Difficult GRE Words - Group 12

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n. animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column

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n. highest point; apex or summit; common point of two lines of angle

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v. make vicious and defamatory statements about; attempt to degrade by slander; defame

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a. Instinctive; having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect

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a. harsh or corrosive in tone; sarcastic; bitterly scathing

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a. offensively loud; noisy; making outcry

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a. large in volume or bulk; large in number or quantity, especially of discourse

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n. one who is bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service; devoted adherent of a cause or person or activity

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n. quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; state of lower classes of society

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v. cause to go gently and smoothly through air or over water