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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma
extraneous
heretical
superfluous
equivocate
2. To criticize severely to officially rebuke
laconic
discordant
censure
brilliance
3. Baffled; in a quandry; at a loss for what to say or do
nonplused
advocate
somber
discomfit
4. Saucy; impertinent
sporadic
diffident
impudent
adversity
5. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
tranquility
aver
presumption
repudiate
6. To appease; to calm by making concessions
eclectic
placate
coercive
miser
7. Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
garrulous
bolster
squander
endemic
8. Doctrine or set of religious principles
dogma
reconciliation
temper
equivocal
9. Shrink in fear - cringe
cower
reconciliation
retard
hierarchy
10. Called for; authorized; justified
recalcitrant
warranted
calibrate
facilitate
11. A group of two or more verses or lines that make up a division in a poem and correspond in rhyme - meter - and length
stint
precursor
catalyst
stanza
12. A person or thing that causes change
derision
ambiguous
intemperance
catalyst
13. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
candor
enervate
prodigious
miser
14. Lacking originality
deviation
banal
condone
glib
15. Lecture or discussion; conversation
beneficent
tout
discourse
candor
16. To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
equivocate
advocate
temper
digress
17. To ensconce - conceal - or stow
candor
secrete
maverick
marginal
18. Very learned; scholarly
unfettered
erudite
disinterest
serenity
19. Harmless; causing no damage
innocuous
slight
extemporaneous
eloquent
20. To disguise or conceal
dissemble
correspond
cultured
penchant
21. The act of reestablishing harmony or friendly interactions
vexation
penury
symmetry
reconciliation
22. The quality of being evenly balanced
symmetry
perennial
scarce
pertinent
23. Subject to chance or individual whim; without definite reason
ambiguous
arbitrary
eulogy
connoisseur
24. To replace; to supersede; to appropriate
recalcitrant
superfluous
preempt
intransigent
25. Man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
repudiate
synthetic
compensation
eclectic
26. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirits; bland
defer
insipid
penury
specious
27. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
luminous
compliant
rescind
disabuse
28. The quality of being energized or filled with liveliness
elegy
dispersed
invigoration
unfeigned
29. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
validity
implacable
eccentric
intrepid
30. Clear; easily understood
obsequious
dogma
lucid
authoritarian
31. Stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest
aversion
quiescence
derision
inured
32. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
tortuous
placate
authoritarian
eccentric
33. Lacking depth; existing on or near the surface
meticulous
waver
aggravate
superficial
34. Lacking originality; commonplace
facilitate
banal
martial
enumerate
35. Discerning and sensitive use of speech; diplomacy
propensity
ostracism
decibel
tact
36. The quality or state of being unyielding or stiff
rigidity
craven
equivocal
tortuous
37. Dismay; startling - distressing fear or shock that results in complete confusion
camouflage
caustic
consternation
antipathy
38. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
blithe
aver
impudent
pedantic
39. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
parody
laconic
specious
dogma
40. To cause to spread - multiply or reproduce
burgeon
discourse
propagate
archaic
41. The act or process of transforming to another form - state or product
fortuitous
provoke
stanza
conversion
42. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
discrete
sporadic
fortuitous
solvent
43. To invalidate; to repeal to retract
rescind
commensurate
tout
mitigate
44. Sad - sullen
harangue
deference
morose
aberrant
45. To aid by making easier
loquacious
cultivation
tranquil
facilitate
46. Ambiguous; doubtful or uncertain
desiccate
equivocal
tortuous
retard
47. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
discordant
tranquil
mundane
unfeigned
48. Abnormal; deviating from the common or general type
anomalous
divest
extravagance
indifferent
49. An inclination or tendency
bent
cultured
defer
frugality
50. One who avoids social contact and lives in seclusion
treacherous
anomalous
recluse
abscond