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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Meticulous
punctilious
bemuse
squalid
besmirch
2. Separate
discrete
byzantine
muse
recalcitrant
3. Harsh discordant sound - raucous
recrimination
piddling
cacophony
quintessence
4. Irritable - irascible - cantankerous - prickly
petulant
glower
obsequious
epicurean
5. Haggard and looking wasted
beguile
gaunt
lowering
jocular
6. To wander - travel abroad
ragtag
malign
recrimination
peregrination
7. Anxious - concerned
assail
solicitous
insipid
succor
8. Vehement or clamorous - strident - obstreperous - raucous
vociferous
prescribe
gratuitous
tempestuous
9. Frightening - distressing
cachet
cleave
harrowing
squalid
10. Inactivity - no progress
otiose
recalcitrant
ruse
slough
11. A duty or obligation
simpatico
incumbent (on/upon)
rout
verve
12. To ask urgently - implore - entreat
gallantry
plaintive
beseech
bumptious
13. Ambiguous
salutary
pugnacious
equivocal
sojourn
14. Supersede and replace
intrepid
supplant
province
taxonomy
15. A sneaky plan
somnolent
faction
ruse
agog
16. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
progenitor
exiguous
titillating
pantheon
17. To botch - bungle
chaste
flub
resonant
conciliate
18. Disloyal - treacherous - quisling
intemperate
cloying
perfidious
propitious
19. Unattractive - objectionable
rebarbative
euphonious
ribald
solipsism
20. Move about aimlessly - meander
resonant
gad
incumbent (on/upon)
unrequited
21. A nuisance
gadfly
effrontery
craven
fawn
22. Serving no purpose or result
querulous
teem
otiose
droll
23. Unwanted intruders - meddler
shambolic
quotidian
stalwart
interloper
24. Becoming boring or wearying ('it palls on me')
quixotic
faction
pall
punctilious
25. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
noxious
punctilious
platitude
expurgate
26. To censor
bowdlerize
harlequin
beguile
disconcert
27. To crowd around - stifle
leaven
propitiate
effrontery
besiege
28. Irritable - grouchy - cantankerous - irascible
prickly
solipsism
pungent
smarmy
29. Universal - cosmopolitan - catholic
mercurial
harbinger
ecumenical
blandishment
30. Moral wickedness - depravity
clarion
turpitude
upbraid
imbrue
31. Speak about in a spiteful or evil manner
euphemism
malign
grandiloquent
querulous
32. Acts w/o moral restraint - dissolute - wanton - licentious - depraved - rake
incorrigible
libertine
divest
denouement
33. Hardened against feeling
obdurate
descry
ancillary
peremptory
34. Volatile - whimsical - fickle - unpredictable
capricious
appendage
alacrity
tremulous
35. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
slough
obdurate
staunch
bovine
36. Feeling of suffering - symPATHy
stalwart
nugatory
pathos
oblique
37. Something's origin
provenance
belie
munificent
sinews
38. Cowardly - pusillanimous
hyperbole
gadfly
apostate
craven
39. Peaceful - halcyon
pacific
mire
cheeky
dissipation
40. Harmful - nocuous
repose
trifle
noxious
harry
41. Ingratiating and wheedling in an insincere or excessive way - unctuous - fawning
concord
raffish
smarmy
racy
42. Savage human behavior
feral
preempt
empirical
denounce
43. Opportune - occurring at a favorable time
importune
providential
unrequited
denounce
44. A forewarning of something bad - foreboding - portent
iridescent
presage
withering
imbrue
45. Composed of a variety of sources - heterogenous - eclectic
racy
motley
penurious
recapitulate
46. To censor material (unexpurgated)
gad
expurgate
lithe
remuneration
47. Immoderate - lacking in self-control
skittish
mire
intemperate
masquerade
48. Long - pompous speech (n or v)
impertinent
harangue
perfidious
curmudgeon
49. Tending to obstruct or harm - hostile
lassitude
inimical
ecumenical
harlequin
50. Any oppressive burden - nemesis
hyperbole
incubus
hubris
denounce