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GMAT Word List # GMAT/W136

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Description of arable (adjective)
suitable (as land) for plowing; cultivatable

Samples of arable
When the land was deemed arable the farmer decided to plow.



   
Description of abstemious (adjective)
sparing in use of food or drinks; satisfied with little; moderate

Samples of abstemious
If we become stranded in the snow storm, we will have to be abstemious with our food supply.
In many abstemious cultures the people are so thin due to the belief that too much taken into the body leads to contamination of the soul.



   
Description of tensile (adjective)
undergoing or exerting tension

Samples of tensile
The pipeline was capable of flexing to withstand the tremendous tensile strain that might accompany an seismic movement.



   
Description of recondite (adjective)
hard to understand; concealed; deep; obscure; profound

Samples of recondite
The students were dumbfounded by the recondite topic.
Many scientific theories are recondite, and therefore not known at all by the general public.



   
Description of conciliatory (adjective)
making or willing to make concessions; appeasing; pacifying

Samples of conciliatory
The diplomat sought to take a conciliatory approach to keep the talks going.

Determination of conciliatory
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Description of arrogate (verb)
to claim or demand without right

Samples of arrogate
The teenager arrogated that he should be able to use his parent's car whenever he desired.



   
Description of prate (verb)
to talking foolishly; to chatter; to gab; to babble

Samples of prate
It is not uncommon for people to prate when they become nervous about speaking to a superior.



   
Description of innocuous (adjective)
harmless; dull; insipid; uninteresting

Samples of innocuous
The remark was rude but innocuous.
He couldn't bear to sit through another innocuous lecture.
The teens engaged in an innocuous game of touch football.



   
Description of seethe (verb)
to be violently disturbed; to soak; to rage; to steep

Samples of seethe
By the time I arrived, she was seething with anger.
He seethed at the prospect of losing the business to his conniving uncle.



   
Description of cataclysm (noun)
extreme natural force; catastrophe

Samples of cataclysm
The earthquake has been the first cataclysm in five years.



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