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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Intensely hot; full of tribulation
torrid
purloin
oblique
propitious
2. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
dovetail
withering
hyperbole
proprietor
3. To lighten up or transform for the better
toothsome
leaven
concomitant
restive
4. To make a specific demand as part of an agreement
equanimity
stipulate
concord
evanescent
5. To soothe - abate - allay - mitigate
ineffable
unbecoming
torpid
assuage
6. (fig.) to make dirty reputation
mendacity
pungent
somnolent
besmirch
7. Unable to be corrected (of a person's habits/tendencies)
specter
exemplary
cachet
incorrigible
8. Induce to commit an unlawful act
expurgate
oblique
suborn
pungent
9. Moral wickedness - depravity
intemperate
rebarbative
privation
turpitude
10. Hardened against feeling
obdurate
burgeon
province
imbrue
11. Cure-all
panacea
agog
noisome
tempestuous
12. Behavior appropriate to prevailing social code - seemly - decorous
skittish
eke
decorum
raffish
13. Occurring daily
obfuscate
quotidian
tautology
mire
14. Vivacity - sprightliness - brio - esprit
pithy
verve
superannuated
prickly
15. Take action to prevent from happening
precipitate
vacuous
preempt
malign
16. Throwback
numinous
elixir
atavism
exiguous
17. To forbid
proscribe
ribald
jaded
suborn
18. Showing hesitancy - uncertain - shilly-shally - teeter
irresolute
craven
harlequin
tautology
19. Offensive smell; harmful - noxious - miasma
noisome
spurious
feral
beseech
20. Accepted or popular belief
remuneration
corollary
heterodox
paragon
21. To insist on pmt of debt
benighted
dun
incubus
punctilious
22. An area of special knowledge
conciliate
burgeon
province
epicurean
23. Something concealing true purpose - ostensible reason
superannuated
euphemism
lachrymose
pretext
24. Abusive language - 'inveigh against'
toothsome
ablution
invective
pithy
25. Flamboyant confidence of style or manner - dash - jaunty
congenial
galvanize
panache
rectitude
26. Wasteful or lavishly abundant
peevish
recondite
specter
prodigal
27. Disloyal - treacherous - quisling
perfidious
blithe
voluptuary
lupine
28. To steal something
forlorn
expurgate
ecumenical
purloin
29. Pompous or extravagant language
pall
timorous
voluptuary
grandiloquent
30. The belief that the self is all that can be known to exist
slovenly
curmudgeon
subterfuge
solipsism
31. Sober - sedate - prim - overly proper
irresolute
insipid
dovetail
staid
32. Whimsical - sudden changes of mood
harbinger
mercurial
torpid
ignominious
33. Stubbornly asserts unproved opinion; dogma: the belief; dogmatist: the person asserting
dogmatic
boor
penurious
capricious
34. Tactful - circumspect - wary
dovetail
malefactor
subterfuge
discreet
35. To formally give up
sedulous
renounce
flub
equanimity
36. Something that follows; a natural consequence
soporific
corollary
strident
beleaguer
37. Effusively and tearfully sentimental
maudlin
abject
oblique
indignation
38. Dark - shadowy - gloomy
ennui
tenebrous
inimitable
lampoon
39. Frenzied
propitious
frenetic
pacific
lowering
40. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
incorrigible
gadfly
agog
peevish
41. To flatter for a favor - wheedle
sojourn
fawn
cadge
beseech
42. Noisy uproar
bedlam
rueful
somnolent
jubilant
43. Mischievous or wayward person
supplant
scapegrace
lugubrious
fallow
44. Unsolicited - unnecessary - given w/o obligation
despot
dissonant
gratuitous
vacuous
45. Immoral
reprise
edict
turpitude
effrontery
46. Emotional fatigue - listless
restive
iconoclast
preempt
lassitude
47. To develop rapidly
gaunt
trifle
burgeon
munificent
48. A forewarning of something bad - foreboding - portent
presage
recidivist
cacophony
heterodox
49. A gesture showing obedience and respect
blandishment
obeisance
euphonious
proscribe
50. To express vehement protest
fulminate
convivial
frenetic
lachrymose