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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. In an initial stage; not fully formed
pristine
decibel
inchoate
inundate
2. Dismay; startling - distressing fear or shock that results in complete confusion
belie
ascetic
impudent
consternation
3. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
enigmatic
cunning
arbitrary
extraneous
4. A courteous and respectful yielding to the will of another
qualms
eradicate
deference
censure
5. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
harangue
obviate
esoteric
catalyst
6. Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity
authoritarian
facilitate
lackluster
illusory
7. To worsen or intensify
aggravate
exculpate
camouflage
inured
8. To flatter or praise excessively
tirade
fawn
propagate
tangential
9. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
perennial
perfunctory
spurious
volatile
10. To plunge or drop straight down
inquisitive
pedantic
plummet
anomaly
11. Man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
fawn
treacherous
synthetic
rescind
12. Called for; authorized; justified
morose
tirade
warranted
erudite
13. Cursory; done without care or interest
converge
impose
anachronistic
perfunctory
14. Truthfulness; honesty
intrepid
veracity
calibrate
presumption
15. A superficial remark - esp. one offered as meaningful
ostracism
platitude
corrosion
symmetry
16. Ostentatious or showy; flashy
tractable
flamboyant
unfeigned
synthesis
17. To invalidate; to repeal to retract
rescind
subtle
euphemism
implacable
18. Departing from norms or convention
eccentric
retard
tangential
provoke
19. Easily visible; obvious
conspicuous
fatuous
probity
solicitous
20. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
ambiguous
proliferate
unfeigned
retard
21. The quality of being evenly balanced
symmetry
obstinate
presumptuous
discomfit
22. Thriftiness; economy; prudence in financial matters
frugality
fatuous
enervate
extravagance
23. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive time
discretion
loquacious
archaic
distill
24. Shortness or briefness - esp. in time
iconoclastic
brevity
cunning
equivocal
25. To blacken; to belittle; to sully defame disparage
denigrate
trivial
morose
tentative
26. To cause to spread - multiply or reproduce
tranquil
fortuitous
tacit
propagate
27. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
sporadic
diatribe
consternation
precipitate
28. To guarantee or make certain
banal
prodigal
ensure
obviate
29. yielding or submissive; amenable
pedantic
compliant
denigrate
ascetic
30. A harsh denunciation
deviance
diatribe
derivative
coercive
31. A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect - esp. in literature and art
plod
centrifuge
presumptuous
parody
32. To blame or denounce
commensurate
condemn
sporadic
inured
33. Not objective; based upon internal perceptions rather than upon unprejudiced fact
tacit
fidelity
subjective
assuage
34. Lecture or discussion; conversation
correspond
discourse
facilitate
precipitate
35. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
veneration
denounce
cynicism
florid
36. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
disabuse
diffident
consternation
mitigate
37. Strenuous - taxing
obviate
probity
arduous
restitution
38. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
connoisseur
ingenuity
anomalous
vexation
39. To aid by making easier
facilitate
veracity
spurious
symmetry
40. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
superfluous
precipitate
lackluster
prodigal
41. The state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape
presumption
distention
epitome
intransigent
42. The act of casting out or excluding an individual from a society or group; banishment
ostracism
ingenuity
sever
plod
43. The act or process of transforming to another form - state or product
consternation
desiccate
conversion
discrete
44. Refusing to compromise
covert
tout
monotonous
intransigent
45. Cleverness or inventiveness
probity
ingenuity
meticulous
anachronistic
46. A mournful poem - esp one lamenting the dead
blithe
elegy
emulate
propitiate
47. To champion or support; to argue in favor of
tirade
advocate
beneficent
subjective
48. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
repudiate
dispersed
articulate
malevolent
49. Shrewdness and craftiness; slyness
platitude
taciturn
rhetoric
cunning
50. Ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate
subjective
commensurate
inopportune
belie