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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Humorously indecent - bawdy
edict
sordid
indignant
ribald
2. Noisy uproar
provenance
bedlam
redolent
obsequious
3. Bitter - cutting expression
acerbic
castigate
pantheon
pugnacious
4. Something that follows; a natural consequence
corollary
recrimination
ragtag
disreputable
5. Fault-finding - censorious - hypercritical
sojourn
otiose
beseech
captious
6. An area of special knowledge
incipient
province
equivocal
belie
7. Accepted or popular belief
heterodox
overture
impertinent
pedant
8. Corrupt - wicked - nefarious
pontificate
venal
shambolic
carnal
9. Making a false outward show
despot
perfidious
masquerade
cheeky
10. Managing but with great effort
apocryphal
progenitor
eke
rancor
11. Spurring someone into action - goad
ragtag
munificent
galvanize
solipsism
12. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
guile
martinet
sallow
byzantine
13. Expressing sorrow esp. in a slightly humorous way
smarmy
rueful
overture
gadfly
14. Easily irritated - cantankerous - prickly
peevish
inchoate
fallow
hubris
15. Ceremony and splendid display
ineffable
pomp
despot
succor
16. Behavior appropriate to prevailing social code - seemly - decorous
decorum
sophistry
pallid
bemuse
17. Oddly amusing
expurgate
descry
cadge
droll
18. Prudent - economical
curmudgeon
iconoclast
provident
carnal
19. Having like minds or temperament
restive
withering
recalcitrant
simpatico
20. Having a supernatural presence
beleaguer
grandiloquent
numinous
beseech
21. Suffering from nervousness or lack of confidence
otiose
timorous
pulchritude
harbinger
22. A source of misery - to cause suffering
pungent
consortium
scourge
lachrymose
23. Morally pure
saturnine
ineluctable
harbinger
chaste
24. Even-tempered - composed
equanimity
progenitor
exemplary
decadent
25. Saturate - stain
acrimonious
despot
attenuate
imbrue
26. Universal - cosmopolitan - catholic
churl
ineffable
ecumenical
prolix
27. Indirect - misleading
harlequin
oblique
ignominious
teem
28. Beginning; in an early stage
incipient
contiguous
sallow
ecumenical
29. Arrogantly domineering (imperial: regal)
burgeon
querulous
imperious
indignation
30. A scattering of one's energy via an immodest pursuit of trivial pleasures (dissipated)
dissipation
pittance
sedulous
imperious
31. A grouch
curmudgeon
ursine
capricious
sojourn
32. A skillful storyteller
lugubrious
raconteur
cleave
temporize
33. Harmful - nocuous
noxious
bowdlerize
jaded
grandiloquent
34. To criticize or denounce severely - excoriate - rebuke - assail - castigate
congenial
scathe
congenital
apostate
35. Emotional fatigue - listless
lassitude
wane
curmudgeon
craven
36. Temporary rest from activity
ineffable
mendacity
sullen
repose
37. Firm - resolute; a loyal supporter
importune
quintessence
exigent
stalwart
38. A nuisance
despot
martinet
gadfly
obfuscate
39. To reduce in force/value (truncate: to shorten)
conciliate
shrouded
attenuate
concomitant
40. Dirty and disheveled
bedraggled
imbrue
callow
obtuse
41. Enervated
redolent
pall
torpid
rout
42. Feeling of suffering - symPATHy
grandiloquent
pathos
autocrat
rebarbative
43. Temporary rest
repose
ragtag
superannuated
venerable
44. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
toady
maunder
tyro
conciliate
45. To a small degree
bedraggled
inchoate
mite
turpitude
46. To wander - travel abroad
mire
frenetic
peregrination
equanimity
47. A duty or obligation
incumbent (on/upon)
cosset
specter
presage
48. Sleepy
chaste
somnolent
mendacity
pungent
49. A perfect example
pacific
paragon
carnal
ribald
50. Relating to the physical (sexual)
carnal
obsequious
profligate
presage