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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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1. Eating greedily; insatiable appetite for something
vociferous
winnow
voracious
somnolent
2. Defying imitation - matchless - peerless
inimitable
slovenly
jocular
skittish
3. Harmful - nocuous
noxious
overture
abject
disconcert
4. Something that follows; a natural consequence
corollary
remuneration
galvanize
implacable
5. Drowsy - sleepy - slumberous
quotidian
maudlin
somnolent
fitful
6. Concise and forcefully expressive
besiege
obsequious
elixir
pithy
7. To ask urgently - implore - entreat
verve
wrangle
beseech
frenetic
8. Suffering from nervousness or lack of confidence
bombast
recrimination
timorous
elegiac
9. Imprudently bold - flouting social conventions
swoon
numinous
cheeky
guile
10. Discordant - inharmonious
ablution
timorous
agog
dissonant
11. Redundancy
craven
tautology
smarmy
specter
12. To authorize - order
incubus
reprobate
prescribe
lampoon
13. To catch sight of something difficult to see
desultory
cosset
descry
overture
14. Generous in giving
forlorn
munificent
atavism
burgeon
15. A deviation from expected course (aberrant behavior)
bemoan
titillating
tempestuous
aberration
16. Wasteful or lavishly abundant
pretext
ecumenical
prodigal
melee
17. Lighthearted - jocund - jocose
jocular
exemplary
strident
pilfer
18. Beginning; in an early stage
conciliate
incipient
ragtag
indignation
19. A perfect example
paragon
burgeon
ancillary
decorum
20. Arrogantly domineering (imperial: regal)
imperious
nepotism
gratuitous
empirical
21. To make a specific demand as part of an agreement
droll
stipulate
ken
discreet
22. The purest essence of a thing
harry
quintessence
succor
staunch
23. Wrapped in something protective
shrouded
acerbic
swoon
sonorous
24. To crowd around - stifle
voluptuary
besiege
brusque
inchoate
25. Moral uprightness - probity
rectitude
iconoclast
carousal
pittance
26. Enervated
torpid
maelstrom
incendiary
peremptory
27. Acts w/o moral restraint - dissolute - wanton - licentious - depraved - rake
interloper
frenetic
libertine
scathe
28. To steal a small amount - filch
implacable
precipitate
contiguous
pilfer
29. Obscure - abstruse - little known - uncertain
forlorn
strident
factitious
recondite
30. A skillful storyteller
fulminate
raconteur
cosset
redolent
31. Wolf-like - rapacious
clarion
sonorous
besmirch
lupine
32. Saturated with liquid; having drunk excess of alcohol
sodden
obdurate
conciliate
harbinger
33. Unconventional and slightly disreputable - rakish
recondite
raffish
subterfuge
torpid
34. Favoritism shown to relatives
privation
benighted
nepotism
venerable
35. Putting an end to all debate or action
jaded
modicum
decadent
peremptory
36. Anxious - concerned
solicitous
prodigal
remuneration
supplant
37. Lacking authenticity - spurious - specious - apocryphal
factitious
mendicant
conciliate
tempestuous
38. Indirect - misleading
raffish
interloper
oblique
pulchritude
39. To smear - traduce - malign
flub
pacific
besmirch
intrepid
40. A repeated offender
meretricious
reprobate
torpid
bedlam
41. Having like minds or temperament
simpatico
somnolent
reprise
palliative
42. Proving
cheeky
platitude
ragtag
probative
43. Monetary
senescence
pecuniary
heterodox
oblique
44. Lavish
sumptuous
exculpate
swoon
poltroon
45. To cause a negative event or situation
precipitate
peremptory
intrepid
vociferous
46. Bitter - cutting expression
venerable
martinet
acerbic
pedant
47. Haggard and looking wasted
captious
gaunt
repartee
corollary
48. Any image of future disturbance
specter
pomp
herculean
peevish
49. Unwanted intruders - meddler
interloper
smarmy
antecedent
byzantine
50. Long - pompous speech (n or v)
simpatico
harangue
repose
nugatory