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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Feeling of suffering - symPATHy
shambolic
assail
discreet
pathos
2. To glorify
bedlam
apotheosize
evanescent
hubris
3. Stubbornly asserts unproved opinion; dogma: the belief; dogmatist: the person asserting
turpitude
overture
dogmatic
exiguous
4. Discordant - inharmonious
dissonant
squalid
winnow
harry
5. Monstrous evil
gruff
enormity
modicum
passe
6. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
provident
congenial
besmirch
baleful
7. Extremely bad - degrading; self-abasing
countervail
quintessence
abject
vagrant
8. To become rigid with anger or irritation
perfidious
surly
remuneration
bristle
9. Great beauty
carousal
incorrigible
discreet
pulchritude
10. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
provenance
despot
presage
bemoan
11. Commanding respect
stipulate
venerable
tautology
peevish
12. A reporobate - miscreant
concord
cloying
malefactor
carousal
13. Imprudently bold - flouting social conventions
peremptory
exemplary
specter
cheeky
14. Something really difficult or powerful
pontificate
herculean
beseech
toothsome
15. Indifferent - casual
meretricious
blithe
alacrity
cheeky
16. Immoral
garish
equanimity
turpitude
ineluctable
17. Disloyal - treacherous - quisling
perfidious
resonant
ethereal
incorrigible
18. Concise and forcefully expressive
corollary
pithy
ablution
sojourn
19. Firm - resolute; a loyal supporter
cosset
stalwart
bemoan
ebullient
20. Obscure - abstruse - little known - uncertain
impertinent
malign
recondite
sanctimonious
21. Inauthentic - specious - spurious - factitious
apocryphal
assuage
propitious
mire
22. To disturb - ruffle
disconcert
carnal
empirical
scapegrace
23. Redundancy
bemuse
tautology
inchoate
peevish
24. To crowd around - stifle
besiege
enmity
capricious
temporize
25. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
heterodox
pall
peevish
assuage
26. To speak in an authoritative manner
unflagging
unbecoming
pontificate
cachet
27. Enervated
torpid
withering
pallid
redolent
28. Accusing in return - countering accusations
churl
prescribe
recrimination
dogmatic
29. Frenzied
congenial
harbinger
attenuate
frenetic
30. Overly dramatic - emotional
feral
consortium
histrionic
motley
31. Cure-all
racy
panacea
ignominious
presage
32. Showing hesitancy - uncertain - shilly-shally - teeter
perfidious
renounce
irresolute
guile
33. Throwback
atavism
reprobate
panacea
prickly
34. Merrymaking
pillory
carousal
cheeky
shrouded
35. Inactivity - no progress
probative
rout
recapitulate
slough
36. Moral uprightness - probity
besmirch
lugubrious
sonorous
rectitude
37. Payment/salary - recompense: compensate for a loss
guile
remuneration
vagrant
sedulous
38. An intro to something more substantial
harry
overture
antecedent
churl
39. Becoming boring or wearying ('it palls on me')
tautology
gad
indignation
pall
40. Unemotional and stolid
edict
exculpate
indignation
phlegmatic
41. A person devoted to luxury or pleasure - hedonist
beseech
voluptuary
peremptory
gad
42. To fit together harmoniously
salutary
crescendo
dovetail
gruff
43. Unattractive - objectionable
rebarbative
querulous
withering
droll
44. Bubbling with enthusiasm
convivial
acerbic
ebullient
minatory
45. Exonerate
harrowing
exculpate
irresolute
presage
46. To chatter meaninglessly - prattle
trifle
euphonious
maunder
divest
47. Offset and mitigate the effects by contrary actions
countervail
prodigal
obdurate
proprietor
48. Ignoble actions or motives - seamy; squalid - grubby
apocryphal
indignant
pall
sordid
49. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
gruff
appendage
effrontery
proprietor
50. Opportune - occurring at a favorable time
providential
despot
sonorous
masquerade