40+ random GRE vocab words
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| Aggrandize | To increase in power, influence, and reputation
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| Ameliorate | To make better; to improve
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| Antipathy | Extreme dislike
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| Ardor | Intense and passionate feeling
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| Assuage | To make something unpleasant, less severe
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| Attenuate | To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
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| Audacious | Fearless and daring
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| Austere | severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
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| Banal | Predictable, cliched, boring
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| Bombastic | Pompous in speech and manner
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| Candid | Impartial and honest in speech
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| Capricious | Changing one's mind quickly and often
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| Castigate | To punish or criticize harshly
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| Caustic | Biting in wit; sarcastic
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| Chicanery | Deception by means of craft or guile
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| Cogent | Convincing and well reasoned
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| Condone | To overlook, pardon or disregard
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| Deference | Respect, courtesy
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| Deride | To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock
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| Desiccate | To dry out thoroughly
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| Desultory | Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
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| Diffident | Lacking self-confidence
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| Dilatory | Intended to delay
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| Dilettante | Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
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| Disabuse | To set right; to free from error
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| Dissemble | To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
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| Dissonance | A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds
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| Enervate | To reduce in strength, weaken
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| Engender | To produce, cause, or bring about
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| Ephemeral | Lasting a short time
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| Equivocate | To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
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| Erudite | Learned, scholarly, bookish
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| Esoteric | Known or understood by only a few
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| Estimable | Admirable; able to be esteemed
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| Euphemism | Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
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| Exculpate | To clear from blame; prove innocent
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| Exigent | Urgent, requiring immediate action
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| Fawn | To grovel
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| Fervid | Intensely emotional; feverish
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| Foment | To arouse or incite
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| Garrulous | Tending to talk a lot; loquacious
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| Gregarious | Outgoing, sociable
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| Guile | Deceit or trickery
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| Iconoclast | One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions
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| Impetuous | Quick to act without thinking; impulsive
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| Implacable | unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
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| Inchoate | Not fully formed, disorganized
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| Ingenuous | Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
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| Inimical | Hostile, unfriendly
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| Insipid | Lacking interest or flavor
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| Intransigent | Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
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| Irascible | Easily made angry;
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| Laconic | Using few words
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| Loquacious | Talkative
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| Misanthrope | A person who dislikes others
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| Mitigate | To soften, lessen
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| Obdurate | Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
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| Obsequious | Overly submissive and eager to please
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| Obstinate | Stubborn, unyielding
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| Obviate | To prevent; to make unnecessary
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| Onerous | Troublesome and oppressive; burdensom
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| Opprobrium | Public disgrace
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| Ostentation | Excessive showiness
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| Paragon | Model of excellence or perfection
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| Pedant | Someone who shows off learning
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| Perfidious | Willing to betray one's trust
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| Perfunctory | Done in a routine way; indifferent
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| Plethora | Excess
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| Pragmatic | Practical as opposed to idealistic
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| Precipitate | To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
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| Prevaricate | To talk in a way that is not truthful but avoids being honest
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| Propitiate | To conciliate; to appease
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| Quiescent | Motionless
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| Rarefy | To make thinner or sparser
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| Repudiate | To reject the validity of
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| Reticent | Reserved, silent
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| Soporific | Causing sleep or lethargy
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| Specious | Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
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| Stolid | Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
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| Sublime | Lofty or grand
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| Tacit | Done without using words
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| Taciturn | Silent, not talkative
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| Torpor | Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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| Venerate | To respect deeply
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| Veracity | Filled with truth and accuracy
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| Veracious | Honest, truthful
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| Zeal | Passion, excitement
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