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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. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
rectify
waver
castigation
tirade
2. Tranquility; peacefulness
epitome
intransigent
serenity
impudent
3. Thriftiness; economy; prudence in financial matters
frugality
cower
trivial
loquacious
4. The act of making an assumption or taking something for granted
presumption
perfunctory
membrane
calibrate
5. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
flamboyant
inured
candor
garrulous
6. Lacking originality
propitiate
facilitate
banal
insipid
7. Silly inanely foolish
fatuous
capricious
innocuous
stanza
8. Trickery or subterfuge
approbation
squander
subtle
chicanery
9. To polish; to rub to a shine
burnish
obdurate
aggravate
banal
10. Occurring only occasionally - or in a scattered instances
audacious
magnanimity
sporadic
flamboyant
11. Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
discretion
synthetic
admonish
prune
12. Stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest
disabuse
harangue
membrane
quiescence
13. Characterized by a preference for complete obedience to authority; domineering
vital
coercive
dogma
authoritarian
14. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
camouflage
stimulant
superficial
ensure
15. The act or process of transforming to another form - state or product
conversion
provoke
brittle
tentative
16. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
mundane
recalcitrant
facetious
synthesis
17. An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
tractable
maverick
extravagance
diatribe
18. Practical rather than idealistic
pragmatic
penchant
propitiate
monotonous
19. Distinct; individual
discrete
exculpate
repudiate
cunning
20. To remove or separate by cutting off
sever
enumerate
viscous
proliferate
21. To appease; to calm by making concessions
placate
repudiate
aver
vital
22. Improvised; done without preparation
extemporaneous
dogma
exacerbate
discomfit
23. Dismay; startling - distressing fear or shock that results in complete confusion
antipathy
consternation
advocate
morose
24. Very learned; scholarly
erudite
frugality
enervate
mitigate
25. Stubbornly opinionated
distention
savor
connoisseur
dogmatic
26. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
parody
qualms
inopportune
luminous
27. A substance that causes insensibility and removes pain
anesthetic
symmetry
solicitous
brevity
28. Belonging to another time; removed from natural chronological context
monotonous
rhetoric
anachronistic
rigidity
29. The state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape
denounce
cogent
distention
validity
30. Naturally inclined; tending; likely
prone
aver
epitome
fawn
31. Sad - sullen
prodigal
morose
deference
effrontery
32. To make worse or more severe
banal
stanza
inquisitive
exacerbate
33. Cursory; done without care or interest
inopportune
spurious
perfunctory
succinct
34. To combine several elements into a whole
intemperance
amalgamate
laconic
perjury
35. Peaceful; calm
vexation
tranquil
denounce
dispersed
36. A mournful poem - esp one lamenting the dead
tirade
elegy
membrane
irascible
37. To plunge or drop straight down
solvent
specious
equivocate
plummet
38. A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect - esp. in literature and art
conspicuous
parody
platitude
prune
39. Unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma
abscond
heretical
veneration
secrete
40. Apt to break or crack due to a lack of elasticity; fragile
eloquent
brittle
saturate
vital
41. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound
cacophony
arbitrary
penury
burnish
42. Unit used in measuring the intensity of a sound
camouflage
luminous
deviance
decibel
43. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
ingenuity
bombast
indifferent
pedantic
44. Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
inundate
restitution
maverick
pervasive
45. Not obvious; elusive - difficult to discern
subtle
harangue
tirade
tangential
46. Stubborn; hardheaded
obstinate
corroborate
recalcitrant
solvent
47. Lacking energy; sluggish or sleepy
lethargic
emulate
cower
exculpate
48. To lengthen or stretch out
euphemism
caustic
extend
decibel
49. To make right or fix; correct
rectify
abscond
pristine
anachronistic
50. Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
unfeigned
indifferent
candor
discordant