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GRE SMW Set 1
Simple sounding words with less common secondary meanings
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alloy (verb) | To commingle; to debase by mixing with soothing inferior |
| Appropriate (verb) | To take for ones won use; to confiscate |
| Arrest, arresting (verb) / (adj.) | To suspend; to engage; holding ones attention: as in arresting adolescents, an arresting portrait |
| August (adj.) | Majestic, venerable |
| Bent (noun) | Leaning, inclination. proclivity, tendency |
| Broach (verb) | To bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about |
| Brook (verb) | To tolerate; to endure; to countenance |
| Cardinal (adj.) | Major, as in cardinal sin |
| Chauvinist (noun) | A blindly devoted patriot |
| Color (verb) | To change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect |
| Consequential (adj.) | Pompous, self-important |
| Damp (verb) | To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
| Die (noun) | A tool used for shaping |
| Essay (verb) | To test or try; to attempt; to experiment |
| Exact (verb) | To demand; to call for; to require; to take |
| Fell (adj.) | Inhumanely cruel |
| Flag (verb) | To sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
| Flip (adj.) | Sarcastic, impertinent |
| Ford (verb) | To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
| Grouse (verb) | To complain or grumble |
| Guy (noun) | A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide |
| Intimate (verb) | To imply, suggest, or insinuate |
| List (verb) | To tilt or lean to one side |
| Lumber (verb) | To move heavily and clumsily |
| Meet (adj.) | Fitting, proper |
| Milk (verb) | To exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
| Mince (verb) | To pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully |
| Nice (adj.) | Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
| Occult (adj.) | Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
| Pedestrian (adj.) | Commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
| Pied (verb) | Multicolored, usually in blotches |
| Pine (verb) | To lose vigor (as in grief); to yearn |
| Plastic (adj.) | Moldable, pliable, not ridged |
| Pluck (noun) | Courage, spunk, fortitude |
| Prize (verb) | To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils |
| Rail (verb) | To complain about bitterly |
| Rent (verb) | Torn; an opening or tear caused by such |
| Quail (verb) | To lose courage; to turn frightened |
| Qualify (verb) | To limit |
| Sap (noun) | A fool or nitwit |
| Scurvy (adj.) | Contemptible, despicable |
| Singular (adj.) | Exceptional, unusual, odd |
| Stand (noun) | A group of trees |
| Steep (verb) | To saturate or completely soak |
| Strut (noun) | The supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
| Table (verb) | To remove form consideration |
| Tender (verb) | To proffer or offer |
| Waffle (verb) | To equivocate; to change one’s position |
| Wag (noun) | Wit, joker |
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