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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. Anxious - concerned
contiguous
rancor
bedlam
solicitous
2. Any increase in intensity
sophistry
crescendo
otiose
noisome
3. Agreeable - gracious - affable
congenial
carousal
peevish
munificent
4. Frenzied
frenetic
attenuate
paragon
droll
5. Tactful - circumspect - wary
harry
discreet
prosaic
beguile
6. Unremitting - unflagging - relentless
divest
lupine
inexorable
winnow
7. Immoral
turpitude
numinous
peremptory
suborn
8. Misrepresent - disguise
appendage
torrid
mercurial
belie
9. A source of misery - to cause suffering
petulant
pungent
scourge
pilfer
10. Airy - delicate - insubstantial
scapegrace
mire
ethereal
superannuated
11. A beggar
solipsism
interloper
mendicant
besiege
12. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
surly
gruff
recalcitrant
meretricious
13. Outmoded - antiquated
penurious
meretricious
superannuated
adventitious
14. An excessive pride
hubris
glower
toady
perfidious
15. Limber - flexible body (lithesome)
lithe
besmirch
strident
faction
16. Sloppy - unkempt
scapegrace
senescence
racy
slovenly
17. To soothe - abate - allay - mitigate
torpid
turpitude
unrequited
assuage
18. Discriminating or refined taste in food - epicure
apotheosize
corollary
epicurean
purloin
19. Move about aimlessly - meander
gad
discrete
harry
toady
20. Showy but cheap in quality (IKEA)
solipsism
guile
tawdry
droll
21. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
inimitable
recalcitrant
repartee
iridescent
22. Bitterness - caustic
repartee
inimical
acrimonious
toothsome
23. Combative - bellicose
maunder
upbraid
slovenly
pugnacious
24. Oppressive ruler
despot
galvanize
abject
pantheon
25. Throwback
enmity
clarion
dissonant
atavism
26. Intensely hot; full of tribulation
palliative
proscribe
torrid
inexorable
27. Intended to humiliate or mortify (with a look)
unflagging
despot
withering
prolix
28. Something's origin
obtuse
provenance
bemoan
effrontery
29. Describes a person in moral/intellectual darkness
benighted
shrouded
hyperbole
harangue
30. To wander - travel abroad
superannuated
peregrination
garish
redoubtable
31. Speak about in a spiteful or evil manner
interloper
pontificate
redolent
malign
32. Threatening
minatory
invective
repartee
elegiac
33. Payment/salary - recompense: compensate for a loss
congenital
turpitude
remuneration
martinet
34. To criticize or denounce severely - excoriate - rebuke - assail - castigate
dissipation
scathe
redolent
lowering
35. Ignoble actions or motives - seamy; squalid - grubby
sordid
harlequin
elixir
sheepish
36. Separate
ineluctable
despot
discrete
harbinger
37. Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree - obsequious
pallid
subterfuge
pecuniary
toady
38. To excite pleasurably - erotically
castigate
stipulate
flub
titillating
39. Meticulous
preempt
punctilious
faction
galvanize
40. A gesture showing obedience and respect
obeisance
presage
supplant
unflagging
41. Returning to pattern of bad behavior
passe
recidivist
decorum
torrid
42. Bear-like
sojourn
concomitant
ursine
disconcert
43. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
pithy
rout
alacrity
proprietor
44. Putting an end to all debate or action
sullen
peremptory
gruff
decorum
45. To a small degree
mite
guile
staunch
prescribe
46. Beg - sponge off someone
rebarbative
cadge
nugatory
unflagging
47. To rid of undesirable parts - separate good from bad
saturnine
winnow
demagogue
baleful
48. A decree or order - fiat
acrimonious
ribald
obstreperous
edict
49. A part of something in a supportive - dependent position
venal
malefactor
obdurate
appendage
50. Prudent - economical
gratuitous
provident
acerbic
melee