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GRE Vocabulary
GRE Vocabulary
30
Language - English
Graduate
08/22/2012

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Abjure
Definition
to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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Abrogate
Definition
to abolish or annul by authority; to put down
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Abscission
Definition
act of cutting off or removing
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Abscond
Definition
to depart clandestinely, to steal off and hide
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Accretion
Definition
growth, increase by successive addition, building up
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Adroit
Definition
adept, dexterous
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Adumbrate
Definition
to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily
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Alacrity
Definition
eager and enthusiastic willingness
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Alchemy
Definition
a magical or wonderful transformation
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Ameliorate
Definition
to make better or more tolerable
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Anachronism
Definition
something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
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Anathema
Definition
a solemn or ecclesiastical curse, accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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Anodyne
Definition
soothing
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Antipathy
Definition
aversion, dislike
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Apocryphal
Definition
of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious
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Apogee
Definition
farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
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Apostate
Definition
one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause
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Apotheosis
Definition
deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example
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Apposite
Definition
appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos
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Approbation
Definition
an expression of approval or praise
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Appropriate
Definition
to take for one's own use, confiscate
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Arabesque
Definition
complex, ornate design
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Arcane
Definition
mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates
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Arrant
Definition
impudent; in every way being completely such, bare-faced, utter
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Artless
Definition
completely without guile; natural, without artificiality
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Ascetic
Definition
one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion
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Asperity
Definition
severity, rigor, roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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Aspersion
Definition
an act of defamation or maligning
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Assiduous
Definition
diligent, hard-working
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Attenuate
Definition
to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen
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