GRE High Freq Vocab 16-25
Terms
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- disingenuous
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not naive; sophisticated
quite a disgenuous young man - disinterested
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unprejudiced; not influenced by personal motivation
bankers must give disinterested advice - disparage
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belittle
she disparaged her little brother's unaccurate self-portrait - disparate
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different; unrelated
disparate notions of love and marriage - dissemble
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disguise; pretend
i'm being honest and have no need to dissemble the truth - dissolution
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looseness in morals
he led a sinful life of dissolution - distend
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expand; swell out
the veins distend on his arm - divest
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strip, deprive
he was divested of his power - dogmatic
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opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
he gives an opinion without trying to be dogmatic - ebullient
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showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm
in an ebullient mood - efficacy
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power to produce desired result
the efficacy of the drug - effrontery
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shameless boldness
she had the effrontery to insult the guest - elegy
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poem or song expressing sadness
DIRGE
he wrote an elegy for his late father - fatuous
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foolish; inane
andy asks fatuous questions - felicitous
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apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
his nickname was particularly felicitous - fervor
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glowing ardor; intensity of feeling; passion
he tackled studying with fervor
FEVER - flag
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droop; grow feeble
the team's spirits flagged - fledgling
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inexperienced
the fledgeling poets struggled with their workd - gouge
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overprice
gouge the public with high prices - grandiloquent
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pompous; bombastic
the politician sounded grandiloquent - guileless
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without deceit;
he is simple, naive, and guileless - iconoclastic
- attacking cherished traditions
- immutable
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unchangeable
nothing is immutable - impassive
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without emotion; stoical
his face was impassive - imperturbable
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calm; placid; unable to be upset
an imperturbable tranquility