GRE 500-600 Day 1
Terms
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- anachronism
- something that is in a time that is not its own
- abstruse
- hard to understand
- colossus
- a gigantic statue
- advert
- to remark; to turn attention to
- beneficient
- doing good
- anhydrous
- lacking all water, dry
- astrolabe
- an ancient instrument used by sailors for navigation
- adulterate
- to debase or make impure
- consul
- an official appointed by one country to look after its interests in another country
- audacious
- extemely bold
- churlish
- boorish, rude
- anthropomorphize
- to give human attributes to an animal, plant, or other non-human object
- credulous
- gullible
- coltish
- playful like a colt; wile and unruly
- contentious
- tending to quarrel; causing or involving controversy
- controvert
- to argue against
- aggrandize
- to increase or enhance; to exaggerate the greatness of
- cognate
- related by birth; similar in nature
- aristocracy
- rule by only one person
- cogent
- logical and convincing
- amorphous
- lacking a specific shape, formless
- cogitate
- to think hard about
- aesthete
- a person who claims to have great lover of art or beauty
- convoke
- to call together
- benevolent
- charitable
- attentuate
- to weaken; to make thinner
- carp
- to complain about unreasonably
- antipathy
- hatred