GRE 6
Terms
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- cipher
- nonentity; worthless person or thing; secret code
- commiserate
- feel or express pity or sympathy
- comestible
- something fit to be eaten
- circuitous
- roundabout
- chasten
- correct by punishment or scolding; restrain
- churlish
- boorish; rude
- comity
- courtesy; civility
- clemency
- disposition to be lenient; mildness, as of the weather
- cloister
- monastery or convent
- chassis
- framework and working parts of an automobile
- cognate
- related linguistically; allied by blood; similar or akin in nature
- comely
- attractive; agreeable
- complement
- complete; consummate; make perfect
- chastened
- humbled; subdued; rebuked
- cleave
- split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to
- coalesce
- combine; fuse
- clangor
- loud, resounding noise
- cognizance
- knowledge
- coeval
- adj. living at the same time as; contemporary
- colander
- utensil with perforated bottom used for straining
- commodious
- spacious and comfortable
- ciliated
- having minute hairs
- cloying
- distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental
- clarion
- shrill, trumpetlike sound
- comport
- bear one's self; behave
- complementary
- serving to complete something
- circumlocution
- unnecessarily wordy and indirect speech; evasive language
- collusion
- conspiring in a fraudulent scheme
- compound
- combine; constitute; pay interest; increase
- compunction
- remorse
- chase
- v. ornament a metal surface by indenting
- citadel
- fortress
- collation
- light meal
- collate
- examine in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order
- circumvent
- outwit; baffle
- complicity
- involvement in a crime; participation
- complacency
- self-satisfaction; smugness. (complacent as opposed to complaisant - eager to please)
- comeuppance
- n. rebuke; deserts
- choleric
- hot-tempered
- chary
- cautious; sparing or restrained about giving
- circumspect
- prudent; cautious
- codicil
- supplement to the body of a will
- clandestine
- secret
- clambor
- climb by crawling
- chimerical
- fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative
- clout
- great influence
- charlatan
- quack; pretender of knowledge
- chauvinist
- blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group or cause
- cogitate
- think over
- cleft
- n. split