Difficult GRE Words - Group 2

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n. legal officer to whom some degree of authority


Spelling Word: bailiff
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a. warlike or hostile in manner or temperament; showing or having impulse to be combative


Spelling Word: bellicose
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n. blessing; invocation of divine blessing; expression of good wishes


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


Spelling Word: blaze
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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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a. dull, slow-moving, and stolid, like an ox; placid and dull


Spelling Word: bovine
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a. ill humored; irritable; marked by ill-tempered contradiction or opposition; ugly; malicious


Spelling Word: cantankerous
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n. massive slaughter, as in war; massacre; corpses, especially of those killed in battle


Spelling Word: carnage
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v. yield or formally resign and surrender to another


Spelling Word: cede
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a. tending toward center; moving or directed toward center or axis


Spelling Word: centripetal