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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. To confuse in order to hide the truth
repose
obfuscate
specter
scathe
2. Loud and clear
jubilant
masquerade
histrionic
clarion
3. Producing good effects - beneficial
vociferous
salutary
carnal
congenial
4. The belief that the self is all that can be known to exist
euphemism
prickly
cleave
solipsism
5. Ambiguous
panache
convivial
equivocal
prim
6. Marked by rude or peremptory shortness - ungracious
ethereal
brusque
jaded
staid
7. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
conciliate
benighted
inexorable
toothsome
8. To steal something
fealty
purloin
dogmatic
exemplary
9. Abounding - swarming with
teem
implacable
trifle
gratuitous
10. Flamboyant confidence of style or manner - dash - jaunty
panache
cachet
superannuated
renounce
11. Bubbling with enthusiasm
ebullient
incumbent (on/upon)
obeisance
martinet
12. To authorize - order
sordid
fealty
prescribe
demagogue
13. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
interloper
acerbic
rancor
ubiquitous
14. Hard-working - assiduous
peremptory
torrid
sedulous
obstreperous
15. Courageous behavior
slovenly
gallantry
congenital
rectitude
16. (fig.) disappearing (feelings of love)
evanescent
tremulous
craven
solipsism
17. Sly or cunning intelligence
guile
exiguous
edict
redolent
18. Oddly amusing
droll
inexorable
scathe
simpatico
19. Relieving symptoms - palliate
sonorous
obtuse
incendiary
palliative
20. Inactive - any situation that remains uncultivated
platitude
garish
titillating
fallow
21. Excessively complicated
prescribe
despot
otiose
byzantine
22. Payment/salary - recompense: compensate for a loss
harbinger
euphonious
somnolent
remuneration
23. Wrapped in something protective
acerbic
discreet
shrouded
supplant
24. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
minatory
despot
saturnine
bedraggled
25. Inactivity - no progress
crescendo
prosaic
lampoon
slough
26. Self-confidently stylish - jaunty; disreputable in appearance
antecedent
rakish
unrequited
wane
27. To ignore or treat with disdain
mercurial
flout
elixir
platitude
28. Of secondary importance
progenitor
tirade
ancillary
apocryphal
29. To steal a small amount - filch
reprise
turpitude
pilfer
pulchritude
30. A deviation from expected course (aberrant behavior)
aberration
clarion
jocular
churl
31. The purest essence of a thing
boor
quintessence
apotheosize
subterfuge
32. Move about aimlessly - meander
ebullient
euphemism
lassitude
gad
33. Harmful - nocuous
noxious
otiose
invective
chaste
34. Lacking authenticity - spurious - specious - apocryphal
subterfuge
factitious
mendicant
captious
35. Mischievous or wayward person
tenebrous
scapegrace
swoon
incubus
36. Unwanted intruders - meddler
repartee
remuneration
interloper
proscribe
37. Beginning; in an early stage
ribald
noxious
expurgate
incipient
38. A reporobate - miscreant
shrouded
wrangle
malefactor
assuage
39. To stare at angrily
prickly
callow
glower
taxonomy
40. The final result
prim
curmudgeon
denouement
mendacity
41. Excessively righteous
sanctimonious
ragtag
meretricious
succor
42. Without substance or meaning
vacuous
antecedent
bowdlerize
succor
43. High-sounding language w/little meaning
bombast
upbraid
captious
melee
44. Restless
intemperate
pedagogue
obstreperous
restive
45. Intensely hot; full of tribulation
torrid
nepotism
ebullient
fawn
46. Lacking vitality - insipid - jejune - prosaic
empirical
pallid
saturnine
bemuse
47. A rude - unmannerly person with bad disposition - boor - surly
pantheon
pathos
autocrat
churl
48. A decree or order - fiat
blandishment
leaven
edict
obdurate
49. Saturated with liquid; having drunk excess of alcohol
sodden
sallow
plaintive
lowering
50. To ridicule publicly
pillory
feral
pedant
gad