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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. Noxious(harmful) smell
effluvium
headlong
swear-word
upshot
2. Trifle with; toy with; treat without the necessary seriousness; procrastinate; waste time
squabble
impotent
dally
ferret
3. Catch sight of (something distant)
descry
cull
rigid
nebula
4. Prevent; avoid; turn away (eyes or thought); Ex. An accident was averted by his quick thinking; Ex. She averted her eyes from the terrible sight.
doctrinaire
avert
dossier
tantamount
5. Enclose; place in something; fix firmly in a surrounding mass
embed(imbed)
pore
far-fetched
lag
6. Lustful
holster
lewd
lethargic
concordat
7. Sheer; transparent
rankle
diaphanous
abscond
unique
8. Small boat (often ship's boat)
unscathed
stout
vie
dinghy
9. Agree
fanfare
accede
cognizance
static
10. Stroke; loss of consciousness caused by too much blood in the brain
anticlimax
simulate
annotate
apoplexy
11. Harmful; causing injury
injurious
historical
inveterate
hallowed
12. A set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played
intellect
brindled
hirsute
carillon
13. Unintelligible; muddled; unable to express one's thoughts in an orderly manner; illogical; lacking cohesion; not coherent
cower
incoherent
frenzied
ferret
14. Windy
subordinate
gusty
transcribe
egotism
15. Concerning the sense of smell
portend
refurbish
indemnify
olfactory
16. Mixture of writings on various subjects; collection of various items
infest
loll
cameo
miscellany
17. Hit quickly with the flat part of the hand; N. CF. smack
slap
cathartic
urge
uproar
18. Gather; assemble (troops); Ex. muster up one's strength for the ordeal; N.
unsightly
pusillanimous
muster
animosity
19. Being everywhere; omnipresent; N. ubiquity
linguistic
vitreous
ubiquitous
uncanny
20. Person who collects coins; N. numismatics: study or collection of money - coins - and medals
venison
loquacious
outfit
numismatist
21. Self-important behavior; acting like a stuffed shirt(pompous person); ADJ. pompous: self-important
cavalier
deciduous
pristine
pomposity
22. Able to be touched; real; concrete; palpable; possible to realize or understand; Ex. tangible proof
tangible
vendor
narcissist
frantic
23. Green crust on old bronze works or copper; tone slowly taken by varnished painting
surreptitious
patina
prophetic
conceit
24. Woman whom a man loves
canvass
inamorata
residual
bullion
25. Spasmodic; intermittent; irregular
extant
incinerate
fitful
wade
26. Story - play - or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable
cleft
allegory
discrete
egoism
27. Expressing possibility; latent; N: capacity for growth
decrepitude
fortuitous
recapitulate
potential
28. Suave; refined in manner; elegant
bid
devotee
Shangri-la
urbane
29. Banish from a group; exclude from public favor; ban; Ex. His friends ostracized him. N. ostracism
instigate
behoove(behove)
ostracize
egotism
30. Swelling out in waves; surging
billowing
hysteria
ruminate
trivia
31. Courage; V: pull off or out; pull out the hair or feathers of; ADJ. plucky: courageous; brave
quirk
visage
disinterested
pluck
32. Fundamental reason or principle (on which a system or principle is based); fundamental reason or justification; grounds for an action
ferocious
amble
collusion
rationale
33. Operatic solo; a song sung by one person in an opera or oratorio
imposture
recourse
aria
wring
34. List; mention one by one
miniature
menace
enumerate
shambles
35. Climb up; ascend; remove or come off in scales; N: flake of epidermis; ascending or descending series of musical tones
resound
scale
pronounced
heinous
36. Omen; prophecy; sign of coming events; V. augur: predict; foretell; be a sign of (something in future)
vehement
augury
analgesia
drama
37. Pertaining to the art of delineating; vividly described
bliss
talisman
graphic
centurion
38. Spotted; stained; CF. immaculate
maculated
rebuke
criteria
fanciful
39. Face; appearance
complicity
orgy
visage
fringe
40. Social outcast; Ex. Mariah the pariah
chaffing
estranged
exiguous
pariah
41. Government under a single ruler
pinnace
monarchy
matriarch
glutton
42. Conflict; lack of harmony; dissonance (when musical notes are played)
discord
expeditious
polemic
paragon
43. Last stop of railroad; end
gruesome
libertine
terminus
holster
44. Cut off part of body; prune (a limb)
propitious
bucolic
obliterate
amputate
45. Build; lie; make up (a story) in order to deceive; Ex. fabricate the whole story; CF. fabric: underlying structure; Ex. fabric of society
fabricate
chary
cuisine
surreptitious
46. Bookish; showing off learning; marked by an excessive ostentatious concern for book learning; N. pedantry
bountiful
ingrate
pedantic
decrepitude
47. Boasted; bragged; highly publicized; V. vaunt: boast; brag
vaunted
patriarch
exorcise
gorge
48. Drink in
gull
imbibe
grotto
reputed
49. Complete; consummate; make perfect; N.
contravene
anthropoid
complement
cavil
50. Operate with one's hands; control or play upon (people - forces - etc.) artfully; maneuver; Ex. how to manipulate publicity and men; ADJ. manipulative
idyll(idyl)
manipulate
chalice
wastrel