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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Excessively complicated
byzantine
platitude
propitious
slovenly
2. A pedantic teacher
pedagogue
callow
reprise
besiege
3. Sober - sedate - prim - overly proper
solipsism
staid
callow
superannuated
4. Without substance or meaning
restive
ebullient
staunch
vacuous
5. Lacking authenticity - spurious - specious - apocryphal
numinous
conciliate
factitious
fitful
6. To insist on pmt of debt
dun
voracious
exigent
harry
7. Composed of a variety of sources - heterogenous - eclectic
pithy
brusque
motley
divest
8. To enter a state of hysterical rapture (ecstatic joy) - groupie
raconteur
stipulate
exculpate
swoon
9. To attack verbally - flay - excoriate - castigate
indignation
pulchritude
vociferous
assail
10. A scheme of classification
taxonomy
strident
peevish
ineffable
11. Exonerate
ecumenical
apotheosize
ken
exculpate
12. Serving no purpose or result
otiose
decadent
prim
incorrigible
13. Tending to stir up conflict - flames
wane
timorous
strident
incendiary
14. Any oppressive burden - nemesis
pacific
turpitude
remuneration
incubus
15. To distress - harass
harbinger
boor
despot
harry
16. Bear-like
craven
assail
ursine
agog
17. Speak about in a spiteful or evil manner
malign
adventitious
unrequited
jaded
18. Describes a person in moral/intellectual darkness
bumptious
stipulate
benighted
pomp
19. Ostentatiously learned
pedant
upbraid
impertinent
scourge
20. Self-confidently stylish - jaunty; disreputable in appearance
lampoon
obsequious
rakish
supplant
21. To mock - gibe - jeer
piddling
blandishment
lampoon
acerbic
22. To split (cleft); to stick to
cleave
besiege
propitiate
prim
23. Abusive language - diatribe
tirade
inexorable
piddling
faction
24. A beggar
callow
mendicant
palliative
toady
25. Rich in sound; spoken words that are impressive
sonorous
tawdry
remuneration
panache
26. To botch - bungle
flub
alacrity
aberration
obsequious
27. Hard-working - assiduous
verve
pathos
inimical
sedulous
28. Induce to commit an unlawful act
timorous
mercurial
pithy
suborn
29. Take action to prevent from happening
modicum
enormity
precipitate
preempt
30. Proving
bedraggled
raffish
probative
recapitulate
31. Oddly amusing
callow
fulminate
voluptuary
droll
32. An area of special knowledge
propitiate
province
hyperbole
beguile
33. Present from birth - inborn
congenital
supplant
inchoate
ineluctable
34. Intended to humiliate or mortify (with a look)
withering
dogmatic
reprise
faction
35. (fig.) to make dirty reputation
besmirch
venal
congenital
staid
36. Cowardly - pusillanimous
craven
ecumenical
adventitious
verve
37. Loud and clear
wane
resonant
clarion
succor
38. Unremitting - unflagging - relentless
raffish
unrequited
convivial
inexorable
39. A source of misery - to cause suffering
scourge
tautology
dovetail
frenetic
40. Threatening
minatory
pretext
peevish
churl
41. Sickly - yellowish in color - pallid
bedraggled
pomp
sallow
raconteur
42. Flattering language
overture
blandishment
bristle
redoubtable
43. Angered at something unjust
recapitulate
modicum
sumptuous
indignant
44. A feeling of sadness at a loss
curmudgeon
fealty
empirical
elegiac
45. Savage human behavior
somnolent
feral
autocrat
withering
46. Lighthearted - jocund - jocose
cheeky
unflagging
jocular
repartee
47. Deprived of necessities and comforts
churl
province
privation
hubris
48. Inauthentic - specious - spurious - factitious
ruse
apocryphal
ursine
dissonant
49. Enervated
pomp
torpid
ecumenical
harbinger
50. Noisy uproar
redoubtable
bedlam
ursine
voluptuary