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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Immoderate - lacking in self-control
dogmatic
bemoan
intemperate
restive
2. A cleansing of the body
demagogue
overture
ablution
besiege
3. Something that follows; a natural consequence
ethereal
overture
corollary
agog
4. Present from birth - inborn
soporific
tautology
congenital
denounce
5. To become rigid with anger or irritation
wrangle
pacific
bristle
mendicant
6. Irritable - grouchy - cantankerous - irascible
prickly
jocular
indignation
strident
7. Deprived of necessities and comforts
cloying
privation
punctilious
bumptious
8. Suggestive - reminiscent; aromatic smell
surly
bristle
redolent
fealty
9. Cowardly - pusillanimous
sanctimonious
imbrue
unflagging
craven
10. To confuse in order to hide the truth
obfuscate
recondite
toady
descry
11. Anger provoked by unfair treatment
petulant
indignation
renounce
ebullient
12. Easily irritated - cantankerous - prickly
bristle
soporific
timorous
peevish
13. A rude - unmannerly person with bad disposition - boor - surly
remuneration
withering
churl
concord
14. Noisily defiant
obstreperous
ennui
gaunt
pilfer
15. Excessively complicated
byzantine
reprobate
atavism
grandiloquent
16. Effusively and tearfully sentimental
tautology
palliative
maudlin
scourge
17. Serving no purpose or result
lampoon
ecumenical
wane
otiose
18. To censor
verve
bowdlerize
jubilant
iconoclast
19. Source of strength; vigorous strength
jocular
fulminate
toothsome
sinews
20. Exultant - filled with joy and triumph
jubilant
squalid
euphemism
senescence
21. Requiring precise accuracy - demanding; urgent
exigent
congenial
succor
sheepish
22. To lighten up or transform for the better
leaven
noxious
flout
frenetic
23. Tasteless - dull - prosaic - pallid - ponderous
recapitulate
benighted
saturnine
insipid
24. Whining - complaining - grumbling
racy
lowering
fitful
querulous
25. Irreverent - rude - impudent - effrontery - cheek
withering
impertinent
crescendo
paragon
26. To treat with little importance
consortium
peremptory
trifle
decorum
27. An eminent person - venerable
luminary
effrontery
withering
craven
28. Tending to stir up conflict - flames
porcine
perfidious
incendiary
sumptuous
29. Unable to be corrected (of a person's habits/tendencies)
trifle
incorrigible
divest
meretricious
30. Payment/salary - recompense: compensate for a loss
autocrat
remuneration
elegiac
harlequin
31. Restless
panacea
equanimity
restive
fealty
32. Overwhelming defeat
rout
precipitate
muse
faction
33. Abusive language - diatribe
otiose
meretricious
somnolent
tirade
34. Actions to appease opposing forces
sodden
incipient
sallow
propitiate
35. Indirect - misleading
galvanize
harrowing
oblique
incipient
36. Saturated with liquid; having drunk excess of alcohol
recidivist
galvanize
sodden
melee
37. Old age
gad
abject
histrionic
senescence
38. To split (cleft); to stick to
oblique
slovenly
stipulate
cleave
39. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
baleful
enormity
congenial
recrimination
40. Harmony - in agreement
concord
melee
ursine
repartee
41. Proving
redolent
platitude
apotheosize
probative
42. Something concealing true purpose - ostensible reason
pretext
euphonious
modicum
piddling
43. To flatter for a favor - wheedle
exemplary
bedlam
byzantine
fawn
44. Discreditable - humiliating
luminary
dogmatic
mire
ignominious
45. Oddly amusing
cacophony
droll
discreet
bedraggled
46. Immature - childish - puerile
pacific
ubiquitous
callow
lowering
47. Ingratiating and wheedling in an insincere or excessive way - unctuous - fawning
smarmy
supplant
exiguous
bristle
48. Immoral
timorous
vociferous
peevish
turpitude
49. Move about aimlessly - meander
unbecoming
craven
gad
pall
50. Abusive language - 'inveigh against'
mite
incendiary
desultory
invective