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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. Be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline
dote
irrefutable
celestial
damn
2. Landless agricultural worker; bond servant; menial worker; N. peonage
stagnant
eulogy
peon
douse
3. Take for granted; assume; act overconfidently; take liberties; presume on/upon: take unfair advantage of (someone's kindness or connection); N. presumption
tonsure
babble
presume
cubicle
4. (of someone) having insight; penetrating; astute
hazy
opprobrium
spry
perspicacious
5. Of or causing sepsis; putrid; producing putrefaction; N. sepsis: poisoning of part of the body (producing pus)
entrepreneur
septic
veto
defer
6. Confused; lost in thought; preoccupied
interjection
humble
impugn
bemused
7. Greed (for wealth); CF. cupid; CF. Cupid
cupidity
pensive
vernacular
miserly
8. Devoutness; reverence for God; ADJ. pious
cite
flux
piety
pinion
9. Read or glance through quickly; touch lightly in passing; brush; remove from the surface of a liquid
liability
skim
stalemate
sacrilegious
10. Boisterous merrymaking; V. revel: engage boisterous festivities; enjoy greatly; N: boisterous festivity or celebration
revelry
extrinsic
droop
scrimmage
11. Rule over tyrannically
discordant
crossbreed
desiccate
domineer
12. Heavy and awkward to carry or wear; burdensome; Ex. cumbersome parcel/uniform
scurvy
curmudgeon
cumbersome
leonine
13. Command; order; forbid
erotic
institution
mendicant
enjoin
14. Beautiful clothes for a special occasion
buccaneer
finery
graphite
guileless
15. Difficult to please; squeamish; fussy; finicky
reconcile
supposititious
fastidious
savor
16. Of air; high in the air; lofty; immaterial; unreal
camp
rejoinder
airy
drab
17. Temporary moderation (of disease symptoms); remitting of a debt or punishment; cancelation of a debt; pardon; Ex. The disease went into remission; Ex. Christians pray for the remission of sins.
remission
refractory
perturb
neophyte
18. Comment; make explanatory notes
behemoth
cerebration
annotate
boisterous
19. Quick sharp reply; V.
spurn
pulverize
thespian
retort
20. Salty
dynamic
coddle
saline
ratiocination
21. Thin and wasted (from hunger or illness)
denounce
artful
emaciated
flaunt
22. Ability to change in form; fickleness; ADJ. mutable: able to change; fickle; CF. mutate; CF. mutant
impudence
mutablility
airy
mischief
23. Run-down; decrepit; disreputable; having many seeds; Ex. seedy downtown hotel
compatible
seedy
indelible
cordon
24. Unattractive
pushy
plumage
trenchant
unprepossessing
25. Injure without breaking the skin; N.
apiary
gnarled
tundra
bruise
26. Shaving of the head especially by person entering religious orders; V.
skim
brevity
tonsure
lot
27. One guilty of a crime
culprit
epitome
gruesome
dotage
28. Ordinary; dull; unimaginative(lacking in imagination); going on foot; Ex. pedestrian prose; N.
astronomical
wan
lineage
pedestrian
29. Overpowering; irresistible in effect; holding one's attention; that compels one to do something; Ex. a compelling adventure story; V. compel
urge
compelling
apiarist
precipice
30. Sear; parched; dry
opportunist
synoptic
sere
bedizen
31. Plentiful
ford
glare
quicksilver
copious
32. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
approbation
abstemious
levity
festive
33. Neutral; refusing commitment to a particular opinion; unpledged; undecided
tremor
insurgent
noncommittal
reverend
34. Split into opposite extremes or camps
civil
polarize
immobility
subsidiary
35. Loud and harsh; insistent; N. stridency
hinterlands
strident
elaboration
gentility
36. Steal another's ideas or writings and pass them off as one's own; Ex. ideas plagiarized from my article; N. plagiarism; CF. kidnap
torque
archives
plagiarize
fracas
37. Discipline; punish in order to correct; CF. castigate
glaze
chasten
vapid
attrition
38. Clever in deceiving; sly; N: cleverness in deceiving; deceit
cunning
entree(entr'ee)
pedigree
debut
39. Children; offspring; descendants
progeny
knack
encircle
supersede
40. Rejoice
abide
expository
exult
auroral
41. Become worse in quality; deteriorate; ADJ: having become worse; Ex. a degenerate species; N: depraved or corrupt person
cistern
balk
degenerate
emolument
42. Reprimand; severely scold
peevish
thwart
dwindle
upbraid
43. Equality; close resemblance; CF. disparate
embryonic
ovoid
squalor
parity
44. Repeat
lofty
reiterate
humid
terrestrial
45. Draw out fact or information (by discussion or from someone)
purported
reinstate
elicit
begrudge
46. Calamity ; disaster
catastrophe
molecule
quiescent
plane
47. Explain; interpret; Ex. construe her silence as meaning that she agreed; CF. misconstrue
swagger
construe
palette
sordid
48. Pertaining to the body; bodily; physical
somatic
cremate
pliable
pinch
49. Art of effective communication; art of using language effectively and persuasively; style of speaking or writing; grandiloquent language; Ex. political rhetoric; ADJ. rhetorical; CF. rhetorical question: question to which no answer is expected as ``W
aquiline
efficacy
rhetoric
mitigate
50. Devout; religious; N. piety
conjecture
despot
incredulous
pious