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GRE word groups

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abbreviated communications   show
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show apace, abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate  
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show abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance  
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Bad mood   show
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show dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro  
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show burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent  
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show acerbic, acidulous, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant  
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Bold   show
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show banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite  
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carousal   show
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show capricious, mercurial, volatile  
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copy   show
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show aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue  
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criticize/ criticism   show
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death/mourning   show
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denying of self   show
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dictatorial   show
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show abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable,obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid  
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show defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative  
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easy to understand   show
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eccentric/ dissimilar   show
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embarrass   show
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show equitable, equity, tantamount  
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show apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate specious, spurious  
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show conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion  
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show ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot  
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show absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate  
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funny   show
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gaps/opening   show
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generous/kind   show
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greedy   show
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hardhearted   show
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show baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious  
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harsh-sounding   show
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show abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor  
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show beneficial, salubrious, salutary  
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show dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver  
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show antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive  
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innocent/ inexperienced   show
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show disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous  
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investigate   show
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lazy/sluggish   show
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show adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman  
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nag   show
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nasty   show
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show askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex  
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overblown/ wordy   show
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show ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, sooth  
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show euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous  
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show destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent  
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show acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration  
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predict   show
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prevent/obstruct   show
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smart/learned   show
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show disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody  
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stubborn   show
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show compendium, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn  
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show anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millenium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal  
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timid/timidity   show
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show candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity  
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unusual   show
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walking about   show
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wandering   show
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weaken   show
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wisdom   show
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withdrawal/ retreat   show
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