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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. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
harangue
endemic
rescind
esoteric
2. Extreme respect and reverence; worship
ostracism
consternation
veneration
belie
3. To champion or support; to argue in favor of
brilliance
pedantic
apprise
advocate
4. To prod or drive forward; to urge on; incite
fawn
platitude
goad
florid
5. Contemptibly fainthearted - lacking any courage
corroborate
perjury
craven
plasticity
6. yielding or submissive; amenable
advocate
synthesis
amalgamate
compliant
7. The quality of being generously noble in the mind and heart - esp in forgiving
tortuous
temperate
tranquility
magnanimity
8. Pure; uncorrupted; clean
assuage
goad
brittle
pristine
9. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
tractable
precipitate
extraneous
lackluster
10. Peaceful; calm
dogma
tranquil
castigation
pervasive
11. A quirk particular to a group or individual
tirade
arbitrary
diffuse
idiosyncrasy
12. Spread out or scattered
aberrant
dispersed
inquisitive
retard
13. A superficial remark - esp. one offered as meaningful
desiccate
tact
platitude
volatile
14. Implied; not explicitly stated
porous
arbitrary
tacit
provoke
15. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
discrete
precursor
taciturn
innocuous
16. To give a false impression of'
maverick
compensation
belie
derision
17. Truthfulness; honesty
savor
obsequious
veracity
goad
18. Unimportant; lacking value
trivial
synthesis
shrill
antipathy
19. Lecture or discussion; conversation
bent
discourse
glib
cunning
20. Lacking energy; sluggish or sleepy
lethargic
sanction
diatribe
banal
21. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
pedantic
tranquil
impudent
precursor
22. To remove or separate by cutting off
sever
laconic
pervasive
inopportune
23. Reserved - shy - or unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
anesthetic
marginal
facilitate
diffident
24. Flowery; ruddy; ornate
disinterest
conspicuous
florid
discrete
25. Distinct; individual
diffuse
discrete
laconic
prone
26. To give notice to; to inform
saturate
banal
apprise
succinct
27. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive time
eclectic
archaic
trivial
opprobrium
28. To restrain; to be sparing or frugal
distention
synthesis
discourse
stint
29. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
discretion
volatile
penchant
centrifuge
30. One who avoids social contact and lives in seclusion
presumptuous
disinterest
tentative
recluse
31. Loud and high-pitched; screeching
shrill
stanza
warranted
blithe
32. Lavishness; an unnecessary or unrestrained spend esp. of funds
extravagance
tentative
converge
saturate
33. To anticipate and make unnecessary
aver
tranquility
obviate
correspond
34. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
caustic
mollify
beneficent
calibrate
35. Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
erudite
prudent
indifferent
mollify
36. Poverty; destitution
precursor
penury
expel
tacit
37. Relating to or at an edge or boundary; minimal
probity
epitome
marginal
pristine
38. Abundant in size - force - or extent; extraordinary
prodigious
approbation
heretical
tranquility
39. Unclear; open to more than one potential meaning
ambiguous
sever
monotonous
camouflage
40. The act of making an assumption or taking something for granted
invigoration
conspire
rectify
presumption
41. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
conspire
perfunctory
cynicism
reconciliation
42. To make right or fix; correct
rectify
placate
idiosyncrasy
veracity
43. Doctrine or set of religious principles
discordant
goad
dogma
digress
44. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
vexation
corrosion
emulate
spurious
45. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
discretion
equivocate
extravagance
viscous
46. Unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma
deviation
heretical
propagate
approbation
47. Refusing to compromise
caustic
intransigent
approbation
cunning
48. To grow rapidly or flourish
antipathy
irascible
homogeneous
burgeon
49. Active bodily or mental strength or energy; force
vigor
rhetoric
erudite
succinct
50. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
unfeigned
misanthrope
frugality
obsequious