GRE Hit Parade #1
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- aberrant
- deviating from the norm
- alacrity
- eager and enthusiastic
- audacias
- daring, fearless
- capricious
- erratic & unpredictable
- censure
- to criticize severly
- disparate
- fundamentally distinct
- enervate
- to weaken
- ennui
- dissatisfaction from boredom or apathy
- equivocate
- to use ambiguous language with deceptive intent
- exculpate
- clear of blame
- exigent
- urgent
- ingenuous
- frank & candid
- inured
- accustomed to accepting something undesirable
- irascible
- easily angered
- magnanamity
- generously noble in mind & heart
- noxious
- harmful
- obtuse
- not precise in thought
- obviate
- to anticipate; to make necessary
- perennial
- recurrent
- perfunctory
- done without care
- prevaricate
- deliberately avoid the truth
- solicitous
- concerned & attentive
- tortuous
- winding; twisting; complicated
- voracious
- having an insatiable apetite
- abjure
- to reject solemnly
- abrogate
- to abolish or annul
- abcission
- act of cutting or removing
- acarpous
- no longer fertile
- accretion
- growth
- adroit
- skillful & adept
- adumbrate
- to foreshadow
- anathema
- solemn or religious curse
- anodyne
- soothing
- apocryphal
- of dubious origin
- apogee
- farthest point
- apostate
- one who abandons long held conviction
- apotheosis
- glorification to godliness
- apposite
- relevant; appropriate
- apprise
- to inform
- arabesque
- complex design
- arcane
- mysterious
- arrant
- impudent; without qualification
- asperity
- severity
- ascetic
- someone practicing self-denial
- aspersion
- act of defamation
- assay
- analysis or examination
- asseverate
- to assert; to allege
- assiduous
- diligent; hard working
- attenuate
- to weaken
- augury
- omen
- auspice
- protection; support
- auspicious
- favorable; successful
- aver
- to assert; to prove
- baleful
- harmful
- bane
- source of harm
- beatify
- to make happy
- bedizen
- to adorn
- bellicose
- belligerent; warlike
- bilge
- bulge or swell
- blandish
- to coax with flattery
- blithe
- carefree
- boor
- rude person
- burnish
- to polish or shine
- byzantine
- complex
- cabal
- scheme or plot
- cochinnate
- to laugh loudly
- cadge
- to mooch
- cajole
- to coax
- calumniate
- to slander
- caparison
- adorn
- captious
- calculated to confuse in argument
- cavil
- to find fault without good reason
- chasten
- to correct
- chimera
- illusion