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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Wordiness - verbose
probative
invective
prolix
aberration
2. Clown - buffoon - bumbling person
province
harlequin
voluptuary
implacable
3. Characterized by strong conflicting emotions
iridescent
capricious
tempestuous
craven
4. Pitifully sad - hopeless
forlorn
bemoan
repose
intemperate
5. Internal conflict; a dissonant minority group
tremulous
sojourn
faction
inimitable
6. One who abandons a cause or affiliation - turncoat
apostate
malefactor
piddling
verve
7. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
pithy
contiguous
bemoan
profligate
8. A cleansing of the body
ablution
iridescent
meretricious
trifle
9. To rid of undesirable parts - separate good from bad
fitful
winnow
obfuscate
bovine
10. Restless
restive
droll
ruse
rectitude
11. Too great to be described in words; not to be uttered
ineffable
exculpate
stipulate
martinet
12. A part of something in a supportive - dependent position
faction
appendage
mendicant
plaintive
13. Tasteless - dull - prosaic - pallid - ponderous
intemperate
castigate
pithy
insipid
14. To flatter for a favor - wheedle
fawn
overture
enormity
convivial
15. A decree or order - fiat
crescendo
acerbic
pulchritude
edict
16. Ingratiating and wheedling in an insincere or excessive way - unctuous - fawning
petulant
smarmy
inimical
pontificate
17. Agreeable - gracious - affable
decorum
ennui
congenial
vagrant
18. Volatile - whimsical - fickle - unpredictable
inchoate
capricious
tawdry
galvanize
19. Sharing an edge or connecting w/o a break
contiguous
ragtag
scapegrace
incumbent (on/upon)
20. Bear-like
querulous
ursine
unflagging
pantheon
21. A small modest amount
inimitable
baleful
modicum
prolix
22. Ostentatiously learned
implacable
progenitor
pedant
concord
23. Cowardly - pusillanimous
craven
provident
blithe
turpitude
24. Peaceful - halcyon
tawdry
dovetail
blandishment
pacific
25. A nuisance
ennui
gadfly
indignant
impertinent
26. Lavish
sumptuous
restive
punctilious
pacific
27. Oppressive ruler
providential
autocrat
hubris
despot
28. Having no plan - indiscriminate - haphazard
impertinent
forlorn
apostate
desultory
29. Cheerful willingness to do something
peregrination
fallow
alacrity
factitious
30. Savage human behavior
faction
baleful
feral
impertinent
31. Angered at something unjust
fealty
malefactor
gad
indignant
32. To mock - gibe - jeer
lampoon
upbraid
corollary
toothsome
33. A source of misery - to cause suffering
scourge
quintessence
fulminate
effrontery
34. Temporary stay - transient - itinerant - peripatetic
martinet
turpitude
somnolent
sojourn
35. Indecorous - unseemly - unfitting
overture
unbecoming
assail
toothsome
36. Frenzied
frenetic
congenital
ebullient
forlorn
37. Exonerate
exculpate
empirical
blithe
provenance
38. A grouch
decadent
dogmatic
curmudgeon
cheeky
39. An area of special knowledge
suborn
province
penurious
denounce
40. Being present everywhere at once
euphemism
congenital
ubiquitous
callow
41. To speak in an authoritative manner
provident
fawn
repartee
pontificate
42. To a small degree
recidivist
mite
forlorn
blithe
43. To crowd around - stifle
besiege
dissipation
munificent
paragon
44. Overly sweet (fig.)
congenital
maudlin
cloying
denounce
45. Plausible but fallacious argument - specious
ruse
beguile
maelstrom
sophistry
46. Showy but cheap in quality (IKEA)
redolent
maelstrom
tawdry
lachrymose
47. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
temporize
rancor
luminary
equanimity
48. (n. or v.) comfort in time of distress
feral
succor
maudlin
rebarbative
49. To wander - travel abroad
raffish
peregrination
apocryphal
assail
50. Indirect - misleading
enmity
minatory
bowdlerize
oblique