Difficult GRE Words - Group 1

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n. repudiation; self-sacrifice; renouncing your own interests in favor of interests of others


Spelling Word: abnegation
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a. sparing or moderation in eating and drinking; temperate


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v. to assert to be true


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n. temptation; enticement; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action


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n. state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes, such as love and hate


Spelling Word: ambivalence
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n. pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions


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n. feeling of animosity


Spelling Word: animus
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a. deviating from normal or common order, form, or rule


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n. opening; diameter of such an opening; hole


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n. loss of speech due to injury or illness


Spelling Word: aphasia