GRE word list 5
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- astral
- relating to stars
- astringent
- binding; causing contraction; harsh or severe
- astronomical
- enourmously large or extensive
- astute
- wish; shrewd; keen
- asunder
- into parts; apart
- asylum
- place of refuge or shelter; protection
- asymmetric
- not idenitcal on both sides of a dividing central line
- atavism
- resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback
- atheist
- one who denies the existence of God
- atone
- make aments for; pay for
- atrocity
- brutal deed
- atrophy
- wasting away
- attentive
- alert and watchful; considerate; thoughtful;
- attenuate
- make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force, degree)
- attest
- testify; bear witness
- attribute
- essential quality; ascribe; explain
- attrition
- gradual decrease in numbers; reduction in the work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment
- atypical
- not normal
- aduacious
- daring; bold
- audit
- examination of accounts
- augment
- increase; add to
- augury
- omen; prophecy
- august
- impressive; majestic
- aureole
- sun's corona; halo
- auroral
- pertaining to the aurora borealis
- auspicious
- favoring sucess
- austere
- forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
- authenticate
- prove genuine
- authoritarian
- subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will
- authoritative
- having the weight of authority; peremptory adn dictatorial
- autocratic
- having absolute, unchecked power; dictatorial
- automaton
- mechanism that imitates actions of humans
- autonomous
- self-governing
- autopsy
- examination of dead body
- auxiliary
- offering or providing help; additional or subsidiary
- avalanche
- great mass of falling snow and ice
- avarice
- greediness for wealth
- avenge
- take vengeance for something (on behalf of someone)
- aver
- assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact
- averse
- reluctant; disinclined
- aversion
- firm dislike
- avert
- prevent; turn away
- aviary
- enclosure for birds
- avid
- greedy; eager for
- avocation
- secondary or minor occupation
- avow
- declare openly
- avuncular
- like an uncle
- awe
- solemn wonder
- awl
- pointed tool used for piercing
- awry
- distored; crooked
- axiom
- self-evident truth requiring no proof
- azure
- sky blue
- babble
- chatter idly
- bacchanalian
- drunken
- badger
- pester; annoy
- badinage
- teasing conversation
- baffle
- frustrate; perplex
- bait
- harass; tease
- baleful
- threatening; menacing; sinister; foreshadowing evil
- balk
- stop short, as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue
- ballast
- heavy substance used to add stability or weight
- balm
- something that relieves pain
- balmy
- mild; fragrant
- banal
- hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
- bandy
- discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
- bane
- curse; cause of ruin
- baneful
- destructive; causing ruin or death
- bantering
- good-naturely ridiculing
- barb
- sharp projection from fishook or other object; openly cutting remark