GRE Vocabulary - Barron' s
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- *Abate
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*To lessen
*To subside
*To moderate - *Aberrant
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*Abnormal
*Deviant - *Abeyance
- *Suspended action
- *Abscond
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*To go away suddenly (avoid arrest)
*Depart secretly and hide - *Abstemious
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*Sparing in eating and drinking
*Temperate - *Admonish
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*Warn
*Reprove - *Adulterate
- *Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
- *Aesthetic
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*Artistic
*Dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful - *Aggregate
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*Gather
*Accumulate - *Alacricity
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*Cheerful promptness
*eagerness - *Alleviate
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*Make (pain) easier to bear
*Relieve - *Amalgamate
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*Mix, combine, unite societies
*Unite in one body (nations, etc.) - *Ambiguous
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*Doubtful,uncertain
*Unclear, doubtful in meaning - *Ambivalence
- *The state of having contradictory emotional attitudes
- *Ameliorate
- *Improve, make better
- *Anachronism
- *Something or someone misplaced in time
- *Analagous
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*Comparable
*Similar - *Anarchy
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*The absence of governing body
*State of disorder - *Anomolous
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*Abnormal
*Irregular - *Antipathy
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*Aversion
*Dislike - *Apathy
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*lack of caring
*indifference - *Appease
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*make quiet or calm
*pacify
*soothe
*relieve - *Apprise
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*give notice
*to inform - *Approbation
- *approval
- *Appropriate
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*acquire
*take possession of for one's own use - *Arduous
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*Steep, difficult assent
*laborious
*hard
*strenuous - *Artless
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*open and honest
*shockingly honest (like a child) - *Ascetic
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*practicing self-denial
*austere
*stark - *Assiduous
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*diligent
*hard-working - *Assuage
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*make something (pain, desire) less
*ease or lessen (path)
*satisfy (hunger)
*soothe (anger) - *Attenuate
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*make thin
*weaken - *Audacious
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*daring, foolishly bold
*impudent
*bold - *Austere
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*Severely moral and strict
*simple and plain
*forbiddingly stern - *Autonomous
- *self-governing
- *Aver
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*Affirm, assert, prove
*assert confidently
*declare
*when dealing with law, state something as fact - *Banal
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*Commonplace
*Trite
*Lacking originality - *Belie
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*Contradict
*Give false impression - *Beneficent
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*Kindly
*Doing good - *Bolster
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*Give greatly needed support
*Support
*Reinforce - *Bombastic
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*Pompous
*Using inflated language - *Boorish
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*Rude
*Insensitive - *Burgeon
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*Grow forth
*Send out buds - *Burnish
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*To polish
*Rub to a shine
*Make shiny by rubbing - *Buttress
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*Support
*Prop up - *Cacophonous
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*Discordant
*Inharmonious - *Capricious
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*Unpredictible
*Fickle - *Castigation
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*Severe punishment
*Severe criticism
*Sensitive to mild reviews
To castigate=to criticize - *Catalyst
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*Substance that causes speeding up of change
*A person or thing that causes action - *Caustic
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*Biting sarcasm
*Burning remarks - *Chicanery
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*Legal trickery/false argument
*Deception - *Coagulate
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*Thicken
*Congeal
*Clot - *Coda
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*Passage that concludes a piece of music
*Something that rounds out or concludes - *Cogent
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*Strong
*Convincing - *Commensurate
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*Corresponding in extent, degree, amount
*Proportionate - *Compedium
- *Brief, comprehensive summary
- *Complaisent
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*Trying to please
*Overly polite and obliging
*Excessive need to please - *Compliant
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*Yielding, conforming to requirements
*Give in to what others want - *Conciliatory
- *Reconciling, soothing, comforting
- *Condone
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*Forgive
*Overlook
*Excuse - *Confound
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*Puzzle
*Confuse - *Connoiseur
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*A person with good judgment (ie in art_
*A person competent to act as a judge of art, etc.
