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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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english
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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. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
banal
convention
conversion
superfluous
2. Practical rather than idealistic
fortuitous
pragmatic
bolster
indifferent
3. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
perfunctory
plasticity
tirade
discordant
4. Man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
synthetic
deviation
cunning
proliferate
5. Complex or complicated
converge
enervate
denounce
convoluted
6. Associated with war and the armed forces
cogent
condone
solvent
martial
7. Deceptive; based upon a false belief or impression
defer
marginal
converge
illusory
8. Dispersed or scattered; not centralized
propagate
waver
spurious
diffuse
9. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
squander
denigrate
fawn
camouflage
10. A collection of lierary works by various authors
disingenuous
scarce
tact
anthology
11. Extreme respect and reverence; worship
unfettered
subtle
authoritarian
veneration
12. Essential for or relating to life; necessary
savor
repudiate
commensurate
vital
13. To undeceive to set right
disabuse
sever
aberrant
fortuitous
14. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
blithe
homogeneous
anachronistic
enervate
15. Departure or wandering away from the accepted standard
synthesis
deviation
anomaly
tangential
16. Dark and depressing; mournful
plummet
denigrate
divest
somber
17. The combination of parts to make a whole
apprise
effrontery
tortuous
synthesis
18. Disgrace; contempt; scorn
opprobrium
serenity
preempt
pertinent
19. Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
insipid
cogent
propensity
tout
20. Calmness; serenity; peacefulness
dissemble
loquacious
tranquil
tranquility
21. Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
obdurate
goad
indifferent
expel
22. To plunge or drop straight down
homogeneous
corrosion
plummet
rhetoric
23. Shrink in fear - cringe
intransigent
conspire
vigor
cower
24. An inclination or tendency
anesthetic
meticulous
tact
bent
25. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
lackluster
pristine
precursor
goad
26. To imbue; to pour in; to introduce; to instill
loquacious
garrulous
propitiate
infuse
27. Characterized by a preference for complete obedience to authority; domineering
volatile
authoritarian
preempt
connoisseur
28. Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
probity
perennial
camouflage
corrosion
29. To blacken; to belittle; to sully defame disparage
morose
denigrate
epitome
temper
30. Stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest
corrosion
qualms
warranted
quiescence
31. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
onerous
bent
divest
solvent
32. Abnormal; deviating from the common or general type
irascible
anomalous
tangential
recalcitrant
33. Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
convoluted
garrulous
candor
loquacious
34. To purify or concentrate through a process of vaporization
maverick
aver
euphemism
distill
35. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
inquisitive
buttress
camouflage
ensure
36. questioning; curious
tirade
inquisitive
squander
lackluster
37. Boldness; impudence; arrogance
opprobrium
tractable
eradicate
effrontery
38. A machine that spins very swiftly about a central axis - and - using centrifugal force - separates disparate substances
insipid
precipitate
equivocal
centrifuge
39. Troubling burdensome
indifferent
onerous
luminous
implode
40. To calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intesity
fatuous
plummet
mollify
succinct
41. Excessive indulgence of appetite or passion - esp. in regard to alcohol; lack of constraint
inured
goad
intemperance
esoteric
42. To combine several elements into a whole
amalgamate
plasticity
saturate
platitude
43. Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
conspire
precursor
endemic
brittle
44. Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity
dogma
savor
laud
lackluster
45. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
condemn
specious
dispersed
extend
46. Stubbornly opinionated
pertinent
discordant
dogmatic
specious
47. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
spurious
inundate
fortuitous
arbitrary
48. Cursory; done without care or interest
slight
perfunctory
anomalous
conversion
49. Naturally inclined; tending; likely
laud
prone
cultivation
inured
50. An expression of approval or praise
aberrant
rigidity
approbation
deviance