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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To undeceive to set right
caustic
disabuse
censure
dispersed
2. Ambiguous; doubtful or uncertain
reconciliation
slight
equivocal
unfeigned
3. Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
calibrate
pervasive
tractable
luminous
4. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
platitude
mundane
deference
insipid
5. Essential for or relating to life; necessary
vital
bent
endemic
conversion
6. Shortness or briefness - esp. in time
subtle
unfeigned
diatribe
brevity
7. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
iconoclastic
mitigate
loquacious
inured
8. One who hates all other humans
misanthrope
lackluster
corroborate
ephemeral
9. To champion or support; to argue in favor of
tortuous
corroborate
taciturn
advocate
10. Contemptibly fainthearted - lacking any courage
aggravate
secrete
craven
serenity
11. To appease; to calm by making concessions
disinterest
placate
precursor
eccentric
12. Relevant; germane
pertinent
esoteric
garrulous
defer
13. Not vital or pertinent; irrelevant
imperturbable
extraneous
equivocal
chicanery
14. To purify or concentrate through a process of vaporization
inopportune
assuage
distill
inchoate
15. Boldness; impudence; arrogance
penury
wheedle
effrontery
temperate
16. Soundness or truthfulness
validity
emulate
idiosyncrasy
innocuous
17. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
distill
equivocate
adversity
recalcitrant
18. Baffled; in a quandry; at a loss for what to say or do
martial
platitude
nonplused
lackluster
19. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
cultured
precipitate
intemperance
sanction
20. Only touching briefly upon the topic at hand; irrelevant
wheedle
tangential
penury
unfettered
21. To moderate or soothe
temper
presumption
beneficent
arbitrary
22. A superficial remark - esp. one offered as meaningful
platitude
tortuous
exculpate
converge
23. Lecture or discussion; conversation
saturate
unfeigned
denounce
discourse
24. Concerned and attentive; eager
solicitous
erudite
retard
repudiate
25. Discreet; prudent; careful
superficial
dogma
circumspect
inquisitive
26. An invigorating substance that excites mental or physical activity
furtive
epitome
mitigate
stimulant
27. To flood or overwhelm
marginal
monotonous
eulogy
inundate
28. Cursory; done without care or interest
unfeigned
temper
perfunctory
lethargic
29. A mournful poem - esp one lamenting the dead
iconoclastic
desiccate
impudent
elegy
30. Extreme brightness; possessing luminosity or genius
tortuous
maverick
brilliance
derivative
31. Unimportant; lacking value
burnish
lackluster
trivial
discordant
32. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
unfeigned
temper
defer
warranted
33. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
camouflage
digress
derision
veracity
34. Moderate; marked by restraint and lack of extremes
reconciliation
temperate
distill
rescind
35. Dispersed or scattered; not centralized
diffuse
recalcitrant
correspond
squander
36. To trudge; to move slowly and heavily
pristine
laud
derivative
plod
37. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
implicit
trivial
implacable
innocuous
38. Stubborn; hardheaded
rarefy
veneration
obstinate
fatuous
39. A machine that spins very swiftly about a central axis - and - using centrifugal force - separates disparate substances
glib
rhetoric
coercive
centrifuge
40. Brief; fleeting
centrifuge
assuage
ephemeral
distention
41. To criticize severely to officially rebuke
censure
fawn
beneficent
spurious
42. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
compliant
qualms
cower
camouflage
43. Implied; not explicitly stated
tacit
anthology
disingenuous
eradicate
44. Hardship
discomfit
aberrant
denigrate
adversity
45. An overabundance; a surplus
disabuse
bent
cynicism
plethora
46. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
subtle
erudite
morose
cynicism
47. To restrain; to be sparing or frugal
lethargic
derision
trivial
stint
48. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
condemn
fortuitous
intransigent
maverick
49. Trickery or subterfuge
secrete
chicanery
distention
propitiate
50. A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
stint
florid
validity
convention