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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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1. A thin - flexible film of tissue that covers or lines an organ
rigidity
membrane
eradicate
cynicism
2. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
bolster
compensation
mitigate
taciturn
3. Not tied down; unrestrained
unfettered
fidelity
converge
conspire
4. To aid by making easier
laconic
brittle
aversion
facilitate
5. Harmless; causing no damage
florid
precipitate
innocuous
abscond
6. Tranquility; peacefulness
serenity
anachronistic
admonish
diffident
7. Calmness; serenity; peacefulness
flamboyant
pervasive
retard
tranquility
8. Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
tirade
audacious
goad
archaic
9. To criticize severely to officially rebuke
craven
censure
banal
solvent
10. Ostentatious or showy; flashy
flamboyant
dogma
tact
prodigal
11. Abundant in size - force - or extent; extraordinary
coercive
tractable
prodigious
stint
12. Practical rather than idealistic
magnanimity
candor
pragmatic
porous
13. Characterized by a preference for complete obedience to authority; domineering
propitiate
authoritarian
inopportune
caustic
14. Of the world; typical of or concerned w/the ordinary
tranquility
mundane
equivocal
bent
15. To disguise or conceal
fortuitous
elegy
disabuse
dissemble
16. A substance that causes insensibility and removes pain
anesthetic
anachronistic
disabuse
lethargic
17. Deceptive; based upon a false belief or impression
illusory
innocuous
tirade
flamboyant
18. A harsh denunciation
derivative
diatribe
effrontery
parody
19. Truthfulness; honesty
anomaly
veracity
temperate
amalgamate
20. Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
garrulous
conversion
ascetic
magnanimity
21. The art or study of effect use of language for communication and persuasion
digress
rhetoric
rarefy
meticulous
22. To incite anger - resentment or exasperation
maverick
denigrate
provoke
recluse
23. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
inured
craven
temper
vital
24. A collection of lierary works by various authors
anthology
candor
decibel
pervasive
25. An inclination or tendency
probity
censure
invigoration
bent
26. Unit used in measuring the intensity of a sound
brittle
dogmatic
decibel
aggravate
27. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
luminous
ambiguous
inured
anachronistic
28. Stubborn; hardheaded
nonplused
bombast
enervate
obstinate
29. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
prodigal
banal
superficial
penury
30. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
aver
probity
connoisseur
cogent
31. A courteous and respectful yielding to the will of another
deference
castigation
probity
vigor
32. Shrink in fear - cringe
covert
inured
treacherous
cower
33. Occurring only occasionally - or in a scattered instances
unfeigned
sporadic
eccentric
penury
34. Departing from norms or convention
eccentric
disingenuous
fatuous
flamboyant
35. Assuming an unauthorized right or responsibility; overly forward and arrogant
perennial
mollify
presumptuous
defer
36. Sad - sullen
presumptuous
cower
anthology
morose
37. Brief; fleeting
fortuitous
burgeon
ephemeral
implode
38. To publicly praise or promote
onerous
tout
loquacious
irascible
39. Flowery; ruddy; ornate
sporadic
mitigate
florid
compensation
40. A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
apprise
belie
convention
irascible
41. Belonging to another time; removed from natural chronological context
temper
anachronistic
inured
burgeon
42. Strenuous - taxing
arduous
anachronistic
slight
opprobrium
43. Shortness or briefness - esp. in time
brevity
conspire
converge
iconoclastic
44. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
qualms
corrosion
invigoration
correspond
45. A speech made to oneself; a monologue
denounce
euphemism
miser
soliloquy
46. Act or process of causing deterioration; a wearing away esp of metals
fawn
lucid
corrosion
warranted
47. yield; submit; bow
emulate
defer
superficial
frugality
48. Charitable and kind in action
beneficent
dispersed
perennial
facetious
49. Rare and insufficient
membrane
scarce
denounce
elegy
50. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
assuage
bombast
camouflage
centrifuge
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