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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Irritable - irascible - cantankerous - prickly
unrequited
disconcert
imbrue
petulant
2. Acts w/o moral restraint - dissolute - wanton - licentious - depraved - rake
mite
grandiloquent
harangue
libertine
3. Delicious meal; sexually attractive
toothsome
iconoclast
fealty
sumptuous
4. Whining - complaining - grumbling
cleave
querulous
mercurial
gaunt
5. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
despot
obdurate
aberration
pilfer
6. Fault-finding - censorious - hypercritical
ancillary
sullen
captious
acrimonious
7. Irritable - grouchy - cantankerous - irascible
saturnine
inimitable
quixotic
prickly
8. Take action to prevent from happening
preempt
pilfer
pomp
simpatico
9. Even-tempered - composed
equanimity
gallantry
presage
harrowing
10. Expressing sorrow esp. in a slightly humorous way
rueful
ubiquitous
obfuscate
redoubtable
11. Move about aimlessly - meander
denouement
denounce
acerbic
gad
12. Excessively complicated
byzantine
tautology
sinews
meretricious
13. Saturate - stain
sinews
imbrue
crescendo
raffish
14. Abusive language - diatribe
withering
renounce
bombast
tirade
15. To repeat in concise form
exculpate
presage
motley
recapitulate
16. Beginning; in an early stage
obtuse
peevish
ethereal
incipient
17. An angry sullen look; to look at angrily
lowering
cadge
repose
wane
18. The light exchange of convo
repartee
cacophony
contiguous
shambolic
19. Pompous or extravagant language
curmudgeon
grandiloquent
discreet
cheeky
20. Novice
tyro
acrimonious
ubiquitous
resonant
21. To glorify
sodden
apotheosize
alacrity
province
22. Frightening - distressing
expurgate
ecumenical
incipient
harrowing
23. Haggard and looking wasted
intrepid
rakish
gaunt
solicitous
24. Effusively and tearfully sentimental
maudlin
masquerade
strident
divest
25. To formally give up
succor
exiguous
remuneration
renounce
26. A repeated offender
raffish
ribald
factitious
reprobate
27. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
equanimity
garish
sullen
staunch
28. No longer current - out of fashion - superannuated
gadfly
insipid
disreputable
passe
29. Savage human behavior
euphemism
bemuse
harbinger
feral
30. Sober - sedate - prim - overly proper
recapitulate
staid
stipulate
redolent
31. Meticulous
equivocal
denouement
heterodox
punctilious
32. Offset and mitigate the effects by contrary actions
heterodox
curmudgeon
countervail
winnow
33. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
rancor
pungent
invective
alacrity
34. Tasty
atavism
saturnine
delectable
flub
35. Supersede and replace
recalcitrant
supplant
descry
platitude
36. To stare at angrily
lowering
glower
subterfuge
corollary
37. Sloppy - unkempt
rancor
slovenly
captious
somnolent
38. A skillful storyteller
raconteur
reprobate
pontificate
peremptory
39. Having a supernatural presence
stipulate
besmirch
descry
numinous
40. Speak about in a spiteful or evil manner
oblique
appendage
malign
pretext
41. To rid of undesirable parts - separate good from bad
winnow
sordid
bedlam
feral
42. Rudimentary - incipient; unclear: 'inchoate idea'
obstreperous
inchoate
reprobate
conciliate
43. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
raffish
countervail
proprietor
scapegrace
44. Lively and unpredictable
skittish
malign
aberration
bedraggled
45. Vivacity - sprightliness - brio - esprit
bumptious
verve
gadfly
surly
46. Courageous behavior
tawdry
exemplary
gallantry
sonorous
47. To harass - torment - beset
sedulous
histrionic
beleaguer
mendicant
48. Noisily defiant
prolix
equanimity
demagogue
obstreperous
49. Representing the best of its kind
supplant
exemplary
burgeon
rueful
50. Immoral
pallid
turpitude
renounce
senescence