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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. To wander - travel abroad
peregrination
lowering
intemperate
specter
2. A cleansing of the body
ablution
solicitous
besmirch
rancor
3. Without substance or meaning
vacuous
toady
curmudgeon
quixotic
4. Inauthentic - specious - spurious - factitious
histrionic
dogmatic
apocryphal
obstreperous
5. Ostentatiously learned
pedant
provenance
elixir
timorous
6. To a small degree
bedraggled
gratuitous
tremulous
mite
7. Saturated with liquid; having drunk excess of alcohol
senescence
exiguous
descry
sodden
8. To steal something
iconoclast
privation
imbrue
purloin
9. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
shambolic
peevish
sodden
turpitude
10. Beg - sponge off someone
iconoclast
faction
reprise
cadge
11. To rid of undesirable parts - separate good from bad
inimical
sinews
sedulous
winnow
12. Suffering from nervousness or lack of confidence
imbrue
carousal
teem
timorous
13. Source of strength; vigorous strength
baleful
sinews
platitude
venerable
14. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
recapitulate
forlorn
exigent
despot
15. A decree or order - fiat
boor
edict
aberration
concomitant
16. Throwback
mendacity
mercurial
atavism
congenial
17. To pamper
superannuated
wane
cosset
obsequious
18. Something that follows; a natural consequence
ennui
corollary
acerbic
dissipation
19. A repeated offender
reprobate
indignant
racy
craven
20. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
proprietor
interloper
pecuniary
exculpate
21. Unable to be corrected (of a person's habits/tendencies)
incorrigible
gallantry
lupine
hubris
22. A potion falsely believed to cure
elixir
boor
divest
ken
23. Pompous or extravagant language
interloper
grandiloquent
torpid
somnolent
24. To enter a state of hysterical rapture (ecstatic joy) - groupie
sodden
torpid
swoon
supplant
25. Flashy - loud - glaring
reprise
consortium
garish
pedagogue
26. To forbid
trifle
equivocal
obdurate
proscribe
27. Excessively righteous
pallid
factitious
sanctimonious
tautology
28. Deprived of necessities and comforts
privation
superannuated
chaste
captious
29. Requiring precise accuracy - demanding; urgent
brusque
exigent
subterfuge
indignation
30. Mischievous or wayward person
presage
evanescent
despot
scapegrace
31. Sleepy
sonorous
pathos
somnolent
recalcitrant
32. Wordiness - verbose
swoon
punctilious
tempestuous
prolix
33. The purest essence of a thing
inimical
frenetic
quintessence
teem
34. A person who demands strict adherence to all regulations
privation
martinet
cadge
perfidious
35. Representing the best of its kind
masquerade
exemplary
proprietor
edict
36. Return to original theme
reprise
apotheosize
surly
noxious
37. To condemn openly
implacable
stalwart
histrionic
denounce
38. A nuisance
gadfly
gallantry
swoon
malefactor
39. Novice
tyro
exculpate
exculpate
tempestuous
40. Saturate - stain
imbrue
senescence
porcine
baleful
41. A forewarning of something bad - foreboding - portent
prim
presage
piddling
pantheon
42. Loud and clear
repartee
clarion
decorum
taxonomy
43. Melodious - pleasing to the ear - euphony
timorous
pedagogue
euphonious
subterfuge
44. To formally give up
renounce
minatory
palliative
piddling
45. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
disconcert
raffish
phlegmatic
conciliate
46. Getting rid of
harlequin
exculpate
lugubrious
divest
47. A feeling of sadness at a loss
ebullient
hyperbole
elegiac
concord
48. To insist on pmt of debt
fawn
countervail
dun
rakish
49. A deviation from expected course (aberrant behavior)
gaunt
craven
indignation
aberration
50. So trivial as to be beneath one's consideration
piddling
despot
byzantine
bemoan