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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
gruff
redolent
punctilious
harbinger
2. An angry sullen look; to look at angrily
cosset
burgeon
tyro
lowering
3. Offset and mitigate the effects by contrary actions
raffish
solicitous
countervail
spurious
4. A beggar
elegiac
mendicant
tyro
blandishment
5. Irritable - irascible - cantankerous - prickly
forlorn
profligate
petulant
slough
6. Deep-seeded mutual hatred - hostility
enmity
decadent
perfidious
pillory
7. Sounding sad and mournful
carousal
plaintive
hubris
ebullient
8. Enervated
torpid
empirical
decadent
staunch
9. Exonerate
incubus
exculpate
venerable
dogmatic
10. Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree - obsequious
tempestuous
congenital
consortium
toady
11. Bubbling with enthusiasm
ebullient
divest
abject
munificent
12. A potion falsely believed to cure
shrouded
elixir
pulchritude
mercurial
13. Present from birth - inborn
aberration
besiege
congenital
pathos
14. The purest essence of a thing
ribald
porcine
quintessence
assail
15. To repeat in concise form
galvanize
sullen
probative
recapitulate
16. Whimsical - sudden changes of mood
exigent
mercurial
apocryphal
agog
17. A distinguishing feature conferring prestige
passe
ineffable
despot
cachet
18. To insist on pmt of debt
malign
dogmatic
rakish
dun
19. Inevitable
dovetail
ineluctable
obfuscate
upbraid
20. A scattering of one's energy via an immodest pursuit of trivial pleasures (dissipated)
plaintive
turpitude
pungent
dissipation
21. To stare at angrily
intemperate
ragtag
sheepish
glower
22. Mischievous or wayward person
scapegrace
pungent
malign
voluptuary
23. Overwhelming defeat
despot
hubris
rout
indignant
24. Cheerful willingness to do something
nepotism
alacrity
raffish
redolent
25. Immoral
harrowing
turpitude
chaste
repartee
26. Producing good effects - beneficial
salutary
imperious
iconoclast
trifle
27. Fidelity - faithfulness
quintessence
fealty
rectitude
desultory
28. Having no plan - indiscriminate - haphazard
desultory
callow
ragtag
mendicant
29. To a small degree
spurious
mite
winnow
superannuated
30. Bear-like
pallid
cadge
burgeon
ursine
31. An indirect term used in place of a more offensive one
euphemism
saturnine
acrimonious
inexorable
32. Volatile - whimsical - fickle - unpredictable
incubus
dissipation
contiguous
capricious
33. Even-tempered - composed
skittish
equanimity
repose
timorous
34. Lacking poetic beauty; commonplace - unromantic - drab
obstreperous
nepotism
probative
prosaic
35. Emotional fatigue - listless
teem
reprobate
evanescent
lassitude
36. Saturated with liquid; having drunk excess of alcohol
atavism
verve
sodden
scathe
37. Spurring someone into action - goad
jaded
baleful
lassitude
galvanize
38. Suggestive - reminiscent; fragrant
stipulate
redolent
adventitious
redoubtable
39. Suggestive - reminiscent; aromatic smell
pungent
attenuate
redolent
decadent
40. A deceiftful scheme - ruse
toady
subterfuge
implacable
repose
41. Angered at something unjust
indignant
jaded
dissonant
irresolute
42. Bitterness - caustic
acrimonious
pecuniary
burgeon
pacific
43. Overly sweet (fig.)
cloying
swoon
bemoan
fulminate
44. Relating to the physical (sexual)
sullen
carnal
apocryphal
penurious
45. Morally pure
gruff
scourge
prescribe
chaste
46. Flashy - loud - glaring
pittance
garish
ribald
staid
47. Irritable - grouchy - cantankerous - irascible
porcine
prickly
numinous
passe
48. To ignore or treat with disdain
adventitious
flout
intemperate
poltroon
49. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
conciliate
vociferous
harlequin
adventitious
50. Monetary
pecuniary
conciliate
poltroon
sordid