Quiz -- GRE word definitions
Quiz 1 of 50 -- GRE word definitions
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presentient
1 adj. Perceiving or feeling beforehand. 2 v. To keep clear of. 3 adj. Guilty. 4 adj. Recurring every seven years. 5 n. A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
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eminent
1 v. To become or cause to become withered or dry. 2 adj. Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations. 3 v. To overcome by force. 4 adj. Two-sided. 5 adj. High in station, merit, or esteem.
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operate
1 adj. Capable of being remedied or corrected. 2 adj. Open to ridicule. 3 adj. Efficient. 4 v. To put in action and supervise the working of. 5 v. To drive out or away.
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baffle
1 v. To foil or frustrate. 2 v. To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs. 3 adj. Not fit or suitable. 4 n. Liveliness. 5 v. To pollute.
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perpetuate
1 v. To act in opposition to. 2 v. To preserve from extinction or oblivion. 3 v. To make brilliant or shining. 4 v. To expose to peril. 5 n. A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
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dragnet
1 v. To recover after a sickness. 2 n. A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together. 3 n. A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water. 4 n. A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities. 5 v. To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of.
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timbre
1 n. The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch. 2 n. Intensity of passion or affection. 3 adj. Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import. 4 adj. Being in proportion. 5 n. That which moves the mind or inflames the passions.
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tercentenary
1 adj. Pertaining to a period of 300 years. 2 adj. Of less than the customary size. 3 adj. Having an exact signification or positive meaning. 4 v. To hold and exercise sovereign power. 5 v. To force forward prematurely.
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translate
1 v. To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect. 2 n. A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment. 3 v. To make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily. 4 adj. Involving or requiring much sitting. 5 n. Depravity.
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docile
1 adj. Easy to manage. 2 n. The state of being white or glowing with heat. 3 adj. Rare. 4 n. The turning or revolving of a subject in the mind. 5 adj. Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
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annals
1 adj. Incipient. 2 adj. Tending to cause delay. 3 adj. Thinly diffused. 4 v. To give grief or sorrow to. 5 n. A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
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momentary
1 adj. Fixed or done capriciously. 2 n. A charge for a firearm, or for blasting. 3 adj. Lasting but a short time. 4 n. The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence. 5 adj. Inexpressible.
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prodigy
1 n. A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities. 2 n. Any especially sweet and delicious drink. 3 adj. Wishing evil to others. 4 n. Absence or utter disregard of government. 5 adj. Wordy.
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profession
1 n. Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines. 2 adj. Competent for physical service. 3 n. Evenness of mind or temper. 4 adj. That which points out. 5 n. One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
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recapture
1 n. Deportment. 2 v. To put to shame. 3 v. To move back or away. 4 n. Deep wisdom or knowledge. 5 v. To capture again.
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kind-hearted
1 n. A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions. 2 v. To divide into quarters. 3 adj. Occurring or situated within a cell. 4 adj. Active. 5 adj. Having a kind and sympathetic nature.
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pavilion
1 v. To make characteristic of the present or of recent times. 2 n. The state or character of being modern. 3 n. The offspring of a white person and a black person. 4 n. A lyric poem lamenting the dead. 5 n. An open structure for temporary shelter.
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exert
1 adj. Multiplied by six. 2 adj. Situated on or near the sea. 3 adj. Easily broken. 4 v. To make an effort. 5 adj. Usual or customary.
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translucent
1 n. The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively. 2 n. A musical composition. 3 n. One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit. 4 v. To place in position of office again. 5 adj. Allowing the passage of light.
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derivative
1 adj. Coming or acquired from some origin. 2 adj. Excessively hot. 3 v. To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points. 4 n. Possibility of happening. 5 adj. Characterized by intelligence.
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excerpt
1 n. An extract or selection from written or printed matter. 2 n. A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second. 3 n. The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached. 4 adj. Not plausible. 5 adj. Bulging.
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embezzle
1 v. To take apart. 2 adj. Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction. 3 adj. Easy to approach. 4 v. To misappropriate secretly. 5 n. A field or stream of ice.
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accommodate
1 v. To fill with high or cheerful spirits. 2 v. To furnish something as a kindness or favor. 3 v. To water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means. 4 adj. Durable. 5 adj. Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.
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contradictory
1 adj. Inconsistent with itself. 2 adj. Sated with pleasure. 3 v. To envy one of the possession of. 4 n. The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease. 5 adj. Showing submission to natural superiors.
