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 Test Questions
GRE Vocabulary: Level 2
accommodating     Speak
 
(1)
a. or ad.  
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fighting or warring; having a combative character; aggressive
clever; having the inventive or cunning mind
helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation
impossible to comprehend or grasp fully; unable to be conceived, unbelievable
furnished with feathers; able to fly; equipped for flight; winged; developed; matured
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banish     Speak
 
(2)
v.  
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cause to feel remorse or regret; feel regret or self-reproach for
cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into tiny pieces; cut or rend lengthwise; slit
gather; store up; amass; acquire
make changes in structure or style; reconstruct; change the form of
drive out; drive away; compel to depart; dispel
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caribou     Speak
 
(3)
n.  
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ship, particularly a heavy ship; the body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; excessively muscled person
dense moving crowd; a large group of honeybees
the American reindeer, especially the common or woodland species
behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic; mental disorder
roof of the mouth; sense of taste
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collage     Speak
 
(4)
n.  
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mean or miserly person; selfish person
work of art put together from fragments
honor; praise for exceptional achievement
newly hatched, wingless, often wormlike form of many insects before metamorphosis
in the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free black person, living in the mountains
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deviant     Speak
 
(5)
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planned, considered, or estimated in advance; deliberate
differing from a norm or the accepted standards of a society
lacking conscience; greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
rich; fruitful; inventive; creative; intellectually productive
being of the most miserable kind; wretched; lacking pride; brought low in condition or status
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exhilarating     Speak
 
(6)
a. or ad.  
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being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected
exaggerated; pompous; enlarged with air or gas
invigorating and refreshing; cheering; making lively and joyful
having supreme rank or power; self-governing; excellent; independent
of the seventh degree or order; the act of causing to rot; causing sepsis or putrefaction
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flicker     Speak
 
(7)
v.  
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be slow in leaving; continue or persist; stay
sharpen; perfect or make more intense or effective
flutter; flap the wings without flying; waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air
prevent from being successful
crawl or creep on ground; remain prostrate
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gauze     Speak
 
(8)
n.  
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a sorry fellow; a worthless person; any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus Urinator
a box-shaped musical instrument consisting of a folded central part with a keyboard
assembly of persons wearing masks and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions
very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk
coniferous tree of the genus Picea; neat, trim, and smart in appearance
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hull     Speak
 
(9)
n.  
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the shelter where pigs are kept; pigpen; dirty or very untidy place
the outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; outer skin of a kernel; husk
legal delay of payment; suspension of an ongoing or planned activity
good fortune; financial success; physical well-being
arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained; congruity
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impersonate     Speak
 
(10)
v.  
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make amends for; reimburse
drink greedily; flood with water, as for washing
mimic; imitate; assume or act the character of representing another person with comic intentions
display proudly or shamelessly; show oneself off
breathe or draw into the lungs; to inspire; consume rapidly or eagerly; devour
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jolt     Speak
 
(11)
n.  
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act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite
male hawk; a kind of bur used in dressing cloth; flower or head of some plants, as when pendent; a narrow silk ribbon
long, irregularly shaped gland in vertebrates, lying behind the stomach that secretes pancreatic juice
juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon;  plant that produces the fruit juicy
sudden jerking, as from a heavy blow; a sudden, strong feeling of surprise or disappointment
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lumber     Speak
 
(12)
v.  
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undo or ravel knitted fabric of; separate and clarify; solve
advocate; speak, plead; argue in favor of
move heavily or clumsily; cut down timber of
make an energetic, usually hasty search
shine with a weak or fitful light; glimmer intermittently
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overture     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
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nonmetallic element of the halogen group, always occurring in combination
a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
act of cleaving or splitting; breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules
an opening or aperture; recess; introductory section or part, as of a poem
sharp, sudden physical pain; mental or emotional pain
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posterior     Speak
 
(14)
a. or ad.  
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lacking wit or imagination; ordinary
possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
easily influenced; having little resistance, as to a disease; receptive to
having no attachments or ties; free to do as one pleases; without ties to a particular location; free to roam
later in time; later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; located behind
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prompt     Speak
 
(15)
v.  
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move to act; incite; give rise to; assist with a reminder
give up temporarily; yield; give up voluntarily; defer
change in outward structure or looks; convert
darken; exceed in importance; outweigh
use power or the ability to make something happen; apply; exercise
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regal     Speak
 
(16)
a. or ad.  
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short and thick; stocky; containing small thick pieces
attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary
impossible to comprehend or grasp fully; unable to be conceived, unbelievable
of or relating to a monarch; royal; magnificent; splendid
ill-humored; sullen; depressingly dark; gloomy; persistent
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shrill     Speak
 
(17)
a. or ad.  
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marvelous; strange; extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness
not surveyed or investigated; not charted or recorded on a map or plan
pertaining to hell; devilish; abominable; awful
acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound
of a very large or indefinite number; of ten thousand
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stapler     Speak
 
(18)
n.  
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a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone
a scornfully or jadedly negative comment or act
plants usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God; utterance or writing concerning God
one who deals in staple goods or staple fibers; a device used to bind the material together through staples
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subterranean     Speak
 
(19)
a. or ad.  
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hidden; secret; situated or operating beneath the earth's surface; underground
shabby; untidy in appearance
quick or willing to receive ideas, suggestions; capable of receiving
swollen or puffed as with water or air
differing in some characteristics; various
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vandalism     Speak
 
(20)
n.  
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ban or inhibition resulting from social custom or emotional aversion; prohibition
willful or malicious destruction of public or private property;
overstatement; the act of making something more noticeable than usual
length of time something lasts
necessary foods or commodities; basic elements; secure or fasten; a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables
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