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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. Corrupt - wicked - nefarious
soporific
sodden
venal
plaintive
2. A beggar
faction
mendicant
maunder
strident
3. A turbulent situation - bedlam - melee
venal
province
maelstrom
redoubtable
4. Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally
harbinger
castigate
hyperbole
vociferous
5. Universal - cosmopolitan - catholic
captious
bowdlerize
ecumenical
bristle
6. Unmannerly - indecorous
boor
jubilant
stipulate
tirade
7. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
privation
simpatico
pantheon
impertinent
8. Inauthentic - specious - spurious - factitious
abject
bristle
apocryphal
masquerade
9. Fault-finding - censorious - hypercritical
paragon
repose
captious
fulminate
10. Flamboyant confidence of style or manner - dash - jaunty
sanctimonious
gallantry
punctilious
panache
11. The purest essence of a thing
torpid
resonant
scourge
quintessence
12. To insist on pmt of debt
precipitate
obsequious
rueful
dun
13. Extremely bad - degrading; self-abasing
abject
pugnacious
belie
petulant
14. Excessively righteous
fealty
repartee
baleful
sanctimonious
15. To evade in order to gain time to avoid an argument
temporize
glower
fitful
abject
16. Move about aimlessly - meander
probative
porcine
quixotic
gad
17. To fit together harmoniously
platitude
dovetail
pomp
motley
18. Actions to appease opposing forces
timorous
lassitude
propitiate
obeisance
19. Arrogantly domineering (imperial: regal)
bristle
penurious
petulant
imperious
20. To condemn openly
denounce
torpid
edict
progenitor
21. Showing hesitancy - uncertain - shilly-shally - teeter
ecumenical
irresolute
ursine
salutary
22. Bear-like
stalwart
ursine
piddling
numinous
23. Suggestive - reminiscent; aromatic smell
curmudgeon
bowdlerize
redolent
disconcert
24. To lighten up or transform for the better
leaven
edict
prodigal
iconoclast
25. Immoral
remuneration
irresolute
turpitude
minatory
26. A source of misery - to cause suffering
scourge
pantheon
captious
phlegmatic
27. Producing good effects - beneficial
herculean
skittish
salutary
toady
28. Indifferent - casual
clarion
blithe
autocrat
conciliate
29. Wolf-like - rapacious
leaven
lupine
despot
vociferous
30. Embarrassed or shy - abashed
sheepish
apocryphal
apostate
perfidious
31. Being present everywhere at once
pugnacious
ubiquitous
grandiloquent
insipid
32. A tiny amount of money
pittance
sonorous
cadge
ignominious
33. Chaotic - disorganized - mismanaged
leaven
melee
shambolic
subterfuge
34. Without substance or meaning
vacuous
sumptuous
sonorous
burgeon
35. An early omen
clarion
precipitate
harbinger
senescence
36. Overwhelming defeat
gadfly
rout
ribald
gratuitous
37. Unattractive - objectionable
tenebrous
shrouded
rebarbative
impertinent
38. Deprived of necessities and comforts
adventitious
lugubrious
privation
burgeon
39. Association of businesses
consortium
craven
equivocal
toothsome
40. Inactivity - no progress
libertine
apotheosize
slough
irresolute
41. Deep-seeded mutual hatred - hostility
enmity
exculpate
tenebrous
specter
42. Ostentatiously learned
pedant
decadent
recondite
harrowing
43. Unemotional and stolid
phlegmatic
minatory
lassitude
slovenly
44. Oddly amusing
jocular
jubilant
droll
passe
45. A leader who gains power by manipulating emotions
demagogue
ken
propitious
pithy
46. Commanding respect
empirical
nepotism
trifle
venerable
47. To stare at angrily
glower
scathe
shrouded
beguile
48. To botch - bungle
strident
flub
panache
agog
49. Present from birth - inborn
convivial
congenital
penurious
fulminate
50. Tending to obstruct or harm - hostile
feral
somnolent
inimical
cacophony