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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Actions to appease opposing forces
pacific
peregrination
obeisance
propitiate
2. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
boor
imbrue
repose
gruff
3. Great beauty
pulchritude
importune
muse
pallid
4. Excessively complicated
turpitude
lugubrious
discrete
byzantine
5. To censor material (unexpurgated)
bemoan
elixir
expurgate
rakish
6. A tiny amount of money
pittance
specter
harangue
recidivist
7. Lavish
sumptuous
recondite
interloper
iconoclast
8. Unconventional and slightly disreputable - rakish
raffish
cosset
chaste
assail
9. Fearlessly brave - resolute
intrepid
cacophony
flub
reprise
10. To stare at angrily
countervail
glower
forlorn
autocrat
11. A sneaky plan
surly
byzantine
noisome
ruse
12. Self-confidently stylish - jaunty; disreputable in appearance
sanctimonious
skittish
supplant
rakish
13. Misrepresent - disguise
abject
modicum
turpitude
belie
14. Ignoble actions or motives - seamy; squalid - grubby
sordid
descry
venerable
lampoon
15. Wrapped in something protective
shrouded
pulchritude
epicurean
reprise
16. Relieving symptoms - palliate
palliative
progenitor
turpitude
pall
17. Having no plan - indiscriminate - haphazard
solicitous
cosset
verve
desultory
18. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
decorum
byzantine
unrequited
meretricious
19. To ignore or treat with disdain
besiege
senescence
flout
contiguous
20. Unable to be pleased
sumptuous
implacable
pungent
denouement
21. To evade in order to gain time to avoid an argument
temporize
ursine
imperious
acerbic
22. Induce to commit an unlawful act
suborn
intrepid
sojourn
beseech
23. A gesture showing obedience and respect
bowdlerize
sumptuous
obeisance
countervail
24. Tasty
delectable
blithe
provident
contiguous
25. Anger provoked by unfair treatment
indignation
solicitous
strident
incipient
26. A person who seeks to overthrow mainstream ideas
lachrymose
dovetail
platitude
iconoclast
27. A decree or order - fiat
divest
bowdlerize
edict
gruff
28. Feeling of suffering - symPATHy
scapegrace
abject
pathos
callow
29. Abusive language - 'inveigh against'
quotidian
concord
tawdry
invective
30. Delicious meal; sexually attractive
tirade
toothsome
impertinent
gadfly
31. Loud and clear
fallow
acrimonious
importune
clarion
32. An early omen
meretricious
glower
harbinger
harrowing
33. Combative - bellicose
swoon
pugnacious
reprise
pomp
34. So trivial as to be beneath one's consideration
piddling
lupine
recalcitrant
spurious
35. Saturated with liquid; having drunk excess of alcohol
inimitable
denouement
atavism
sodden
36. To be stuck (lit. or fig.) in something
leaven
swoon
mire
rout
37. Universal - cosmopolitan - catholic
maudlin
ecumenical
noisome
tempestuous
38. Bitterly sarcastic - sardonic
timorous
sheepish
sordid
saturnine
39. A duty or obligation
incumbent (on/upon)
autocrat
slovenly
pomp
40. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
lugubrious
baleful
pall
vacuous
41. Unremitting - unflagging - relentless
irresolute
inexorable
garish
racy
42. Timid - full of apprehension - skittish
panacea
superannuated
timorous
countervail
43. Of little or no importance
carnal
ragtag
nugatory
interloper
44. To reduce in force/value (truncate: to shorten)
prolix
attenuate
smarmy
malign
45. Rigid - disheveled
succor
harry
incendiary
ragtag
46. Commanding respect
bedlam
venerable
faction
sullen
47. To trick someone into doing something
demagogue
otiose
beguile
acrimonious
48. Causing weeping
convivial
lachrymose
sordid
phlegmatic
49. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
gruff
rancor
provenance
precipitate
50. Formidable - arousing respect
exemplary
redoubtable
hyperbole
otiose