Difficult GRE Words - Group 5
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ferocity 
1
 | savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty |
| repeated too often; over familiar through overuse |
| speaking or expressed in lofty style; using high sounding language; overly wordy |
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fitful
2
| intermittently stopping and starting; irregular; variable; unstable |
| burn brightly again; become more intense suddenly |
| grain-eating; plant-eating; feeding only on plants |
| complete; create details from a basic outline, structure or skeleton; make fat or plump |
flesh out
3
| complete; create details from a basic outline, structure or skeleton; make fat or plump |
| of lowly origin; not noble in quality, character, or purpose; unworthy |
| composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire |
| fill beyond capacity, especially with food; swallow greedlly |
flout
4
| savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty |
| visit often; appear to in the form of ghost or other supernatural being; come to the mind of continually |
| foretell; tell in advance; indicate likelihood of; portend |
| reject; mock; express contempt for rules by word or action; behave with contempt |
fracas
5
| correspond; sing or play in harmony; go together |
| idyllically calm and peaceful; marked by peace and prosperity |
| apt; suitably expressed; well chosen |
| noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel; disturbance |
fragmentary
6
| sociable; seeking and enjoying the company of others |
| give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy |
| pride; arrogance; highness or loftiness |
| composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire |
frolicsome
7
| pride; arrogance; highness or loftiness |
| excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion |
| sociable; seeking and enjoying the company of others |
| full of high-spirited fun; gay; given to merry |
galvanize
8
| move uneasily one way and the other; behave or move nervously or restlessly |
| correspond; sing or play in harmony; go together |
| brilliant showiness |
| stimulate by shock; stir up; stimulate to action |
gambol
9
| pride; arrogance; highness or loftiness |
| dance and skip about in sport; leap playfully |
| One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner |
| trench in the earth made by a plow; any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; wrinkle on the face |
glacier
10
| foretell; tell in advance; indicate likelihood of; portend |
| large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill |
| repeated too often; over familiar through overuse |
| One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner |