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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A harsh denunciation
savor
disingenuous
diatribe
implode
2. Annoyance or irritation
deviation
vexation
tirade
laud
3. Poverty; destitution
perjury
inquisitive
penury
tacit
4. To force out; to discharge
expel
plod
repudiate
misanthrope
5. To ensconce - conceal - or stow
plasticity
propitiate
symmetry
secrete
6. The quality or state of being unyielding or stiff
porous
caustic
rigidity
calibrate
7. Deviating from the norm
placate
penury
aberrant
diffuse
8. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
propensity
warranted
pertinent
repudiate
9. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
rhetoric
exculpate
eccentric
mundane
10. A group of two or more verses or lines that make up a division in a poem and correspond in rhyme - meter - and length
succinct
obsequious
stanza
burnish
11. Not talkative; reserved
taciturn
wheedle
effrontery
monotonous
12. To blame or denounce
serenity
effrontery
perennial
condemn
13. A collection of lierary works by various authors
stint
catalyst
anthology
pedantic
14. Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity
lackluster
insipid
proliferate
nonplused
15. Tranquility; peacefulness
chicanery
assuage
serenity
pertinent
16. Troubling burdensome
caustic
opprobrium
prodigious
onerous
17. Calmness; serenity; peacefulness
stint
tranquility
soliloquy
quiescence
18. Active bodily or mental strength or energy; force
prudent
vigor
emulate
restitution
19. To cut back or clip branches or other parts of a plant - esp parts that are dead
dogma
dispersed
prune
denigrate
20. To grow rapidly or flourish
dogmatic
censure
platitude
burgeon
21. Boldness; impudence; arrogance
maverick
aver
inured
effrontery
22. Exonerate; to clear of blame
bombast
pertinent
treacherous
exculpate
23. Carefree; merry
tortuous
wheedle
implicit
blithe
24. Apt to break or crack due to a lack of elasticity; fragile
insipid
extend
equivocal
brittle
25. Concerned and attentive; eager
digress
anthology
solicitous
deviation
26. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
anachronistic
admonish
enervate
tranquil
27. A thin - flexible film of tissue that covers or lines an organ
fatuous
sever
membrane
epitome
28. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
magnanimity
rescind
loquacious
fortuitous
29. Extremely talkative
facetious
discretion
loquacious
euphemism
30. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
camouflage
blithe
burnish
capricious
31. Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
endemic
tangential
perennial
abscond
32. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
serenity
distill
esoteric
prodigal
33. Dark and depressing; mournful
convention
somber
shrill
iconoclastic
34. Truthfulness; honesty
veracity
emulate
coercive
arduous
35. To remove or separate by cutting off
cultured
sever
volatile
nonplused
36. The quality of being evenly balanced
symmetry
invigoration
obsequious
obviate
37. To make worse or more severe
exacerbate
convention
propitiate
censure
38. Essential for or relating to life; necessary
loquacious
sever
vital
taciturn
39. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
assuage
connoisseur
plasticity
coercive
40. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
preempt
equivocate
banal
antipathy
41. Extreme respect and reverence; worship
eclectic
veneration
tentative
vigor
42. To incite anger - resentment or exasperation
archaic
provoke
malevolent
eulogy
43. Hidden - clandestine
facetious
vexation
covert
eradicate
44. To polish; to rub to a shine
effrontery
penury
superfluous
burnish
45. A speech made to oneself; a monologue
divest
nonplused
soliloquy
synthetic
46. Not vital or pertinent; irrelevant
advocate
aberrant
fortuitous
extraneous
47. The act of casting out or excluding an individual from a society or group; banishment
dissertation
censure
ostracism
facilitate
48. Not objective; based upon internal perceptions rather than upon unprejudiced fact
stanza
subjective
ascetic
pragmatic
49. Stubborn; hardheaded
obstinate
perjury
infuse
quiescence
50. To abruptly and violently collapse inward
platitude
caustic
implode
capricious