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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Hardened against feeling
timorous
panacea
faction
obdurate
2. Take action to prevent from happening
discreet
temporize
preempt
carousal
3. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
stalwart
sallow
recidivist
tyro
4. Lacking poetic beauty; commonplace - unromantic - drab
turpitude
prosaic
histrionic
meretricious
5. Managing but with great effort
heterodox
eke
adventitious
peevish
6. Exultant - filled with joy and triumph
leaven
flout
jubilant
atavism
7. Opportune - occurring at a favorable time
malefactor
providential
obfuscate
lupine
8. To fit together harmoniously
dovetail
pedant
denouement
attenuate
9. Suggestive - reminiscent; aromatic smell
pomp
redolent
contiguous
plaintive
10. Stubborn and unmanageable - intractable - refractory
turpitude
sodden
skittish
recalcitrant
11. To condemn openly
discreet
denounce
pacific
shambolic
12. A skillful storyteller
besiege
raconteur
prickly
prosaic
13. Serving no purpose or result
unflagging
vociferous
otiose
precipitate
14. Sporadic
sonorous
platitude
salutary
fitful
15. Accepted or popular belief
otiose
heterodox
bovine
leaven
16. Unwanted intruders - meddler
pallid
benighted
interloper
ruse
17. Something that follows; a natural consequence
raffish
querulous
corollary
preempt
18. Emotional fatigue - listless
lassitude
decadent
numinous
torrid
19. Indifferent - casual
raffish
pomp
blithe
grandiloquent
20. Peaceful - halcyon
besmirch
repartee
specter
pacific
21. Tireless
unflagging
gaunt
obdurate
assail
22. Ostentatiously learned
pedant
meretricious
abject
imperious
23. To mock - gibe - jeer
winnow
lampoon
garish
libertine
24. Composed of a variety of sources - heterogenous - eclectic
motley
histrionic
exiguous
provident
25. Dishonesty
mendacity
flub
factitious
garish
26. Something really difficult or powerful
pilfer
herculean
benighted
bemoan
27. Internal conflict; a dissonant minority group
churl
faction
libertine
peremptory
28. Melodious - pleasing to the ear - euphony
meretricious
malefactor
rancor
euphonious
29. To soothe - abate - allay - mitigate
upbraid
assuage
pillory
inimical
30. Acts w/o moral restraint - dissolute - wanton - licentious - depraved - rake
libertine
galvanize
chaste
winnow
31. Eating greedily; insatiable appetite for something
voracious
iridescent
descry
bombast
32. Pompous or extravagant language
grandiloquent
punctilious
dun
peevish
33. Long - pompous speech (n or v)
obsequious
reprise
attenuate
harangue
34. An early omen
harbinger
peevish
prickly
countervail
35. Cure-all
discrete
panacea
ursine
trifle
36. (of love) not returned or rewarded
exculpate
appendage
simpatico
unrequited
37. Prudent - economical
provident
pilfer
faction
ribald
38. Dirty or wretched - abject (squalor)
crescendo
ethereal
inimical
squalid
39. Requiring precise accuracy - demanding; urgent
iconoclast
ennui
exemplary
exigent
40. Deprived of necessities and comforts
carousal
privation
simpatico
incorrigible
41. Guided by practical experience
prosaic
empirical
equivocal
pantheon
42. To ask urgently - implore - entreat
purloin
obeisance
attenuate
beseech
43. Cheerful willingness to do something
alacrity
blandishment
voluptuary
tawdry
44. Delicious meal; sexually attractive
stipulate
ken
toothsome
shambolic
45. Pushy - rudely assertive
petulant
recrimination
pungent
bumptious
46. Immoral
prim
pungent
turpitude
precipitate
47. Supersede and replace
ennui
profligate
carousal
supplant
48. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
staunch
subterfuge
repartee
intrepid
49. Beg - sponge off someone
countervail
incipient
craven
cadge
50. A reporobate - miscreant
pithy
malefactor
factitious
ethereal