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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To appease; to conciliate
propitiate
superfluous
corroborate
slight
2. Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity
vital
cogent
repudiate
lackluster
3. Serving or intended to compel by force or authority
plasticity
connoisseur
tacit
coercive
4. A speech honoring the dead
anachronistic
arduous
eulogy
arbitrary
5. To calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intesity
enervate
idiosyncrasy
mollify
invigoration
6. Possessing education - refinement and taste; polished
discomfit
cultured
obsequious
viscous
7. To praise highly
pedantic
laud
inopportune
goad
8. Payment given for services rendered or for loss
dissertation
derivative
compensation
preempt
9. The combination of parts to make a whole
synthesis
hierarchy
amalgamate
malevolent
10. To inspect - determine - or correct the graduations of an instrument by comparing it to a standard
plummet
proliferate
plasticity
calibrate
11. Unit used in measuring the intensity of a sound
tentative
articulate
decibel
facilitate
12. To make right or fix; correct
rectify
rigidity
dissertation
obviate
13. Troubling burdensome
wheedle
adversity
infuse
onerous
14. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
diffuse
shrill
luminous
hierarchy
15. Soundness or truthfulness
corrosion
archaic
validity
synthetic
16. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
aver
sporadic
eradicate
equivocate
17. Pliability; malleability; flexibility
plasticity
symmetry
facetious
malevolent
18. Strenuous - taxing
enervate
shrill
arduous
exculpate
19. Lacking depth; existing on or near the surface
taciturn
superficial
tirade
correspond
20. Dull and without variety; tedious
soliloquy
inured
monotonous
invigoration
21. Spread out or scattered
frugality
dispersed
compliant
solvent
22. Docile; obedience; easily led
tractable
decibel
fidelity
aberrant
23. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
obdurate
deference
qualms
presumptuous
24. Honesty; frankness; sincerity
harangue
parody
qualms
candor
25. Hidden - clandestine
meticulous
pragmatic
blithe
covert
26. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
beneficent
invigoration
caustic
fidelity
27. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
bombast
propensity
esoteric
fortuitous
28. Lacking originality; commonplace
ingenuity
bent
banal
idiosyncrasy
29. Ostentatious or showy; flashy
flamboyant
rhetoric
obviate
waver
30. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
bent
tirade
laconic
implacable
31. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
validity
implacable
quiescence
decibel
32. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
squander
advocate
articulate
tractable
33. Discerning and sensitive use of speech; diplomacy
obdurate
tact
temperate
taciturn
34. To remove or strip esp clothing
pragmatic
divest
enervate
disabuse
35. Stubbornly opinionated
authoritarian
maverick
dogmatic
discourse
36. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
exacerbate
deference
rarefy
buttress
37. Easily visible; obvious
extemporaneous
laconic
conspicuous
compensation
38. Doctrine or set of religious principles
aver
dogma
luminous
compliant
39. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
qualms
tractable
furtive
enigmatic
40. The act of returning something to its proper owner - or of compensating the owner for the loss of such an item; reparation
marginal
restitution
impudent
diffuse
41. To lengthen or stretch out
prodigious
euphemism
extend
wheedle
42. Not tied down; unrestrained
enigmatic
stint
serenity
unfettered
43. Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
discordant
denounce
tout
cogent
44. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
shrill
arbitrary
expel
tortuous
45. A system in which individuals or things are ranked in a particular order
mitigate
hierarchy
cultured
coercive
46. Apt to break or crack due to a lack of elasticity; fragile
inured
brittle
belie
cacophony
47. To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
anomaly
proliferate
bolster
invigoration
48. Dark and depressing; mournful
retard
somber
subjective
frugality
49. To publicly condemn or criticize
denounce
temperate
euphemism
aver
50. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
camouflage
probity
inopportune
rectify