Difficult GRE Words - Group 12

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vernal  Speak Example sentences
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agreeable; gracious; charming, often in childlike or naive way
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play or move to and fro; move one way and the other; swing; be unsettled in opinion
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related to spring; suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
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act of vexing, or state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation
vertebrate  Speak Example sentences
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cause to go gently and smoothly through air or over water
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large in volume or bulk; large in number or quantity, especially of discourse
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animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column
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offensively loud; noisy; making outcry
vertex  Speak Example sentences
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highest point; apex or summit; common point of two lines of angle
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draw back or shrink involuntarily, as in pain or from blow
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make a boat heavy and in danger of sinking by flooding with water; saturate something with water
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witty, jocular, like a wag; humorous; tricky
vilify  Speak Example sentences
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cause to revolve or writhe; twist about; turn; twist
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marked by harsh spoken or written abuse; scolding
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agreeable; gracious; charming, often in childlike or naive way
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make vicious and defamatory statements about; attempt to degrade by slander; defame
visceral  Speak Example sentences
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exaggerated or abnormal fear of strangers or foreigners
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Instinctive; having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect
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marked by harsh spoken or written abuse; scolding
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witty, jocular, like a wag; humorous; tricky
viscosity  Speak Example sentences
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witty, jocular, like a wag; humorous; tricky
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resistance of a liquid to shear forces; physics coefficient of viscosity; quality of flowing slowly
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attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful
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make vicious and defamatory statements about; attempt to degrade by slander; defame
voluminous  Speak Example sentences
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large in volume or bulk; large in number or quantity, especially of discourse
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harsh or corrosive in tone; sarcastic; bitterly scathing
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make a boat heavy and in danger of sinking by flooding with water; saturate something with water
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fanatically committed person; person who shows excessive zeal
voracious  Speak Example sentences
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blow away; separate good parts from bad; sort or select desirable; extract
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cajole; coax; deceive by flattery
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ravenous; excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities
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cause to go gently and smoothly through air or over water
wasp  Speak Example sentences
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any of many types of stinging flying insect
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draw back or shrink involuntarily, as in pain or from blow
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attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful
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related to spring; suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
wastrel  Speak Example sentences
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one who wastes, especially one who wastes money; idler or loafer
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witty, jocular, like a wag; humorous; tricky
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blow away; separate good parts from bad; sort or select desirable; extract
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large in volume or bulk; large in number or quantity, especially of discourse