GRE High Freq Vocab 3-14
Terms
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- apprise
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inform
she was apprised of the weather conditions - approbation
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approval
she looked for her parents appropation - appropriate
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acquire; take possession
the govt appropriated the land - artless
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without guile; open and honest
his memoirs have an artless flavor - ascetic
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self denial; austere
the monks lead an ascetic life - assiduous
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diligent
assiduous labor - assuage
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lessen pain; satify hunger; soothe anger
a pain that couldn't be assuaged - attenuate
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weaken; make thin
attenuate the signal is to make it smaller - austere
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stern; plain
an austere life
an austere building - aver
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state confidently
i will aver that I will be successful - banal
- not original; worn out cliches are banal
- beneficent
- kindly; good doing
- burnish
- polish
- burgeon
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grow forth; send out buds
the plants burgeon - cacophonous
- inharmonious; bad sounding
- capricious
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fickle; unpredictable
her capricious personality - castigation
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punishment; critisicm
she couldn't bear the castigation - chicanery
- trickery; deception
- coda
- concluding section of music piece
- cogent
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convincing
he had cogent reasons for going to Harvard - commensurate
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equal in extent
the reward is commensurate with the effort - compendium
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brief summary
this paragraph is a compendium of the paper - complaisant
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trying to please/oblige
the jester tried to obey the king in a complaisant manner - conciliatory
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reconciling; soothing
she was still angry despite his conciliatory words - contention
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claim; thesis
it is our contention that bla bla bla - contentious
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quarrelsome
the coach was contentious - contrite
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penitent
her contrite tears - craven
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cowardly
her craven refusal to go into the forest - default
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failure to act
lose by default
default on a debt - denigrate
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blacken
the writer made an attempt to denigrate my character - derivative
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unoriginal; obtained from another source
her material was all derivative in nature - dessicate
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dry up
dessicate beef/food before making beef jerky - desultory
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aimless/haphazard/ digressing at random; casual
she had a desultory interest in her child's welfare - diatribe
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bitter scolding/ invective
the lengthy diatribe delivered by his opponent - diffidence
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shyness
her diffidence was out of place in the outgoing group - diffuse
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wordy; rambling; spread out
diffuse novels are wordy and repetitive - dirge
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lament with music
a lone bagpiper played the woeful dirge - disabuse
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correct a false impression; undeceive
we tried to disabuse the kids of the nonsense they had been taught - discordant
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not harmonious; conflicting
bad sounding bands are discordant