Difficult GRE Words - Group 7

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n. text of dramatic musical work, such as opera


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v. look on or treat a person as celebrity; visit famous places in order to revere them


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v. to disable or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other body parts


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n. any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin


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a. insincerely emotional; showing a sickly excess of sentiment


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n. environment; person’s social setting or environment


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n. something that hinders or overwhelms; low-lying, soggy ground


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v. cause to experience shame or humiliation; embarrass


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a. partially or totally dark; gloomy


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n. act of denying; assertion of the nonrealistic or untruthfulness of anything


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