irritable; cross; fussy; grouchy; grumpy; bad-tempered; ill-tempered definition (c) crabbed

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adj. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; backbreaking; hard; heavy definition (b) grueling

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adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolor; particolored; varicolored; varicolo definition (d) motley

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adj. limited in duration to a single episode definition (c) episodic

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adj. (of a male) capable of copulation definition (c) virile

A10 adj. recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances definition (d) sporadic

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n. abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will; vitriol definition (a) invective

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n. proselyte definition (b) convert

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n. the act of killing a king definition (c) regicide

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n. the size of something as given by the distance around it definition (b) perimeter

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n. avoiding detection by moving carefully definition (c) stealth

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n. pardon; clemency definition (d) amnesty

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n. atrociousness; offensiveness definition (c) enormity

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n. gravity; seriousness; formality definition (d) solemnity

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n. an informal term for a youth or man; bozo definition (b) hombre

A10 n. a sermon on a moral or religious topic definition (b) homily

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v. copy another person's written work without giving the proper acknowledgement definition (d) plagiarize

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v. command against; proscribe; veto; disallow; nix definition (c) interdict

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n. a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence definition (c) censor

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n. trick; magic; conjuration; illusion; deception definition (a) legerdemain

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v. drink moderately but regularly definition (a) tipple

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n. an ornamental caparison for a horse definition (b) bard

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n. small crude shelter used as a dwelling; hutch; shack; shanty definition (b) hovel

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adj. abusing vocally; jeering; mocking; taunting definition (d) gibelike

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adj. showing sorrow; lachrymose; tearful; weeping definition (c) dolourous

A10 n. the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet; alphabetic character definition (a) zeta

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adj. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose definition (d) desultory

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adj. having a bad disposition definition (c) churlish

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adj. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; innate definition (c) congenital

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adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive; gummy; mucilaginous; pasty; sticky; viscous definition (d) viscid

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adj. excessively forward definition (a) presumptuous

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n. fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities definition (c) timidity

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adj. resembling a fork; branched; forked; fork-like; forficate; pronged; prongy definition (c) bifurcate

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adj. fanatically patriotic; nationalistic; ultranationalistic; superpatriotic definition (b) jingoistic

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adj. used especially of persons definition (c) stalwart

A10 adj. widely known and esteemed; famous; illustrious; notable; noted; renowned definition (c) famed

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n. facial features definition (d) physiognomy

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n. the basic unit of money in Japan definition (c) yen

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n. a writing system using picture symbols definition (b) hieroglyphic

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n. expansion or increase due to gradual buid-up or additions definition (b) accretion

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n. the act of vibrating; shiver definition (c) quiver

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n. common language definition (a) patois

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n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; disaster; tragedy definition (d) cataclysm

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n. a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual; mannerism definition (c) idiosyncrasy

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n. a painter or drawer of portraits; portrayer definition (c) limner

A10 n. the act of turning aside suddenly; veering definition (b) swerving

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adj. worthy of religious veneration definition (d) hallowed

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v. become gelatinous definition (d) congeal

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v. influence; cause gradual change definition (d) leaven

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adj. providing protective supervision definition (a) tutelary

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v. attack with dogs or set dogs upon definition (b) bait

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v. treat with excessive indulgence; cosset; cocker; baby; spoil; indulge definition (a) mollycoddle

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adj. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; mossy; stodgy definition (b) fogyish

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v. deprive of by deceit; swindle; goldbrick; defraud; scam definition (b) rook

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n. the property of excessive fatness; stoutness definition (a) adiposis

A10 v. mix together different elements; flux; commingle; fuse; combine; merge definition (b) conflate

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adj. (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely definition (c) supple

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adj. of or providing nourishment; nourishing; nutrient; nutritious; nutritive definition (b) alimentary

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adj. extremely evil or cruel; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy definition (c) diabolical

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adj. young and inexperienced; callow definition (c) unfledged

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adj. lowered in value definition (c) degraded

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adj. mild and pleasant; soft definition (b) balmy

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adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort definition (c) scrupulous

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adj. tasting or smelling like vinegar; vinegary; vinegarish definition (a) acetose

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adj. readily reacting to suggestions and influences definition (b) tractable

A10 adj. (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin; pimply; pustulate definition (c) acned

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n. an early warning about a future event definition (c) premonition

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n. the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause definition (d) beneficiary

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n. a performance using gestures and body movements without words; dumb show definition (d) pantomime

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n. a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections definition (b) soliloquy

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n. a one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome definition (c) toga

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n. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount; iota; tittle; smidgen; smidgeon; smidgin; smidge definition (b) whit

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adj. no longer in use definition (a) obsolete

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n. obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness definition (a) truculence

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n. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; sustainment; maintenance; upkeep definition (d) sustenance

A10 n. one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor definition (a) palette

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v. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes definition (d) harry

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n. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose; ingroup; inner circle; pack; camp definition (c) coterie

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adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; eccentric; freaky; flaky definition (b) outlandish

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n. disgrace or shame definition (c) reproach

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n. a person whose interests are directed outward definition (b) extrovert

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adj. not arrogant or presuming definition (a) unassuming

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n. a serviceman in the navy; sailor; sailor boy definition (a) bluejacket

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v. give an incentive for action; propel; move; prompt; incite definition (a) actuate

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v. commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; blunder; goof definition (b) boob

A10 v. produce buds, branches, or germinate; germinate; pullulate; burgeon forth; sprout definition (d) bourgeon

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adj. skillful in statecraft or management definition (d) sagacious

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adj. touched by rot or decay definition (c) tainted

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adj. not properly maintained or cared for definition (c) unkempt

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adj. feeding on animals (used of plants as well as animals) definition (a) carnivorous

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adj. of or pertaining to electric or magnetic induction definition (b) inductive

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n. manner of speaking which uses a negative to state a positive definition (d) litotes

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adj. expressive of contempt; snide definition (d) supercilious

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adj. of an instrument of certain death definition (d) lethal

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adj. located far away spatially definition (c) distant

A10 adj. (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; roiled; roily; turbulent definition (c) roiling

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n. a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to); amiability; amiableness; bonhomie definition (c) geniality

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n. a person without moral scruples definition (c) reprobate

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n. hypothesis definition (c) assumption

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n. correct or appropriate behavior; correctitude definition (c) propriety

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n. a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window definition (a) dormer

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n. in law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held definition (d) venue

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adj. noisy like the sound of a bee definition (b) abuzz

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n. a protective structure of stone or concrete; groyne; mole; seawall; jetty definition (a) bulwark

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n. brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall; cope definition (a) coping

A10 n. a variety of leaf bug; capsid definition (b) mirid

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n. a long narrow opening; fissure; scissure definition (b) crevice

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v. spot, stain, or pollute; maculate definition (a) defile

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n. distinctive appellation denoting rank or achievement definition (a) title

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v. record in chronological order definition (c) chronicle

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v. be false to; be dishonest with; deceive; lead on; delude definition (a) cozen

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n. partial or total loss of memory; blackout definition (c) amnesia

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adj. intended to deceive definition (d) spurious

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n. a socially awkward or tactless act; slip; gaucherie definition (a) solecism

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adj. not clearly understood or expressed definition (a) opaque

A10 v. give to in marriage; affiance; plight definition (b) betroth

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adj. suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose definition (d) opportune

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adj. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; rash; reckless definition (b) foolhardy

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adj. certified; licensed definition (c) qualified

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adj. existing in name only definition (a) titular

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adj. relating to or characteristic of wooded regions definition (b) sylvan

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adj. failing to accomplish an intended result; unsuccessful definition (d) abortive

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adj. like a clown; clownlike; zany definition (c) buffoonish

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adj. characterized by extravagance and profusion; lush; plush; plushy definition (c) lavish

