GRE Beyond the Hit Parade Group 2
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- abjure
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1 a : to renounce upon oath b : to reject solemnly
2 : to abstain from : AVOID - adumbrate
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1 : to foreshadow vaguely : INTIMATE
2 : to suggest, disclose, or outline partially *adumbrate a plan*
3 : OVERSHADOW, OBSCURE - anathema
- a : one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority b : someone or something intensely disliked or loathed
- predicate
- to assert to be a quality, attribute, or property
- anodyne
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1 : serving to alleviate pain
2 : not likely to offend or arouse tensions : INNOCUOUS - apogee
- the farthest or highest point : CULMINATION. zenith
- apostate
- one who abandons long-held religious or policical conventions
- apotheosis
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1 : elevation to divine status : DEIFICATION
2 : the perfect example : QUINTESSENCE - deification
- the act or an instance of deifying
- asperity
- severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability
- asseverate
- to affirm or declare positively or earnestly
- assiduous
- diligent, hard-working, sedulous
- sedulous
- accomplished with careful perseverance. diligent in application or pursuit
- augury
- omen, portent
- portent
- something that foreshadows a coming event
- bellicose
- favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars. belligerent. pugnacious.
- pugnacious
- having a quarrelsome or combative nature
- truculent
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1 : feeling or displaying ferocity : CRUEL, SAVAGE
2 : DEADLY, DESTRUCTIVE - calumniate
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1 : to utter maliciously false statements, charges, or imputations about
2 : to injure the reputation of by *calumny* - captious
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1 : marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections *captious critics*
2 : calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument *a captious question* - cavil
- to find fault without good reason
- celerity
- think accelerate. rapidity of motion or action
- chimera
- an illusion or fabrication of the mind
- contumacious
- stubbornly disobedient : REBELLIOUS
- denouement
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1 : the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
2 : the outcome of a complex sequence of events - descry
- to catch sight of, discover, find out
- desuetude
- discontinuance from use or exercise : DISUSE
- desultory
- marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose. aimless
- diaphanous
- characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
- diffident
- hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence
- dirge
- a song or hymn of grief or lamentation; especially : one intended to accompany funeral or memorial rites
- encomium
- glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise. tribute. eulogy
- panegyric
- a eulogistic oration or writing; formal or elaborate praise
- eschew
- to shun or avoid.
- excoriate
- to censure scathingly. to upbraid
- upbraid
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1 : to criticize severely : find fault with
2 : to reproach severely : scold vehemently - execrate
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1 : to declare to be evil or detestable : DENOUNCE
2 : to detest utterly - exegesis
- EXPOSITION, EXPLANATION; especially an explanation or critical interpretation of a text
- expiate
- to make amends for
- extirpate
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1 a : to destroy completely : WIPE OUT b : to pull up by the root
2 : to cut out by surgery - fatuous
- complacently or inanely foolish : SILLY
- inanely
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1 : EMPTY, INSUBSTANTIAL
2 : lacking significance, meaning, or point : SILLY *inane comments* - fractious
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1 : tending to be troublesome : UNRULY *a fractious crowd*
2 : QUARRELSOME, IRRITABLE - gainsay
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1 : to declare to be untrue or invalid
2 : CONTRADICT, OPPOSE - heterodox
- 1 : contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : UNORTHODOX
- iconoclastic
- 2 : a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
- imbroglio
- difficult or embarassing situation
- indefatigable
- incapable of being fatigued : UNTIRING. tireless
- ineluctable
- not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : INEVITABLE. certain
- inimitable
- not capable of being imitated. one of a kind.
- insouciant
- lighthearted unconcern : NONCHALANCE. carefree
- inveterate
- firmly established by long persistence. confirmed in a habit : HABITUAL *an inveterate liar*
- jejune
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2 : devoid of significance or interest : DULL *jejune lectures*
3 : JUVENILE, PUERILE - vapid
- lacking liveliness, tang, briskness, or force : FLAT, DULL
- nugatory
- of little or no consequence : TRIFLING, INCONSEQUENTIAL
- puerile
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1 : JUVENILE
2 : CHILDISH, SILLY - lubricious
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1. lewd, wanton
2. greasy, slippery - wanton
- 2 a : LEWD, BAWDY b : causing sexual excitement : LUSTFUL, SENSUAL
- lechery
- inordinate indulgence in sexual activity : LASCIVIOUSNESS
- lascivious
- LEWD, LUSTFUL
- mendicant
- beggar
- meretricious
- cheap, gaudy, flashy, showing; attracting by false show. pretentious.
- tawdry
- cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality
- minatory
- having a menacing quality : THREATENING
- nadir
- the lowest point
- nonplussed
- to cause to be at a loss as to what to say, think, or do : PERPLEX. baffled
- obstreperous
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1 : marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : CLAMOROUS
2 : stubbornly resistant to control : UNRULY - ossified
- 2 : to become hardened or conventional and opposed to change with age. Literally: turned into bone
- palliate
- to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense. to cover by excuses and apologies
- parsimonious
- frugal to the point of stinginess
- pellucid
- transparent, easy to understand, limpid
- peroration
- the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
- plangent
- having a loud reverberating sound. thundering, pounding, resounding
- prolix
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1 : unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long
2 : marked by or using an excess of words - propitiate
- to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : APPEASE, CONCILIATE
- conciliate
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1 : to gain (as goodwill) by pleasing acts
2 : to make compatible : RECONCILE
3 : APPEASE - puissance
- STRENGTH, POWER
- pusillanimous
- cowardly, craven. lacking courage and resolution
- craven
- DEFEATED, VANQUISHED. lacking the least bit of courage
- remonstrate
- to protest, object
- sagacious
- having sound judgement; perceptive, wise.
- discerning
- showing insight and understanding : DISCRIMINATING
- salacious
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1 : arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination : LASCIVIOUS
2 : LECHEROUS, LUSTFUL - salutary
- remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
- remedial
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1 : intended as a remedy
2 : concerned with the correction of faulty study habits and the raising of a pupil's general competence - sanguine
- cheerful, confident, optimistic
- saturnine
- gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
- sententious
- moralistic, tending to moralize excessively
- aphoristic
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1 : a concise statement of a principle
2 : a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment : ADAGE - epigrammatic
- of an epigram. a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying
- stentorian
- extremely loud and powerful
- stygian
- extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding
- sycophant
- a servile self-seeking flatterer
- tendentious
- marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : BIASED
- timorous
- of a timid disposition : FEARFUL.
- tyro
- beginner in learning : NOVICE
- greenhorn
- an inexperienced or naive person
- vitiate
- to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
- voluble
- fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language