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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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gre
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english
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vocabulary
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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. Shrink in fear - cringe
cower
laconic
penchant
conspicuous
2. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
superfluous
scarce
obsequious
idiosyncrasy
3. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
condemn
corroborate
dissemble
inured
4. An expression of approval or praise
cogent
unfeigned
warranted
approbation
5. The act of making an assumption or taking something for granted
inured
vital
conversion
presumption
6. Docile; obedience; easily led
tortuous
compensation
homogeneous
tractable
7. Discerning and sensitive use of speech; diplomacy
viscous
shrill
bombast
tact
8. Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
discretion
articulate
eloquent
laud
9. A support or prop - often an external prop used to bolster a wall
arduous
slight
buttress
tacit
10. To appease; to calm by making concessions
placate
soliloquy
obstinate
ensure
11. To slow delay or hamper
retard
veneration
superfluous
pertinent
12. Ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate
inopportune
somber
prone
craven
13. To guarantee or make certain
ensure
distention
dissertation
bent
14. To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
savor
digress
fortuitous
obstinate
15. To restrain; to be sparing or frugal
treacherous
stint
facetious
belie
16. Harmless; causing no damage
innocuous
perennial
tractable
aversion
17. Dark and depressing; mournful
tentative
ephemeral
euphemism
somber
18. To fill until there is no further capacity for absorbance; to soak
fawn
commensurate
enervate
saturate
19. Calmness; serenity; peacefulness
superficial
tranquility
erudite
vigor
20. To undeceive to set right
antipathy
disabuse
facetious
correspond
21. Saucy; impertinent
impudent
taciturn
restitution
symmetry
22. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
ostracism
tortuous
authoritarian
quiescence
23. To blame or denounce
beneficent
endemic
furtive
condemn
24. Extreme brightness; possessing luminosity or genius
anomaly
expel
brilliance
cacophony
25. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
caustic
deviance
archaic
coercive
26. Refusing to compromise
pervasive
intransigent
rescind
approbation
27. Abnormal; deviating from the common or general type
brevity
bolster
anomalous
implicit
28. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
conspire
consternation
squander
proliferate
29. To plunge or drop straight down
extraneous
plummet
conspicuous
somber
30. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound
reconciliation
camouflage
cacophony
perfunctory
31. Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
indifferent
precipitate
implacable
secrete
32. Clear; easily understood
lucid
rhetoric
calibrate
frugality
33. A speech made to oneself; a monologue
tact
soliloquy
commensurate
plummet
34. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
harangue
monotonous
loquacious
presumption
35. To publicly praise or promote
dissertation
tout
buttress
platitude
36. Embodiment; quintessence
corrosion
epitome
consternation
fatuous
37. Baffled; in a quandry; at a loss for what to say or do
deviance
nonplused
secrete
capricious
38. Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
nonplused
elegy
perennial
symmetry
39. Man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
synthetic
stimulant
malevolent
ostracism
40. Tranquility; peacefulness
prone
plasticity
martial
serenity
41. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
extend
prodigal
subjective
wheedle
42. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule
meticulous
precipitate
anomaly
propitiate
43. Concerned and attentive; eager
savor
brittle
solicitous
nonplused
44. Shrewdness and craftiness; slyness
cunning
sever
propitiate
conspicuous
45. Thick; sticky
recluse
eccentric
viscous
adversity
46. To defeat; to put down
discomfit
extend
pervasive
pristine
47. Playful humorous
extravagance
laud
secrete
facetious
48. Pure; uncorrupted; clean
precipitate
pristine
desiccate
martial
49. To anticipate and make unnecessary
facetious
subtle
obviate
discomfit
50. Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
garrulous
deviation
assuage
precipitate