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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. Of little or no importance
impertinent
redolent
beleaguer
nugatory
2. To disturb - ruffle
toothsome
obtuse
disconcert
ablution
3. Wolf-like - rapacious
lupine
pungent
edict
ancillary
4. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
sodden
concord
peevish
rectitude
5. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
agog
abject
meretricious
perfidious
6. Novice
tyro
exemplary
obsequious
recondite
7. Making a false outward show
craven
preempt
masquerade
concord
8. The final result
denouement
desultory
redolent
bemoan
9. False or fake - apparently but not valid
spurious
mercurial
crescendo
ablution
10. Actions to appease opposing forces
craven
pontificate
propitiate
belie
11. Eating greedily; insatiable appetite for something
otiose
profligate
voracious
supplant
12. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
mercurial
platitude
bemuse
pallid
13. The light exchange of convo
repartee
spurious
overture
heterodox
14. To catch sight of something difficult to see
descry
oblique
presage
subterfuge
15. Eager and excited (all agog with excitement)
flub
gallantry
fealty
agog
16. An intro to something more substantial
overture
prim
venal
pittance
17. To ridicule publicly
lampoon
congenital
disconcert
pillory
18. Rule by one person
subterfuge
sojourn
stipulate
autocrat
19. Saturate - stain
apostate
ignominious
masquerade
imbrue
20. Discordant - inharmonious
dissonant
peremptory
peregrination
cosset
21. Intensely hot; full of tribulation
pantheon
venal
torrid
tyro
22. Immature - childish - puerile
scapegrace
blandishment
callow
effrontery
23. Beg - sponge off someone
bristle
recondite
frenetic
cadge
24. Easily irritated - cantankerous - prickly
impertinent
sordid
peevish
epicurean
25. Gradually diminishing - ebb
porcine
demagogue
wane
tawdry
26. Becoming boring or wearying ('it palls on me')
querulous
strident
pall
sumptuous
27. Move about aimlessly - meander
edict
gad
tremulous
curmudgeon
28. Enervated
blandishment
euphemism
torpid
demagogue
29. To forbid
proscribe
mendicant
ruse
recrimination
30. To lighten up or transform for the better
assail
leaven
penurious
subterfuge
31. Prudent - economical
fawn
provident
hyperbole
dissonant
32. Agreeable - gracious - affable
congenial
noisome
delectable
surly
33. To attack verbally - flay - excoriate - castigate
assail
ineluctable
venerable
peevish
34. To pamper
cosset
pithy
alacrity
fulminate
35. Threatening
rectitude
congenial
recalcitrant
minatory
36. An excessive pride
insipid
forlorn
hubris
exigent
37. Extremely bad - degrading; self-abasing
trifle
abject
disreputable
stipulate
38. Accepted or popular belief
pulchritude
implacable
heterodox
cachet
39. Concise and forcefully expressive
pithy
bemoan
repose
slough
40. Sharp - to the point - caustic
muse
pungent
brusque
histrionic
41. Tending to obstruct or harm - hostile
propitiate
privation
inimical
malign
42. Happening by chance - unplanned - fortuitous
spurious
obfuscate
adventitious
importune
43. To crowd around - stifle
grandiloquent
soporific
demagogue
besiege
44. To stare at angrily
evanescent
appendage
glower
tremulous
45. Pitifully sad - hopeless
boor
forlorn
castigate
callow
46. To formally give up
herculean
delectable
incipient
renounce
47. A potion falsely believed to cure
elixir
indignation
malign
ubiquitous
48. Producing good effects - beneficial
simpatico
salutary
torpid
scapegrace
49. Long - pompous speech (n or v)
toady
harangue
sodden
besiege
50. A coward - a cur
strident
poltroon
brusque
appendage