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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Called for; authorized; justified
aberrant
preempt
warranted
homogeneous
2. To slow delay or hamper
porous
retard
propitiate
magnanimity
3. The quality of being energized or filled with liveliness
invigoration
extraneous
inchoate
presumption
4. The act of making an assumption or taking something for granted
presumption
expel
condemn
inquisitive
5. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
connoisseur
unfeigned
ostracism
vigor
6. Dark and depressing; mournful
conversion
castigation
epitome
somber
7. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
stanza
caustic
inopportune
ensure
8. To approve tacitly by overlooking or excusing; to allow or forgive
trivial
mitigate
hierarchy
condone
9. Made up of elements that are similar in nature or kind; uniform
inundate
homogeneous
facetious
camouflage
10. Having or showing often viscious ill-will -spite - hatred
prudent
malevolent
trivial
squander
11. Reserved - shy - or unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
rhetoric
somber
diffident
lackluster
12. A group of two or more verses or lines that make up a division in a poem and correspond in rhyme - meter - and length
arbitrary
stint
compensation
stanza
13. The act of preparing or working land in order to grow crops
audacious
bent
tirade
cultivation
14. A speech made to oneself; a monologue
obdurate
soliloquy
validity
banal
15. Only touching briefly upon the topic at hand; irrelevant
brittle
fraud
specious
tangential
16. Refusing to compromise
prudent
intransigent
distention
adversity
17. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
membrane
admonish
presumption
superfluous
18. Insincere; lacking in honesty
inopportune
facetious
disingenuous
deviation
19. Not talkative; reserved
taciturn
correspond
conspire
martial
20. Not obvious; elusive - difficult to discern
subtle
brevity
perjury
anthology
21. Easily angered
temper
banal
luminous
irascible
22. A mournful poem - esp one lamenting the dead
inquisitive
eloquent
infuse
elegy
23. Pliability; malleability; flexibility
caustic
brittle
plasticity
perfunctory
24. Contemptibly fainthearted - lacking any courage
equivocal
diffuse
craven
corroborate
25. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
taciturn
mitigate
laconic
beneficent
26. To aid by making easier
dispersed
facilitate
ostracism
probity
27. A support or prop - often an external prop used to bolster a wall
buttress
somber
advocate
mundane
28. To exist in agreement or conformity; harmonize
consternation
approbation
plethora
correspond
29. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
propagate
enigmatic
disabuse
covert
30. Silly inanely foolish
tirade
fatuous
banal
consternation
31. Unimportant; lacking value
trivial
vigor
disingenuous
discordant
32. To guarantee or make certain
prudent
succinct
chicanery
ensure
33. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
meticulous
conversion
treacherous
flamboyant
34. A system in which individuals or things are ranked in a particular order
hierarchy
expel
apprise
presumption
35. Ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate
inopportune
lethargic
recluse
prune
36. Extreme respect and reverence; worship
parody
brittle
veneration
temperate
37. yielding or submissive; amenable
consternation
compliant
laconic
martial
38. Inclined to change one'S mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
capricious
intrepid
circumspect
miser
39. Clear; easily understood
parody
lucid
heretical
aversion
40. To criticize severely to officially rebuke
burgeon
censure
sanction
waver
41. To undeceive to set right
plod
soliloquy
disabuse
unfettered
42. The purposeful giving of false or misleading testimony while under oath
perjury
authoritarian
burnish
diffident
43. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
pristine
tranquility
prodigal
aver
44. To incite anger - resentment or exasperation
vexation
pervasive
converge
provoke
45. To invalidate; to repeal to retract
serenity
rescind
exculpate
martial
46. To prod or drive forward; to urge on; incite
recluse
synthetic
goad
ensure
47. Distinct; individual
soliloquy
discrete
scarce
lethargic
48. Discerning and sensitive use of speech; diplomacy
reconciliation
rhetoric
tact
sporadic
49. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
secrete
assuage
obdurate
trivial
50. Unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma
qualms
preempt
fortuitous
heretical