Easy (But Important) GRE Vocabulary/Words
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34. Defer = postpone (2nd meaning of defer is to submit to or acknowledged the merit of, he deferred to his father’s wishes)
35. Inured = accustomed to something (esp. something unpleasant) (ex: these children have been inured to violence)
36. vacillate(verb) = waver = oscillate = fluctuate = be indecisive (I vacillated between teaching and journalism)
37. neologism = newly coined word/expression
38. jargon (lingo) = argot = special dialect used by a group
39. candor = frankness, honesty, sincerity
40. Requite = pay someone back for good or bad they’ve done to you (recall unrequited love)
41. Abreast = side by side (the path was wide enough for 2 people to walk abreast)
42. To beleaguer = to surround and harass (beggars beleaguer)
43. Quack = a phony doctor 44. tokenism = the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from under-represented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce.
45. infighting = hidden conflict, dissent, competitiveness or rivalry within an organization
46. to emulate = to imitate
47. Whelp = young wolf, dog, tiger, etc
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