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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Exultant - filled with joy and triumph
jubilant
voracious
tautology
bemuse
2. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
grandiloquent
conciliate
crescendo
bedlam
3. Wrapped in something protective
masquerade
intemperate
shrouded
meretricious
4. Overly sweet (fig.)
cloying
atavism
prickly
masquerade
5. To botch - bungle
vagrant
flub
carnal
factitious
6. One who abandons a cause or affiliation - turncoat
apostate
exigent
prolix
cheeky
7. To lighten up or transform for the better
leaven
blandishment
baleful
sumptuous
8. Sounding sad and mournful
plaintive
perfidious
privation
paragon
9. A group of ppl regarded as most important in a certain field
cosset
pecuniary
incendiary
pantheon
10. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
taxonomy
rueful
peevish
munificent
11. Sleepy
somnolent
melee
inchoate
gaunt
12. Oddly amusing
droll
fawn
raconteur
denouement
13. To develop rapidly
burgeon
faction
beleaguer
panacea
14. Limber - flexible body (lithesome)
lithe
ennui
insipid
taxonomy
15. To pamper
pedagogue
mite
cosset
tirade
16. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
trifle
inexorable
wrangle
baleful
17. Lighthearted - jocund - jocose
jocular
sallow
euphemism
consortium
18. Being present everywhere at once
ubiquitous
repose
bumptious
gaunt
19. To repeat in concise form
muse
melee
recapitulate
palliative
20. Plausible but fallacious argument - specious
platitude
harangue
sophistry
redolent
21. A perfect example
paragon
leaven
prosaic
inimical
22. Cheerful willingness to do something
droll
voracious
alacrity
tautology
23. To speak in an authoritative manner
unflagging
pontificate
toady
ruse
24. Irritable - irascible - cantankerous - prickly
petulant
sheepish
lugubrious
obfuscate
25. Melodious - pleasing to the ear - euphony
edict
tautology
pulchritude
euphonious
26. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
gadfly
platitude
craven
mercurial
27. Self-confidently stylish - jaunty; disreputable in appearance
droll
tenebrous
lowering
rakish
28. A reporobate - miscreant
malefactor
obfuscate
herculean
indignation
29. Showy but cheap in quality (IKEA)
acrimonious
discreet
precipitate
tawdry
30. Excessively complicated
apocryphal
proscribe
ineffable
byzantine
31. Harmony - in agreement
ruse
precipitate
sophistry
concord
32. A scheme of classification
meretricious
taxonomy
incendiary
prosaic
33. Marked by rude or peremptory shortness - ungracious
solicitous
bombast
peevish
brusque
34. Defying imitation - matchless - peerless
stalwart
inimitable
staunch
acrimonious
35. Exonerate
exculpate
obsequious
eke
unflagging
36. Lively and unpredictable
voracious
skittish
hubris
decadent
37. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
consortium
sallow
poltroon
mite
38. Internal conflict; a dissonant minority group
tremulous
faction
beleaguer
solicitous
39. The belief that the self is all that can be known to exist
gadfly
solipsism
feral
muse
40. To criticize or denounce severely - excoriate - rebuke - assail - castigate
scathe
supplant
capricious
descry
41. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
bowdlerize
iridescent
harlequin
raffish
42. Chastise - excoriate - assail - rebuke
reprobate
concomitant
castigate
piddling
43. Suggestive - reminiscent; aromatic smell
redolent
upbraid
benighted
solipsism
44. Haggard and looking wasted
lithe
gaunt
assail
irresolute
45. Saturated with liquid; having drunk excess of alcohol
sodden
flub
wane
tremulous
46. Eating greedily; insatiable appetite for something
bemoan
quintessence
pungent
voracious
47. Clown - buffoon - bumbling person
droll
plaintive
irresolute
harlequin
48. An early omen
discreet
harbinger
ablution
melee
49. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
rancor
sinews
besmirch
perfidious
50. A brawl - bedlam - skirmish
assuage
melee
rout
progenitor
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