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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. Departure or wandering away from the accepted standard
deviation
brilliance
rigidity
consternation
2. To guarantee or make certain
ensure
harangue
superfluous
pedantic
3. Characterized by a preference for complete obedience to authority; domineering
banal
florid
authoritarian
precipitate
4. Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity
lackluster
defer
chicanery
advocate
5. To make right or fix; correct
innocuous
compliant
rectify
mundane
6. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
dissertation
ostracism
coercive
sanction
7. Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
intrepid
morose
derision
glib
8. Extreme respect and reverence; worship
veneration
innocuous
monotonous
secrete
9. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
decibel
unfeigned
ostracism
spurious
10. The act of returning something to its proper owner - or of compensating the owner for the loss of such an item; reparation
restitution
anachronistic
inchoate
heretical
11. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
inured
obviate
intemperance
anomaly
12. To tend toward the same spot or outcome; inclining to join at an intersecting point
camouflage
conversion
converge
implode
13. To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
proliferate
presumptuous
admonish
abscond
14. A courteous and respectful yielding to the will of another
viscous
distill
archaic
deference
15. To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
digress
assuage
specious
solvent
16. Inclined to change one'S mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
capricious
deference
bolster
quiescence
17. Belonging to another time; removed from natural chronological context
brevity
membrane
enumerate
anachronistic
18. A mild replacement for a harsher or more offensive term
banal
serenity
rectify
euphemism
19. To invalidate; to repeal to retract
emulate
centrifuge
extraneous
rescind
20. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
vexation
caustic
propensity
corroborate
21. Lacking energy; sluggish or sleepy
lethargic
censure
tirade
disinterest
22. Naturally inclined; tending; likely
opprobrium
prone
emulate
treacherous
23. Called for; authorized; justified
warranted
marginal
mollify
distention
24. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
precursor
buttress
lackluster
imperturbable
25. To trudge; to move slowly and heavily
maverick
discordant
monotonous
plod
26. Lacking originality
perfunctory
banal
luminous
propitiate
27. Well-spoken; coherent
chicanery
conversion
diffuse
articulate
28. To compel or require; to push one'S views or authority upon others
flamboyant
rhetoric
temper
impose
29. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
glib
inquisitive
implacable
prodigal
30. To disguise or conceal
proliferate
adversity
dissemble
disingenuous
31. To worsen or intensify
discordant
expel
caustic
aggravate
32. Lacking faithfulness or loyalty; traitorous; unstable
insipid
hierarchy
inquisitive
treacherous
33. Lacking depth; existing on or near the surface
deference
superficial
tranquil
bolster
34. To remove completely; to annihilate; to pull out by the roots
penury
cacophony
eloquent
eradicate
35. Matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree - size - or amount
discourse
discomfit
ensure
commensurate
36. A speech honoring the dead
cogent
bent
eulogy
abscond
37. Insincere; lacking in honesty
tractable
perennial
scarce
disingenuous
38. Silly inanely foolish
banal
synthesis
fatuous
loquacious
39. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule
defer
conspire
malevolent
anomaly
40. Disgrace; contempt; scorn
tacit
treacherous
burgeon
opprobrium
41. Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
plethora
camouflage
squander
perennial
42. The act or process of transforming to another form - state or product
ensure
conversion
arduous
facilitate
43. Adherence to the highest principles; uprightness
probity
fawn
anthology
aver
44. To exist in agreement or conformity; harmonize
correspond
temperate
aberrant
mollify
45. yield; submit; bow
camouflage
defer
fawn
circumspect
46. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
restitution
camouflage
facilitate
qualms
47. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
deviance
esoteric
connoisseur
solvent
48. To list or count off individually
enumerate
catalyst
articulate
tacit
49. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
impudent
camouflage
divest
somber
50. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
derision
obdurate
fidelity
laud