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JCS vocabualry
GRE Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |