Difficult GRE Words - Group 9

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v. foretell or predict; indicate or warn of in advance


Spelling Word: presage
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n. act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; act of assuming; belief upon incomplete proof


Spelling Word: presumption
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a. tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding


Spelling Word: prohibitive
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n. one who argues in support of something; advocate; backer


Spelling Word: proponent
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v. command against; banish; outlaw


Spelling Word: proscribe
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n. great physical beauty and appeal; attractive moral excellence; moral beauty


Spelling Word: pulchritude
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a. supposed, reputed, generally regarded as such


Spelling Word: putative
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n. any species of very large snakes of the genus Python


Spelling Word: python
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n. sudden feeling of sickness or faintness; sudden attack of illness


Spelling Word: qualm
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a. habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance


Spelling Word: querulous