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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. Beginner
ascendancy
novice
emend
epilogue
2. Pompous; using inflated language
prone
maculated
truncate
bombastic
3. Protest; remonstrance; reasoning with someone to correct or dissuade; V. expostulate
imbibe
incident
hazardous
expostulation
4. Firm statement that something is certainly true; promise or pledge; certainty; confidence in one's own ability; self-confidence; Ex. In spite of all his assurances - he did not come back; Ex. assurance of his loyalty; Ex. The teacher lacked assurance
founder
tenacious
assurance
poseur
5. Fit for growing crops; Ex. arable land
partiality
pendant(pendent)
arable
gangrene
6. Deep prolonged unconsciousness caused by disease - poison - or a severe blow
executor
coma
manumit
peripatetic
7. Abundance; wealth
posthumous
welt
affluence
stammer
8. Legal claim or right on a property
uncanny
lien
pretension
arcade
9. Relating to stars; Ex. sidereal day
exorcise
dinghy
sidereal
despot
10. Teacher; CF. child leader
totter
proliferate
meddlesome
pedagogue
11. Transform; change; convert to something different
jubilation
inebriate
transmute
genealogy
12. Created by statute or legislative action; regulated by statute; Ex. statutory age limit
gorge
outlandish
statutory
hale
13. Poke abruptly with something sharp; punch with short blows
throttle
jab
incognito
cadet
14. Bombastic; stiffly pompous; Ex. stilted rhetoric; CF. stiff: formal
stilted
gloat
scurrilous
rider
15. Red or white cell in the blood
reinstate
fret
larder
corpuscle
16. Give protection (by giving food and shelter); provide a refuge for; hide; keep in mind (thoughts or feelings); Ex. harbor a grudge/criminal; N: place of shelter; refuge
cogitate
interregnum
grim
harbor
17. Lift by pushing up from below; increase; raise; N: push upward; increase
pulpit
swathe
gregarious
boost
18. Of sound or its speed in air; CF. subsonic - supersonic
amnesia
fray
sonic
coddle
19. Done secretly; secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden
novice
imponderable
odds
surreptitious
20. Reduce; exhaust
bargain
anticlimax
deplete
deft
21. Government ruled by old people
natal
stifle
gerontocracy
fete(f^ete)
22. Poor; destitute
furtive
vernal
diurnal
indigent
23. Easily deceived
gullible
vociferous
equity
encroachment
24. Expressing sorrow; mournful; Ex. plaintive song
bridle
clangor
plaintive
manumit
25. Discord
palm
drip
dissonance
raiment
26. Fits of depression or gloom; ADJ. moody: given to changeable moods; subject to periods of depression; gloomy CF. mood: state of mind or emotion
palate
moodiness
substantiate
speechless
27. Support; act superior toward; treat in a condescending manner; be a customer of; N. patron: one that supports; regular customer; N. patronage; CF. boycott
peer
patronize
impoverish
minuscule(miniscule)
28. Irreverent
ichthyology
gusto
impious
aerie(aery -eyrie -eyry)
29. Devoutness; reverence for God; ADJ. pious
entourage
fancied
piety
empathy
30. Intricate; difficult; tangled; CF. knot
inhibit
knotty
mobile
sagacious
31. Formless; lacking shape or definition
conspiracy
preclude
ambrosia
amorphous
32. Insolent; rude; not pertinent; N. impertinence
palimpsest
impertinent
cohesion
hardy
33. Loquacious; wordy; talkative; N. garrulity
clout
scowl
distract
garrulous
34. Authority on a subject; expert; learned person
annul
fraught
divulge
pundit
35. Opening; hole; adjustable opening in a camera that limits the amount of light
intermediary
malediction
legend
aperture
36. 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
scrap
reserve
spare
immune
37. Daily domestic task (such as cleaning - cooking - and shopping); unpleasant task
desolate
chore
abbreviate
meander
38. Threat; V: threaten
narrative
glutton
menace
anarchist
39. Quick clever reply
insalubrious
disburse
repartee
perquisite(perk)
40. Weaken; castrate
emasculate
annuity
panacea
pusillanimous
41. Tear out; cut out (as if with a gouge); Ex. gouge his eyes out; N: chisel for cutting out hollow areas in wood
valor
scurvy
affluence
gouge
42. Disintegration; reduction to a liquid form; looseness in morals; sensual indulgence; debauchery; ADJ. dissolute: lacking in moral restraint; leading an immoral life
panacea
comprise
dissolution
temporize
43. 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
surreptitious
affirmation
nihilist
tundra
44. Slanderous remark; Ex. cast aspersions on
kneel
effete
reconcile
aspersion
45. Formal agreement
gazette
bristling
concordat
console
46. Iron block used in hammering out metals
anvil
trigger
cunning
avuncular
47. Speechless; producing indistinct speech; not articulate; not expressing oneself clearly
inarticulate
dossier
deviate
punctilious
48. Liable to err
effigy
putative
impiety
fallible
49. Adorn; ornament; enhance as a story (by adding fictitious details)
autonomous
embellish
relapse
odds
50. Compiler of a dictionary; CF. lexicography: work of compiling a dictionary
grumble
freebooter
fuss:
lexicographer