Vocabulary Study: GRE Words

compunction follows my concscience like a remora.

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The comforting ethos of the [Star Trek] series was expressed not merely in the amity of the crew...

...[some companies] are teaming up with local partners to build plants in China and circumvent the country's nettlesome trade barriers.

One edict for Star Trek [script]: The crew of the Enterprise always gets along.

Once upon a time, riddles were respectable. Their antiquity and function can be guessed at from the word's origin in the Old English raedan, ‘a story or interpretation’, which is cognate with words meaning ‘counsel, opinion, conjecture’ and is also the origin of our modern word read.

Plenty of maladroit decisions were made.

He leans toward his interlocutor conspiratorially. [to whisper]

... plenty of people drive luxury cars and flout the rules

You can flout convention and you can flout authority, but you cannot use flaunt for flout.

the mob were sold by the politician's specious arguments.

Time heals emotional wounds, but apparently so do burly chauffeurs. Right after in the midst of her tiringly raucous breakup with husband Tom, Roseanne Arnold hired a 240-lb. driver and bodyguard.

He [John Dewey] is a man of the highest character, liberal in outlook, generous and kind in personal relations, indefatigable in work.

...experiments done at the behest of IBM.

a performance routine

renounced smoking