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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Ancestor - originator
progenitor
galvanize
pungent
besmirch
2. Association of businesses
malefactor
consortium
pallid
enormity
3. Unrestrained behavior; philandering
mire
brusque
profligate
nugatory
4. Overly idealistic
autocrat
discreet
elixir
quixotic
5. Offset and mitigate the effects by contrary actions
leaven
countervail
besmirch
ken
6. Pushy - rudely assertive
expurgate
voluptuary
bumptious
petulant
7. Worn out - wearied
jaded
concord
peevish
venerable
8. Ignoble actions or motives - seamy; squalid - grubby
timorous
euphemism
importune
sordid
9. Unwanted intruders - meddler
interloper
sinews
squalid
modicum
10. The light exchange of convo
repartee
fawn
luminary
providential
11. Even-tempered - composed
equanimity
decorum
recidivist
flub
12. A nuisance
cheeky
gadfly
vagrant
insipid
13. To evade in order to gain time to avoid an argument
temporize
desultory
obdurate
shrouded
14. Old age
enmity
insipid
senescence
lassitude
15. Improper - risque
modicum
solipsism
epicurean
racy
16. Dark - shadowy - gloomy
sojourn
pallid
tenebrous
piddling
17. An intro to something more substantial
incendiary
corollary
inimitable
overture
18. A forewarning of something bad - foreboding - portent
tirade
presage
ancillary
ken
19. To dispute angrily - squabble
alacrity
minatory
sonorous
wrangle
20. To crowd around - stifle
torrid
churl
heterodox
besiege
21. To smear - traduce - malign
otiose
besmirch
tautology
obstreperous
22. A scheme of classification
tirade
curmudgeon
taxonomy
bemoan
23. Drowsy - sleepy - slumberous
somnolent
prickly
exculpate
progenitor
24. To mock - gibe - jeer
oblique
lampoon
incendiary
ineffable
25. Sharing an edge or connecting w/o a break
cloying
cacophony
pecuniary
contiguous
26. Dishonesty
mendacity
crescendo
solipsism
minatory
27. Sluggish and dull
shrouded
jubilant
libertine
bovine
28. An indirect term used in place of a more offensive one
nepotism
congenital
euphemism
discrete
29. Describes a person in moral/intellectual darkness
ethereal
stalwart
benighted
peregrination
30. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
equivocal
sallow
ancillary
ragtag
31. Supersede and replace
edict
supplant
rebarbative
melee
32. A distinguishing feature conferring prestige
cachet
autocrat
leaven
senescence
33. False or fake - apparently but not valid
toothsome
brusque
spurious
besmirch
34. Intended to humiliate or mortify (with a look)
shambolic
withering
turpitude
obfuscate
35. (fig.) disappearing (feelings of love)
frenetic
slough
evanescent
porcine
36. To fit together harmoniously
dovetail
ribald
antecedent
muse
37. Existing concurrently - attendant
propitiate
concomitant
elixir
gruff
38. Present from birth - inborn
flout
delectable
congenital
simpatico
39. Hardened against feeling
obdurate
exculpate
glower
assuage
40. Your understanding - limits of knowledge
beseech
dissipation
gruff
ken
41. Limber - flexible body (lithesome)
pittance
lithe
quixotic
dissipation
42. (of love) not returned or rewarded
unrequited
dissonant
apocryphal
precipitate
43. Inactive - any situation that remains uncultivated
fallow
rancor
acrimonious
torpid
44. An eminent person - venerable
toady
luminary
malign
impertinent
45. No longer current - out of fashion - superannuated
conciliate
redolent
subterfuge
passe
46. Wolf-like - rapacious
venerable
providential
lupine
harangue
47. Of secondary importance
dovetail
beleaguer
prescribe
ancillary
48. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
benighted
despot
descry
rout
49. Tactful - circumspect - wary
harrowing
discreet
fawn
muse
50. A sneaky plan
poltroon
acrimonious
ruse
spurious