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syllabic
1 n. A distance in miles. 2 v. To supply with light. 3 adj. Made to resemble something else. 4 adj. Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse. 5 adj. Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception.
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monotonous
1 adj. Discriminating. 2 n. A yielding to the power or authority of another. 3 adj. Mutually interchangeable or convertible. 4 adj. Unchanging and tedious. 5 v. To cure again.
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clairvoyance
1 adj. Not digestible, or difficult to digest. 2 n. Loyalty. 3 n. A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction. 4 n. Intuitive sagacity or perception. 5 n. Any strikingly great person or object.
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beatify
1 v. To dress. 2 v. To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally. 3 n. Spare time. 4 adj. Fleeting. 5 v. To make supremely happy.
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exemplar
1 n. A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated. 2 n. A mixing or changing the order of things. 3 n. Submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle. 4 adj. Relating to making proof, as of a will. 5 n. An open insult or indignity.
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synonym
1 adj. Straightforward. 2 v. To represent by sketch or diagram. 3 adj. Suitable for the purpose and circumstances. 4 n. One who makes or sells cloth or clothing. 5 n. A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other.
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overdo
1 v. To spread abroad or from person to person. 2 n. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes. 3 v. To overtax the strength of. 4 adj. Indicative. 5 n. A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
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difference
1 n. Excess. 2 adj. Primitive. 3 n. The science of poetical forms. 4 n. Change. 5 n. Dissimilarity in any respect.
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credulous
1 n. The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals. 2 adj. Straight up and down. 3 adj. Characterized by fairness. 4 adj. Easily deceived. 5 adj. Succulent.
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nostrum
1 n. Reduction. 2 v. To dislike or hate with intensity. 3 v. To set or implant deeply and firmly. 4 adj. Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority. 5 n. Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
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definite
1 adj. Impotent. 2 adj. Having an exact signification or positive meaning. 3 n. A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy. 4 adj. Loud enough to be heard. 5 n. Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
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quiet
1 adj. Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables. 2 adv. An expression of assent. 3 adj. Being beneath the threshold of consciousness. 4 adj. Making no noise. 5 n. A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
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zealot
1 n. Wickedness. 2 adv. With a side or indirect glance or meaning. 3 adj. Unseasonable. 4 adj. Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief. 5 n. One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner.
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abrasion
1 n. That which is rubbed off. 2 n. A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid. 3 n. A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste. 4 n. A disfigurement. 5 n. Hillside.
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apology
1 adj. Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony. 2 n. Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case. 3 adj. Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease. 4 n. One given to speculating. 5 n. A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.
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erudite
1 adj. Very-learned. 2 n. A variety show. 3 n. The art or skill of a workman. 4 v. To move with a circling or winding motion. 5 n. One having a taste for or interest in special objects.
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reservoir
1 n. A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept. 2 n. An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment. 3 v. To utter vehement censure or invective. 4 n. The state of becoming raw or sore again. 5 adj. Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.
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allay
1 adj. Capable of being inferred. 2 v. To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate. 3 v. To obstruct. 4 v. To chide or rebuke for a fault. 5 v. To perform the first act or rite.
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magnificence
1 n. The exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth, or power. 2 adv. Once more, after rest or interval. 3 adj. Protective. 4 v. To cause to appear greatly. 5 n. A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
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mendacious
1 adj. Radically different or contrary in action or movement. 2 adj. Untrue. 3 adj. Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery. 4 adj. That may be done, performed, or effected; practicable. 5 adj. Seeking the conversion of sinners.
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tricolor
1 v. To inflict, as a revenge or punishment. 2 n. A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth. 3 adj. Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action. 4 v. To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar. 5 adj. Of three colors.
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transferable
1 adj. Pleased or satisfied with oneself. 2 adj. Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another. 3 adj. Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era. 4 adj. Open to ridicule. 5 v. To excrete through the pores of the skin.
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debut
1 v. To utter in simple or childish talk. 2 v. To accord in sound, especially vowel sound. 3 n. A first appearance in society or on the stage. 4 adj. Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation. 5 n. The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
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louse
1 n. A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals. 2 v. To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy. 3 n. A pretended or false apostle. 4 n. The condition of being joined. 5 v. To perceive by taste or smell.