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adj. characterized by extravagance and profusion; lush; plush; plushy definition (a) lucullan

A10 adj. shining intensely; dazzling; fulgent; glaring; glary definition (b) blinding

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n. previous legal decision serving as an authoritative rule definition (c) precedent

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n. spiked club used as a weapon definition (c) mace

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n. the absence of mental stress or anxiety; peace of mind; repose; heartsease; ataraxis definition (b) serenity

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n. a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen definition (c) tundra

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n. man made object definition (d) artifacts

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n. an educated and intellectual elite definition (d) intelligentsia

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n. someone who assaults others sexually; ravisher definition (b) debaucher

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n. the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event definition (c) assessment

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n. an algebraic equation of the fourth degree; quartic; fourth power definition (b) biquadrate

A10 n. a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula; blastodisc; germinal area definition (b) blastoderm

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adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy definition (a) unctuous

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n. a feeling of anger and animosity definition (d) hackles

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n. to presume; to suppose definition (c) postulate

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v. fire; give notice; dismiss; sack definition (b) terminate

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adj. completely acceptable definition (d) unimpeachable

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n. a specialist in care for the feet definition (c) podiatrist

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adj. having cusps or points; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated definition (a) cuspate

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n. an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output definition (b) incentive

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v. exasperate or irritate; aggravate definition (b) exacerbate

A10 n. the hemisphere that includes North America and South America; New World definition (c) occident

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adj. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth definition (c) precise

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adj. hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy definition (a) mealymouthed

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adj. having unnatural mannerisms definition (a) mannered

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adj. contemptibly small in amount definition (c) paltry

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n. extinct flying reptile definition (a) pterodactyl

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adj. capable of being remedied or redressed definition (b) remediable

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adj. narrowly restricted in outlook or scope definition (a) parochial

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adj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; overzealous definition (d) rabid

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adj. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; preternatural; transcendental definition (b) nonnatural

A10 adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping; crooked definition (b) hunched

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n. a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; hommos; hoummos; humous definition (a) humus

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n. a physician specializing in obstetrics definition (d) obstetrician

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n. intermittent river definition (b) arroyo

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n. a spear with three prongs definition (c) trident

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n. elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression definition (a) gentility

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n. effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure; rubbing definition (c) friction

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v. talk in a monotonous voice definition (a) drone

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adj. suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder; psychopathological definition (d) psychopathic

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n. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; burl definition (c) slub

A10 n. the act of wetting something by submerging it; ducking definition (a) dousing

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adj. of or relating to the work of an actuary definition (b) actuarial

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v. reduce the air supply definition (c) throttle

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n. the quality of not moving definition (a) immobility

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n. a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail definition (d) felon

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n. a channel for communication between groups; contact; inter-group communication definition (a) liaison

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v. prove to be false or incorrect definition (b) controvert

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adj. petty or reluctant in giving or spending; scrimy definition (b) niggardly

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adj. powerfully persuasive; weighty definition (b) cogent

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n. the range within which a voice can be heard; hearing definition (b) earreach

A10 adj. impartial; unbiased definition (c) objective

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adj. peculiar to the individual definition (a) idiosyncratic

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adj. of or relating to a wedding; spousal definition (d) nuptial

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adj. worthy of respect or honor definition (d) redoubtable

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adj. having a low center of gravity definition (b) squat

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adj. produced or growing in extreme abundance; luxuriant; profuse; riotous definition (c) exuberant

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adj. not bound by shackles and chains; unshackled; untied definition (d) unfettered

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adj. not easily irritated; good-tempered definition (b) placid

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adj. gray; white; ancient; old definition (d) hoary

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adj. showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement definition (d) humane

A10 adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; sickly; unwell; under the weather; seedy definition (d) ailing

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n. an impression that something might be the case; suspicion definition (d) intuition

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n. a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas definition (c) curmudgeon

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n. a special way of doing something; hang definition (a) bent

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n. a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye definition (d) oculist

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n. a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral; lagune definition (c) lagoon

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adj. of or like glass definition (a) vitreous

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n. a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications; warrantee definition (c) warranty

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n. something of little value or significance; frivolity definition (a) frippery

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n. the act of giving a false appearance; simulation; feigning definition (d) pretending

A10 n. lawlessness definition (d) anarchy

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n. a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease definition (c) talisman

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v. describe; portray definition (c) limn

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n. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs; chemist; pill pusher; pill roller definition (d) apothecary

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n. a final climactic stage; apogee; a concluding action definition (b) culmination

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v. excite pleasurably or erotically definition (c) titillate

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n. equality of distribution; counterbalance definition (c) equipoise

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adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; uncanny; unearthly definition (b) eldritch

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adj. of uncertain outcome; dicey; dodgy definition (a) chanceful

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adj. having hills and crags; hilly; mountainous definition (d) cragged

A10 n. a somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles; tingling definition (c) prickling

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adj. ex; old-fashioned; passe; passee definition (d) outmoded

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adj. relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants definition (b) servile

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adj. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease definition (d) prophylactic

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adj. novel; unexampled definition (d) unprecedented

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adj. tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length definition (a) prolix

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adj. patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble definition (a) enduring

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n. a major division of a long poem definition (c) canto

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adj. without civilizing influences; savage; uncivilized; uncivilised; wild definition (a) barbarian

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adj. imparting vitality and energy; fresh; refreshing; refreshful; tonic definition (c) bracing

A10 adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner definition (a) foppish

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n. the trait of being unduly vain; vanity definition (a) conceit

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n. a manuscript on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible definition (c) palimpsest

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n. the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes definition (d) anvil

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n. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures); nonindulgence definition (b) austerity

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n. a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation definition (b) litany

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n. a display of bad temper; scene; conniption definition (d) tantrum

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n. the belief in government by divine guidance definition (c) theocracy

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n. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand definition (d) myriad

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n. a display of bad temper; scene definition (a) conniption

A10 n. exception; deviation definition (d) anomaly

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adj. powerful; forceful definition (d) puissant

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n. the branch of zoology that studies insects definition (b) entomology

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v. chew cud definition (b) ruminate

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n. any carefree episode definition (d) escapade

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n. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side definition (d) clapper

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adj. detrimental to health; unhealthy definition (d) insalubrious

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v. steal goods; loot; reave; strip; rifle; ransack; foray definition (c) pillage

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adj. not challenging; unglamorous; unglamourous definition (b) prosaic

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n. a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence definition (a) adjunct

A10 n. an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity definition (b) attribute

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adj. incongruous; unsuitable definition (a) incompatible

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adj. capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; practicable; viable; workable definition (a) feasible

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adj. having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap definition (a) mangy

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adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; acerbic; blistering; caustic; sulfurous definition (d) virulent

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adj. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; archaic definition (b) antiquated

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adj. of great mass; giant; jumbo definition (d) gargantuan

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adj. relating to or containing or caused by mercury definition (a) mercurial

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adj. lasting throughout the whole year definition (a) perennial

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adj. kind; favorable; gentle definition (a) benign

A10 adj. fixed in place; unchangeable definition (b) immoveable

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n. inheritance; bequest definition (c) legacy

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n. righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest definition (b) rectitude

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n. specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject definition (d) jargon

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n. a leisurely walk (usually in some public place); saunter; stroll; perambulation definition (c) amble

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n. organized opposition to authority; revolt; rising; uprising definition (d) insurrection

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n. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose; ingroup; inner circle; pack; camp definition (b) clique

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n. the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest definition (d) usury

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n. a formal expression by a meeting definition (d) resolve

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n. either of two large muscles of the chest; pectoralis; musculus pectoralis definition (c) pecs

A10 n. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; payback definition (d) retribution

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adj. full of or giving praise; praising definition (c) laudatory

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adj. timid by nature or revealing timidity; trepid definition (a) timorous

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adj. giving sexual pleasure definition (b) erotic

