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GRE SEC 9-10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Arrogate (v) | to claim w/o justification; appropriate; presume; take |
| Calumny (n) | a false and malicious accusation; misrepresentation |
| Abase (v) | to humble; disgrace; demean; humiliate |
| Cartography (n) | science or art of making maps |
| Candid (adj) | impartial and honest in speech; frank; honest |
| Disparate (adj) | entirely unlike; different; dissimilar |
| Connoisseur (n) | a person with expert knowledge or discriminating tastes |
| Xenophobia (n) | a fear or hatered of foreigners or strangers |
| Zeal (n) | passion; excitement; passion |
| Zenith (n) | the point of culmination; peak; acme; pinnacle |
| Talon (n) | claw of an animal, esp. a bird of prey |
| Propriety (n) | the quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customs; decency; decorum |
| Prudence (n) | wisdom, caution, or restraint |
| Collusion (n) | collaboration; complicity; conspiracy |
| Cogent (adj) | convincing and well-reasoned |
| Quiescent (adj) | motionless |
| Contumacious (adj) | rebellious |
| Discern (v) | to perceive or recognize |
| Canard (n) | a lie |
| Affected (adj) | phony; artificial |
| Alacrity (n) | speed or quickness |
| Condone (v) | to overlook, pardon, or disregard |
| Puerile (adj) | childish, immature, or silly |
| Abscond (v) | to leave secretly |
| Impious (adj) | not devout in religion |
| Impetuous (adj) | quick to act without thinking |
| Iconoclast (n) | one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions |
| Inimical (adj) | hostile; unfriendly |
| Hermetic (adj) | tightly sealed |
| Idiosyncrasy (n) | peculiarity of temperament; eccentricity |
| Hegemony (n) | the domination of one state or group over its allies |
| Imbue (v) | to infuse, dyem wet or moisten |
| Pejorative ( n) | having bad connotations, disregarding |
| Ignoble (adj) | having low moral standards, not noble in character; mean |
| Innocuous (adj) | harmless |
| Pariah (n) | an outcast |
| Edify (v) | to instruct morally and spiritually |
| Grovel (v) | to humble oneself in a demeaningway |
| Prodigal (adj) | lavish; wasteful |
| Philistine (n) | a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values |
| Phlegmatic (Adj) | calm and unemotional in temperament |
| Heterogeneous (adj) | composed of unlike parts; different; diverse |
| Gregarious (adj) | outgoing; sociable |
| Husband (v) | to manage economically; to use sparingly |
| Homogeneous (adj) | of a similar kind |
| Paragon (n) | model of excellence or perfection |
| Gullible (adj) | easily deceived |
| Ingratiate (v) | to gain favor with another by deliberate effort; to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantage; curry ; favor; flatter |
| Guile (n) | deceit; trickery |
| Erratic (adj) | wandering and unpredictable |
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