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GRE_atoc
| Word | Word Meaning |
|---|---|
| abacus | frame with balls for calculating |
| abate | to lessen to subside |
| abdication | giving up control authority |
| aberration | straying away from what is normal |
| abet | help/encourage smb (in doing wrong) |
| abeyance | suspended action |
| abhor | to hate to detest |
| abide | be faithful to endure |
| abjure | promise or swear to give up |
| abraded | rubbed off worn away by friction |
| abrogate | repeal or annul by authority |
| abscond | to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest) |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend obscure |
| abut | border on |
| abysmal | bottomless extreme |
| acarpous | effete no longer fertile worn out |
| acclaimed | welcomed with shouts and approval |
| accolade | praise approval |
| accretion | the growing of separate things into one |
| adamant | kind of stone inflexible |
| admonitory | containing warning |
| adorn | add beauty decorate |
| adulteration | making unpure poorer in quality |
| affable | polite and friendly |
| affinity | close connection relationship |
| aggravate | make worse irritate |
| agile | active quick-moving |
| agog | eager/excited |
| ail | trouble be ill |
| alacrity | eager and cheerful readiness |
| alcove | recess/partially enclosed place |
| allegiance | duty support loyalty |
| alleviate | make (pain) easier to bear |
| alloy | to debase by mixing with something inferior |
| aloof | reserved indifferent |
| amalgamate | mix combine unite societies |
| ambidextrous | able to use the left hand or the right equally well |
| ambiguous | doubtful uncertain |
| ambivalent | having both of two contrary meanings |
| ameliorate | improve make better |
| amortize | end (a debt) by setting aside money |
| anguish | severe suffering |
| animosity | strong dislike |
| antidote | medicine used against a poison or a disease |
| antithetical | direct opposing |
| apartheid | brutal racial discrimination |
| aplomb | self-confidence |
| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
| apotheosis | deification glorification to godliness |
| appease | make quiet or calm |
| apprehensive | grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future |
| apprise | give notice to inform |
| approbation | approval |
| apropos | appropriate to the situation apt |
| apt | well-suited quick-witted |
| arabesque | a complex ornate design |
| arboreal | of connected with trees |
| ardor | enthusiasm |
| arduous | steep difficult ascent laborious |
| argot | jargon slang |
| arrant | in the highest degree |
| arrogance | proud superior manner of behaviour |
| articulate | speak distinctly connect by joints |
| ascend | go or come up |
| ascertain | get to know |
| ascetic | practicing self-denial austere stark |
| ascribe | consider to be the origin of or belonging to |
| aseptic | surgically clean |
| asperity | roughness harshness ill temper irritability |
| aspersion | slander |
| assail | diligent hard-working sedulous |
| assuage | make smth (pain desire) less |
| asterisk | the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters) |
| astringent | substance that shrinks |
| astute | clever quick at seeing to get an advantage |
| atonement | repayment death of Jesus |
| attenuate | make thin. weaken enervate |
| attune | bring into harmony |
| audacious | daring foolishly bold impudent |
| augury | omen sign |
| august | majestic venerable |
| auspicious | favorable successful prosperous |
| austere | severely moral and strict simple and plain |
| auxiliary | helping supporting |
| aver | affirm assert prove justify |
| aversion | strong dislike |
| avid | eager greedy |
| avow | admit. Declare openly |
| baleful | harmful ominous causing evil |
| balk | obstacle purposely to get on the way of |
| baneful | causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive |
| barrage | artificial obstacle built across a river |
| barren | not good enough unable to have young ones without value |
| bask | in enjoy warmth and light |
| beatify | to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to |
| bedizen | to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner |
| belabor | beat hard |
| bellicose | belligerent pugnacious warlike |
| belligerent | (person nation) waging war |
| benefactor | person who has given help |
| benign | kind and gentle mild (climate) |
| bequest | arrangement to give smth at death |
| berate | scold sharply |
| bereft | rob or dispossess of smth (material) |
| bewilder | puzzle confuse |
| bigot | stubborn narrow-minded person |
| bilge | bulge the protuberance of a cask |
| blandishment | flattery coaxing |
| blandness | polite manner comforting uninteresting |
| blatant | noisy and rough |
| blithe | cheerful casual carefree |
| bogus | sham counterfeit not genuine |
| boisterous | loud noisy rough lacking restraint |
