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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 approve tacitly by overlooking or excusing; to allow or forgive
idiosyncrasy
plasticity
glib
condone
2. Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
soliloquy
amalgamate
placate
discordant
3. A mournful poem - esp one lamenting the dead
coercive
expel
emulate
elegy
4. Attacking cherished beliefs; heretical; heterodox
iconoclastic
intransigent
conspire
mitigate
5. To trudge; to move slowly and heavily
probity
desiccate
plod
heretical
6. To defeat; to put down
discomfit
vexation
maverick
miser
7. yielding or submissive; amenable
temperate
advocate
compliant
defer
8. Depart secretly and hide
pervasive
serenity
arbitrary
abscond
9. The act of casting out or excluding an individual from a society or group; banishment
divest
ostracism
presumptuous
deference
10. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
mollify
squander
fortuitous
corroborate
11. Serving or intended to compel by force or authority
buttress
coercive
waver
succinct
12. Silly inanely foolish
erudite
dogma
fatuous
circumspect
13. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
inopportune
volatile
audacious
obdurate
14. Embodiment; quintessence
pertinent
platitude
centrifuge
epitome
15. The quality or state of being unyielding or stiff
prodigious
recluse
rigidity
enigmatic
16. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
harangue
florid
precipitate
facilitate
17. Not obvious; elusive - difficult to discern
subtle
corroborate
scarce
elegy
18. To secretly work together with the intent to commit a wrong or illegal act
banal
conspire
eccentric
morose
19. Not vital or pertinent; irrelevant
waver
extraneous
distention
anesthetic
20. Stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest
quiescence
enumerate
camouflage
aver
21. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
camouflage
inured
equivocal
dispersed
22. Shrewdness and craftiness; slyness
blithe
furtive
anachronistic
cunning
23. To anticipate and make unnecessary
obviate
florid
obstinate
laud
24. Implied but no directly stated; tacit
implicit
fawn
presumptuous
precursor
25. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
temper
antipathy
repudiate
expel
26. Not objective; based upon internal perceptions rather than upon unprejudiced fact
perfunctory
bombast
subjective
exacerbate
27. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirits; bland
exacerbate
insipid
beneficent
stimulant
28. Thick; sticky
ingenuity
cunning
tacit
viscous
29. Loud and high-pitched; screeching
indifferent
shrill
temper
ephemeral
30. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
obsequious
apprise
florid
repudiate
31. A long and formal written thesis or treatise - usually written by a doctoral candidate to meet a degree requirement
shrill
propagate
dissertation
prodigal
32. Ostentatious or showy; flashy
conspicuous
penchant
symmetry
flamboyant
33. To blacken; to belittle; to sully defame disparage
capricious
misanthrope
epitome
denigrate
34. Harmless; causing no damage
tortuous
eclectic
innocuous
imperturbable
35. An individual who lives poorly in order to hoard money; a person who is stingy
iconoclastic
superfluous
miser
cynicism
36. Stubborn; hardheaded
obstinate
volatile
derivative
amalgamate
37. Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
inchoate
arbitrary
rhetoric
indifferent
38. Dismay; startling - distressing fear or shock that results in complete confusion
consternation
restitution
expel
derivative
39. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
taciturn
perennial
mitigate
denigrate
40. Easily visible; obvious
superfluous
impose
conspicuous
florid
41. To purify or concentrate through a process of vaporization
erudite
condone
camouflage
distill
42. To undeceive to set right
disabuse
craven
vigor
prune
43. A mild replacement for a harsher or more offensive term
ingenuity
unfettered
magnanimity
euphemism
44. A person or thing that causes change
insipid
inured
infuse
catalyst
45. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
dogmatic
camouflage
tortuous
disabuse
46. Adherence to the highest principles; uprightness
probity
censure
tacit
maverick
47. Unimportant; lacking value
reconciliation
trivial
correspond
presumption
48. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
mollify
eclectic
symmetry
caustic
49. A thin - flexible film of tissue that covers or lines an organ
glib
pervasive
membrane
erudite
50. A courteous and respectful yielding to the will of another
blithe
buttress
deference
discomfit