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n. a feeling of righteous anger definition (c) indignation

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n. instability; unequal distribution of weight definition (a) imbalance

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n. unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity definition (a) lechery

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adj. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; blue; blue-blooded; gentle definition (a) patrician

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adj. inclined to or marked by drowsiness; slumbrous; somnolent definition (c) slumbery

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n. a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion definition (a) heresy

A10 v. protect or fight for definition (c) champion

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adj. resembling or characteristic of a phantom; ghostly; phantasmal; spiritual definition (c) spectral

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adj. filled with melancholy; depressed; downcast; downhearted; down in the mouth definition (d) dispirited

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adj. serving as an introduction or preface definition (c) prefatory

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adj. of or being or relating to or involving cognition definition (a) cognitive

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adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; defamatory; denigrative; denigrating; denigratory; slanderous definition (b) libelous

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n. a shape that spreads outward definition (d) flair

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adj. preceding in time, order, or significance definition (d) precedent

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adj. devoid of intelligence; mindless; vacuous definition (a) inane

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adj. pertaining to abnormally frequent and fluid bowel movements definition (c) diarrheal

A10 adj. resembling swine; piggy; porcine; swinish definition (c) hoggish

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 302 (Answer Keys)

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n. a difficult problem; brain-teaser definition (a) enigma

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n. the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse definition (c) ford

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n. beautiful handwriting; chirography definition (d) calligraphy

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n. the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability; comradeliness; comradery; comradeship definition (c) camaraderie

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n. a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike definition (b) whiff

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n. a duplicate copy; twin definition (b) counterpart

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n. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; alluvion definition (d) deluge

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n. a sudden jarring impact; shock definition (a) jounce

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n. trivial nonsense; piffle definition (b) balderdash

A10 n. a dissenting clique definition (c) faction

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n. an offering of a tenth part of some personal income definition (c) tithe

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adj. located below or beneath something else definition (c) nether

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adj. resembling human beings definition (a) anthropoid

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v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; desolate; desert definition (b) forsake

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n. dullness owing to length or slowness; tiresomeness definition (d) tedium

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v. fill to satisfaction; replete; fill definition (d) sate

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adj. (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed definition (d) averse

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adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; silken; silky; silklike; slick definition (d) satiny

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n. a monocotyledonous flowering plant; liliopsid definition (b) endogen

A10 adj. bad; pitiful; sad; sorry definition (d) lamentable

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adj. applauding; commending definition (c) plauditory

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adj. violently agitated and turbulent; rough definition (b) boisterous

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adj. intended to placate definition (b) conciliatory

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adj. marked by utter benignity; saintlike; saintly; sainted definition (c) beatific

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adj. acceptable to the taste or mind definition (c) palatable

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n. stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place definition (c) girth

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adj. engaged in war; war-ridden; warring definition (d) militant

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adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter definition (c) capillary

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adj. distinctly dissimilar or unlike definition (d) diverse

A10 adj. doomed to extinction; undone; washed-up definition (c) sunk

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 305 (Answer Keys)

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n. a postulated sequence of possible events definition (a) scenario

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n. a person holding a fief; liegeman; liege subject; feudatory definition (b) vassal

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n. a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed definition (a) granary

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n. an obvious truth definition (a) truism

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n. scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought definition (a) latitude

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n. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene definition (c) diorama

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n. one who lives in solitude; solitary; solitudinarian; troglodyte definition (b) recluse

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v. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme definition (a) attribute

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adj. must be kept sacred definition (a) sacrosanct

A10 n. an infant considered in relation to its nanny; suckling definition (b) nurseling

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 306 (Answer Keys)

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n. senility; infatuation definition (a) dotage

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v. make believe with the intent to deceive; pretend; affect; dissemble definition (a) sham

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adj. small; tiny definition (a) lilliputian

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adj. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; mirky; murky definition (c) turbid

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adj. morally corrupt or evil definition (d) putrid

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n. person who tends to focus on their own thoughts and feelings definition (d) introvert

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v. censure severely or angrily; rebuke; rag; reprimand definition (c) lambaste

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n. passing reference or indirect mention definition (a) allusion

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v. unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state definition (c) unfurl

A10 v. go back to bad behavior; recidivate; regress; retrogress; fall back definition (b) relapse

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 307 (Answer Keys)

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adj. hasty and without attention to detail; perfunctory definition (a) cursory

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adj. having unsuitable feminine qualities; epicene; cissy; sissified; sissyish; sissy definition (b) effeminate

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adj. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; sulfurous; sulphurous definition (a) sultry

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n. the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) definition (d) euthanasia

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adj. stirring; stimulating; exciting definition (d) rousing

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v. curse or declare to be evil definition (c) anathematize

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adj. sticking together definition (c) tenacious

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adj. lifeless; spiritless definition (a) inanimate

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adj. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; florid; sanguine definition (c) rubicund

A10 adj. not injured; unscathed; whole definition (d) unharmed

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 308 (Answer Keys)

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n. stock; supply; military force that is not on active duty but can be mobilized as needed definition (d) reserve

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n. a fear of foreigners or strangers definition (a) xenophobia

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n. the branch of zoology that studies fishes definition (b) ichthyology

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n. something of sentimental value; token definition (a) relic

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n. tranquility; silence; noiselessness; stillness definition (c) quietude

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n. approaching; coming soon; looming definition (a) impending

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n. someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another definition (d) adherent

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n. a small or minor detail definition (b) minutia

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n. person who writes or compiles a dictionary definition (b) lexicographer

A10 n. a regular patron; fixture definition (c) habitue

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 309 (Answer Keys)

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adj. peaceful; charmingly rustic; picturesque definition (d) idyllic

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v. make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated definition (d) alienate

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adv. in an essential manner; naturally definition (d) intrinsically

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v. issue an order definition (c) ordain

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n. someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement definition (d) casualty

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n. a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting definition (a) proxy

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v. make a pretence of; sham definition (b) feign

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adj. wasting time; poky; pokey definition (c) dilatory

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n. horizontal layer of material definition (d) stratum

A10 n. a person who is not very bright; stupe; dullard; dolt; pudding head definition (b) pillock

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 310 (Answer Keys)

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adj. situated at or extending to great depth; unplumbed; unsounded definition (a) profound

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adj. still in existence definition (a) extant

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adj. preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through definition (b) impermeable

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adj. noticeable; significant; conspicuous definition (a) marked

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adj. characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy definition (c) secular

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n. prompt willingness; forwardness definition (c) zeal

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adj. customary; routine; formal definition (b) conventional

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adj. of or relating to a Roman judge definition (d) praetorial

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adj. occurring or coming into existence after a person's death definition (d) posthumous

A10 adj. very small; lilliputian; midget; petite; tiny; flyspeck definition (a) bantam

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 311 (Answer Keys)

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n. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text definition (c) cantata

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n. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities; decadency definition (b) decadence

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n. intrigue; plot definition (b) conspiracy

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n. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity definition (b) subterfuge

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n. a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs definition (c) tilter

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n. a large fleet definition (c) armada

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n. the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time definition (c) paradigm

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n. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one definition (a) anticlimax

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n. the act of making a noisy disturbance; ruction; ruckus; rumpus definition (d) tumult

A10 n. antecedent; predecessor definition (b) precursor

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 312 (Answer Keys)

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n. someone who supplies provisions (especially food) definition (b) purveyor

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adj. used of decisions and contracts definition (a) indissoluble

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n. moral weakness definition (d) frailty

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v. grip or seize, as in a wrestling match definition (b) grapple

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v. let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse definition (c) steep

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adj. corresponding in size or degree or extent definition (a) commensurate

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adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; cordial; genial definition (d) amiable

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adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace; lowbred; rude; underbred; yokelish definition (b) bounderish

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v. reduce to beggary; pauperise definition (c) pauperize

