Difficult GRE Words - Group 2

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a. in manner of uncle, pertaining to uncle; kind, genial, benevolent or tolerant


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n. self-evident truth requiring no proof


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a. drunken; relating to reveling and drunkenness


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n. legal officer to whom some degree of authority


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n. something enormous in size or power


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v. support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion


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a. pompous; using inflated language; high-sounding but with little meaning


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n. children in one family; young of certain animals


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a. past; gone by


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n. any of various succulent, spiny, usually leafless plants native mostly to arid regions


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