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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. Thriftless; not providing for the future
loiter
surfeit
statutory
improvident
2. Willingness to take new ventures; initiative; business organization; plan (that is difficult or daring); Ex. their latest enterprise to sail round the world in a small boat
stratagem
solvent
diverse
enterprise
3. Split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to; N. cleavage; ADJ. cloven
odyssey
cleave
simplistic
bent
4. Waste matter; worthless impurities
nuptial
existential
dross
bastion
5. Explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults
counterpart
gloss_over
nepotism
diatribe
6. Advanced in development; N. precocity
converse
simulate
cleave
precocious
7. Similarity; parallelism; comparing two similar things
analogy
nutrition
indubitable
jostle
8. Serious or fatal accident; person killed or wounded in an accident or battle
corrugated
aphorism
casualty
mirage
9. Recover; return to health; regain; Ex. recuperate losses
recuperate
distort
bogus
finite
10. Animal - plant - or natural object serving as a symbol of a clan or family; representation of this; Ex. totem pole
contention
supposititious
onomatopoeia
totem
11. Line of ancestors; ancestry; lineage; ADJ. (of an animal) descended from of a chosen family; Ex. pedigree dog; CF. crane's foot
airy
academic
pitfall
pedigree
12. Go through or across
awe
fester
traverse
obnoxious
13. Hybridize; N: hybrid; CF. interbreed; CF. inbreed
crossbreed
brandish
plebiscite
ambush
14. Happening by chance; irregular; occasional; informal; showing or feeling little interest; Ex. casual reader/labor/remark
frigid
zest
flounder
casual
15. Lack of balance or symmetry; disproportion
rubric
bludgeon
retinue
imbalance
16. Unbecoming; not proper in behavior; indecent; Ex. leave with unseemly haste
legato
forswear
treasure
unseemly
17. Druggist; pharmacist
apothecary
lank
gloat
reverend
18. Monkeylike; N: ape or monkey
pivotal
concord
simian
seasonable
19. Nest of a large bird of prey
impuissance
polar
aerie(aery -eyrie -eyry)
sagacious
20. Calmness; peace
tranquillity
inclusive
somatic
apogee
21. Detestation; quality of being odious; hatefulness; disrepute (resulting from hateful conduct)
odium
concatenate
valedictory
vigilante
22. Throb; beat rapidly; flutter; tremble; Ex. Her heart began to palpitate.
migrant
suffocate
palpitate
repel
23. Complete; consummate; make perfect; N.
ingenious
complement
dissertation
asinine
24. Region near heaven or hell where certain souls are kept; prison (slang); Ex. Purgatory and Limbo
limbo
salacious
entomology
welt
25. Wild drunken revelry; unrestrained indulgence in an activity; Ex. orgy of shopping
guy
coquette
orgy
eccentric
26. Flood; overflow; submerge; cover completely; Ex. inundated with work
inundate
allude
reminiscent
slack
27. Able to pay all depths; N. solvency
farce
purgatory
solvent
ruthless
28. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions
aviary
spate
ambivalence
unfaltering
29. Wring from; get money by threats - etc.; obtain by force or threats; CF. extortionate: exorbitant
parry
adjacent
execrable
extort
30. Beggar; ADJ: living as a beggar
mendicant
garbled
equivocate
remediable
31. Supplement to the body of a will; later addition to a will
schism
boisterous
expurgate
codicil
32. Exhibiting art or skill; deceitful; cunning; CF. artifice
artful
brittle
demented
allocate
33. Lawyer in the lower court of law
solicitor
chameleon
archives
confluence
34. Deluge; upheaval; earthquake; violent and sudden event or change
cataclysm
inclined
indigent
peregrination
35. Person of high rank or position
artisan
dignitary
cubicle
shuffle
36. Purgative; medicine that causes the bowels to empty; ADJ.
gloat
cathartic
intervene
composure
37. Not thick; thinly scattered; scanty
sparse
biennial
quietude
leave-taking
38. Concerning the sense of smell
compost
stock
olfactory
restraint
39. Former occupant of a post
graduated
predecessor
pillage
forthright
40. Lazy
indolent
ovoid
evenhanded
smirk
41. Clothing or equipment for a special purpose; Ex. cowboy outfit
satyr
beeline
pass'e
outfit
42. Harmful; CF. obnoxious
adjacent
noxious
resolution
gape
43. Trunk of statue with head and limbs missing; human trunk
ichthyology
myopic
salient
torso
44. Of marriage or the wedding ceremony; N; nuptials; wedding ceremony
garrulous
nuptial
bizarre
insuperable
45. Dying; at the point of death; CF. death
moribund
lope
enervate
pertinent
46. Elementary; not developed; crude; N. rudiment: fundamental element or principle; Ex. rudiments of the language
propitious
rudimentary
mores
surpass
47. Assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition
contention
culmination
dingy
bedizen
48. Eyesight; foresight; mental image produced by the imagination; experience of seeing the supernatural
marshal
vision
aberrant
analogous
49. Portray; depict; sketch; describe; N. delineation
pastoral
jetsam
chagrin
delineate
50. (of a skin or complexion) dark; dusky; Ex. swarthy Italian ?
obnoxious
supplicate
nuance
swarthy