A10 adj. in an advanced stage of pregnancy; expectant; gravid definition (a) enceinte

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 313 (Answer Keys)

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adj. shabby; base; despicable definition (b) sleazy

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adj. unfrightening definition (b) unintimidating

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adj. having a sweet nature befitting an angel; seraphic; sweet definition (d) cherubic

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adj. artificially formal; hokey definition (c) stilted

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v. poke or thrust abruptly; stab; poke; dig definition (b) prod

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n. an act of atrocious cruelty definition (c) atrocity

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adj. careful in regard to your own interests definition (b) provident

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adj. unpleasantly cold and damp; raw definition (a) bleak

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adj. subjected to cruel treatment; mistreated definition (b) maltreated

A10 adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; fictional; fictitious definition (c) fabricated

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 314 (Answer Keys)

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n. the dead body of a human being; corpse; stiff; clay; remains definition (a) cadaver

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n. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing; self-abasement definition (a) penance

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n. lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers definition (a) leniency

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n. an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing definition (c) levee

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n. demonstration or indication or something definition (b) manifestation

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n. a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) definition (a) tryst

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n. an inlaid furniture decoration; buhl definition (c) boule

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n. statement which is unspecific or lacking in detail definition (b) generality

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n. a disorderly outburst or tumult; commotion; flutter; hurly burly definition (d) kerfuffle

A10 n. a rotund individual; roly-poly; butterball definition (c) fatso

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 315 (Answer Keys)

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n. person who ruins the fun or enjoyment of others definition (b) killjoy

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n. laziness; slow-moving tree-dwelling mammal definition (c) sloth

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v. play boisterously; lark; rollick; run around definition (a) disport

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adj. without compunction or human feeling; inhuman definition (a) insensate

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n. a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space definition (d) claustrophobia

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n. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; hick; yahoo; hayseed; bumpkin; chawbacon definition (a) yokel

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adj. weak and likely to lose consciousness; light-headed; lightheaded definition (d) swooning

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n. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally; numbness; spiritlessness definition (d) apathy

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v. hit hard; whop; whap; bonk definition (b) bash

A10 n. the characteristic sounds made by a horse; whicker; whinny definition (b) neigh

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 316 (Answer Keys)

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adj. incapable of being surmounted or excelled definition (a) insuperable

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adj. caused to be unloved definition (c) estranged

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adj. after the expected or usual time; tardy definition (b) belated

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adj. affected with madness or insanity; disturbed; mad; sick; unbalanced; unhinged definition (b) demented

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adj. not produced by natural forces definition (d) factitious

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adj. tending to reserve or introspection definition (b) withdrawn

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adj. constituting a tube; tubelike; tube-shaped; vasiform definition (a) cannular

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adj. uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves; rippled; wavy; wavelike definition (c) crinkled

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adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; manifest; plain; unmistakable definition (b) patent

A10 adj. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse definition (c) inept

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 317 (Answer Keys)

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n. harmony; peace; agreement definition (d) concord

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n. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; buttery definition (b) larder

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n. traveler who moves from one region or country to another definition (d) migrant

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n. a socially awkward or tactless act; solecism; slip; gaucherie definition (b) gaffe

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n. falsification by the use of sophistry definition (c) sophistication

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n. a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom definition (d) seine

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n. a reeling sensation; lightheadedness definition (a) vertigo

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n. image; statue; idol definition (b) icon

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n. the particular occupation for which you are trained; vocation definition (c) calling

A10 n. great and constant diligence and attention; concentration definition (b) assiduity

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 318 (Answer Keys)

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adj. deviating from the general or common order or type definition (a) anomalous

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n. complete denial of all established authority and institutions definition (a) nihilism

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v. be pregnant with; carry; expect definition (b) gestate

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adj. of or relating to the cerebrum or brain definition (a) cerebral

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n. substance which supposedly prolongs life definition (b) elixir

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n. flourish played by trumpets definition (c) fanfare

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v. pierce with a sharp stake or point; spike definition (a) empale

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n. showing your contempt by derision; mockery; scoff; scoffing definition (b) jeer

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n. an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding; ravage definition (a) depredation

A10 n. one related on the mother's side; matrilineal kin; matrisib; matrilineal sib definition (b) enate

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 319 (Answer Keys)

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adj. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects definition (a) pedantic

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adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial definition (c) funereal

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adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness definition (a) impious

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adj. having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one definition (a) tendentious

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adj. feeling self-importance definition (b) vainglorious

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adj. only partly in existence definition (d) incipient

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adj. of or relating to or associated with the moon definition (d) lunar

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adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities; rapacious; ravening; voracious; wolfish definition (a) ravenous

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adj. marked by lively action; spirited; zippy definition (a) peppy

A10 adj. lacking wit or imagination; earthbound definition (a) prosy

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 320 (Answer Keys)

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n. the condition of being protuberant definition (b) protuberance

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n. flirt; gallivanter; womanizer definition (d) philanderer

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n. tablet that contains no medication but has medical effects due to purely psychological reasons definition (d) placebo

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n. tedious dwelling on a subject definition (c) harping

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n. period; era definition (d) epoch

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n. adroitness in using the hands definition (d) sleight

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n. a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification; protective embankment definition (c) escarp

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n. a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about definition (a) realm

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n. a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned definition (b) waif

A10 n. a person who travels through the water by swimming; bather definition (a) natator

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 321 (Answer Keys)

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n. space or time to maneuver; additional money definition (b) leeway

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adj. of girls or women who are eligible to marry definition (a) nubile

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v. make watertight; stop up leaks definition (c) caulk

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n. the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding; interference definition (a) hindrance

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n. railroad passenger car with beds definition (c) sleeper

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v. confine or restrain with handcuffs; bind definition (a) manacle

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adj. having a pattern of fretwork or latticework; latticed; latticelike definition (c) interlaced

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n. a person without moral scruples definition (c) miscreant

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n. abject or cringing submissiveness; subservience definition (d) servility

A10 n. lively high-spirited playfulness; sportiveness definition (c) friskiness

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 322 (Answer Keys)

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adj. impossible to understand definition (b) impenetrable

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adj. unpredictably difficult in operation definition (b) fractious

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adj. habitual definition (b) inveterate

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adj. of or relating to the state of marriage; married definition (a) marital

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adj. of or relating to or characterized by fever definition (c) febrile

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n. brief description accompanying an illustration definition (a) legend

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adj. having four units or components; fourfold; four-fold definition (d) quadruplex

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adj. of a path e.g.; winding definition (c) meandering

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adj. indirect; through another definition (a) vicarious

A10 adj. (of persons) befitting a warrior; warriorlike; martial definition (d) soldierly

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 323 (Answer Keys)

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n. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text definition (b) oratorio

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n. a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist) definition (b) agnostic

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n. severe criticism definition (d) stricture

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n. an instance of misfortune definition (d) mischance

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n. someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections definition (a) heckler

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n. a large circular room definition (b) rotunda

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n. infection by a disease-causing ameba; amebiosis; amoebiosis definition (a) amebiasis

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n. an embarrassing mistake; blooper; bungle; pratfall; foul-up definition (b) blunder

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n. informal terms for a human head; noodle; noggin; dome definition (a) bonce

A10 n. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime; crook; outlaw definition (d) malefactor

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 324 (Answer Keys)

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v. increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves definition (b) undulate

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n. a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea; exponent definition (d) proponent

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adj. marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant definition (b) insouciant

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v. strike with an axe definition (c) hew

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adj. puffed up with vanity; pompous; portentous definition (d) pontifical

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n. rhythm; beat definition (b) tempo

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n. fear resulting from the awareness of danger definition (d) consternation

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v. remove the entrails of; draw definition (b) disembowel

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v. administer an oil or ointment to; oil; embrocate definition (b) anele

