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GRE Vocabulary: Level 3
accrue     Speak
 
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v.  
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increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth; accumulate over time
decide upon and express in words;  develop all the details of something
pass gradually or leak through, as if through small openings
scatter; drive away; cause to vanish
engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel
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beefy     Speak
 
(2)
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giving a false appearance of frankness; not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
brief and compact; expressing much in few words
of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable
marked by prudence and restraint in the use of material resources; limited in quantity; saving; frugal; merciful
having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy; muscular in build; strong or muscular
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celestial     Speak
 
(3)
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giving out or shedding light, as sun or fire; reflecting light; having a brilliant surface
momentary; temporary; staying for a short time
leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; changeable; unsettled
relating to the sky or the heavens; supremely good;  god or angel
unprincipled; lacking honesty
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converge     Speak
 
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approach; tend to meet; come together
digest; convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition
submit to an overpowering force; yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in
be a match or counterpart for; eager to equal or excel
wither; decrease in size; become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying
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dawdle     Speak
 
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destroy completely; do away with completely so as to leave no trace
proceed slowly; waste time
copy or imitate closely, especially in speech, expression
give an imitation that ridicules; imitate mockingly or humorously
bring out; arouse; call forth
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elicit     Speak
 
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stoop or descend; let one's self down; submit; waive the privilege of rank or dignity
appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others; gain possession of by prior right or opportunity
draw out; bring forth or to light;  generate or provoke as response or answer
luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
make laws; create or pass laws
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eruption     Speak
 
(7)
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one who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures; droll; mimic; clown
pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel; transverse bar connecting the opposite wheels
part or region remote from a central district, as of a city or town; fringe; outer border
small, light sailboat; small boat propelled by oars
outbreak;  sudden, often violent outburst
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feckless     Speak
 
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particularly; specifically; in an explicit manner
of the same or similar nature or kind
capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance
without skill, ineffective; worthless; lacking purpose
prickly; barbed; having or covered with protective thorns
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gouge     Speak
 
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beat severely; discuss or examine repeatedly; use a machine or flail to separate grain or seeds from the straw
force with the thumb; make a groove in
make whole; combine; make into one unit
shrink or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment; bend or crouch with base humility
gradually deprive infants of mother's milk; detach affections of
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icicle     Speak
 
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handle, especially the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like
result of improving something; the process of removing impurities
pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water
dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality
process of the sweat glands of skin secreting a salty fluid
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insistence     Speak
 
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opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted religion
a large group or crowd; wandering troop or gang; a moving crowd
minor objection or complaint; petty distinction
a passage from one form or state to another; change
continual and persistent demands
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maim     Speak
 
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come near or nearer to something or someone in space, time, quality, or amount
give  right to; authorize; furnish with a right or claim to something; designate; give a title to
wound seriously; cause permanent loss of function of limb or part of the body
cancel out; make ineffective or invalid; deny
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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multitude     Speak
 
(13)
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truthfulness; unwillingness to tell lies
quality of endurance and courage; good temperament and character
outline or a summary of the main points of a text, lecture, or course of study; abstract
a great number; many
trick or stratagem practiced for deception
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peruse     Speak
 
(14)
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any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae; one who wakes early
imprison; put into jail; shut up or enclose
read or examine, typically with great care
deny; go back on; fail to fulfill promise or obligation
destroy completely; do away with completely so as to leave no trace
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plummet     Speak
 
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expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism; blame
destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
counterbalance, counteract, or compensate for; balance
fall straight down; plunge; decline suddenly and steeply
cut into very small pieces; chop fine; suppress or weaken the force of
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receptacle     Speak
 
(16)
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extreme corruption or degradation; wickedness
arsonist; bomb that is designed to start fires
study of artifacts and relics of early humankind
the soldier placed on guard; guard
a container used for storing or putting objects in; reservoir
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shoddy     Speak
 
(17)
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yielding to request or desire; ready to accommodate; disposed or willing to comply
made of or containing inferior material; not genuine; of low rank; poor quality or craft
unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste
weakened, worn out, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use
tangible; easily perceptible; unmistakable
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spool     Speak
 
(18)
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tunnel; hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter; moving through by or as by digging
something similar to such a cylinder in shape; the amount of wire, thread, or string wound on such a cylinder
science of sound; the quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
humorous short verse; nonsense song or verse
unit of poem, written or printed as a paragraph
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superfluous     Speak
 
(19)
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unconventional; strikingly unfamiliar; located far from civilized areas
of or pertaining to the parts under the skin; injected beneath the skin
causing damage or harm; injurious
indicated or understood without expressed directly; not speaking; silent
being beyond what is required or sufficient
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virile     Speak
 
(20)
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offering or expressing an apology or excuse; serving as or containing a formal justification or defense
recurring with measured regularity
relating to basic facts or principles; being in the earliest stages of development; incipient
profoundly cruel or evil; fiendish; extremely malicious or wicked; infernal
marked by energy and vigor; manly; able to copulate, as for male
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