*Lover of art - *Contention
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*Strongly held belief
*Claim
*Thesis - *Contentious
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*Argumentative
*Combative - *Contrite
- *Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
- *Conondrum
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*Riddle, dilemma
*Difficult problem - *Converge
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*Approach
*Tend to meet
*Come together - *Convoluted
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*Complicated
*Coiled, twisted
*Involved
*Intricate - *Craven
- *Cowardly
- *Daunt
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*Intimidate, make fearful
*Frighten - *Decorum
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*Propriety
*Properness
*Orderliness and good taste in manners - *Default
- *Failure to act
- *Deference
- *Courteous regard for other's wish
- *Delineate
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*To portray
*Depict
*Sketch out - *Denigrate
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*Belittle
*Blacken - *Deride
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*Ridicule
*Make fun of - *Derivative
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*Unoriginal
*Obtained from another source - *Desiccate
- *Dry up
- *Desultory
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*Aimless, haphazard
*Digressing at random - *Deterrent
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*Something that discourages
*hindrance - *Diatribe
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*Bitter and violent attack in words
*Bitter scolding - *Dichotomy
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*Split
*Branching into 2 contradictory parts - *Diffidence
- *Shyness
- *Diffuse
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*Wordy
*Rambling
*To spread out (like gas or electrons) - *Digression
- *Wandering away from the subject
- *Dirge
- *Lament with music
- *Disabuse
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*Correct a false impression
*Undeceive - *Discerning
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*Mentally quick and observant
*Having insight - *Discordant
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*Not harmonious
*Conflicting - *Discredit
- *Destroy confidence in
- *Discrepancy
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*Lack of consistency
*Difference - *Discrete
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*Individually distinct parts
*Separated
*Unconnected - *Disingenious
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*Sophisticated
*Cunning
*Trying to deceive
*Insincere - *Disinterested
- *Unprejudiced
- *Disjointed
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*Lacking coherence
*Separated at the joints - *Dismiss
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*Eliminate from consideration
*Reject - *Disparage
- *Belitte
- *Disparate
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*Essentially different
*Unrelated views - *Dissemble
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*Speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
*Disguise
*Pretend - *Disseminate
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*Distribute (esp. ideas)
*Spread
*Scatter(as in seeds) - *Dissolution
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*Disintegration
*Looseness in morals - *Dissonance
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*Discord
*Opposite of harmony - *Distend
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*Expand
*Swell out - *Distill
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*Purify
*Refine
*Concentrate - *Diverge
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*Vary
*Go in different directions from the same point - *Divest
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*Strip
*Deprive - *Document
- *Provide written evidence
- *Dogmatic
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*Positive
*Certain
*Without room for discussion
*Opinionated; doctrinal - *Dormant
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*Sleeping
*Lethargic - *Dupe
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*Cheat
*Make fool of
*Someone easliy fooled - *Ebullient
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*Showing excitement
*Overflowing with enthusiasm - *Eclectic
- *Drawn from many sources
- *Efficacy
- *Power to produce desired effect
- *Effrontery
- *Sheer nerve
- *Elegy
- *Poem/song expressing lamentation
- *Elicit
- *Draw out by discussion
- *Embellish
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*Ornament
*Enhance, as a story - *Empirical
- *Based on observation, experience or experiment
- *Emulate
- *Imitate
- *Endemic
- *Prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area
- *Enervate
- *Weaken
- *Engender
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*Cause
*Produce - *Enhance
- *Increase, improve
- *Ephemeral
- *Short-lived; fleeting
- *Equanamity
- *Calm temperment
- *Equivocate
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*Lie, mislead
*Attempt to conceal truth - *Esoteric
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*Hard to understand
*Known to a select few - *Eulogy
- *Expression of positive rememberance at the time of someone's death
- *Exacerbate
- *Worsen, embitter
- *Eculpate
- *Clear from blame
- *Exigency
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*Urgent situation
*pressing needs or demands that require immediate attention - *Extrapolation
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*Projection
*Conjecture - *Facetious
- *joking, often inappropriately
- *Fallacious
- *False, misleading
- *Fatuous
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*Brainless
*foolish, yet smug - *Fawning
- *Show affection for; idolize
- *Felicitious
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*Well chosen
*Suitable expressed - *Fervor
- *Intensity of feeling
- *Flag
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*Droop
*Grow feeble - *Fledgling
- *Inexperienced
- *Flout
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*Reject
*Mock
*Show contempt for - *Foment
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*stir up
*instigate - *Forestall
- *Prevent by taking action in advance
- *Frugality
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*thrift
*economic - *Futile
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*hopeless
*useless - *Gainsay
- *Deny
- *Garrulous
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*Loquacious
*Wordy - *Goad
- *Urge on
- *Grandiloquent
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*Popous
*Bombastic
*Using high sounding language - *Gregarious
- *Sociable
- *Guileless
- *Without deceit
- *Gullible
- *Easily deceived
- *Harangue
- *long, passionate, vehemenant speech
- *Homogeneous
- *Of the same kind
- *Hyperbole
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*Exaggeration
