GRE vocabulary words

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92.7%

make less active or intense

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91.4%

give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

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56.2%

temporary cessation or suspension

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56.1%

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

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80.9%

a tapering point

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68.4%

quick or skillful or adept in action or thought

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92.4%

corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

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98.9%

someone who offers opposition

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99.7%

a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

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91.3%

diffusing warmth and friendliness

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66.2%

add details to

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93.1%

a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

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98.1%

remote in manner

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96.8%

mixed feelings or emotions

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91.6%

disposed or willing to conform

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99.3%

an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

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64.1%

a medicine used to relieve pain

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96.8%

deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

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98.8%

provoke the hostility of

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99.2%

a collection of selected literary passages

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97.2%

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

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99.3%

equipment designed to serve a specific function

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96.9%

the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)

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99.7%

an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

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98.4%

based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice

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99.5%

the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

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81.6%

marked by care and persistent effort

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99.4%

a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn

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94.3%

a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

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96.6%

enlarge or increase

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97.7%

a feeling of intense dislike

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84.1%

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

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95.8%

not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)

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99.7%

a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)

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93.7%

changeable

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94.8%

the relation between causes and effects