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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. To insist on pmt of debt
presage
dun
pithy
tawdry
2. Separate
expurgate
epicurean
jubilant
discrete
3. Internal conflict; a dissonant minority group
corollary
craven
panache
faction
4. Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally
motley
faction
mire
hyperbole
5. To smear - traduce - malign
pedant
evanescent
besmirch
importune
6. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
fitful
pall
peevish
platitude
7. Obscure - abstruse - little known - uncertain
exigent
recondite
jubilant
renounce
8. Indirect - misleading
precipitate
oblique
exculpate
ennui
9. Unconventional and slightly disreputable - rakish
congenial
ethereal
raffish
obeisance
10. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
gruff
tempestuous
proprietor
decadent
11. A grouch
curmudgeon
bemoan
noxious
profligate
12. Moral uprightness - probity
fitful
repose
rectitude
libertine
13. Ancestor - originator
flout
progenitor
disreputable
disconcert
14. Tactful - circumspect - wary
corollary
discreet
harangue
blandishment
15. Stubborn and unmanageable - intractable - refractory
lassitude
lugubrious
recalcitrant
modicum
16. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
bemoan
burgeon
raffish
antecedent
17. A deceiftful scheme - ruse
faction
exemplary
subterfuge
recalcitrant
18. Loud and clear
tirade
clarion
melee
sallow
19. Unable to be corrected (of a person's habits/tendencies)
inimical
quixotic
incorrigible
noisome
20. Straight-laced - prudish
bombast
timorous
dovetail
prim
21. Oddly amusing
staunch
droll
lowering
cheeky
22. Outmoded - antiquated
bedlam
superannuated
iconoclast
surly
23. Flattering language
blandishment
wrangle
grandiloquent
flout
24. Poverty-stricken - destitute
penurious
iconoclast
rectitude
resonant
25. Proving
probative
timorous
spurious
staid
26. Generous in giving
munificent
obstreperous
brusque
proscribe
27. To dispute angrily - squabble
petulant
wrangle
callow
imperious
28. Prudent - economical
discreet
rakish
provident
bedraggled
29. To steal something
purloin
sonorous
cadge
incipient
30. (physically or behaviorally) pig-like
porcine
tirade
modicum
vagrant
31. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
peevish
corollary
besiege
trifle
32. Beginning; in an early stage
progenitor
incipient
nugatory
intrepid
33. Anger provoked by unfair treatment
indignation
pallid
ethereal
perfidious
34. Disloyal - treacherous - quisling
importune
perfidious
iconoclast
propitiate
35. Discriminating or refined taste in food - epicure
epicurean
acrimonious
prim
lithe
36. Improper - risque
racy
muse
desultory
turpitude
37. Ceremony and splendid display
querulous
torpid
pomp
bovine
38. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
pantheon
lugubrious
motley
repose
39. Tireless
ruse
corollary
effrontery
unflagging
40. To disturb - ruffle
disconcert
lowering
assail
bristle
41. Pitifully sad - hopeless
forlorn
recapitulate
lugubrious
belie
42. Dark - shadowy - gloomy
sinews
tenebrous
elixir
flout
43. A pedantic teacher
precipitate
pedagogue
reprobate
fulminate
44. Irreverent - rude - impudent - effrontery - cheek
torpid
blithe
exiguous
impertinent
45. To glorify
tenebrous
despot
passe
apotheosize
46. Producing good effects - beneficial
salutary
dissipation
ineffable
fealty
47. Discreditable - humiliating
passe
motley
bowdlerize
ignominious
48. A skillful storyteller
plaintive
impertinent
raconteur
supplant
49. To pamper
somnolent
rebarbative
cosset
droll
50. Insolent and impertinent behavior - temerity - gall
venerable
ragtag
providential
effrontery