GRE Word List

VEHEMENT

marked by forceful energy : powerful

The meaning of the word vehement is marked by forceful energy : powerful.

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tribunea Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates
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empathythe action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
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punditpandit
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quaintpleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar
begrudgeto give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure
passepast one's prime