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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. Go through or across
adorn
jug
traverse
repository
2. Forewarning; presentiment; foreboding
allure
premonition
avalanche
bluster
3. Implied comparison; CF. simile
ichthyology
repress
metaphor
gall
4. Moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction
monogram
restraint
invidious
palette
5. Temporary invasion; CF. excursion: short journey
singular
sagacious
dissimulate
incursion
6. Excessively enthusiastic expression of feeling; musical composition of irregular form (as if made up as one plays it)
dowry
rhapsody
abdicate
ligneous
7. Begin to grow; give off shoots or buds; N: new growth on a plant; shoot
amorous
castrate
hurl
sprout
8. Uneasiness; vague feeling of ill health (without any particular pain or appearance of disease)
malaise
altruistic
filibuster
bluster
9. Arrogant; presumptuous
fortitude
overweening
disdain
Elysium
10. Shining (esp. in the dark); issuing light; Ex. luminous paint/road signs
luminous
usage
calorific
denounce
11. Stealthy; quiet and secret (trying to escape notice); sneaky; Ex. furtive glance
riddle
anchor
linguistic
furtive
12. Handyman; person who does all kinds of work; CF. do everything
profusion
patriarch
humor
factotum
13. Honor the memory of; serve as a memorial to; Ex. commemorate the 100th anniversary/those who died in the war
commemorate
portly
abominate
nostalgia
14. Movable; not fixed; N. mobility
mobile
funereal
illusion
perjury
15. Remaining; left over; of a residue; N: residue
residual
grisly
dys-
kneel
16. Morose; gloomy; Ex. Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance.
saturnine
jovial
somnolent
amnesia
17. Maker and seller of eyeglasses
communal
disgorge
trigger
optician
18. Not influenced by emotions; fair; N: goal; aim
chaotic
orator
compensatory
objective
19. Language used by special group; technical terminology; gibberish; nonsensical or incoherent talk
disenfranchise
snicker
jargon
semblance
20. Missile; fired or thrown object (such as stone or bullet)
totter
anarchist
lavish
projectile
21. Join together end to end to make one continuous length; fasten together; unite; Ex. splice two strips of tape; N.
exodus
splice
generic
ingenuous
22. Undeveloped; rudimentary; N. embryo: organism in the early stage of development
oculist
embryonic
dearth
contravene
23. Fear of being locked in
comprise
mincing
claustrophobia
trifle
24. Pertaining to money
monetary
chaplain
jibe
outlaw
25. Assumption; postulate; proposition upon which an argument is based
patriarch
ablution
premise
precipice
26. Disentangle; solve
unravel
obscure
skulduggery(skullduggery)
indecision
27. Look on with scorn; regard as worthless or distasteful; ADJ. despicable: contemptible
terminal
despise
decorous
arid
28. Four-footed animal; ADJ. CF. biped
limp
conspiracy
quadruped
amble
29. The West
impassable
enigma
meticulous
Occident
30. Lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-respect
abase
gingerly
hortatory
murmur
31. Dormant; temporarily inactive; at rest; N. quiescence
palate
quiescent
daze
plenitude
32. Link as in a chain
actuate
concatenate
inevitable
permeable
33. Attacking; insulting; distasteful; V. offend: violate; hurt the feelings of; N. offense: offending; violating of a moral or social code; crime; attack; Ex. first offense
moratorium
symbiosis
scrappy
offensive
34. Grain-eating; CF. herbivore
onus
herbivorous
meddlesome
percussion
35. Small speck (esp. of dust)
egregious
prolong
mote
chore
36. Act stupidly; play the fool; N.
skim
seine
clown
entrepreneur
37. Edge (at the top of a cliff); Ex. on the brink of the Grand Canyon
holocaust
gullible
ossify
brink
38. Upward; high up in the air
malicious
livid
aloft
waggish
39. Unfriendliness; hatred; enmity; ADJ. hostile
hostility
satirical
annuity
amoral
40. Strong foul odor; reek; stink
facade(fac{c}ade)
stench
respiration
pied
41. Climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble
lackadaisical
recession
mandate
clamber
42. Lacking rhythm or regularity; N. arrhythmia
piety
odium
coalesce
arrhythmic
43. Pleasantly merry; festive; joyous; gay; characterized by joviality; jovial
draft
mediocre
brooch
convivial
44. Stick out; jut; project; Ex. protruding teeth
exemplify
protrude
hirsute
trident
45. Unity of pitch (in musical performance); complete accord; Ex. The choir sang in unison.
parish
larceny
wrinkle
unison
46. Stop motion; curb or restrain
serpentine
check
noose
matriculate
47. Relating to the highest point; N. climax; CF. climatic
hegemony
pulsate
climactic
plaintive
48. Twisted
indigenous
gnarled
connoisseur
incidental
49. Diagram of the positions of stars at a given moment (eg. of a person's birth) used by astrologers
totter
horoscope
voyeur
integral
50. Associate with; keep company; N: husband or wife (or a ruler)
fatuous
consort
upright
detonation