*Overstatement - *Iconoclastic
- *Attacking cherished traditions
- *Idolatry
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*Worship of idols
*Excessive admiration - *Immutable
- *Unchangeable
- *Impair
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*Injure
*Hurt - *Impassive
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*Without feeling
*Stoicial - *Impede
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*Hinder
*Block - *Impermeable
- *Not permitting passage through its substance
- *Imperturbable
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*Calm
*Placid - *Impervious
- *Incapable of being damaged or distressed
- *Implacable
- *Incapable of being pacified
- *Implicit
- *Understood but not stated
- *Implode
- *Burst inward
- *Inadvertently
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*Unintentionally
*By oversight
*Carelessly - *Inchoate
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*Recently begun
*Elementary - *Incongruity
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*Lack of harmony
*Absurdity - *Inconsequential
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*Insignificant
*Unimportant - *Incorporate
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*Inroduce something into a larger whole
*Combine
*Unite - *Indeterminate
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*Uncertain
*Not clearly fixed - *Indigence
- *Poverty
- *Indolent
- *Lazy
- *Inert
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*Inactive
*Lacking power to move - *Ingenious
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*Naive and trusting
*Young
*Unsophisticated - *Inherent
- *Firmly established by nature or habit
- *Innocuous
- *Harmless
- *Insensible
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*Unconsious
*Unresponsive - *Insinuate
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*Hint
*Imply - *Insipid
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*Lacking in flavor
*Dull - *Insularity
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*Narrow-mindedness
*Isolation - *Intractable
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*Unruly
*Stubborn
*Unyielding - *Intrasigence
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*Refusal of any compromise
*Stubbornness - *Inundate
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*Overwhelm
*Flood - *Inured
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*Accustomed
*Hardened - *Invective
- *Abuse
- *Irascible
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*Irritable
*Easily angered - *Irresolute
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*Uncertain how to act
*Weak - *Itinerary
- *Plan of a trip
- *Laconic
- *Brief and to the point
- *Lassitude
- *Weariness
- *Latent
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*Potential but undeveloped
*Dormant
*Hidden - *Laud
- *Praise
- *Lethargic
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*Drowsy
*Dull - *Levee
- *Earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding
- *Levity
- *Lack of seriousness or steadiness
- *Log
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*Record of a voyage or flight
*Record of day-to-day activities - *Loquacious
- *talkative
- *Lucid
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*Easily understood
*Clear
*Intelligible - *Luminous
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*shining
*issuing light - *Magnamity
- *Generosity
- *Malingerer
- *One who feigns illness to escape duty
- *Malleable
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*Capable of being shaped by pounding
*Impressionable - *Maverick
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*Rebel
*Nonconformist - *Mendacious
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*Lying
*Habitually dishonest - *Metamorphosis
- *Change of form
- *Meticulous
- *Excessively careful
- *Misanthrope
- *One who hates mankind
- *Mitigate
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*Appease
*Moderate - *Mollify
- *Soothe
- *Morose
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*ill-humored
*melancholy - *Mundane
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*Worldly as opposed to spiritual
*Everyday - *Negate
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*Cancel out
*Deny - *Neophyte
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*Recent convert
*Beginner - *Obdurate
- *Stubborn
- *Obsequious
- *Slavishly attentive
- *Obviate
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*Make unnecessary
*Get rid of - *Occlude
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*Shut
*Close - *Officious
- *Excessively pushy in offering one's services
- *Onerous
- *Burdensome
- *Opprobrium
- *Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct
- *Oscillate
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*Vibrate pendilumlike
*Waver - *Ostentatious
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*Showy
*Trying to attract attention - *Paragon
- *Model of perfection
- *Partisan
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*One-sided
*Committed to a party - *Pathological
- *Pertaining to disease
- *Paucity
- *Scarcity
- *Pedantic
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*Showing off learning
*Bookish - *Penchant
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*Strong inclination
*Liking - *Penury
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*Severe poverty
*Stinginess - *Perennial
- *Something long-lasting
- *Perfidious
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*Treacherous
*Disloyal - *Perfunctory
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*Superficial
*Not thorough
*Lacking interest, care, enthusiasm - *Permeable
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*Penetrable
*Porous
*Alllowing gas or liquids to pass through - *Pervasive
- *Spread throughout
- *Phlegmatic
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*Calm
*Not easily disturbed - *Piety
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*Devoutness
*Reverence for God - *Placate
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*Pacify
*Conciliate - *Plasticity
- *Ability to be molded
- *Platitude
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*Trite remark
*Commonplace statement - *Plethora
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*Excess
*Overabundance - *Plummet
- *Fall sharply
- *Porous
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*Full of pores
*Like a sieve
*Permeable - *Pragmatic
- *Practical (as opposed to idealistic)
- *Preamble
- *Introductory statement
- *Precarious
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*Uncertain
*Risky - *Precipitate
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*Rash - acting out of intense emotion, not logical thinking
*Premature
*Hasty
*Sudden - *Precursor
- *Forerunner
- *Presumptuous
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*Arrogant
*Taking liberties