Difficult GRE Words - Group 8

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n. act of admitting to holy orders; disposition as in ranks or rows; formal arrangement


Spelling Word: ordination
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n. making ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade


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v. exclude from community or group; banish by popular vote


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n. remote rural part of a country especially of Australia or New Zealand


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a. rural; relating to shepherds or herders; relating to the country or country life


Spelling Word: pastoral
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n. ornate tent; light, sometimes ornamental roofed structure, used for amusement or shelter, as at parks or fairs


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a. transparent; limpid; easy to understand


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ad. continually; without ceasing; year after year


Spelling Word: perennially
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n. glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; vial


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n. a moth of the genus Lithophane; feather; wing; joint of bird's wing most remote from the body


Spelling Word: pinion