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Grad Entrance Exams Vocab - Most Important Words
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1. Savage human behavior
feral
staid
tirade
equanimity
2. Temporary rest from activity
repose
bedraggled
dovetail
harrowing
3. Not respectable in character; sordid - grubby
tremulous
apotheosize
disreputable
phlegmatic
4. To scold - find fault with - chide - reproach - reprove - rebuke - berate
contiguous
upbraid
shambolic
provenance
5. Something's origin
provenance
divest
descry
probative
6. To become rigid with anger or irritation
bristle
prodigal
trifle
abject
7. Deprived of necessities and comforts
congenial
beseech
harrowing
privation
8. Deep-seeded mutual hatred - hostility
sanctimonious
enmity
irresolute
crescendo
9. Pernicious; threatening harm - minatory
stalwart
effrontery
baleful
inexorable
10. Beginning; in an early stage
incipient
fawn
sallow
pomp
11. To develop rapidly
pittance
bedlam
burgeon
toady
12. Imprudently bold - flouting social conventions
cheeky
frenetic
sheepish
surly
13. To steal something
denounce
purloin
pretext
bowdlerize
14. Harmful - nocuous
noxious
provident
countervail
torpid
15. Chastise - excoriate - assail - rebuke
overture
castigate
panache
demagogue
16. An oppressive ruler who holds absolute power
dovetail
panacea
despot
mendacity
17. Obscure - abstruse - little known - uncertain
slovenly
sheepish
recondite
assail
18. Embarrassed or shy - abashed
tempestuous
belie
sheepish
equanimity
19. Unmannerly - indecorous
noisome
boor
nepotism
forlorn
20. A scattering of one's energy via an immodest pursuit of trivial pleasures (dissipated)
sinews
punctilious
teem
dissipation
21. To catch sight of something difficult to see
exculpate
descry
probative
fawn
22. Boredom - listlessness
cosset
ennui
specter
slough
23. Noisy uproar
bedlam
tempestuous
proscribe
ruse
24. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
bombast
indignant
quotidian
staunch
25. Bitter - cutting expression
elegiac
cleave
beseech
acerbic
26. Too great to be described in words; not to be uttered
besmirch
obfuscate
ineffable
noxious
27. Producing good effects - beneficial
venal
vagrant
tautology
salutary
28. Restless
somnolent
belie
restive
divest
29. Cowardly - pusillanimous
recidivist
craven
salutary
porcine
30. Moral wickedness - depravity
skittish
turpitude
fitful
punctilious
31. A brawl - bedlam - skirmish
supplant
melee
intrepid
harrowing
32. Representing the best of its kind
concord
cloying
exemplary
repartee
33. To reduce in force/value (truncate: to shorten)
numinous
preempt
attenuate
titillating
34. The purest essence of a thing
quintessence
prescribe
incendiary
torrid
35. To express vehement protest
bemoan
prescribe
tempestuous
fulminate
36. Relieving symptoms - palliate
taxonomy
torpid
irresolute
palliative
37. Eating greedily; insatiable appetite for something
squalid
repose
lassitude
voracious
38. Returning to pattern of bad behavior
recidivist
eke
appendage
sojourn
39. Angered at something unjust
inchoate
indignant
torpid
evanescent
40. Monetary
poltroon
assuage
concord
pecuniary
41. Take action to prevent from happening
pretext
obdurate
preempt
bedlam
42. Having like minds or temperament
factitious
platitude
simpatico
iridescent
43. Serving no purpose or result
pantheon
providential
otiose
guile
44. Gradually diminishing - ebb
redoubtable
wane
glower
recrimination
45. The belief that the self is all that can be known to exist
irresolute
solipsism
specter
malign
46. Return to original theme
reprise
glower
rancor
inimical
47. Long-standing anger/resentment - acrimony
rancor
quotidian
bedraggled
carousal
48. Discriminating or refined taste in food - epicure
epicurean
expurgate
turpitude
venal
49. Fidelity - faithfulness
congenital
convivial
eke
fealty
50. Sluggish and dull
bristle
bovine
agog
effrontery