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GRE Vocabulary: Level 4
accede     Speak
 
(1)
v.  
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capture; attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence; hold in bondage or subjection
retire from military service
oversee with the power of direction; take care of with authority; supervise
stroll slowly; walk at a leisurely pace
agree; give consent, often at the insistence of another; concede
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aver     Speak
 
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spread or flow throughout; pervade
declare to be true; affirm
push oneself or one's ideas forward or intrude; stick out or extrude
pretend; hide feelings from other people
become formal or affected in dress or manners; give a neat appearance to
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blithe     Speak
 
(3)
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agreeable; gracious; charming, often in a childlike or naive way
most frequent or common; having superior power and influence
unpleasantly small and uncomfortable; cramped
gay; joyous; carefree and lighthearted
tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
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corpulent     Speak
 
(4)
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awkward; lacking grace in movement or posture
very stormy; turbulent; rough with wind; impassioned; violent
unshakably calm; placid; incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted
very fat; large in the body; overweight
relating to the near future; limited to short distances
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deify     Speak
 
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become formal or affected in dress or manners; give a neat appearance to
satisfy fully; overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
be placed in or take the room of; replace; make obsolete; make void or useless by superior power
turn into a god; idolize or idealize; worship or revere as a god
drive or force onward; drive forward; urge to action through moral pressure
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doggerel     Speak
 
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n.  
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small European insectivore, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines
act of throwing or shooting out; darting or casting forth; uttering of exclamations, or of brief exclamatory phrases
the bitterness of speech and temper; sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone
poor verse; of crude or irregular construction
the act of believing that something is true without having any proof; belief upon incomplete proof
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exhortation     Speak
 
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n.  
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act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good; language intended to incite and encourage
book of literary selections by various authors
appearance;  becoming visible
animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column
temptation; enticement; any real or apparent good held forth or operating, as a motive to action
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foreboding     Speak
 
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act of emptying, reducing, or exhausting
the expectation of misfortune; feeling of evil to come; unfavorable omen
highest point; apex or summit; common point of two lines of the angle
teasing conversation; good-humored, playful conversation
a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone
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hew     Speak
 
(9)
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distribute; spread; scatter like seeds
exclude from community or group; banish by popular vote
foretell; tell in advance; indicate likelihood of; portend
cut with an ax; fell with a sharp instrument; form or shape with a sharp instrument; cut
relate; associate; bring into a mutual relation
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incorporeal     Speak
 
(10)
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choosing at random; not marked by fine distinctions
tending to betray; disloyal; faithless
not consisting of matter, or not having a material body; immaterial; insubstantial
liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts
varied; greatly diversified; made up of many differing parts
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inveterate     Speak
 
(11)
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merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive
serving to reduce sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
unconquerable; incapable of being overcome
deep-rooted; firmly and long-established; habitual
in the early stage of development; of an organism before birth; related to embryo
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macabre     Speak
 
(12)
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external; not essential; extraneous
impatient under restraint or opposition; resisting control; difficult to control
fit for growing crops, as by plowing
not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false
suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome
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opprobrious     Speak
 
(13)
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penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
healthily plump and ample of figure; full-bosomed; vigorous; jolly
very small; immeasurably or incalculably minute
bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous
festive; occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
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pastel     Speak
 
(14)
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impossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent
any of various pale or light colors; lacking in body or vigor
striking one object against another sharply
penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; proper or intended to be shown
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privation     Speak
 
(15)
n.  
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direct ancestor; originator of a line of descent; originator or founder
abusive language used to express blame or ill will
parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs
the bitterness of speech and temper; sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone
hardship; state of extreme poverty
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rampart     Speak
 
(16)
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one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs
something defends from assault or secures safety; defense
instrument, implement, or container for practical use, especially in kitchen or laboratory
strong dislike, contempt, or aversion; hatefulness; disrepute
noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel; disturbance
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sardonic     Speak
 
(17)
a. or ad.  
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tending to make or become worse; disparaging or belittling
disdainful or ironically humorous; cynical; scornful and mocking
perfect or blameless in every respect; faultless; impeccable
slightly sour in taste or manner; sharp; caustic
prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country
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spendthrift     Speak
 
(18)
n.  
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business or practice of catching fish; fishing; a place for catching fish; the right to take fish at a certain place
oddity; departure from that which is stated, regular, or usual; deviation from the center
property of being close together; kinship; nearness; similarity in nature
curse; evil-speaking; the utterance of curse or execration
one who spends money recklessly or wastefully
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talon     Speak
 
(19)
n.  
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fine thread or fiber; thin wire;  threadlike structure within the light bulb
claw of a bird of prey; part of the lock that key presses to shoot bolt
ancient paper made from stem of plant
a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck
one who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
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truculent     Speak
 
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a. or ad.  
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cautious; sparing or restrained about giving
bankrupt; unable to repay one's debts
in the manner of an uncle, about uncle; kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant
silent or reserved in speech; saying little; not inclined to speak or converse
disposed to fight; belligerent; aggressively hostile
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