Difficult GRE Words - Group 5

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fatuous  Speak Example sentences
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hesitant; faltering; imperfect or defective
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trench in the earth made by a plow; any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; wrinkle on the face
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practice of cultivating the land or raising stock; care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift
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foolish or silly, especially in self-satisfied way
febrile  Speak Example sentences
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feverish; intense emotion or activity
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owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle
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pride; arrogance; highness or loftiness
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cause to sprout or grow; come into existence
filament  Speak Example sentences
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grain-eating; plant-eating; feeding only on plants
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foolish or silly, especially in self-satisfied way
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practice of cultivating the land or raising stock; care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift
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fine thread or fiber; thin wire; threadlike structure within light bulb
fishery  Speak Example sentences
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business or practice of catching fish; fishing; a place for catching fish; the right to take fish at a certain place
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tool of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth
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hesitant; faltering; imperfect or defective
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person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink
fissure  Speak Example sentences
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unsteady and dazed; shaky; slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness
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long narrow opening ; long narrow depression in surface
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move uneasily one way and the other; behave or move nervously or restlessly
flout  Speak Example sentences
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trench in the earth made by a plow; any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; wrinkle on the face
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reject; mock; express contempt for rules by word or action; behave with contempt
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fine thread or fiber; thin wire; threadlike structure within light bulb
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narrow passage; particularly, a narrow channel of water
forestall  Speak Example sentences
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prevent by taking action in advance
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acting in strength, firmness, or resilience
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narrow passage; particularly, a narrow channel of water
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grain-eating; plant-eating; feeding only on plants
forlorn  Speak Example sentences
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sad and lonely; wretched; abandoned or left behind
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visit often; appear to in the form of ghost or other supernatural being; come to the mind of continually
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pride; arrogance; highness or loftiness
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practice of cultivating the land or raising stock; care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift
fractious  Speak Example sentences
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hesitant; faltering; imperfect or defective
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noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel; disturbance
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inclined to make trouble; disobedient; irritable
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grain-eating; plant-eating; feeding only on plants
gantry  Speak Example sentences
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a mount for a traveling crane consisting of a large frame to move along a set of tracks; supporting framework for a barrel
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having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility
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expectation of misfortune; feeling of evil to come; unfavorable omen
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hesitant; faltering; imperfect or defective