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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
impose
squander
fidelity
exculpate
2. To flatter or praise excessively
inopportune
inundate
fawn
secrete
3. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
perfunctory
infuse
convoluted
prodigal
4. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
diffident
frugality
discretion
sanction
5. A speech honoring the dead
brevity
impudent
eulogy
desiccate
6. Aversion; dislike
obsequious
inchoate
discomfit
antipathy
7. Man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
penury
converge
implode
synthetic
8. A mild replacement for a harsher or more offensive term
cunning
burnish
euphemism
eulogy
9. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
porous
extravagance
banal
equivocate
10. Charitable and kind in action
adversity
equivocal
furtive
beneficent
11. To approve tacitly by overlooking or excusing; to allow or forgive
imperturbable
condone
trivial
presumptuous
12. Implied but no directly stated; tacit
exacerbate
restitution
implicit
retard
13. A group of two or more verses or lines that make up a division in a poem and correspond in rhyme - meter - and length
stanza
tranquility
meticulous
brilliance
14. Made up of elements that are similar in nature or kind; uniform
pragmatic
veracity
homogeneous
placate
15. Unoriginal; obtained from another source
wheedle
derivative
belie
plasticity
16. Lecture or discussion; conversation
placate
homogeneous
somber
discourse
17. The art or study of effect use of language for communication and persuasion
unfettered
tractable
rhetoric
dispersed
18. Possessing education - refinement and taste; polished
subjective
scarce
cultured
distention
19. Harmless; causing no damage
burgeon
idiosyncrasy
implicit
innocuous
20. To disguise or conceal
meticulous
apprise
ascetic
dissemble
21. Unimportant; lacking value
implicit
plasticity
burgeon
trivial
22. Assuming an unauthorized right or responsibility; overly forward and arrogant
prodigal
unfettered
insipid
presumptuous
23. Exonerate; to clear of blame
burgeon
platitude
exculpate
tranquil
24. The act of casting out or excluding an individual from a society or group; banishment
vexation
rectify
ostracism
mitigate
25. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound
plethora
cacophony
solicitous
sporadic
26. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
banal
mitigate
conspire
stint
27. To moderate or soothe
placate
temper
rescind
ephemeral
28. To defeat; to put down
vexation
discomfit
impose
calibrate
29. Extreme respect and reverence; worship
commensurate
retard
veneration
slight
30. Troubling burdensome
onerous
cacophony
pertinent
intemperance
31. Lacking originality; commonplace
saturate
propitiate
rescind
banal
32. Payment given for services rendered or for loss
emulate
compensation
dissertation
rarefy
33. To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
admonish
laud
conspicuous
epitome
34. A support or prop - often an external prop used to bolster a wall
beneficent
fawn
conspire
buttress
35. Tranquility; peacefulness
stimulant
homogeneous
tact
serenity
36. To ensconce - conceal - or stow
belie
subtle
probity
secrete
37. To plunge or drop straight down
temperate
dissertation
plummet
catalyst
38. Relating to or at an edge or boundary; minimal
florid
precipitate
marginal
imperturbable
39. Depart secretly and hide
frugality
deference
abscond
apprise
40. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
lackluster
rescind
mundane
esoteric
41. An individual who lives poorly in order to hoard money; a person who is stingy
mundane
prodigal
miser
equivocate
42. Having or showing often viscious ill-will -spite - hatred
subjective
temperate
lucid
malevolent
43. Easily angered
prodigal
equivocal
irascible
malevolent
44. Strenuous - taxing
recluse
arduous
proliferate
reconciliation
45. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
plethora
implicit
implacable
innocuous
46. The state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape
candor
retard
anesthetic
distention
47. To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
centrifuge
buttress
digress
euphemism
48. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
discrete
meticulous
quiescence
covert
49. To fill until there is no further capacity for absorbance; to soak
exculpate
saturate
defer
plummet
50. To coax; persuade - often through the use of flattery or smooth talk
disinterest
membrane
wheedle
bombast