GRE Set A
Terms
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- ameliorate
- improve, make better
- articulate
- speak distinctly, connected by joints
- alloy
- to debase by mixing with something inferior
- asperity
- roughness, harshness, ill-temper, irritability
- apotheosis
- deification, glorification to godliness
- abet
- encourage someone in wrong doing
- auxiliary
- helping, supporting
- august
- majestic, venerable
- aseptic
- surgically clean
- atonement
- repayment, death of jesus
- aleck
- smart aleck
- apostate
- one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
- accolade
- praise, approval
- alacrity
- eager, cheerful readiness
- ascribe
- consider to be the origin or belonging to
- aplomb
- self-confidence
- avid
- eager, greedy
- argot
- jargon, slang
- audacious
- bold
- ardous
- steep, difficult ascent, laborious
- abscond
- to go away suddenly to avoid arrest
- aspersion
- slander
- ambrosial
- extremely pleasing to taste
- accretion
- growing of separate things into one
- astringent
- substance that shrinks
- agile
- active, quick-moving
- assiduous
- hard-working
- alcove
- recess, partly enclosed space
- augury
- omen, sign
- ascertain
- discover, establish
- avow
- admit, declare openly
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend, obscure
- appropos
- appropriate to the situation, apt
- acarpous
- no longer fertile, worn out
- abut
- border on
- assuage
- reduce feeling (pain, desire)
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial, austere, stark
- assail
- attack violently
- abjure
- promise to swear or give up
- apprise
- to give notice, to inform
- abeyance
- suspended action
- arrant
- in the highest degree
- ardor
- enthusiasm
- attune
- bring into harmony
- austere
- severely moral and strict
- approbation
- approval
- attenuate
- make thin, weaken, enervate
- aver
- assert, prove, justify
- agog
- eager/excited
- accrue
- accumulate