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Englisch GRE (Subject) / Englisch GRE Teil 3 (Lesson)
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- Statute - law [statutory (a)] 1
- Antipathy - hatred 1
- Aver - affirm 1
- Expatiate - speak or write at great length 1
- Flag (v) - 1. to lose energy/ 2. to signal 1
- Flail - 1. tool used to thresh grain/ 2. to thresh (separate grain from chaff)/ 3. to wave arms about wildly 1
- Indicted - accused (of crime) 1
- Loll - laze around/ hang out (when used of the tongue) 1
- Malign - slander 1
- Secure (v) - 1. to fix firmly/ 2. to obtain 1
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- Talon - long pointed nail or claw 1
- Abeyance - state of inactivity/ disuse 1
- Disarm - 1. take away weapons/ 2. win over to one?s side [disarming (a)] 1
- Elaborate - 1. complex and detailed (a)/ 2. to expand on (v) 1
- Foment - 1. stir up/ 2. bathe with hot liquids (medical) 1
- Jockeying - maneuvering/ struggling to get ahead of others [jockey (v)] 1
- Minutiae - small details 1
- Rue - regret [rueful (a)] 1
- Somatic - concerned with the body 1
- Stinting - holding back/ limiting the supply (of supplies/money etc.) [stint (v)] 1
- Temperate - moderate 1
- Allure - 1. attraction (n)/ 2. to attract (v) 1
- Caulk - treat with substance such as tar to make water-tight 1
- Conscript - 1. person enlisted compulsorily into the armed forces/ 2. (v) to enlist compulsorily 1
- Desultory - aimless/ inconsistent in effort 1
- Elegy - poem concerned with death/ praise of a dead person 1
- Fallow - uncultivated 1
- Forbearing - tolerant [forbear (v)/ forbearance (n)] 1
- Hegemony - political domination/ complete authority 1
- Improbity - lack of honesty or integrity 1
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- Qualm - hesitation or fear 1
- Assay - 1. try/ 2. assess purity 1
- Chauvinist - someone excessively patriotic [chauvinism (n)] 1
- Discrete - separate/ discontinuous (not to be confused with discreet - prudent/ diplomatic] 1
- Enlist - 1. sign up for the army/ 2. obtain 1
- Fabricated - made up/ false/ manufactured [fabricate (v)/ fabrication(n)] 1
- Fulminate - 1. attack loudly in words/ denounce thunderously/ 2. explode noisily 1
- Hawser - thick rope or cable 1
- Jibe - agree with/ complement/ match up with (in British usage jibe means mock) 1
- Peer - 1. an equal/ 2. to stare at/ 3. nobleman 1
- Stickler - one who is strict about rules or details 1
- Cloture - closure/ terminating a debate by voting 1
- Congruent - matching [congruency (n)] 1
- Dally - waste time/ flirt 1
- Dissemble - avoid the truth 1
- Dote - be excessively fond of [doting (a)] 1
- Errant - 1. wandering/ 2. wrong/ 3. straying from accepted standards 1
- Fervent - passionate 1
- Stomach (v) - to tolerate 1
- Synapse - junction between two nerve cells 1