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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Full of tiny openings able to absorb fluid or gas; permeable
porous
belie
inopportune
castigation
2. To combine several elements into a whole
superficial
amalgamate
prone
stint
3. Reserved - shy - or unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
ingenuity
diffident
enigmatic
abscond
4. Clear; easily understood
bent
lucid
enumerate
insipid
5. Complex or complicated
camouflage
convoluted
distill
warranted
6. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
anachronistic
esoteric
chicanery
solicitous
7. The quality of being generously noble in the mind and heart - esp in forgiving
diatribe
ephemeral
magnanimity
dispersed
8. Not obvious; elusive - difficult to discern
admonish
corroborate
subtle
ostracism
9. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
advocate
precipitate
superficial
conspire
10. Easily visible; obvious
facetious
ingenuity
conspicuous
inured
11. To give notice to; to inform
apprise
expel
enervate
taciturn
12. To grow rapidly or flourish
cower
catalyst
anesthetic
burgeon
13. A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect - esp. in literature and art
symmetry
cynicism
parody
solicitous
14. Adherence to the highest principles; uprightness
heretical
camouflage
probity
rigidity
15. Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
intemperance
indifferent
burgeon
chicanery
16. A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
brevity
convention
illusory
burgeon
17. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive time
intransigent
archaic
vigor
harangue
18. Trickery or subterfuge
intrepid
ascetic
imperturbable
chicanery
19. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
derivative
conspicuous
deviance
propensity
20. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
dogma
compensation
volatile
enervate
21. Matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree - size - or amount
inquisitive
commensurate
anthology
disinterest
22. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
circumspect
enumerate
heretical
rarefy
23. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
squander
ensure
compliant
perfunctory
24. Brief; fleeting
ephemeral
endemic
prodigal
pragmatic
25. Departing from norms or convention
obstinate
eccentric
unfettered
anthology
26. Improvised; done without preparation
extemporaneous
unfettered
tangential
fraud
27. Dispersed or scattered; not centralized
waver
diffuse
antipathy
specious
28. A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
camouflage
divest
cunning
fatuous
29. Poverty; destitution
obviate
deviation
penury
precursor
30. To blame or denounce
restitution
propensity
condemn
taciturn
31. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
castigation
rectify
sanction
hierarchy
32. To aid by making easier
furtive
tentative
facilitate
diffuse
33. To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
admonish
candor
derivative
blithe
34. A quirk particular to a group or individual
harangue
ensure
idiosyncrasy
iconoclastic
35. Insincere; lacking in honesty
iconoclastic
bombast
disingenuous
inquisitive
36. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
squander
onerous
equivocate
cogent
37. Annoyance or irritation
decibel
taciturn
repudiate
vexation
38. Baffled; in a quandry; at a loss for what to say or do
bombast
unfeigned
nonplused
extend
39. Flowery; ruddy; ornate
propitiate
subjective
extemporaneous
florid
40. To defeat; to put down
discrete
discomfit
insipid
equivocate
41. 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
chicanery
discomfit
tangential
42. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound
cacophony
obdurate
implicit
calibrate
43. Tranquility; peacefulness
saturate
proliferate
invigoration
serenity
44. Thick; sticky
viscous
abscond
derision
denounce
45. The act or process of transforming to another form - state or product
veneration
conversion
beneficent
rhetoric
46. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
taciturn
distention
cynicism
monotonous
47. Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
derivative
audacious
compliant
recalcitrant
48. Possessing education - refinement and taste; polished
equivocal
cultured
tentative
dispersed
49. Silly inanely foolish
covert
tact
inundate
fatuous
50. Hardship
cacophony
implode
adversity
restitution