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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. To excite pleasurably - erotically
shambolic
titillating
exiguous
expurgate
2. Characterized by strong conflicting emotions
progenitor
captious
ken
tempestuous
3. Fidelity - faithfulness
lachrymose
brusque
conciliate
fealty
4. A deviation from expected course (aberrant behavior)
aberration
flub
decorum
masquerade
5. Showing hesitancy - uncertain - shilly-shally - teeter
ragtag
irresolute
pomp
dun
6. Separate
plaintive
discrete
petulant
presage
7. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
reprobate
staunch
garish
sullen
8. Becoming boring or wearying ('it palls on me')
pall
sojourn
lugubrious
succor
9. Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree - obsequious
supplant
toady
proscribe
harrowing
10. To ignore or treat with disdain
lithe
sullen
flout
shambolic
11. Intensely hot; full of tribulation
scourge
torrid
callow
suborn
12. Tasteless - dull - prosaic - pallid - ponderous
somnolent
insipid
querulous
carnal
13. Something really difficult or powerful
denouement
herculean
dun
inchoate
14. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
despot
subterfuge
redolent
harlequin
15. A scheme of classification
taxonomy
martinet
despot
oblique
16. Unrestrained behavior; philandering
pall
profligate
besmirch
intemperate
17. Take action to prevent from happening
sallow
pall
preempt
dun
18. Temporary rest
palliative
bedraggled
province
repose
19. (of love) not returned or rewarded
unrequited
pithy
sullen
saturnine
20. A tiny amount of money
tenebrous
staid
quotidian
pittance
21. To mock - gibe - jeer
penurious
lampoon
redolent
soporific
22. To develop rapidly
reprobate
fulminate
burgeon
cloying
23. An angry sullen look; to look at angrily
lowering
bombast
piddling
pantheon
24. Enervated
intemperate
apostate
torpid
paragon
25. A person devoted to luxury or pleasure - hedonist
cachet
sinews
bowdlerize
voluptuary
26. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
disreputable
salutary
upbraid
exemplary
27. Too great to be described in words; not to be uttered
mercurial
ineffable
decadent
dissonant
28. Relieving symptoms - palliate
paragon
cacophony
palliative
upbraid
29. Guided by practical experience
empirical
edict
repose
province
30. The purest essence of a thing
congenital
quintessence
strident
shrouded
31. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
mire
sallow
bovine
pomp
32. Inauthentic - specious - spurious - factitious
cheeky
consortium
prim
apocryphal
33. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
evanescent
cloying
provident
conciliate
34. Chaotic - disorganized - mismanaged
denounce
lowering
concord
shambolic
35. To censor
bowdlerize
invective
somnolent
libertine
36. Unmannerly - indecorous
profligate
bristle
boor
jubilant
37. No longer current - out of fashion - superannuated
repartee
subterfuge
passe
renounce
38. A potion falsely believed to cure
incipient
harlequin
elixir
porcine
39. Humorously indecent - bawdy
rakish
ribald
bemuse
exemplary
40. Indecorous - unseemly - unfitting
pungent
unbecoming
prodigal
redolent
41. Marked by rude or peremptory shortness - ungracious
convivial
pomp
stipulate
brusque
42. Inactive - any situation that remains uncultivated
cacophony
bemoan
fallow
preempt
43. Lively and unpredictable
obtuse
skittish
elixir
conciliate
44. To become rigid with anger or irritation
harlequin
bristle
ethereal
sonorous
45. Appearance of shining spectrum of colors
vagrant
querulous
iridescent
somnolent
46. Bitterly sarcastic - sardonic
gallantry
saturnine
malefactor
voluptuary
47. Novice
evanescent
byzantine
titillating
tyro
48. A pedantic teacher
pedagogue
heterodox
staunch
harry
49. Lavish
upbraid
sumptuous
redoubtable
supplant
50. Delicious meal; sexually attractive
palliative
toothsome
salutary
titillating
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