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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. Funeral song; slow mournful piece of music (sung over a dead person)
trinket
dirge
alms
copious
2. Throw lightly; move or lift (the head) with a sudden motion; flip (a coin) to decide something
chronic
toss
slaughter
ravage
3. Boastful; pompous
recurrent
magniloquent
retrieve
gusty
4. Particle removed by a file
forthcoming
filing
canvass
apothegm(apophthegm)
5. One who studies the skin and its diseases
nemesis
equestrian
dermatologist
eccentric
6. Throw overboard (from a ship or plane)
jettison
corrosive
subsidy
minute
7. Surround tightly so that movement is impossible; Ex. hem in; N.
murmur
verdigris
attentive
hem
8. Strong abrupt rush of wind; V. CF. bluster
gust
abnegation
sublimate
miscreant
9. Make friendly again (after quarrel); make consistent (two ideas in opposition); correct inconsistencies; Ex. reconcile one's political principles with one's religious beliefs
reconcile
righteous
desolate
dowdy
10. Anything discarded or rejected as worthless; trash
refuse
unkempt
suffragist
beseech
11. Blessing
transparent
dally
impervious
benediction
12. Not literal but metaphorical; using a figure(impression) of speech
potent
bovine
figurative
niggardly
13. Unworthy; not noble; dishonorable; Ex. ignoble deed
ignoble
overwhelm
behemoth
denounce
14. Brief and compact
concise
debase
gibe
swindler
15. Oily; bland; insincerely suave
sordid
unctuous
elusive
gruel
16. Correct a false impression; undeceive; free from a wrong belief
poseur
crestfallen
disabuse
unassuming
17. Used to prevent disease; N: something prophylactic; condom; N. prophylaxis: prevention of disease
threat
erudite
prophylactic
incarnation
18. Pertaining to the woods or the country
odium
gargoyle
sylvan
mimicry
19. Put in danger
paroxysm
imperil
matrix
uninhibited
20. Comment; make explanatory notes
weird
promulgate
annotate
magniloquent
21. Smoothness of speech; ADJ. fluent
infest
guffaw
punctilious
fluency
22. Summarize
recapitulate
transient
surrogate
monotheism
23. Rebound; reaction; reverberation; Ex. serious repercussion
repercussion
exacerbate
integrate
timbre
24. Difference; condition of inequality; OP. parity
unseemly
disparity
rightful
foist
25. Expressing irony; occurring in an unexpected and contrary manner
compilation
paltry
ironic
narcissist
26. Indirect or subtle (derogatory) hint; insinuation; Ex. sexual innuendo
acute
tablet
anarchy
innuendo
27. Convert (hide) into leather; make brown by exposure to the sun
turbid
arrogance
tan
odyssey
28. Model of perfection; Ex. paragon of virtue
forthcoming
recite
paragon
ambulatory
29. Set off; start
strident
trigger
deleterious
scuttle
30. State with less truth than seems warranted by the facts; Ex. He understated the seriousness of the crime; N. understatement; OP. overstate
sojourn
preclude
understate
glutton
31. One who writes in defense of a cause or institution; N. apologia
apologist
pith
pulse
duress
32. Made of inferior material; sham; not genuine; inferior; dishonest; Ex. shoddy goods/trick
automaton
validate
shoddy
importunate
33. One part at a time; gradually; in stages; Ex. read a novel piecemeal
inquisitor
piecemeal
dormant
knave
34. State of depression or melancholy; style of slow - mournful music (evolved from southern Black American songs)
ineffable
sheaf
blues
opportune
35. Have a tendency; take care of; minister; serve at; apply one's attention; attend
subsume
parochial
antecedents
tend
36. (of a disease or poison) extremely harmful or poisonous; (of a feeling) hostile; bitter; N. virulence; CF. virus; CF. venom
requisition
virulent
vying
dilatory
37. Grieve; express sorrow; N. lamentation
lament
prominent
unilateral
mat
38. Pantry; place where food is kept
metallurgical
archetype
behemoth
larder
39. Weaken; castrate
pinion
proviso
emasculate
sallow
40. Make (a piece of needlework) by looping thread with a hooked needle; N. CF. crotchet
hackneyed
microcosm
crochet
pristine
41. Immoral behavior; bad management; V.
elope
misconduct
formidable
timbre
42. State of collapse or weakness caused by illness or old age
gaffe
importunate
metropolis
decrepitude
43. Greediness for wealth
stink
hazardous
avarice
euthanasia
44. Combining parts or separate things into a whole; the whole so formed; PL. syntheses; V. synthesize
synthesis
predator
slick
deprecate
45. Explore with a probe or tools; investigate; N: slender instrument used to explore a wound or body cavity; device designed to investigate an unknown region; thorough investigation; Ex. space probe
suffocate
allegory
probe
genuflect
46. Burlesque; act of leaving the ground
dissolution
takeoff
precise
scavenge
47. Tear or be torn quickly and violently; Ex. The sail ripped under the force of the wind; N.
idyllic
rip
quaff
beset
48. Rider on horseback; ADJ.
rip
quell
arrogance
equestrian
49. Dry up
sidereal
antagonism
desiccate
coalition
50. Place of safety; refuge; harbor; Ex. tax haven
causal
compensatory
convivial
haven