{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/tp-gre-vocab-1",
 "id": "tp-gre-vocab-1",
 "title": "GRE-Level Vocabulary 1",
 "category": "test-prep",
 "subject": "Vocabulary",
 "levels": [
  "college",
  "adult"
 ],
 "description": "Seventy advanced words common in graduate-level reading.",
 "tags": [
  "gre",
  "vocabulary",
  "graduate"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Word",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "abjure",
   "To solemnly give up or renounce"
  ],
  [
   "abate",
   "To become less intense"
  ],
  [
   "aberrant",
   "Departing from the normal path or type"
  ],
  [
   "abeyance",
   "A state of temporary inactivity"
  ],
  [
   "abscond",
   "To leave quickly and secretly, often with something"
  ],
  [
   "abstemious",
   "Eating and drinking sparingly"
  ],
  [
   "accretion",
   "Gradual growth by additions"
  ],
  [
   "adulterate",
   "To make impure by adding something inferior"
  ],
  [
   "aggrandize",
   "To make seem greater in power or rank"
  ],
  [
   "alchemy",
   "A seemingly magical process of transformation"
  ],
  [
   "anathema",
   "Something detested; a person or thing strongly disliked"
  ],
  [
   "antithesis",
   "The direct opposite"
  ],
  [
   "apostate",
   "One who abandons a belief or cause"
  ],
  [
   "apotheosis",
   "The highest point; glorification as a god"
  ],
  [
   "aphorism",
   "A short, wise saying"
  ],
  [
   "bowdlerize",
   "To remove material thought improper from a text"
  ],
  [
   "cabal",
   "A small secret group plotting together"
  ],
  [
   "calumny",
   "A false statement meant to damage a reputation"
  ],
  [
   "captious",
   "Tending to find fault over trivial points"
  ],
  [
   "catharsis",
   "A release of strong emotion"
  ],
  [
   "cavil",
   "To raise petty objections"
  ],
  [
   "chimerical",
   "Imaginary; unrealistic"
  ],
  [
   "churlish",
   "Rude and ill-mannered"
  ],
  [
   "cloying",
   "Sweet to the point of disgust"
  ],
  [
   "compendious",
   "Containing much in brief form"
  ],
  [
   "concomitant",
   "Occurring along with something else"
  ],
  [
   "conflate",
   "To merge into one"
  ],
  [
   "contumacious",
   "Stubbornly disobedient"
  ],
  [
   "craven",
   "Cowardly"
  ],
  [
   "dearth",
   "A scarcity"
  ],
  [
   "denouement",
   "The final resolution of a story's plot"
  ],
  [
   "desiccate",
   "To dry out completely"
  ],
  [
   "dilatory",
   "Slow to act; delaying"
  ],
  [
   "dirge",
   "A mournful song"
  ],
  [
   "disabuse",
   "To free from a false idea"
  ],
  [
   "discursive",
   "Wandering from one topic to another"
  ],
  [
   "disingenuous",
   "Not candid; pretending to know less"
  ],
  [
   "dissemble",
   "To hide one's true feelings"
  ],
  [
   "dissonance",
   "A clash of sounds or ideas"
  ],
  [
   "distend",
   "To swell out"
  ],
  [
   "eclectic",
   "Drawing from many sources"
  ],
  [
   "efface",
   "To erase or make inconspicuous"
  ],
  [
   "effrontery",
   "Shameless boldness"
  ],
  [
   "elegy",
   "A sad poem or song for the dead"
  ],
  [
   "emollient",
   "Soothing; making softer"
  ],
  [
   "encomium",
   "Warm, glowing praise"
  ],
  [
   "endemic",
   "Native to or common in a particular place"
  ],
  [
   "enmity",
   "Deep hostility"
  ],
  [
   "ephemeral",
   "Short-lived"
  ],
  [
   "equivocate",
   "To use vague language to avoid commitment"
  ],
  [
   "eschew",
   "To deliberately avoid"
  ],
  [
   "evanescent",
   "Quickly fading away"
  ],
  [
   "exegesis",
   "Careful explanation of a text"
  ],
  [
   "expiate",
   "To make amends for wrongdoing"
  ],
  [
   "extol",
   "To praise enthusiastically"
  ],
  [
   "fallacious",
   "Based on a mistaken belief or faulty reasoning"
  ],
  [
   "fecund",
   "Fertile; producing much"
  ],
  [
   "fetter",
   "To restrain; also, a chain on the feet"
  ],
  [
   "filibuster",
   "A long speech used to delay a vote"
  ],
  [
   "fulminate",
   "To protest loudly"
  ],
  [
   "gainsay",
   "To deny or contradict"
  ],
  [
   "gambol",
   "To skip about playfully"
  ],
  [
   "glib",
   "Smooth-talking but insincere"
  ],
  [
   "harangue",
   "A long, aggressive speech"
  ],
  [
   "hegemony",
   "Dominance of one group over others"
  ],
  [
   "histrionic",
   "Overly dramatic"
  ],
  [
   "hubris",
   "Excessive pride"
  ],
  [
   "idiosyncrasy",
   "A personal peculiarity"
  ],
  [
   "impecunious",
   "Having little or no money"
  ],
  [
   "imprecation",
   "A curse"
  ],
  [
   "incipient",
   "Just beginning to appear"
  ],
  [
   "indolent",
   "Lazy"
  ],
  [
   "ineffable",
   "Too great to be put into words"
  ],
  [
   "ingenuous",
   "Innocent and sincere"
  ],
  [
   "inimical",
   "Hostile or harmful"
  ],
  [
   "insouciant",
   "Casually free of worry"
  ]
 ]
}