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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. Something - such as a monument or holiday - intended to honor the memory of a person or event; ADJ: commemorative
tempestuous
appurtenances
memorial
substantiate
2. Insignificant; unimportant
poignancy
bestow
inconsequential
margin
3. Hurl downward; throw headlong; hasten; cause to happen sooner; condense and fall as rain or snow; cause (a solid substance) to be separated from a solution; ADJ. hasty; rash; premature; sudden
polemical(polemic)
odoriferous
quibble
precipitate
4. Of a pole; characterized by opposite extremes; Ex. polar opposites
repugnance
polar
stellar
transition
5. Favoring success; giving signs of future success; Cf. auspices
untoward
auspicious
unerringly
rasp
6. Small light sailboat or rowboat
spurious
roseate
mass
skiff
7. Dry up
forensic
resilient
desiccate
tact
8. Be thankful for; increase in worth; be thoroughly conscious of; ADJ. appreciable: enough to be felt; Ex. appreciable difference
convoke
querulous
defalcate
appreciate
9. Riddle; difficult problem
senility
finite
conundrum
levitate
10. Frankness; open honesty; ADJ. candid
plenitude
candor
consistency
tend
11. Honesty; uprightness; wholeness; state of being whole and undivided; completeness
plausible
imperceptible
integrity
anoint
12. Uncouple; separate; disconnect; stop fighting; OP. engage
disengage
dissent
commonwealth
gruff
13. Period of equal days and nights; the beginning of spring and autumn; Ex. vernal/autumnal equinox; ADJ. equinoctial
rigor
equinox
aplomb
knave
14. Repulsive to the sight; ugly; repugnant; Ex. hideous face/scream
hideous
horde
emollient
prohibitive
15. Dig up; unearth; OP. inter
fetter
anthropologist
aspirant
disinter
16. Unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly
inadvertently
arcade
precept
restraint
17. Confusion; turmoil; confused mass; bewildering jumble; Ex. welter of data
connotation
privation
welter
malignant
18. Supply; allotted amount of work; assigned portion of work; limitation; Ex. two-year stint in the army; Ex. without stint
abet
wheedle
hide
stint
19. Red or white cell in the blood
captious
corpuscle
traverse
haggle
20. Weakness
merger
bedraggle
infirmity
marred
21. Noble; aristocratic; N: person of high rank; aristocrat; CF. member of the governing classes in ancient Rome; CF. plebian
antagonism
patrician
barb
bridle
22. Cut down; cut down expenses; economize
ingrained
emboss
retrench
consign
23. Bravery; ADJ. valiant: possessing valor; brave
valor
prepossessing
errant
paleontology
24. Maim; injure lastingly; deprive of a limb or an essential part
remittance
bulk
mutilate
aggregate
25. Artificial channel for water; drain crossing under a road
pragmatist
jocose
engulf
culvert
26. Protruding part; swelling of a surface; Ex. The apple made a bulge in his pocket; V: swell outward; protrude
bulge
linger
clot
unearth
27. Vibrate pendulumlike; waver
remission
abeyance
oscillate
retort
28. Of a theme; relating to a unifying motif or idea
tablet
dichotomy
contraband
thematic
29. Pride; haughtiness; ADJ. arrogant: unpleasantly self-important (with a strong confidence in one's own importance and a lack of respect for other people)
peruse
inimical
ethnology
arrogance
30. Solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse; V. anathematize
predilection
slur
anathema
whelp
31. Original work used as a model by others
prostrate
palimpsest
prototype
peer
32. Staying for a short time; momentary; temporary; N: one that is transient
transient
sophistry
spoilsport
intellect
33. Make bitter; fill with painful or bitter feelings; make sad and angry; Ex. He was embittered by many disappointments.
reserve
exotic
embitter
swerve
34. Division into two opposite parts; split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
cartographer
puny
foppish
dichotomy
35. Thoroughly soaked; dull or stupid as if from drink
sodden
unilateral
alms
stanza
36. Eliminate from consideration; no longer consider; put out of court without further hearing; reject; discharge from employment; direct to leave; ADJ. dismissive; N. dismissal
pass_off
dismiss
archives
coalesce
37. Utter a deep guttural sound (as a pig does); N.
militia
tribune
shear
grunt
38. Affecting or relating to the sense of taste
terminal
gustatory
caption
acerbity
39. Ease pain (without curing); make less severe or offensive (a crime or illness)
regent
intrigue
subordinate
palliate
40. Disobedient or resisting authority even after being punished; obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly; Ex. recalcitrant child
ferocious
recalcitrant
soothsayer
juncture
41. Bully; intimidate
outstrip
aperture
browbeat
morgue
42. Ecclesiastical; pertaining to the church; N: minister; priest; cleric; clergyman
correlate
nebulous
ecclesiastic
mundane
43. Length of time something lasts
palpitate
somnambulist
slander
duration
44. Give up; do without
forgo(forego)
saboteur
exquisite
sepulcher
45. Able to take on many forms; versatile; CF. Proteus: sea god to change his shape at will
protean
unconscionable
necromancy
archipelago
46. Struggle and thrash about; proceed clumsily or falter (as in water - mud - snow - etc.); proceed in confusion
dilatory
hoax
flounder
glossary
47. Irritable; easily angered
executor
verbiage
irascible
extrovert
48. Worthless products of an endeavor; husk(outer seed cover) separated from grain; Ex. separate the wheat from the chaff
lurk
chaff
staccato
servile
49. Mongrel; mixed breed; V. hybridize
juncture
dearth
knead
hybrid
50. Map-maker
cartographer
belated
erratic
transcendent