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Gre- Ed
MY GRE 2009
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| avid | characterized by enthusiasm and vigorous pursuit |
| awning | a rooflike cover extending over or in front of a place (as over the deck or in front of a door or window) as a shelter |
| maladroit | INEPT |
| malaise | uneasiness; distress |
| malcontent | dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| malign | having or showing intense often vicious ill will:MALEVOLENT |
| malinger | to pretend incapacity (as illness) so as to avoid duty or work |
| malleable | capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences |
| malodor | an offensive odor |
| mandatory | containing or constituting a command |
| mangle | to spoil, injure, or make incoherent especially through ineptitude |
| mangy | having many worn or bare spots:SEEDY, SHABBY |
| mania | excessive or unreasonable enthusiasm |
| manifest | 1. a list of passengers or an invoice of cargo for a vehicle (as a ship or plane) 2. easily understood or recognized by the mind:OBVIOUS |
| manipulate | to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's own advantage |
| macabre | connected with death, and thus causing fear; gruesome |
| macerate | (cause sth to) become soft or break up by soaking |
| Machiavellian | cunning and deceitful in gaining what one wants; showing such cunning or deceit |
| machinations | an intrigue, plot, or scheme |
| maculated | make dirty or spotty; also used metaphorically ; spot, stain, or pollute |
| madrigal | song for several voices, usu without instrumental accompaniment,on the themes of love and/or nature |
| abase | ~ oneself/sb lower oneself/sb in dignity; degrade oneself/sb ; |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of:disconcert |
| abate | make or become less |
| abbreviate | ~ sth shorten (a word, phrase, etc), esp by omitting letters |
| abdicate | resign from or formally renounce the throne |
| aberrant | not following the normal or correct way |
| aberration | deviation from what is accepted as normal or right |
| abet | ~ sb (in sth) help or encourage sb to commit an offence or do sth wrong |
| abeyance | be suspended temporarily; not be in force or use for a time |
| abhor | feel hatred and disgust for (sb/sth); detest |
| abide | tolerate (sb/sth); endure; bear |
| abject | wretched; hopeless |
| babble | talk in a way that is difficult or impossible to understand |
| bacchanal | bout of noisy, drunken merrymaking . |
| bacchanalia | orgiastic rites associated with Bacchus |
| backslide | lapse from good ways into one's former bad ways of living |
| badger | animal of the weasel family, grey with black and white stripes on its head, living in holes in the ground and moving about at night . |
| badinage | playful teasing; banter ; |
| baffle | be too difficult for to understand; puzzle |
| baleful | threatening evil or harm; menacing |
| balk | thick, roughly-squared wooden beam |
| ballast | heavy material placed in a ship's hold to keep it steady |
| balm | sweet-smelling oil or ointment obtained from certain types of tree, used for soothing pain or for healing , |
| balmy | (of air) gentle and pleasantly warm |
| banal | commonplace; uninteresting |
| bandy | (idm )exchange words, etc, esp when quarrelling |
| nadir | point in the heavens directly beneath an observer |
| narcissism | an exceptional interest in or admiration for oneself, esp. one's physical appearance |
| nascent | beginning to exist; not yet well developed |
| natal | pertaining to birth |
| natation | swimming |
| natty | (often derog ) smart and tidy; neat |
| nauseate | make feel sick |
| nautical | of ships, sailors or navigation |
| navigable | suitable for ships, boats, etc to sail on |
| nebula | light or dark patch in the night sky caused by a cluster of very distant stars or a cloud of dust or gas |
| nebulous | cloudlike; hazy ; |
| cabal | secret political plot |
| cache | place for hiding food, treasure or weapons |
| cacophony | loud unpleasant mixture of discordant sounds |
| cadaverous | looking like a corpse; very pale and gaunt ; |
| cadence | rhythm in sound |
| cadet | young person training to become a policeman or an officer in the armed forces |
| cajole | persuade sb (to do sth) by flattery or deceit; coax sb |
| calamity | serious misfortune or disaster |
| calculated | undertaken after considering the likelihood of success or failure |
| caliber | ability; capacity |
| callous | cruelly insensitive or unsympathetic |
| callow | immature and inexperienced |
| callus | area of thick hardened skin |
| calorific | of or producing heat |
| calumny | false statement about sb, made to damage his character |
| oath | (words used in making a) solemn promise to do sth or solemn declaration that sth is true (usu appealing to God, etc as a witness) |
| obdurate | impossible to change; stubborn |
| obeisance | deep bow (of respect or obedience) |
| obfuscate | (deliberately) make (sth) confused or difficult to understand |
| objective | not influenced by personal feelings or opinions; unbiased; fair |
| oblique | not horizontal or vertical; sloping; slanting |
| obliterate | remove all signs of (sth); rub or blot out |
| oblivion | state of forgetting; state of being unaware or unconscious |
| oblivious | unaware of or not noticing sth; having no memory of sth |
| obloquy | public shame or disgrace; abuse; discredit ; |
| obnoxious | very unpleasant; nasty; offensive |
| obscure | not easily or clearly seen or understood; indistinct; hidden |
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