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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Generous in giving
province
munificent
effrontery
profligate
2. So trivial as to be beneath one's consideration
pedant
peevish
piddling
subterfuge
3. Inevitable
ineluctable
senescence
guile
superannuated
4. Long - pompous speech (n or v)
harangue
capricious
invective
mendicant
5. A nuisance
gadfly
shrouded
sordid
castigate
6. Lacking vitality - insipid - jejune - prosaic
acerbic
acrimonious
pallid
iridescent
7. Something concealing true purpose - ostensible reason
elixir
redolent
pretext
turpitude
8. Irreverent - rude - impudent - effrontery - cheek
sumptuous
lassitude
exemplary
impertinent
9. Ostentatiously learned
irresolute
pulchritude
pedant
evanescent
10. Gloomy - morose - morbid - sullen
lugubrious
probative
numinous
lupine
11. Merrymaking
carousal
elegiac
ribald
porcine
12. Something's origin
panache
iridescent
provenance
sodden
13. Scanty - meager
exiguous
maelstrom
elegiac
turpitude
14. To confuse in order to hide the truth
mite
bumptious
besmirch
obfuscate
15. Quivering or shaking slightly
exemplary
tremulous
carnal
desultory
16. Present from birth - inborn
succor
inimical
elixir
congenital
17. One who abandons a cause or affiliation - turncoat
faction
sullen
apostate
imperious
18. Making a false outward show
apotheosize
masquerade
mite
conciliate
19. A tiny amount of money
poltroon
rakish
disreputable
pittance
20. Rudimentary - incipient; unclear: 'inchoate idea'
bedlam
inchoate
unflagging
redolent
21. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
succor
churl
platitude
denouement
22. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
meretricious
intrepid
expurgate
imbrue
23. Melodious - pleasing to the ear - euphony
euphonious
palliative
frenetic
prescribe
24. Moral uprightness - probity
rectitude
concomitant
iconoclast
teem
25. Meticulous
punctilious
obeisance
divest
saturnine
26. Of secondary importance
bovine
ancillary
pall
meretricious
27. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
sallow
porcine
flout
inchoate
28. Take action to prevent from happening
dogmatic
preempt
suborn
tenebrous
29. (fig.) to make dirty reputation
besmirch
histrionic
obstreperous
gruff
30. Fault-finding - censorious - hypercritical
bumptious
propitiate
upbraid
captious
31. Sly or cunning intelligence
guile
crescendo
maudlin
remuneration
32. A coward - a cur
poltroon
attenuate
cacophony
precipitate
33. To ignore or treat with disdain
decorum
flout
apocryphal
bowdlerize
34. Improper - risque
interloper
recapitulate
racy
demagogue
35. A scattering of one's energy via an immodest pursuit of trivial pleasures (dissipated)
dissipation
harlequin
exculpate
aberration
36. Vivacity - sprightliness - brio - esprit
raffish
somnolent
verve
shrouded
37. Immature - childish - puerile
porcine
ruse
callow
sodden
38. A reporobate - miscreant
decadent
malefactor
clarion
dovetail
39. To condemn openly
edict
denounce
pittance
dissipation
40. Cowardly - pusillanimous
craven
tyro
contiguous
melee
41. Volatile - whimsical - fickle - unpredictable
capricious
somnolent
temporize
restive
42. Agreeable - gracious - affable
congenial
munificent
libertine
perfidious
43. Favoritism shown to relatives
tempestuous
nepotism
turpitude
frenetic
44. Serving no purpose or result
nepotism
beleaguer
otiose
disconcert
45. Internal conflict; a dissonant minority group
droll
importune
imperious
faction
46. Formidable - arousing respect
unrequited
progenitor
redoubtable
remuneration
47. Tasty
effrontery
delectable
carnal
numinous
48. False or fake - apparently but not valid
passe
spurious
sinews
bristle
49. Sporadic
noxious
fitful
modicum
bedraggled
50. Exonerate
gadfly
exculpate
pugnacious
squalid
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