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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. Emotional fatigue - listless
inchoate
lassitude
shrouded
proscribe
2. A scattering of one's energy via an immodest pursuit of trivial pleasures (dissipated)
reprise
dovetail
dissipation
renounce
3. To disturb - ruffle
disconcert
frenetic
suborn
imperious
4. Tasteless - dull - prosaic - pallid - ponderous
mite
insipid
concomitant
repartee
5. Self-confidently stylish - jaunty; disreputable in appearance
glower
enormity
ignominious
rakish
6. Unable to be corrected (of a person's habits/tendencies)
incorrigible
harangue
tirade
shambolic
7. Bitter - cutting expression
cleave
restive
pittance
acerbic
8. Unsolicited - unnecessary - given w/o obligation
toady
staunch
bedlam
gratuitous
9. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
providential
stipulate
disreputable
incubus
10. Ignoble actions or motives - seamy; squalid - grubby
disconcert
smarmy
sordid
atavism
11. Happening by chance - unplanned - fortuitous
winnow
maudlin
adventitious
minatory
12. Tactful - circumspect - wary
discreet
invective
cacophony
jaded
13. Wrapped in something protective
shrouded
torrid
boor
racy
14. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
sallow
faction
fallow
sumptuous
15. Indirect - misleading
oblique
voluptuary
interloper
garish
16. A sneaky plan
sheepish
ruse
sullen
decadent
17. Limber - flexible body (lithesome)
lithe
inchoate
elixir
shrouded
18. Melodious - pleasing to the ear - euphony
intemperate
pallid
pittance
euphonious
19. Insolent and impertinent behavior - temerity - gall
effrontery
ecumenical
nepotism
pomp
20. Restless
restive
province
taxonomy
maunder
21. Unrestrained behavior; philandering
panacea
incendiary
profligate
sodden
22. Showing hesitancy - uncertain - shilly-shally - teeter
apocryphal
autocrat
irresolute
ablution
23. Wasteful or lavishly abundant
congenital
prodigal
cachet
raconteur
24. Beg - sponge off someone
cadge
pathos
skittish
invective
25. Characterized by strong conflicting emotions
tempestuous
pretext
raffish
unflagging
26. To speak in an authoritative manner
salutary
peregrination
fulminate
pontificate
27. To formally give up
renounce
redoubtable
frenetic
clarion
28. To ridicule publicly
ineluctable
iridescent
fallow
pillory
29. Morally pure
implacable
tenebrous
herculean
chaste
30. (n. or v.) comfort in time of distress
skittish
denouement
restive
succor
31. Tending to stir up conflict - flames
teem
sheepish
incendiary
temporize
32. Wordiness - verbose
elixir
melee
harbinger
prolix
33. Irritable - irascible - cantankerous - prickly
petulant
prescribe
solicitous
squalid
34. Improper - risque
racy
masquerade
repartee
indignant
35. Inactivity - no progress
slough
irresolute
pedant
gratuitous
36. Relating to the physical (sexual)
carnal
pretext
obdurate
irresolute
37. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
sordid
fawn
iridescent
equivocal
38. Discriminating or refined taste in food - epicure
harangue
sinews
proscribe
epicurean
39. Lighthearted - jocund - jocose
jocular
ecumenical
recrimination
callow
40. A scheme of classification
propitiate
withering
taxonomy
proprietor
41. Lacking vitality - insipid - jejune - prosaic
porcine
pallid
pillory
renounce
42. A duty or obligation
pallid
tremulous
incumbent (on/upon)
rout
43. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
rancor
redolent
craven
imperious
44. Cowardly behavior - pussillanimous
province
toady
raconteur
craven
45. Ceremony and splendid display
incubus
stipulate
sojourn
pomp
46. Savage human behavior
ignominious
baleful
feral
gallantry
47. Lavish
sordid
rueful
sumptuous
pallid
48. Separate
piddling
obfuscate
discrete
evanescent
49. A coward - a cur
slovenly
ribald
cheeky
poltroon
50. Stubbornly asserts unproved opinion; dogma: the belief; dogmatist: the person asserting
cachet
leaven
dogmatic
cadge