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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. State of being immovable
dowry
glare
immobility
cumbersome
2. Great mass of falling snow and ice
wax
avalanche
shunt
arbitrary
3. Distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds)
debar
gentry
resolution
disseminate
4. Condition of being squalid; filth; degradation; dirty neglected state; ADJ. squalid: dirty; sordid; morally repulsive; Ex. squalid story
squalor
discerning
bully
sentimental
5. State strongly or positively; demand recognition of (rights - claims - etc.); make a claim to (by forceful action); Ex. assert one's independence
junket
dolt
assert
integrate
6. Throw forcefully; shout out violently
exude
predecessor
hurl
reminiscence
7. Urge (by strong argument or advice); Ex. The general exhorted his men to fight bravely; N. exhortation
consonance
sobriety
exhort
provenance
8. Nearness (in space or relationship); proximity; kinship
scraps
commandeer
propinquity
chastise
9. Tool for mashing or grinding substances in a hard bowl or mortar
bereavement
pestle
monogram
apostate
10. Giving or showing bliss; blissful
finery
beatific
gratuitous
tortuous
11. Unnatural and forced; artificial; not spontaneous; Ex. The ending was rather contrived.
rally
prosperous
contrived
propound
12. Model; example that serves as a model; pattern; list of all the inflectional forms of a word
analgesia
glib
paradigm
anvil
13. Restrain; handcuff; N.
hypocritical
manacle
anticlimax
grandiloquent
14. Crushed oats used for making porridge
retiring
poseur
referendum
oatmeal
15. Fearful; discerning
hydrophobia
apprehensive
mobile
cerebration
16. Informal discussion; conversation
consolidation
colloquy
discerning
soluble
17. Take apart; disassemble
madrigal
monochromatic
dismantle
crone
18. Enthusiastic applause
docile
buffoonery
ovation
plethora
19. Talkative; N. loquacity
berserk
elated
decry
loquacious
20. Burn unsteadily or fitfully; move waveringly; N: flickering movement or light; brief sensation; Ex. flicker of excitement
wangle
flicker
punitive
amenities
21. Very fat; N. corpulence
corpulent
mural
plasticity
arrhythmic
22. Beastlike; brutal; inhuman; very cruel
exceptionable
bestial
imperious
dally
23. Despicable; unpleasant; disgusting; Ex. vile slander
functional
ablution
vile
nepotism
24. Display ostentatiously; Ex. ``Honey - if you've got it - flaunt it !''
laconic
flaunt
waft
prerogative
25. Action of moving secretly or unseen; slyness; sneakiness; secretiveness; ADJ. stealthy
stealth
bromide
gentry
insubordination
26. Respectable; having a good reputation
dulcet
iridescent
reputable
mass
27. Loop formed in a rope
indite
run-down
restive
noose
28. Feathers of a bird;
satire
plumage
censure
incoherent
29. Specialist in classifying (animals - etc.); CF. taxonomy: science of classification
fell
censor
psyche
taxonomist
30. Faultless
welter
rummage
impeccable
abominable
31. Scholarly article
monograph
transcendental
peripheral
archaeology
32. Deception; trickery
artifice
trident
forestall
adversity
33. Branch out; divide into branches or subdivisions
ramify
lust
agitate
title
34. Staff officer assisting the commander; assistant
adjutant
masochist
despise
recourse
35. Incurable; uncorrectable; impossible to remedy
executioner
irremediable
pinnace
arrears
36. Boorish; clumsy in speech or behavior; outlandish
beholden
absolute
uncouth
bane
37. Injury to body; crime of willfully maiming or crippling a person; violent disorder; Ex. mayhem in the zoo; CF. maim
garnish
residue
apocalyptic
mayhem
38. Fly; fly or move lightly or quickly; dart lightly; pass swiftly by; Ex. a bee flitting from flower to flower
complementary
musky
flit
pusillanimous
39. Extremely aggressive and militant patriot; warlike chauvinist; N. jingoism: extreme nationalism
tribulation
circuitous
jingoist
pose
40. Put in danger
enamored
complacency
embroider
imperil
41. (of a person) unable to express what one really feels
acclivity
soar
inhibited
crest
42. Senility; feeblemindedness of old age; Ex. In one's dotage
jollity
lancet
delusive
dotage
43. Severe trial or affliction; difficult experience; trial(test of patience or endurance); affliction
satire
smirk
presage
ordeal
44. Trademark; mark burned on the hide of an animal; mark burned into the flesh of criminals; mark of disgrace; V: mark with a brand; give a lasting bad name; stigmatize; Ex. The press branded him a liar.
misogynist
amenable
severity
brand
45. Of or pertaining to the people
demotic
tepid
circlet
embryonic
46. Slandering; aspersion; detracting; CF. detractor
terminal
besmirch
detraction
vulpine
47. (of the senses) sharp; quickly perceptive; keen; penetrating; brief and severe; Ex. acute sense of smell/analysis/pain
solitude
ecosystem
sleigh
acute
48. Imagined; unreal
consensus
fancied
banal
multilingual
49. Existing at birth
parable
congenital
bucolic
patronize
50. Small waterfall
overwrought
cascade
secession
cupidity