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GRE Vocab
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gre
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english
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vocabulary
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bvat
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Be suited to; be incumbent upon; be right and necessary; Ex. It behooves one to do.
veritable
behoove(behove)
vagary
congeal
2. Lack of caring; indifference; lack of concern or interest in important matters; Ex. He was sunk in apathy after his failure; ADJ. apathetic
disavowal
apathy
strew
monotony
3. Correct; change ; generally for the better
annals
amend
livid
gauche
4. Plunder
rescind
pillage
mime
bar
5. Resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback; ADJ. atavistic
crochet
atavism
dowry
forestall
6. Teacher of philosophy; quibbler; employer of fallacious reasoning; N. sophism: plausible but fallacious argument
specious
toss
sophist
meditation
7. Pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state
beholden
caprice
cordon
connubial
8. Absolutely necessary; that must be done; critically important; expressing command; Ex. It is imperative that; N: something that must be done
groom
imperative
matrimony
painstaking
9. Driving away; disgusting; offensive; repulsive; unattractive; N.
unwieldy
smart
repellent
posture
10. Hard; strenuous; Ex. arduous work
arduous
padre
graphite
dote
11. Saturate(soak thoroughly); fill; Ex. imbue someone with feelings
canvass
turbid
spat
imbue
12. Beautiful clothes for a special occasion
ligneous
rooster
finery
conception
13. Gay; joyous
bromide
lagoon
amity
blithe(blithesome)
14. Restore to proper condition (health or useful life); restore the former rank of
rehabilitate
dominant
testator
fleck
15. Distortion; burlesque
determinate
oracular
caricature
immune
16. Search thoroughly; pillage (going through a place); Ex. Enemy soldiers ransacked the town.
assimilate
ransack
haughtiness
peruse
17. Defeat; frustrate; prevent from being successful; thwart; CF. fail
libido
foil
scion
insolence
18. Art of effective communication; art of using language effectively and persuasively; style of speaking or writing; grandiloquent language; Ex. political rhetoric; ADJ. rhetorical; CF. rhetorical question: question to which no answer is expected as ``W
rhetoric
sublime
quaint
daze
19. Premonition of evil; feeling of coming evil; V. forebode: be a warning of (something unpleasant)
nicety
foreboding
sequester
quizzical
20. Help bring about; make less difficult
lionize
facilitate
stamp
imbibe
21. Crash; rush; move with great speed; Ex. hurtling runaway train
monograph
hurtle
variegate
disarray
22. Quarrelsome; controversial; likely to cause arguments
evasive
castigation
calorific
contentious
23. Chance; luck
braggart
hap
bawdy
correlate
24. State of being undecided; anxiety or apprehension resulting from uncertainty
suspense
slither
perverse
prude
25. Guarantee; assurance by seller
gait
ample
ramshackle
warranty
26. Conducive to good health; Ex. healthful mountain air
imbroglio
healthful
recant
prolixity
27. Swagger; assumed air of defiance; false show of bravery
bravado
propagate
revile
coalesce
28. Small bit or fragment; discarded waste material; fight; Ex. a scrap of paper/cloth; V: break into parts for disposal; discard as worthless; fight; quarrel
scrap
impenitent
phobia
bedraggle
29. (of a snake) shed or cast off (dead outer skin); N: outer layer that is shed
propriety
bruise
vitriolic
slough
30. Accidental transposition of sounds in successive words; Ex. 'Let me sew you to your sheet'' for 'Let me show you to your seat''; CF. William Spooner
spoonerism
dissolution
retard
ungainly
31. Highly ornate
dyslexia
baroque
certitude
intermittent
32. Occupy fully; absorb
recital
engross
chortle
fleet
33. Introduction (to a poem or play)
ventral
natation
fashion
prologue
34. Short quick cut with scissors; V: cut with scissors
exculpate
renegade
snip
tenuous
35. Disguise; hide the real nature of; pretend
dissemble
tacit
decomposition
tread
36. Combativeness; disposition to fight; ADJ. pugnacious: (of people) belligerent; combative in nature
pugnacity
baroque
defoliate
toga
37. Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
bludgeon
cadaver
condone
tickle
38. Separate religious body; faction; group of people with common beliefs within a larger group
temperate
skeptic
propensity
sect
39. Smugly and unconsciously foolish; inane; silly; N. fatuity - fatuousness
fatuous
lagoon
wretch
obsolete
40. Morally pure; virginal; abstaining from illicit sexual acts; modest; simple (of a style of writing); not highly decorated; austere
terminology
levitate
chaste
fractious
41. Steal another's ideas or writings and pass them off as one's own; Ex. ideas plagiarized from my article; N. plagiarism; CF. kidnap
plagiarize
junta
phalanx
disquietude
42. Division of animals or plants - below a family and above a species
obstreperous
genus
pastoral
mawkish
43. Windstorm; gust of wind; emotional outburst (laughters - tears); Ex. gale of laughter
flip
gratify
gale
grotto
44. Pertaining to marriage
slack
milieu
cantata
marital
45. Returning something (lost or stolen) to the rightful owner; reparation; indemnification; compensation for loss - damage - or injury
affected
restitution
rooster
tutelary
46. Unity of pitch (in musical performance); complete accord; Ex. The choir sang in unison.
scrimmage
unison
foist
laceration
47. Soft fatty tissue that fills most bone cavities and is the source of blood cells
marrow
shunt
vivacious
knotty
48. (animal - person - or plant) inhabitant or resident of a particular place; regular visitor
denizen
genealogy
corpus
patina
49. Long narrow container for feeding farm animals; lowest point (of a wave - business cycle - etc.); long narrow depression as between waves
hail
trough
harass
shimmer
50. Hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality; clich'ed
trigger
filing
banal
decry