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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. Extreme brightness; possessing luminosity or genius
brilliance
quiescence
anomalous
banal
2. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
disabuse
camouflage
plasticity
florid
3. Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
meticulous
solicitous
pervasive
plasticity
4. Severe criticism or punishment
castigation
discretion
treacherous
synthesis
5. Lacking energy; sluggish or sleepy
membrane
lethargic
volatile
restitution
6. Complex or complicated
squander
banal
convoluted
adversity
7. Doctrine or set of religious principles
equivocate
dogma
secrete
equivocal
8. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
derision
apprise
flamboyant
discrete
9. To tend toward the same spot or outcome; inclining to join at an intersecting point
aversion
converge
archaic
intemperance
10. Easily visible; obvious
subtle
connoisseur
sporadic
conspicuous
11. The quality of being generously noble in the mind and heart - esp in forgiving
implicit
magnanimity
squander
serenity
12. To undeceive to set right
disabuse
mitigate
sanction
obsequious
13. A long and formal written thesis or treatise - usually written by a doctoral candidate to meet a degree requirement
pertinent
plummet
dissertation
inchoate
14. Well-spoken; coherent
consternation
denigrate
solvent
articulate
15. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
lackluster
recalcitrant
rarefy
discrete
16. Clear; easily understood
propagate
nonplused
lucid
craven
17. To incite anger - resentment or exasperation
inundate
perfunctory
coercive
provoke
18. To lengthen or stretch out
facetious
extend
commensurate
aggravate
19. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
superfluous
facilitate
plummet
prodigal
20. To blame or denounce
monotonous
malevolent
condemn
lucid
21. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
meticulous
dissertation
banal
maverick
22. To polish; to rub to a shine
misanthrope
retard
garrulous
burnish
23. To disguise or conceal
discretion
dissemble
derision
cultured
24. To imitate with the goal of rivaling or surpassing
solvent
emulate
eulogy
penury
25. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
discrete
validity
enervate
insipid
26. The quality of being evenly balanced
symmetry
effrontery
fatuous
convoluted
27. Disgrace; contempt; scorn
repudiate
opprobrium
tout
facilitate
28. Dull and without variety; tedious
intrepid
loquacious
monotonous
qualms
29. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
intransigent
veneration
miser
specious
30. A speech made to oneself; a monologue
soliloquy
disabuse
catalyst
monotonous
31. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
loquacious
cacophony
implacable
tacit
32. Distinct; individual
membrane
expel
discrete
treacherous
33. Dark and depressing; mournful
penchant
shrill
somber
symmetry
34. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
tout
brittle
restitution
precipitate
35. Naturally inclined; tending; likely
condemn
prone
iconoclastic
euphemism
36. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
somber
harangue
precursor
inured
37. An inclination or tendency
presumptuous
bent
bombast
fortuitous
38. To approve tacitly by overlooking or excusing; to allow or forgive
heretical
facilitate
pertinent
condone
39. Hardship
taciturn
exculpate
mitigate
adversity
40. To imbue; to pour in; to introduce; to instill
discretion
loquacious
infuse
perjury
41. Very learned; scholarly
erudite
warranted
compensation
converge
42. Annoyance or irritation
unfettered
vexation
perennial
discrete
43. Not obvious; elusive - difficult to discern
volatile
anomalous
subtle
diffident
44. Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
eulogy
cogent
conspire
plod
45. State or quality of differing from the accepted norm; abnormality
aversion
dogma
fatuous
deviance
46. Unimportant; lacking value
capricious
effrontery
prone
trivial
47. To plunge or drop straight down
defer
propitiate
magnanimity
plummet
48. Abundant in size - force - or extent; extraordinary
laconic
sever
prodigious
arbitrary
49. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
onerous
eloquent
tacit
ingenuity
50. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
tirade
retard
misanthrope
enervate