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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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english
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vocabulary
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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. A gesture showing obedience and respect
apotheosize
obdurate
porcine
obeisance
2. High-sounding language w/little meaning
scourge
bombast
iridescent
elixir
3. An intro to something more substantial
rancor
overture
vacuous
slough
4. To harass - torment - beset
beleaguer
cloying
exculpate
tremulous
5. Exonerate
profligate
exculpate
rakish
harrowing
6. Fearlessly brave - resolute
overture
pulchritude
sheepish
intrepid
7. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
pantheon
pretext
importune
malefactor
8. Prudent - economical
garish
pomp
provident
maudlin
9. Oddly amusing
antecedent
churl
droll
staid
10. Saturate - stain
consortium
captious
sonorous
imbrue
11. Present from birth - inborn
disconcert
congenital
eke
intemperate
12. Misrepresent - disguise
belie
congenial
sinews
recapitulate
13. Offset and mitigate the effects by contrary actions
venal
incubus
countervail
melee
14. Wolf-like - rapacious
benighted
incorrigible
autocrat
lupine
15. Unconventional and slightly disreputable - rakish
descry
timorous
raffish
squalid
16. Rich in sound; spoken words that are impressive
minatory
sonorous
recapitulate
ethereal
17. Anger provoked by unfair treatment
indignation
turpitude
rout
enmity
18. Having like minds or temperament
subterfuge
feral
exiguous
simpatico
19. Sloppy - unkempt
modicum
slovenly
withering
elixir
20. To censor
perfidious
malefactor
staunch
bowdlerize
21. Favoritism shown to relatives
recapitulate
forlorn
gaunt
nepotism
22. Proving
redolent
nepotism
redoubtable
probative
23. Meticulous
fealty
pathos
punctilious
subterfuge
24. To steal a small amount - filch
prosaic
prolix
spurious
pilfer
25. Lavish
garish
malefactor
progenitor
sumptuous
26. Immoderate - lacking in self-control
porcine
belie
intemperate
ineluctable
27. Immature - childish - puerile
countervail
callow
voluptuary
proscribe
28. To condemn openly
obfuscate
saturnine
denounce
perfidious
29. To pamper
unrequited
strident
cosset
quintessence
30. To develop rapidly
discreet
modicum
burgeon
overture
31. Ancestor - originator
progenitor
obsequious
gad
palliative
32. Any increase in intensity
staunch
recidivist
crescendo
benighted
33. Dark - shadowy - gloomy
imperious
redoubtable
tenebrous
adventitious
34. Moral or cultural decline - dissolute
ennui
decadent
droll
imbrue
35. Merrymaking
obtuse
carousal
apocryphal
proscribe
36. Sleep inducing
dogmatic
impertinent
smarmy
soporific
37. Wasteful or lavishly abundant
sophistry
slough
prodigal
feral
38. A feeling of sadness at a loss
wane
elegiac
descry
numinous
39. Overly idealistic
noisome
quixotic
despot
churl
40. To formally give up
evanescent
descry
renounce
bristle
41. (fig.) disappearing (feelings of love)
evanescent
minatory
munificent
repartee
42. Induce to commit an unlawful act
palliative
vociferous
suborn
mendicant
43. Chastise - excoriate - assail - rebuke
sordid
intemperate
castigate
withering
44. To express vehement protest
turpitude
fulminate
provident
raffish
45. Tasteless - dull - prosaic - pallid - ponderous
insipid
belie
denounce
ethereal
46. A pedantic teacher
peevish
antecedent
solicitous
pedagogue
47. Extremely bad - degrading; self-abasing
munificent
abject
flout
factitious
48. Making a false outward show
incendiary
masquerade
obtuse
supplant
49. Dishonesty
mendacity
maudlin
factitious
lupine
50. Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally
providential
disconcert
phlegmatic
hyperbole