GRE word groups
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| abbreviated communications | abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse
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| Act Quickly | apace, abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
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| Assist | abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance
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| Bad mood | bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
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| Beginner/Amateur | dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
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| Beginning/Young | burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
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| Biting (as in Wit or Temperament) | acerbic, acidulous, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant
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| Bold | audacious, courageous, dauntless
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| Boring | banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite
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| carousal | bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude
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| changing quickly | capricious, mercurial, volatile
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| copy | counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessences, simulated, vicarious
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| criticize/criticism | aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue
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| criticize/ criticism | impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate
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| death/mourning | bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith
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| denying of self | abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
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| dictatorial | authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic (hegemony), imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
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| difficult to understand | abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable,obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid
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| disgusting/offensive | defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
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| easy to understand | articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
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| eccentric/ dissimilar | aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast
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| embarrass | abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
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| equal | equitable, equity, tantamount
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| falsehood | apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate specious, spurious
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| family | conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion
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| favoring/not impartial | ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
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| forgive | absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
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| funny | chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
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| gaps/opening | abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifices, rent, respite, rift
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| generous/kind | altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
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| greedy | avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
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| hardhearted | asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordent, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
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| harmful | baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
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| harsh-sounding | cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
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| hatred | abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
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| healthy | beneficial, salubrious, salutary
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| hesitate | dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
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| hostile | antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
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| innocent/ inexperienced | credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
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| insincere | disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
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| investigate | appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse,
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| lazy/sluggish | indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
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| luck | adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
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| nag | admonish, cavil, belabor, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
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| nasty | fetid, noisome, noxious
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| not a straight line | askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex
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| overblown/ wordy | bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
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| pacify/satisfy | ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, sooth
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| pleasant-sounding | euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
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| poor | destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent
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| praise | acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
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| predict | augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
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| prevent/obstruct | discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude
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| smart/learned | astute, canny, erudite, perspicuous
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| sorrow | disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
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| stubborn | implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
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| terse | compendium, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
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| time/order/duration | anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millenium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
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| timid/timidity | craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
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| truth | candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
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| unusual | aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
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| walking about | ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic,
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| wandering | discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
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| weaken | adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
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| wisdom | adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
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| withdrawal/ retreat | abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde
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