Common words for GRE PART8

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  1. abash
    cause to be embarrassed
  2. chagrin
    strong feelings of embarrassment
  3. compunction
    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed
  4. contrition
    sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
  5. diffidence
    lack of self-assurance
  6. expiate
    make amends for
  7. foible
    a minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character
  8. gaucherie
    the quality of being rustic or gauche
  9. rue
    feel sorry for; be contrite about
  10. equitable
    fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
  11. equity
    the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
  12. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  13. apocryphal
    being of questionable authenticity
  14. canard
    a deliberately misleading fabrication
  15. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  16. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  17. duplicity
    the act of deceiving or acting in bad faith
  18. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  19. erroneous
    containing or characterized by mistakes
  20. ersatz
    an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
  21. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  22. feigned
    not genuine
  23. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  24. mendacity
    the tendency to be untruthful
  25. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  26. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  27. specious
    plausible but false
  28. spurious
    plausible but false
  29. conjugal
    relating to the relationship between a wife and husband
  30. consanguinity
    relation by blood
  31. distaff
    a stick on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
  32. scion
    a descendent or heir
  33. progenitor
    an ancestor in the direct line
  34. endogamous
    characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind
  35. filial
    designating the generation following the parental generation
  36. fratricide
    the murder of your sibling
  37. ardor
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  38. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  39. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  40. partisan
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  41. tendentious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  42. zealot
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
Created on 八月 10, 2012 (updated 八月 10, 2012)

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