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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. Vow; promise; use profane oaths; use offensive words
inerrancy
swear
anomalous
piety
2. Match; short period of great activity; Ex. wrestling bout; bout of drinking/flu
blue
affluence
ancestry
bout
3. Talk idly; speak foolishly; boast idly
broach
prate
legato
insipid
4. Profitable; producing wealth
blowhard
inured
lucrative
sultry
5. Endowed with flesh; invested with bodily form; personified; Ex. devil incarnate; V: give bodily form to; embody
insatiable
incarnate
bauble
renounce
6. Plant or animal (esp. a dog) of mixed breed; ADJ.
deluge
scrap
mongrel
blackball
7. Serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary; N.
ancillary
centrifugal
abrogate
physiological
8. Hug; clasp with the arms; adopt or espouse; accept readily; encircle; include; Ex. embrace the cause/socialism; Ex. all-embracing; CF. brace; CF. bracelet
sanctimonious
embrace
addiction
correlate
9. Yield (to something overwhelming); give in; die; Ex. succumb to the illness
interstice
succumb
extant
phalanx
10. (of someone) having insight; penetrating; astute
artful
perspicacious
transport
engender
11. Wrestle; come to grips with; take hold of and struggle with; Ex. grapple with the burglar
exodus
berserk
grapple
comprise
12. Characteristic frame of mind; disposition; emotional excess; ADJ. temperamental: of temperament; having frequent changes of temper; Ex. temperamental dislike of sports; Ex. temperamental actress
intervene
supplant
turbid
temperament
13. Weak; ineffective; lacking in physical strength or power
dissuade
mongrel
impotent
metamorphosis
14. Move furtively; ADJ. slinky: stealthy; furtive; sneaky (as in ambush)
slink
voluble
germinal
munificent
15. A manually skilled worker
ingratiate
mutinous
raffle
artisan
16. Intelligent; quick and energetic; fashionable; Ex. smart pace/restaurant; V: cause or feel a sharp pain; N: smarting pain
suffuse
smart
d'ebris
mayhem
17. False; counterfeit; forged; illogical; Ex. spurious arguments
nugatory
spurious
conjure
gnome
18. Happening in the near future; ready; willing to help; Ex. No answer was forthcoming.
credence
forthcoming
tranquillity
rotund
19. Become boring; grow tiresome
pall
analgesic
infirmity
ecstasy
20. Support on which a lever rests or pivots
fulcrum
pungent
philology
scrupulous
21. Feeling of exaggerated or unfounded(ungrounded; baseless) well-being; feeling of great happiness or well-being (when unreasonable); ADJ. euphoriaric
manacle
vigilante
exacerbate
euphoria
22. One who without authority assumes law enforcement powers
matriculate
consensus
vigilante
conclusive
23. Dummy; likeness of a person made of wood - paper - or stone; Ex. burn an effigy of the President
effigy
simian
conformity
remit
24. Door bar; fastening pin or screw; length of fabric; large roll of cloth; V: dash or dart off; fasten (a door); gobble down
suckle
bolt
gingerly
merger
25. Related to monks or monasteries; removed from worldly concerns
pestle
frond
monastic
apprehensive
26. Work of art put together from fragments
query
motif
collage
quiescent
27. Compelling immediate action; pressing; persistent; importunate; Ex. urgent in his demands
urgent
marked
bovine
eulogistic
28. Drawback; handicap; debts; obligation; responsibility; condition of being liable; ADJ. liable: likely; responsible (for paying)
liability
warp
monetary
antagonism
29. Beginner; novice
tyro
mercurial
quisling
endear
30. Beak(bill); pen point
nib
craft
trepidation
antiquated
31. Expert at; very skilled
adept
peripheral
restraint
sleazy
32. Yearly allowance
annuity
postmortem
concave
supernumerary
33. Crafty; double-dealing; of the political doctrine of Machiavelli - which holds that craft and deceit are justified in pursuing political power
betray
tenuous
pterodactyl
Machiavellian
34. Lifeless; not animate
emetic
coup
inanimate
innate
35. Remedy to counteract a poison or disease; Ex. antidote to the economic troubles
inept
antidote
cadaverous
boor
36. Group of mammals including humans
gadfly
primate
monogram
paradox
37. Switch (a railroad car) to a siding; divert from a main issue; N. CF. siding: short section of railroad track connected by switches with a main track
sidetrack
benison
panacea
trajectory
38. Study of word parts; study of the origins of words
lexicon
brave
frock
etymology
39. Implying a cause-and-effect relationship; N. causality
vent
manifold
engender
causal
40. Society ruled by the wealthy
trough
plutocracy
veritable
ethos
41. Ornamental clasp; pin
brooch
supposititious
intangible
cataclysm
42. Show by example; furnish an example; serve as an example of; Ex. His pictures exemplify that sort of painting.
unique
impregnable
squander
exemplify
43. Person who enjoys his own pain; CF. masochism
quizzical
reek
taint
masochist
44. Purgative; medicine that causes the bowels to empty; ADJ.
mural
cathartic
stringent
gall
45. Pertaining to the lungs
pulmonary
peerless
effectuate
disseminate
46. Tending to cause death; highly injurious; aggressively malevolent; Ex. malignant tumor
contempt
seemly
malignant
censor
47. Absorb; take (food) into the body and digest it; understand (knowledge) completely and be able to use properly; cause to become homogeneous (the people of a country or race in the wasy of behaving or thinking)
assimilate
bigot
remiss
smolder
48. Flabby; lacking firmness; weak; Ex. flaccid muscles
flaccid
turmoil
suborn
repeal
49. Spacious
capacious
offhand
automaton
balk
50. Use sparingly; conserve; save; Ex. husband one's energy; CF. house holder
meander
impregnable
spartan
husband