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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. To glorify
sojourn
apotheosize
vagrant
elegiac
2. Savage human behavior
stipulate
feral
besmirch
gallantry
3. An indirect term used in place of a more offensive one
grandiloquent
autocrat
smarmy
euphemism
4. False or fake - apparently but not valid
empirical
lugubrious
spurious
masquerade
5. Sluggish and dull
saturnine
interloper
bovine
dun
6. Harmful - nocuous
incumbent (on/upon)
noxious
province
effrontery
7. Ostentatiously learned
prosaic
libertine
pedant
recidivist
8. Timid - full of apprehension - skittish
subterfuge
feral
timorous
euphemism
9. A preceding occurrence or cause or event
incipient
inimical
querulous
antecedent
10. Extremely bad - degrading; self-abasing
penurious
abject
phlegmatic
quixotic
11. Worn out - wearied
corollary
superannuated
agog
jaded
12. Sulky or gloomy - glum - dejected
alacrity
sullen
rancor
smarmy
13. Ceremony and splendid display
sanctimonious
prickly
senescence
pomp
14. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
callow
pantheon
meretricious
indignant
15. An angry sullen look; to look at angrily
lowering
tremulous
torpid
wane
16. Humorously indecent - bawdy
capricious
apocryphal
ribald
smarmy
17. Becoming boring or wearying ('it palls on me')
pall
lupine
propitiate
nepotism
18. Immature - childish - puerile
maunder
baleful
mite
callow
19. Chastise - excoriate - assail - rebuke
intemperate
providential
castigate
prosaic
20. Clown - buffoon - bumbling person
harlequin
nugatory
titillating
capricious
21. Harsh - grating sound
toothsome
motley
repose
strident
22. So trivial as to be beneath one's consideration
piddling
dissipation
vagrant
reprise
23. (physically or behaviorally) pig-like
porcine
surly
repartee
inimical
24. A decree or order - fiat
stalwart
venerable
edict
ribald
25. Poverty-stricken - destitute
prosaic
ragtag
penurious
convivial
26. Source of strength; vigorous strength
apostate
shrouded
contiguous
sinews
27. Throwback
maelstrom
atavism
ursine
recalcitrant
28. An early omen
sinews
repose
sodden
harbinger
29. Overly sweet (fig.)
mendacity
cloying
blandishment
voracious
30. A grouch
platitude
besmirch
curmudgeon
rancor
31. Tastelessly showy in appearance - tawdry
captious
forlorn
muse
raffish
32. Discreditable - humiliating
apostate
carnal
ignominious
carousal
33. Describes a person in moral/intellectual darkness
senescence
benighted
flub
swoon
34. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
sallow
iconoclast
obsequious
renounce
35. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
rancor
flout
dissonant
unrequited
36. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
dun
nepotism
pantheon
trifle
37. Moral wickedness - depravity
stalwart
turpitude
gratuitous
indignant
38. Something that follows; a natural consequence
benighted
winnow
unbecoming
corollary
39. Having no plan - indiscriminate - haphazard
blandishment
herculean
incumbent (on/upon)
desultory
40. Merrymaking
carousal
temporize
prickly
noxious
41. Unmannerly - indecorous
beguile
invective
guile
boor
42. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
peevish
spurious
captious
pilfer
43. Lively - enjoyable - jovial
convivial
apostate
jocular
burgeon
44. Any increase in intensity
fallow
crescendo
bemuse
boor
45. To botch - bungle
flub
cosset
maelstrom
callow
46. To repeat in concise form
sedulous
obeisance
recapitulate
peevish
47. Embarrassed or shy - abashed
sophistry
provident
equivocal
sheepish
48. Quivering or shaking slightly
rancor
tremulous
incubus
perfidious
49. Whining - complaining - grumbling
perfidious
upbraid
libertine
querulous
50. Fault-finding - censorious - hypercritical
captious
appendage
vacuous
sedulous