Difficult GRE Words - Group 2

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a. in manner of uncle, pertaining to uncle; kind, genial, benevolent or tolerant


Spelling Word: avuncular
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n. loud, harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of light


Spelling Word: blare
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n. brilliant burst of fire; flame


Spelling Word: blaze
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a. gay; joyous; carefree and lighthearted


Spelling Word: blithe
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a. rough and stormy; loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


Spelling Word: boisterous
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a. handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful


Spelling Word: bonny
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n. any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle


Spelling Word: boson
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n. treasury, especially of a public institution or religious order; scholarship granted to a university student in need


Spelling Word: bursary
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a. past; gone by


Spelling Word: bygone
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a. capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy


Spelling Word: capacious