BARRON'S 800 ESSENTIAL WORDS FOR THE GRE (1 -100) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2 024 abate - ANSWER to decrease; reduce abdicate - ANSWER to give up a position, right, or power aberrant - ANSWER deviating from what is normal abeyance - ANSWER temporary suppression or suspension abject - ANSWER miserable; pitiful abjure - ANSWER to reject; abandon formally abscission - ANSWER the act of cutting; the natural separation of a leaf or other part of a plant abscond - ANSWER to d epart secretly abstemious - ANSWER moderate in appetite abstinence - ANSWER the giving up of certain pleasures abysmal - ANSWER very bad accretion - ANSWER growth in size or increase in amount accrue - ANSWER to accumulate; grow by additions adamant - ANSWER uncompromising; unyielding adjunct - ANSWER something added, attached, or joined admonish - ANSWER to caution or reprimand adulterate - ANSWER to corrupt or make impure aesthetic - ANSW ER relating to beauty or the arts affected - ANSWER pretentious; phony affinity - ANSWER fondness; liking; similarity aggrandize - ANSWER to make larger or greater aggregate - ANSWER amounting to a whole; total alacrity - ANSWER cheerful willingness; eagerness; speed alchemy - ANSWER medieval chemical philosophy based on changing metal into gold; a seemingly magical power or process of transmutation allay - ANSWER to lessen; ease; soothe alleviate - ANSWER to relieve; improve partially alloy - ANSWER a combination; a mixture of two or more metals
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