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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Monetary
pittance
pecuniary
aberration
penurious
2. Source of strength; vigorous strength
sinews
cosset
libertine
torrid
3. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
winnow
supplant
gruff
recidivist
4. To treat with little importance
platitude
recrimination
trifle
jubilant
5. Slow to understand - witless
repartee
muse
otiose
obtuse
6. Throwback
petulant
divest
atavism
faction
7. Bitter - cutting expression
sheepish
acerbic
descry
subterfuge
8. Association of businesses
noxious
jaded
consortium
modicum
9. Rich in sound; spoken words that are impressive
pantheon
sonorous
venal
gad
10. To steal a small amount - filch
sumptuous
surly
temporize
pilfer
11. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
invective
cloying
preempt
despot
12. Lacking vitality - insipid - jejune - prosaic
demagogue
pallid
quotidian
rectitude
13. Happening by chance - unplanned - fortuitous
adventitious
salutary
herculean
ruse
14. Pushy - rudely assertive
pomp
tyro
bumptious
exculpate
15. False or fake - apparently but not valid
incumbent (on/upon)
spurious
denounce
vacuous
16. Discreditable - humiliating
spurious
phlegmatic
province
ignominious
17. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
sallow
lithe
disreputable
decorum
18. Excessively complicated
exculpate
byzantine
pall
bowdlerize
19. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
autocrat
staunch
winnow
vagrant
20. The final result
reprobate
cleave
denouement
titillating
21. Worn out - wearied
toady
jaded
timorous
obsequious
22. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
callow
supplant
iridescent
noxious
23. Wrapped in something protective
shrouded
pillory
dogmatic
passe
24. Serving no purpose or result
minatory
bedlam
otiose
acrimonious
25. Redundancy
tawdry
enormity
importune
tautology
26. To attack verbally - flay - excoriate - castigate
impertinent
assail
hubris
cachet
27. To harass - torment - beset
beleaguer
unflagging
histrionic
scourge
28. Airy - delicate - insubstantial
irresolute
progenitor
fitful
ethereal
29. To fit together harmoniously
dovetail
heterodox
denouement
voluptuary
30. Any oppressive burden - nemesis
implacable
byzantine
incubus
demagogue
31. Long - pompous speech (n or v)
harangue
elegiac
bristle
withering
32. Combative - bellicose
malefactor
empirical
pugnacious
toothsome
33. Threatening
minatory
malefactor
blithe
gaunt
34. Whining - complaining - grumbling
scourge
querulous
peremptory
propitiate
35. To a small degree
droll
quotidian
mite
somnolent
36. Bubbling with enthusiasm
scathe
factitious
ebullient
prim
37. Humorously indecent - bawdy
ribald
reprobate
minatory
belie
38. Fault-finding - censorious - hypercritical
pittance
lassitude
resonant
captious
39. To crowd around - stifle
restive
ennui
sinews
besiege
40. Bitterness - caustic
bumptious
dovetail
brusque
acrimonious
41. To make a specific demand as part of an agreement
gadfly
harrowing
stipulate
obfuscate
42. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
pantheon
obstreperous
maelstrom
withering
43. Loud and clear
clarion
renounce
vagrant
wrangle
44. Concise and forcefully expressive
evanescent
fealty
pithy
harlequin
45. Sly or cunning intelligence
autocrat
guile
salutary
sullen
46. To speak in an authoritative manner
glower
ecumenical
pontificate
desultory
47. Vivacity - sprightliness - brio - esprit
verve
raffish
precipitate
providential
48. Discriminating or refined taste in food - epicure
harlequin
epicurean
adventitious
lithe
49. A scattering of one's energy via an immodest pursuit of trivial pleasures (dissipated)
disconcert
dissipation
mite
tremulous
50. Inevitable
sinews
gallantry
contiguous
ineluctable
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