GRE Words to Learn Set 6
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abate | To reduce in amount, degree, severity |
| Analogous | Similar or alike in some way |
| Ardor | Intense and passionate feeling |
| Credulous | Too trusting; gullible |
| Crescendo | Steadily increasing volume or force |
| Dirge | A funeral hymn or mournful speech |
| Disabuse | To set free from error |
| Ephemeral | Lasting a short time |
| Equivocate | To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
| Esoteric | Understood by only a few |
| Inchoate | Not fully formed; disorganized |
| Ingenuous | Showing innocence or childlike simplicity, or straightforward and frank. |
| Opprobrium | Public Disgrace |
| Ostentation | Excessive showiness |
| Philanthropy | Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness |
| Plethora | Excess |
| Propitiate | To conciliate; to appease |
| Stigma | A mark of shame or discredit |
| Stolid | Unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
| Transitory | Temporary |
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