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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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gre
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english
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vocabulary
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Lacking originality
extemporaneous
furtive
banal
specious
2. Marked by extreme calm - impassivity - and steadiness
deviance
capricious
adversity
imperturbable
3. To slow delay or hamper
platitude
retard
corrosion
innocuous
4. Relevant; germane
pertinent
elegy
brittle
anomalous
5. To ensconce - conceal - or stow
prone
restitution
dissemble
secrete
6. An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
epitome
bombast
maverick
consternation
7. To cause to spread - multiply or reproduce
propagate
repudiate
placate
plethora
8. To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
lethargic
digress
recalcitrant
illusory
9. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
cacophony
propensity
intrepid
enigmatic
10. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
veracity
tractable
laconic
esoteric
11. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
fortuitous
recalcitrant
squander
morose
12. Cursory; done without care or interest
flamboyant
perfunctory
discrete
spurious
13. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
unfeigned
waver
precursor
glib
14. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
connoisseur
glib
lethargic
correspond
15. Shrink in fear - cringe
eclectic
advocate
superficial
cower
16. Using few words; terse
bombast
tangential
secrete
laconic
17. The quality of being generously noble in the mind and heart - esp in forgiving
tractable
magnanimity
soliloquy
miser
18. Abundant in size - force - or extent; extraordinary
defer
bombast
prodigious
serenity
19. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
spurious
deviation
eccentric
lucid
20. Sad - sullen
derivative
propagate
inopportune
morose
21. To invalidate; to repeal to retract
rescind
anomalous
banal
innocuous
22. To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
inchoate
elegy
prone
admonish
23. An individual who lives poorly in order to hoard money; a person who is stingy
assuage
plod
miser
propitiate
24. Pure; uncorrupted; clean
pristine
irascible
prodigal
bombast
25. Insincere; lacking in honesty
cunning
equivocal
disingenuous
plummet
26. To imbue; to pour in; to introduce; to instill
infuse
commensurate
irascible
arduous
27. Not vital or pertinent; irrelevant
extraneous
advocate
rescind
sever
28. To disguise or conceal
dissemble
squander
frugality
symmetry
29. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
obsequious
chicanery
tirade
repudiate
30. One who practices rigid self-denial esp in religious devotion
specious
prune
corrosion
ascetic
31. Docile; obedience; easily led
volatile
tractable
facilitate
eclectic
32. Truthfulness; honesty
chicanery
pertinent
morose
veracity
33. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
erudite
burnish
tirade
convention
34. Deviating from the norm
stint
chicanery
placate
aberrant
35. A group of two or more verses or lines that make up a division in a poem and correspond in rhyme - meter - and length
obsequious
conspicuous
subjective
stanza
36. Refusing to compromise
bent
antipathy
idiosyncrasy
intransigent
37. To trudge; to move slowly and heavily
vital
plod
innocuous
camouflage
38. One who hates all other humans
succinct
volatile
misanthrope
recalcitrant
39. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
enervate
bombast
tangential
slight
40. The art or study of effect use of language for communication and persuasion
stimulant
rhetoric
deviation
aberrant
41. Matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree - size - or amount
commensurate
plasticity
saturate
discretion
42. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
viscous
rarefy
anachronistic
harangue
43. Ambiguous; doubtful or uncertain
equivocal
mollify
marginal
lucid
44. Calmness; serenity; peacefulness
tout
recalcitrant
tranquility
dissertation
45. Ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate
inopportune
penury
obviate
furtive
46. To remove or strip esp clothing
divest
commensurate
fawn
eclectic
47. A quirk particular to a group or individual
viscous
idiosyncrasy
vital
intemperance
48. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
specious
denigrate
enigmatic
prodigal
49. Concerned and attentive; eager
onerous
cunning
facetious
solicitous
50. To cut back or clip branches or other parts of a plant - esp parts that are dead
inundate
heretical
prune
plod