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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. To provide support or reinforcement
bolster
intemperance
capricious
platitude
2. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in decision
pedantic
dogmatic
diffuse
waver
3. Tranquility; peacefulness
serenity
inopportune
banal
exculpate
4. To polish; to rub to a shine
burnish
somber
tractable
temper
5. To invalidate; to repeal to retract
rescind
dogma
warranted
convention
6. To make right or fix; correct
compliant
rectify
soliloquy
aberrant
7. To incite anger - resentment or exasperation
provoke
aversion
synthetic
glib
8. Doctrine or set of religious principles
temperate
dogma
enigmatic
camouflage
9. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
tortuous
extraneous
squander
diffuse
10. Playful humorous
facetious
penury
obsequious
fraud
11. Boldness; impudence; arrogance
distention
mundane
euphemism
effrontery
12. To plunge or drop straight down
plummet
diatribe
temperate
unfeigned
13. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
solicitous
mitigate
candor
centrifuge
14. Hidden - clandestine
admonish
inundate
covert
stimulant
15. Lacking faithfulness or loyalty; traitorous; unstable
conspire
implicit
beneficent
treacherous
16. Troubling burdensome
discrete
onerous
mollify
fawn
17. Only touching briefly upon the topic at hand; irrelevant
penury
tangential
illusory
diatribe
18. Pliability; malleability; flexibility
proliferate
slight
plasticity
discomfit
19. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
platitude
sanction
catalyst
fidelity
20. Unoriginal; obtained from another source
derivative
stint
endemic
infuse
21. The combination of parts to make a whole
synthesis
temperate
florid
placate
22. An overabundance; a surplus
laud
plethora
assuage
ingenuity
23. To fill until there is no further capacity for absorbance; to soak
saturate
endemic
aberrant
misanthrope
24. Culled from many sources
eclectic
authoritarian
superfluous
unfeigned
25. Extremely talkative
unfettered
loquacious
blithe
perfunctory
26. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
enigmatic
candor
articulate
innocuous
27. To tend toward the same spot or outcome; inclining to join at an intersecting point
innocuous
pristine
spurious
converge
28. Not tied down; unrestrained
unfettered
insipid
discomfit
tirade
29. Matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree - size - or amount
commensurate
subtle
perjury
superfluous
30. To purify or concentrate through a process of vaporization
tentative
recluse
distill
enervate
31. An intense feeling of dislike or disgust
aversion
hierarchy
diatribe
inopportune
32. To remove completely; to annihilate; to pull out by the roots
laconic
eradicate
rescind
cunning
33. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
fidelity
synthesis
implacable
connoisseur
34. Clear; easily understood
miser
mitigate
lucid
lethargic
35. Annoyance or irritation
vexation
discomfit
bent
facilitate
36. Lacking depth; existing on or near the surface
converge
superficial
hierarchy
beneficent
37. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
perennial
pristine
denigrate
caustic
38. Discerning and sensitive use of speech; diplomacy
prodigious
condone
stimulant
tact
39. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
ephemeral
equivocate
flamboyant
rarefy
40. To coax; persuade - often through the use of flattery or smooth talk
tranquil
wheedle
florid
cogent
41. Thriftiness; economy; prudence in financial matters
frugality
marginal
extraneous
belie
42. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
volatile
implicit
coercive
ambiguous
43. To undeceive to set right
disabuse
parody
soliloquy
assuage
44. Not talkative; reserved
veracity
derivative
impose
taciturn
45. Man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
dogma
condone
synthetic
elegy
46. A speech made to oneself; a monologue
recluse
homogeneous
soliloquy
intrepid
47. Lavishness; an unnecessary or unrestrained spend esp. of funds
proliferate
extravagance
disabuse
propitiate
48. To trudge; to move slowly and heavily
saturate
plod
caustic
inopportune
49. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
inopportune
indifferent
eloquent
fortuitous
50. Unimportant; lacking value
rigidity
scarce
trivial
fortuitous