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GRE Vocab
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gre
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bvat
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1. Refer indirectly; N. allusion: indirect reference
simian
allude
acute
liability
2. Interdependent relationship (between groups - species) often mutually beneficial; ADJ. symbiotic; CF. together + life
dexterous
paucity
aloof
symbiosis
3. Seine net; net for catching fish
seine
sodden
humane
makeshift
4. Confer
rave
bestow
pending
nutrition
5. Plentiful
expletive
petulant
stoic
copious
6. Sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river)
drastic
meddlesome
silt
encomiastic
7. Lasting; surviving; V. endure: bear (pain or suffering) for a long time; remain alive (in spite of difficulties); last; survive
fanciful
didactic
enduring
overturn
8. Hot sweet dish
graphite
pudding
aversion
manacle
9. Landless agricultural worker; bond servant; menial worker; N. peonage
apprise
embargo
inveterate
peon
10. Model of perfection; Ex. paragon of virtue
subsequent
paragon
vivid
monotony
11. Wise; shrewd; keen; seeing quickly something that is to one's advantage
spoilsport
complicity
depravity
astute
12. Strong wall built for defense; earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends
prefigure
pigment
bulwark
dilute
13. Rubbing away; tending to grind down
attest
abrasive
asteroid
ancillary
14. Happiness; appropriateness (of a remark - choice - etc.); quality of being felicitous
allegiance
felicity
delude
holocaust
15. Curving outward
convex
complaisant
virtual
fidelity
16. Staff officer assisting the commander; assistant
maternal
adjutant
imply
caprice
17. Iridescent; lustrous; like an opal; N. opalescence
repast
rectitude
infinitesimal
opalescent
18. Lacking rhythm or regularity; N. arrhythmia
arrhythmic
rotundity
defect
regale
19. Without concern or care; unconcerned; indifferent
modulate
euphony
rabid
insouciant
20. Taking pains; showing hard work; taking great care; very careful and through
crust
premonitory
painstaking
impregnate
21. Looking within oneself; N. introspection: self-examination
introspective
clairvoyant
tramp
carrion
22. Power to produce desired effect; ADJ. efficacious: effectual
camaraderie
rancor
efficacy
leonine
23. Understatement for emphasis; Ex. ``not bad(=pretty good)''
litotes
propound
acetic
sear
24. Rustic; pastoral
badinage
knell
bucolic
feud
25. Body of customers
ventriloquist
clientele
spendthrift
cajole
26. Deep dish for serving soup
waft
prophetic
tureen
somnolent
27. Begin to grow; give off shoots or buds; N: new growth on a plant; shoot
dys-
sprout
concise
clamor
28. Abusive; scolding; V. vituperate: berate; scold; rail against abusively
vituperative
aria
dingy
qualms
29. Lazy
encircle
sacrosanct
mischief
indolent
30. Controlling influence; position of controlling influence; CF. in the ascendant
champion
ascendancy
desperate
fulcrum
31. Injure without breaking the skin; N.
pillory
bacchanal
traverse
bruise
32. Furthest behind; farthest to the rear
underlying
defile
expos'e
hindmost
33. (of a liquid) thick and sticky; gluey; viscid; CF. consistency
viscous
florescence
repulsion
vendetta
34. Defrock; strip a priest or minister of church authority
patina
unfrock
imperious
berate
35. Walk with a heavy step; travel on foot; N: vagrant; one who travels aimlessly about; long walk; sound of heavy walking
detraction
tramp
invocation
vitriolic
36. Funeral ceremony
prot'eg'e
institute
ardor
obsequy
37. Fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; N. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature
chimerical
rake
pudding
combustible
38. Wild; sensational; graphic; gruesome; horrible; Ex. lurid details of the murder
token
lurid
overwhelm
whelp
39. Belief that events are determined by forces or fates beyond one's control; ADJ. fatalistic; CF. fatal: causing death
masquerade
commonwealth
fatalism
rational
40. Effusively sentimental
founder
incapacitate
maudlin
bleak
41. Easily burned; N. CF. combustion
sensitization
prohibitive
disgruntle
combustible
42. Plant disease; V: infect with blight; ruin; destroy
incorporate
stump
blight
cipher
43. Attribute; ascribe; charge; N. imputation
mordant
prate
impute
patriarch
44. Spend too much time on minor points (esp. when finding fault); find fault; Ex. niggle over details; ADJ. niggling
niggle
awl
fodder
prevail
45. Underlying character of a culture - group - etc.; character or ideas peculiar to a specific person - group - or culture; Ex. the company ethos
ethos
gloat
choice
jubilation
46. Trail of ship or other object through water; path of something that has gone before; Ex. hunger followed in the wake of the war
wake
skeptic
convene
comprise
47. Tear or cut to pieces; mutilate or disfigure; Ex. badly mangled bodies
affront
mangle
facade(fac{c}ade)
stun
48. Person who pretends to be sophisticated - elegant - etc. - to impress others; person who poses; CF. pose
lust
oligarchy
herbivorous
poseur
49. Traditional; (of someone) conservative in belief; adhering to an established doctrine
orthodox
gavel
cognizance
dregs
50. Burlesque; act of leaving the ground
disfigure
takeoff
consolidation
ebullient