Difficult GRE Words - Group 5

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a. insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants; difficult to please; fussy


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v. foretell; tell in advance; indicate likelihood of; portend


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a. sad and lonely; wretched; abandoned or left behind


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n. privilege or right officially granted a person or a group by a government; business or group of businesses established or operated under such authorization


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v. dance and skip about in sport; leap playfully


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n. a mount for a traveling crane consisting of a large frame to move along a set of tracks; supporting framework for a barrel


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n. armed policeman in France; French policeman


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n. person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink


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n. any writings or drawings on a surface in a public place, placed there without authorization of the owner of the object on which it is written


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v. give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy


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