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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. Insincere; lacking in honesty
unfeigned
brittle
disingenuous
hierarchy
2. To make right or fix; correct
tranquil
conspicuous
euphemism
rectify
3. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
tortuous
equivocate
imperturbable
trivial
4. Not talkative; reserved
succinct
lackluster
taciturn
exculpate
5. Cleverness or inventiveness
brevity
provoke
malevolent
ingenuity
6. Lacking originality; commonplace
coercive
maverick
vexation
banal
7. Unclear; open to more than one potential meaning
ambiguous
inundate
prodigious
diffident
8. Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity
lackluster
hierarchy
provoke
implacable
9. Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
correspond
compliant
glib
recluse
10. Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
tortuous
mundane
aberrant
endemic
11. Deviating from the norm
veneration
perfunctory
eloquent
aberrant
12. Ostentatious or showy; flashy
flamboyant
indifferent
discourse
insipid
13. To tend toward the same spot or outcome; inclining to join at an intersecting point
cultured
miser
converge
subjective
14. Charitable and kind in action
sporadic
anomalous
beneficent
denounce
15. Culled from many sources
eclectic
reconciliation
fortuitous
deviation
16. One who avoids social contact and lives in seclusion
aversion
indifferent
recluse
conspicuous
17. Flowery; ruddy; ornate
florid
presumption
convoluted
solvent
18. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
emulate
esoteric
proliferate
distill
19. A thin - flexible film of tissue that covers or lines an organ
membrane
discretion
waver
beneficent
20. To make worse or more severe
exacerbate
temperate
dispersed
homogeneous
21. Relating to or at an edge or boundary; minimal
marginal
corrosion
harangue
apprise
22. Disgrace; contempt; scorn
opprobrium
coercive
desiccate
euphemism
23. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
fraud
flamboyant
precipitate
precursor
24. Practical rather than idealistic
implacable
denounce
audacious
pragmatic
25. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
digress
lethargic
aver
disingenuous
26. To compel or require; to push one'S views or authority upon others
fatuous
warranted
impose
convention
27. The purposeful giving of false or misleading testimony while under oath
prodigious
flamboyant
perjury
discordant
28. To defeat; to put down
discomfit
invigoration
effrontery
tacit
29. Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
cogent
emulate
unfettered
synthetic
30. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
abscond
brilliance
enigmatic
rigidity
31. Trickery or subterfuge
chicanery
vexation
elegy
bolster
32. Dismay; startling - distressing fear or shock that results in complete confusion
tacit
compliant
consternation
emulate
33. Marked by stealth - covert - surreptitious
furtive
conspicuous
loquacious
anachronistic
34. Called for; authorized; justified
inopportune
subjective
eradicate
warranted
35. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
saturate
harangue
cacophony
conversion
36. A speech made to oneself; a monologue
aberrant
harangue
soliloquy
prune
37. Tranquility; peacefulness
serenity
cacophony
brevity
propensity
38. Clear; easily understood
lucid
amalgamate
mundane
chicanery
39. Boldness; impudence; arrogance
camouflage
digress
corroborate
effrontery
40. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
dispersed
ensure
camouflage
candor
41. Unoriginal; obtained from another source
derivative
disingenuous
innocuous
wheedle
42. Thick; sticky
viscous
brilliance
chicanery
secrete
43. A long and formal written thesis or treatise - usually written by a doctoral candidate to meet a degree requirement
impose
serenity
dissertation
idiosyncrasy
44. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
fatuous
spurious
goad
distention
45. To slow delay or hamper
correspond
camouflage
extemporaneous
retard
46. A harsh denunciation
spurious
admonish
diatribe
catalyst
47. Implied but no directly stated; tacit
subjective
plummet
membrane
implicit
48. To grow rapidly or flourish
propitiate
banal
volatile
burgeon
49. Contemptibly fainthearted - lacking any courage
serenity
iconoclastic
aver
craven
50. Easily visible; obvious
temperate
conspicuous
subjective
obviate