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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Discreditable - humiliating
reprise
pretext
ignominious
incumbent (on/upon)
2. Any oppressive burden - nemesis
restive
incubus
suborn
apostate
3. To steal something
purloin
ancillary
apotheosize
pedant
4. Embarrassed or shy - abashed
scapegrace
sheepish
palliative
congenial
5. Serving no purpose or result
shambolic
otiose
autocrat
elegiac
6. Savage human behavior
feral
edict
blithe
suborn
7. A perfect example
resonant
harrowing
paragon
implacable
8. Proving
dissonant
unrequited
probative
scapegrace
9. Rigid - disheveled
ragtag
boor
obtuse
stipulate
10. Self-confidently stylish - jaunty; disreputable in appearance
remuneration
numinous
rakish
belie
11. Any image of future disturbance
divest
progenitor
specter
empirical
12. Gloomy - morose - morbid - sullen
petulant
lugubrious
contiguous
peremptory
13. The making of insistent requests
denounce
bovine
importune
prescribe
14. An excessive pride
surly
trifle
hubris
bristle
15. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
gruff
despot
decadent
equivocal
16. An early omen
harbinger
cosset
spurious
dun
17. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
lupine
bemoan
pedagogue
peregrination
18. Abusive language - diatribe
discreet
ebullient
tirade
apocryphal
19. Unable to be pleased
mendicant
solicitous
fulminate
implacable
20. Causing weeping
adventitious
lachrymose
conciliate
proscribe
21. Sleepy
somnolent
sanctimonious
evanescent
rebarbative
22. Managing but with great effort
blithe
eke
turpitude
provident
23. Having a supernatural presence
bumptious
pacific
numinous
shrouded
24. A scheme of classification
taxonomy
descry
lupine
wrangle
25. Marked by favorable circumstances - auspicious
toady
congenial
preempt
propitious
26. Any increase in intensity
sedulous
disreputable
craven
crescendo
27. To authorize - order
prescribe
decadent
abject
progenitor
28. Flamboyant confidence of style or manner - dash - jaunty
pithy
prescribe
panache
appendage
29. A grouch
inimitable
smarmy
redolent
curmudgeon
30. Restless
restive
besmirch
prosaic
paragon
31. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
baleful
ribald
pulchritude
glower
32. A part of something in a supportive - dependent position
bedlam
venal
appendage
gadfly
33. Immoral
edict
ruse
turpitude
baleful
34. Saturated with liquid; having drunk excess of alcohol
sodden
harry
verve
progenitor
35. Inevitable
assail
poltroon
providential
ineluctable
36. Pushy - rudely assertive
bovine
munificent
bumptious
bowdlerize
37. A beggar
mendicant
lugubrious
pillory
passe
38. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
supplant
meretricious
evanescent
prescribe
39. Inactivity - no progress
harlequin
skittish
toothsome
slough
40. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
sodden
squalid
disreputable
peevish
41. To develop rapidly
faction
burgeon
apostate
recidivist
42. Occurring daily
pomp
ursine
quotidian
gaunt
43. Anger provoked by unfair treatment
atavism
indignation
phlegmatic
privation
44. Threatening
conciliate
bovine
minatory
rectitude
45. Anxious - concerned
motley
crescendo
solicitous
obeisance
46. Volatile - whimsical - fickle - unpredictable
chaste
cacophony
sedulous
capricious
47. False or fake - apparently but not valid
spurious
vociferous
brusque
bemuse
48. Fearlessly brave - resolute
vagrant
intrepid
pontificate
pithy
49. Airy - delicate - insubstantial
masquerade
insipid
ethereal
vagrant
50. A distinguishing feature conferring prestige
tawdry
recalcitrant
cachet
leaven