Anna GRE #2
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malfunction on July 11, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 atrophy | the wasting away of body tissue (n) |
| abstruse | hard to understand, secret, hidden (adj) |
| litigate | to make the subject of a lawsuit (v) |
| amatory | of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking (adj) |
| amenity | agreeable ways or manners (n) |
| inamorata | a female lover (n) |
| ambient | moving freely, circulating (adj) |
| ambulatory | of, pertaining to, or capable of walking (adj) |
| perambulator | one who makes a tour of inspection on foot (adj) |
| antedate | precede in time (adj) |
| antediluvian | belonging to the period before the biblical flood; very old or old-fashioned (adj) |
| androgen | a substance that promotes masculine characteristics (n) |
| anthropocentric | regarding man as the central fact of the universe (adj) |
| antipodal | on the opposite side of the globe (adj) |
| apogee | the highest or most distant point (n) |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity (adj) |
| apostasy | a total desertion of one's religion, principles or cause (n) |
| oligarchy | government by a select group (n) |
| autocrat | an absolute ruler (n) |
| benediction | act of uttering a blessing (n) |
| biennial | happening every two years (adj) |
| bipartisan | representing two parties/opinions (adj) |
| recidivist | one who repeatedly relapses, as into crime (n) |
| recant | to withdraw or disavow a statement (v) |
| percipient | having perception, discerning (adj) |
| precept | a command or direction given as a rule of conduct (n) |
| castigate | to punish in order to correct (v) |
| concord | agreement, peace, amity (n) |
| centrist | of or pertaining to moderate political of social ideas (adj) |
| discrete | detaches from others, separate (adj) |
| discreet | judicious in one's conduct or speech (adj) |
| circumambulate | to walk around or about (v) |
| proclivity | inclination, bias (n) |
| commensurate | suitable in measure, proportionate (adj) |
| incursion | a hostile sudden entrance into a place (n) |
| accretion | an increase by natural growth (n) |
| credo | any formula of belief (n) |
| cryptology | the science of interpreting secret writings (n) |
| cryptography | procedures of making and using secret writing (n) |
| recumbent | lying down, reclining, leaning (adj) |
| deferential | respectful, yielding to judgment (adj) |
| pandemic | general, universal (adj) |
| dilate | to make wider or larger, to cause to expand (v) |
| dilatory | inclined to delay or procrastinate (adj) |
| condign | well-deserved, fitting, adequate (adj) |
| promulgate | to scatter or spread widely (v) |
| paradox | an opinion or statement contrary to accepted opinion (n) |
| indolence | laziness (n) |
| dubiety | doubtfulness (n) |
| indubitable | unquestionable (adj) |
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