Difficult GRE Words - Group 8

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a. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; lustrous

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n. extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance

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n. elaborate discourse; delivered in public; treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner

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n. place of orisons, or prayer; chapel or small room set apart for private devotions

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n. making ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade

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a. widespread; affecting majority of people

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n. very noisy place; state of extreme confusion and disorder

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n. slight offense; small sin or fault

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n. a body suspended from fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum

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v. endure; be persistent, refuse to stop