gre考试词汇量：2012新GRE阅读词汇笔记（2）

abrasive	rubbing away; tending to grind down
abridge	condense or shorten
abrogate	abolish
abscission	cutting off; separation
abscond	depart secretly and hide
absolute	complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative; Ex. absolute honesty/ruler; CF. absolutism
absolve	pardon (an offense)
abstain	refrain; withhold from participation; intentionally not use one's vote;
abstemious	sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
abstinence	restraint from pleasant things, esp. eating or drinking; CF. abstention: act of abstaining from vote
abstract	theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational
abstruse	obscure; profound; difficult to understand
abusive	coarsely insulting; physically harmful
abut	border upon; adjoin
abysmal	bottomless
abyss	enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit
academic	related to a school; not practical or directly useful
accede	agree
accelerate	move faster
accessible	easy to approach; obtainable
accessory	additional object; useful but not essential thing

GRE，全称Graduate Record Examination，中文名称为美国研究生入学考试，适用于除法律与商业外的各专业。由美国教育考试服务处(Educational Testing Service，简称ETS)主办，GRE是美国、加拿大的大学各类研究生院（除管理类学院，法学院）要求申请者所必须具备的一个考试成绩，也是教授对申请者是否授予奖学金所依据的最重要的标准。 另有，Generic Routing Encapsulation（通用路由封装）也简称GRE。

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