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GRE Vocab 1
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01/07/2010

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mountebank
Definition
1. a person who sells quack medicines, drawing an audience in by storytelling, tricks, etc.
2. any charlatan or quack.
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laconic
Definition
concise, brief
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desultory
Definition
random, disconnected
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irascible
Definition
very irritable
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solicitous
Definition
1. anxious, eager, concerned.
2. careful, particular.
3. anxiously desirous.
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mendacity
Definition
untruthfulness
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refulgent
Definition
gleaming, radiant
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fractious
Definition
irritable, quarrelsome
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salacious
Definition
lewd, lustful
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prevaricator
Definition
1. person who speaks to avoid the precise truth; equivocator.
2. liar.
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charlatan
Definition
person who pretends to know more than he does; quack.
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reprobate
Definition
immoral, depraved person.
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profligate
Definition
shameless, immoral
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dissolute
Definition
indifferent to moral restraints
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skinflint
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miser
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mendicant
Definition
beggar.
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sylvan
Definition
wooded
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sidereal
Definition
pertaining to stars
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sartorial
Definition
pertaining to tailor or tailored clothes
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salubrious
Definition
healthy
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specious
Definition
superficially pleasing, misleading
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doctrinaire
Definition
Unyielding; dogmatic (arrogantly asserting opinions); adhering stubbornly to doctrine
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mitigate
Definition
to make less severe
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remonstrate
Definition
plead in protest, disapproval, or objection
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subsume
Definition
to take up into a more inclusive classification
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evince
Definition
to show clearly, prove
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seminal
Definition
influencing the development of future events
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syllogism
Definition
deductive reasoning
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presage (pri-SAGE)
Definition
omen; prophetic significance/augury
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predicate
Definition
proclaim or imply
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obfuscation
Definition
act of confusing or obscuring
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meretricious
Definition
showy or false
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peculate
Definition
embezzle
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headlong
Definition
1. rash; without deliberation.
2. without delay; hastily.
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penurious
Definition
1. extremely stingy; parsimonious
2. extremely poor; destitute
3. lacking in means or resources
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stygian
Definition
extremely dark, gloomy, forbidding
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enervate
Definition
reduce the vitality or vigor of
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loquacious
Definition
talkative, garrulous
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repine
Definition
to complain; to long for something
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inveterate
Definition
firmly established by long persistence
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undergird
Definition
strengthen or support
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approbation
Definition
praise
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neologism
Definition
new word, meaning, usage or phrase
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collusion
Definition
secret agreement especially for treacherous or fraudulent reasons; conspiracy
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ahistorical
Definition
without concern for history or historical development; indifferent to tradition
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arcane
Definition
known or understood by very few; mysterious; abstruse; obscure; esoteric
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belie
Definition
1. to contradict
2. to misrepresent
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contentious
Definition
1. causing or involving argument or controversy
2. quarrelsome
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ebullient
Definition
1. overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm; high-spirited
2. bubbling up like a boiling liquid
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exigent (EK-si-juhnt)
Definition
urgent, pressing
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fastidious
Definition
1. hard to please
2. painstaking
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ideological
Definition
speculative; visionary
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inalienable
Definition
absolute, inviolable, inherent
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judicious
Definition
sensible, wise, well-advised
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munificent
Definition
very generous
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obliquely
Definition
1. morally, ethically wrong; perverse
2. not straightforward
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oracular
Definition
1. ambiguous, obscure
2. as if divinely inspired; sententious (preachy)
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partisan
Definition
1. follower, supporter
2. biased, prejudiced
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