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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. To authorize - order
querulous
prescribe
captious
expurgate
2. Abounding - swarming with
sinews
teem
munificent
aberration
3. Becoming boring or wearying ('it palls on me')
prescribe
pall
sonorous
masquerade
4. Stubborn and unmanageable - intractable - refractory
concomitant
recalcitrant
harrowing
quotidian
5. To disturb - ruffle
raconteur
disconcert
histrionic
inimitable
6. Tasty
incipient
lachrymose
incendiary
delectable
7. Chastise - excoriate - assail - rebuke
provident
castigate
acrimonious
senescence
8. Moral uprightness - probity
heterodox
upbraid
rectitude
atavism
9. (of love) not returned or rewarded
verve
unrequited
fealty
frenetic
10. Stubbornly asserts unproved opinion; dogma: the belief; dogmatist: the person asserting
discreet
dogmatic
soporific
scourge
11. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
cloying
expurgate
platitude
grandiloquent
12. A deceiftful scheme - ruse
inchoate
shrouded
cachet
subterfuge
13. To cause a negative event or situation
bowdlerize
ribald
turpitude
precipitate
14. To ridicule publicly
solipsism
rakish
pillory
titillating
15. Guided by practical experience
pretext
empirical
fitful
gallantry
16. Sleepy
gadfly
somnolent
pantheon
querulous
17. To trick someone into doing something
clarion
elixir
beguile
glower
18. Fault-finding - censorious - hypercritical
inexorable
belie
captious
minatory
19. Sluggish and dull
beguile
countervail
gallantry
bovine
20. Moral wickedness - depravity
turpitude
voluptuary
gaunt
meretricious
21. Overwhelming defeat
bemoan
rout
gadfly
pillory
22. Occurring daily
quotidian
intrepid
appendage
purloin
23. Irritable - irascible - cantankerous - prickly
convivial
pillory
petulant
pungent
24. Chaotic - disorganized - mismanaged
quixotic
factitious
panache
shambolic
25. To forbid
sophistry
plaintive
proscribe
masquerade
26. To catch sight of something difficult to see
descry
iridescent
concord
captious
27. Strong and deep in tone - sonorous - enduring
resonant
acerbic
incendiary
bristle
28. Easily irritated - cantankerous - prickly
peevish
cachet
craven
tenebrous
29. Return to original theme
demagogue
reprise
vagrant
prolix
30. To steal something
obfuscate
strident
brusque
purloin
31. A person devoted to luxury or pleasure - hedonist
conciliate
titillating
voluptuary
proscribe
32. Overly sweet (fig.)
pomp
besmirch
exemplary
cloying
33. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
redolent
rancor
beleaguer
sallow
34. Something that follows; a natural consequence
corollary
obtuse
obeisance
sanctimonious
35. A brawl - bedlam - skirmish
melee
obstreperous
euphonious
equanimity
36. A sneaky plan
superannuated
ruse
obstreperous
fallow
37. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
besmirch
harlequin
lachrymose
iridescent
38. A distinguishing feature conferring prestige
quotidian
slough
congenital
cachet
39. A rude - unmannerly person with bad disposition - boor - surly
churl
pillory
panacea
gad
40. Intended to humiliate or mortify (with a look)
withering
apostate
jocular
acrimonious
41. Any increase in intensity
rakish
crescendo
shrouded
staunch
42. To evade in order to gain time to avoid an argument
wane
tyro
temporize
bovine
43. Anger provoked by unfair treatment
peregrination
saturnine
indignation
oblique
44. Arrogantly domineering (imperial: regal)
pecuniary
imperious
swoon
obstreperous
45. Too great to be described in words; not to be uttered
overture
rectitude
racy
ineffable
46. Bear-like
soporific
lachrymose
teem
ursine
47. A turbulent situation - bedlam - melee
belie
incendiary
maelstrom
wrangle
48. Lacking vitality - insipid - jejune - prosaic
pallid
porcine
eke
consortium
49. The belief that the self is all that can be known to exist
pathos
obfuscate
passe
solipsism
50. To crowd around - stifle
obfuscate
concomitant
tawdry
besiege
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