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conduce
1 v. To bring about. 2 n. Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages. 3 v. To punish. 4 n. A pretended or false apostle. 5 n. The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
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gestation
1 n. A small dagger. 2 v. To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter. 3 v. To put into a wrong place. 4 n. Pregnancy. 5 n. The faintest ray.
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regalia
1 n. A ...ow. 2 n. One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals. 3 adj. Affording gratification. 4 n. pl. The emblems of royalty. 5 adj. Having the character of a herb.
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tangible
1 adj. Situated on the other side of the Alps. 2 adj. Perceptible by touch. 3 adj. Concise. 4 adv. With knowledge and by design. 5 adj. Invincible.
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veracious
1 adj. That can not be broken or violated. 2 n. A journey. 3 adj. Habitually disposed to speak the truth. 4 adj. Easily affected by outside operations or influences. 5 n. The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally.
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conjugal
1 adj. Cheerful. 2 adj. Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons. 3 n. Sulfur. 4 v. To confuse the perceptions or judgment of. 5 n. One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.
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clan
1 adj. Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally. 2 n. A tribe. 3 v. To restore after deterioration, as a building. 4 n. One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice. 5 n. The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
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thermoelectric
1 n. The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience. 2 adj. Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity. 3 adj. Denoting electricity produced by heat. 4 n. An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father. 5 adj. Having no fame or reputation.
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outstrip
1 v. To go beyond. 2 adj. Silent. 3 adj. Supreme in authority. 4 adj. Speedy. 5 n. Dependence on charity.
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naval
1 n. A traditional form or customary act. 2 v. To trespass upon. 3 n. A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead. 4 adj. Pertaining to ships. 5 n. Infusion.
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brogan
1 adj. Contributing to an end. 2 n. A coarse, heavy shoe. 3 adv. Gradually. 4 n. The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position. 5 n. Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
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meretricious
1 adj. Powerless. 2 adj. Alluring by false or gaudy show. 3 n. One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place. 4 adj. Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires. 5 n. A bazaar or shop.
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modernity
1 n. A preconceived liking. 2 n. A persistence in purpose and effort. 3 adj. Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion. 4 n. A sense of injury. 5 n. The state or character of being modern.
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loam
1 n. A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay. 2 n. The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence. 3 adj. Less important or effective than that which is primary. 4 v. To confuse the perceptions or judgment of. 5 adj. Enraptured.
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foot-note
1 adj. Founded on the number 10. 2 adj. Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations. 3 n. A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column. 4 n. A ready, witty, or apt reply. 5 n. A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like.
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convergent
1 adj. More distant or advanced. 2 n. The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations. 3 n. a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted. 4 adj. Tending to one point. 5 n. Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.
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introversion
1 adj. Adapted for grasping or holding. 2 n. The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally. 3 adj. Uncompromising. 4 n. In the British army, a cavalryman. 5 adj. Chewing the cud.
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entirety
1 n. The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns. 2 n. Hades. 3 adj. Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations. 4 adj. Raving. 5 n. A complete thing.
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efficacious
1 n. Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end. 2 v. To state as belonging to something. 3 adj. Effective. 4 adj. characterized by rivalry. 5 adj. Ornamented to a marked degree.
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prologue
1 n. An annual allowance, payment, or income. 2 n. A momentary look. 3 n. A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance. 4 adj. Having an imposing style or effect. 5 n. Truthfulness.
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granulate
1 n. One who sells fish. 2 v. To form into grains or small particles. 3 n. Adequate qualification or capacity. 4 n. The force of persons collectively employed in some service. 5 n. Insolent disrespect.
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dictum
1 n. The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like. 2 n. One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable. 3 adj. Moved to anger. 4 n. A positive utterance. 5 v. To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
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transmit
1 n. A formal or discriminating expression of praise. 2 adj. Wishing evil to others. 3 n. A sphere or field of action or interest. 4 v. To cease from action. 5 v. To send trough or across.
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aurora
1 n. Rashness. 2 v. To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination. 3 v. To hypnotize. 4 adj. Foolish. 5 n. A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
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execration
1 adj. Pertaining to horses or horsemanship. 2 n. Any small portion or meager allowance. 3 adj. Clinging or sticking fast. 4 v. To indulge in profane oaths. 5 n. An accursed thing.
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priggish
1 n. One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking. 2 adj. Conspicuous in position, character, or importance. 3 adj. Exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light. 4 adj. Resembling a corpse. 5 adj. Conceited.
