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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Returning to pattern of bad behavior
providential
munificent
recidivist
peremptory
2. Marked by rude or peremptory shortness - ungracious
ragtag
brusque
repose
slovenly
3. Describes a person in moral/intellectual darkness
pontificate
winnow
obfuscate
benighted
4. Ostentatiously learned
pedant
belie
autocrat
incipient
5. Lighthearted - jocund - jocose
solicitous
jocular
grandiloquent
incendiary
6. Concise and forcefully expressive
exemplary
aberration
pithy
lachrymose
7. Managing but with great effort
skittish
eke
incubus
restive
8. Chastise - excoriate - assail - rebuke
carousal
castigate
feral
exemplary
9. A coward - a cur
rakish
sanctimonious
factitious
poltroon
10. A forewarning of something bad - foreboding - portent
despot
chaste
ethereal
presage
11. Dark - shadowy - gloomy
cosset
acrimonious
invective
tenebrous
12. Marked by favorable circumstances - auspicious
providential
proscribe
propitious
edict
13. Suggestive - reminiscent; fragrant
elegiac
lassitude
redolent
exigent
14. Lacking authenticity - spurious - specious - apocryphal
beleaguer
incumbent (on/upon)
intemperate
factitious
15. A perfect example
trifle
epicurean
paragon
incipient
16. A small modest amount
cleave
vociferous
modicum
prodigal
17. Sober - sedate - prim - overly proper
indignation
empirical
skittish
staid
18. Becoming boring or wearying ('it palls on me')
pathos
pall
incorrigible
garish
19. Temporary stay - transient - itinerant - peripatetic
voracious
sojourn
jubilant
enmity
20. A leader who gains power by manipulating emotions
demagogue
hyperbole
titillating
harrowing
21. The making of insistent requests
province
cachet
ancillary
importune
22. Harmony - in agreement
inimical
indignant
providential
concord
23. Abounding - swarming with
hyperbole
teem
pithy
rueful
24. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
brusque
obdurate
disreputable
gadfly
25. A deceiftful scheme - ruse
discrete
invective
subterfuge
fallow
26. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
forlorn
iridescent
province
delectable
27. Eating greedily; insatiable appetite for something
sodden
congenial
meretricious
voracious
28. Induce to commit an unlawful act
suborn
otiose
resonant
staunch
29. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
platitude
feral
lowering
incubus
30. Something really difficult or powerful
salutary
herculean
inchoate
interloper
31. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
baleful
bedraggled
querulous
elegiac
32. Flashy - loud - glaring
corollary
harangue
ethereal
garish
33. To formally give up
pedagogue
benighted
renounce
concord
34. Redundancy
inchoate
minatory
tautology
forlorn
35. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
reprise
peevish
bemoan
guile
36. Saturate - stain
imbrue
dun
vacuous
equanimity
37. Prudent - economical
beguile
rancor
provident
disconcert
38. Flattering language
recalcitrant
blandishment
churl
toothsome
39. Universal - cosmopolitan - catholic
apocryphal
temporize
ecumenical
surly
40. Something's origin
harlequin
provenance
decorum
recondite
41. Oddly amusing
titillating
preempt
ken
droll
42. A beggar
redolent
staid
beseech
mendicant
43. An area of special knowledge
province
fitful
wane
turpitude
44. Angered at something unjust
indignant
mendacity
despot
superannuated
45. Offset and mitigate the effects by contrary actions
countervail
cadge
torrid
lupine
46. Discreditable - humiliating
congenial
ignominious
tremulous
bedlam
47. To ask urgently - implore - entreat
redoubtable
somnolent
numinous
beseech
48. Source of strength; vigorous strength
numinous
sinews
mire
rancor
49. Immoderate - lacking in self-control
intemperate
renounce
exigent
lithe
50. Inactivity - no progress
upbraid
interloper
slough
implacable