May 15 GRE Vocab (abase - antipathy)
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- abase
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verb
to disgrace; to humble - abate
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verb
to weaken; to lesson in severity, degree, or amount - abdicate
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verb
to give up a position, power, or right - aberrant
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adj
abnormal; deviant - abeyance
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noun
a delay, temporary suppression or suspension - abject
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adj
low in spirit; hopeless - abjure
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verb
to reject; abandon formally - abrogate
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verb
to abolish or annul by authority - abscission
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noun
act of cutting off or removing - abscond
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verb
to leave secretly - abstain
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verb
to choose not to do something - abstemious
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adj
moderate in appetite - accretion
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noun
a growth in size; increase in amount - acme
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noun
highest point; summit; highest level or degree attainable - acrimonious
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adj
caustic, biting, rancorous in feeling, language, or manner - admonish
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verb
to express warning or disapproval; to reprove - adroit
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adj
adept; dexterous - adulation
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noun
excessive praise; intense adoration - adulterate
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verb
to make impure - adumbrate
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verb
to forshadow vaguely; intimate, suggest or outline sketchily - advocate
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verb
to speak in favor of - aerie
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noun
a nest built high in the air; an elevated, often secluded dwelling - aesthetic
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adj
concerning the appreciation of beauty - affected
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adj
phony, artificial - aggrandize
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verb
to increase in power, influence, and reputation - alacrity
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adj
promptness, cheerful readiness - alloy
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verb
to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior - amalgamation
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noun
a merger, unity of elements - ameliorate
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verb
to make better; to improve - amenable
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adj
agreeable, responsive to suggestion - anachronism
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noun
out of place in terms of historical or chronological context - anathema
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noun
a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; an accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing - anodyne
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adj
soothing - antipathy
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noun
a dislike or aversion