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Set: GRE Word Group - L - N

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	Term	Definition
	laconic	breviloquent, brief, brusque, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, pithy, sententious, succinct, terse
	lament	complaining, complaint, dirge, elegy, grieving, jeremiad, keen, keening, lament, lamentation, moan, moaning, mourning, plaint, requiem, sob, sobbing, sorrow, tears, threnody, ululation, wail, wailing, weeping
	laud	acclaim, admire, adore, approve, bless, boost, build up, celebrate, commend, compliment, cry up, eulogize, extol, flatter, glorify, honor, hymn, magnify, panegyrize, revere, reverence, stroke, venerate, worship
	lavish	abundant, bountiful, copious, effusive, exaggerated, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, first class, free, generous, gorgeous, grand, immoderate, impressive, improvident, inordinate, intemperate, liberal, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, munificent, open-handed, opulent, plentiful, plush, posh, prodigal, profligate, profuse, profusive, prolific, riotous, ritzy, sumptuous, swanky, thriftless, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsparing, unstinging, wasteful, wild
	lethargic	apathetic, blah, comatose, debilitated, dilatory, dopey, dormant, draggy, drippy, drowsy, dull, enervated, heavy, idle, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, laid back, languid, languorous, listless, moony, nebbish, passive, phlegmatic, sleepy, sleepyhead, slothful, slow, sluggish, slumberous, snoozy, somnolent, spiritless, stolid, stretchy, stupefied, stupid, supine, torpid, wimpy*
	loquacious	babbling, blathering, chattering, chatty, flapping, fluent, gabby, garrulous, gossipy, jabbering, long-winded, loose-lipped, motormouth, multiloquent, prolix, verbose, voluble, wordy, yacking*
	lucid	apprehensible, clear, clear-cut, comprehendible, comprehensible, crystal clear, distinct, evident, explicit, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, limpid, luminous, pellucid, plain, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unblurred, understandable
	luminous	beaming, bright, brilliant, clear, crystal, effulgent, fulgent, illuminated, incandescent, lambent, lighted, lit, lucent, lucid, luminescent, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, translucent, transparent, vivid
	malinger	circumlocute, dark, deceive, ditch, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, evade, fence, fend off, fudge, get around, hedge, juke, lurch, malinger, parry, pussyfoot, shake, shake off, shift, shirk, short-circuit, shuffle, sidestep, skirt, slide, slip, swerve, tergiversate, tergiverse, trick, turn aside, weasel
	malleable	adaptable, compliant, ductile, flexible, go-with-the-flow*, governable, impressionable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, submissive, supple, tractable, tractile, transformable, workable, yielding
	metaphor	accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking, painstaking, particular, perfectionist, persnickety, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, stickling, strict, thorough
	meticulous	accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking, painstaking, particular, perfectionist, persnickety, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, stickling, strict, thorough
	misanthrope	cynic, doubter, egoist, egotist, hater, isolate, loner, misanthropist, misogynist, recluse, skeptic
	mitigate	abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, blunt, calm, check, come together, cool, cool it, dull, ease, extenuate, lessen, lighten, meet halfway, moderate, modify, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, reduce, relieve, remit, soften, soothe, subdue, temper, tone down, tranquilize, weaken
	mollify	abate, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, assuage, blunt, calm, compose, conciliate, cool, cool down, cool out, cushion, decrease, diminish, dulcify, ease, fix up, lessen, lighten, lull, mellow, mitigate, moderate, modify, pacify, placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, reduce, relieve, soften, soothe, sweeten, temper, tone down, tranquilize
	monotony	boredom, colorlessness, continuance, continuity, dreariness, dryness, dullness, ennui, equability, evenness, flatness, humdrum*, identicalness, invariability, levelness, likeness, monotone, monotonousness, oneness, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, routine, similarity, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness, unchangeableness, uniformity, wearisomeness
	naive	aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green, guileless, gullible, harmless, ignorant, impulsive, ingenuous, innocent, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple, simple-minded, sincere, spontaneous, square, sucker, trusting, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly, virgin, wide-eyed*

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