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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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vocabulary
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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. Poverty-stricken - destitute
heterodox
ablution
agog
penurious
2. Straight-laced - prudish
maelstrom
bowdlerize
prim
rout
3. Noisily defiant
importune
captious
obstreperous
crescendo
4. Effusively and tearfully sentimental
sheepish
supplant
querulous
maudlin
5. An angry sullen look; to look at angrily
repose
luminary
lowering
iridescent
6. One who abandons a cause or affiliation - turncoat
apostate
prescribe
probative
crescendo
7. Source of strength; vigorous strength
sordid
sanctimonious
sinews
chaste
8. Existing concurrently - attendant
teem
punctilious
pecuniary
concomitant
9. Arrogantly domineering (imperial: regal)
spurious
tremulous
imperious
lachrymose
10. Old age
scathe
dun
senescence
proprietor
11. Getting rid of
munificent
divest
apotheosize
indignant
12. Tasty
irresolute
delectable
ineffable
prolix
13. To evade in order to gain time to avoid an argument
perfidious
temporize
shrouded
panache
14. To stare at angrily
brusque
iridescent
glower
ineluctable
15. Dark - shadowy - gloomy
tenebrous
recidivist
callow
demagogue
16. False or fake - apparently but not valid
maunder
oblique
numinous
spurious
17. Bubbling with enthusiasm
ebullient
clarion
otiose
pacific
18. Limber - flexible body (lithesome)
grandiloquent
lugubrious
lithe
empirical
19. A skillful storyteller
beleaguer
noisome
raconteur
castigate
20. A beggar
guile
sullen
mendicant
iconoclast
21. Defying imitation - matchless - peerless
pallid
appendage
inimitable
mite
22. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
rancor
ribald
cachet
expurgate
23. To distress - harass
sedulous
pomp
harry
bombast
24. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
reprise
beguile
recalcitrant
sallow
25. Spurring someone into action - goad
bedraggled
galvanize
torrid
ineluctable
26. Haggard and looking wasted
stalwart
concord
modicum
gaunt
27. Too great to be described in words; not to be uttered
exigent
jubilant
tenebrous
ineffable
28. Suggestive - reminiscent; fragrant
guile
ineffable
venal
redolent
29. Bitter - cutting expression
baleful
acerbic
jocular
cloying
30. A person who demands strict adherence to all regulations
sheepish
bovine
privation
martinet
31. Proving
dissipation
voracious
probative
surly
32. Sleepy
soporific
sedulous
sordid
somnolent
33. Disloyal - treacherous - quisling
perfidious
appendage
stalwart
equanimity
34. Exonerate
lugubrious
obdurate
bemoan
exculpate
35. A sneaky plan
lugubrious
propitious
obtuse
ruse
36. A preceding occurrence or cause or event
piddling
antecedent
interloper
rebarbative
37. Sloppy - unkempt
prodigal
slovenly
harangue
lupine
38. Immature - childish - puerile
descry
rancor
callow
progenitor
39. Happening by chance - unplanned - fortuitous
raconteur
tawdry
adventitious
demagogue
40. Managing but with great effort
lowering
purloin
disconcert
eke
41. Lighthearted - jocund - jocose
fealty
jocular
aberration
timorous
42. A coward - a cur
lampoon
pithy
denouement
poltroon
43. Temporary rest
ken
repose
divest
quintessence
44. Indirect - misleading
sojourn
sullen
recapitulate
oblique
45. To authorize - order
voracious
prescribe
equanimity
sullen
46. Exultant - filled with joy and triumph
salutary
euphonious
jubilant
prosaic
47. To trick someone into doing something
reprobate
carnal
beguile
inimitable
48. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
gruff
resonant
recapitulate
obeisance
49. Showy but cheap in quality (IKEA)
tawdry
impertinent
concord
reprise
50. Having a supernatural presence
concord
craven
numinous
empirical