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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. Small; lacking substance in degree - amount - or size
eloquent
slight
waver
flamboyant
2. To give notice to; to inform
censure
abscond
apprise
tentative
3. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound
anachronistic
discretion
authoritarian
cacophony
4. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
florid
vexation
inquisitive
precursor
5. To exist in agreement or conformity; harmonize
eradicate
dogma
dogmatic
correspond
6. To make worse or more severe
diffuse
aggravate
blithe
exacerbate
7. To praise highly
emulate
laud
prune
miser
8. The act of making an assumption or taking something for granted
admonish
corrosion
brevity
presumption
9. Annoyance or irritation
eclectic
burgeon
vexation
obsequious
10. Easily angered
cogent
harangue
flamboyant
irascible
11. To appease; to conciliate
propitiate
onerous
subtle
ephemeral
12. Naturally inclined; tending; likely
rigidity
bent
saturate
prone
13. Relevant; germane
unfeigned
pertinent
archaic
qualms
14. A support or prop - often an external prop used to bolster a wall
elegy
opprobrium
buttress
hierarchy
15. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
lucid
trivial
equivocate
harangue
16. To blacken; to belittle; to sully defame disparage
cogent
craven
facetious
denigrate
17. To slow delay or hamper
aggravate
cunning
corroborate
retard
18. A speech honoring the dead
eulogy
diffuse
deference
plummet
19. Associated with war and the armed forces
plasticity
lucid
maverick
martial
20. The purposeful giving of false or misleading testimony while under oath
magnanimity
perjury
convoluted
discretion
21. Culled from many sources
eclectic
dispersed
converge
cultured
22. A system in which individuals or things are ranked in a particular order
epitome
hierarchy
implacable
inundate
23. To list or count off individually
discretion
presumption
digress
enumerate
24. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
esoteric
aver
subjective
innocuous
25. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
obsequious
discomfit
brittle
intrepid
26. Lacking originality
cultured
banal
abscond
sever
27. To replace; to supersede; to appropriate
brittle
tranquility
preempt
marginal
28. To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
amalgamate
digress
discretion
mitigate
29. An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
diatribe
precursor
maverick
enervate
30. To approve tacitly by overlooking or excusing; to allow or forgive
anomalous
dissertation
condone
distill
31. Using few words; terse
digress
laconic
marginal
extravagance
32. Steadfast and courageous
intrepid
infuse
tortuous
perjury
33. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
precipitate
craven
dissertation
wheedle
34. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
derision
prone
taciturn
restitution
35. To remove or separate by cutting off
implacable
fortuitous
blithe
sever
36. To tend toward the same spot or outcome; inclining to join at an intersecting point
converge
provoke
condone
ascetic
37. Departing from norms or convention
eccentric
convention
monotonous
precursor
38. Insincere; lacking in honesty
disingenuous
innocuous
exculpate
insipid
39. The quality of being evenly balanced
audacious
rescind
camouflage
symmetry
40. Act or process of causing deterioration; a wearing away esp of metals
vigor
tortuous
desiccate
corrosion
41. Implied but no directly stated; tacit
dissemble
implicit
camouflage
indifferent
42. Charitable and kind in action
buttress
beneficent
cacophony
consternation
43. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive time
beneficent
archaic
articulate
exacerbate
44. Soundness or truthfulness
intemperance
validity
adversity
stimulant
45. Stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest
morose
quiescence
defer
indifferent
46. To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
admonish
porous
plethora
wheedle
47. To confirm; to provide additional support; verify
cunning
corroborate
perennial
prune
48. The art or study of effect use of language for communication and persuasion
cower
sever
chicanery
rhetoric
49. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirits; bland
esoteric
insipid
denounce
sever
50. Exonerate; to clear of blame
authoritarian
misanthrope
exculpate
assuage