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GRE English
pg 9-14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abjure, | To Renounce |
| Ablative | Removal or direction away from |
| Abstemious | temperate in eating or drinking |
| Abstruse | Obscure |
| Aggregate | Sum,Total |
| Amalgamate to | To Combine |
| Ambivalence | Contradictory |
| Ameliorate to | to improve |
| Anachronism | error involving time in a story |
| Anathema | Solemn Curse |
| Animus | Hostile feeling or intent |
| Anomalous | Abnormal, irregular |
| Antipathy | Adversion, dislike |
| Apocryphal | Unauthentic, a sham |
| Apostate | Convert from religion to another |
| Apothegm | Pithy, compact saying |
| Apposite | Appropriate, fitting |
| Arbitrary | Definate, imperious |
| Arresting | Attacting attention |
| Artifice | Deception, trickery |
| Assiduous | Diligent |
| Atavism | Genetic caracteristic that skips generations |
| Atelier | Workshop, studio |
| Attenuate, to | To Weaken, to make thin |
| Auspicious | Favoring success |
| Bedeck, to | To adorn, to deck out |
| Belie, to | To Contradict |
| Beneficient | Do-gooder |
| Bilious | Peevish, irritable |
| Bombastic | Pompous |
| Boorish | Rude, clownish |
| Brook, to | To tolerate, endure |
| Bugaboo | Object of baseless terror |
| Bumptious | Self-assertive, |
| Burgeon, to | To grow forth |
| Cabal | Secret special intest group |
| Caliginous | Murky |
| Callow | Youthful, immature |
| Canard | Unfounded or exaggerated rumor |
| Canny | Shrewd. thrifty |
| Canny | Shrewd. thrifty |
| Canorous | Melodious |
| Capacious | Spacious |
| Captious | Fault-finding |
| Carillon | A set of bells capable of being played |
| Cauistry | Nit-picking justification, rationalization |
| Catharsis | purging, cleansing |
| Catholic | Universal,broad-minded |
| Cavil, to | to nit-pick |
| Celerity | Speed |
| Centripetal | Tending toward the center |
| Cerebration | thought |
| Charlatan | Pretender to knowledge, imposter |
| Chauvinist | Blindly devoted patriot |
| Chimerical | Fanistic, illusory, unreal |
| Churlish | Boorish, rude |
| Cipher | worthless person or thing, secret code |
| Circumlocution | indirect expression |
| Circumspect | Discreet, prudent, cautious |
| Clarion | Shrill, trumpetlike sound |
| Clime | Region, climate |
| Cloying | Excessively sweet |
| Coda | Concluding section of a musical or literary composition |
| Coeval | Contemporary |
| Cogent | Convincing |
| Cogitate, to | To think over |
| Cognitive | Having to do with knowing or perceiving, awareness |
| Cognomen | Surname |
| Collate, to | To examine to verify authenticity |
| Collation | A light meal |
| Collier | Coal worker or coal strip |
| Comely | Attractive, agreeable (person) |
| Comity | Courtesy |
| Compact | Contract |
| Complacent | Self-satisfied |
| Complaisant | Trying to please, obliging |
| Compunction | Remorse |
| Concatenate, to | To unite in a chain (as in events) |
| Conceit | Elaborate, self-important, consequential |
| Conclave | Private meeting |
| Concomitant | That which accompanies |
| Condign | Adequate, befitting |
| Condole, to | To express condolencesto espress condolences |
| Connubal | Pertaining to marriage, conjugal |
| Consequential | Pompous, self-important, conceited |
| Contenance, to | To tolerate, to approve, to endure |
| Contentious | Quarrelsome |
| Continence | Self-restraint |
| Contravene, to | Contradict, infringe upon |
| Contrite | Repentant |
| Contumacious | Disobedient, resisting authority |
| Conundrum | Riddle, difficult problem |
| Convene, to | To assemble |
| Converse | Opposite |
| Conveyance | vehicle, transfer |
| Corsair | Pirate, pirate ship |
| Cortege | Procession |
| Coruscate, to | To glitter, gleam (light or idea) |
| Coterie | Social group, clique |
| Cozen, to | To cheat or swindle |
| Craven | Cowardly |
| Cruet | Small glass bottle |
| Cupidity | Greed |
| Curmudgeon | Churlish, rude, miserly |
| Cursive | Flowing, running together |
| Cynosure | Object or center of attention |
| Dais | Raised platform for guests of honor |
| Dearth | Scarcity |
| Debacle | Breaking up, downfall, rout |
| Debauch, to | To corrupt |
| Decry, to | To disparage, to put down |
| Deign, to | To condescend |
| Deleterious | Injurious to health, harmful |
| Delineate, to | To describe, portray, skethch |
| Demagogue | False leader |
| Demesne | Domain |
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