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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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1. A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
prune
emulate
convention
buttress
2. An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
waver
maverick
eclectic
pragmatic
3. A mournful poem - esp one lamenting the dead
camouflage
authoritarian
elegy
vital
4. To ensconce - conceal - or stow
propitiate
aggravate
discordant
secrete
5. Extreme brightness; possessing luminosity or genius
brilliance
endemic
implode
esoteric
6. Thriftiness; economy; prudence in financial matters
furtive
beneficent
advocate
frugality
7. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
ascetic
retard
intransigent
tirade
8. In an initial stage; not fully formed
superficial
articulate
inchoate
innocuous
9. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
ensure
pedantic
harangue
stint
10. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
sporadic
pervasive
luminous
tirade
11. A quirk particular to a group or individual
tranquility
idiosyncrasy
stanza
infuse
12. Ostentatious or showy; flashy
flamboyant
tranquil
obsequious
aver
13. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
advocate
repudiate
magnanimity
subtle
14. Attacking cherished beliefs; heretical; heterodox
cacophony
marginal
iconoclastic
rhetoric
15. To list or count off individually
enumerate
convoluted
adversity
lackluster
16. Not definite; uncertain; experimental
camouflage
tentative
compensation
dispersed
17. Called for; authorized; justified
warranted
correspond
trivial
specious
18. Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
cogent
inquisitive
inopportune
frugality
19. Not objective; based upon internal perceptions rather than upon unprejudiced fact
subjective
pristine
morose
catalyst
20. To criticize severely to officially rebuke
stint
censure
apprise
preempt
21. yielding or submissive; amenable
magnanimity
compliant
solicitous
derision
22. Cursory; done without care or interest
perfunctory
secrete
intrepid
vexation
23. Culled from many sources
shrill
assuage
decibel
eclectic
24. To replace; to supersede; to appropriate
preempt
superficial
aversion
maverick
25. To exist in agreement or conformity; harmonize
correspond
arduous
anomaly
brilliance
26. Spread out or scattered
prune
beneficent
dispersed
esoteric
27. Extreme respect and reverence; worship
condemn
obsequious
insipid
veneration
28. Having or showing often viscious ill-will -spite - hatred
preempt
malevolent
tentative
assuage
29. A person or thing that causes change
assuage
inured
catalyst
articulate
30. To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
pragmatic
insipid
homogeneous
admonish
31. Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
recalcitrant
propagate
denigrate
reconciliation
32. Exonerate; to clear of blame
exculpate
convention
furtive
tranquil
33. An intense feeling of dislike or disgust
spurious
bombast
aversion
divest
34. To combine several elements into a whole
amalgamate
castigation
meticulous
effrontery
35. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
qualms
enumerate
onerous
rarefy
36. To guarantee or make certain
compliant
idiosyncrasy
conspire
ensure
37. The purposeful giving of false or misleading testimony while under oath
inquisitive
assuage
synthesis
perjury
38. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule
camouflage
anomaly
scarce
loquacious
39. A machine that spins very swiftly about a central axis - and - using centrifugal force - separates disparate substances
facetious
decibel
centrifuge
convoluted
40. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
bent
unfettered
aver
bombast
41. Silly inanely foolish
aggravate
derision
fatuous
plod
42. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in decision
waver
distention
emulate
idiosyncrasy
43. Complex or complicated
dogmatic
prone
desiccate
convoluted
44. Stubborn; hardheaded
martial
obstinate
miser
caustic
45. Lavishness; an unnecessary or unrestrained spend esp. of funds
impose
eulogy
extravagance
infuse
46. Act or process of causing deterioration; a wearing away esp of metals
caustic
corrosion
defer
wheedle
47. Flowery; ruddy; ornate
bent
florid
warranted
prodigious
48. Active bodily or mental strength or energy; force
consternation
emulate
vigor
iconoclastic
49. To secretly work together with the intent to commit a wrong or illegal act
conspire
decibel
connoisseur
consternation
50. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
penury
mundane
vexation
glib
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