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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Chastise - excoriate - assail - rebuke
quixotic
ecumenical
castigate
precipitate
2. A leader who gains power by manipulating emotions
elegiac
iridescent
supplant
demagogue
3. To glorify
munificent
apotheosize
callow
proprietor
4. Flattering language
plaintive
blandishment
autocrat
rout
5. Producing good effects - beneficial
salutary
upbraid
abject
vagrant
6. Having like minds or temperament
unrequited
simpatico
mercurial
vagrant
7. To be stuck (lit. or fig.) in something
incumbent (on/upon)
bedlam
mire
bemoan
8. Lacking vitality - insipid - jejune - prosaic
delectable
agog
lupine
pallid
9. A gesture showing obedience and respect
gallantry
discrete
maudlin
obeisance
10. Overwhelming defeat
munificent
obeisance
heterodox
rout
11. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
shambolic
dissipation
meretricious
besmirch
12. To speak in an authoritative manner
divest
pontificate
peregrination
tempestuous
13. To mock - gibe - jeer
lampoon
adventitious
mendicant
progenitor
14. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
bemoan
pacific
beguile
maelstrom
15. Obedient to an excessive degree
denouement
obsequious
concomitant
desultory
16. To forbid
noxious
proscribe
discrete
vociferous
17. Chaotic - disorganized - mismanaged
bemuse
incubus
recidivist
shambolic
18. Showing hesitancy - uncertain - shilly-shally - teeter
irresolute
chaste
ragtag
equanimity
19. To botch - bungle
staunch
bumptious
flub
pathos
20. Exonerate
obsequious
baleful
ennui
exculpate
21. Poverty-stricken - destitute
penurious
recapitulate
irresolute
provident
22. Universal - cosmopolitan - catholic
ecumenical
obdurate
obstreperous
guile
23. Causing weeping
palliative
sanctimonious
evanescent
lachrymose
24. Imprudently bold - flouting social conventions
pall
cheeky
voluptuary
sordid
25. A person who seeks to overthrow mainstream ideas
prickly
iconoclast
pithy
raffish
26. Novice
gadfly
tyro
sodden
elegiac
27. Bear-like
perfidious
expurgate
tenebrous
ursine
28. To wander - travel abroad
scathe
phlegmatic
presage
peregrination
29. Generous in giving
ancillary
rueful
munificent
castigate
30. Becoming boring or wearying ('it palls on me')
shrouded
enormity
pall
lupine
31. To develop rapidly
bristle
quixotic
rout
burgeon
32. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
pulchritude
gad
pantheon
recapitulate
33. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
lowering
staunch
bedlam
pomp
34. Tastelessly showy in appearance - tawdry
teem
maelstrom
raffish
equivocal
35. Cowardly behavior - pussillanimous
decorum
prosaic
raconteur
craven
36. Unwanted intruders - meddler
faction
petulant
pungent
interloper
37. A cleansing of the body
timorous
paragon
supplant
ablution
38. Suggestive - reminiscent; aromatic smell
mercurial
toothsome
redolent
minatory
39. Accepted or popular belief
heterodox
leaven
aberration
obtuse
40. Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree - obsequious
ablution
toady
acerbic
passe
41. Offset and mitigate the effects by contrary actions
glower
restive
craven
countervail
42. A part of something in a supportive - dependent position
heterodox
punctilious
harbinger
appendage
43. Happening by chance - unplanned - fortuitous
adventitious
temporize
ennui
factitious
44. To steal a small amount - filch
fawn
skittish
pilfer
pedagogue
45. To split (cleft); to stick to
cleave
sinews
obstreperous
paragon
46. To crowd around - stifle
besiege
fawn
decadent
purloin
47. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
alacrity
dissipation
indignant
proprietor
48. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
prosaic
punctilious
chaste
iridescent
49. Something's origin
provenance
slough
beguile
countervail
50. A distinguishing feature conferring prestige
apotheosize
cachet
brusque
maunder
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