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 Test Questions
GRE Vocabulary: Level 3
amorous     Speak
 
(1)
a. or ad.  
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demanding great effort or labor; difficult
having the quality of being vicious or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive
moved by sexual love; loving
neatly dressed; very stylish in dress; lively and alert
capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action
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awning     Speak
 
(2)
n.  
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sickness;a slight but often persistent illness
goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters; lovely young girl; maiden; peacock butterfly
powerful and effective language; persuasive speech
a person who loves humankind in general; a very generous person or institution
roof-like cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind
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chaff     Speak
 
(3)
n.  
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hand tool for boring holes; hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice
a great number; many
period of greatest popularity, success, or power; the golden age
trivial or worthless matter; thin, dry bracts or scales, especially
hugeness in a bad sense; the act of extreme evil or wickedness
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cohesion     Speak
 
(4)
n.  
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whirlpool; powerful circular current of water
degree of visibility of your environment
provision; an agreement made by parties in a judicial proceeding
a tendency to keep together
tunnel; hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter; moving through by or as by digging
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cringe     Speak
 
(5)
v.  
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shrink or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment; bend or crouch with base humility
move up or climb something; mount
put at a disadvantage; tie up; hamper; prevent the progress
chain; fetter; restraint that confines or restricts freedom
make a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; plot together
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emigrate     Speak
 
(6)
v.  
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be full of; be plentiful
arouse to action; motivate; induce to exist
force or drive back; drive back; refuse; disgust
remove from one country or state to another for residence; migrate from home
worsen; make worse or more troublesome
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ephemeral     Speak
 
(7)
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young and inexperienced; having just acquired its flight feathers
essential; not imaginary; actual or real
short-lived; enduring a very short time
scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; not enough
free of guilt; not subject to blame; completely acceptable
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forbidding     Speak
 
(8)
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plowed but left unseeded during a growing season; uncultivated
without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy
boring; dull; tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
produced under conditions involving intense heat
prohibitive; harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
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grievance     Speak
 
(9)
n.  
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beginning; start; origin; time at which something is supposed to begin
novelty; creativity; capacity to act or think independently
cause of grief or distress; discomfort or pain
class, society, or collection of individuals called by the same name; specifically, a religious sect
feather, especially soft, downy, long, or handsome feather; a token of honor or achievement
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indict     Speak
 
(10)
v.  
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happen at the same time; arrange or represent events so that they co-occur
search blindly or uncertainly; reach about uncertainly; feel one's way
speak indistinctly; pass over carelessly or with little notice
destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
charge; accuse formally of a crime
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interminable     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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not belonging to the real world; unnatural; odd and unfamiliar
abrupt and curt in manner or speech; rudely abrupt, unfriendly
plowed but left unseeded during a growing season; uncultivated
expert at; very skilled; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
being or seeming to be without an end; endless; tedious; continual
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magnify     Speak
 
(12)
v.  
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intensify; increase; make greater in size; enlarge
restrain with U-shaped bar for ankles or feet; impede; hamper
make whole; combine; make into one unit
bring out; arouse; call forth
recollect and tell of past experiences or events; talk or write about memories of the past, delightful ones
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orifice     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
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mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe; an opening
a person who hides aboard a ship or other conveyance to obtain free passage
an awkward and stupid person; troublemaker, often violent
a heavy block of iron or steel with a smooth, flat top on which metals are shaped by hammering
payment or expense; output
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periphery     Speak
 
(14)
n.  
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science of sound; the quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
edge, especially of a round surface; the surface of a solid; circumference
reparation; getting something back again; restoring something to its original state
natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection
ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy
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proclivity     Speak
 
(15)
n.  
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cool, refreshing state of the air; the art of painting on freshly spread plaster before it dries
deep opening in the earth surface
one who executes or performs; doer
inclination; natural tendency; readiness; facility of learning
cultivation of plants
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renown     Speak
 
(16)
n.  
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plants of an area or a region; plant life
a model of something, or a very clear and typical example of something
tax on goods coming into a country
fame; quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
necessary requirement; indispensable item
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seep     Speak
 
(17)
v.  
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settle accounts to pay them off; clear up
leave someone who needs or counts on you
pass gradually or leak through, as if through small openings
make the false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
act contrary to, as a law, right, or obligation; annul or hinder
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sprig     Speak
 
(18)
n.  
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trivial or worthless matter; thin, dry bracts or scales, especially
socially awkward or tactless act; foolish error, especially one made in public
beginning of something; taking in, as by swallowing; the process of receiving within
a small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; spray; a youth; a lad; a brad, or nail without a head
flag or banner, especially the national flag, carried by ship or a body of soldiers
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succumb     Speak
 
(19)
v.  
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form by an exercise of ingenuity; invent or design
submit to an overpowering force; yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in
mock; ridicule; show or express scorn; eat quickly and greedily
fall straight down; plunge; decline suddenly and steeply
kindle; cause to start burning; set fire to
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viscous     Speak
 
(20)
a. or ad.  
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not able to be perceived by senses, as touch; vague
sticky; gluey; having high resistance to flow
greedy; eager for; marked by keen interest and enthusiasm
actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing the warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited
self-indulgent; moral decay
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