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GRE Vocab
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gre
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english
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bvat
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Irresolution; inability to make up one's mind
indecision
saga
disinclination
console
2. Essential quality; V: ascribe; explain
collusion
solvent
attribute
faze
3. Conducive to good health; Ex. healthful mountain air
discretion
healthful
satirical
rife
4. Pompous walk; V: walk in a self-important manner
strut
compress
luster
epitome
5. Urge on; drive with a goad; cause (someone) to do something by continued annoyance; Ex. They goaded him into doing it by saying he was a coward; N: sharp-pointed stick for driving cattle; stimulus; CF. annoy continually
multiform
mire
drone
goad
6. Wrong or improper name; incorrect designation
misnomer
exorcise
vibrant
connubial
7. Pertaining to the lungs
renege
pulmonary
sear
hindsight
8. Decode; CF. indecipherable
erode
decipher
causal
tenure
9. Notorious; conspicuously bad or shocking
effulgent
egregious
hoary
adage
10. Sailing vessel built for great speed
plumage
lunatic
clipper
coterie
11. (of words or a voice) sweetly or smoothly flowing; melodious; having a pleasant tune
mellifluous
grimace
defrock
ineluctable
12. Cause to become sick; fill with disgust; fill nausea
nauseate
upshot
taunt
ciliated
13. Fortress
consistency
unearthly
citadel
hysteria
14. Cowardly; lacking courage; fainthearted
flay
arduous
pusillanimous
chasten
15. Hindrance; stumbling-block; speech defect preventing clear articulation; Ex. speech impediment
nomadic
impediment
connotation
contest
16. Unpleasant high sharp sound; shriek; V.
prowess
penchant
screech
audacious
17. Authorized agent; authority to act for another
discredit
proxy
gruff
spoonerism
18. Walk through a substance - such as water - that impedes movement
gorge
fortitude
wade
oculist
19. (of water) not flowing (often bad-smelling); motionless; stale; not developing; inactive; dull; Ex. stagnant industrial output
metropolis
stagnant
catalyst
lascivious
20. Beginning; forming of an idea; fertilization; V. conceive: form an idea in the mind; devise; become pregnant; CF. inception
conception
titanic
tangential
temerity
21. Immature; not having the feathers necessary to fly; CF. fledgling
unfledged
somnambulist
titillate
abstinence
22. Giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin
entourage
recondite
verbose
sensuous
23. Waver (in opinion); fluctuate; sway to and fro; N. vacillation
sour
vacillate
resplendent
dispense
24. Skin disease (esp. of domestic animals) marked by loss of hair
terminus
abstruse
travesty
mange
25. Taking up again; recommencement; V. resume: begin or take up again; take or occupy again; Ex. Kindly resume your seats.
canny
tryst
resumption
stygian
26. Respect; value; judge; N.
esteem
retentive
scoff
finesse
27. Approve; support; tolerate; Ex. countenance his rude behavior; N: face; appearance
submerge
incriminate
dispirited
countenance
28. Decree; authoritative order
pivotal
ordinance
facade(fac{c}ade)
cohabit
29. Flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; V.
coquette
apparition
salvage
forum
30. Serious and sedate; sober; Ex. staid during the funeral ceremony
maneuver(manoeuver)
ecologist
psychopathic
staid
31. Gruesome; grisly; ghastly; CF. of death
aphasia
macabre
dolt
lance
32. Allowing much freedom; lenient; Ex. permissive society
permissive
bastard
coup
natal
33. Tending to overthrow or ruin; V. subvert: overthrow completely (an established system); destroy completely; CF. undermine ?
subversive
self-indulgence
nutritious
finish
34. Name (of a book - film - etc.); mark of rank; formal appellation as of rank or office (such as Lord or General); right or claim to possession; championship; Ex. title as head of the family; Ex. title to the estate
title
thesis
diversion
sheer
35. Not noticing; disregarding
preposterous
heedless
homogeneous
remunerative
36. Beat (cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains from the straw
profane
prescience
thresh
arable
37. Yield (to something overwhelming); give in; die; Ex. succumb to the illness
academic
embrace
pomposity
succumb
38. Roman outer robe
standstill
fallible
toga
amenities
39. Not yet decided or settled; impending; Ex. pending decision; PREP. while awaiting; until; Ex. delay the decision pending his return
fiend
pending
incorporate
turmoil
40. Behavior; bearing
demeanor
comely
periphery
omniscient
41. Seniority by birth; state of being the first-born child; right of the eldest child (to inherit the entire property of one or both parents)
studied
detached
primogeniture
amazon
42. Renounce; give up (position - right - or responsibility)
codicil
spoonerism
abdicate
tendentious
43. Distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental; V. cloy: become unpleasant through too much sweetness or excess
gibberish
cloying
synoptic
callous
44. Work together; cooperate treasonably with the enemy
collaborate
regimen
frolicsome
edifice
45. Diabolic; devilish; fiendish
gainsay
inclusive
sacrilegious
diabolical
46. Ceremonious quality; ceremonious adherence to rules; something done just for form's sake; Ex. mere formality
tribute
musty
inquisitive
formality
47. Push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude; impose (oneself or one's ideas) on others; butt in; stick out or extrude; thrust out; Ex. obtrude A on B; ADJ. obtrusive; N. obtrusion; CF. unobtrusive
obtrude
approbation
auspicious
lineage
48. Act of keeping watch; high place commanding a wide view; person who keeps watch
scurvy
covenant
lookout
centrifuge
49. Able to pay all depths; N. solvency
maternal
typhoon
solvent
ceremonious
50. Feverish
febrile
actuate
insularity
vaporize