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GRE
GRE Parade of words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abscond | run away: to run away secretly, especially in order to avoid arrest or prosecution |
| aberrant | deviating from the norm (from the noun:abberation) |
| alacrity | eager and ethusiastic willingness |
| anomaly | deviation from the normal order form, or rule, abnormality (adj. anomalous) |
| approbation | an expression of approval or praise |
| arduous | strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort |
| assuage | to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify |
| audacious | daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
| austere | without adornment; bare; severly simple; ascetic |
| pragmatic | relating to practical matters, matters of fact. |
| gambit | the fist move in chess when you sacrifice a pawn. A calculated move |
| renounce | is to resign, refuse, or give up. (to renounce the authority of the religion) |
| recount | to relate in detail, narrate |
| postured | relating to a position, to assume an artificial or pretended attituted |
| countenance | calm expression, expression that offers approval or sanction: moral support |
| evinve | show, display clearly |
| regale | entertain |
| aggrandized | to make a big deal, praise highly |
| obviated | to anticipate and prevent or avoid |
| belied | to give a false impression. disguise |
| concerto | concert soloists and orchestra |
| score | music sheets |
| pliability | supply enough to bend freely "plastic" |
| malleable | shape with a hammer, capable of being altered adaptive change |
| tyrony | oppressive power (the tyranny of the police state) |
| morose | gloomy disposition |
| sullen | silent or repressed |
| ignominious | dishonorable, shame |
| guile | Deceitful cleverness: art, artfulness, artifice, craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness. See honest, means |
| pennury | sever poverity |
| segacious | shrewed, farsigted penetration and judgement |
| raze | to destroy to the ground. Erase |
| abet | to assist or support in the achievement. to Incite |
| Incite | to move to action, stir up |
| concede | grant a right of passage. accept as true, valid, or accurate |
| resolute | firm determination, bold, steady, Faithfull |
| waver | flunctuate in opinion or allegiance |
| sterility | infruitfall. incapable of producing offspring |
| precursory | on that proceded the approach of another |
| implausible | provoking disbelief |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength |
| spurt | to gush forth, spout |
| scintillate | to emit sparks |
| precipitous | a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging rise or fall |
| judicious | having good judgement |
| dispersive | tending to disperse |
| strident | a harsh sound |
| laudable | worthy of praise |
| pandemonium | hell |
| soporific | inducing sleep, drowsy |
| noisome | harmful or dangerous |
| lamentation | express sorrow, mourn, deplore |
| elegy | a song or poem expressing sorrow. melancholy poem |
| diffident | hesitant in acting or speaking because of self confindence |
| medacious | dishonest (medacious tales of his past) |
| truculent | cruel, savage, deadly |
| irascibility | to become angry |
| coerce | to achieve by force |
| abhorrence | to regard with extreme repugnance. to loathe, hate |
| lassitude | listless, weary, fatigue |
| zealot | member of a fanatical sect. a zealous person: a fanatical person |
| miser | a mean person, one who is stingy with money |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression, passion |
| thrift | careful management with money |
| servile | subserviant, abject |
| subserviant | serving to promonte some end |
| abject | down in spirt |
| obsequious | submissive: excessively eager to please or obey |
| cower | display of abject fear in the company of threatening or domineering people |
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ashley5273