GRE A 2
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- Abase v.
- lower, degrade, humiliate
- Abash v.
- Embarrass
- Abate v.
- Subside, Moderate
- Abbreviate v.
- Shorten
- Abdicate v.
- Renounce, give up
- Abate
- Subside
- Aberrant
- Abnormal
- Abeyance
- Suspended Action
- Abscond
- Depart secretly and hide
- Abstemious
- Sparing in eating and drinking
- Admonish
- Warn
- Adulterate
- To make impure by adding inferior substances
- Aesthetic
- Capable of appreciating the beautiful
- Aggregate
- Sum
- Alacrity
- Cheerful Promptness
- Alleviate
- Relieve
- Amalgamate
- Unite in one body
- Ambiguous
- Unclear or doubtful in meaning
- Ambivalence
- the state of having conflicting emotional attitudes
- Ameliorate
- improve
- Anachronism
- something or someone misplaced in time
- Analogous
- comparable
- Anarchy
- absence of governing body
- Anomalous
- Abnormal
- Antipathy
- aversion
- Apathy
- lack of caring
- Appease
- pacify
- Apprised
- inform
- Approbation
- approval
- Appropriate
- acquire
- Arduous
- hard
- Artless
- without guile
- Ascetic
- practicing self- denial
- Assiduous
- diligent
- Assuage
- ease
- Attenuate
- make thin
- Audacious
- daring
- Austere
- strict
- Autonomous
- self governing
- Aver
- state confidently
- Banal
- hackneyed
- Belie
- contradict
- Beneficient
- kindly
- Bolster
- support
- Bombastic
- pompous
- Boorish
- rude
- Burgeon
- grow forth
- Burnish
- make shiny by rubbing
- Buttress
- support
- Cacophonous
- discordant
- Capricious
- fickle
- Castigation
- punishment
- Catalyst
- agent that brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged
- Caustic
- burning
- Chicanery
- trickery
- Coagulate
- thicken
- Coda
- concluding section of a musical or literary composition
- Cogent
- convincing
- Commensurate
- equal in extent
- Compendium
- brief
- Complaisant
- trying to please
- Compliant
- yielding
- Conciliatory
- reconsiling
- Condone
- overlook
- Confound
- confuse
- Connoisseur
- person competent to act as a judge of art etc;
- Contention
- claim
- Contentious
- quarrelsome
- Contrite
- penitent
- Conundrum
- riddle
- Converge
- Come together
- Convoluted
- coiled around
- Craven
- cowardly