Difficult GRE Words - Group 2

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


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n. teasing conversation; good-humored, playful conversation


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v. surround with hostile forces; crowd around; cause to feel distressed or worried


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n. a collection of compromised computers that is slowly built up then unleashed as a DDOS attack or used to send very large quantities of spam


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v. to develop or grow rapidly


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n. story or poem set to music that can be sung by chorus


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n. state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved


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v. criticize severely; punish; revise or make corrections to publication


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n. disease of the eye causing its opacity and, unless treated, leading to blindness


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n. mean or unfair artifice to obscure truth; deception by trickery or sophistry


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