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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
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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. Slightly obscure; misty; unclear; N. haze: light mist or smoke; confused state of mind
hazy
stump
cauterize
saccharine
2. Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity; lightness of manner
bigotry
levity
burlesque
trickster
3. Study of fish; CF. ichthyo-: fish
infraction
altercation
drudgery
ichthyology
4. Cloying sweet; characteristic of sugar or saccharin
pandemic
precursor
rustle
saccharine
5. Weaken; take away energy from
enervate
decipher
summation
monograph
6. Condense or shorten
abridge
eerie
pellucid
pass_off
7. Outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around
circumvent
intervene
monastic
idiosyncrasy
8. Slightly sour (in taste or manner); sharp; caustic
unmitigated
morose
diligence
acidulous
9. Destruction by fire; CF. burnt whole; CF. Holocaust
goad
infernal
holocaust
prophylactic
10. Testify; bear witness
attest
compute
bucolic
daub
11. Gigantic; N. titan
titanic
humane
absolute
abrogate
12. Those of gentle birth; high social class; refinement; quality of being genteel
affront
glutton
tend
gentility
13. Group sharing a common cause or opinion
camp
apiculture
stock
animadversion
14. Serious or fatal accident; person killed or wounded in an accident or battle
epistemologist
supererogatory
casualty
fresco
15. Ordinary; commonplace; neither good nor bad
mediocre
prelude
progeny
desiccate
16. Look on with scorn; regard as worthless or distasteful; ADJ. despicable: contemptible
pan
disapprobation
despise
capricious
17. Language used by special group; technical terminology; gibberish; nonsensical or incoherent talk
timorous
jargon
lewd
ambulatory
18. Spoken or written in secret; trusted with private matters; Ex. confidential secretary
confidential
fructify
gist
troth
19. Make (a piece of needlework) by looping thread with a hooked needle; N. CF. crotchet
swamp
tutelage
crochet
pulsate
20. Act of finding the total; summing-up; summary (esp. one given by the judge at the end of a trial)
resign
plenitude
summation
converse
21. Period of time
waylay
epoch
putrefy
rigid
22. Treatment or situation that causes shame or loss of dignity - respect; offensive or insulting treatment; humiliating or degrading treatment; Ex. I suffered the indignity of having to say that in front of them.
ventral
indignity
fortuitous
frigid
23. Record of descent; lineage; ancestry; study of ancestry
cadaver
genealogy
elaboration
amphibian
24. Gloomy; depressed
piecemeal
incrustation
prefatory
blue
25. Washing
ablution
termination
invalidate
cow
26. Outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule
hue_and_cry
censor
parquet
constituency
27. Causing cancer; N. carcinogen
philology
retract
carcinogenic
congenital
28. Dig up; unearth; OP. inter
ensue
alias
disinter
disconcert
29. Made for practical use only (without decoration); functioning; Ex. functional modern furniture; CF. functionalism
opulence
incense
functional
intimidate
30. Strong; violent and severe; Ex. drastic changes/measures
drastic
restive
attest
psyche
31. One-sided; involving or affecting only one side; Ex. unilateral declaration
sinister
abdicate
unilateral
herpetologist
32. Use sparingly; conserve; save; Ex. husband one's energy; CF. house holder
husband
gentle
distract
devise
33. Accidental; casual; happening by chance
abstinence
comestible
adventitious
collaborate
34. Pleasant in taste; tasty; pleasing - attractive - or agreeable; Ex. savory reputation
plutocracy
summation
dissension
savory
35. Concise and meaningful; substantial; meaty
endearment
transgression
impassable
pithy
36. Looking within oneself; N. introspection: self-examination
introspective
understate
stickler
padre
37. Projection; conjecture; V. extrapolate: infer (unknown information) from known information
distinct
extrapolation
deplete
garrulous
38. Wrongdoing; misconduct (by a public official)
cessation
demolition
malfeasance
timidity
39. Reveal; N. disclosure
disclose
lien
forte
disinclination
40. Twisted
executioner
scotch
gnarled
prehensile
41. Retired or disqualified because of age; outmoded; obsolete
unimpeachable
jurisprudence
serendipity
superannuated
42. (of a word or remark) apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
browse
hindsight
espouse
felicitous
43. Adjust to climate or environment; adapt
psychosis
melancholy
exhale
acclimate
44. Damnation; complete ruin; hell
barterer
insurgent
perdition
shoddy
45. Hugeness (in a bad sense); excessive wickedness; Ex. enormity of the crime; ADJ. enormous
heresy
enormity
contravene
diminution
46. Roundabout
circuitous
scraps
voodoo
prefigure
47. Make (a lawyer) leave the bar or the legal profession
mire
gregarious
escapade
disbar
48. Agonizing; distressing; traumatic; V. harrow: break up and level (soil) with a harrow; inflict great distress on; agonize; N: farming machine to break up the earth
protean
eccentric
harrowing
cessation
49. One who considers traditional beliefs to be groundless and existence meaningless; absolute skeptic; revolutionary terrorist; CF. nihilism: belief that nothing has meaning or value; belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions
topography
nihilist
entreat
voluminous
50. Effusively sentimental
pertinacious
preclude
dupe
maudlin