| bolster | give greatly needed support |
| boorish | crude offensive rude |
| brash | hasty rush cheeky saucy |
| brass | yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc) |
| brazen | made of brass |
| breach | opening broken place breaking |
| brittle | easily broken |
| broach | bring up announce begin to talk about |
| brook | to tolerate endure |
| buoyant | able to float light-hearted |
| burgeon | grow forth send out buds |
| burnish | to polish rub to a shine |
| cabal | a scheme or plot a group of plotters |
| cadge | to beg to get by begging |
| cajole | use flattery or deceit to persuade |
| calipers | metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument |
| calumny | slander aspersion |
| candid | frank straight-forward |
| cant | insincere talk/jargon |
| cantankerous | bad-tempered/quarrelsome |
| canvass | discuss thoroughly sort of touting |
| castigate | to chastise correct by punishing |
| castigation | severe punishment |
| catalyst | substance that causes speeding up |
| caustic | biting sarcastic |
| censure | expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke |
| centurion | leader of a unit of 100 soldiers |
| chary | cautious wary |
| chastened | corrected punished |
| chastisement | punishment |
| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot |
| chicanery | legal trickery/false argument |
| chisel | steel tool for shaping materials |
| churl | bad-tempered person |
| clamor | shout complain with a lot of noise |
| clientele | customers |
| clinch | come to grips/settle conclusively |
| clot | half-solid lump formed from liquid |
| cloture | closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting |
| coagulation | change to a thick and solid state |
| coalescing | coming together and uniting into one substance |
| coax | get smb to do smth by kindness |
| coda | passage that completes a piece of music |
| coddle | treat with care and tenderness |
| coerce | compel to force to make obedient |
| coeval | of the same period coexisting |
| cogent | strong convincing |
| cling | to resist separation |
| cogitate | think deeply mediate |
| cognizant | being fully aware of |
| colander | bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water |
| collusion | secret agreement for a deceitful purpose |
| combustion | process of burning |
| commemorate | keep the memory of |
| commodious | having plenty of space for what is needed |
| commuter | person who travels regularly |
| complaisance | tending to comply obliging willingness to please |
| compunction | feeling of regret for one's action |
| conceal | hide keep secret |
| conceit | over-high opinion of too much pride |
| conciliatory | reconciling soothing comforting mollifying |
| concord | agreement or harmony |
| concur | agree in opinion happen together |
| condense | increase in density strength make laconic |
| condone | forgive |
| congeal | make or become stiff and solid |
| conjoin | to join together |
| connoisseur | a person with good judgement (e.g.. in art) |
| connotation | suggestion in addition to |
| consequential | pompous self important |
| console | give comfort or sympathy to |
| conspicuous | easily seen remarkable |
| consternation | surprise and fear dismay |
| constrain | compel |
| constrict | make tight or smaller |
| consume | get to the end of |
| consummate | perfect/make perfect/complete |
| contemn | to scorn or despise |
| contentious | argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome |
| contiguous | touching neighboring near |
| contrite | filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing |
| contumacious | insubordinate rebellious |
| conundrum | a riddle dilemma enigma |
| conviction | convincing firm belief |
| convoke | call together summon |
| convoluted | complicated coiled twisted |
| cordial | warm and sincere |
| cordon | line (of police acting as a guard) |
| cornucopia | abundant supply |
| corporeal | physical of or for the body |
| correlate | have a mutual relation |
| corroboration | additional strengthening evidence |
| countenance | to favor or approve of |
| counterfeit | forgery |
| countervail | counterbalance |
| covert | disguised |
| covetous | eagerly desirous |
| cower | crouch shrink back |
| coy | shy/modest (esp of a girl) |
| crass | very great (es. stupidity) |
| cravat | piece of linen worn as a necktie |
| craven | cowardly |
| crease | line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket |
| credulity | too great a readiness to believe things |
| credulous | ready to believe things |
| crush | press lose shape subdue overwhelm |
| cryptic | secret with a hidden meaning |
| cumbersome | burdensome heavy and awkward to carry |
| curmudgeon | bad-tempered person |
| curriculum | course of study |
| cursory | quick hurried |
| curtail | make shorter then was planned |
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