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 Test Questions
GRE Vocabulary: Level 3
amorous     Speak
 
(1)
a. or ad.  
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sticky; gluey; having high resistance to flow
unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
lacking in insight or discernment; stupid
situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; lower; under;
moved by sexual love; loving
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awning     Speak
 
(2)
n.  
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support on which a lever rests; prop or support
action taken in return for injury or offense
a fixed point supporting something that turns or balances; focus or center
plants of an area or a region; plant life
roof-like cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind
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chaff     Speak
 
(3)
n.  
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trivial or worthless matter; thin, dry bracts or scales, especially
arrangement of parts or elements; outline
brink; the very top edge of a container
assemble without order or sense; a confused multitude of things; chaos or mess
an incorporated town that is not a city; a town, or a division of a large town
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cohesion     Speak
 
(4)
n.  
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surviving remnant; something left after loss or decay; object kept for its association with the past
difference; condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree
a tendency to keep together
ghostly figure; sudden or unusual sight; appearance; state of being visible
condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; infirmity; weakness of resolution
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cringe     Speak
 
(5)
v.  
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give over something to another for care, protection, or performance; give as a trust to someone;
go backwards;  decline to inferior state; degenerate
shrink or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment; bend or crouch with base humility
flow forth suddenly in great volume; make an excessive display
wander or stray; turn aside sharply; climb or move upward
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emigrate     Speak
 
(6)
v.  
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remove from one country or state to another for residence; migrate from home
move or run rapidly or carelessly, lifting the fore and hind feet alternately, in successive leaps or bounds
walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches; move roughly or irregularly
accuse; challenge or discredit the credibility of
offer illicit sex with the third party; tempt with or appeal to improper motivations
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ephemeral     Speak
 
(7)
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arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive; hateful
short-lived; enduring a very short time
invulnerable; able to withstand attack
feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sad; gloomy
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; capricious
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forbidding     Speak
 
(8)
a. or ad.  
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able to pay all debts; capable of meeting financial obligations
late; delayed; moving slowly
prohibitive; harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
being beyond what is required or sufficient
high, tall, having great height; idealistic, implying over-optimism
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grievance     Speak
 
(9)
n.  
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small concavity; a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it
cause of grief or distress; discomfort or pain
shallow place in a body of water; sandy elevation of the bottom of a body of water, sandbank, or sandbar
cool, refreshing state of the air; the art of painting on freshly spread plaster before it dries
faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars
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indict     Speak
 
(10)
v.  
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charge; accuse formally of a crime
breathe out; send air out of your lungs
belittle;  speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; reduce in esteem or rank
get away from by artifice; escape by dexterity; avoid giving a direct answer to
dig out of ground; remove from grave
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interminable     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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weighting authority; peremptory and dictatorial
having many small waves; rough with small waves
young and inexperienced; having just acquired its flight feathers
extremely disturbed from emotion
being or seeming to be without an end; endless; tedious; continual
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magnify     Speak
 
(12)
v.  
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intensify; increase; make greater in size; enlarge
mock; ridicule; show or express scorn; eat quickly and greedily
emphasize; stress; pronounce with stress or accent; mark with an accent
decay, or to cause something to decay
plunge into water; wet thoroughly; extinguish
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orifice     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
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purging or cleansing of any passage of body
excess in eating; the extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity
the intensity of feeling; the warmth of feeling; intense, heated emotion
line around an area to enclose or guard it
mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe; an opening
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periphery     Speak
 
(14)
n.  
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edge, especially of a round surface; the surface of a solid; circumference
a formal, lengthy discussion of a subject; verbal exchange; conversation
a loyal servant of another, usually more powerful being
class, society, or collection of individuals called by the same name; specifically, a religious sect
freeing someone from the control of another
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proclivity     Speak
 
(15)
n.  
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work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of
inclination; natural tendency; readiness; facility of learning
condition or quality of being an idiot; extreme folly or stupidity
arrangement of parts or elements; outline
limited quantity; small or moderate amount; any small thing
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renown     Speak
 
(16)
n.  
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one who worships false gods; idolater; person not adhering to any major or recognized religion
symbol; sign; distinctive badge, design, or device
small rounded hill or mound; top or crown of a hill
hammer; a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head; a light drumstick with a rounded head
fame; quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
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seep     Speak
 
(17)
v.  
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fall away or back; decline or recede; fall back from the flood stage
restrain with U-shaped bar for ankles or feet; impede; hamper
extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress;  pacify or quiet
attract with something desirable; be highly, often subtly attractive
pass gradually or leak through, as if through small openings
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sprig     Speak
 
(18)
n.  
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the act of digging a hole or channel in the ground
deadlock; the situation in which further action is blocked
a substance used as coloring; dry coloring matter
wise saying; brief familiar proverb;  expression of popular wisdom
a small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; spray; a youth; a lad; a brad, or nail without a head
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succumb     Speak
 
(19)
v.  
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differ in opinion or feeling; withhold assent or approval
fall straight down; plunge; decline suddenly and steeply
submit to an overpowering force; yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in
give over something to another for care, protection, or performance; give as a trust to someone;
settle down; sink to a lower level or form depression; wear off or die down
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viscous     Speak
 
(20)
a. or ad.  
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unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
sticky; gluey; having high resistance to flow
casual; brief or broad; not cautious, nor detailed
of or relating to hearing, the organs of hearing, or the sense of hearing
capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action
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