Difficult GRE Words - Group 3
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| Difficult GRE Words - Group 3 | View Group Words |
conspiracy 
1
 | n. agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act |
| a. having harmful effect; injurious; having quality of destroying life; noxious; poisonous |
| v. deprive of something valuable by force; rob; take as spoils |
| a. argumentative; fond of arguing; inclined to dispute |
consternation
2
| a. skillful in the use of the hands; having mental skill |
| v. call together; cause to assemble in meeting; convene |
| n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror |
| v. remove water from; dry out; lose water or bodily fluids |
contentious
3
| a. quarrelsome; disagreeable; marked by heated arguments or controversy |
| v. turn into a god; idolize or idealize; worship or revere as a god |
| v. fall apart; fold or collapse; crush together or press into wrinkles |
| n. act or practice of tilling land and preparing it for crops; the agricultural management of land; husbandry in general |
correlate
4
| v. relate; associate; bring into a mutual relation |
| v. catch sight of; discover by careful observation or scrutiny |
| a. argumentative; fond of arguing; inclined to dispute |
| a. festive; occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company |
crackle
5
| n. agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act |
| v. make a succession of slight sharp snapping noises; show liveliness, energy, or intensity |
| a. daily; relating to or occurring in a 24-hour period |
| n. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end |
crusade
6
| v. fall apart; fold or collapse; crush together or press into wrinkles |
| n. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end |
| a. quarrelsome; disagreeable; marked by heated arguments or controversy |
| a. dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful |
curriculum
7
| a. festive; occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company |
| v. relate; associate; bring into a mutual relation |
| n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror |
| n. all the courses of study offered by an educational institution; a group of related courses, often in a special field of study |
cussed
8
| v. distribute; spread; scatter like seeds |
| v. relate; associate; bring into a mutual relation |
| a. perverse; stubborn |
| n. withdrawing support or help; act of abandoning something to which one is bound by allegiance or duty; failure in duty |
deciduous
9
| a. falling off as of leaves; falling off or shed at specific season or stage of growth |
| n. a yielding to the wishes and opinions of others |
| v. catch sight of; discover by careful observation or scrutiny |
| a. exercising power or serving a function without being legally or officially established; in fact or in practice; in actual use or existence |
defame
10
| v. turn into a god; idolize or idealize; worship or revere as a god |
| n. steep, rugged rock; rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge |
| v. harm someone's reputation; degrade; bring into disrepute; make infamous |
| a. argumentative; fond of arguing; inclined to dispute |