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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Emotional fatigue - listless
lassitude
apocryphal
flout
blithe
2. Any image of future disturbance
ebullient
toady
obeisance
specter
3. Inactivity - no progress
slough
hyperbole
salutary
wane
4. A duty or obligation
carousal
desultory
incumbent (on/upon)
pillory
5. Overwhelming defeat
titillating
beleaguer
pontificate
rout
6. Causing weeping
lachrymose
factitious
callow
solipsism
7. Ancestor - originator
progenitor
redoubtable
bovine
timorous
8. A person who demands strict adherence to all regulations
factitious
maelstrom
sordid
martinet
9. Worn out - wearied
elixir
jaded
scathe
pedant
10. Eating greedily; insatiable appetite for something
lowering
melee
fitful
voracious
11. Drowsy - sleepy - slumberous
taxonomy
somnolent
dogmatic
recrimination
12. A reporobate - miscreant
melee
sinews
malefactor
solipsism
13. Any increase in intensity
strident
crescendo
benighted
bristle
14. Limber - flexible body (lithesome)
soporific
ethereal
lithe
lowering
15. Threatening
dissonant
minatory
descry
decadent
16. Discriminating or refined taste in food - epicure
swoon
ecumenical
epicurean
intrepid
17. Morally pure
chaste
beseech
imperious
pittance
18. A source of misery - to cause suffering
cacophony
inexorable
rectitude
scourge
19. To formally give up
renounce
recalcitrant
timorous
nepotism
20. To stare at angrily
interloper
panacea
ineluctable
glower
21. Indecorous - unseemly - unfitting
unbecoming
solipsism
quintessence
droll
22. Peaceful - halcyon
pacific
flout
discreet
delectable
23. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
voluptuary
imperious
proprietor
scapegrace
24. Dark - shadowy - gloomy
fealty
decadent
preempt
tenebrous
25. Behavior appropriate to prevailing social code - seemly - decorous
propitiate
glower
querulous
decorum
26. An area of special knowledge
ignominious
province
repose
tempestuous
27. Actions to appease opposing forces
propitiate
beseech
ethereal
gadfly
28. Chastise - excoriate - assail - rebuke
stalwart
elixir
castigate
solicitous
29. Tastelessly showy in appearance - tawdry
imperious
rout
raffish
voracious
30. Pitifully sad - hopeless
saturnine
inimitable
forlorn
libertine
31. Lavish
sumptuous
chaste
effrontery
panacea
32. Temporary rest
prodigal
repose
staunch
dissonant
33. Accusing in return - countering accusations
recrimination
frenetic
herculean
bedraggled
34. Overly dramatic - emotional
lupine
histrionic
mendacity
harlequin
35. To catch sight of something difficult to see
exiguous
obfuscate
enormity
descry
36. Pompous or extravagant language
venerable
providential
punctilious
grandiloquent
37. To confuse in order to hide the truth
torrid
obfuscate
descry
pedagogue
38. Overly idealistic
malign
purloin
quixotic
peevish
39. To make a specific demand as part of an agreement
simpatico
apocryphal
fitful
stipulate
40. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
disreputable
apotheosize
wane
lowering
41. Offensive smell; harmful - noxious - miasma
lugubrious
impertinent
evanescent
noisome
42. Throwback
divest
droll
blithe
atavism
43. To resolve a disagreement - stop from being discontented
iridescent
despot
conciliate
disreputable
44. The light exchange of convo
sophistry
repartee
cosset
concord
45. Sulky or gloomy - glum - dejected
interloper
despot
sullen
remuneration
46. Engaged in deep thought; to say thoughtfully
raconteur
harbinger
muse
incorrigible
47. Great beauty
pillory
otiose
pecuniary
pulchritude
48. Relating to the physical (sexual)
bristle
purloin
peevish
carnal
49. To wander - travel abroad
timorous
gaunt
pugnacious
peregrination
50. Combative - bellicose
passe
pugnacious
gratuitous
incipient
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