GRE Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- alloy
- to reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable metal
- appropriate
- to take for one's owne use, confiscate
- arrest, arresting
- to catch suddenly and engagingly *arrest attention*. to engage; holding one's attention: an arresting portrait
- august
- majestic, venerable, grandeur
- venerable
- calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments *a venerable jazz musician*
- bent
- a strong inclination or interest : BIAS b : a special inclination or capacity : TALENT
- broach
- bring up, announce, begin to talk about
- brook
- to stand for : TOLERATE, endure.
- countenance
- to extend approval or toleration to : SANCTION
- cardinal
- major, as in a cardinal sin
- chauvinist
- excessive or blind patriotism. undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged
- color
- to change as if by distorting. "yellow jounalism colored the truth"
- consequential
- pompous, self-important
- damp
- to diminish the activity or intensity of *damping down the causes of inflation*. to check the vibration or oscillation of
- die
- a tool used for shaping (wood, metal)
- essay
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1 : to put to a test
2 : to make an often tentative or experimental effort to perform : TRY : ATTEMPT. (new born essayed a few wobbly steps) - exact
- to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain *from them has been exacted the ultimate sacrifice*. to demand, to take, to require
- fell (v)
- to cause to fall by striking
- fell (adj)
- inhumanly cruel, terrible, sinister
- flag
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1 : to hang loose without stiffness
2 a : to become unsteady, feeble, or spiritless b : to decline in interest, attraction, or value - flip
- sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark
- ford
- to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
- grouse
- to complain or grumble
- guy
- think guide. a rope/cord attached to something and it acts as a brace or guide. to steady or reinforce.
- intimate
- to communicate delicately and indirectly : HINT. to imply, suggest, or insinuate
- list
- to tilt or lean to one side. (the ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind).
- meet
- fitting, proper. precisely adapted to a particular situation, need, or circumstance : very proper
- mince
- "dont' mince words". pronounce or speak too carefully.
- nice (adj)
- "he made a nice distinction between the two cases". exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
- obtain (adj)
- "those standards no longer obtain". to be established, accepted or customary.
- occult (adj)
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1 : not revealed : SECRET
2 : not easily apprehended or understood : ABSTRUSE, MYSTERIOUS
3 : hidden from view : CONCEALED - abstruse
- difficult to comprehend
- pedestrian (adj)
- COMMONPLACE, UNIMAGINATIVE, unremarkable
- pied (adj)
- of two or more colors in blotches
- pine (verb)
- to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
- plastic (adj)
- 2 a : capable of being molded or modeled *plastic clay* b : capable of adapting to varying conditions : PLIABLE
- pluck (noun)
- courageous readiness to fight or continue against odds : dogged resolution
- prize (verb)
- "the information was prized from him". to pry, to press or force with a lever, something taken by force.
- rail (verb)
- to complain about bitterly.
- rent (verb/noun)
- rend: to split or tear apart in pieces. rent is the past of rend. "He rent his garments". noun: an opening or tear caused by such "a large rent in the fabric"
- quail (verb)
- to lose courage, become frightened
- qualify (verb)
- to limit. "let me qualify that statement"
- sap (verb)
- to weaken the vitality of "that race sapped my strength"
- sap (noun)
- a foolish and guillable person. a fool or nitwit
- scurvy (adj)
- arousing disgust or scorn : CONTEMPTIBLE, DESPICABLE *a scurvy trick*
- singular (adj)
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2 : distinguished by superiority : EXCEPTIONAL *an artist of singular attainments*
3 : being out of the ordinary : UNUSUAL *on the way home we had a singular adventure*
4 : departing from general usage or expectation : PECULIAR, ODD *the air had a singular chill* - stand (noun)
- a group of plants growing in a continuous area
- steep (verb)
- to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep. "she was steeped in esoteric knowledge"
- esoteric
- requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group. difficult to understand
- table (verb)
- "to table a motion". to remove from consideration.
- tender (verb)
- to present for acceptance: offer. "he tendered his resignation"
- proffer
- to present for acceptance : TENDER, OFFER
- wag (noun)
- wit, joker "He was a well-known wag"