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aggress
1 v. To make the first attack. 2 v. To regard or speak of slightingly. 3 n. Restriction within limits or boundaries. 4 n. Escape. 5 n. That which is given without demand or claim. Tip.
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borough
1 n. An incorporated village or town. 2 v. To introduce or strive to introduce new things. 3 n. Consistency. 4 adj. Not having made a valid will. 5 adj. Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
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alderman
1 v. To continue striving in spite of discouragements. 2 n. A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions. 3 n. Permanence. 4 v. To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities. 5 adj. Expressing an engagement to pay.
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islet
1 adj. Like a man. 2 n. A little island. 3 v. To happen to or befall. 4 n. The property of emitting light. 5 v. To designate by word or mark.
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potent
1 adj. Physically powerful. 2 adj. Obedient. 3 n. One who advertises, especially in newspapers. 4 n. The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy. 5 adj. Directed toward the side.
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restitution
1 n. A model of excellence. 2 n. Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs. 3 v. To become worse or inferior. 4 v. To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail. 5 n. Adequate return for good or ill.
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paroxysm
1 v. To intensify. 2 n. A sudden outburst of any kind of activity. 3 n. An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums. 4 n. A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government. 5 adj. Idiotic
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plurality
1 n. A majority. 2 v. To give by will. 3 adj. Shining. 4 adj. Having a double meaning. 5 n. The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
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disappoint
1 adj. Speaking two languages. 2 v. To delight extravagantly or intensely. 3 adj. Flushed with red. 4 v. To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of. 5 adv. Word for word.
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meager
1 adj. scanty. 2 n. Malice. 3 n. A group of three persons of things. 4 v. To surrender the custody of. 5 v. To bring together into a crowd.
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pious
1 n. Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another. 2 v. To extend. 3 adj. Religious. 4 adj. Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business. 5 n. The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people.
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hydrometer
1 n. The denial of the existence of God. 2 n. A bidding farewell. 3 n. An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation. 4 n. The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will. 5 n. A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority.
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aristocrat
1 n. The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing. 2 v. To release from bondage. 3 n. A mark that mars beauty. 4 n. An official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance. 5 n. A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.
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ordination
1 n. Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness. 2 n. A consecration to the ministry. 3 adj. Low-priced. 4 v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell. 5 n. Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
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demobilize
1 adj. Like or befitting a skilled workman. 2 v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem. 3 v. To disband, as troops. 4 n. The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy. 5 adj. Brave.
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abduction
1 n. The state of being dispersed or scattered. 2 v. To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of. 3 n. One who carries out a reform. 4 n. A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally. 5 adj. Shocking in conduct.
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bleak
1 n. The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids. 2 adj. Much smaller than reality or that the normal size. 3 n. That upon which the mind is set. 4 n. Panic. 5 adj. Desolate.
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rescind
1 v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell. 2 adj. Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus. 3 v. To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority. 4 n. The act of moving or going downward. 5 n. Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
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aloof
1 n. Passage from one place, condition, or action to another. 2 n. Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles. 3 n. Lawful power or right to exercise official authority. 4 adv. Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others. 5 v. To pay out or expend, as money from a fund.
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moralize
1 n. Earthenware made from baked clay. 2 v. To render virtuous. 3 adj. Illegal. 4 v. To make payment for. 5 n. A band of six singers or players.
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external
1 adj. Lacking clearness 2 n. Anything relating or belonging to the outside. 3 adj. That can not be destroyed. 4 adj. Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South. 5 adj. Tranquil.
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quintet
1 n. Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments. 2 n. A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall. 3 adj. Having the property of consistency. 4 adj. Unchecked merriment or animal spirits. 5 n. Charlatanry
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landholder
1 n. Landowner. 2 v. To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of. 3 n. An image or likeness. 4 n. Discontinuance, as of action or motion. 5 adj. Following the exact words.
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logician
1 n. An expert reasoner. 2 n. An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father. 3 adj. That may be allowed. 4 adj. Of or pertaining to heat. 5 adj. Given to excess in eating.
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assimilate
1 adj. Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore. 2 v. To adapt. 3 v. To build up, or strengthen, especially in morals or religion. 4 adj. Fond of drinking. 5 v. To express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form.
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dissever
1 n. Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water. 2 adj. Afraid to express facts or opinions plainly. 3 adj. Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum. 4 v. To divide. 5 n. A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
