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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. To lighten up or transform for the better
winnow
otiose
atavism
leaven
2. Suffering from nervousness or lack of confidence
interloper
timorous
skittish
galvanize
3. Dirty and disheveled
bowdlerize
bedraggled
bemoan
tirade
4. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
supplant
platitude
tawdry
countervail
5. To stare at angrily
gallantry
glower
ancillary
harry
6. Without substance or meaning
voluptuary
smarmy
vacuous
adventitious
7. Requiring precise accuracy - demanding; urgent
lachrymose
stalwart
oblique
exigent
8. To make a specific demand as part of an agreement
curmudgeon
prosaic
importune
stipulate
9. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
conciliate
attenuate
saturnine
repose
10. Overly dramatic - emotional
imperious
timorous
gadfly
histrionic
11. Frenzied
frenetic
glower
renounce
bemoan
12. Excessively righteous
despot
droll
effrontery
sanctimonious
13. To split (cleft); to stick to
intrepid
unflagging
lampoon
cleave
14. Unable to be pleased
ruse
crescendo
pittance
implacable
15. A person devoted to luxury or pleasure - hedonist
voluptuary
meretricious
perfidious
exculpate
16. (physically or behaviorally) pig-like
scapegrace
porcine
implacable
racy
17. To develop rapidly
simpatico
burgeon
reprobate
spurious
18. Bitterness - caustic
pulchritude
precipitate
besmirch
acrimonious
19. To forbid
blithe
proscribe
concord
restive
20. A decree or order - fiat
prescribe
consortium
edict
remuneration
21. Noisy uproar
plaintive
bedlam
enormity
precipitate
22. Cure-all
panacea
elegiac
iconoclast
decorum
23. A source of misery - to cause suffering
corollary
sojourn
scourge
pathos
24. Delicious meal; sexually attractive
obfuscate
castigate
toothsome
lampoon
25. Describes a person in moral/intellectual darkness
edict
pallid
forlorn
benighted
26. Bubbling with enthusiasm
ebullient
congenial
palliative
assuage
27. Something concealing true purpose - ostensible reason
toady
assail
pretext
pall
28. To enter a state of hysterical rapture (ecstatic joy) - groupie
swoon
countervail
evanescent
gaunt
29. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
congenial
peevish
poltroon
descry
30. Marked by rude or peremptory shortness - ungracious
tirade
disconcert
blandishment
brusque
31. Deep-seeded mutual hatred - hostility
rakish
enmity
titillating
enormity
32. Flattering language
mendicant
surly
blandishment
resonant
33. Angered at something unjust
provenance
turpitude
indignant
phlegmatic
34. Whimsical - sudden changes of mood
histrionic
mercurial
iridescent
rout
35. A pedantic teacher
jaded
exemplary
pedagogue
pungent
36. Whining - complaining - grumbling
querulous
euphonious
gruff
fitful
37. Inevitable
gratuitous
repartee
bedraggled
ineluctable
38. Great beauty
apostate
inimical
pulchritude
obdurate
39. Moral uprightness - probity
rectitude
feral
recrimination
resonant
40. Anger provoked by unfair treatment
incipient
indignation
inexorable
turpitude
41. Spurring someone into action - goad
inexorable
apotheosize
galvanize
bovine
42. Sleepy
somnolent
specter
acrimonious
craven
43. Universal - cosmopolitan - catholic
countervail
ecumenical
cloying
senescence
44. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
mercurial
penurious
pecuniary
disreputable
45. Abusive language - 'inveigh against'
invective
flub
bedlam
otiose
46. To dispute angrily - squabble
wrangle
reprise
platitude
vagrant
47. Flamboyant confidence of style or manner - dash - jaunty
oblique
unrequited
bemuse
panache
48. To wander - travel abroad
dogmatic
peregrination
appendage
besmirch
49. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
pantheon
proprietor
prodigal
modicum
50. Wrapped in something protective
blithe
vociferous
shrouded
assuage
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