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GRE Vocab
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gre
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english
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vocabulary
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bvat
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Middle class; selfishly materialistic; too interested in material possessions
warranted
bourgeois
slander
divest
2. Too deep to be measured or understood; unfathomable
antiquated
supplicant
fathomless
cerebral
3. Oversensitive; easily offended; irasible; delicate; needing delicate handling; Ex. touchy situation
touchy
quixotic
tribunal
angular
4. Half-solid lump formed from a liquid (or blood); V.
orientation
thrall
clot
abrogate
5. Old-fashioned; past the prime
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6. Little round hill; hillock
knoll
thrash
pass_off
aggregate
7. Traitor who aids invaders; CF. Vidkun Quisling
quisling
disbar
heyday
retract
8. Elevated position; altitude; height; flat upright side of a building; angle made by pointing a gun; Ex. The elevation of her style is much admired; Ex. front elevation of the house
regal
psychosis
elevation
obloquy
9. Stun as with a blow or shock; bemuse; benumb; N.
incorrigible
daze
unequivocal
hull
10. Pacify or soothe; Ex. appease a crying baby; N. appeasement
impasse
lucre
appease
entail
11. Hanging down from something; pending; N: ornament (hanging from a necklace etc.)
panoramic
inviolable
pendant(pendent)
controvert
12. Windy
spawn
turbulence
gusty
trepidation
13. Money; profit; Ex. filthy lucre
anarchist
eerie
lucre
baleful
14. Soft and mild (of air); fragrant
balmy
forthright
restive
fumble
15. Art and science of preparing and serving good food; CF. gastronome
magisterial
conglomerate
contortions
gastronomy
16. Please intensely; fill with rapture and delight
sleazy
derivation
enrapture
nomadic
17. (of likings and interests) universal; general; broad; including many different parts; wide-ranging liberal; Ex. catholic opinions/tastes
catholic
gerrymander
pretentious
spin
18. Specialized knowledge (in a particular field); expert skill
expertise
clarion
askew
lateral
19. Person of high rank or position
dignitary
decree
martyr
snub
20. Suave; refined in manner; elegant
lackluster
shack
bucolic
urbane
21. Roundness; sonorousness of speech
vagary
anomalous
shack
rotundity
22. Going from one state of action to another
wane
embryonic
unassailable
transition
23. Deprived of (something valuable); lacking
bereft
fritter
levy
unsullied
24. Serving to complete something
underhand(underhanded)
complementary
quarantine
gargantuan
25. Condescend; stoop
abscond
verdigris
haven
deign
26. Rebellion; uprising
amazon
insurrection
discord
prelate
27. Prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country; peculiar to a particular region or people; CF. pandemic
endemic
derivation
sleazy
rag
28. Resulting from compulsion
seduce
transport
compulsive
submerge
29. Extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance; ADJ. opulent: possessing great wealth; abundant
opulence
warranty
abdicate
dereliction
30. Propaganda pamphlet (esp. by a religious or political group); expanse of land; region of indefinite size; system of related organs; Ex. digestive tract
abash
circumvent
tract
rococo
31. Of hidden meaning and spiritual power; Ex. mystic ceremonies; N. CF. mysticism
mystic
founder
consort
scorch
32. Uneasiness; anxiety; V. disquiet: make anxious
disquietude
expertise
magistrate
sleek
33. Beginning; in an early stage
circuitous
incipient
concatenate
foster
34. Bad-tempered; showing ill-humor; angry
dissolution
cross
litany
enamored
35. (of air) thin in density; rarefied; Ex. rare air of the mountains
resolve
glaring
rare
limpid
36. Punishment; severe criticism or disapproval
lax
gruesome
castigation
palpitate
37. Freedom from punishment or harm; CF. punish
palpable
impunity
nexus
prostrate
38. Fearless
abusive
crabbed
menagerie
intrepid
39. Sear; N.
scorch
calligraphy
bank
contend
40. Parody
spoof
fit
coup
tinge
41. (of music) played smoothly
osseous
demise
odorous
legato
42. Record of descent; lineage; ancestry; study of ancestry
rakish
rotund
necromancy
genealogy
43. Bee-keeping
flirt
apiculture
parody
stench
44. Arrival
advent
quorum
imply
enumerate
45. Large volume; book
drastic
fruitful
tome
veracious
46. Harmless substance prescribed as a dummy pill
categorical
amenable
placebo
acclivity
47. Empty; lacking in ideas; inane; stupid; Ex. vacuous expression; N. vacuity
surreptitious
vacuous
existential
impromptu
48. Since; owing to the fact that
extort
anticlimax
beeline
inasmuch_as
49. Quality of being deeply moving; keenness of emotion; ADJ. poignant: touching; deeply moving; (of sorrow - grief - etc.) painful; keenly distressing to the mind; Ex. poignant memory/anxiety; CF. prick
recite
lassitude
choir
poignancy
50. Disgrace; N. ADJ. dishonorable
licentious
vitiate
chassis
dishonor