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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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1. Spur; motive; something which encourages one to greater activity
postmortem
mute
credo
incentive
2. Strict disciplinarian; person who demands total obedience to rules and orders; CF. Jean Martinet
bifurcated
stoop
martinet
presage
3. One opposed to force; antimilitarist; ADJ. N. pacifism: opposition to war as a means of resolving disputes
nullify
corrugated
disparity
pacifist
4. Very generous in giving; Ex. munificent benefactor; N. munificience
munificent
ignoble
debauch
imbue
5. Produced by imagination; fanciful; mystical; showing foresight; N: one having foresight; one given to speculative impractical ideas
strangle
visionary
analogous
synchronous
6. Evolve as in prenatal growth; N. gestation: period of development from conception until birth
promulgate
gestate
ingrained
irksome
7. Depravity; baseness; Ex. moral turpitude
ovation
abase
turpitude
serpentine
8. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one; ADJ. euphemistic
simper
berserk
d'ecollet'e
euphemism
9. Counselor; teacher
sagacious
mentor
senility
potentate
10. Blessed; consecrated; Ex. hallowed ground; V. hallow: set apart as holy
callus
reprise
hallowed
swear-word
11. Poem or song expressing lamentation (for the dead); ADJ. elegiacal - elegiac
jaundiced
elegy
cubicle
impassable
12. Interfering; V. meddle: interfere
provident
meddlesome
retentive
arsenal
13. Be cautious (of)
incontrovertible
agglomeration
caricature
beware
14. Confuse; puzzle
mandatory
regimen
confound
foppish
15. Vex; annoy or make angry (by testing the patience)
assert
abolish
ecologist
exasperate
16. Food; CF. live
viand
parched
hinterlands
portly
17. Supplying nourishment
alimentary
cleave
depredation
entice
18. That can be permeated; penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through; V. permeate: spread or flow throughout; charge
permeable
dispatch
awl
dominant
19. Keep waiting; prevent from leaving or going; N. detention
puzzle
skim
detain
primate
20. Lustful
retract
miscellany
lascivious
vitreous
21. Posion; cause of ruin; ADJ. baneful: harmful; poisonous
scad
vain
minutiae
bane
22. 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
usury
splice
bigot
scheme
23. Make drunk; stimulate or excite; Ex. intoxicated by all the money he might win
sustain
noncommittal
intoxicate
heterodox
24. Suffering from a disease; destroyed
kismet
run-down
reticent
blighted
25. Word considered offensive; Ex. 'bloody''
swear-word
padre
waver
circumscribe
26. Extremely severe; Ex. draconian punishment; CF. Draco: Athenian politician
draconian
reciprocal
garbled
corpus
27. Small piece or mark; Ex. speck of dust in the eye
patronize
superannuated
speck
pallid
28. Pause; temporary cessation; alcove; secret inner place; Ex. parliament in recess; V. CF. recessive
victuals
conceit
vulture
recess
29. Act of keeping watch; high place commanding a wide view; person who keeps watch
antagonism
shade
lookout
draconian
30. Harmony; agreement with established rules or customs; similarity; Ex. behave in conformity with; V. conform: be similar; act in agreement; comply; Ex. conform to the rule; CF. conformance
pastoral
conformity
pulse
pith
31. Long - passionate - and vehement speech; V.
ancestry
embryonic
regatta
harangue
32. Act or manner of using; accepted practice; way in which words are actually used
sleek
brackish
usage
concise
33. Change the appearance of (by marking with different colors)
pallet
variegate
facile
memorialize
34. Skill (esp. with one's hands); skill in deceiving people; guile; ADJ. crafty: cleverly deceitful; cunning
bridle
craft
irremediable
prattle
35. Illicit lover
bent
paramour
lap
agnostic
36. Deceptive; likely to delude; misleading; raising vain hopes; Ex. delusive promises
edict
rapport
margin
delusive
37. Aimless follower of an art or a field of knowledge (not taking it seriously); amateur; dabbler; CF. delight
noose
dilettante
pine
fatuous
38. Give a personal guarantee; Ex. I can vouch for his integrity; N. voucher
ascendancy
stygian
cogent
vouch
39. Protruding knot on a tree; V.
malevolent
gnarl
obsequious
license
40. Illegal
stentorian
slew
torso
illicit
41. Shine brightly with flashing points of light; Ex. glittering diamond ring; N: sparkling light; attractiveness; glamor; Ex. glitter of the sun on the waves
ruminate
glitter
tart
indoctrinate
42. Window projecting upright from roof; CF. sleeping room
colloquy
natty
vitriolic
dormer
43. Preoccupation with physical comforts and things; excessive regard for worldly concerns (rather than spiritual matters)
somber
chassis
materialism
incontinent
44. Waste (time or money on unimportant things)
Shangri-la
atone
fritter
chore
45. Guardianship; training; function of a tutor; instruction
tutelage
rail
stint
visceral
46. Possessing good health; healthful
thrive
healthy
pedagogy
maraud
47. Puzzle; mystery; ADJ. enigmatic: obscure; puzzling
debilitate
enigma
industrious
speechless
48. Extremely small; CF. minutes: official record of the proceedings at a meeting
accessible
blasé
objective
minute
49. Shallow body of water or lake near a sea; lake separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs
catastrophe
supercilious
cryptic
lagoon
50. Urge (by strong argument or advice); Ex. The general exhorted his men to fight bravely; N. exhortation
exhort
credential
char
vagary