GRE '08 Hit Parade Group 3 Vocab.
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| 1. ACUMEN | show 🗑
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| show | (v) to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
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| 3. AMALGAMATE | show 🗑
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| 4. ARCHAIC | show 🗑
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| 5. AVER | show 🗑
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| 6. BOLSTER | show 🗑
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| 7. BOMBASTIC | show 🗑
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| 8. DIATRIBE | show 🗑
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| show | (v) to disguise or conceal; to mislead
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| show | (adj) departing from norms or conventions
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| show | (adj) characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
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| 12. EVANESCENT | show 🗑
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| 13. EXACERBATE | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) greatly emotional or zealous (noun form
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| show | (adj) happening by accident or chance
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| show | (adj) relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
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| 17. GRANDILOQUENCE | show 🗑
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| 18. HACKNEYED | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) calm and peaceful
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| show | (n) devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses (a hedonist is someone who pursues pleasure)
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| show | (n) the consistent dominance of one state o ideology over others
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| 22. ICONCLAST | show 🗑
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| 23. IDOLATROUS | show 🗑
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| 24. IMPASSIVE | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness
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| show | (adj) not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
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| show | (n) immunity from punishment or penalty
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| show | (adj) in an initial stage; not fully formed
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| 29. INFELICITOUS | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
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| 31. LOQUACIOUS | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) characterized by brightness and the emission of light
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| show | (adj) having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred (noun form
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| 34. MALLEABLE | show 🗑
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| show | (n) the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty (adj form
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| 36. METICULOUS | show 🗑
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| 37. MISANTHROPE | show 🗑
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| show | (v) to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
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| 39. OBDURATE | show 🗑
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| 40. OBSEQUIOUS | show 🗑
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| 41. OCCLUDE | show 🗑
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| 42. OPPROBRIUM | show 🗑
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| 43. PEDAGOGY | show 🗑
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| 44. PEDANTIC | show 🗑
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| 45. PENURY | show 🗑
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| 46. PERVASIVE | show 🗑
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| show | (v) to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
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| 48. PIRATE | show 🗑
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| 49. PITH | show 🗑
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| 50. PITHY | show 🗑
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| show | (v) to appease; to calm by making concessions
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| show | (n) a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful
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| 53. PLUMMET | show 🗑
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| 54. POLEMICAL | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
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| show | (adj) given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant
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| show | (v) to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
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| show | (n) questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
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| 59. QUERULOUS | show 🗑
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| 60. RANCOROUS | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
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| show | (v) to refuse to have anything to do with; disown
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| 63. RESCIND | show 🗑
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| 64. REVERENT | show 🗑
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| show | (n) the art or stury of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
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| show | (adj) promoting health or well-being
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| 67. SOLVENT | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false
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| 69. SPURIOUS | show 🗑
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| 70. SUBPOENA | show 🗑
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| 71. SUCCINCT | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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| 73. SURFEIT | show 🗑
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| show | (n) the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination (adj form
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| show | (adj) having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
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| 76. TIRADE | show 🗑
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| show | (adj) fleeting; passing quickly; brief
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| show | (adj) fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause
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