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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. Flamboyant confidence of style or manner - dash - jaunty
exigent
panache
harrowing
libertine
2. Intensely hot; full of tribulation
pulchritude
pillory
feral
torrid
3. Inauthentic - specious - spurious - factitious
apocryphal
elegiac
ragtag
noxious
4. Exonerate
prickly
exculpate
rancor
strident
5. Being present everywhere at once
ubiquitous
prosaic
scathe
exigent
6. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
fitful
jubilant
disreputable
concomitant
7. An indirect term used in place of a more offensive one
concord
ancillary
noisome
euphemism
8. Cowardly - pusillanimous
verve
stalwart
craven
dissipation
9. Exultant - filled with joy and triumph
epicurean
jubilant
bumptious
apotheosize
10. Expressing sorrow esp. in a slightly humorous way
cheeky
fulminate
bombast
rueful
11. Without substance or meaning
ablution
vacuous
invective
gallantry
12. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
cosset
despot
heterodox
pantheon
13. Dishonesty
mendacity
attenuate
sinews
shrouded
14. Lacking poetic beauty; commonplace - unromantic - drab
frenetic
cleave
pecuniary
prosaic
15. Effusively and tearfully sentimental
maudlin
empirical
sinews
winnow
16. Noisy uproar
recapitulate
scathe
exemplary
bedlam
17. Scanty - meager
flout
exiguous
salutary
baleful
18. Chaotic - disorganized - mismanaged
shambolic
carousal
chaste
sedulous
19. Straight-laced - prudish
incendiary
bristle
prim
smarmy
20. Marked by favorable circumstances - auspicious
propitious
guile
captious
recalcitrant
21. Move about aimlessly - meander
oblique
gad
timorous
remuneration
22. Ignoble actions or motives - seamy; squalid - grubby
sordid
recrimination
ablution
elixir
23. Indirect - misleading
sophistry
peremptory
blithe
oblique
24. Ingratiating and wheedling in an insincere or excessive way - unctuous - fawning
indignant
carnal
fealty
smarmy
25. To ridicule publicly
sodden
pillory
prim
apostate
26. Something really difficult or powerful
prodigal
inexorable
blithe
herculean
27. One who wanders w/o home or livelihood
peremptory
vagrant
prim
pillory
28. Association of businesses
winnow
imperious
alacrity
consortium
29. Corrupt - wicked - nefarious
phlegmatic
venal
sedulous
pretext
30. Eager and excited (all agog with excitement)
delectable
histrionic
agog
reprise
31. To reduce in force/value (truncate: to shorten)
attenuate
shambolic
castigate
solicitous
32. Engaged in deep thought; to say thoughtfully
captious
turpitude
muse
recapitulate
33. Dirty and disheveled
piddling
bedraggled
denounce
harry
34. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
recalcitrant
obdurate
bovine
baleful
35. Tasty
craven
privation
delectable
factitious
36. An eminent person - venerable
pallid
unflagging
luminary
pulchritude
37. Fearlessly brave - resolute
gaunt
intrepid
voracious
purloin
38. Firm - resolute; a loyal supporter
maunder
lugubrious
stalwart
harrowing
39. To condemn openly
belie
mendicant
sordid
denounce
40. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
peevish
skittish
equanimity
inexorable
41. The making of insistent requests
besmirch
salutary
repartee
importune
42. Overly idealistic
craven
consortium
quixotic
passe
43. To express vehement protest
fulminate
countervail
consortium
forlorn
44. Return to original theme
ennui
reprise
feral
panache
45. Self-confidently stylish - jaunty; disreputable in appearance
somnolent
recrimination
skittish
rakish
46. Unconventional and slightly disreputable - rakish
disreputable
poltroon
luminary
raffish
47. False or fake - apparently but not valid
spurious
imbrue
pedagogue
lugubrious
48. An area of special knowledge
voluptuary
superannuated
congenial
province
49. Temporary stay - transient - itinerant - peripatetic
vagrant
sojourn
galvanize
glower
50. Combative - bellicose
pugnacious
blithe
overture
obfuscate