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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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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. Dirty or wretched - abject (squalor)
besmirch
squalid
supplant
incubus
2. Unremitting - unflagging - relentless
callow
contiguous
peevish
inexorable
3. Describes a person in moral/intellectual darkness
benighted
euphonious
baleful
penurious
4. Ostentatiously learned
pedant
repose
prosaic
hyperbole
5. Haggard and looking wasted
blithe
gaunt
melee
palliative
6. To express vehement protest
inimitable
fulminate
stipulate
ethereal
7. A coward - a cur
timorous
galvanize
fealty
poltroon
8. To dispute angrily - squabble
simpatico
scathe
wrangle
winnow
9. Timid - full of apprehension - skittish
verve
faction
timorous
rectitude
10. Inauthentic - specious - spurious - factitious
denounce
apocryphal
ribald
simpatico
11. Relating to the physical (sexual)
noxious
beseech
congenial
carnal
12. Temporary rest from activity
panacea
repose
tenebrous
meretricious
13. No longer current - out of fashion - superannuated
pacific
passe
stalwart
lachrymose
14. To wander - travel abroad
peregrination
obeisance
euphemism
repose
15. Arrogantly domineering (imperial: regal)
imperious
pilfer
despot
lugubrious
16. Peaceful - halcyon
pacific
euphemism
inimitable
recalcitrant
17. To confuse; to cause to be in deep thought
interloper
cosset
bemuse
plaintive
18. A person who demands strict adherence to all regulations
punctilious
maudlin
callow
martinet
19. Obedient to an excessive degree
assuage
smarmy
sallow
obsequious
20. Sharing an edge or connecting w/o a break
callow
mercurial
ruse
contiguous
21. Deprived of necessities and comforts
privation
vagrant
resonant
turpitude
22. Firm - resolute; a loyal supporter
stalwart
apotheosize
providential
surly
23. Tending to obstruct or harm - hostile
bristle
inimical
taxonomy
redolent
24. (n. or v.) comfort in time of distress
sedulous
presage
apocryphal
succor
25. Suggestive - reminiscent; aromatic smell
torpid
redolent
apostate
ablution
26. Scanty - meager
exiguous
taxonomy
senescence
inexorable
27. Acts w/o moral restraint - dissolute - wanton - licentious - depraved - rake
pulchritude
paragon
libertine
sumptuous
28. Abounding - swarming with
prescribe
pall
preempt
teem
29. Strong and deep in tone - sonorous - enduring
clarion
resonant
timorous
solipsism
30. Separate
imbrue
proscribe
blithe
discrete
31. Unconventional and slightly disreputable - rakish
ursine
motley
raffish
harrowing
32. Intended to humiliate or mortify (with a look)
hyperbole
sanctimonious
withering
brusque
33. Speak about in a spiteful or evil manner
malign
dogmatic
besmirch
ursine
34. Behavior appropriate to prevailing social code - seemly - decorous
otiose
decorum
iconoclast
ruse
35. Disloyal - treacherous - quisling
peevish
belie
obeisance
perfidious
36. Improper - risque
racy
luminary
poltroon
apostate
37. Embarrassed or shy - abashed
sheepish
turpitude
eke
restive
38. Volatile - whimsical - fickle - unpredictable
tenebrous
capricious
indignation
venal
39. A source of misery - to cause suffering
malefactor
proscribe
quixotic
scourge
40. Bitterly sarcastic - sardonic
saturnine
consortium
exiguous
despot
41. Pitifully sad - hopeless
forlorn
prescribe
harrowing
factitious
42. Discordant - inharmonious
raffish
panacea
dissonant
concomitant
43. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
despot
iridescent
congenital
euphonious
44. Ancestor - originator
progenitor
modicum
unflagging
apotheosize
45. To botch - bungle
harry
flub
platitude
ineffable
46. Beginning; in an early stage
impertinent
aberration
motley
incipient
47. Inevitable
ineluctable
exigent
numinous
peevish
48. To a small degree
melee
mite
resonant
propitiate
49. Universal - cosmopolitan - catholic
withering
ecumenical
craven
curmudgeon
50. A reporobate - miscreant
smarmy
exigent
prickly
malefactor