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GRE *1

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QuestionAnswer
To abjure to renounce
Ablative removal
Abstemious sparing of eating or drinking
Abstruse obscure
Aggregate sum, total
To amalgamate to combine
Ambivalance conflicting
To ameliorate to improve
Anachronism an error involving time in a story
Anathema solemn curse
Animus hostile feeling
Anomalous abnormal
Antipathy dislike
Apocryphal unauthentic
Apostate to convert from one religion to another
Apothegm compact saying
Apposite appropriate
Arbitrary definite
Arresting attracting attention
Artifice deception
Assiduous diligent
Atavism genetic characteristics that skips generations
Atelier workshop, studio
to attenuate to weaken
Auspicious favoring success
To bedeck to adorn
To belie to contradict
Beneficient do-gooder
Bilious irritable
Bombastic pompous
Boorish rude
To brook to endure
Bugaboo object of baseless terror
Bumptios self-assertive
To burgeon to grow forth
Cabal secret special interest group
Caliginous murky
Callow immature
Canard unfounded
Canny thrifty
Canorous melodious
Capacious spacious
Captious fault-finding
Carillon set of bells capable of being played
Casuistry rationalization
Catharsis cleansing
Catholic universal in extent
To cavil to nit pick
Celerity speed
Centripetal tending towards the center
Cerebration thought
Charlatan imposter
Chauvinist blindly devoted patriot
Chimerical fantastic, unreal
Churlish rude
Cipher secret code
Circumlocution indirect expression
Circumscribe limit
Circumspect discreet
Clarion trumpetlike sound
Clime region, climate
Cloying excessively sweet
Coda concluding section in a musical or literary composition
Coeval contemporary
Cogent convincing
To cogitate to think over
Cognitive having to do with knowing or perceiving
Cognomen surname
To collate to examine to verify authenticity
Collation light meal
Collier coal worker
Comely attractive, agreeable person
Comity courtesy
Compact contract
Complacent self-satisfied
Complaisant obliging
Compunction remorse
To concatenate to unite in a chain (as in events)
Conceit elaborate, fanciful metaphor
Conclave private meeting
Concomitant that which accompanies
Condign adequate
To condole to express condolences
Connubial pertaining to marriage
Consequential of importance
To contenance to tolerate
Contentious quarrelsome
Continence self-restraint
To contravene contradict
Contrite repentant
Contumacious disobedient
Conundrum riddle, difficult problem
To convene to asseble
Converse opposite
Conveyance transfer
Corsair pirate, pirate ship
Cortege procession
To coruscate to glitter, gleam
Coterie social group
To cozen to cheat
Craven cowardly
Cruet small glass bottle
Cupidity greed
Curmudgeon rude
Cursive flowing
Cynosure center of attention
Dais raised platform for guests of honor
Dearth scarcity
Debacle breaking up
To debauch to corrupt
To decry to disparage
To deign to condescend
Deleterious harmful
To delineate to sketch
Demagogue false leader
Demesne domain
Demotic democratic
To demur to delay
Denotation strict meaning
Denouement outcome
To deprecate to belittle
Derivative derived from another
To descant to discuss fully
To descry to catch sight of
Desuetude in disuse
Desultory aimless
Detraction slandering aspersion
To devolve to pass on to others
Diadem crown
Dialectic art of debate
Diaphanous transparent
Diatribe bitter scolding
Dichotomy branching into two parts
Didactic instructive
Diffidence shyness
Dilatory delaying
Dilletante one who dabbles in the arts
Dipsomaniac one with the craving for strong liquor
Dirge lament with music
To disabuse to correct a false impression
To discomfit to defeat
Discursive rambling
Dishabille state of undress
Disingenious insincere
Disparate unrelated
To dissipate to squander
Dissolution disintegration
Dissonance discord
Distaff female
Distrait absent-minded
Diva operatic singer
Divers diverse
Doggerel poor verse
Dogmatic positive
Dotage senility
Droll queer and amusing
Dyspeptic suffering from indigestion
Ebullience enthusiasm
Ebullient enthusiastic
To efface to rub out
Egregious gross
Egress exit
Elegy poem of lementation
Elysion blissful
Emendation correction of errors
Empirical based on experience
Encomium eulogy, praise
Endemic prevailing in a certain country or among a specific group of people
To enervate to weaken
To engender to produce, cause
To enjoin to command
Ennui boredom
To ensconce to settle comfortably
To entreat to plead
To enviorn to surround
Ephemeral short-lived
Episodic loosely connected
Epistemologist philospher who studies the nature of knowledge
Epitome summary
Equable tranquil, calm
Equanimity calmness of temperament
Equivocal doubtful
To equivocate to lie, mislead
To eschew to avoid
Ethereal heavenly
Euphemism substution of a mild, indirect expression for one that is offensive, harsh or blunt
Euphony sweet sound
Evanescent vanishing
To evince to show clearly
Exaction extortion
Exchequer treasury
To excoriate to flay (cause abrasion)
Execrable destatable
Exegesis critical explanation or interpretation
Exiguous small, minute
To expatiate to elaborate on
Expedient practical
To expiate to make ammends for
To expurgate to clean of moral offenses
Extemporaneous impromptu
To extirpate to root up
Facile easy to do
Factious divisive
Factitious artifical
Factotum handyman
Fancier person having a special interest in the knowledge of something
Fatuous foolish
Fawning brown-nosing
Fealty loyalty
Felicitous apt
Fell cruel
Ferment agitation, commotion
To fete to honor at a celebration
Fiat command
Filial pertaining to a son or daughter (filial duties)
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