GRE High-Frequency Words Flash Cards

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Title:	GRE High-Frequency Words
Description:	taken from Barron's Guide, 2005, 16th edition
Number of Cards:	333
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Author:	ankboss9
Created:	2010-03-04
Tags:	barrons high
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- abate
- subside or moderate
- aberrant
- abnormal or deviant
- abeyance
- supspended action
- abscond
- depart secretly and hide
- abstemious
- sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
- admonish
- warn; reprove
- adulterate
- make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
- aesthetic
- artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful
- aggregate
- gather; accumulate
- alacrity
- cheerful promptness; eagerness
- alleviate
- relieve
- amalgamate
- combine; unite in one body
- ambiguous
- unclear or doubtful in meaning
- ambivalence
- the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotinal attitudes
- ameliorate
- improve
- anachronism
- something or someone misplaced in time
- analagous
- comparable
- anarchy
- absence of governing body; state of disorder
- anomalous
- abnormal; irregular
- antipathy
- aversion; dislike
- apathy
- lack of caring; indifference
- appease
- pacify or soothe; relieve
- apprise
- inform
- approbation
- approval
- aprropriate
- v. acquire; take possession of for one's own use
- arduous
- hard; strenuous
- artless
- without guile; open and honest
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial; austere
- assiduous
- diligent
- assuage
- v. ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
- attenuate
- make thinner
- audacious
- daring; bold
- austere
- forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
- autonomous
- self-governing; independent
- aver
- assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact
- banal
- hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
- belie
- contradict; give a false impression
- beneficient
- kindly; doing good
- bolster
- support; reinforce
- bombastic
- pompous; using inflated language
- boorish
- rude; insensitive
- burgeon
- grow forth; send out buds
- burnish
- make shiny by rubbing; polish
- buttress
- v. support; prop up
- capricious
- unpredictable; fickle
- castigation
- punishment; severe criticism
- catalyst
- agent that influences the pace of a chemical action while it remains unaffected and unchanged; person or thing that causes action
- caustic
- burning; sarcastically biting
- chicanery
- trickery; deception
- coagulate
- thicken; congeal; clot
- coda
- concluding section of a musical or literary compositition; something that rounds out, summarizes or concludes
- cogent
- convincing
- commensurate
- adj. corresponding in extent, degree, etc.; proportionate
- compendium
- brief, comprehensive summary
- complaisant
- trying to please; overly polite; obliging
- compliant
- yielding; conforming to requirements
- conciliatory
- reconciling; soothing
- condone
- overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
- confound
- confuse; puzzle
- conoisseur
- person competent to act as a judge of art; a lover of art
- contention
- claim; thesis
- contentious
- quarrelsome
- contrite
- penitent - Her contrite tears did not influence the judge when he imposed sentence
- conundrum
- riddle; difficult problem
- converge
- approach; tend to meet; come together
- convoluted
- coiled around; involved; intricate
- craven
- cowardly
- daunt
- intimidate; frighten
- decorum
- propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
- default
- failure to act
- deference
- courteous regard for another's wishes
- delineate
- portray; depict; sketch
- denigrate
- blacken
- deride
- ridicule; make fun of
- derivative
- unoriginal; obatined from another source