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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Doctrine or set of religious principles
sporadic
dogma
pertinent
idiosyncrasy
2. An inclination or tendency
bent
ingenuity
platitude
insipid
3. To approve tacitly by overlooking or excusing; to allow or forgive
pragmatic
mundane
enumerate
condone
4. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
tirade
soliloquy
lethargic
proliferate
5. Pliability; malleability; flexibility
plasticity
distention
eulogy
misanthrope
6. Lacking originality
furtive
implacable
banal
florid
7. Soundness or truthfulness
implacable
obdurate
validity
archaic
8. Lack of bias or involvement; impartiality; (ed) uninvolved; free from self-interest
convoluted
disinterest
dogmatic
brittle
9. Saucy; impertinent
precursor
centrifuge
impudent
penchant
10. Relating to or at an edge or boundary; minimal
cultured
mundane
marginal
extravagance
11. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
pragmatic
propensity
recluse
synthesis
12. Stubbornly opinionated
dogmatic
tirade
eulogy
censure
13. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound
dissertation
cacophony
iconoclastic
deviation
14. To trudge; to move slowly and heavily
proliferate
placate
plod
temper
15. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
florid
tranquil
sever
bombast
16. One who hates all other humans
misanthrope
approbation
tranquility
defer
17. A group of two or more verses or lines that make up a division in a poem and correspond in rhyme - meter - and length
effrontery
stanza
commensurate
tentative
18. To purify or concentrate through a process of vaporization
emulate
distill
subtle
subjective
19. Possessing education - refinement and taste; polished
veneration
tortuous
cultured
somber
20. Occurring only occasionally - or in a scattered instances
propitiate
sporadic
superficial
equivocate
21. Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity
lackluster
cacophony
rectify
chicanery
22. Severe criticism or punishment
abscond
exculpate
catalyst
castigation
23. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
eloquent
antipathy
ensure
mitigate
24. Unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma
arbitrary
cultivation
heretical
consternation
25. Serving or intended to compel by force or authority
goad
coercive
bent
temperate
26. To flatter or praise excessively
temper
provoke
fawn
digress
27. Disgrace; contempt; scorn
tangential
quiescence
opprobrium
extravagance
28. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
innocuous
mundane
assuage
warranted
29. Dispersed or scattered; not centralized
specious
capricious
diffuse
arbitrary
30. To abruptly and violently collapse inward
rarefy
implode
hierarchy
enervate
31. A machine that spins very swiftly about a central axis - and - using centrifugal force - separates disparate substances
ephemeral
centrifuge
penury
abscond
32. Shortness or briefness - esp. in time
propitiate
deference
plasticity
brevity
33. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
candor
craven
convoluted
derision
34. To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
belie
proliferate
anomalous
squander
35. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
glib
converge
waver
connoisseur
36. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
corrosion
obdurate
commensurate
volatile
37. Payment given for services rendered or for loss
convoluted
imperturbable
compensation
exculpate
38. Silly inanely foolish
marginal
temper
banal
fatuous
39. To blacken; to belittle; to sully defame disparage
soliloquy
denigrate
synthetic
precursor
40. Ambiguous; doubtful or uncertain
tangential
equivocal
secrete
penchant
41. To calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intesity
beneficent
plod
mollify
fawn
42. Adherence to the highest principles; uprightness
harangue
vexation
probity
facetious
43. Very learned; scholarly
ascetic
cower
intrepid
erudite
44. To grow rapidly or flourish
convention
disabuse
penchant
burgeon
45. To criticize severely to officially rebuke
censure
impose
implicit
treacherous
46. The quality or state of being unyielding or stiff
ostracism
obdurate
rigidity
erudite
47. Harmless; causing no damage
cultivation
innocuous
perfunctory
perjury
48. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
squander
repudiate
cultured
prodigal
49. yield; submit; bow
platitude
defer
viscous
savor
50. To praise highly
reconciliation
laud
intrepid
treacherous