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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. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
fatuous
derision
rescind
superfluous
2. An overabundance; a surplus
presumption
plethora
repudiate
propensity
3. Truthfulness; honesty
plasticity
veracity
tacit
brevity
4. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
marginal
symmetry
penury
sanction
5. A support or prop - often an external prop used to bolster a wall
garrulous
buttress
inundate
penury
6. Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
inopportune
pervasive
eulogy
quiescence
7. In an initial stage; not fully formed
luminous
secrete
inchoate
decibel
8. A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect - esp. in literature and art
perennial
presumption
parody
rectify
9. To flood or overwhelm
inundate
vigor
invigoration
retard
10. Lacking originality
enumerate
retard
banal
unfeigned
11. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
propensity
prodigal
somber
tranquility
12. Not tied down; unrestrained
marginal
divest
euphemism
unfettered
13. Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
corrosion
extraneous
discordant
brevity
14. Rare and insufficient
aversion
rectify
tact
scarce
15. Contemptibly fainthearted - lacking any courage
aggravate
harangue
parody
craven
16. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
anomalous
digress
enervate
cunning
17. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
soliloquy
apprise
inured
camouflage
18. To abruptly and violently collapse inward
rescind
implode
scarce
enervate
19. To enjoy in a thorough manner; to relish; to fully appreciate
furtive
burnish
lackluster
savor
20. 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
prodigious
solicitous
rarefy
21. Extreme respect and reverence; worship
veneration
erudite
arbitrary
dissertation
22. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
rarefy
burgeon
defer
inundate
23. A thin - flexible film of tissue that covers or lines an organ
ingenuity
discrete
cultured
membrane
24. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
adversity
martial
precursor
facilitate
25. To dry out or dehydrate to make dry or dull
quiescence
desiccate
proliferate
cower
26. Very learned; scholarly
erudite
superfluous
perfunctory
stanza
27. Small; lacking substance in degree - amount - or size
slight
cynicism
obsequious
penchant
28. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
prune
fawn
decibel
assuage
29. To tend toward the same spot or outcome; inclining to join at an intersecting point
tirade
wheedle
intransigent
converge
30. To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
restitution
soliloquy
digress
penury
31. A machine that spins very swiftly about a central axis - and - using centrifugal force - separates disparate substances
fawn
exculpate
centrifuge
propagate
32. Belonging to another time; removed from natural chronological context
homogeneous
anachronistic
convention
derivative
33. Honesty; frankness; sincerity
candor
proliferate
burnish
solvent
34. The quality of being evenly balanced
furtive
symmetry
tout
vexation
35. Relevant; germane
pertinent
probity
belie
reconciliation
36. Departure or wandering away from the accepted standard
banal
implicit
deviation
distention
37. Wise and careful; showing good judgment
prudent
illusory
rigidity
solicitous
38. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in decision
waver
heretical
censure
propagate
39. Faithfulness; loyalty
divest
fidelity
vital
buttress
40. To exist in agreement or conformity; harmonize
burnish
correspond
inchoate
probity
41. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
pervasive
caustic
idiosyncrasy
equivocate
42. Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
aberrant
endemic
fraud
circumspect
43. Spread out or scattered
membrane
perjury
implode
dispersed
44. The quality of being generously noble in the mind and heart - esp in forgiving
buttress
magnanimity
tranquil
discordant
45. The art or study of effect use of language for communication and persuasion
distention
implacable
blithe
rhetoric
46. Soundness or truthfulness
validity
magnanimity
repudiate
apprise
47. Discerning and sensitive use of speech; diplomacy
placate
pervasive
tact
trivial
48. Poverty; destitution
viscous
penury
diffuse
candor
49. Dispersed or scattered; not centralized
pragmatic
diffuse
synthetic
soliloquy
50. Dull; lacking vitality or luminosity
shrill
penury
lackluster
digress