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Princeton Review GRE Vocababate - answer to lessen in intensity or degree
Aberrant - answer Deviating from the norm.
abjure - answer to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
Abscond - answer To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide.
accolade - answer an expression of praise
acerbic - answer having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting
acumen - answer keen, accurate judgment or insight
adulation - answer excessive praise; intense adoration
adulterate - answer to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
adumbrate - answer to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
aesthetic - answer dealing, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
aggrandize - answer to increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige
Alacrity - answer Eager and enthusiastic willingness.
alchemy - answer a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold
alloy - answer to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior. Unalloyed - pure
amalgamate - answer to combine several elements into a whole
ameliorate - answer to make better or more tolerable
amenable - answer agreeable; responsive to suggestion anachronism - answer something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
anathema - answer a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
anodyne - answer soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
Anomaly - answer deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality.
apogee - answer farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
apostate - answer one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
apotheosis - answer deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection
Approbation - answer an expression of approval or praise
appropriate - answer to take for one's own use; to confiscate
archaic - answer outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time
Arduous - answer strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort
arrest, arresting - answer to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention
ascetic - answer one who pratices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion
asperity - answer severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
asseverate - answer to aver, allege, assert
assiduous - answer diligent, hard-working, sedulous
Assuage - answer to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
astringent - answer having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue
Audacious - answer daring and fearless; recklessly bold
augury - answer omen, portent
august - answer majestic, venerable Austere - answer without adornment; bare; severly simple; ascetic; harsh in manner of temperament
avarice - answer greed, esp. for wealth
aver - answer to state as a fact; to declare or assert
axiom - answer a universally recognized principle
Axiomatic - answer taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
bellicose - answer belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
bent - answer leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
bolster - answer to provide support or reinforcement
bombastic - answer pompous; grandiloquent
broach - answer to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about
brook - answer To put up with something or someone unpleasant
bucolic - answer rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
burgeon - answer to grow rapidly or flourish
cacophony - answer harsh, jarrring, discordant sound; dissonance
calumniate - answer to slander, to make a false accusation
calumny - answer slander, aspersion
canon - answer an establisehd set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature
Canonical - answer following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
Capricious - answer inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable
captious - answer disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
cardinal - answer major, as in cardinal sin
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