A10 adj. extremely cold; gelid; icy; polar definition (c) glacial

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 325 (Answer Keys)

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n. a difficult problem; enigma; brain-teaser definition (c) conundrum

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n. the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater definition (c) analogy

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n. rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint definition (b) asceticism

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n. a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft definition (a) ramp

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n. traveling or wandering around definition (c) peregrination

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n. book containing the main principles of Christianity definition (b) catechism

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adj. having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses); swayback; swaybacked definition (d) dipped

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n. complete and confirmed integrity definition (b) probity

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n. information about recent and important events; word definition (c) tidings

A10 n. a party of guests wearing costumes and masks; mask definition (c) masque

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 326 (Answer Keys)

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n. a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) definition (a) maelstrom

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adj. related on the mother's side definition (c) maternal

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n. a strong odor or taste property; sharpness; raciness definition (c) pungency

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adj. most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied definition (b) optimum

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v. make a characteristic sound, of a horse; whicker definition (c) whinny

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n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement; beast; brute; creature definition (d) fauna

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adj. having a common boundary or edge definition (d) contiguous

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v. behave unnaturally or affectedly; act definition (b) dissemble

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v. spend extravagantly; waste definition (d) ware

A10 n. objectivity and detachment; dryness definition (d) dispassion

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 327 (Answer Keys)

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n. an instance of misfortune; mischance definition (c) misadventure

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n. a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work definition (c) pastiche

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n. a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting); order of business definition (d) agenda

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n. a young oyster or other bivalve definition (b) spat

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n. a jar of mixed flower petals and spices used as perfume definition (b) potpourri

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n. the mistake of misrepresenting the facts definition (a) distortion

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adj. easily impressed emotionally definition (c) susceptible

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n. humiliation; insult definition (a) indignity

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n. excessive protection; overshielding definition (d) momism

A10 n. a stupid foolish person; ninny definition (d) nincompoop

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adj. having a dark complexion definition (b) swarthy

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n. a loud resonant repeating noise; clank; clash; crash definition (a) clangor

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n. an idea that is implied or suggested definition (c) connotation

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n. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position definition (c) vantage

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adj. of or relating to or used in cooking definition (c) culinary

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v. divulge confidential information or secrets; let the cat out of the bag definition (a) babble

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adj. spreading out in different directions; rambling; straggly definition (d) sprawling

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adj. outgoing; sociable definition (a) gregarious

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adj. under a moral obligation to someone definition (a) beholden

A10 n. the power to foresee the future definition (b) prescience

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 329 (Answer Keys)

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n. shaving the crown of the head by priests or members of a monastic order definition (d) tonsure

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n. the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others definition (d) hegemony

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n. the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance definition (a) antithesis

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n. the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time definition (c) clime

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n. loud and persistent outcry from many people; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry definition (b) clamor

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n. the trait of being intransigent definition (b) intransigence

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n. footwear usually with wooden soles; patten; sabot definition (a) geta

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adj. ready and able to resort to force or violence definition (b) pugnacious

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n. tall hat; shako definition (c) busby

A10 n. a fee charged for exchanging currencies; premium; exchange premium definition (c) agio

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v. cause to be more favorably inclined; conciliate; assuage; appease; mollify; gentle; gruntle definition (a) placate

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v. make sense of; see definition (d) construe

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n. a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed definition (b) trough

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adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice definition (c) malicious

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n. a large gathering of people; concourse definition (b) throng

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v. beat soundly definition (a) belabor

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n. plentiful definition (d) bountiful

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n. a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; peyote; Lophophora williamsii definition (c) mezcal

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n. thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; poilu definition (a) purloo

A10 adj. given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments definition (a) plausible

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 331 (Answer Keys)

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n. trespasser definition (c) interloper

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n. an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh definition (b) euphemism

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n. significant events and incidents in a person's early life definition (a) antecedents

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n. a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal; plaster definition (d) poultice

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n. a distinguished female operatic singer definition (d) diva

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n. a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey definition (c) talon

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adj. characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is definition (c) ironic

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n. someone who kills by strangling; strangler; throttler; choker definition (c) garroter

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n. a branch that flows into the main stream; confluent; affluent definition (d) tributary

A10 n. an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column; hunchback definition (b) kyphosis

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adj. in opposition to a civil authority or government definition (a) subversive

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n. a building where animals are butchered; slaughterhouse definition (c) shambles

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n. partly lighted area around any shadow definition (b) penumbra

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adv. at a great height definition (d) aloft

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n. customers collectively; business definition (c) clientele

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v. show off; swash; shoot a line; brag; bluster; vaunt definition (a) tout

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n. a state of extreme dishonor definition (c) opprobrium

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n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing; rant; claptrap; blah definition (b) bombast

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adj. not serious in content or attitude or behavior definition (b) frivolous

A10 n. person who has been drafted into military service definition (a) conscript

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 333 (Answer Keys)

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n. adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing; diamante definition (d) spangle

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n. extravagant exaggeration definition (c) hyperbole

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n. an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives definition (a) partiality

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n. a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain definition (d) luster

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n. a quick and penetrating intelligence; sharpness; keenness definition (d) acuity

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n. someone in love with themselves definition (d) narcissist

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adj. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed definition (b) sanguinary

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adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; shrewd definition (a) astute

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n. a compact mass; lump; clump; chunk definition (a) glob

A10 n. liveliness and energy; ginger definition (b) peppiness

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 334 (Answer Keys)

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v. smile affectedly or derisively definition (a) simper

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adj. produced by a wildly fanciful imagination definition (c) chimerical

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adv. free of charge definition (c) gratis

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n. compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) definition (a) emolument

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v. argue over petty things; pettifog; squabble; brabble definition (a) bicker

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n. severe disapproval definition (c) reprobation

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v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; blab; gibber; blabber; gabble definition (d) prattle

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adj. unrestrained by convention or morality; degraded; dissipated; dissolute; libertine; riotous; fast definition (b) profligate

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adj. migratory; roving; wandering definition (b) peregrine

A10 n. meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked); gammon definition (d) jambon

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 335 (Answer Keys)

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n. an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge definition (b) glossary

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n. one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount definition (a) beatitude

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n. repetition of a musical theme definition (c) reprise

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n. animal hunted or caught for food definition (d) prey

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n. the topmost projecting part of an entablature definition (c) cornice

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n. right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son definition (d) primogeniture

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adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; sordid definition (b) squalid

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n. harsh criticism or disapproval definition (a) animadversion

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n. the act of getting possession of something; procural definition (d) procurement

A10 n. rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face downward definition (c) pronation

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n. a shed containing a number of beehives definition (a) apiary

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v. be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get definition (a) vex

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n. assistant to a commanding officer definition (b) adjutant

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adj. legendary creature believed to be a rejuvenated corpse who sucks people's blood at night definition (a) vampire

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adj. stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability definition (d) doctrinaire

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adj. characterized by friendship and good will definition (b) amicable

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v. make sensitive or aware; sensibilize; sensibilise definition (d) sensify

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adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork; haggard; raddled definition (b) careworn

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adj. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms definition (a) aseptic

A10 v. lengthen or extend in duration or space; keep up definition (d) prolong

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 337 (Answer Keys)

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n. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it; pulpit; rostrum; ambo; stump; soapbox definition (d) dais

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n. a feeling of alarm or dread definition (c) trepidation

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n. material for starting a fire; touchwood; spunk; punk definition (a) tinder

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n. engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring) definition (c) cameo

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n. agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole definition (c) consensus

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n. female sheep definition (c) ewe

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n. assemblage definition (a) confluence

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n. feelings of great warmth and intensity; fervor; fervour; fervency; fire; fervidness definition (d) ardor

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n. precise detailed study of the surface features of a region definition (c) topography

