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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. Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
retard
tentative
pervasive
pertinent
2. Shrewdness and craftiness; slyness
unfeigned
luminous
cunning
irascible
3. Trickery or subterfuge
aversion
specious
archaic
chicanery
4. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
pervasive
squander
aggravate
corroborate
5. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
ascetic
eloquent
superficial
camouflage
6. Marked by stealth - covert - surreptitious
tirade
marginal
banal
furtive
7. Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
conspicuous
fraud
endemic
deference
8. A thin - flexible film of tissue that covers or lines an organ
aggravate
membrane
prodigal
insipid
9. Departure or wandering away from the accepted standard
flamboyant
deviation
indifferent
enervate
10. Tranquility; peacefulness
fidelity
penchant
quiescence
serenity
11. Embodiment; quintessence
burgeon
veracity
epitome
banal
12. To approve tacitly by overlooking or excusing; to allow or forgive
slight
condone
obviate
presumption
13. Not tied down; unrestrained
compensation
unfettered
fortuitous
ambiguous
14. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
disingenuous
lucid
disinterest
implacable
15. To publicly praise or promote
tout
calibrate
misanthrope
penchant
16. Belonging to another time; removed from natural chronological context
warranted
superficial
anachronistic
impudent
17. Saucy; impertinent
camouflage
laud
defer
impudent
18. Contemptibly fainthearted - lacking any courage
obsequious
imperturbable
scarce
craven
19. To anticipate and make unnecessary
membrane
obviate
pristine
nonplused
20. Honesty; frankness; sincerity
impose
aversion
candor
prodigious
21. To give notice to; to inform
apprise
viscous
mundane
convention
22. Not talkative; reserved
disabuse
decibel
assuage
taciturn
23. To aid by making easier
facilitate
banal
obstinate
exculpate
24. To appease; to conciliate
propitiate
pervasive
succinct
propensity
25. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
diffuse
beneficent
meticulous
solvent
26. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
tacit
irascible
rarefy
mundane
27. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
elegy
propagate
mollify
equivocate
28. Severe criticism or punishment
furtive
extend
stanza
castigation
29. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
converge
conspire
miser
fortuitous
30. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
proliferate
luminous
pedantic
convention
31. One who practices rigid self-denial esp in religious devotion
cunning
ascetic
equivocate
corroborate
32. The combination of parts to make a whole
homogeneous
synthesis
candor
provoke
33. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive time
endemic
mundane
archaic
commensurate
34. To defeat; to put down
discomfit
sanction
authoritarian
recluse
35. Called for; authorized; justified
caustic
fortuitous
warranted
extend
36. A collection of lierary works by various authors
anthology
temper
chicanery
assuage
37. Very learned; scholarly
erudite
innocuous
discrete
pervasive
38. Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
garrulous
ensure
tacit
brevity
39. Dismay; startling - distressing fear or shock that results in complete confusion
burgeon
indifferent
consternation
preempt
40. To plunge or drop straight down
convention
plummet
pristine
miser
41. An individual who lives poorly in order to hoard money; a person who is stingy
chicanery
inquisitive
miser
anomalous
42. To secretly work together with the intent to commit a wrong or illegal act
conspire
approbation
prodigal
vexation
43. yield; submit; bow
defer
stint
enervate
extraneous
44. Steadfast and courageous
diffuse
intrepid
maverick
solvent
45. Pure; uncorrupted; clean
pristine
impudent
pertinent
spurious
46. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
adversity
ensure
propensity
probity
47. Lacking originality
arduous
disingenuous
anthology
banal
48. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
preempt
pervasive
obsequious
vexation
49. Stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest
indifferent
quiescence
retard
bombast
50. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
harangue
precursor
discomfit
inquisitive