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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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gre
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english
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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. Easily visible; obvious
treacherous
conspicuous
miser
provoke
2. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
frugality
tentative
dogmatic
tirade
3. Having or showing often viscious ill-will -spite - hatred
discomfit
tortuous
impudent
malevolent
4. A courteous and respectful yielding to the will of another
deference
eradicate
diffident
audacious
5. State or quality of differing from the accepted norm; abnormality
symmetry
consternation
deviance
fraud
6. Easily angered
plasticity
facilitate
irascible
tacit
7. Troubling burdensome
recalcitrant
aver
tirade
onerous
8. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
enigmatic
rectify
discourse
somber
9. Silly inanely foolish
eulogy
superfluous
fatuous
prone
10. Dull and without variety; tedious
stanza
beneficent
monotonous
flamboyant
11. Hardship
unfettered
disabuse
propensity
adversity
12. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
irascible
conspicuous
inured
correspond
13. Hidden - clandestine
morose
vital
covert
denounce
14. A group of two or more verses or lines that make up a division in a poem and correspond in rhyme - meter - and length
extraneous
prone
belie
stanza
15. Playful humorous
erudite
facetious
derivative
admonish
16. To disguise or conceal
sporadic
dissemble
stint
superfluous
17. Soundness or truthfulness
validity
tact
convention
buttress
18. Occurring only occasionally - or in a scattered instances
enumerate
sporadic
centrifuge
propagate
19. Rare and insufficient
repudiate
irascible
scarce
compliant
20. Cleverness or inventiveness
brittle
rescind
ingenuity
tacit
21. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in decision
waver
disingenuous
pertinent
ingenuity
22. To blame or denounce
lethargic
furtive
conversion
condemn
23. Marked by stealth - covert - surreptitious
innocuous
derision
furtive
treacherous
24. Using few words; terse
cunning
authoritarian
stint
laconic
25. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
diffuse
garrulous
mundane
derision
26. The quality of being generously noble in the mind and heart - esp in forgiving
magnanimity
morose
furtive
vexation
27. A harsh denunciation
ephemeral
dogma
diatribe
sporadic
28. Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity
defer
lackluster
brilliance
monotonous
29. Dark and depressing; mournful
somber
ingenuity
sporadic
laud
30. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
garrulous
platitude
extraneous
harangue
31. Departing from norms or convention
equivocate
eccentric
martial
quiescence
32. To inspect - determine - or correct the graduations of an instrument by comparing it to a standard
burnish
calibrate
antipathy
conversion
33. The combination of parts to make a whole
aver
soliloquy
ambiguous
synthesis
34. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
apprise
serenity
superfluous
preempt
35. Unclear; open to more than one potential meaning
solvent
unfeigned
ambiguous
anomalous
36. The quality or state of being unyielding or stiff
morose
discordant
intransigent
rigidity
37. Pliability; malleability; flexibility
superficial
secrete
innocuous
plasticity
38. Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
dogma
ambiguous
qualms
endemic
39. Assuming an unauthorized right or responsibility; overly forward and arrogant
admonish
presumptuous
compensation
recalcitrant
40. To exist in agreement or conformity; harmonize
correspond
craven
eulogy
perjury
41. Peaceful; calm
beneficent
tranquil
onerous
superfluous
42. Possessing education - refinement and taste; polished
porous
brevity
magnanimity
cultured
43. To trudge; to move slowly and heavily
plod
restitution
centrifuge
candor
44. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
magnanimity
erudite
caustic
fraud
45. An invigorating substance that excites mental or physical activity
stimulant
pragmatic
cower
morose
46. Brief; fleeting
fawn
ephemeral
soliloquy
implicit
47. Not definite; uncertain; experimental
discretion
irascible
cultured
tentative
48. Calmness; serenity; peacefulness
tranquility
connoisseur
equivocal
cultivation
49. To provide support or reinforcement
dogmatic
bolster
circumspect
presumption
50. Aversion; dislike
heretical
antipathy
adversity
luminous