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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Strong and deep in tone - sonorous - enduring
ragtag
acerbic
resonant
insipid
2. A scattering of one's energy via an immodest pursuit of trivial pleasures (dissipated)
indignation
winnow
quotidian
dissipation
3. To develop rapidly
purloin
somnolent
burgeon
renounce
4. Return to original theme
sordid
sanctimonious
reprise
craven
5. Move about aimlessly - meander
skittish
carousal
surly
gad
6. Exonerate
exculpate
rectitude
sophistry
dun
7. Accusing in return - countering accusations
profligate
disconcert
captious
recrimination
8. Ostentatiously learned
ecumenical
noisome
pedant
fealty
9. Timid - full of apprehension - skittish
timorous
harry
atavism
plaintive
10. The making of insistent requests
irresolute
importune
jubilant
progenitor
11. To glorify
querulous
apotheosize
besmirch
mendacity
12. Overly sweet (fig.)
solipsism
cloying
harry
dissonant
13. Whining - complaining - grumbling
exiguous
querulous
euphemism
gadfly
14. Excessively complicated
scourge
ecumenical
byzantine
melee
15. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
bemoan
eke
skittish
provident
16. Peaceful - halcyon
prim
pacific
panacea
fulminate
17. Cure-all
iridescent
profligate
unrequited
panacea
18. False or fake - apparently but not valid
beseech
propitiate
sumptuous
spurious
19. Commanding respect
venerable
scourge
droll
incipient
20. To catch sight of something difficult to see
invective
racy
torpid
descry
21. Unable to be pleased
implacable
penurious
ineffable
pugnacious
22. Sluggish and dull
incumbent (on/upon)
tawdry
bovine
disconcert
23. Payment/salary - recompense: compensate for a loss
remuneration
muse
bedraggled
tautology
24. Bear-like
ribald
beseech
ursine
apocryphal
25. No longer current - out of fashion - superannuated
passe
craven
gruff
invective
26. Overwhelming defeat
solicitous
feral
rout
blandishment
27. To formally give up
conciliate
edict
jaded
renounce
28. Bitterness - caustic
acrimonious
craven
propitiate
privation
29. Tending to stir up conflict - flames
beseech
empirical
incendiary
ecumenical
30. Too great to be described in words; not to be uttered
ineffable
cleave
flub
nepotism
31. Universal - cosmopolitan - catholic
besiege
pacific
ecumenical
gratuitous
32. Defying imitation - matchless - peerless
preempt
evanescent
inimitable
abject
33. Formidable - arousing respect
heterodox
redoubtable
mendicant
euphemism
34. Oppressive ruler
chaste
despot
panache
recondite
35. Melodious - pleasing to the ear - euphony
gad
euphonious
raffish
empirical
36. To fit together harmoniously
dovetail
sonorous
obdurate
obstreperous
37. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
decorum
pilfer
convivial
staunch
38. Redundancy
brusque
tautology
melee
sedulous
39. Intended to humiliate or mortify (with a look)
withering
chaste
imperious
panache
40. A leader who gains power by manipulating emotions
exculpate
sinews
querulous
demagogue
41. Getting rid of
tawdry
spurious
divest
faction
42. Sporadic
lachrymose
fitful
bemuse
ursine
43. Slow to understand - witless
leaven
obtuse
staid
incorrigible
44. A reporobate - miscreant
pantheon
malefactor
repose
noxious
45. A person who demands strict adherence to all regulations
obsequious
martinet
carnal
assail
46. A preceding occurrence or cause or event
antecedent
punctilious
lachrymose
peremptory
47. Take action to prevent from happening
pathos
ragtag
preempt
solipsism
48. Of little or no importance
rebarbative
irresolute
nugatory
lassitude
49. Having no plan - indiscriminate - haphazard
smarmy
harry
chaste
desultory
50. Abounding - swarming with
mire
pallid
libertine
teem