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JCS vocabualry
GRE Vocab.
Question | Answer |
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abjure | v. to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
adumberate | v. to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
anathema | n. a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
anodyne | adj/n. soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
apogee | n. farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
apostate | n. one who abandons long held religious or political convictions |
apotheosis | n. deification, glorification to godliness, and exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection |
asperity | n. severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
asseverate | v. to aver, allege, assert |
assiduous | adj. diligent, hard-working, sedulou |
augury | n. omen, portent |
bellicose | adj. belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
calumniate | v. to slander, make a false accusation |
captious | adj. disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
cavil | v. to find fault without good reason |
celerity | n. speed, alacrity; think accelerate |