A10 n. enduring strength and energy; toughness definition (b) stamina

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 338 (Answer Keys)

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n. getting something back again; restoration; regaining definition (a) restitution

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adj. not convinced definition (c) dubious

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v. place out of sight definition (d) secrete

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n. the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct; magnanimousness definition (d) grandeur

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adj. being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order definition (c) cardinal

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adj. deviating from a straight course; roundabout definition (d) circuitous

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adj. highly abstract and overly theoretical definition (b) metaphysical

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v. stop the flow of a liquid; halt definition (d) staunch

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n. a light softness; fluffiness definition (c) downiness

A10 n. a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water) definition (b) ravine

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 339 (Answer Keys)

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n. a person's brother or sister definition (a) sibling

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n. expression of general truth; code of behavior definition (b) maxim

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n. an insufficient quantity or number definition (d) paucity

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n. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others; designation; appellative definition (d) appellation

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n. a rate that is rapid; rapidity; rapidness; speediness definition (d) celerity

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n. someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it definition (d) entrepreneur

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n. a physician who specializes in psychiatry; shrink definition (c) psychiatrist

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n. a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement) definition (c) implication

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n. puckishness; whimsicality definition (b) impishness

A10 n. something intended to deceive; hoax; humbug; put-on definition (b) dupery

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 340 (Answer Keys)

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n. the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint definition (c) spontaneity

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n. a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed); self-reproach definition (c) remorse

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n. the act of making a choice definition (b) volition

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n. an opening in a wall or floor definition (c) hatch

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adj. marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; mad; unrestrained definition (a) frantic

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n. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; shade; subtlety; refinement definition (a) nicety

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n. addition to a will definition (d) codicil

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n. an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) definition (d) foray

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n. someone who designs clothing; clothes designer; designer definition (b) couturier

A10 adj. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; in love; potty; smitten definition (b) infatuated

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 341 (Answer Keys)

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n. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone; predecessor; herald; precursor definition (b) harbinger

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n. abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open) definition (c) exposure

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n. a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions definition (b) pragmatist

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n. an office that involves minimal duties definition (c) sinecure

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n. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; thought process; intellection; mentation definition (d) cerebration

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n. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it; pulpit; rostrum; ambo; stump; soapbox definition (a) podium

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adj. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; fluent; silver; silver-tongued; smooth-spoken definition (a) facile

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n. breeze definition (d) zephyr

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n. the deep vascular inner layer of the skin; derma definition (d) corium

A10 n. weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy; lethargy; slackness definition (a) lassitude

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 342 (Answer Keys)

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n. an accidental occurrence definition (b) hap

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adj. inspiring a feeling of fear definition (d) eerie

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adj. cleverly amusing in tone; tongue-in-cheek definition (c) bantering

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adj. unrestrained by convention or propriety; bodacious; brassy; brazen; insolent definition (c) barefaced

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v. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; fork; furcate; separate definition (b) ramify

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n. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; ascendence; ascendency; control definition (d) ascendancy

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n. a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; patronage definition (b) disdain

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adj. feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds definition (a) penitent

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n. a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; raptus definition (b) ictus

A10 n. a family of similar musical instrument playing together definition (c) consort

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 343 (Answer Keys)

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n. someone who spends money prodigally; spender; scattergood definition (d) spendthrift

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n. act of inventing possible reasons for an action that are not based on the true reasons definition (c) rationalization

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n. someone who deliberately foments trouble; inciter; instigant definition (a) firebrand

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n. a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease definition (a) amulet

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n. line; file; row definition (b) queue

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n. the harsh sound of a duck definition (c) quack

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n. the act of becoming more distant definition (b) recession

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adj. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; iridescent; shot definition (c) chatoyant

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n. a wad of something chewable as tobacco; cud; quid; plug; wad definition (d) chaw

A10 n. witty language used to convey insults or scorn; caustic remark definition (a) satire

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 344 (Answer Keys)

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n. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.; renegade; recreant; ratter definition (a) turncoat

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v. search and discover through persistent investigation definition (c) ferret

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n. a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research definition (b) dissertation

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adj. of or relating to drama definition (c) thespian

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adv. cautiously; carefully definition (a) gingerly

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n. a long narrow opening; crevice; fissure; scissure definition (b) cleft

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adj. having made preparations; prepared definition (b) fain

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n. a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea definition (b) floe

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v. walk unsteadily; totter; paddle; waddle definition (c) dodder

A10 n. offering sexual intercourse for pay; whoredom definition (c) harlotry

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 345 (Answer Keys)

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n. the trait of judging wisely and objectively definition (a) discretion

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n. sexual instinct definition (c) libido

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n. hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; catholicon; cure-all definition (d) panacea

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n. vigilant attentiveness; weather eye definition (b) vigilance

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n. film; moving picture; motion-picture show definition (a) flick

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n. a natural inclination; leaning definition (d) proclivity

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n. witty language used to convey insults or scorn; satire; caustic remark definition (a) sarcasm

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n. activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion definition (a) vent

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n. a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; cwm definition (a) cirque

A10 n. the act of moving something from one location to another; transfer; transferral; conveyance definition (b) transport

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 346 (Answer Keys)

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adj. childish; puerile definition (d) infantile

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n. a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects definition (a) sextant

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adj. excessively unwilling to spend definition (b) parsimonious

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n. a person with an obsessive desire to light fires definition (d) pyromaniac

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adv. rashly; recklessly definition (b) headlong

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adj. consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny definition (d) mutinous

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adj. required by rule; required definition (d) mandatory

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v. stumble and nearly fall definition (c) founder

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v. insert surreptitiously or without warrant definition (c) foist

A10 adj. having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; tabby definition (d) brinded

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 347 (Answer Keys)

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n. abundant wealth definition (c) affluence

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n. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter; humour; wittiness definition (c) witticism

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n. farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields definition (c) reaper

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n. a worker who holds or is invested with an office definition (a) functionary

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n. a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing definition (b) sheaf

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adj. bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea definition (b) maritime

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n. a singer of folk songs; minstrel; poet-singer; troubadour definition (c) jongleur

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n. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language definition (d) parlance

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n. a name given to a product or service; brand definition (a) marque

A10 n. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life; juvenility definition (a) callowness

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 348 (Answer Keys)

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n. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age); debility; feebleness; frailness; valetudinarianism definition (c) infirmity

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n. an unpaid overdue debt definition (d) arrears

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v. destroy; eradicate; uproot definition (d) extirpate

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n. a small carved or molded figure definition (c) figurine

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n. the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar definition (b) malapropism

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n. an indifference to pleasure or pain; stolidness definition (b) stolidity

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v. lengthen in time; extend; draw out definition (c) protract

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adj. intelligible; clear in meaning; understandable definition (c) pellucid

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n. the white part of an egg; albumen definition (a) ovalbumin

A10 v. steal goods; loot; strip; rifle; ransack; pillage; foray definition (d) reave

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 349 (Answer Keys)

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n. right associated with ownership of property definition (a) appurtenances

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n. medicine or agent that strengthens and invigorates definition (a) tonic

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n. the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food definition (c) gastronomy

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n. a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure definition (b) isthmus

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n. pompous walk; supporting bar definition (b) strut

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n. ingredient; single piece which forms part of a larger whole; element definition (a) component

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n. an inadequate payment definition (d) pittance

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n. a comic verse of irregular measure; jingle definition (c) doggerel

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n. travelling about without any clear destination; vagabondage definition (a) roving

A10 n. a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat; cough drop; troche definition (b) pastille

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 350 (Answer Keys)

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n. encouragement; implied permission definition (b) connivance

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adv. apart; in shreds definition (a) asunder

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adj. having legal efficacy or force definition (b) effectual

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v. restore to a state of good condition or operation definition (b) rehabilitate

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v. surround so as to force to give up; surround; hem in; circumvent definition (b) beleaguer

