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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. Unattractive - objectionable
droll
venal
rebarbative
enmity
2. Mischievous or wayward person
intemperate
redolent
scapegrace
repartee
3. Serving no purpose or result
strident
imperious
otiose
beleaguer
4. Overly dramatic - emotional
histrionic
fulminate
blithe
mendacity
5. Present from birth - inborn
congenital
harlequin
reprise
churl
6. Deep-seeded mutual hatred - hostility
enmity
guile
privation
grandiloquent
7. False or fake - apparently but not valid
implacable
spurious
ursine
harry
8. Corrupt - wicked - nefarious
venal
mercurial
unflagging
pall
9. Cure-all
prescribe
panacea
recidivist
muse
10. Unable to be corrected (of a person's habits/tendencies)
discreet
elixir
squalid
incorrigible
11. To authorize - order
disreputable
craven
prescribe
timorous
12. A repeated offender
masquerade
reprobate
fulminate
cachet
13. Unmannerly - indecorous
boor
imperious
dissipation
elixir
14. Sleepy
beguile
byzantine
somnolent
vacuous
15. The making of insistent requests
importune
exculpate
denouement
passe
16. Redundancy
cloying
clarion
raffish
tautology
17. Overly sweet (fig.)
cloying
specter
stalwart
prolix
18. Of little or no importance
enormity
plaintive
nugatory
iridescent
19. To fit together harmoniously
craven
munificent
dovetail
glower
20. Unremitting - unflagging - relentless
inexorable
precipitate
numinous
benighted
21. An excessive pride
torrid
exculpate
hubris
sodden
22. Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally
beseech
racy
querulous
hyperbole
23. Inactive - any situation that remains uncultivated
turpitude
consortium
nepotism
fallow
24. Sounding sad and mournful
saturnine
plaintive
maunder
capricious
25. Describes a person in moral/intellectual darkness
gruff
scapegrace
benighted
panache
26. Plausible but fallacious argument - specious
sophistry
hubris
reprise
squalid
27. Bubbling with enthusiasm
skittish
ebullient
intrepid
forlorn
28. Scanty - meager
exiguous
recrimination
inimical
euphonious
29. Vivacity - sprightliness - brio - esprit
corollary
timorous
acerbic
verve
30. A turbulent situation - bedlam - melee
indignation
maelstrom
pretext
remuneration
31. Bad temper - cantankerous - fractious
succor
surly
scathe
evanescent
32. Self-confidently stylish - jaunty; disreputable in appearance
rakish
jubilant
libertine
mendicant
33. Being present everywhere at once
cleave
ubiquitous
apotheosize
squalid
34. Drowsy - sleepy - slumberous
somnolent
sanctimonious
clarion
modicum
35. Fidelity - faithfulness
shrouded
fealty
swoon
bemuse
36. To censor
euphonious
bowdlerize
decorum
melee
37. To harass - torment - beset
implacable
precipitate
beleaguer
bedlam
38. Haggard and looking wasted
gaunt
lugubrious
blandishment
tenebrous
39. (physically or behaviorally) pig-like
vagrant
atavism
tyro
porcine
40. Outmoded - antiquated
superannuated
racy
lassitude
pantheon
41. Harsh discordant sound - raucous
torpid
indignation
cacophony
pacific
42. Flashy - loud - glaring
lassitude
passe
garish
indignant
43. Dishonesty
incorrigible
pomp
mendacity
munificent
44. Sharp - to the point - caustic
pungent
masquerade
descry
sinews
45. A feeling of sadness at a loss
pecuniary
rakish
proscribe
elegiac
46. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
conciliate
saturnine
cachet
propitiate
47. Noisily defiant
euphemism
malign
obstreperous
rebarbative
48. A perfect example
sallow
somnolent
paragon
gad
49. Moral or cultural decline - dissolute
hubris
cosset
decadent
droll
50. (fig.) to make dirty reputation
insipid
besmirch
countervail
staunch