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Bert GRE Prio-Verb
GRE Vocab Verbs only - Priority Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| etiolate [tr v] | (1) to cause to appear pale and sickly (2) to make weak by stunting the growth or development of |
| adulterate [tr v] | to make impure by adding extraneous, improper or inferior ingredients |
| abjure [tr v] | (1) to renounce under oath; forswear (2) to recant solemnly; repudiate (3) to give up; abstain from |
| propitiate [tr v] | to conciliate; appease |
| animadvert [intr v] | to remark or comment critically, usually with strong disapproval or censure |
| chivvy [v] | (1) to vex or harass with petty attacks (2) to maneuver or secure gradually (3) to scurry (4) a hunt or chase, or a hunting cry |
| adjure [tr v] | (1) to command or enjoin solemnly, as under oath (2) to appeal to or entreat earnestly |
| vitiate [tr v] | (1) to reduce the value or impair the quality of (2) to corrupt morally; debase (3) to make ineffective; invalidate |
| arrogate [tr v] | (1) to take or claim for oneself without right; appropriate (2) to ascribe on behalf of another in an unwanted manner |
| indite [tr v] | to write; compose |
| abrogate [tr v] | to abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority |
| abnegate [tr v] | (1) to give up (e.g. rights or a claim); renounce (2) to deny (something) to oneself |
| blandish [tr v] | to come by flattery or wheedling; cajole |
| adduce [tr v] | to cite as an example or means of proof in an argument |
| adumbrate [intr v] | (1) to give a sketchy outline of (2) to prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow (3) to overshadow, shadow, or obscure |
| amerce [tr v] | to punish by imposing an arbitrary penalty |
| bruit [tr v] | to spread news of; repeat |
| cozen [tr v] | to mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive |
| descant [tr v] | to comment at length; discourse |
| expatiate [intr v] | (1) to speak or write at length (2) to wander freely |
| festinate [intr v] | to hasten |
| forfend or forefend [tr v] | (1) to keep or ward off; avert (2) to defend or protect |
| gad [intr v] | to move about restlessly and with little purpose |
| immure [tr v] | to confine within or as if within walls; imprison |
| imprecate [tr v] | to invoke evil upon; curse |
| kibitz [intr v] | (1) to look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others (2) to chat; converse |
| larrup [tr v] | to beat, flog, or thrash |
| lucubrate [intr v] | to write in a scholarly fashion; produce scholarship |
| objurgate [tr v] | to scold or rebuke sharply; berate |
| osculate [tr v] | to kiss |
| palliate [tr v] | to make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate |
| perorate [intr v] | (1) to conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation (2) to speak at great length, often in a grandiloquent manner; declaim |
| prorogue [tr v] | (1) to discontinue a session of (2) to postpone; defer |
| ratiocinate [intr v] | to reason methodically and logically |
| recrudesce [intr v] | to break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence |
| repine [intr v] | (1) to be discontented or low in spirits; complain or fret (2) to yearn after something |
| suborn [tr v] | to induce (a person) to commit an unlawful or evil act |
| traduce [tr v] | to cause humiliation or disgrace to by making malicious and false statements |
| asseverate [tr v] | to declare seriously or positively; affirm |
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