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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. To dispute angrily - squabble
wrangle
blandishment
sumptuous
provenance
2. High-sounding language w/little meaning
pecuniary
sumptuous
bombast
rancor
3. Haggard and looking wasted
gaunt
bovine
obstreperous
assail
4. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
guile
baleful
skittish
adventitious
5. Disloyal - treacherous - quisling
ken
perfidious
quintessence
otiose
6. Limber - flexible body (lithesome)
lithe
expurgate
motley
soporific
7. Stubbornly asserts unproved opinion; dogma: the belief; dogmatist: the person asserting
jubilant
gad
dogmatic
malefactor
8. Easily irritated - cantankerous - prickly
jaded
provenance
obfuscate
peevish
9. Poverty-stricken - destitute
somnolent
penurious
peevish
countervail
10. Tactful - circumspect - wary
plaintive
spurious
sojourn
discreet
11. Ill-tempered - irritable - fretful - irascible
purloin
peevish
toady
gruff
12. Insolent and impertinent behavior - temerity - gall
effrontery
phlegmatic
curmudgeon
insipid
13. Concise and forcefully expressive
turpitude
implacable
pithy
exculpate
14. The light exchange of convo
dogmatic
repartee
edict
masquerade
15. Enervated
lugubrious
torpid
flub
prolix
16. Immoral
turpitude
apostate
byzantine
ennui
17. Sleep inducing
unflagging
soporific
proscribe
captious
18. Wordiness - verbose
sonorous
conciliate
prolix
intemperate
19. Indifferent - casual
timorous
cheeky
lassitude
blithe
20. Cowardly behavior - pussillanimous
somnolent
beseech
succor
craven
21. Inactivity - no progress
bovine
slough
gadfly
squalid
22. To insist on pmt of debt
superannuated
plaintive
dun
baleful
23. To attack verbally - flay - excoriate - castigate
lampoon
pedant
sinews
assail
24. Take action to prevent from happening
stalwart
withering
mendicant
preempt
25. Embarrassed or shy - abashed
imperious
poltroon
martinet
sheepish
26. Something concealing true purpose - ostensible reason
pretext
pugnacious
torpid
sonorous
27. To stare at angrily
swoon
scapegrace
congenial
glower
28. Describes a person in moral/intellectual darkness
mercurial
ebullient
benighted
spurious
29. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
modicum
bemoan
pallid
equanimity
30. Expressing sorrow esp. in a slightly humorous way
rueful
descry
preempt
libertine
31. To a small degree
mite
maunder
fulminate
ribald
32. Tireless
redolent
timorous
unflagging
melee
33. Moral or cultural decline - dissolute
ken
turpitude
fitful
decadent
34. To rid of undesirable parts - separate good from bad
autocrat
winnow
inimitable
bovine
35. An indirect term used in place of a more offensive one
pontificate
empirical
bedlam
euphemism
36. Rigid - disheveled
congenial
ragtag
intrepid
forlorn
37. Extremely bad - degrading; self-abasing
equanimity
abject
propitiate
cachet
38. Inauthentic - specious - spurious - factitious
verve
bemoan
slough
apocryphal
39. Emotional fatigue - listless
alacrity
mendicant
lassitude
sallow
40. Effusively and tearfully sentimental
maudlin
gruff
rancor
herculean
41. Present from birth - inborn
poltroon
congenital
vagrant
enormity
42. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
redoubtable
gruff
eke
lampoon
43. A gesture showing obedience and respect
obeisance
somnolent
enmity
factitious
44. Something's origin
inimical
strident
succor
provenance
45. The purest essence of a thing
pall
sordid
maudlin
quintessence
46. To distress - harass
brusque
conciliate
cadge
harry
47. Cure-all
ragtag
pacific
fulminate
panacea
48. To ask urgently - implore - entreat
suborn
prodigal
beseech
cleave
49. A duty or obligation
callow
besiege
invective
incumbent (on/upon)
50. Showy but cheap in quality (IKEA)
herculean
curmudgeon
ribald
tawdry