Difficult GRE Words - Group 7

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n. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; generally ignorant person

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n. horizontal projection forming a narrow shelf on a wall; cut or projection forming a shelf on a cliff or rock wall

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n. text of dramatic musical work, such as opera

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a. mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to exaggerated degree

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v. to walk or move clumsily

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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. material wealth regarded as having an evil influence

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a. capricious; liable to sudden unpredictable change; quick and changeable in temperament

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n. swamp gas; heavy, vaporous atmosphere, often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence

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n. one who hates or mistrusts mankind