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GRE_Vocab_List5_201-250.txt

  1. clinch
    come to grips/settle conclusively 
  2. resuscitation
    coming back to consciousness 
  3. nascent
    coming into existence emerging 
  4. coalescing
    coming together and uniting into one substance 
  5. imperious
    commanding haughty arrogant 
  6. prevalent
    common 
  7. pedestrian
    commonplace trite unremarkable 
  8. constrain
    compel 
  9. coerce
    compel to force to make obedient 
  10. exhaustive
    complete thorough 
  11. involute
    complex 
  12. sophisticated
    complex subtle refined 
  13. imbroglio
    complicated and embarrassing situation 
  14. convoluted
    complicated coiled twisted 
  15. propitiatory
    conciliatory appeasing mitigating 
  16. discomfit
    confuse embarrass 
  17. vanquish
    conquer 
  18. ascribe
    consider to be the origin of or belonging to 
  19. admonitory
    containing warning 
  20. odium
    contempt dislike aversion 
  21. taunt
    contemptuous reproach hurtful remark 
  22. plod
    continue doing something without resting 
  23. conviction
    convincing firm belief 
  24. chastened
    corrected punished 
  25. countervail
    counterbalance 
  26. forgery
    counterfeit 
  27. mettlesome
    courageous high-spirited 
  28. curriculum
    course of study 
  29. sheath
    cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool 
  30. pitfall
    covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger 
  31. recreancy
    cowardice a cowardly giving up 
  32. craven
    cowardly 
  33. pusillanimous
    cowardly craven 
  34. grovel
    crawl humble oneself 
  35. regicide
    crime of killing a king
  36. flak
    criticism/anti-aircraft guns 
  37. cower
    crouch shrink back 
  38. squat
    crouch/settle without permission 
  39. boorish
    crude offensive rude 
  40. massacre
    cruel killing of a large number of people 
  41. vituperate
    curse abuse in words 
  42. clientele
    customers 
  43. hack
    cut roughly hired horse 
  44. perilous
    dangerous 
  45. audacious
    daring foolishly bold impudent 
  46. guile
    deceit cunning 
  47. inveterate
    deep-rooted. long-established 
  48. poignant
    deeply moving keen 
  49. foible
    defect of character (a person is wrongly proud) 
  50. inimitable
    defying imitation unmatchable
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GRE_Vocab_List5_201-250.txt
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GRE Vocabulary List 5 201-250
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