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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. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
tout
synthesis
plasticity
precipitate
2. To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
waver
adversity
admonish
illusory
3. To cut back or clip branches or other parts of a plant - esp parts that are dead
imperturbable
subjective
rescind
prune
4. Severe criticism or punishment
extend
cogent
probity
castigation
5. Distinct; individual
garrulous
penchant
discrete
distention
6. To incite anger - resentment or exasperation
condemn
defer
tortuous
provoke
7. Docile; obedience; easily led
deviation
tractable
arduous
savor
8. Well-spoken; coherent
denounce
eulogy
tortuous
articulate
9. Very learned; scholarly
unfeigned
erudite
furtive
eccentric
10. Unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma
morose
diffident
shrill
heretical
11. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirits; bland
insipid
ephemeral
pristine
denounce
12. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
repudiate
desiccate
caustic
precursor
13. To remove completely; to annihilate; to pull out by the roots
burgeon
eradicate
deference
emulate
14. Annoyance or irritation
succinct
facetious
calibrate
vexation
15. To force out; to discharge
prodigious
erudite
denounce
expel
16. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
discourse
cynicism
sanction
rhetoric
17. questioning; curious
inquisitive
pedantic
saturate
prodigious
18. Baffled; in a quandry; at a loss for what to say or do
capricious
nonplused
platitude
converge
19. Shortness or briefness - esp. in time
brevity
proliferate
rhetoric
blithe
20. Troubling burdensome
onerous
plummet
discourse
consternation
21. Thriftiness; economy; prudence in financial matters
circumspect
sever
frugality
desiccate
22. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
tortuous
subjective
aberrant
miser
23. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
admonish
volatile
flamboyant
reconciliation
24. To remove or strip esp clothing
aver
divest
temperate
superficial
25. Occurring only occasionally - or in a scattered instances
ambiguous
sporadic
cower
indifferent
26. Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
cogent
erudite
prodigious
unfettered
27. Refusing to compromise
symmetry
intransigent
advocate
secrete
28. The act of casting out or excluding an individual from a society or group; banishment
unfeigned
effrontery
saturate
ostracism
29. A group of two or more verses or lines that make up a division in a poem and correspond in rhyme - meter - and length
emulate
assuage
stanza
chicanery
30. Thick; sticky
viscous
diffuse
eulogy
caustic
31. Sad - sullen
compensation
diatribe
morose
lethargic
32. To undeceive to set right
fortuitous
discourse
disabuse
retard
33. Man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
implode
belie
synthetic
discrete
34. Aversion; dislike
saturate
bent
antipathy
aversion
35. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
slight
mundane
chicanery
disabuse
36. Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
sporadic
perennial
bolster
flamboyant
37. To lengthen or stretch out
tangential
penchant
extend
effrontery
38. Unit used in measuring the intensity of a sound
defer
ensure
decibel
laconic
39. A harsh denunciation
proliferate
morose
miser
diatribe
40. The act of making an assumption or taking something for granted
synthetic
propensity
presumption
eloquent
41. Practical rather than idealistic
veneration
pragmatic
iconoclastic
defer
42. Dull and without variety; tedious
proliferate
admonish
loquacious
monotonous
43. Not talkative; reserved
validity
inchoate
taciturn
diffident
44. Strong inclination; liking
penchant
eulogy
centrifuge
prone
45. A system in which individuals or things are ranked in a particular order
ambiguous
presumptuous
imperturbable
hierarchy
46. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
specious
platitude
prodigious
opprobrium
47. To invalidate; to repeal to retract
propitiate
nonplused
eclectic
rescind
48. An expression of approval or praise
approbation
imperturbable
misanthrope
corrosion
49. To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
denounce
innocuous
proliferate
tacit
50. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
specious
subtle
inured
tortuous