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Title:	GRE study words (612-711)
Description:	more gre study words
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Author:	alexander.bollinger9
Created:	2011-12-02
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- parochial
- narrow, provincial
- transient
- passing in and out of existence quickly
- elliptical
- having an extreme economy in writing or speaking
- nonplussed
- to not have a lot to say b/c of bafflement
- discomfited
- to be embarrassed
- officious
- meddlesome
- patina
- when copper oxidizes
- noisome
- noxious, harmful
- cog
- a tooth in a gear OR a subordinate but integral part
- chaff
- seed coverings in grain, something useless
- abstemious
- restraint in consumption of food and drink
- craven
- cowardly
- ineluctable
- inevitable
- ineffable
- unable to be expressed in words
- catholic
- inclusive, universal
- voluble
- easily rolling or rotating OR speaking fast
- obsolescence
- process of becoming obsolete
- refractoriness
- stubborn, unmanageable
- inchoate
- only partly formed
- ingenious
- resourceful, skillful at investigating or calculating
- ingenuous
- having childlike candor, lacking subtlety
- disingenuous
- lacking candor, calculating
- plangent
- having a loud, reverberating sound
- inter
- to bury a body
- adulterate
- to weaken by adding impurities
- recriminate
- to make a retaliatory accusation
- abscond
- to leave secretly and hide
- ablution
- to wash oneself (usually religious)
- abut
- to be next to
- abysmal
- immeasurably low
- acarpous
- barren, not producing fruit
- accretion
- growing by adding particle (often land or grime)
- admonitory
- expression admonition
- affable
- friendly
- agog
- intensely eager
- alacrity
- cheerful readiness
- alloy (verb)
- to moderate, to debase by adding something of lesser value
- saunter
- leisurely walk
- amble
- leisurely walk
- amortize
- to make payments to pay off debt
- aphasia
- loss of ability to use or understand words
- apostasy
- renunciation of a religion
- apotheosis
- elevation to divine status OR perfect example
- appellation
- a name or title
- apprise
- to give warning
- approbation
- approval, praise
- arabesque
- an intricate pattern
- ardor
- intensity, zeal, sexual excitement
- ascendancy
- domination
- aseptic
- surgically clean or lacking humanity
- ashen
- deadly pale
- astringent
- causing organic tissues to shrink OR rigidly severe
- styptic
- tending to contract (esp. to stop bleeding)
- augury
- using omens OR an omen
- baleful
- of a deadly influence
- baneful
- harmful
- barrage
- dam OR artillery fire
- beatify
- to make happy OR to make a saint
- bequest
- to give in a will
- bereft
- robbed of something
- bilge
- bulging part of a barrel OR worthless remarks
- blatant
- noisy and vulgar OR obvious
- brazen
- made of brass OR contemptuously bold
- brook
- to tolerate
- cajole
- to persuade with flattery
- canvass
- to examine OR to talk to voters
- cadge
- beg, sponge
- cogitate
- to think deeply about
- centurion
- officer commanding 100 Roman soldiers
- chaff (verb)
- to tease good-naturedly
- chauvinist
- tribalism OR sexism OR nationalism
- chivy
- to annoy with small acts or to get something through small maneuvers
- clamor
- to become loudly insistent
- clinch
- settle or to make final and irrefutable
- din
- loud, continued noise