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GRE vocabulary 27 words

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  1. lizard
    relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
  2. inner
    located inward
  3. tuned
  4. mammal
    any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
  5. wariness
    the trait of being cautious and watchful
  6. moreover
    in addition
  7. although
  8. vanquish
    come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
  9. defeat
    an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
  10. anoint
    administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
  11. taken with
    marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
  12. construe
    make sense of; assign a meaning to
  13. disregard
    lack of attention and due care
  14. acknowledge
    declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
  15. collude
    act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose
  16. depicted
    represented graphically by sketch or design or lines
  17. unlike
    marked by dissimilarity
  18. nonsensical
    having no intelligible meaning
  19. prize
    something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
  20. marble
    a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
  21. jar
    a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles
  22. contempt
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  23. thus
    (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
  24. steam
    water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
  25. neglected
    lacking a caretaker
  26. fostered
  27. rooted
    absolutely still