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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Dirty and disheveled
bedraggled
peregrination
bowdlerize
sinews
2. To develop rapidly
somnolent
slough
pilfer
burgeon
3. Meticulous
penurious
staid
punctilious
despot
4. Scanty - meager
superannuated
impertinent
exiguous
staunch
5. To be stuck (lit. or fig.) in something
galvanize
lupine
mire
exemplary
6. A grouch
swoon
solipsism
ennui
curmudgeon
7. Tending to stir up conflict - flames
incendiary
noisome
smarmy
overture
8. Flashy - loud - glaring
garish
ablution
lowering
obstreperous
9. A person who demands strict adherence to all regulations
apostate
martinet
besmirch
insipid
10. Internal conflict; a dissonant minority group
pathos
resonant
faction
discreet
11. Bitterly sarcastic - sardonic
quintessence
saturnine
shrouded
turpitude
12. Supersede and replace
tautology
supplant
timorous
fealty
13. Overwhelming defeat
gratuitous
rout
repartee
importune
14. To become rigid with anger or irritation
demagogue
denouement
bristle
pall
15. Inevitable
prosaic
belie
ineluctable
autocrat
16. A rude - unmannerly person with bad disposition - boor - surly
exemplary
munificent
churl
intrepid
17. (fig.) disappearing (feelings of love)
repose
herculean
adventitious
evanescent
18. Stubborn and unmanageable - intractable - refractory
contiguous
somnolent
recalcitrant
pittance
19. Savage human behavior
maelstrom
shrouded
garish
feral
20. An early omen
voracious
pugnacious
profligate
harbinger
21. To treat with little importance
stalwart
maunder
trifle
assuage
22. To authorize - order
pilfer
prescribe
temporize
acrimonious
23. (of love) not returned or rewarded
unrequited
exculpate
resonant
provenance
24. Indirect - misleading
blandishment
pomp
oblique
jubilant
25. Mischievous or wayward person
racy
voluptuary
scapegrace
solipsism
26. Lacking vitality - insipid - jejune - prosaic
oblique
bristle
probative
pallid
27. To speak in an authoritative manner
prosaic
petulant
pontificate
lampoon
28. Spurring someone into action - goad
galvanize
luminary
taxonomy
inexorable
29. Separate
discrete
mendicant
ineffable
belie
30. Return to original theme
gadfly
reprise
ignominious
recalcitrant
31. To smear - traduce - malign
blithe
besmirch
sedulous
supplant
32. A repeated offender
reprobate
ursine
stipulate
remuneration
33. Gradually diminishing - ebb
obstreperous
progenitor
wane
pomp
34. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
masquerade
senescence
bemoan
despot
35. Without substance or meaning
ebullient
vacuous
iconoclast
contiguous
36. Formidable - arousing respect
convivial
shambolic
disconcert
redoubtable
37. Beginning; in an early stage
platitude
incipient
venerable
flub
38. Harsh - grating sound
strident
feral
perfidious
inimical
39. A tiny amount of money
sallow
propitious
glower
pittance
40. Fidelity - faithfulness
galvanize
jocular
venal
fealty
41. Suggestive - reminiscent; fragrant
leaven
redolent
droll
incipient
42. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
staunch
otiose
nepotism
imperious
43. Airy - delicate - insubstantial
ethereal
feral
libertine
invective
44. Easily irritated - cantankerous - prickly
querulous
pulchritude
beseech
peevish
45. Accepted or popular belief
crescendo
imperious
heterodox
skittish
46. Inactivity - no progress
mendacity
slough
cheeky
vagrant
47. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
imperious
delectable
tempestuous
conciliate
48. A scheme of classification
peremptory
libertine
taxonomy
evanescent
49. A reporobate - miscreant
cleave
malefactor
sullen
gaunt
50. A pedantic teacher
pedagogue
imperious
piddling
otiose