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 Test Questions
GRE Vocabulary: Level 3
admonish     Speak
 
(1)
v.  
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force with the thumb; make a groove in
scatter; drive away; cause to vanish
make the false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
emphasize; stress; pronounce with stress or accent; mark with an accent
warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
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berth     Speak
 
(2)
n.  
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a model of something, or a very clear and typical example of something
space for the ship to dock or anchor; allotted place; the place to sleep or stay; appointment or job
mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe; an opening
natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection
highland; upland; relatively flat highland
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brim     Speak
 
(3)
n.  
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the skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animals, prepared for writing on
board on which the painter mixes pigments
holding with the feet; firm standing; something on which one may tread or rest securely
a loyal servant of another, usually more powerful being
brink; the very top edge of a container
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collusion     Speak
 
(4)
n.  
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an event that departs from expectations; permission to do something differently from the usual way
a secret agreement for any illegal purpose; conspiracy
merry or joyful activity; festivity; bright color or showiness, as of dress; finery
stipulated condition; an act of supplying or fitting out; something provided
arsonist; bomb that is designed to start fires
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decimate     Speak
 
(5)
v.  
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read or examine, typically with great care
draw out; bring forth or to light;  generate or provoke as response or answer
walk for pleasure, display, or exercise
destroy or kill a large part of; select by lot and kill one in every ten of
appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others; gain possession of by prior right or opportunity
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dissident     Speak
 
(6)
a. or ad.  
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disagreeing, especially with a majority; rebellious
yielding to request or desire; ready to accommodate; disposed or willing to comply
timely; just in time; suited or right for a particular purpose
having some characteristic of a woman; womanlike; womanly; tender
not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for
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eviscerate     Speak
 
(7)
v.  
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alter; change something such as a plan, opinion, law to improve
engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel
be full of; be plentiful
get away from by artifice; escape by dexterity; avoid giving a direct answer to
take away a vital or essential part of
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feckless     Speak
 
(8)
a. or ad.  
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of or about the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals
without skill, ineffective; worthless; lacking purpose
impressive from inherent grandeur; large and impressive, in size, scope, or extent
prickly; barbed; having or covered with protective thorns
in a position that is turned toward one side; away from the correct course
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gaunt     Speak
 
(9)
a. or ad.  
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inclined or eager to fight; aggressive
greedy; eager for; marked by keen interest and enthusiasm
lacking pity or compassion; cruel and savage
likely to fail or be inaccurate
very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold; barren
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inclement     Speak
 
(10)
a. or ad.  
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having no adverse effect; harmless
stormy; showing no mercy; physically severe
quick and skillful; neat in action or performance
extremely fat; grossly overweight
having the quality of being vicious or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive
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infertile     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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not able to be perceived by senses, as touch; vague
unable to have children
springing back; having the power of rebounding; able to return quickly to a former state or condition
mixed;  experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings
acceptable; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten
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lurk     Speak
 
(12)
v.  
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decree; establish by a legal and authoritative act; make into a law
arouse again; make someone have a feeling that they had in the past
differ in opinion or feeling; withhold assent or approval
improve and prepare, as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; promote the growth of
stealthily lie in waiting; exist unperceived
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niche     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
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trick or stratagem practiced for deception
lack of sophistication, experience, judgment or worldliness; simplicity; artlessness; gullibility
study of artifacts and relics of early humankind
small concavity; a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it
masses of leaves; a cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches
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pander     Speak
 
(14)
v.  
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happen at the same time; arrange or represent events so that they co-occur
pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; transfer by pouring
offer illicit sex with the third party; tempt with or appeal to improper motivations
write or draw carelessly and in a hurry; doodle; meaningless marks and lines
surround an enemy; enclose or entrap; beat by cleverness and wit
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quirk     Speak
 
(15)
n.  
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list of works of a specific author or publisher; list of writings relating to a given subject
pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel; transverse bar connecting the opposite wheels
emptying accomplished by draining; gradual flowing off, as of a liquid
a vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle; machine in which materials are ground and blended
sudden sharp turn or twist; strange attitude or habit; the peculiarity of behavior
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reprimand     Speak
 
(16)
v.  
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raise; lift; elevate; raise to one's mouth to drink
reprove severely, especially in a formal or official way; rebuke formally; censure severely or angrily
be full of; be plentiful
wander or stray; turn aside sharply; climb or move upward
make null; bring to nothing; prevent from taking effect or attaining fulfillment
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serenade     Speak
 
(17)
n.  
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component or part; citizen, voter
using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency
any of numerous flowerless, seedless vascular plants having roots, stems, and fronds and reproducing by spores
rejection; an act of excluding or shutting out
music performed in the open air at nights; complimentary performance given to honor or express love for someone
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stalwart     Speak
 
(18)
a. or ad.  
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marked by imposing physical strength; firmly built; firm, and resolute
likely to fail or be inaccurate
contrary to your interests or welfare; inconvenient; troublesome
spotless; flawless; absolutely clean
without skill, ineffective; worthless; lacking purpose
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supplement     Speak
 
(19)
v.  
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gradually deprive infants of mother's milk; detach affections of
make very hot and dry; become superficially burned
speak indistinctly; pass over carelessly or with little notice
twist or interweave as not to be easily separated; make tangled, confused, and intricate; perplex; bewilder; puzzle
add as something seems insufficient; complement; extension; addition
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virile     Speak
 
(20)
a. or ad.  
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dark; dusky; naturally having the skin of a dark color
contrary to your interests or welfare; inconvenient; troublesome
lonely; solitary; desolate; gloomy; dismal; affected with ill humor
marked by energy and vigor; manly; able to copulate, as for male
circuitous; going round; indirect; encircling; enveloping; comprehensive
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