Kaplan Random 40 GRE 2011 Set 5 of 10
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Kaplan Random 40 GRE 2011 Set 5 of 10
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Romanian | English |
|---|---|
 SULLY | to soil, stain, tarnish; taint |
| RECALCITRANT | resisting authority or control |
| PAUCITY | scarcity, lack |
| REJOINDER | response |
| FULSOME | excessive, overdone, sickeningly abundant |
| ANTHROPOMORPHIC | attributing human qualities to nonhumans; having human qualities |
| PERIPHRASTIC | using circumlocution |
| HEGEMONY | leadership, domination, usually by a country |
| REPROBATE | morally unprincipled person |
| EGREGIOUS | conspicuously bad |
| FLACCID | limp, flabby, weak |
| POLYGLOT | speaker of many languages |
| ENNUI | boredom, lack of interest and energy |
| SOLIPSISM | belief that the self is the only reality |
| FORSWEAR | to repudiate, renounce, disclaim, reject |
| SOLECISM | grammatical mistake |
| COTERIE | small group of persons with a similar purpose |
| RECIDIVISM | tendency to repeat previous behavior |
| LISSOME | easily flexed, limber, agile |
| MORDACIOUS | caustic, biting |
| BENISON | blessing |
| FILIAL | appropriate for a child |
| URBANE | courteous, refined, suave |
| ABLUTION | act of cleansing |
| RAZE | to tear down, demolish |
| CHATTEL | piece of personal property |
| WRAITH | a ghost |
| OBSTREPEROUS | troublesome, boisterous, unruly |
| CAJOLE | to flatter, coax, persuade |
| CONFLAGRATION | big, destructive fire |
| PROGENITOR | originator, forefather, ancestor in a direct line |
| ESCHEW | to abstain from, avoid |
| EPITOME | representative of an entire group; summary |
| GAINSAY | to deny |
| PRECEPT | principle; law |
| EXTRAPOLATE | to estimate |
| REPAST | meal |
| MAWKISH | sickeningly sentimental |
| RUMINATE | to contemplate, reflect upon |
| ANTEDILUVIAN | prehistoric, ancient beyond measure; coming before the biblical flood |
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