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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
histrionic
purloin
baleful
bemoan
2. To attack verbally - flay - excoriate - castigate
porcine
assail
discreet
harlequin
3. Feeling of suffering - symPATHy
abject
salutary
pathos
acerbic
4. Showing hesitancy - uncertain - shilly-shally - teeter
noxious
atavism
divest
irresolute
5. Great beauty
pulchritude
incubus
cheeky
congenital
6. Suggestive - reminiscent; aromatic smell
discrete
irresolute
soporific
redolent
7. Fidelity - faithfulness
decorum
nugatory
ablution
fealty
8. Flamboyant confidence of style or manner - dash - jaunty
panache
malefactor
gallantry
stipulate
9. (physically or behaviorally) pig-like
prosaic
porcine
histrionic
euphemism
10. Having no plan - indiscriminate - haphazard
ursine
staid
raffish
desultory
11. No longer current - out of fashion - superannuated
blandishment
propitiate
passe
prolix
12. Insolent and impertinent behavior - temerity - gall
inexorable
acrimonious
effrontery
punctilious
13. Deep-seeded mutual hatred - hostility
jocular
enmity
stalwart
assail
14. Tending to obstruct or harm - hostile
inimical
penurious
voluptuary
munificent
15. Meticulous
punctilious
irresolute
hyperbole
despot
16. Lacking vitality - insipid - jejune - prosaic
pallid
clarion
ethereal
prescribe
17. Suffering from nervousness or lack of confidence
gallantry
harry
cacophony
timorous
18. Characterized by strong conflicting emotions
malefactor
meretricious
tempestuous
expurgate
19. To evade in order to gain time to avoid an argument
overture
apostate
temporize
harry
20. Beginning; in an early stage
incipient
adventitious
somnolent
inimitable
21. Dishonesty
interloper
mendacity
obsequious
scathe
22. Sharing an edge or connecting w/o a break
ragtag
ribald
nepotism
contiguous
23. Tending to stir up conflict - flames
denounce
incendiary
blithe
tautology
24. Moral uprightness - probity
spurious
pecuniary
phlegmatic
rectitude
25. To trick someone into doing something
beguile
maelstrom
sanctimonious
alacrity
26. Concise and forcefully expressive
euphonious
congenial
pithy
sedulous
27. Indirect - misleading
boor
sordid
dissonant
oblique
28. Gradually diminishing - ebb
wane
venal
conciliate
voluptuary
29. Discriminating or refined taste in food - epicure
epicurean
concomitant
divest
invective
30. Exultant - filled with joy and triumph
soporific
jubilant
cheeky
nepotism
31. Stubbornly asserts unproved opinion; dogma: the belief; dogmatist: the person asserting
garish
sanctimonious
recidivist
dogmatic
32. Worn out - wearied
jaded
penurious
scourge
desultory
33. To dispute angrily - squabble
wrangle
tremulous
elegiac
beguile
34. Firm - resolute; a loyal supporter
apostate
stalwart
dissonant
modicum
35. Enervated
trifle
ruse
imperious
torpid
36. Payment/salary - recompense: compensate for a loss
prescribe
remuneration
equivocal
callow
37. A duty or obligation
incumbent (on/upon)
lassitude
ken
effrontery
38. Rule by one person
bemoan
autocrat
forlorn
imbrue
39. Cure-all
feral
panacea
redolent
numinous
40. A source of misery - to cause suffering
sullen
scourge
martinet
divest
41. Volatile - whimsical - fickle - unpredictable
appendage
acrimonious
capricious
ken
42. Producing good effects - beneficial
salutary
suborn
scathe
tawdry
43. Engaged in deep thought; to say thoughtfully
unrequited
muse
baleful
piddling
44. One who abandons a cause or affiliation - turncoat
apostate
peevish
poltroon
lowering
45. Agreeable - gracious - affable
congenial
reprise
burgeon
dissonant
46. Sporadic
fitful
frenetic
repartee
inchoate
47. Abounding - swarming with
decadent
harlequin
teem
maudlin
48. Accusing in return - countering accusations
indignation
recrimination
passe
captious
49. A coward - a cur
tyro
implacable
enormity
poltroon
50. A nuisance
congenial
gadfly
jocular
minatory