GRE List 33
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- subordinate
- inferior, secondary, submissive to
- subservient
- obey others unquestioningly; menial, obeisant, servile
- subside
- abate, die, lull, wane
- subterfuge
- deceptive device or stratagem
- subvert
- overturn or overthrow from foundation; ruin, sabotage, undermine, wreck
- succinct
- compact precise expression without wasted words, concise, brief, compendious, curt, laconic
- succor
- go to aid of, relieve, help, aid assist, relief
- suffrage
- franchaise, right to vote
- suffuse
- gradually spread through or over
- sully
- make dirty
- summit
- highest point, top, apex
- sumptuous
- luxurious, opulent, palatial
- supercillious
- haughty, contemptuos superiority,
- superfluous
- exceeding what is sufficient, excess, extra, spare
- supine
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1. weak, spineless
2. lying face up - supplant
- supercede by force
- supplement
- an addition to make whole
- supplicate
- ask or beg for something earnestly/humbly
- supposition
- assumption, hypothesis, premise
- surcharge
- overprint on currency note
- surfeit
- excess
- surly
- bad-tempered and unfriendly
- surmise
- guess
- surreptitious
- doing something in secret, clandestinely, covert, furtive
- suture
- unit, close with sutures
- avulse
- act of tearing away
- swill
- guzzle
- swindle
- obtain money or property by fraud or deciet
- sybarite
- self-indulgently fond of sensuous luxury
- hedonist
- like pleasure
- sycophant
- toady, servile self-seeking flatterer
- syllogism
- form of logic (iff)
- synergic
- working together, coacting, conjoint, cooperative
- tacit
- expressed or carried on without words, implicit, inferred
- taciturn
- reserved, or saying little
- tackle
- ropes arranged to hoist and pull
- tactile
- tangible
- talisman
- object held to avert evil and bring good fortune
- talon
- claw of an animal (esp. bird of prey)
- tangent
- diverging from original purpose of course
- tantamount
- equivalent in value, significance, or effect
- tarnish
- dull or destroy luster by air, dust, or dirt
- tarpaulin
- waterproof covering
- tatty
- rather worn, frayed, shabby