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Marie's GRE words
words I don't know!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abeyance | temporary suppression or suspension (a good judge must hold his or her judgment in abeyance until all the facts in the case has been presented) |
| abstemious | moderate in appetite (some research suggests that people with an abstemious lifestyle live longer than people who indulge their appetite) |
| abjure | to reject, abandon formally (Most members of the Religious Society of Friends abjure the use of violence to settle disputes between nations) |
| abate | to decrease, reduce (NASA announced that it would delay the launch of the manned spacecraft until the radiation from the solar flares abated) |
| abdicate | to give up a position, right, or power |
| accrue | to accumulate; grow by additions |
| accretion | growth in size or increase in amount |
| admonish | to caution or reprimand (the judge admonished the jury to discount testimony that had been ruled inadmissible) |
| affected | pretentious, phony (It has been argued that the emphasis on so-called "proper English" leads to unnatural and affected speech) |
| abysmal | very bad |
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