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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
somnolent
abject
ethereal
proprietor
2. Deprived of necessities and comforts
privation
sanctimonious
maudlin
solipsism
3. Separate
incipient
dissipation
discrete
sanctimonious
4. Causing weeping
burgeon
lachrymose
beguile
bedlam
5. Returning to pattern of bad behavior
recidivist
wrangle
implacable
cloying
6. Proving
squalid
prosaic
probative
cosset
7. Tastelessly showy in appearance - tawdry
recondite
alacrity
invective
raffish
8. Something that follows; a natural consequence
denounce
corollary
atavism
acrimonious
9. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
squalid
sonorous
corollary
conciliate
10. To harass - torment - beset
exiguous
beleaguer
libertine
flub
11. To treat with little importance
sheepish
benighted
trifle
minatory
12. Combative - bellicose
pugnacious
propitiate
sojourn
tremulous
13. Bubbling with enthusiasm
pretext
attenuate
ebullient
voluptuary
14. Becoming boring or wearying ('it palls on me')
frenetic
pall
timorous
probative
15. A decree or order - fiat
pedant
meretricious
edict
rancor
16. Dirty and disheveled
bedraggled
concord
obstreperous
specter
17. Limber - flexible body (lithesome)
lithe
pulchritude
hubris
appendage
18. An indirect term used in place of a more offensive one
euphemism
suborn
superannuated
platitude
19. Timid - full of apprehension - skittish
disconcert
timorous
despot
specter
20. Favoritism shown to relatives
elegiac
nepotism
insipid
byzantine
21. Induce to commit an unlawful act
platitude
assail
suborn
sophistry
22. The light exchange of convo
eke
repartee
simpatico
turpitude
23. Acts w/o moral restraint - dissolute - wanton - licentious - depraved - rake
recrimination
withering
libertine
paragon
24. Long - pompous speech (n or v)
harangue
assuage
harlequin
supplant
25. Clown - buffoon - bumbling person
blithe
beleaguer
harlequin
nugatory
26. Unconventional and slightly disreputable - rakish
exiguous
raffish
bemoan
lugubrious
27. Internal conflict; a dissonant minority group
progenitor
cloying
epicurean
faction
28. To stare at angrily
glower
agog
leaven
scourge
29. To evade in order to gain time to avoid an argument
iconoclast
redolent
temporize
tawdry
30. Anxious - concerned
rueful
pittance
solicitous
staunch
31. Lively - enjoyable - jovial
convivial
evanescent
sonorous
bombast
32. Moral or cultural decline - dissolute
decadent
concomitant
resonant
saturnine
33. Rudimentary - incipient; unclear: 'inchoate idea'
poltroon
piddling
ethereal
inchoate
34. Frightening - distressing
tawdry
harrowing
discreet
prickly
35. Misrepresent - disguise
paragon
obsequious
rakish
belie
36. To authorize - order
boor
empirical
hyperbole
prescribe
37. To trick someone into doing something
expurgate
beguile
incumbent (on/upon)
evanescent
38. A forewarning of something bad - foreboding - portent
privation
provenance
prescribe
presage
39. Strong and deep in tone - sonorous - enduring
resonant
incendiary
unflagging
inexorable
40. Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree - obsequious
gadfly
pugnacious
toady
unbecoming
41. Chaotic - disorganized - mismanaged
shambolic
discrete
preempt
progenitor
42. Your understanding - limits of knowledge
obeisance
precipitate
pulchritude
ken
43. Existing concurrently - attendant
redolent
voracious
pall
concomitant
44. Being present everywhere at once
piddling
prolix
recidivist
ubiquitous
45. Requiring precise accuracy - demanding; urgent
burgeon
exigent
capricious
plaintive
46. Overly sweet (fig.)
harangue
turpitude
cloying
disreputable
47. Getting rid of
exemplary
besmirch
divest
concomitant
48. Whimsical - sudden changes of mood
prim
assail
mercurial
agog
49. Obedient to an excessive degree
meretricious
obsequious
timorous
ecumenical
50. To censor
remuneration
bowdlerize
unrequited
repose