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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Plausible but fallacious argument - specious
sophistry
raconteur
lassitude
sanctimonious
2. Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree - obsequious
toady
sedulous
dovetail
congenital
3. To criticize or denounce severely - excoriate - rebuke - assail - castigate
ebullient
brusque
scathe
temporize
4. The final result
exiguous
elixir
denouement
masquerade
5. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
sallow
incorrigible
sheepish
exigent
6. To formally give up
ecumenical
renounce
exculpate
factitious
7. Excessively complicated
feral
prescribe
exiguous
byzantine
8. Tending to stir up conflict - flames
dissipation
noxious
cleave
incendiary
9. The belief that the self is all that can be known to exist
euphonious
dun
disreputable
solipsism
10. Making a false outward show
cloying
peevish
disreputable
masquerade
11. Returning to pattern of bad behavior
modicum
bombast
abject
recidivist
12. To steal something
purloin
carousal
inchoate
inimitable
13. Improper - risque
simpatico
shrouded
racy
slovenly
14. Separate
flout
discrete
pall
elegiac
15. Guided by practical experience
stalwart
trifle
empirical
harlequin
16. Dishonesty
raffish
inimical
mendacity
jaded
17. Temporary rest from activity
fulminate
repose
inexorable
bombast
18. To ignore or treat with disdain
malign
pathos
flout
sonorous
19. Oddly amusing
pithy
modicum
stipulate
droll
20. Flamboyant confidence of style or manner - dash - jaunty
province
panache
rectitude
consortium
21. A cleansing of the body
lachrymose
crescendo
ablution
pedagogue
22. Suggestive - reminiscent; fragrant
redolent
tawdry
glower
pungent
23. Bitter - cutting expression
pedagogue
reprise
acerbic
sumptuous
24. Showy but having no intrinsic value - tawdry
acrimonious
meretricious
lassitude
noisome
25. Internal conflict; a dissonant minority group
incumbent (on/upon)
faction
perfidious
inexorable
26. A person devoted to luxury or pleasure - hedonist
epicurean
expurgate
leaven
voluptuary
27. Noisy uproar
petulant
poltroon
galvanize
bedlam
28. Irritable - irascible - cantankerous - prickly
recalcitrant
importune
petulant
prim
29. Overly dramatic - emotional
modicum
senescence
histrionic
attenuate
30. Behavior appropriate to prevailing social code - seemly - decorous
probative
decorum
bedraggled
rout
31. To enter a state of hysterical rapture (ecstatic joy) - groupie
surly
swoon
succor
guile
32. Pompous or extravagant language
maelstrom
grandiloquent
resonant
castigate
33. A feeling of sadness at a loss
blandishment
provenance
stipulate
elegiac
34. To stare at angrily
repartee
glower
malefactor
preempt
35. Merrymaking
benighted
carousal
insipid
sonorous
36. Overwhelming defeat
luminary
contiguous
rout
brusque
37. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
platitude
contiguous
proscribe
acrimonious
38. The purest essence of a thing
plaintive
quintessence
paragon
elegiac
39. False or fake - apparently but not valid
spurious
pittance
baleful
bemoan
40. Unremitting - unflagging - relentless
inexorable
solipsism
recondite
spurious
41. Imprudently bold - flouting social conventions
exculpate
toady
cheeky
imbrue
42. A brawl - bedlam - skirmish
melee
plaintive
clarion
slovenly
43. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
disreputable
progenitor
cleave
faction
44. To a small degree
intrepid
heterodox
atavism
mite
45. Whimsical - sudden changes of mood
solipsism
mercurial
fealty
preempt
46. Wrapped in something protective
sheepish
exigent
incendiary
shrouded
47. Supersede and replace
voracious
aberration
supplant
cloying
48. A rude - unmannerly person with bad disposition - boor - surly
evanescent
tirade
churl
upbraid
49. Outmoded - antiquated
superannuated
repose
pithy
benighted
50. Fault-finding - censorious - hypercritical
shambolic
enormity
assail
captious