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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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1. Shrewdness and craftiness; slyness
burgeon
intemperance
cunning
tout
2. Concerned and attentive; eager
plod
solicitous
euphemism
consternation
3. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
burgeon
veracity
specious
malevolent
4. In an initial stage; not fully formed
castigation
diffident
inchoate
endemic
5. Made up of elements that are similar in nature or kind; uniform
brittle
homogeneous
cower
unfettered
6. A quirk particular to a group or individual
ascetic
admonish
placate
idiosyncrasy
7. Belonging to another time; removed from natural chronological context
commensurate
illusory
specious
anachronistic
8. To exist in agreement or conformity; harmonize
inchoate
articulate
expel
correspond
9. Departing from norms or convention
eccentric
sanction
advocate
irascible
10. Unoriginal; obtained from another source
waver
rarefy
derivative
deference
11. Ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate
corroborate
inopportune
dogmatic
pedantic
12. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
propensity
ingenuity
squander
presumptuous
13. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
superfluous
connoisseur
aver
discourse
14. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
aver
tentative
catalyst
cynicism
15. Honesty; frankness; sincerity
squander
presumptuous
candor
proliferate
16. questioning; curious
consternation
inquisitive
innocuous
maverick
17. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
ephemeral
enigmatic
cultivation
parody
18. To abruptly and violently collapse inward
lackluster
repudiate
tranquility
implode
19. To remove completely; to annihilate; to pull out by the roots
propensity
expel
eradicate
maverick
20. Characterized by a preference for complete obedience to authority; domineering
authoritarian
distention
flamboyant
converge
21. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
laconic
circumspect
deference
camouflage
22. State or quality of differing from the accepted norm; abnormality
anthology
subtle
hierarchy
deviance
23. To fill until there is no further capacity for absorbance; to soak
commensurate
saturate
preempt
elegy
24. Practical rather than idealistic
pragmatic
diatribe
chicanery
tangential
25. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
precipitate
assuage
morose
reconciliation
26. To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
temper
admonish
pragmatic
burnish
27. The state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape
opprobrium
miser
veracity
distention
28. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
distention
propitiate
luminous
indifferent
29. To cause to spread - multiply or reproduce
disingenuous
authoritarian
somber
propagate
30. Loud and high-pitched; screeching
shrill
anomalous
discomfit
unfeigned
31. Implied; not explicitly stated
equivocal
tacit
convention
covert
32. To cut back or clip branches or other parts of a plant - esp parts that are dead
somber
recluse
prune
cultured
33. Unyielding; hardhearted
deviation
admonish
obdurate
effrontery
34. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
obsequious
cultured
intemperance
discourse
35. Baffled; in a quandry; at a loss for what to say or do
subtle
nonplused
distill
solvent
36. Spread out or scattered
calibrate
dispersed
cynicism
equivocal
37. To remove or separate by cutting off
mitigate
lethargic
florid
sever
38. Sad - sullen
plod
morose
cower
discomfit
39. To inspect - determine - or correct the graduations of an instrument by comparing it to a standard
calibrate
distention
diffuse
insipid
40. One who practices rigid self-denial esp in religious devotion
ascetic
idiosyncrasy
conspire
facilitate
41. Essential for or relating to life; necessary
mundane
conspicuous
denounce
vital
42. Brief and concise
ephemeral
tact
succinct
innocuous
43. An overabundance; a surplus
anomalous
fidelity
intrepid
plethora
44. Inclined to change one'S mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
temper
ostracism
capricious
beneficent
45. To criticize severely to officially rebuke
impose
parody
connoisseur
censure
46. Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
recalcitrant
penchant
validity
savor
47. Trickery or subterfuge
denigrate
capricious
chicanery
stanza
48. To combine several elements into a whole
inopportune
amalgamate
garrulous
sanction
49. To make worse or more severe
inopportune
exacerbate
coercive
cacophony
50. Soundness or truthfulness
dissemble
precursor
amalgamate
validity
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