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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Firm - resolute; a loyal supporter
prolix
motley
stalwart
concomitant
2. To fit together harmoniously
concord
invective
boor
dovetail
3. Something really difficult or powerful
scapegrace
galvanize
herculean
recapitulate
4. To steal a small amount - filch
pilfer
minatory
indignation
rueful
5. Fidelity - faithfulness
querulous
fealty
vacuous
incipient
6. So trivial as to be beneath one's consideration
harbinger
piddling
torrid
interloper
7. To criticize or denounce severely - excoriate - rebuke - assail - castigate
punctilious
scathe
pacific
prescribe
8. Showing hesitancy - uncertain - shilly-shally - teeter
concomitant
turpitude
imbrue
irresolute
9. Stubbornly asserts unproved opinion; dogma: the belief; dogmatist: the person asserting
dogmatic
libertine
minatory
subterfuge
10. A nuisance
solipsism
gadfly
punctilious
besiege
11. To insist on pmt of debt
exemplary
scapegrace
recondite
dun
12. Sulky or gloomy - glum - dejected
sullen
voluptuary
porcine
tawdry
13. Lively - enjoyable - jovial
tremulous
nugatory
convivial
delectable
14. To condemn openly
besmirch
denounce
bedraggled
captious
15. Representing the best of its kind
exemplary
peevish
bombast
gruff
16. Sharp - to the point - caustic
melee
pungent
antecedent
sumptuous
17. Volatile - whimsical - fickle - unpredictable
capricious
incumbent (on/upon)
vagrant
indignant
18. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
baleful
peregrination
ablution
quintessence
19. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
fallow
captious
elixir
rancor
20. To forbid
gadfly
proscribe
noisome
remuneration
21. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
maudlin
hyperbole
cadge
meretricious
22. Temporary stay - transient - itinerant - peripatetic
quintessence
tempestuous
sojourn
withering
23. Cowardly behavior - pussillanimous
ruse
raconteur
craven
restive
24. Concise and forcefully expressive
melee
dovetail
baleful
pithy
25. Excessively righteous
verve
pontificate
incendiary
sanctimonious
26. To a small degree
mite
munificent
dissonant
indignation
27. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
gruff
progenitor
obeisance
oblique
28. Moral uprightness - probity
rectitude
implacable
pillory
noisome
29. Eating greedily; insatiable appetite for something
voracious
titillating
irresolute
scathe
30. Commanding respect
venerable
trifle
providential
pall
31. Discreditable - humiliating
lugubrious
gad
ignominious
inchoate
32. Formidable - arousing respect
heterodox
sinews
redoubtable
appendage
33. Deprived of necessities and comforts
melee
equivocal
obstreperous
privation
34. Take action to prevent from happening
attenuate
preempt
clarion
elegiac
35. Improper - risque
racy
inimitable
nepotism
subterfuge
36. A small modest amount
incipient
modicum
antecedent
recalcitrant
37. Ostentatiously learned
pomp
pugnacious
pedant
obfuscate
38. Tastelessly showy in appearance - tawdry
quotidian
pall
alacrity
raffish
39. Insolent and impertinent behavior - temerity - gall
effrontery
lowering
attenuate
malefactor
40. Unable to be corrected (of a person's habits/tendencies)
incorrigible
palliative
crescendo
exculpate
41. Existing concurrently - attendant
conciliate
concomitant
adventitious
probative
42. Separate
obfuscate
discrete
panacea
skittish
43. Unconventional and slightly disreputable - rakish
expurgate
turpitude
raffish
attenuate
44. Obedient to an excessive degree
motley
ennui
obdurate
obsequious
45. Redundancy
tautology
ignominious
congenial
importune
46. Angered at something unjust
tawdry
exemplary
indignant
libertine
47. Bear-like
ursine
blandishment
martinet
pungent
48. False or fake - apparently but not valid
provenance
spurious
prickly
tautology
49. Merrymaking
presage
punctilious
carousal
eke
50. Causing weeping
munificent
lachrymose
factitious
tremulous
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