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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. Excessively complicated
byzantine
expurgate
tautology
smarmy
2. Temporary stay - transient - itinerant - peripatetic
resonant
sojourn
vacuous
succor
3. Unrestrained behavior; philandering
profligate
sojourn
beseech
recrimination
4. Without substance or meaning
guile
vacuous
suborn
concomitant
5. To a small degree
flub
winnow
mite
jubilant
6. Speak about in a spiteful or evil manner
obtuse
rueful
descry
malign
7. To disturb - ruffle
disconcert
exiguous
jaded
venerable
8. Obedient to an excessive degree
wane
obsequious
bowdlerize
elixir
9. To stare at angrily
belie
agog
glower
somnolent
10. Too great to be described in words; not to be uttered
phlegmatic
ineffable
callow
apotheosize
11. To repeat in concise form
progenitor
recapitulate
bemoan
paragon
12. Bitterness - caustic
progenitor
baleful
rakish
acrimonious
13. The final result
atavism
denouement
bemoan
recapitulate
14. Worn out - wearied
jaded
ruse
overture
toady
15. A deceiftful scheme - ruse
subterfuge
consortium
apocryphal
prosaic
16. Unable to be corrected (of a person's habits/tendencies)
somnolent
ribald
discrete
incorrigible
17. Bubbling with enthusiasm
ebullient
slovenly
frenetic
minatory
18. Source of strength; vigorous strength
harry
dissipation
pecuniary
sinews
19. A beggar
mendicant
nugatory
besiege
repose
20. Managing but with great effort
toothsome
unbecoming
belie
eke
21. Imprudently bold - flouting social conventions
smarmy
exiguous
burgeon
cheeky
22. Requiring precise accuracy - demanding; urgent
solicitous
exigent
denounce
quintessence
23. To insist on pmt of debt
delectable
pithy
dun
jubilant
24. Something's origin
rout
attenuate
appendage
provenance
25. Haggard and looking wasted
sedulous
resonant
salutary
gaunt
26. A perfect example
modicum
paragon
agog
fealty
27. Flattering language
racy
recondite
blandishment
jaded
28. To make a specific demand as part of an agreement
pantheon
stipulate
slovenly
assuage
29. To dispute angrily - squabble
dovetail
verve
abject
wrangle
30. Being present everywhere at once
ubiquitous
pretext
feral
gallantry
31. To evade in order to gain time to avoid an argument
progenitor
temporize
despot
flub
32. A rude - unmannerly person with bad disposition - boor - surly
wrangle
churl
cloying
sanctimonious
33. Inactive - any situation that remains uncultivated
noxious
decorum
fallow
incorrigible
34. Poverty-stricken - destitute
maelstrom
penurious
pugnacious
privation
35. Dirty or wretched - abject (squalor)
squalid
masquerade
ecumenical
reprobate
36. To become rigid with anger or irritation
peevish
pedant
bristle
irresolute
37. Monetary
pecuniary
panacea
acrimonious
pugnacious
38. Arrogantly domineering (imperial: regal)
imperious
quotidian
lassitude
recidivist
39. Deep-seeded mutual hatred - hostility
pacific
profligate
lithe
enmity
40. Acts w/o moral restraint - dissolute - wanton - licentious - depraved - rake
upbraid
libertine
antecedent
vagrant
41. Bad temper - cantankerous - fractious
surly
rebarbative
nepotism
unbecoming
42. Airy - delicate - insubstantial
spurious
unbecoming
intemperate
ethereal
43. A person devoted to luxury or pleasure - hedonist
skittish
ragtag
voluptuary
empirical
44. To lament; elegiac - dolorous
bemoan
carousal
forlorn
repose
45. Discreditable - humiliating
decadent
ribald
ignominious
poltroon
46. Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree - obsequious
toady
intemperate
pacific
dissonant
47. Flamboyant confidence of style or manner - dash - jaunty
denouement
munificent
belie
panache
48. Sleepy
pedagogue
pulchritude
somnolent
saturnine
49. Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally
blandishment
hyperbole
maelstrom
adventitious
50. To split (cleft); to stick to
denouement
euphonious
motley
cleave