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adj. blemished by injury or rough wear definition (d) marred

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v. sign as evidence of legal transfer definition (a) endorse

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adj. made tough by habitual exposure; hardened definition (a) inured

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adj. free from emotional agitation or nervous tension; unperturbed; unruffled definition (a) unflurried

A10 n. a loud resonant repeating noise; clangour; clank; clash; crash definition (d) clangoring

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 351 (Answer Keys)

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n. the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet definition (a) delta

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n. the collection of rules imposed by authority definition (c) jurisprudence

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n. military officer below the rank of captain definition (d) subaltern

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n. witty remark; sally definition (b) quip

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n. a small stream; run; runnel; streamlet definition (a) rivulet

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n. careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement definition (b) collation

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adj. serving to warn; monitory definition (d) exemplary

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v. make better or more attractive definition (c) enhance

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n. the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty) definition (a) extradition

A10 n. rebuking a person harshly; objurgation; tongue-lashing definition (c) chiding

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 352 (Answer Keys)

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v. feel or express sympathy or compassion; sympathise definition (d) commiserate

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n. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men; vamp; vamper; minx; tease; prickteaser definition (b) coquette

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n. clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous; plainness definition (b) perspicuity

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v. dig up for reburial or for medical investigation definition (b) disinter

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n. boredom; depression definition (a) doldrums

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adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have definition (c) hypocritical

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v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; calumniate; smear; sully; besmirch definition (d) denigrate

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adj. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; perverted; reprobate definition (a) perverse

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n. small individual study area in a library; cubicle; stall definition (a) carrell

A10 adj. stupid and confused; puddingheaded; muddleheaded definition (b) addlepated

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 353 (Answer Keys)

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n. a dissolute person; rounder definition (c) libertine

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n. the utterance of sounds expressing great joy definition (b) jubilation

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n. the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner; blandness; smoothness definition (b) suavity

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n. street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine; XTC; go; disco biscuit; cristal definition (b) ecstasy

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n. a small natural hill; hillock; hammock definition (d) hummock

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n. any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star definition (a) satellite

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n. shelter; refuge; mental home definition (d) asylum

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n. a flowing together; merging definition (b) conflux

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n. the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) definition (c) aspersion

A10 n. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess; trencherman definition (d) gourmand

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 354 (Answer Keys)

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n. any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) definition (d) asteroid

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n. manifestation of a deity or spirit in an earthly form definition (a) incarnation

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adj. inspiring fear; unnerving definition (c) formidable

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n. food fed to livestock definition (d) fodder

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adj. puffy; swollen definition (d) bloated

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adj. preventing movement; impeding; obstructive definition (c) clogging

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adj. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; debonaire definition (a) jaunty

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n. an arrangement of branching parts definition (a) ramification

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v. divulge confidential information or secrets; let the cat out of the bag; talk definition (c) peach

A10 n. puzzling complexity; tortuousness definition (a) knottiness

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adj. disposed to venture or take risks; venturesome; venturous definition (b) audacious

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n. extended verbal expression in speech or writing; preaching; treatment definition (d) discourse

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adj. overly sweet; syrupy; treacly definition (d) saccharine

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v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; rase; dismantle; tear down; take down; pull down definition (d) raze

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n. a social scientist who specializes in anthropology definition (a) anthropologist

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adj. of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband definition (d) conjugal

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adj. emotionally aroused; stirred up; aroused definition (b) stimulated

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n. order; command definition (b) mandate

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n. a disposition to be ill-tempered; crossness definition (d) crabbiness

A10 n. an effortful attempt to attain a goal; pains; strain definition (b) nisus

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adj. foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife definition (a) uxorious

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v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; blarney; coax; inveigle definition (a) cajole

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v. deeply hurt the feelings of definition (a) lacerate

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n. interchangeable with 'means' in the expression 'by means of' definition (c) dint

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adj. sharply disagreeable definition (b) abrasive

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v. reduce the speed of definition (a) decelerate

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n. leaves definition (a) foliage

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n. a rise in the temperature of the body; pyrexia; feverishness definition (a) febricity

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adj. of a speech expressing leave-taking definition (a) valedictory

A10 adj. unable to meet or discharge financial obligations definition (a) insolvent

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v. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster definition (a) haggle

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adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; outlawed; unlawful definition (a) illicit

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n. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) definition (b) reminiscence

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adj. skillful in physical movements; dextrous definition (d) deft

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v. extend on all sides of simultaneously; ring; skirt; border definition (b) environ

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n. the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; ventilation definition (d) respiration

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n. courage; endurance definition (a) fortitude

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n. being twofold definition (b) dichotomy

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n. skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge definition (b) expertise

A10 adj. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; knifelike; piercing; stabbing; lancinating definition (d) lancinate

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n. textual matter that is added onto a publication; postscript definition (a) addendum

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adj. unrestrainable; uncontrollable definition (d) irrepressible

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adj. not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside definition (c) extrinsic

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n. enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause) definition (d) ovation

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adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; flagrant; gross; rank definition (d) glaring

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n. a device that retards something's motion definition (d) restraint

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adv. distrustfully definition (c) askance

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adj. inspiring scornful pity; silly definition (d) pathetic

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n. remedy that alleviates pain without curing; alleviator definition (b) alleviant

A10 adj. extremely hot definition (b) fervent

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v. make peace with definition (c) appease

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n. a disposition to behave in a certain way definition (b) propensity

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adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; svelte definition (b) urbane

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adj. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; pathologic; pathological definition (a) morbid

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v. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; sweep; sweep up; drag; drag in definition (d) embroil

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n. a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; coefficient definition (c) correlation

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adj. existing independently; real; tangible definition (b) substantive

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n. acute abdominal pain (especially in infants); gripes; griping definition (b) colic

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adj. resembling sculpture; sculptured; sculpturesque definition (a) modeled

A10 n. state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options definition (a) quandary

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n. law; statute; regulation definition (a) ordinance

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n. a pauper who lives by begging definition (c) mendicant

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n. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth; flavour definition (d) relish

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v. shorten definition (a) truncate

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adj. dirty; stained definition (c) maculated

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n. back country definition (a) hinterlands

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n. someone who tries to bring peace; pacifier; peacemaker definition (a) reconciler

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v. press or grind with a crushing noise; craunch; grind definition (d) cranch

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n. a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant definition (c) facade

A10 n. timely convenience; timeliness definition (c) patness

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 361 (Answer Keys)

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v. give away information about somebody; tell on; betray; give away definition (d) denounce

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n. restoration to good condition; renewal definition (b) regeneration

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v. belittle; vilipend definition (d) deprecate

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v. express great joy; rejoice; triumph; jubilate definition (a) exult

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n. outlying areas (as of a city or town) definition (c) outskirts

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adj. marked by changeable fortune definition (d) checkered

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adj. tending to move apart in different directions definition (c) divergent

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adj. (often followed by 'to') likely to be affected with; nonresistant; unresistant definition (b) nonimmune

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v. laugh at with contempt and derision; flout; barrack; gibe definition (c) jeer

A10 n. the evasion of work or duty; soldiering; goofing off; goldbricking definition (b) shirking

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 362 (Answer Keys)

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adj. narrow-minded; having a limited perspective definition (d) sectarian

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v. make imperfect; spoil; deflower; vitiate definition (b) impair

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adj. deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another definition (c) sadistic

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n. the appearance of truth definition (a) verisimilitude

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v. beat through cleverness; outsmart; outfox; beat definition (b) outwit

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n. an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition (logic) definition (c) corollary

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v. sharpen by rubbing definition (b) whet

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n. a person who dribbles; slobberer definition (c) drooler

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v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling; skin; struggle; sputter definition (b) shinny

A10 v. do something that one considers to be below one's dignity; descend definition (a) deign

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 363 (Answer Keys)

