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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Pompous or extravagant language
grandiloquent
pecuniary
pungent
paragon
2. An excessive pride
congenial
hubris
ineffable
bowdlerize
3. Tasty
slovenly
capricious
scourge
delectable
4. Lacking vitality - insipid - jejune - prosaic
tempestuous
divest
pallid
gadfly
5. A grouch
convivial
phlegmatic
ribald
curmudgeon
6. To mock - gibe - jeer
desultory
crescendo
sheepish
lampoon
7. A cleansing of the body
invective
verve
fealty
ablution
8. To disturb - ruffle
voluptuary
disconcert
sonorous
harrowing
9. Harmful - nocuous
chaste
noxious
sanctimonious
pulchritude
10. Harmony - in agreement
indignation
empirical
poltroon
concord
11. Deprived of necessities and comforts
exculpate
demagogue
privation
gad
12. Opportune - occurring at a favorable time
callow
congenial
providential
garish
13. Move about aimlessly - meander
gad
progenitor
exculpate
hyperbole
14. Moral or cultural decline - dissolute
alacrity
taxonomy
decadent
rancor
15. Discreditable - humiliating
pilfer
inexorable
inimitable
ignominious
16. Something that follows; a natural consequence
corollary
insipid
upbraid
penurious
17. A tiny amount of money
province
pacific
frenetic
pittance
18. To split (cleft); to stick to
panache
cleave
peevish
harlequin
19. Delicious meal; sexually attractive
toothsome
besiege
crescendo
feral
20. Irritable - irascible - cantankerous - prickly
glower
probative
inimitable
petulant
21. Wordiness - verbose
incumbent (on/upon)
prolix
dogmatic
minatory
22. Redundancy
mire
unrequited
lowering
tautology
23. A preceding occurrence or cause or event
tremulous
quixotic
antecedent
passe
24. Enervated
perfidious
torpid
guile
acrimonious
25. Vivacity - sprightliness - brio - esprit
blandishment
besiege
verve
byzantine
26. A person devoted to luxury or pleasure - hedonist
clarion
congenial
voluptuary
disconcert
27. Eating greedily; insatiable appetite for something
voracious
prim
recondite
bombast
28. To formally give up
staid
denouement
renounce
rancor
29. To cause a negative event or situation
shambolic
stalwart
precipitate
blandishment
30. (n. or v.) comfort in time of distress
propitiate
succor
herculean
forlorn
31. Dirty or wretched - abject (squalor)
prosaic
propitiate
squalid
bedraggled
32. Formidable - arousing respect
superannuated
redoubtable
solicitous
providential
33. Returning to pattern of bad behavior
ken
prescribe
recidivist
rancor
34. Payment/salary - recompense: compensate for a loss
lowering
jubilant
remuneration
malefactor
35. Long - pompous speech (n or v)
ignominious
toady
precipitate
harangue
36. Tasteless - dull - prosaic - pallid - ponderous
insipid
crescendo
dovetail
provident
37. Wasteful or lavishly abundant
apocryphal
fitful
prodigal
stipulate
38. Showy but cheap in quality (IKEA)
tawdry
nepotism
pillory
propitiate
39. A rude - unmannerly person with bad disposition - boor - surly
numinous
churl
piddling
importune
40. To scold - find fault with - chide - reproach - reprove - rebuke - berate
prolix
upbraid
gruff
adventitious
41. Induce to commit an unlawful act
stalwart
soporific
torpid
suborn
42. Gloomy - morose - morbid - sullen
sonorous
lugubrious
pillory
dissonant
43. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
iridescent
feral
obdurate
unbecoming
44. Merrymaking
dissipation
carousal
pittance
scapegrace
45. Discordant - inharmonious
consortium
propitious
timorous
dissonant
46. Noisily defiant
pilfer
disreputable
obstreperous
pungent
47. Temporary rest
repose
apotheosize
noisome
intrepid
48. Relating to the physical (sexual)
blithe
carnal
surly
peregrination
49. Return to original theme
providential
craven
reprise
gratuitous
50. Suggestive - reminiscent; fragrant
redolent
boor
reprise
fawn