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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. Process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance; V. sensitize: make or become sensitive
hapless
defunct
purchase
sensitization
2. Make drunk; stimulate or excite; Ex. intoxicated by all the money he might win
intoxicate
satyr
emolument
foul
3. Sweet sounding; pleasing to the ear; melodious
toss
cue
dulcet
endorse
4. Surrender something (stolen); eject; vomit; OP. gorge
disgorge
rationale
stratum
cursive
5. Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners; appropriateness of behavior or conduct
industrious
ramp
decorum
ulcer
6. Lacking in seriousness; flippant; self-indulgently carefree; unworthy of serious attention; relatively unimportant; trivial
lank
collaborate
exacting
frivolous
7. Blessing
benediction
giddy
litigation
discord
8. Crush or grind into very small particles
requite
renege
tarry
pulverize
9. Doubts
misgivings
saga
tangential
superfluous
10. Alert and watchful; listening carefully; paying attention; considerate; thoughtful; politely helpful; Ex. attentive audience; Ex. He was attentive to the old lady; N. attentions: act of courtesy and consideration
supple
deference
far-fetched
attentive
11. Irreverence; lack of respect for God or piety
abut
undulating
impiety
cascade
12. Seize another's power or rank (without legal authority); supplant; appropriate; N. usurpation; CF. take for one's own use
offensive
abstain
expedite
usurp
13. Burn to ashes
incinerate
gibberish
slur
obsidian
14. Soft and mild (of air); fragrant
bolster
spatula
gloss_over
balmy
15. Root up; uproot; destroy completely
debut
dowdy
extirpate
welt
16. Free; without charge; ADJ.
piscatorial
gratis
abject
censure
17. Pucker; contract (lips) into wrinkles; N: wallet
myopic
traumatic
purse
effulgent
18. Deep disgrace; shame or dishonor; ADJ. ignominious; Ex. ignominous defeat
mountebank
ignominy
presentiment
propitious
19. Combination of different things; mixture of metals (containing mercury) used for filling holes in teeth
amalgam
bourgeois
barefaced
evasive
20. Odd in an old-fashioned way; odd; old-fashioned; picturesque
stem
quaint
urge
allay
21. Arrogant; presumptuous
wrinkle
overweening
emollient
gait
22. Prudent; cautious; acting after careful thought
utopia
covert
circumspect
lurk
23. Systematic plan; plot; clever dishonest plan; orderly arrangement of elements; Ex. health insurance scheme; Ex. a scheme to escape taxes; Ex. a color scheme; Ex. a story with no scheme; V: contrive a scheme
disinclination
breach
scheme
subsidiary
24. Play or frolic boisterously; gambol; N.
omnivorous
curmudgeon
romp
memorial
25. Bodily (rather than spiritual); of a bodily form; material; tangible
chase
chameleon
hegemony
corporeal
26. Young animal (esp. of the dog or cat family
categorical
bugaboo
irreparable
whelp
27. Pantomime(act without dialogue); mimicry; mimer; V: mimic; pantomime
pejorative
devotee
horoscope
mime
28. Meantime; Ex. in the interim; ADJ. taking place during an interim; Ex. interim paper
harass
impassioned
tithe
interim
29. (of a person or speech) using high sounding or important-sounding language; pompous; bombastic
scrupulous
grandiloquent
altruistic
sanctuary
30. Below the threshold of conscious perception; Ex. subliminal advertisement
sate
subliminal
aseptic
pundit
31. Without feeling; lacking sense; foolish
prehensile
empirical
insensate
heterogeneous
32. Essence; main point; substance
gist
troth
automaton
prologue
33. Informal discussion; conversation
dereliction
colloquy
febrile
glossy
34. Mental or bodily powers; teaching staff
impolitic
faculty
check
urge
35. Nonmoral; having no understanding of right and wrong
exceptionable
vain
amoral
excoriate
36. Related to monks or monasteries; removed from worldly concerns
foil
craft
blue
monastic
37. Core or marrow; spongelike substance in the center of stems; essence; substance
commodious
harangue
artisan
pith
38. Reckon; calculate
tepid
compute
virtual
clapper
39. Hot sweet dish
founder
pudding
insolence
disenfranchise
40. Capable of being stretched; of tension; Ex. tensile rubber
vivacious
tensile
seedy
blight
41. Wishing evil; exhibiting ill will; N. malevolence
malevolent
synchronous
euphoria
indisputable
42. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
anchor
torque
stratagem
mordant
43. Strong and firm (in the body)
disapprobation
sturdy
pudding
aversion
44. Make stupid in mind; cause to appear or become stupid or inconsistent; suppress; frustrate or hinder; Ex. stultifying effect of uninteresting work; Ex. stultify free expression
intervene
expatiate
pith
stultify
45. Give; use; refrain from harming; save from experiencing; exempt; Ex. spare me 5 minutes; Ex. Take this money and spare my life; Ex. The emperor was spared the onus; ADJ: kept in reserve; free for other use; unoccupied; Ex. spare time
bilk
anneal
spare
suborn
46. Trick; deceive; hoodwink; N: person who is easily tricked; dupe
arcane
pulchritude
bungle
gull
47. Metal-bearing vein(long deposit of an ore)
ethnology
tend
innuendo
lode
48. Period of ideal or peak condition; earliest or beginning stage; Ex. in the prime of life; Ex. prime of the year(spring); ADJ: first in importance or rank; first; V: make ready; prepare
egotistical
discompose
incisive
prime
49. Lying on back; passive; inactive; Ex. The defeated pugilist lay supine; Ex. supine acceptance of the decision
muddle
iconoclastic
supine
aria
50. Extremely small; CF. minutes: official record of the proceedings at a meeting
elicit
poseur
rally
minute