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n. a newspaper or official journal definition (b) gazette

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adv. bravely; heroically definition (d) gamely

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v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); evoke; raise; provoke definition (c) kindle

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n. a burst of deep loud hearty laughter definition (b) guffaw

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v. bother; harass definition (d) harrow

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adj. related linguistically; allied by blood; similar or akin in nature definition (d) cognate

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n. interpretation definition (b) exegesis

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n. a feeling of evil to come; boding definition (d) presentiment

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v. foreshadow or presage; harbinger; foretell; herald definition (c) annunciate

A10 v. defeat someone through trickery or deceit; shaft; screw; chicane; jockey definition (a) chouse

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 364 (Answer Keys)

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n. extreme excess; superfluity; embarrassment definition (b) plethora

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n. an ugly evil-looking old woman; beldame; witch definition (d) crone

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adj. excessively mournful definition (d) lugubrious

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v. bend the knees and bow in a servile manner definition (a) genuflect

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adj. of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system definition (a) centripetal

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n. variation definition (d) modulation

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n. compensation for a past injury; correction of problems or malfunctions definition (c) reparation

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n. the act of inducing hypnosis; suggestion definition (a) mesmerism

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n. someone who drives a taxi for a living; cabdriver; cabman; hack driver; hack-driver; livery driver definition (c) cabby

A10 v. move fast; hasten; hie; speed; race; pelt along; rush along definition (b) hotfoot

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n. any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds definition (d) euphony

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v. equip with sails or masts; set up definition (c) rig

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adj. as from an altitude or distance definition (d) panoramic

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v. dress up garishly and tastelessly definition (b) bedizen

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v. make wet and dirty, as from rain definition (b) bedraggle

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adj. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull definition (a) stodgy

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adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; pliable; pliant; tractile definition (c) tensile

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v. eat greedily; raven; pig definition (b) guttle

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adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; clunky; ungainly definition (a) unwieldy

A10 adj. having legs that curve outward at the knees definition (b) bowlegged

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 366 (Answer Keys)

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v. run easily definition (c) lope

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adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit definition (a) worldly

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v. declare; insist on definition (c) assert

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v. use persuasion successfully definition (a) prevail

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n. inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion definition (b) aphasia

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n. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; defamation; denigration definition (d) slander

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adj. allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through definition (d) permeable

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n. having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound; stridency definition (c) stridence

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n. the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes definition (a) fluctuation

A10 adj. showing a brooding ill humor; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen definition (c) glowering

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 367 (Answer Keys)

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n. a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools definition (a) holster

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v. say (something) with great enthusiasm definition (c) rhapsodize

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n. an optical toy in a tube definition (b) kaleidoscope

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n. a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs definition (c) irony

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n. a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin definition (c) dermatologist

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adj. existing in the mind; personal definition (c) subjective

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adj. lying down definition (c) recumbent

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adj. resembling starch; amyloid; amyloidal; farinaceous definition (b) amylaceous

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n. the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; thievery; thieving; stealing definition (a) larceny

A10 v. remove carbon from (an engine); decarburize; decarburise definition (c) decoke

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 368 (Answer Keys)

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v. reverse; turn upside down definition (d) invert

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adj. of imposing height; soaring; towering definition (d) eminent

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n. a moving crowd; swarm definition (c) horde

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adj. relating to or resembling an ape definition (a) simian

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adj. dull and slow-moving and stolid definition (b) bovine

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n. the act of procrastinating; shillyshally definition (a) cunctation

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v. take away the legal force of or render ineffective; vitiate definition (c) invalidate

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n. encouraging; helpful definition (b) conducive

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n. a small and economical car definition (a) compact

A10 n. an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; wall definition (d) rampart

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 369 (Answer Keys)

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adj. relevant and appropriate definition (a) germane

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n. a zoologist who studies birds definition (c) ornithologist

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n. a disrespectful laugh; snigger definition (a) snicker

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adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; shrunken; withered definition (d) wizened

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v. utter impulsively; blunder out; blunder; ejaculate definition (b) blurt

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v. keep in one's mind definition (b) retain

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n. a disputant who quibbles; pettifogger definition (c) caviler

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v. give long speeches in order to delay or prevent a decision from being made definition (a) filibuster

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adj. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow; stunned definition (b) kayoed

A10 adj. reflecting light; lustrous; sheeny; shiny; shining definition (c) glistening

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 370 (Answer Keys)

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adj. uncomfortably or inconveniently small definition (c) incommodious

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n. a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) definition (a) benefactor

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n. an event that departs from expectations; variant definition (d) discrepancy

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adj. causing dejection; dark; disconsolate; gloomy; grim definition (b) dingy

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n. any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant definition (c) pachyderm

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n. the humanistic study of language and literature definition (c) philology

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adj. exaggeratedly proper; prim; prissy; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; tight-laced definition (b) prudish

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n. seeing ahead; farsightedness; prospicience definition (c) foresight

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n. inappropriate playfulness; pertness; sauciness definition (a) archness

A10 adj. practicing great self-denial; austere definition (a) spartan

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 371 (Answer Keys)

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n. a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone definition (d) clarion

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n. an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass definition (a) conglomeration

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n. the qualities of a hero or heroine definition (d) valor

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n. any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine definition (c) projectile

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n. the act of submitting definition (a) compliance

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n. a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words definition (d) rebus

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n. a person who refuses to comply; noncompliant definition (c) balker

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v. pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance definition (c) perforate

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v. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; crunch; bray definition (b) comminute

A10 v. blow gently definition (d) waft

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 372 (Answer Keys)

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adj. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; provisionary; tentative definition (b) provisional

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n. a sudden outburst (as of protest) definition (d) furor

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adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; hypothetical; hypothetic; supposed; suppositional; suppositious definition (d) supposititious

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n. an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys definition (a) temperament

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n. a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy definition (a) odyssey

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n. the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals definition (b) dross

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adj. abounding in rocks or stones; stony definition (c) bouldered

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v. summarize; conclude definition (c) recapitulate

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v. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; establish; show definition (d) shew

A10 v. decree or designate beforehand; doom; designate definition (c) fate

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v. weave by joining loops of yarn or thread definition (b) knit

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adj. involving the joint activity of two or more; conjunctive; cooperative definition (c) concerted

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v. cover with liquid; dowse; soak; sop; souse definition (d) douse

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n. reading carefully with intent to remember; poring over; studying definition (c) perusal

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adj. of or in a condition of social order definition (d) civil

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n. beginning again definition (b) resumption

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n. paper reed; ancient document definition (b) papyrus

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n. someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner; slogger definition (a) trudger

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v. have a disagreement over something; scrap; altercate definition (d) argufy

A10 v. release, as from one's grip; release definition (c) relinquish

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n. drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check definition (b) stalemate

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n. a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language definition (a) terminology

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v. diminish; decrease definition (b) bate

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v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; denigrate; calumniate; smear; besmirch definition (a) sully

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adj. slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) definition (c) brackish

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n. a miserly person definition (d) tightwad

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n. a person who is markedly small; nanus definition (c) midget

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adj. corpse-like; ghastly definition (a) cadaverous

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adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; granitic; obdurate; stony definition (d) flint

A10 n. the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium definition (d) maxillary

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GRE Vocabulary / Word by Meaning / Test # 375 (Answer Keys)

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v. consider not very seriously; play definition (c) dally

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adj. young and inexperienced definition (d) callow

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n. playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower definition (c) carillon

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n. abstaining from excess definition (d) sobriety

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n. foil in thin strips definition (d) chaff

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adj. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; husky definition (a) gruff

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n. attention and management implying responsibility for safety; guardianship definition (a) tutelage

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n. rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction definition (a) gyroscope

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v. tease; drive definition (a) goad

A10 adj. capable of being assigned or credited to; imputable; referable definition (b) ascribable

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