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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Dirty or wretched - abject (squalor)
soporific
jubilant
squalid
exculpate
2. To trick someone into doing something
smarmy
tawdry
alacrity
beguile
3. Proving
penurious
smarmy
bovine
probative
4. Sleep inducing
ancillary
harrowing
soporific
malign
5. Unable to be corrected (of a person's habits/tendencies)
recapitulate
nugatory
incorrigible
benighted
6. Whimsical - sudden changes of mood
rueful
recapitulate
flout
mercurial
7. Sluggish and dull
carousal
ablution
incendiary
bovine
8. Throwback
blandishment
atavism
lupine
sanctimonious
9. Lacking authenticity - spurious - specious - apocryphal
factitious
inimical
mire
bemuse
10. Fidelity - faithfulness
scathe
fealty
simpatico
ethereal
11. Stubborn and unmanageable - intractable - refractory
bovine
importune
recalcitrant
voracious
12. Suggestive - reminiscent; fragrant
redolent
pedagogue
contiguous
pantheon
13. Rule by one person
autocrat
lachrymose
venal
ruse
14. Vivacity - sprightliness - brio - esprit
alacrity
redolent
verve
harlequin
15. To confuse in order to hide the truth
obfuscate
cheeky
invective
maunder
16. A deceiftful scheme - ruse
faction
unflagging
subterfuge
feral
17. Easily irritated - cantankerous - prickly
rout
peevish
soporific
iconoclast
18. Inactive - any situation that remains uncultivated
denouement
fallow
overture
pontificate
19. The final result
churl
denouement
prickly
concord
20. Cure-all
panacea
mire
quintessence
winnow
21. An area of special knowledge
province
pall
beleaguer
passe
22. Source of strength; vigorous strength
acerbic
sinews
meretricious
discreet
23. Noisy uproar
overture
intrepid
ignominious
bedlam
24. Sulky or gloomy - glum - dejected
sullen
supplant
unflagging
ken
25. Courageous behavior
gallantry
chaste
ribald
spurious
26. Showy but cheap in quality (IKEA)
ennui
tawdry
sinews
baleful
27. Lively and unpredictable
propitious
skittish
discrete
sodden
28. Ingratiating and wheedling in an insincere or excessive way - unctuous - fawning
smarmy
bristle
panacea
numinous
29. A turbulent situation - bedlam - melee
bedraggled
maelstrom
bowdlerize
melee
30. Obedient to an excessive degree
obsequious
mendacity
crescendo
prosaic
31. Sly or cunning intelligence
guile
blandishment
fulminate
strident
32. Monetary
pecuniary
noisome
sanctimonious
minatory
33. Delicious meal; sexually attractive
preempt
toothsome
recrimination
solicitous
34. Tastelessly showy in appearance - tawdry
porcine
turpitude
unbecoming
raffish
35. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
iridescent
cadge
euphonious
agog
36. Producing good effects - beneficial
alacrity
salutary
pedant
pilfer
37. Pompous or extravagant language
tremulous
grandiloquent
tenebrous
recondite
38. Accepted or popular belief
disreputable
propitiate
mire
heterodox
39. Getting rid of
pedant
divest
penurious
conciliate
40. Composed of a variety of sources - heterogenous - eclectic
slovenly
motley
tautology
wane
41. Wrapped in something protective
redolent
despot
shrouded
vagrant
42. Volatile - whimsical - fickle - unpredictable
propitious
capricious
besmirch
specter
43. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
tirade
decadent
gruff
proscribe
44. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
voluptuary
paragon
despot
cacophony
45. A person devoted to luxury or pleasure - hedonist
indignation
blandishment
voluptuary
venal
46. Of little or no importance
profligate
bovine
faction
nugatory
47. Mischievous or wayward person
harbinger
scapegrace
garish
noxious
48. Beg - sponge off someone
recrimination
equivocal
cadge
prickly
49. To scold - find fault with - chide - reproach - reprove - rebuke - berate
inimical
upbraid
probative
divest
50. Engaged in deep thought; to say thoughtfully
muse
voracious
conciliate
smarmy
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