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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Hardened against feeling
feral
tawdry
provenance
obdurate
2. A tiny amount of money
scourge
pittance
titillating
modicum
3. Ignoble actions or motives - seamy; squalid - grubby
heterodox
adventitious
gratuitous
sordid
4. Tastelessly showy in appearance - tawdry
numinous
raffish
toothsome
interloper
5. Too great to be described in words; not to be uttered
ineffable
ignominious
concomitant
pretext
6. Poverty-stricken - destitute
venal
exigent
penurious
lowering
7. To glorify
carnal
apotheosize
gadfly
exemplary
8. Lacking poetic beauty; commonplace - unromantic - drab
unflagging
prosaic
staid
iridescent
9. Harsh discordant sound - raucous
ragtag
chaste
adventitious
cacophony
10. Stubborn and unmanageable - intractable - refractory
recalcitrant
somnolent
demagogue
timorous
11. Agreeable - gracious - affable
recalcitrant
congenial
invective
bowdlerize
12. Saturate - stain
swoon
saturnine
imbrue
surly
13. Limber - flexible body (lithesome)
lithe
wane
impertinent
nepotism
14. Lacking authenticity - spurious - specious - apocryphal
sumptuous
factitious
imperious
repose
15. Induce to commit an unlawful act
reprise
denounce
enormity
suborn
16. Vivacity - sprightliness - brio - esprit
verve
churl
shambolic
unflagging
17. Gradually diminishing - ebb
ablution
torrid
wane
sedulous
18. Ostentatiously learned
antecedent
pedagogue
pedant
punctilious
19. Lively - enjoyable - jovial
ablution
countervail
convivial
acerbic
20. Restless
withering
restive
acerbic
adventitious
21. False or fake - apparently but not valid
pulchritude
captious
spurious
superannuated
22. Cowardly - pusillanimous
besmirch
propitiate
craven
solicitous
23. Feeling of suffering - symPATHy
minatory
iridescent
countervail
pathos
24. Insolent and impertinent behavior - temerity - gall
voluptuary
winnow
effrontery
tawdry
25. Present from birth - inborn
purloin
congenital
remuneration
sumptuous
26. To be stuck (lit. or fig.) in something
fallow
lupine
mire
importune
27. Lively and unpredictable
demagogue
inimitable
skittish
flout
28. Novice
vagrant
tyro
pantheon
lugubrious
29. A forewarning of something bad - foreboding - portent
presage
ursine
prodigal
renounce
30. Bubbling with enthusiasm
equivocal
eke
recidivist
ebullient
31. Exonerate
alacrity
exculpate
harlequin
sojourn
32. To reduce in force/value (truncate: to shorten)
ribald
abject
attenuate
prosaic
33. To pamper
curmudgeon
cosset
solipsism
malefactor
34. Expressing sorrow esp. in a slightly humorous way
carnal
histrionic
rueful
chaste
35. A rude - unmannerly person with bad disposition - boor - surly
plaintive
churl
cadge
penurious
36. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
iridescent
besiege
obfuscate
mercurial
37. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
oblique
ursine
sullen
sallow
38. No longer current - out of fashion - superannuated
passe
carousal
appendage
bedraggled
39. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
suborn
proprietor
besiege
otiose
40. (physically or behaviorally) pig-like
temporize
porcine
obeisance
feral
41. To cause a negative event or situation
punctilious
hyperbole
sedulous
precipitate
42. Composed of a variety of sources - heterogenous - eclectic
porcine
motley
strident
rectitude
43. Sleepy
lithe
winnow
somnolent
poltroon
44. Dirty or wretched - abject (squalor)
pallid
squalid
ursine
edict
45. Corrupt - wicked - nefarious
ruse
noisome
resonant
venal
46. Loud and clear
clarion
factitious
lachrymose
vociferous
47. Long - pompous speech (n or v)
elixir
captious
mendacity
harangue
48. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
expurgate
meretricious
pugnacious
tirade
49. The light exchange of convo
sojourn
belie
countervail
repartee
50. Fidelity - faithfulness
histrionic
fealty
churl
decorum