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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. Dismay; startling - distressing fear or shock that results in complete confusion
treacherous
opprobrium
consternation
emulate
2. To list or count off individually
flamboyant
brevity
enumerate
extravagance
3. Doctrine or set of religious principles
restitution
hierarchy
dogma
defer
4. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
condemn
discretion
qualms
catalyst
5. To inspect - determine - or correct the graduations of an instrument by comparing it to a standard
opprobrium
synthesis
calibrate
squander
6. Cursory; done without care or interest
prodigious
treacherous
perfunctory
derision
7. Sad - sullen
castigation
morose
squander
vital
8. To imitate with the goal of rivaling or surpassing
brittle
soliloquy
euphemism
emulate
9. Full of tiny openings able to absorb fluid or gas; permeable
quiescence
superficial
porous
covert
10. Harmless; causing no damage
cower
innocuous
magnanimity
mundane
11. To remove completely; to annihilate; to pull out by the roots
expel
eradicate
craven
heretical
12. Adherence to the highest principles; uprightness
superfluous
probity
superfluous
temper
13. A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect - esp. in literature and art
solicitous
parody
condone
divest
14. Hardship
onerous
decibel
stint
adversity
15. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
esoteric
anthology
exacerbate
precursor
16. To defeat; to put down
discomfit
esoteric
presumptuous
denigrate
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
stanza
parody
deference
anomaly
18. To exist in agreement or conformity; harmonize
capricious
admonish
correspond
savor
19. A system in which individuals or things are ranked in a particular order
burnish
centrifuge
hierarchy
derivative
20. To invalidate; to repeal to retract
martial
rescind
enigmatic
obviate
21. Man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
intransigent
craven
plasticity
synthetic
22. Wise and careful; showing good judgment
converge
garrulous
prudent
shrill
23. To flatter or praise excessively
sever
brevity
fawn
mollify
24. Relevant; germane
correspond
tranquility
esoteric
pertinent
25. Poverty; destitution
temper
penury
diffuse
inundate
26. To criticize severely to officially rebuke
derivative
temperate
censure
inchoate
27. An intense feeling of dislike or disgust
aversion
temper
eulogy
arduous
28. Faithfulness; loyalty
tortuous
fidelity
conspire
impose
29. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
solvent
cunning
presumptuous
pervasive
30. To make worse or more severe
vital
exacerbate
distention
bent
31. To ensconce - conceal - or stow
censure
secrete
spurious
tranquil
32. Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
perennial
mundane
inopportune
iconoclastic
33. To moderate or soothe
laud
temper
disingenuous
censure
34. The act of casting out or excluding an individual from a society or group; banishment
tout
tortuous
ostracism
erudite
35. Brief; fleeting
intransigent
ephemeral
catalyst
goad
36. To confirm; to provide additional support; verify
sanction
inundate
circumspect
corroborate
37. Hidden - clandestine
covert
conspicuous
dogma
conversion
38. A mournful poem - esp one lamenting the dead
brevity
maverick
elegy
anesthetic
39. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule
exacerbate
symmetry
anomaly
synthesis
40. Aversion; dislike
obviate
antipathy
deviance
facetious
41. The act or process of transforming to another form - state or product
conversion
warranted
tirade
tangential
42. Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
equivocal
garrulous
viscous
propagate
43. A collection of lierary works by various authors
inundate
anthology
provoke
divest
44. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
anesthetic
superfluous
ephemeral
luminous
45. The art or study of effect use of language for communication and persuasion
unfettered
rhetoric
sanction
inundate
46. Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
goad
mitigate
taciturn
endemic
47. To disguise or conceal
solicitous
defer
dissemble
tact
48. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
connoisseur
secrete
porous
ostracism
49. Easily visible; obvious
conspicuous
temper
cultured
illusory
50. To replace; to supersede; to appropriate
temperate
platitude
preempt
frugality