GRE High Frequency Problematic
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- yokel
- N country bumpkin
- waif
- N homeless animal or child
- vituperative
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ADJ abusive, scolding
The grandmother was vituperative in her treatment of the neighbor kids. - viscous
- A sticky, gluey
- venerate
- V revere
- venal
- capable of being bribed
- vapid
- A dull and unimaginative
- vacillate
- v. waver, fluctuate
- truculence
- N aggressiveness
- torpor
- N. sluggishness
- tenuous
- A thin, rare, slim
- tangential
- A only slightly connected
- tacit
- A not put into words, understood
- substantiate
- v establish via evidence
- Stint
- V. set limits
- strut
- N supporting bar
- stolid
- A dull impassive
- specious
- A seemily reasonable but incorrect
- soporific
- A sleep causing
- solictous
- A worried
- secrete
- V Hide away or cache
- satiate
- v. satisfy fully
- salubrious
- A healthful
- reticent
- A reserved
- rescind
- v. cancel
- repudiate
- v. disown disavow
- relegate
- v. banish to an inferior position
- reproach
- v. express dissapointment
- recalcitrant
- A obstinately stubborn
- rarefied
- A made less dense
- recondite
- A profound, secret
- qibble
- N minor problem
- qualified
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A limited, restricted
This section is qualified to only scientists. - propriety
- N fitness, correct conduct
- proscribe
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V ostracize, banish
Stalin proscibed all the political prisoners to Siberia. - propitiate
- v. appease
- pristine
- A unspoiled
- phlegmatic
- A calm
- plasticity
- N ability to be molded
- plastitude
- N trite remark, common place statement
- placate
-
V pacify
Stop fighting and play with us. - pervasive
- A spread throughout
- perfunctory
- A superficial
- penchant
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N strong inclination
I had a penchant to not sign up for the Army after September 11th. - perennial
- N. something long lasting
- paucity
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N scarcity
THe pope is the ultimate paucity. - partison
- A one sided
- officious
- A meddlesome
- oscillate
- v. vibrate pendulumlike, waver
- ostentatious
- A. showy, pretentious
- occlude
- V shut, close
- obsequious
- A.slavishly attentive
- obdurate
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A stubborn
close duration - mundane
- A worldy
- morose
- A ill humored
- mitigate
- v. moderate
- mollify
- V soothe
- mendacious
- A dishonest
- magnanimity
- N generosity
- loquacious
- A talkative
- laud
- v praise
- latent
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A potential but undeveloped
The latent skills of the child were obvious to Yoda but no one else. - lassitude
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N weariness
The lassitude of the troops became evident in Basara. - laconic
- A brief
- irascible
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A irrable
The irascible frat girl never got in to the party. - invective
- N abuse
- ingenious
- A unsophisticated
- intransigence
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N refusual of compramise
The intrasigence of the Americans and Taliban lead to war. - inured
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A accustomed
She became inured to the Alaskan climate. - insularity
- N narrowmindedness
- insipid
- A dull
- insensible
- A unconscious
- innocuous
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A harmless
The innocuous sheep - inert
- A inactive, lacking power to move.
- inchoate
- A rudimentary, elementary
- impervious
- A impenetrable
- inperturbable
- A calm, placid
- implacable
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A incapable of being pacified
No spelll could touch the implacable Karn Silver Golem - hyperbole
- N exaggeration
- iconoclastic
- A attacking tradition
- harangue
- N long passionate speech
- guileless
- A without deceit
- gregarious
- A sociable
- goad
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V. urge on
The toad goaded me on. - garrulous
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A wordy
The garrulous speech of the professor put me to sleep - foment
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V stir up
The old crime was fomented by the new inspector with dna evidence. - flout
- V reject, mock
- felicitous
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A appropriate
The speech mocking true love at the wedding was certainly not felicitious. - facetious
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A joking
The facetious joke was said in face.