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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Old age
squalid
sinews
contiguous
senescence
2. Stubborn and unmanageable - intractable - refractory
recalcitrant
bedraggled
scathe
flout
3. Effusively and tearfully sentimental
providential
maudlin
pantheon
recondite
4. Combative - bellicose
guile
solipsism
platitude
pugnacious
5. Temporary rest from activity
iconoclast
cachet
expurgate
repose
6. To trick someone into doing something
propitiate
beguile
mendicant
upbraid
7. Marked by rude or peremptory shortness - ungracious
ruse
brusque
cleave
callow
8. Tactful - circumspect - wary
fulminate
strident
discreet
frenetic
9. Inauthentic - specious - spurious - factitious
grandiloquent
modicum
appendage
apocryphal
10. Sly or cunning intelligence
sanctimonious
imperious
guile
masquerade
11. Arrogantly domineering (imperial: regal)
imperious
masquerade
ignominious
cheeky
12. Behavior appropriate to prevailing social code - seemly - decorous
decorum
beleaguer
consortium
herculean
13. Existing concurrently - attendant
fawn
rebarbative
taxonomy
concomitant
14. Lively and unpredictable
propitiate
swoon
skittish
delectable
15. Saturated with liquid; having drunk excess of alcohol
enmity
elixir
sodden
redolent
16. Ambiguous
equivocal
voluptuary
oblique
stipulate
17. Discreditable - humiliating
ignominious
apostate
alacrity
incipient
18. Frenzied
denounce
frenetic
ancillary
exemplary
19. To wander - travel abroad
mercurial
jubilant
peregrination
consortium
20. To fit together harmoniously
proprietor
fawn
dovetail
congenial
21. A repeated offender
pithy
reprobate
apostate
perfidious
22. One who abandons a cause or affiliation - turncoat
apostate
pantheon
propitiate
implacable
23. Source of strength; vigorous strength
vociferous
raconteur
sinews
masquerade
24. A sneaky plan
flout
slough
ruse
cloying
25. Unremitting - unflagging - relentless
meretricious
inexorable
incorrigible
prosaic
26. Throwback
atavism
turpitude
harrowing
intrepid
27. Lavish
tenebrous
dissipation
sumptuous
malign
28. Unsolicited - unnecessary - given w/o obligation
importune
gratuitous
cadge
exigent
29. Brusque or stern - discourteously blunt
cleave
timorous
insipid
gruff
30. Producing good effects - beneficial
inchoate
captious
salutary
gruff
31. Monstrous evil
enormity
pedagogue
superannuated
blithe
32. Rich in sound; spoken words that are impressive
sonorous
enormity
peevish
spurious
33. Favoritism shown to relatives
besiege
autocrat
nepotism
recapitulate
34. Indecorous - unseemly - unfitting
stipulate
interloper
unbecoming
toady
35. Exultant - filled with joy and triumph
clarion
corollary
purloin
jubilant
36. Having like minds or temperament
simpatico
precipitate
torpid
irresolute
37. To lighten up or transform for the better
leaven
mendicant
convivial
spurious
38. Having a supernatural presence
numinous
maunder
concord
repose
39. Frightening - distressing
prescribe
harrowing
melee
leaven
40. Supersede and replace
supplant
pungent
trifle
discreet
41. Chastise - excoriate - assail - rebuke
castigate
vociferous
gruff
ineluctable
42. Dirty or wretched - abject (squalor)
alacrity
wrangle
squalid
descry
43. Intended to humiliate or mortify (with a look)
ethereal
invective
discrete
withering
44. Bear-like
peevish
suborn
superannuated
ursine
45. Sober - sedate - prim - overly proper
swoon
staid
pedagogue
impertinent
46. A rude - unmannerly person with bad disposition - boor - surly
exculpate
beleaguer
churl
harbinger
47. Putting an end to all debate or action
intrepid
peremptory
lampoon
pillory
48. A nuisance
iridescent
mendacity
shrouded
gadfly
49. Drowsy - sleepy - slumberous
reprobate
acerbic
somnolent
besiege
50. A trite remark - banal - commonplace (platitudes)
pillory
propitious
cadge
platitude
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